Machine. For you to santos for our top story today we look at the hanging deaths of 3 black men so far all have been ruled suicides but the families of the deceased dispute the claims and of called for full investigations 2 of the men were found hanging from trees in Southern California just 50 miles apart the body of 38 year old malcolm harsh was discovered in victor ville 1st on may 31st and on june 10th of the body of 24 year old robert l. Fuller was found in palm dale federal Law Enforcement agencies are now were viewing the initial investigations into their deaths after outrage from Community Members many of whom accuse authorities of covering up possible lynchings meanwhile across the country in new york on june 9th a similar story played out the body of 27 year old Dominick Alexander was found hanging from a tree in a park near the hudson river. Or jesse we dont have enough information right now to know what really happened but with all the racial tensions were reminded of our c
Staged photo. Op. For me good thats good. Also coming up tonight risking their lives to tell the story of americas anger and unrest a d. W. Reporter in minneapolis cult in the line of fire. Take. That on. The premise this is her. For me not knowing about the middle of the 6 crowd. They barely knew theyre. Going to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the titles of a u. S. President some earned some given some taken donald trump once declared himself a wartime president. And as the number of corona virus deaths in the us risk iraq getting to date more than 105000 people in america have died in the pandemic yesterday after a week of nationwide protests over the death of a black man at the hands of police and in one of the most bizarre moments of his presidency trump declared himself the president of law and order just a few meters away Peaceful Protesters were being stormed by armed police or today joe biden the man expected
The manner of death or did it take you to take you to minneapolis to hear what those demonstrators are demanding tonight all right its time to boost your news i. Q. Less than 24 hours after protesters were met with tear gas outside of the white house today they are back on the streets of washington d. C. The growing crowd of demonstrators as demanding changes to the way blacks and other minorities are being treated in this country and just a little while ago the curfew went into effect for protesters here in d. C. Sending them all home that argues for an fronsac has been covering those protests all week and tonight protesters organized a vigil for george floyd. You know we are just about 2 blocks north from the white house here and k. And 16 that you could see behind me there. There are thousands of protesters from all walks of life you have black lives matter you have white people brown people you know all of them in the name of peaceful protesting now moments ago the video to show yo
Countrys horrible past which Billie Holiday one thing about in her song strange fruit. Ill tell you bruges this whole thing is bizarre 1st and foremost i guess i need to look at it this way ive never understood sure side to begin with and thats fault i guess but i look at it is if youre to the point of committing suicide. Things can only get better if youre at that low level things can only improve but that being said i think we need to look at the situation here how normal is that for people to individually go out and hang themselves from trees is that the normal suicide today i pod dont think so you dont hear of a very often now you do hear of old days of lynchings definitely but that is a form of suicide time the strange to me really really strange it seems there would be other ways to kill yourself if you were going to do it rather than to go out to a remote place and hang yourself from a tree so definitely it needs to be looked into and you know theres that possibility of a serial
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