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County prepared for more protests and its second night of curfew that curfew just went into effect an hour ago at 8 oclock as you can see here. Many local businesses are boarded up to prevent looting in damage. Thanks for joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus last night more than 120 people were arrested. In Alameda County that was the first night of the county wide curfew today we learned that many of the people arrested are now from Alameda County. Theyre not in from california to our kron fours Jonathan Mccall is live for us in the newsroom with details on this jonathan explain yeah, vicki grant, you know what 4 days Law Enforcement officials have been stressing in emphasizing that they didnt believe that many of this. Destruction and damage was being caused by people in their own communities. Well now at least in Alameda County they now have the numbers to back it up of the more than 122 people arrested for crimes yesterday, 70 of them were from outside of Ala
Biography about sam hose in injure 0 georgia that after the lynching the knuckles were viewed on display in a store . Mitchell street in atlanta. His liver and heart were even presented to the governor of georgia as a souvenir. Sickening, grotesque, the images of lynching. In 1931 raymond gun was lynched in murrayville, missouri. The spectacle drew a crowd of almost 4,000 people, including, if you can believe it, women and their children. In the tragedy of lynching, the author writes that one woman even held her little girl up so high so she could better see the victim who was, quote, blazing on the roof. Sickening and grotesque these images. In the summer of 1955, 14yearold till was visiting family in mississippi when he went to a store and bought some candy. While in there he was accused of flirting with a white woman appeared nor that offense, he was kidnapped in the middle of the night and bludgeoned so badly that afterwards his body was unrecognizable. He could only be identified
According to a tweet from senator Amy Klobuchar citing the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper. Taking a live look at the Minnesota Attorney generals office. Keith ellison is set to make an official announcement were hearing at 12 30 our time. The officers were all fired after seen in the video of floyds neck pinned to the ground. He was charged with third degree murder and manslaughter last week, and now the murder charge is elevated to second degree. Two autopsies have ruled floyds death a homicide. We are going to continue to follow this as those charges are expected to be announced within a half an hour. Back to you. And to our other breaking story. In oakland, Police Standoff involving a suspect and children. Kit doe is live at the scene. E in oakland ata the scene here. And what youre seeing now is to the left of us here, theyre giving a briefing to media. Were learning that the suspect is undergoing a Mental Health issue right now. So they have brought in a lot of the vans with t
Mr. Paul mr. President , i rise to ask expedited passage of h. R. 35, the emmett till antilynching act, as amended. I seek to amend this legislation not because ive i take it or i take lynching lightly but because i take it seriously. And this legislation does not. Lynching is a tool of terror that claimed the lives of nearly 5,000 americans between p 1881 and 1968. But this bill would cheapen the meaning of lynching by defining it so broadly as to include a minor bruise or abrasion. Our nations history of racial terrorism demands more seriousness from us than that. Dubois wrote in his auto biography about sam hose in injure 0 georgia that after the lynching the knuckles were viewed on display in a store . Mitchell street in atlanta. His liver and heart were even presented to the governor of georgia as a souvenir. Sickening, grotesque, the images of lynching. In 1931 raymond gun was lynched in murrayville, missouri. The spectacle drew a crowd of almost 4,000 people, including, if you c