Participated in a town hall on Racial Justice and Police Reform hosted by my brothers Keeper Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation. Foundation. Good afternoon my name is Michael Smith that executive director of my brothers keeper. Thank you all for joining us for this critical and important conversation today. The killing of george floyd, breanna taylor, ahmad aubrey into many black lives in the list have left until after nation outreach. More than a thousand people are killed by Police Every Year in america and black people are three times more likely to be killed than white people. We can take steps and make reforms to combat Police Violence and systemic racism within Law Enforcement, we can work to redefine Public Safety so that it recognizes the humanity and the dignity of every person. This town hall that we are having today as part of an ongoing my brothers Keeper Alliance town whole series in my brothers keepers will was launched by president obama in 2014 after trayvon ma
Yet controversy is brewing after employees requested to wear black lives matter attire, an internal memo starbucks points to a stress code policy against wearing buttons or pens that advocated political religious or personal issue. Im pretty appalled but not surprised by starbucks. Reporter Tamara Williams is with the Silicon Valley black Leadership Community group, he says starbucks statement of support is hollow if theres no action. What we see is that what matters is the bottom line. I think that starbucks is really in hot water. Reporter Joellen Pozner is with Santa Clara University business school, part of starbucks memo expressed concerns agitators could misconstrue the blm movement and amplify divisiveness. Pozner argues the company allows clothing and pins for lgbt queue rights and that can be viewed as divisive. If starbucks wants to take a stand need to be consistent in the way they take the stand and given the way the tide is moving the arrow should be on the side of inclusi
We will get decent rainfall out of this shower, possible thunderstorm activity, and before it gets here, low clouds are in place. Look for a cooler trend today, cooler and the wind will pick up. We have a delta wind, but tonight, bella will get closer, the coast, and the hills, the wind will crank up area out of the west southwest, the aforementioned low is on its way. It will go over the bay area and it will start to move north. This could give us lightning and thunderstorms. Scattered showers and brief heavy downpours for some. We will finetune this in the coming rainfall projections and 10 minutes. 60s and 70s on your temperatures. Over to sal, lets talk about that. 1978 was a long time ago. Way before my time, sal. I remember it well, steve. Good morning everyone. All right, we have a nice looking commute. One thing is that we dont have slowing at the bay bridge. The first four days we did, but on fridays, even during the pandemic we have friday like traffic, it looks like we have
Oakland. We are going to heat up as the pressure tuesday and wednesday, inland locations at the 90s, triple digit heat. I will have that coming up in a few minutes. Curfews are lifted, bay area cities had a curfew, between 8 p. M. And 5 am. Santa clara wanted residence inside starting at 8 30 p. M. Walnut creek imposed a bay area earliest curfew at 6 p. M. , and limiting a curfew that lasts from 10 p. M. To 5 p. M. , after having looting activity, san leandro and built a curfew after 11 p. M. Last night. We are live and san leandro, now, how is it looking . Brett the when we rolled into the city there was an unnerving vibe here. There is a walmart over here, when cops roll up, there is active looting in the area. One officer said that everything got hit by looters and the city. From what we have seen so far, it looks pretty bad. At westgate, you have the Burlington Coat factory here, the windows are smashed down, smashing cars in front. We can hear bells and alarms going off and the di
Specifically d. C. , i grew up here. My grandparents with her first immigrated High School Class so it is very personal. You keep seeing these shootings, and indifference to black life. I think now we are dealing with 400 years of tragedy and i think a combination of factors that come together they are not going to allow us to ignore. When you look back at the video, the difficult video to watch of george floyd under arrest, the Police Officer with his knee on the neck of george floyd for eight or nine minutes, the reaction of the people in the crowd, obviously theres filming going on. Does it surprise you these tactics still exist in American Police forces, given the presence of not just social media but media in general, given the presence of changes of leadership and Police Including minneapolis, promises to change Police Practice . It does. Inherently, it surprises me but given what we continue to see, it doesnt. You would think withyok camera, but the abundance of social media and