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To protest or leaders have been arrested in thailand an hour after the government announced an emergency decree banning gatherings of 5 or more people earlier thousands marched through bangkok demanding political reform some then set up camp outside the Prime Ministers Office they want him to resign plus a complete overhaul of the electoral system and reform nation of the monarchy more on that and all the other stories that we have been covering here on aljazeera the address. Dot com and you can see our top story there in nigeria they continue to protest. About the police. Squad that was the stand that faultlines is coming up next more news at half an alibi. Guinea is getting ready to vote for condi defined months of violent protests to change the constitution now hes defined his critics to seek a. Kind of divided opposition come together for a moment after the stop and give me a election 2020 on aljazeera. What can i do or the black person in this country that isnt right near my black body my whole essence my whole beam have been weaponized. Its all too familiar in the United States a black person killed by the police. Calls for justice and the cycle repeats that the other. Night. Outside the white house by some estimates 2020 has seen the largest protest movement and u. S. History all centered on the killing of black people by police. Dont want to argue the march Briana Taylor shot in her own home. Alone when he was at the rally and then in may george floyd in minneapolis where more than 8 minutes were caught on cell phone of an officer kneeling on his neck despite his pains hamas. Today ok so tough theyre up a bit and they are playing right across the country let him cut it all back the millions of people across the last stop to the strings in the middle of the pandemic that have largely shut down the country. But what was at the center of all this were too many cases that are gone unseen and unheard. My name is timmy here asta my son is mark hes hasta marquees was killed by d. C. Police on jail 12th 2008 its names like mark east alston they may have never heard as well as the ones that are better known Michael Brown sandra bland eric garner but it pushed the us to this moment people are dying right now and children are being shot right now black people should not be defending their very existence it is going to earthing i do margaret in this violent we cant even sleep at all we came in. Play video games are one of them are going to mourn with our nephews i came a book a play to be sick and a car of a gas station. Its also years of promises of reform and change that came without justice reforms is just not going to work and so were not here for that conversation anymore we have to remove this as the tension that was built on systematic racism and built on the thats a killing black and brown individuals. When we met commit the allston in july it had been just over 2 years since her son 22 year old marquiss was shot and killed by police in washington d. C. How did you find out about what happened. Was headed to dinner and i got a call from one of mark he says friends and. As soon as i answered i heard the pentagon on the phone. And so i said whats wrong. And she said mark he says been shot. And i said ok what hospital are we going to because of course i thought positive. And she said were not going to the hospital hes gone. I got home and of course on the 10 oclock news it was there police have been on scene here for hours they tell us the shooting happened just after 7 oclock investigators say a group of guys were out in that alley when officers approached them thats when shots were fired i had not been notified. I didnt sleep that night. I was just waiting for them to come. And they didnt get there until. About 2 oclock pm the next day. What has it been like for you to get answers about what happened that night. Its been. An agonizing traumatizing disheartening. Dreadful. Ive just been trying to get simple questions. What would it initially took place to cause this to happen. And i want to show you where it has the d. C. Police Department Said that officers were on patrol on the approach marquis though initially it was unclear why when officers entered the back alley there was a group of adult males one of the adult males produced a weapon there were shots fired but witnesses at the scene disputed the police account. It was. Shot multiple times. Report the gunshot wounds and stated if the gunshot wounds were repetitive that they would not individually list them so i cant even count. The total of gunshot wounds that he suffered from. Crazy. Was one of the 13 People Killed by d. C. Police since 201512 of whom. Since her son was killed committee has tried to find out what happened that night as of today in p d has not provided me with any sufficient facts of this case shes testified before the city council submitted public records and piled a civil lawsuit against the city but its been nearly impossible to get answers from them what i wish the city would give me is. To treat me is i am black life matters a human being that matters if that makes sense. The truth. Accountability transparency thats what i desire from the city. As she spot prancer committee has also had to relate her loss when another black person is killed by police in the us each time. I hear a life lost due to the polies. Brings forth so much anxiety so much pain. And i say here we go again. Here we go again. With. The. The the complete leak. In the it was a horrific killing of george floyd on may 25th captured on cell phone by a bystander when he repeatedly told the police he couldnt breathe it sparked the protest thats why i feel at. The. Time to forget it you know everyone is telling. Me the question now is will this be different people. Are tired. Just to realize that we have a whole generation of people who will die hard time just heard almost every week another black person killed another aspect. I came imagine what that does to dislike each girl. Who are over half your life is just another black body killed on the street and the like by the slain i love the black person killed by choke and you know by say my cape very like tracy wright is one of the thousands of people that took to the streets in d. C. In the protest after george pointless killed plastic it may be deployed with shields and tear gas as the protests grew and police were more aggressive each day when i bust open someone how well saw the body got teargassed proper spree and after they eyes were flushed out they went right back out to the front and that energy to me was just so raw and so sort and. I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters. On june 1st one week after the killing of george floyd and just after the president 2 liberties remarks. Police began to clear protesters from in front of the white house. The police did this for President Trump who wanted to take a photo at the church across from the white house. After the by the clearing up the park that day the president flooded the streets of d. C. The scores the federal forces without police but 2 weeks later and as the protests continued the president took a slightly different approach signing an executive order and urging Police Departments station wide to adopt the highest professional standards to serve their communities the standards will be as high and as strong as there is on earth the executive order called for the creation of a nationwide database to track excessive use of force by Police Officers and for Police Departments to adopt better practices but it was unclear what tangible impact the order would really have. Even then it was still a change and how trumpets approach policing since he took office by moving away from Police Reform efforts of the Obama Administration. Those reforms were sparked during another reckoning on Police Violence in the u. S. In the wake of the killing of 18 year old Michael Brown in ferguson missouri and 2014. Sort of felt like people who were used to being bullied for many years suddenly started to stand up for themselves just in hansford live 10 minutes from ferguson at the time working as a law professor people were excited people were happy he was a legal observer and one of thousands of people who took to the streets then even in the face of a heavy militarized response from the police. Ferguson was the spark i think weve had a long history of responding to Police Violence was. A ferguson was the 1st time were people who didnt just take to the streets in protest but but they actually had to bring out tanks because they saw that people were going to take it to the next level. 00. 0000000000000000000 it was in the aftermath of this that the department of justice under the Obama Administration began to ramp up efforts to reform policing in the United States. One part of that was increasing investigations into Police Departments including purpose and this was about the death of Michael Brown but not only about the death of Michael BrownJonathan Smith was on the justice departments team that conducted a civil rights investigation into the Ferguson Police department and so we went into ferguson to try to understand what was happening the community the operation of its Police Department the effect of the police to work on the community and whether the Police Support was engaging in patterns of violations of the costs which. Among the findings of their investigation was that the Ferguson Police department disproportionately use force against the black community. Why everybody looked like me got to be a criminal. Is no on in effect. I guess the rain on the daily give us a respite to go every day to keep it to myself included a lot of these blackmail 3 lines are under our losses that is true and that the police along with local officials systematically targeted black residents with tickets and finds as a way to make money for the city. Africanamericans were targeted. For by the Police Department brought into the court system and their pockets would be continued to be drained sort of almost in perpetuity were you surprised by any of your findings and ferguson i wasnt i mean i had by the time that we investigated the Ferguson Police department with there was in the last research that was about the 20th i think it was the 20th investigation that we conducted a Police Departments across the country and investigations like this were one of the central components of the Obama Administrations Police Reform effort you know we knew that as you we looked across the country that there was a serious and deep problem and a core almost of all of them was a failure of Police Departments to be accountable internally so that officers who engaged misconduct were held in account to account and the departments themselves were all held accountable to their communities oh my god oh. That was. The ferguson report did do a lot to help people to really come to grips with what the protesters were saying from day one we had been telling people that there was racial profiling but they didnt believe it until they saw the d. O. J. Report. But the Obama Administrations Police Reform went beyond investigation funding and grants were issued for initiatives like body camera to increase transparency last year in the ferguson and a task force and beyond making a number of recommendations to improve policing in the u. S. Specifically by focusing on Community Relations and having Police Officers undergo training for bias. But now 6 years after ferguson the country faces yet another reckoning in minneapolis where george freud was killed there have been. As for the trumpet ministration to investigate the Police Department. But they have to do so were going to morrow you know reacting to this and since right immediately putting the department under investigation doesnt necessarily result in improving the situation but on this was consistent with the attorney generals previous Public Comments saying that the problem is only a few rogue officers and that theres no systemic racism in policing and not. The trumpet ministration has largely stopped federal investigations into Police Departments the more fundamental problem is in the structure of policing and the culture of policing i mean what happened to george floyd is a very good example of that you had not one officer engage in misconduct but you had officers that were bystanders that didnt intervene to prevent that from happening. In minneapolis raises another question though does reform work. More than a year before george floyd was killed the city had put all of its Police Officers through trainings on implicit bias. And nationally Police Killings did not go down in the years after ferguson and the obama era reform efforts. Were going to see 5 or 6 years later we have cities Like Washington d. C. The city. Where there are plenty of body camera. Youve got all these different rules and regulations in place but these are all things that can be manipulated and. Body cameras were a key part of both local and federal reform with the goal of increasing transparency but even not has come a challenge as profamily. For you in your sons case what has it been like trying to get access to the camp but its. What they initially told me to do we submitted their requests only for them at least back to say markey needed to submit the request says he was involved in the body. And so my attorney didnt respond to. Make the request so thats why his mother is making the request she was finally able to see some of the footage in august of last year but not all of it and even then she says it was heavily edited. Ration of what they depicted happened. Which included some power points it was a package edited version 5 minutes of what we saw. Good morning this message is for mr. Days after we interviewed her committee i received a voicemail from d. C. Police department will be releasing camera footage of the. Car. And what you know it will be. The footage was released publicly before can see it. In the Footage Police begin the interaction with mark east by jumping out of their car and running after him. Because the audio is not turned on until later we dont know why they went after him. I dont know if. The outline of a gun in his pocket and that marquees shot 1st before the officers repeatedly shot him. The metropolitan Police Department declined our request for an interview. In a statement miss alstons lawyers that the footage does not show mikeys fired a gun or that the object in his hand was one. And that without the audio key details are still missing and they give me everything i have Everything Police made the video public along with footage from the deaths of 2 other black men but they were only released because of a new city legislation that. Requires them to release body camera footage and battle shooting. It was passed in june in response to the latest wave of protests. But people on the street part calling for more reform or legislation nobody was holding up signs saying more body cameras for police more money for Police Training right thats how they got out of the last crisis was with more money and more resources body cameras in the training and all that but none of these directly address the sort of goal of policing and the substandard outcomes of policing. The lack of success or performances turn the National Conversation to one local activists have been advocating for years. Defunding Police Departments on the path to eliminating them completely abolition. They want to cut Police Budgets and the number of officers patrolling and often surveilling their communities and redirect that money to Health Care Education and housing. We have been following a lot of money into Police Reforms thats not actually keeping anyone in more safe i have no faith in the institution that needs to be reminded not to choke me we met with a group of d. C. Organizers and one of the most policed areas of the city what has happened over the years is that the police have become the place where people call for everything like we are creating work for police that not only does the police not to do that nobody nobody needs to do that work nobody has to be out there criminalizing being homeless is they need homes nobody needs to be criminalizing people who are dispersed sanjay addition they need health care what would abolishing the police mean and look like to me that looks like knowing where i can get food and water that looks like having safe housing all the time that looks like being able to stand outside and not worry about being literally so. Veiled in terror existing. In basically any other war you have multiple choice. And over here we dont actually have no place to give birth theres no. War over here is the ever and not the type of thing that like literally doesnt keep you safe like i think about even. Thinking about getting pregnant while this is dangerous over here as a black woman when i have a 13 year old to tell me that. He took the ladys purse because. His mother had no food in the house to feed his troops were you given the resources in the community. Still in the purse he can be a Recreation Center which will be. D. C. s mayor has said that cutting the Police Budget will make the city last but that doesnt feel true for some residents we just had 11. Murders kill. It was a policeman. And he still got shot and therefore you cant tell me that a police coulda kept safe dont worry this mental one is what works and invested in black communities and resources to keep us a. Mother whose ancestors are at a moment of reckoning in america as the summer came to an end and as protests continued yet another black person was shot by police just within these past several days we have seen the attempted murder of jacob lake in wisconsin jacob blake was shot 7 times in the back at point blank range. It happened just 5 days before thousands of people gathered in the u. S. Capitol to mark the anniversary of the historic march on washington in 1963 and as they continued to demand justice and change. To. With her granddaughter marquis says daughter lyric. She was also one of many family members who spoke about their loved ones killed by police all 7 this number right here for an hour and you get found out we get sunny unfortunately there has been the only sole communication the metropolitan Police Department has shared with me in regards to my 1st ever trauma crabtree the mother 7 no did i did make sure to transparency from our chief doing. 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