Eugene odonnell is a lecture at the John Jay College of criminal justice, hes a former new York City Police officer and trainer and instructor at the Police Academy in new york city. Eugene odonnell, welcome to washington journal. Good morning, good to be with you. Let me ask you about how this all started. What do you think went wrong in the e encounter between the fou officers and george floyd on that memorial day arrest attempt . Its a complex conversation and its going to consume a lot of time at the terrible outcome my condolences to the deceased and the family of the deceased. In my view abpolitical breakdown at the top i dont know why Police Officers wnin t middle of a pandemic are involved in a 20 counterfeit bill custodial arrest and same thing in the eric garner case they were in search of blue cigarettes. The mayors have to give more clarity and they are in a lot of cities and Police Officers profoundly what matters police shouldnt be involved. Any Police Interaction can end
They reached the deal if everything is meant that Safety Measures are in place that theres no spike in Health Indicators like coronavirus cases then they can resume full operations as early as next week. This all started when Ceo Tesla Elon musk he was very frustrated with shelter in place hes been politicking for a while now to get his tesla factory up and running again and that did not happen which is why last saturday actually filed a lawsuit in federal court saying shelter in place was unconstitutional and then on monday he openly told the world through a tweet that he planned to defy shelter in place and get the employees back to work and sure enough we were here yesterday when we saw so many people coming and going from the tesla facility. He even said if arrests were made he would be on the Assembly Line and do not arrest as employees. But arrest him ultimately no one was arrested they all work things out. And again Alameda County says if they meet everything that theyre looking
Do not meet in groups. Work away from your normal working place to protect yourself and your family and everyone else. But we are back in town. Majority leader tells us that we dont take days off. He says we are here to do the nations business which can only be done only possible, when we are here. It talked about taking careful steps back. I have been waiting for the present majority red leader a mr will announce what the business will be this week. What are these things we should be doing. And from the endless telephone conferences that are evolving. In the comments by my friends and neighbors in illinois. There are many Unanswered Questions which they would like us to address. We have been waiting carefully and expectedly for the majority leader to announce what we are doing this week. Not just because members of the senate are being asked to come back, that is what we ran to do. You promised the people in our states that we would be there to do the business of the senate and the na
Is not doing enough to comply with the new ordinance required homeless residents to be placed into bank and hotel rooms. There are now more than 60,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus here in california. Unfortunately, 95 more people died yesterday. Bringing the number of deaths statewide 2 2400. The number of people in hospitals, and intensive care units is down slightly from yesterday. And over 809,000 californians have now been tested for the virus. Governor newsom today, announced the expansion of work ins compensation benectors of ion is. Intended so that people go back to work, and contract the virus. They can worry less about staying at home. The worst thing we can do is have a worker that has tested positive but doesnt want to tell anybody. And can spread the disease, because he or she cant afford not to work. More workplaces and businesses will begin reopening across the state on friday, under what is being called stage two of the safety and hygiene protocols. Governor newsom s
When we will finally, god willing, returned to normal. I feel the floor and notice the absence of a quorum. The assistant democratic leaders. Mr. President , first i ask unanimous consent of the quorum call be suspended. Without objection. Without the etiquette of a mask we are trying to make sure we set an example for the country t that is attentive to Public Health care crisis that we face. Mr. President , i listened carefully to the remarks of the republican majority leader and he spoke about the reconvening of the senate this day and talked about the work we achieved a few weeks ago passing the cares act twopoint to trillion dollars in rescue funds for america by 96nothing and then by a voice vote, we passed 484 billion more. Almost 2. 7 trillion dollars, 2. 7 trillion and that is an amount far in excess of the annual federal budget of the United States of america for domestic Discretionary Spending and we didnt in a matter of days and weeks. We knew that we were facing as the pres