Certainly they should be fired as well. Police chief eddie garcia has also called for assistance from the fbi to investigate this incident. The Police Officers Association President says his organization will take steps to expel the officers involved from the police union. The mayor says he has no authority to fire the officers, but on tuesday the city council will consider voting to place a measure on the November Ballot that would change that. Last week mayor liccardo issued nine proposed Police Department reforms. He says several of them would help make sure there is accountability during Police Misconduct investigations. Reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. A troubling attack as the bay area celebrates pride. In oakland, the Lgbtq Community center is cleaning up after a vandal smashed windows. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana talked with the founder of the center. Sergio is live now with the details. Sergio. Reporter terry, you can see right now that all of t
Like. Like many things, this year the pandemic has cancelled the annual parade and many of the parties, but theres still plenty of celebration going on. Christie smith in San Francisco and the pride celebration pretty much virtual this year. Yeah, thats right. And you know, standing in the neighborhood here weve seen some people Walking Around the city today with their pride shirts on basically as theyre going about their day. But overall its kind of overcast and gray out here and the pride events have gone online. This morning when i got up, i forgot it was pride weekend. Reporter they had a bite to eat outside of harveys. They knew this weekend would be nothing like years past. Usually we get so many people wanting to express themselves so much and be so happy and wearing the rainbow flag and wearing for pink saturday and just super happy. Its kind of sad not to see that this year. Now is really not the time for that. And i think if we hold back this year, then all of us will be here
Favro. Reporter mayor liccardo says the officers involved should be fired, and tonight hes calling for a thorough investigation to see if there are even more Police Officers involved than the four placed on administrative leave. Four active and several retired san jose Police Officers are accused of posting racist, antimuslim comments, including mocking black lives matter, on a closed facebook page. Tonight the executive director of the Bay Area Council on islamic relations says she is disgusted by the posts but not surprised. We are calling for these officers to be terminated. On top of that, we want to be clear to warn any Police Departments across Northern California to not at all consider rehiring these Police Officers. Reporter san jose mayor sam liccardo is calling for an investigation to see if even more officers are involved. Any officers directly involved in this kind of racist or islamaphobic behavior should be fired. Now, obviously were going to learn a lot more through this
Layer. It brought overnight drizzle to portions of the coastline as well. You may have seen that. Temperatures remain cool in the 50s and we are going to be cooler this afternoon thanks to the passing cold front. Temperatures will be climbing into the 70s for the south bay. A beautiful afternoon, however, the winds will remain a concern. The National Weather service has issued a red flag warning for the north bay mountains, for hills above 1,000 feet this will remain in effect through monday morning. It is the first of the season. Were going to be monitoring the winds and the conditions. Ill have a full forecast in a few minutes. Cierra . Bigoted and antimuslim, thats how a private social media group for Police Officers is being described. San joses mayor is calling for full and swift investigation. Here is today in the bays Marianne Favro with more. Reporter four active and several retired san jose Police Officers are accused of posting racist, antimuslim comments including mocking bl
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The coronavirus pandemic has hit europe hard, but now that most eu Member States have curbed the rate of infection and begun to ease their lockdowns, does the eu have a coherent recovery strategy . Well, my guest today is mario centeno, finance minister of portugal and head of the eurogroup of ministers. Has this pandemic exposed the eus greatest weakness, economic divergence . Mario centeno in lisbon, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you, stephen, thank you for having me. We saw deep divisions within the European Union at the beginning of the covid 19 pandemic. Have those divisions been healed . Well, if you look back, you may see that these divisions have played a role in all the debate. But at the end of the day, we were able to act fast in a very flexible way. And for me, as president of the eurogroup, which is very important in a very pragmatic way, we had a few goals to achieve, to react quickly in a sizeable way and in a way that prev