2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William
A dad after torrential rain causes floods in afghanistan destroying thousands of homes and trapping president s beneath the rubble. And one of the worlds best footballers and his club about to pop weighs a little messy tells f. C. Barcelona he wants to leave but legal wrangling over his contract may stop that from happening. Im still going to welcome to the program 2 people were shot dead and several others injured international wisconsins onto racism demonstrators gathered for a 3rd night footage posted online showed what appeared to be a civilian armed with a rifle firing shots when he tripped after being chased by demonstrators at least one person fell to the ground down also. Reports of multiple shots in other locations at the same time police and demonstrators have been facing off for the last 3 days as angus builds on to the streets following the shooting by police on sunday jacob like a black resident. Lets go straight to douglas Washington Bureau chief in this poll welcome and
Reporting drizzle. There are pockets of thick fog. Keep that in mind. Santa rosa is the only location with reduced visibility. The southwest tabriz is not strong. Fog and the morning, then it will disappear and temperatures are on their way up. It will be near average, we will have more on that in about 10 minutes. It is 5 00 and the morning. It is friday. Sal is here now and he will tell us this time. We are in decent shape to start of the commute. Good morning. Traffic is moving along nicely if you are driving around the bay area, i like what i see so far. You can see the the bay bridge looks good with no major issues. Hopefully, this friday we will get later conditions and then we usually do on the first four days of the week of the pandemic. However, there is roadwork. Check this out if you are looking at your screen. They are trying to pick up the cone, there might be a temporary backup. We will see how long this lasts. Lets go to the headlines. There is a flex alert for the Labor
So please take care of yourself keep your distance wash your hands if you can stay at how we are here for you we are working hard listening to keep you informed on over platforms were all in this to get on together and well make it through stay safe everybody. Stay safe stay safe increase in streets safe. America in flames these demonstrators are protesting against Police Violence towards people. On the other side are a growing number of heavily armed militia and can no show wisconsin a cellphone supporter of President Trump shot dead 2 left wing activists peta diaz of the right wing militia american rule says the police have failed and that the u. S. Needs armed men like himself to restore law and order. The people that are down there not protesters theyre criminals and theyre not going to be working to help the stabiliser government. Target practice for members of the militia american wolf at a secret location in the u. S. State of washington. This a k 47 rifle holds 30 bullets a not
Hello im down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up nato warms russia are against meddling in delarue says president putin promises troop support if protests get out of control. And the crisis deepens in the Eastern Mediterranean as turkey and greece stepped up the rhetoric over a maritime dispute. The. Democratic Vice President ial nominee comedy harris has delivered a preemptive strike on donald trump just ahead of his speech to the Party Faithful at the Republican National convention how is condemned trumps response to the coronavirus pandemic and address the unrest over the Police Shooting of jacob blake saying america must fulfill the promise of equal justice the reality is that the life of a black person in america has never been treated as fully human. And we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law well earlier trump praised the National Guards efforts to quote protests in the city of can osha suggested the same approach should be used in