Branding the wartime leader a racist. And nearly 1300 Health Experts call on the us police to stop using tear gas and other against demonstrators warning such tactics could increase the risk of 19 transmission. Broadcasting live coverage from our studios and this is R T International thomas certainly glad to have you with us and the mayor of seattle has responded furiously to a threat by donald trump to deploy the military to her city to break up an autonomous zone set up by black lives matter protesters. Said any such action by the u. S. President would be against the law. Our president wants to tell a story about domestic terrorists who have a radical agenda and are promoting a conspiracy and fitzs law and order initiatives its simply not true the threat to invade seattle to divide and incite violence in our city is not only unwelcome it would be illegal the capitol hill autonomous zone was formed at the beginning of the week by black lives that matter activists they barricaded thems
If anyone was going to write a tellall it is more likely to be you but any juicy secrets you share anyway, that wasnt really an option for me but this is not a book i am trying to write. I did have some ideas coming out of office. I thought maybe something on a new view of Public Health to rebuild the Public Health infrastructure. I would write about my time in office and what i learned about government. What happened is sometimes you can have the best laid plans and then change direction and that happened to me. In 2017 i wrote an article for Harvard Business review because the editor asked me to. I wasnt entirely sure how interested Business Leaders would be but what i found following publication of the article is i was getting so many messages from around the world other than media folks who said this is a real problem. These messages would come from india, japan, south korea, countries across europe and latin america but a whole bunch of other types of messages. I have been struggl
Statues were ripped from their pedestals and covered with graffiti. This was after a night of protests. Wilson walker is there. It is clear why some of those figures were targeted. Others however it is not so clear . Thats right. So where is the line between protests and destruction of public property . Thoughts on that from the mayor coming up. But two of those three statues are men who are now notorious for their existing as slaveowners. Another was famous for accepting the surrender of robert e lee. All morning and throughout the afternoon, they worked to clean up after the scene here in the music concourse. This is just the aftermath that many had to come and see for themselves. Among the empty pedestal, one that held Francis Scott key. A man who did owned slaves. And another was the founder of California Missions was also a slave owner. When i was here last week, i noticed it was still up. And i just thought it was surprising to have him so prominently in the park considering the
Answered in the last 2 weeks weve been witness to tear gas pepper spray but tons shields rubber bullets chemical balls this boots yes even knees again unleashed on us citizen citizens and whats become an all too common sight on the evening new why in the last few days weve seen police in buffalo by only push a 75 year old man down to the ground with such force that you could hear the crack of the mans skull on the concrete before he lay motionless bleeding from the air while they all walk by why in denver we saw the police after they fire a chemical weapon at a car carrying a pregnant woman when confronted by her boyfriend the police opened fire with a hail of pepper ball shots on him and his pregnant girlfriend and the car why. Weve seen journalists legal observers and medics all targeted by Law Enforcement people people whose very job at a protest is to both documented and keep people safe are now being beaten arrested and shot by rubber bullets and pepper sprayed in the face why to
Thank you. I dont really have any words. I will be an up and down meeting. We have a meeting with the school of the arts and a reading from school of the arts. Commissioner collins, did you want to chime in here . I just want to say that even though this has been a very difficult time, i think its also showing us ive been getting a lot of hope from youth and from what im seeing and so a senior with the school of the arts and i think that she excepexemplifies the intelligen, intellect and just the leadership that we see in so many of our youth, including those who are serving on the board with us. And i just really appreciate that shes willing to share her talent with us and i think she serves as an example for adults who should be doing everything we can to support youth. I think that gives me hope and inspiration when im looking at just what our next steps should be. And i just really appreciate jara and im glad she can be here. Thank you, Commission Collins. Miss martin. Thank you. I