Begin the annexation of parts of the occupied west bank. Police in hong kong have detained dozens of people as demonstrators protest the strict new security law imposed by china demonstrators were met by heavy Police Presence as they gathered to protest the war the legislation targets crimes of secession terrorism subversion and collusion with Foreign Forces it came into force just hours before the city marked the anniversary of its return to chinese rule. Some food for home on the one thing the central authorities are determined to see an end to the chaos and riots over the past year and secondly the central authorities are determined to protect the majority of law abiding citizens in hong kong they should be protected from a handful of people who are causing harm and damage. Or get the very latest on the new law and the protests from our correspondents in hong kong and beijing shortly but 1st a dream brown begins our coverage. 23 years after hong kong returned to chinese rule the mai
Order, we will now proceed with questions. I will begin by recognizing myself or five minutes. On may 25, in the twilight of memorial day, Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police held a need to george mr. Floydonless neck, pleaded for release, repeating the words i cant breathe. Mr. Floyd, i am sure you have seen the video. Can you think of any reason why officer chauvin would need to hold his knee on your brothers for over eight minutes . I dont know why he did it, but personally i think it was personal. They worked at the same place. For him to do Something Like that, it had to be premeditated and he wanted to do it. Intentional. Yes sir. We have learned since then that he has faced 17 misconduct complaints during his career. He was named in the brutality lawsuit, he shot and critically wounded a man after a brief and nonviolent confrontation. How do you feel about the history what do you know what do you feel about the history of misconduct . He should have been off the force. Any o
This morning, the long march for equality for lgbt q americans took a step forward, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that federal employment discrimination protections do in fact extend to lgbt q americans. Believe it or not, before today, it was allowed, the federal government did not say you could prevent let me say that a different way, before today it was not a settled legal matter that you could sue your employer for firing you solely on the basis of Sexual Orientation a sexual identity. In 2020 in america it was still okay to discriminate against people because of the Sexual Orientation and identity. Is that unbelievable, 21stcentury . Still allow . Now it isnt because of the Supreme Court and they deserve credit for that case and one of the cases on the basis of todays ruling originated in my home state of new york where a skydiving instructor was fired for admitting his Sexual Orientation. So today the Supreme Court did the right thing and ruled that Workplace
Sheesh. Chair fewer president yee, are you done with questioning, because i see supervisor ronen in the queue. President yee yeah, i have a few more, but go ahead. Chair fewer okay. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen i dont want to cutoff president yee. I actually have a similar version of a question, so maybe you can finish up because i very much agreed with everything you had to say. Im wondering and this is sort of a similar question to president yee, how decisions are made specifically on timing and use and selection of awardees for nofas, r. F. P. S, and r. F. Q. S. And the reason im asking this is very similar in line to what supervisor walton and president yee were saying is often times, it feels like the same Large Developers get awarded and selected time and time again, and im just wondering what mohcd is doing to improve capacity in smaller organizations led by black and brown folks so that theyre able to compete with the large, Nonprofit Developers who are awarded pretty mu
Equity and lgbtq plus equality. World wherer is a i use the term same gender loving and day is often used as a political identifier for white gay men. So much of our work is about grassroots organizations throughout the country that are working with the unique and often overlooked needs a black square people. Host who is involved with this organization . Guest we are not a membershipbased organization. We are republic policy focused organization. A lot of our work is working with members of congress, numbers of the Congressional Black Caucus, state elected officials throughout the country where there are significant proportions of black square people. We do a lot of work and Community Around health and health, hiv and mental acknowledging a lot of increased needs in the africanamerican community, and also work in partnership to provide cultural competence with hbcus, k12 schools that the country, and organizations looking to be better at making space for like people. Host the Congressi