Derek cho vinay Police Officer charged with the murder of george floyd who sparked a global protest will make his 1st Court Appearance in minneapolis but what can charging a handful of Police Officers really do when u. S. Authorities have responded to protest with the factor martial law by tear gas rubber bullets and Armored Vehicles joining me now by skype from nashville in the United States is david a professor of africanamerican and the asper studies at Vanderbilt University david thanks so much for coming on im going to ask you actually the other day the New York Times published a call for military intervention it was written by a senator from arkansas tom cotton a call for overwhelming force and the use of the insurrection act which of course would mandate federal military troops across the United States i saw that piece and like most americans you know and i think this cuts across racial lines was. Donald trump playbook d is one of divisiveness. Its one that plays to the racial.
With more on the investigation. Its on hold because of that stability issue with the store in question here, its too unstable we are told and because of that instability and the equipment needed to deal with it there is something of a Collateral Damage here on 69th street if you take a look behind me here, most of the stores all but one remain closed. A cherry picker arriving this morning, right now the only safe way to inspect the damaged shoe store it ripped through the building early last night engineers will have to inspect the building before investigators can step inside to it figure out the cause of fire. The building is still unstable and things are dropping and falling and we can still hear it. As of right now most of upper darby commercial core remains closed employees of some of the stores allowed inside to assess the situation and the decision to keep the block shuttered is based in part on safety. We are doing thing we have a Daycare Center down the street and there is no
Respects. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is outside the memorial which has just ended. Anne . Reporter the funeral is wrapping up right now. It is a packed house inside memorial auditorium. You would be hard pressed to find a dry eye among them. [ bagpipe music ] reporter augustine vegas, known as gus, was honored by hundreds of Law Enforcement officers but the most touching tribute best parts of me are from him. [ crying ] reporter were from gus ten children. You will live on and you will will forever be in our hearts. Reporter gus vegas had been with the Richmond Police force for 15 years but his family life was number one and in his off time he founded a nonprofit to help children in foster care. The love and encouragement you showed all of us kids, dad, its the same love and encouragement we will show our kids. Reporter the suspect in vegas death is the father of his 6yearold grandson, robert vega, accused of shooting gus in his home last week in vallejo. Robert was in a relationship
Bill . Wet this morning, late this afternoon and this evening is when we have the potential for Severe Weather. Thunderstorms take shape during the Late Afternoon and evening winds gusting to more than 50 miles an hour are possible. What were getting this morning is some lighter rainfall. But its pretty dreary outside with temperatures in the 30s. Every once in a while well see Something Like this, a heavy shower pushing through. This is lehigh county. It just moved across interstate 78 on its way to north white hall. The rain is falling in allentown. You can see the rain that is light, tapering off in montgomery county. Steady for warminster in bucks county. That extends into northeast philadelphia, bensalem getting rainfall and burlington county. c willingboro, lumberton getting that light rainfall. Improving conditions in mt. Pocono. Theyve seen in the pocono mountains freezing rain. Nobody else will see that today. Its just rain. The temperatures warming, 50 degrees at 11 00, 58 de
Is a felony and also with filing a false report to police. Clearwaters police chief had some harsh words for that mother after this entire charade went down. Unfortunately theres a ridiculous turn of events with some really irresponsible behavior today that really caused a lot of disappointing things to happen. Reporter this white ford fusion was reported stolen from the 1300 block of boylen avenue and clearwater this afternoon, but Police Believe it was never stolen at all. There is some indications that there may have been some type of drug involvement in this incident and whether the vehicle had been traded for drugs or the people that the car had been given to were related to some type of drug transaction, so thats what we are looking at now. Reporter after the car was involved in some sort of a legal illegal activity and that false report was made to police, the driver of the car began fleeing and Police Spent Hours searching for this little boy, 4yearold Ismael Badillo a day care