And their families. They are heartbroken. The entire city of dallas is grieving. Police across america, this is a tight knit family, feels this loss to their core. And were grieving with them. The president speaking just a short time ago. Manuel lives in dallas. Youve been there since shortly after the gunfire broke out. Give us a sense of what is happening now, what police are doing. Well, that final suspect, the shooter, before he shot and killed himself, made a claim to police that there were bombs throughout the city. So whats happening right now is bomb sniffing dogs are being used to try to make sure that is not the case. That there are still several areas here in Downtown Dallas that are cordoned off with heavy police presence. Now, that gunfire erupted earlier with no warning, just as that protest was wrapping up. There were 800 people. It had been peaceful up to that. Point. And then all the sudden it was chaos. It was something that can only be described as a war zone in the
Killing,ther Police Another shocking video. In baton rouge, protest continue over the killing of alton sterling, shot to death by police early Tuesday Morning after they penned him to the ground. Sterlings son began weeping uncontrollably on live tv wednesday while the boy mother addressed the media. Then to st. Paul, minnesota, where a woman broadcast live on facebook from the car moments after her boyfriend, Philando Castile, is shot to death by police. Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back and the police he is covered. They killed my boyfriend. My we will go to minnesota here in new york, we will speak with the author of nobody casualties of americas war on the vulnerable from ferguson to flint and beyond and mychal denzel smith. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds of protesters are gathered outside the governors house in minneapolis following the Fatal Police Sh
Phone, and seized the store Security Camera footage without a warrant. He wilill join us today along wh an atlanta man who says he too has been targeted by police after posting the alton sterling video online. Chris leday says Police Detained at a u. S. Air force base and let him away in shackles. Then to new york where two years ago this week eric garner died in Staten Island after officers wrestled him to the ground, pinned him down, and applied a fatal chokehold. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. B backup. Amy the man who filmed the Police Killing of eric garner, ramsey orta, is now heading to jail for four years on unrelated charges making him the only person at the scene of garners killing who will serve jail time. We will speak to garners daughter erica and Rolling Stone reporter matt taibbi. We will also talk about Bernie Sanders endorsement of Hillary Clinton. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to fromom pacifica,
Of seattle norm stamper, author of the new book to protect and to serve how to fix americas police. Mr. Stamper we have to look at syst systemic forms of racism and other formsf bigogoted behavior. It is one thing for Police Chiefs or sheriffs to denounce racism, to announce that there will be no tolerance o of that kind of behavior. It is another to actually affect the working culture of Police Officers. Amy then, a father and son join us to read letters they wrote to each other after the shootings batonight last week i in rouge, louisiana, and falcon heights, minnesota. We will speak to princeton professor eddie glaude, author of democracy in black how race still enslaves the american soul, as well as his college age son, langston. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracycy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama met wednesday at the white house with Law Enforcement officials and civil rights leaders after a week of nationwide prote
Delrawn small was shot dead by a doctor to Police Officer after a traffic incident as delrawn plus role friend and three children looked on. Newly releleased surveveillanc contradictct the officers clam of self defense. We will speak to the attorney for Delrawn Smalls family. Then we look at a stunning expose into the privatized world of prison extradition in which prisoners are transferred across the country by forprofit van companies. In the second leg of his transports, he was picked up and the guards on the second leg admitted that were marking mocking his moans and groans and making fun of the whining and complaining he was doing. Within about seven hours, he was found dead, covered in urin in the back of the van. Amy and we will speak to congressman Keith Ellison about this weekends mass black lives matter protests and get an update on how he and other Bernie Sanders supporters are attemptiting to push the Democratic Party to adopt a more progressive platform. All thatat and more