And we begin with one of the wildest days on wall street in years. The Dow Jones Industrial average plummeted nearly 1100 points minutes after the opening bell sounded this morning. Stocks managed to recover some of take losses, but at closing bell the dow was still down 500 points. Financial markets have lost trillions in value over the last few days. The euro first index lost more than 521 billion. The Australian Security Exchange lost 60 billion of value. And it is estated that s p 500 companies lost about 685 billion in value today. Mary snow spent the day on the Trading Floor on wall street. Mary, how do you explain what happened today . Thats the one question everyone was trying to explain, and theres no one simple answer, but there was one overriding theme, and that was fear and uncertainty. And to get a sense of just the wild ride you were just talking about, take a look at this oneday chart on the dow. It was the singlebiggest point drop in the market ever. The market did reco
Investigation of the Police Department of ferguson, missouri. Our investigation uncovered a community in distress. In which residents felt alien yated from their own police force and from their own local government. The ferguson Police Department violations in particular were expansive and deliberate. They violated the Fourth Amendment by stopping people without reasonable suspicion, by arresting them without cause, and by using unreasonable force. They made enforcement decisions based on the way individuals expressed themselves. Nd they unnecessarily esclated nonlife threatening situation. They were encouraged by the city in the interest of raising revenue. They were driven at least in part by racial bias and they occurred disproportionately against African American residents and they were profoundly and fundamentally unconstitutional. The governments findings were based upon information received from fergusons own citizens, from fergusons own records, and fergusons own officials and
Todd . Heather, this is the police report. It says there is Surveillance Video showing the moment that doctor after this incident happened. Thats when the doctor allegedly a misunderstanding but the clerk way. 46yearold doctor Marcus Cooper remains on paid leave assistant professor at U Mass Medical School hes accused of using his cell phone to photograph a woman in a bathroom stall on september 1. The victim is a medical student. She told police she was in a bathroom on the fourth floor of the Sherman Center at U Mass Medical School. According to court documents, she heard a swift and Quiet Movement and saw what appeared to be a shadow in front of the stall. Looking up he described seeing knuckles and a cell phone camera lens pointed in her direction. Then she heard a click. She screamed and chased the man, later identified as dr. Cooper, into an adjacent male bathroom at which time he stated he had walked into the wrong bathroom and that he got lost. Court documents also say that whe
The Justice Department has now launched a federal investigation. If you are choking a man who is down with other police helping and covering over him, even if the guidelines dont kick in your mind, even if the law dont kick on your mind, after 11 times of i cant breathe, when does your humanity kick in . Today, conversation, we bring you Graham Weatherspoon them retired Police Detective, and vince warren of the center for constitutional rights. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Justice Department has announced it will launch a civil rights investigation into the death of eric garner after grand jury decided not to charge a white Police Officer for causing his death. Garner, an africanamerican father of six, as well as a grant grand father, died after he was placed in a chokehold and wrestled to the ground by new york police. The grand jurys decision set off protests across new york that shut down p
Being placed in a Police Chokehold on the streets of Staten Island new york in july. Last night protesters took to the streets chanting the same words as a grand jury cleared the Police Officer in the case. The Justice Department has now launched a federal investigation. If you are choking a man who is down with other police helping and covering over him, even if the guidelines dont kick in your mind, even if the law dont kick on your mind, after 11 times of i cant breathe, when does your humanity kick in . Today, conversation, we bring you Graham Weatherspoon them retired Police Detective, and vince warren of the center for constitutional rights. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Justice Department has announced it will launch a civil rights investigation into the death of eric garner after grand jury decided not to charge a white Police Officer for causing his death. Garner, an africanamerican fa