And for standards for Police Training and greater diversity proposals made and in several cases adopted in the wake of numerous other Police Murders including those of eric garner and Michael Brown the Minneapolis Police department for example established a duty to intervene required by Police Officers after the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in ferguson this requirement did not say floyd joining me to discuss the role of the police and what we must do to end the power of police to inflict indiscriminate violence is philip mackerras a writer activist and ph d. Candidate in sociology and africanamerican studies at Yale University so lets begin with a history because its not new we go all the way back to the Johnson Administration and all of the mechanisms and this has been bipartisan that has been used to a step simply reform the police have actually boomerang and made the police more on the potent and more lethal can you take us through that history yeah i mean we can even go back a bit
Pursuit of meaningful change both in the wake of george floyd step and in the midst of a larger legacy of Racial Injustice in this country. I want to thank you all for joining and i want to thank jean henning for her organizing the series. Let me introduce the moderator of todays roundtable repressor Christy Lopez. Professor lopez joined our faculty in january 2017 right after completing a federal investigation of the Chicago Police department will goodwill serving of the Department Just a Civil Rights Division she led that investigation and many others to examine patterns and practices of unconstitutional policing across the country including in new orleans, los angeles and ferguson. Since joining our faculty professor lopez has cofounded our Innovative Policing Program which is now launching a Prevention Program called abler active bystander ship for recently professor lopez has written up that somehow the Police Culture could have saved George Floyds life and what the funding of pol
Over for the suspect wanted in back to back active shooter situations and paso robles 26 yearold mason j the lira is dead tonight after a shootout with police. Thank you for joining us on this thursday night, im pam moore and im ken wayne investigators say lira shot for Law Enforcement officers and killed a homeless man kron fours noelle bellow joins us now live from the newsroom with the latest information noel. Ken and pam the gunman was killed in a shootout with police this evening theyve been searching. For mason lira since wednesday after they suspected him of opening fire at the Paso Robles Police station shooting a sheriffs deputy in the head and killing a transit man now a massive manhunt for earlier of began yesterday. Officials say they sat on the search overnight and were holding a perimeter when around 2 oclock this afternoon officials got a call of another officer shot near ramadi drive and volpi isabel road. Now were and from that scene and head in the salinas riverbed in
About the coronavirus the World Health Organization was praising its response back in january. And its restrictions ease in the philippines capital some are hoping to tackle the traffic problem by getting more people to cycle. A president who traffics in fear and division thats the scathing attack launched at donald trump by democratic president ial hopeful joe biden hes accusing him of fanning the flames of hate as he spoke addressing the death of a black man in Police Custody its been a week now since protests began across the United States the killing of george floyd in minneapolis last monday kid 3. 3. George fords last words with you didnt direct him. Are still being heard include all across this nation they speak to a nation where too often. Just the color of your skin and put your life at risk a country is crying out for leadership leadership the key to 9 is leadership that brings us together leadership that can recognize pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee o
The 11th to perish on the mountain this season, after reports of overcrowding the hit series gavin and stacey will return to our screens for a Christmas Special later this year, almost a decade after it last aired. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im shaun ley. One of the conservative leadership contenders has warned that a no deal brexit would cause what he called political suicide for his party. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said any such move would trigger a general election, risking the extinction of the tories. One of his rivals, the environment secretary michael gove, has pledged to allow eu nationals who were in the uk at the time of the referendum to apply for citizenship free of charge. The housing minister, Kit Malthouse, has become the tenth mp to join the race to succeed theresa may. He says the Leadership Campaign cannot be about the same old faces. Lets get more on this from norman smith, our assistant political editor. Hello. This one is shaping up nicel