Minutes to add to it. Senator feinstein, senator booker, senator harris, if you would like to make Opening Statements. Is that ok . We have some people who will do some introducing to the panel. I have a short video that is tough to watch and i talked to senator booker about it the first couple minutes, but it ends up on a very positive note and we will see if we can go from really hard to watch to something that is a little bit more acceptable to the country. If you could roll the video. Is it working . Can we consider it an act of god and not air it . Could be. Well . What do we expect to see . You are expecting to see a video, but you are not. So i will just talk. E his very painful death, its about the gentleman who was jogging in georgia and got shot. And it was about the recent atlanta case. It was about two episodes of a cop pulling a woman out of a burning car and a Police Officer administering cpr to a very young, monthold infant. And it winds up with the cops and protesters t
It is the republicans turn and mr. Mcclintock has tried to be recognized on a point of order. There is no point of order. Who seeks recognition . I seek recognition for a point of parliamentary inquiry. I would like the chairman to cite the house rule requiring members to wear masks in a house proceedings. If we had such a vote, i dont recall it. If we have such a vote, i will vote against it, but i will be happy to abide by it if the house so decides. Until then, i would like you to save me the rule. The chairs authority to enforce the preservation of authority and the quorum throughout pursuant to clause one of rule 11, the rules of the house by the rules of its committees and subcommittees. Committee chairs have long been responsible for the enforcement of general quorum. The quorum. I am enforcing general the quorum. M. That means the safety of the measures members of the committee. The gentleman is recognized. You choose to wear a mask, i do not. I ask you to respect my choice as
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] coming up shortly, more light covers from capitol hill with the House Administration election subcommittee meeting about Voting Rights and elections during the covid19 pandemic. Hearing is after the tuesday primaries with troubles and voting in a number of locations in georgia in particular. Among the witnesses testifying today will be the secretary of state for louisiana. It should get underway shortly and we will take you there live when it happens but until then, part of todays washington journal. Ur next guest of the morning is alex vitale, a sociology professor and the author of the book the end of policing. Thank you for joining us. Guest good morning, pedro. Narrator could you give the audience of what your view of what the police should be in Current Society . Guest i think it is not so
We will talk about the proposals to defund the police and what that means. Christy, good morning. Guest good morning and thank you for having me. Host you are the codirector of the Innovative Policing Program at georgetown law school. What exactly is that . Guest that is something i started with some of my colleagues who have a background in policing. One of them is a professor, also a reserved Police Officer. We do a number of programs trying to get police to speak differently about their professions. We call it the police for tomorrow program. It is a program for officers to bring them together once per month and have them ask some of the hardest questions about policing and talk about how it impacts their life and doing something about it. Whereabouts a starter program, able active bystander support Law Enforcement. It is really meant to get at one of the issues that was so tragically relevant in the george floyd killing, trying to help officers do a better job intervening to preven
Save them for the q a at the end of the event. I want everyone to know that before we get started. As i said, this of course could not be a more important and timely conversation we are going to have today. Since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last month, weve seen nationwide unrest. Weve seen protests, not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through a racial lens, in fact, all encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. Its a narrative that assumes the behavior of Derek Chauvin, typical Police Behavior toward black suspects entered assumes that george floyd is a black every man in america that whatever happened to him happens to black people all the time. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which