Todays going underground but 1st after a weekend its all the United States celebrating Independence Day and the u. K. Flooding the countrys pubs youd be forgiven for thinking life was getting back to normal after the coronavirus pandemic but with protests calling for the defunding of police still going on around the world will the only way to return to normal mean us having to embrace the surveillance state in fact will anything really be the same ever again joining me now from los angeles in the United States is the greatest film director of all time at least according to francois truffaut verna his new film Family Romance l. L. C. Is streaming now on movie version of thanks so much for coming on before i even get to the new field. What culture of youve been enlightening yourself with during the lockdown well im trying to beat this it didnt. Tell me and i think its a. Responsibility to keep distance takes place next experience to mention. Starve the sucker meaning the virus has to be
A couple hours ago. The san jose mayor joining her. This is video from earlier, from San Francisco. This is a large group of protesters who have been marching this way and that, both sides of market street, near the embarcadero as well. Two separate groups have merged. There have been some confrontations with police. Nothing too violent. A little pushing and shoving at one point. A Police Vehicle was surrounded. But it was never approached by protesters. It was allowed to back out of there and everybody went about their business and thats the way it has been for the last three hours, at least. Now, two hours ago, san jose mayor sam liccardo joined ting a knee. The mayor took that knee to show solidarity with the cause and the he needed with the group to stay peaceful. Shortly after taking that knee, he held a News Conference covering a range of topics. He explained why he has ordered a curfew for the city. Not just for tonight but the next several days. We are receiving intelligence ab
cub÷ qinutes, instead of the previous average, which was 60 minutes. Violent crime has dropped 42 in just seven years. All of this was done without a union. All this was done by freeing the department from a collectivebargaining agreement that had previously city and the City Police Department into an unholy alliance with officers who had violent and lawless tendencies. This brought a by what all observable metrics seem to circumstances, so mr. Logan, for your healing words. I appreciate your account of the progress made in camden. You mentioned the difficult balance that has to be struck in order to empower po do the difficult work and hold accountable those who disregard the justice they are entrusted to uphold. Did this restructuring that ha camden, tell me how it helps to recalibrate ter and authority you mentioned. Thank you, senator. I would say that they listen to the people, from town Hall Meetings to conversationsthey begin to hear from regular residents. I remember governor
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Using military style force against protesters or a man who was instrumental in policies that resulted in the u. S. Having the highest prison population in the world is it time for a new Political Party. Small coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st as protests continue today around the world in the wake of the murder of george floyd many are now asking how the Political Movement it catalyzed conformant true change and perhaps even revolution one woman who knows exactly how hard the struggle against systematic oppression and racial capitalism is the legendary black panther activist professor angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going underground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open lette