The video of floyds death setting off a Chain Reaction of events including the firing of the four officers involved, and the launch of a Justice Department investigation. We want to show you the video, but i need to warn you, it is difficult to watch. It is graphic. In this video, you will see the officer with his knee on floyds neck for several minutes while he calls out for help over and over saying i cant breathe. He was declared dead at a nearby hospital shortly afterwards. Just the anger felt by the community spilling out into the city streets for a second straight night of protests. Some of which turned violent as demonstrators and police clashed. The floyd family, who described him as a gentle giant, is urging calm for future protests and in an emotional interview, his younger brother spoke to cnn about his pain and what he wants to happen next. I grew up with him. That was my oldest brother. I loved him. Im never going to get my brother back. Im sorry. We need justice. Those of
Week, in the depths of the Great Recession and frankly a number like 600,000something would be spectacular news for us at this point. For us now, week after week, i said ten weeks, actually for eight straight weeks as of today, we are over two million americans filing for unemployment. Simultaneously, and perhaps in a related development, the white house announced today that theyre just not going to give their annual National Forecast for the economy this summer. The white house does that every year. They do a budget in february and then they do an Economic Forecast in the summer. For how things are going to go for the rest of the year. Except this year, for the first time in decades, theyve just said theyre not going to do that. Better not to say, right . Imagine what that report would say about the forecast for the economy, if they did have to put it out. Better just to keep mum maybe. We are learning from this federal government with each passing day of the epidemic that not talking
With reporting from Max Ridenour. Neighbors, organizers and camp residents gathered early last Friday morning at Camp Nenookaasi, the largest homeless encampment in Minnesota, for a potluck breakfast designed to introduce the community to Nenookaasi and provide a meal to the residents. Camp Nenookaasi, named after the Ojibwe word for hummingbird, has been evicted three.
The recently adjourned Minnesota Legislature passed a bill that will pump $100 million into law enforcement agencies and fire departments across the state to help with first responders who’ve been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.