Students who brought the lawsuit. Welcome to the special presentation celebrating the 50th anniversary of a important milestone in u. S. History and for First Amendment rights. We are joining you live from the auditorium of the state Historical Society in iowa and we are in des moines. With us today are more than 200 students from schools across this state, we are joined online by students in classrooms across the country. Say hello everybody. applause in december 1965 mary beth and john tinker along with their friend Chris Eckhart wore black bands to school to protest the war in vietnam they were sent home and suspended from school. The students were told they couldnt return to school until they agreed to end their protest. Through their parents, the Students School sued the School District for violating their right to free expression. Culminated in the Supreme Court decision 15 years ago on february 24th, 1960, nine the court ruled seven to two that students do not shed their Constit
Music we dont know what would be. Just too long to leave. You do you deserve. A warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me making arun our top story President Trump has announced hes banning the popular chinese video sharing app to take talk washington is worried that beijing could use the platform to spy on us users and the application has millions of fans around the world and unleashed a wave of generation that creativity tightly woven into short clips Saskia Taylor needing little encouragement takes a look at who else in the u. S. Believes theres more to take talk than meets the eye. Thats up one. Night at face. Why dont internet would be better and in the us no they cant be they wouldnt do that twice we greatly concerned that the Chinese Communist party could use its control of it to dont to distort or manipulate these conversations to sow discord among americans and to achieve its preferred political outcome i cant believe it all these years i think that the only thin
Investigation into the comments expressed in a closed facebook page. The page has apparently made up of former and Current Police officers, the comments were anti muslim at all so called black lives matter activists quote domestic enemies can help those officers on art. On the force and they need to be fired immediately. And we need a full investigation understand who else was involved for how long and officers knew the San Jose Police Officers Association echoed the mayors comments calling the group in online ring of hate there is no place. In our Police Department or or union for racists. Theyre bigots. A president paul kelly says the union will not protect any of the officers involved. We will not represent you. You do not represent us. Well the Police Department here is seeking help from federal investigators the fbi is right now helping out the long beach Police Department because 3 former officers there have also made violent social media threats against black activist shaun king
To file. In and we will go to our nbc bay area sky ranger. Back there, to that red carpet area, it looks like the main stage, for this rally, it started around 4 00, this evening, so about an hour ago. And again, organized in part by Many High School students, and the plan here is to stay here at Mission High School, and delores park, and then at some point, march toward one of the Police Substations just a few blocks away. We will continue to follow this sizable march, in just a moment and lets go back down to the ground level, and rejoin thom jensen. We have your audio and video back. Take it away. Reporter we are having audio problems but you can see the size and scope of this rally here. From our sky ranger. Lets go across the bay here now, where what were seeing here, another Diverse Group of protesters in oakland today, including many of the warriors. In fact, the last time steph curry and Klay Thompson walked this route was two years ago, almost to the day. You can see him, step
We have reporters standing by in following you the major cities will go to the mill i but 1st lets take a look at whats been happening across the country the mass of Los Angeles Atlanta Denver Portland and announce nighttime curfew is in an effort to prevent more violence its a move that was announced by minneapolis on friday where the protests 1st started in that city shops were looted and cars and buildings set on fire. In los angeles a Police Cruiser was torched other demonstrations have been held in miami and chicago. And scuffles have broken out between police and protesters in new york where demonstrations are continuing into the night and earlier a police car was set on fire the day before thousands of people demonstrated outside the City Supreme Court on the Brooklyn Bridge and at the Barclays Center arena. But President Donald Trump has offered to send in the National Military to minneapolis and pledged to put an end to what he called mobile violence. But his comments havent s