tripled. so, we re talking about potentially many thousands of dollars if this bill is signed into law and allowed to move forward. just so far in this hearing that began a short wile ago, at least this portion of the hearing, we re hearing from a lot of law enforcement officials and union members who are in support of this bill. but critics say, look, this would hamper free speech and people s free exercise, people s ability to protest. the bill itself is a short text. it does talk about the importance of the right to protest, but there are a long list of people set to talk about this today and over the next few hours it could take and there is certainly going to be a lot of people who are saying, look, this bill is too broadly written and it would put too much hindrance on people s ability to exercise their first amendment rights. harassed or menaced. the are there any specific incidents where they talk about use of cell phone video. we haven t heard that yet. it s not part of th
do we have whitney standing by or should we get to her later as well? let s get to whitney in just a moment. let s go now to athena jones, who is watching the development in a suburban county in new york. she s preparing they re preparing to vote on a new bill that would allow the police to sue protesters and collect financial damages. this is nassau county. first responders, including police officers, if this passes, would be able to sue individuals they believe harassed, injured, menaced or assaulted them, and seek damages up to $50,000. athena jones is covering this one for us. what s this about? reporter: well, it s pretty remarkable and interesting. this is a debate that s going on right this minute as we re sitting here talking in nassau county where the legislature passed a bill that adds first responders like police officers to people who were protected under its human rights law. those people are people who cannot be discriminated against. this bill would take the protecti
has mentioned cell phone video but we did hear from a member of law enforcement who just said, police officers should not have to be subjected to verbal abuse. so you can see here how people who were critics of this bill have a lot of questions about how are we defining these terms? how broad is this? what is this going to mean for people who are out peacefully protesting or any number of people who may try to challenge a police officer if that officer says they feel harassed or menaced, you know, how is that going to work? yeah. malleable terms there. athena jones, thank you. let s go back to that story they told you about at the top, the third d.c. police officer who responded to the capitol insurrection on january 6th dying by suicide. cnn law enforcement correspondent whitney wild has this one. what more can you tell us? reporter: well, victor, what we know is that officer gunther hashida joined the department in 2003. we also know that he responded to the u.s. capitol on jan
the poisoning and subsequent imprisonment of alexei navalny. what will you be watching for, and how do you take the fact that the decision was made, that there will not be a joint news conference so that biden does not elevate putin s stature with one? i think what the europeans are going to be watching for is the tone from biden that says putin is the adversary, but we are going to handle him not with a clash of egos, but by supporting and reassuring european nations that the next time you get invaded, we are going to be there for you in a way that many feel the u.s. was not there for them when crimea was invaded and ukraine was menaced. the decision not to have a joint press conference with putin, i think, was very smart in that it avoids having that shot of biden
how were you assaulted in these injuries we are watching this horrific video? the mob that attacked me with weapons used gloves that had fiberglass material on the knuckles. so these weren t just bare handed fists going to my head and my face. they were harder. they were weapon with the aid of these gloves. martha: it s horrible. these are people who are chanting no hate, no fear. which is incongruous idea. what does this think it tells you about where this antifa group is right now in their progression? what stage are we at now when this kind of i have lens is how they are expressing what they want? the portland police say they don t intervene all the times that i plead for help when i m getting menaced and