Damage control. Multiple witnesses report being shot and shoved at the hands of police during Public Comment many of the 300 who joined online excoriated the department. I was shot by one of your projectiles. With the violent Response Police cause most. They intimidated and bullied a group of peaceful young people. Chief eddie garcia concedes that mistakes were made. The department has enjoyed Good Community support and this can be a learning tool. We have moved the needle. Is a painful to hear . I am a police chief and if you dont have thick skin to hear frustrations of the community, you should not be a police chief. The city grapples over what changes will ultimately come to the sjpd we have to see the work we have done here. It is there underneath the arguments, the pain and frustration. That stuff is still there. Everyone calls down and we sit at the table and Start Talking about it. The hearing will continue on friday at 11 30 in the morning. Ktvu fox2 news. The San Francisco sup
George floyd 4 minneapolis por uses to similar but a different kind of restraint blamed for killing floyd. As calls to defund the police grow louder some democratic lawmakers say the message is often misinterpreted a los angeles representative Nanette Barragan says the idea is to invest money taken from police and put it into things like housing and education, supporters argue that some cities are overspending on police and at the expense of other Community Investments. Senator Kamala Harris is arguing that more Community Investment is a way to make neighborhoods safer. We have confuse. Having safe communities with hiring more cops on the street. The White House Press secretary says Defunding Police does take away essential resources from law enforcement. She says theres just no interpretation of this proposal that the president will support. We talked today to San Franciscos police chief to get his take and well have more on that coming up. Time for another check on the forecast lets
Officer, the group made up almost entirely of democrats urged each other to take accountability and create change but its the hardest thing you do. Is neil for almost 9 minutes out of this. Youre not working hard enough. Because this is a show. And unlike so many frustrated protesters in young people and people in the community and people who are facing this every day on like them we have the opportunity to immediately do something about it the black legislative caucus has already presented its list of priority bills many of which have to do with Justice Reform some of these bills will be considered in the legislature this week and next join us and playing a leading role in the next coming attraction and reforming racism and Police Brutality in this state as well as this country. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. California lawmakers want to make it illegal for police to use a type of neck cold that blocks the flow of blood to the brain that proposal apparently goes. Beyond wha
Utish, inry, br short. Where was the social contract for george floyd . Where was the social contract for Breonna Taylor . Where was the social contract for tamia for tamir r ice . Put simply, for black americans, the social contract is always been contaminated by racism and white super missy, the nations original sin White Supremacy, the nations original sin. A black american has more than doubled the chance of being killed by the police as a white american. Police encounters are a leading cause of death for young black men. The problems of Police Brutality we confront today reflects the persistence of embedded Structural Racism in our country. Violent White Supremacy is the real deep state that we must uproot and discard in america. Yes, my friends across the aisle have been in search for it for several years right now. Racism is the real deep state in america. Violent White Supremacy dominated our country for an entire century, and the Supreme Court did nothing other than constituti
Had just begun to reignite a National Discussion around policing. Our country has confronted what feels like several years worth of evil in just three month, how to safely reopen. Schools and universities trying to plan for the fall. Healthcare professionals and essential workers are continuing to man their posts, help strangers and keep our country going. Peaceful protesters continued to express outrage over the killings of black americans in the Nations Police officers. Overwhelmingly good, decent and brave people put everything on the line for their neighbors and continue to faithfully serve under trying circumstances. These are the kinds of challenges our nation should meet with unity like when the senate road past a historic cares act unanimously in march. Unfortunately on some corners of the country our nations Strategic Reserve of sanity appears to have run a little low. We have seen peaceful protests hijacked by violent riots, apparently the best way to argue against a Strong P