Hearing featuring Opening Statements from the witnesses. Chairman Jerrold Nadler and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation here today to talk about my big brother, george. The world knows him as george, but i called him perry. Yesterday, we laid him to rest. It was the hardest thing i ever had to do. Im the big brother now. So its my job to come for my brothers and my sisters, perrys kids, and everyone who loved him. Thats a lot of people. I have to be the strong one now because george is gone. And me being the big brother now is why im here today. To do what perry always would have done. To take care of the family and others. I couldnt take care of george that day he was killed, but may be by speaking with you today, i can make sure that his death was not in vain. Moreke sure that he is than another face on a tshirt, more than another name on a list that wont stop growing. George always made sacrifices for our family. Officers all the sir. He was mildmannered. He didn
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objections, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this hearing on policing practices and Law Enforcement accountability. I thank all of our members and witnesses for participating, both in person and remotely. I appreciate all the work that went into making use of this room and the technology we are using possible. Before we begin, i would like to remind members we have established an email address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions, or other written materials members might want to offer as part of our hearing. If you would like to submit turtles, please send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to your offices, and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. In light of what is going on in the world today, i ask that everyone in the room wear a mask at all times other than when
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South africa as a reserve forces are deployed to enforce its lockdown this cape town reports are winds of looting. And the lockdown forces writers and bookstores to find a new way to celebrate stories on world books say. Hello new figures released in the u. S. Paint a picture of an economy devastated by the coronavirus in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out so here are the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits this is the 3rd week the number of new claims has declined so a sign the worst of the shock may be over but it does mean a record 26400000. 00 americans have lost their jobs since the end of march when lockdowns shut down production and led to mass staff furloughs thats more than 15 percent of the u. S. Workforce meanwhile members of the u. S. House of representatives representatives have returned to washington where theyre expected to pass a 484000000000. 00 relief bill to Fund Small Busi
Of people across our urban communities not only for being with us today for the way they have partnered with our ministration and partnered with state and local officials to put the health of all of their constituencies 1st as the president mentioned will you receive a report that our task force received to formally this week from bill bryan of the science and Technology Directorate at the department of Homeland Security he will outline as the president said encouraging news about the impact that heat and sunlight have on the corona virus which will increase the confidence that we feel about the coming summer on the subject of testing at the present moment we have reports d of 4930000 tests having been performed across america and encouraging news as d states have been engaging commercial labs at a higher level across the country yesterday our commercial lab system did more than 100000. Yes in a single day so were beginning to activate all d of the capacity and tomorrow at the presiden