Hi im Steve Clements i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob blake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvar
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Peaceful protesters clashed with federal agents as tensions boiled over in portland. Lots of fireworks were set off toward the federal courthouse downtown and that led to scenes just like this after tear gas was used on demonstrators. Marches against Racial Injustice have been taking place in portland for nearly two months now. They never really stopped after George Floyds death in minneapolis, police custody. Lets go to maura barrett. Maura has been up all night covering the protests in portland. Maura, thank you for doing that. Look, it seems pretty clear the tensions escalated more quickly than usual overnight. What was it about last night that was somewhat different from the past couple of months or so . Yeah, alex, they absolutely did. My team has been here on the ground for the past week and we have not seen the tensions escalate this quickly. Essentially thousands of people filling this block and the block past that peacefully protesting singi
Streets of new york last night, after a grand jury did not indict new York City Police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of 43yearold eric garner. Its a very painful day for so many new yorkers. Arrests made throughout the night as outrage pulsed throughout the city streets for more than nine hours. Black lives matter. Most chanting garners last words before dying on this Staten Island street. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. Police, somehow in riot gear blocking intersections as protesters began shutting down some of the citys most iconic landmarks. Stopping the flow of traffic into and out of the island of manhattan for hours. Some lying down right in the middle of the road. The same inside Grand Central station. I cant breathe, i cant breathe. Where other protesters staged a massive diein as evening rush hour hit its peak. Police heavily guarding the rockefeller treelighting ceremony. As protesters tried to disrupt the show. The citys public outcry reaching a fever pitch
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