Eats charged with misconduct in the death of freddie gray in baltimore. In baltimore. During the trial defense def lawyers said gray was uncooperative ander partially pl hurt himself contributing toibun his death. And hal happening today inhp minnesota family and friendsries will say a final goodbye to Philando Castile who was shotass and killed last week by a Police Officer during a dur traffic stop. His girlfriend live streamed the aftermath on facebook. His funeral is opened to the opo public set to begin at 9 00 a. M. Today a u. S. Senator will take to the floor of the u linate to deliver another personal speech about his experience as a black plan inonk america. It will be the third address add to his fellow lawmakers from south carolina. Arina. Senator tim scott. Totim scott detailed several timesti hes been unfairly targeted byad police. Take a listen. Ive been stopped seven times by Law Enforcement officers. Ce. Not four, not five, not six but seven times in one year ass an ele
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Local Police Departments. And a black trauma surgeon who treated some of the officers who were shot in dallas shared an emotional take on last weeks deadly shootings. Take a listen. I understand the anger and the frustration and distrust of Law Enforcement but theyre not the problem. The problem is the lack of on discussions about the impact of Race Relations in this country. And i think about testify day. And i was not able to save the cops when they came here that night. Clearly emotional there Holding Back Tears as much as possible. Five officers were killed in the dallas massacre another nine officers and two civilians were hurt. Protesters held an antigun rally at the white house today and demonstrators calling on legislation. They want law makers to reinstate the ban on assault require universal background checks and of course the no fl fly, no buy rul and traffic in philadelphia came to a stand still this morning meantime as dozens of demonstrators filled the streets outside of
Giant. Michael smith was a former fr army ranger. He received a cops cop award. Wd he leaves behind his wife ofe 17 years and his two daughters. Ughter Patrick Zamarripa completed l three tours in iraq. Th re 40yearold michael krol graduated from the Police Academy 2008. 008 during the protests he textedex his girlfriend telling her h everything was going peacefully. Go fund me pages have been set p up toag help their families. Fil one of the dallas officers injured was officer george barrientos. Ie he shared his memorial rows of what happened when the shotsne were ringing out. As soon as we heard theso shots go out and i saw my frienonds g oo down, my all r first instincts as Police Officers was to get them to safety. You know, yes, cover yourself, s make sure that youre not, you know, the next one to get but just save them. T it was a little difficult to do that because the we had bullets coming down and we down didnt know where they werewhe e coming from at first so we didnt we were
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