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with c.s., or tear gas. the events i witnessed at lafayette square on the evening of june 1 were deeply disturbing. reporter: portland s mayor and its police commissioner are now requesting what they call a cease-fire, the removal of all federal forces from portland. the attorney general said today he only sent his own people in, norah, because the local police weren t doing their jobs. o donnell: nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you, nancy. a new policy in austin, texas, has forced the police there to release video of the deadly shooting of a black and latino man named michael ramos. this happened in april. the video shows ramos getting out of his car with his hands and shirt raised. police first shoot ramos with a bean bag round before he gets back i dr that s when ramos was shot dead. he was later found to be unarmed. two officers are now on administrative duty. the case won t go to a grand jury until next year.
we call that the battle of the mountaintop. some are on their way up the mountain. at least i call it the battle of the mountaintop. the other side of the mountain. the shape of the mountain. the mountain. the mountain. you see a curve. i see a mountain. you see a curve, i see a mountain. new york governor andrew cuomo was, to put it mildly, very fond of the mountain metaphor to describe new york s epic battle with the coronavirus. at one point he even dragged a styrofoam model of a mountain to one of his press conferences in case the comparison was not clear enough to anyone. he needed to do whatever he could to get the message through to new yorkers that whatever he could do to make his point and get people s attention, this is what we have been up against. this is what just happened to us. well, now the governor s taken his passion for anthropoe more fiezing the coronavirus epidemic to truly a whole other level. behold the coronavirus mountain poster. for reasons that are frankly
the real mission here is to start rioting. not pretend we re frying to do that through moralizing about it but to get to grips about the underlying causes of why it happens over and over again. let s bear in mind that this is not the first time in recent history that waves of riots have taken off across the u.s. and indeed, we re seeing waves of rioting around the world on a regular basis. and we have to start to address the broader issues around which those riots come about. and the idea of chaotic and mindless violence will never help us to do that. professor stott, if you were to get a telephone call from an american mayor, an american governor, seeking your counsel, your expertise on the subject of rioting, and they were looking for a lesson that they could apply today so as to prevent violence tonight, what would you say to them? well, the first thing i d do is point them in the direction of the chief of police in atlanta who had the courage to
day 10,000 people turned up. 10,000 families. 10,000 cars turned up at the distribution. we had many trailers full of food to give those families, but seeing that unprecedented need we went back to our warehouse, brought more food and it was an all day distribution. this distribution started at ten o clock in the morning, but families started to line up at 3am hoping that we would not run out of food. the panic and fear and anxiety for a lot of these families who lost theirjob two or three weeks ago and now their final dollars have run out and they arejust dollars have run out and they are just desperate and panicked that they will not be able to feed theirfamily, that they will not be able to feed their family, many come from the hospitality industry and our community has just from the hospitality industry and our community hasjust been decimated. many jobs and our community hasjust been decimated. manyjobs are lost and so there is a long line of families to get food. eric, i guess yo