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ALJAZAM Weekend News June 22, 2024

And the death of cecil the lion leading to a debate of when its hunting and when its poaching august 9th, 2014, a year ago today, 18yearold Michael Brown, that unarmed black teen shot and killed by a white Police Officer in missouri. The shooting and protest that followed changing the conversation about race in america forever. Today Michael Brown was remembered with this march, where he was shot. It was followed by 4. 5 minutes of silence. As part of the event there was a rap concert and a discussion about racial justice. We begin the coverage with Diane Eastabrook in sofia vergara. How the hell do you think we feel . You kill us in the speech. Reporter fiery speeches. Talk of change is rising up. Reporter followed by silent reflection. This is how ferguson, missouri remembered Michael Brown, hundreds filling the street where the unarmed black teen was killed a year ago by a white Police Officer. We have died, marched in, and nothing happened. It is time for us to not seek justice, but demand justice. Reporter lindsay and matt hill travelled from seattle to teach their sons a lesson in race relations. We have been talking a lot with julian about Police Brutality and black lives matter, we wanted to be here. For the second day in a row, Michael Browns father led demonstrators from the site where his son was killed through the streets of ferguson. In the days leading up to the anniversary, there has been talk about the healing that has gone on. If you talk to people today, you get a sense that things have not changed much in the last year both in ferguson and across the country. The whole situation is kind of scary. Have you had encounters you felt were dangerous, with the police . I felt things were not really necessary. Ive been stopped several times. Mainly just because i was black. This year has been hard no accountability, no justice. Police are still killing us. Erica garner, whose father was killed last year by police in new york, says race must be an issue in next years president ial election. No one is talking about the issues. Candidates, they are not taken serious, and, you know, it year later we believe that black lives do not matter, you know to elected officials. As the crowds dispersed one activist reflected on browns legacy and was confident that the movement sparked by his death will continue i think this is a generational shift. I think if i were to step away now rks i dont think theyll stop. On the issue of not enough done, earlier i talked to dante barry, the executive director of the Million Hoodies Movement for justice, and said a year after the death the problems persist. We think about the one Year Anniversary for Michael Brown, one Year Anniversary of the ferguson uprising. What got Michael Brown killed still exists regardless of new people in office, and new people in the Police Department. Theres people with isolation. Folks feel like they are trapped. I dont think things have changed. We know that ferguson was not an isolated incident. There is staten island,ar eric garner in cleveland, 12yearold tamir rice, in baltimore, freddie gray and others. Is it that the system does not get it. Or is the problem too complex . I think its a little bit of both. I think that the protests have been reactive, not proactive or transformative. When we see what happened in terms of the conversation, its about nicer police, not talking about lesser police. The conversations are around body cameras. Thats fine, but lets not think about how we can hold the police accountable. Regardless whether or not theres a body camera. If we look at eric garners case, we see body cameras dont solve the problem. What we have seen is a broken system, and be really need to think about how we are creating a new ideas on the stays. In order to fix the system, you have to have the system as it is, not as you want it the to be. What is the system as it is, versus what you might want is to be. I would rather have it what i want is to be, i dont want to take for things. This is why im an organizers, right, and why my members across the country in a million hoodies are thinking about how we are transforming the system. We dont want to accept how it is, and we ching how to transform the system that works with us, not against us. Are. Talking about the anger we were told what we might expect going forward. Remember a year ago the National Conversation on policing didnt exist. Now there was a space where people understand the narrative, are not predicated on police. Here what is carried out in the findings, well see what happens. In the future i think the protest community will start to think about solutions more intently, how to end police violence. Will things be peaceful in the upcoming days at least . The only violent people have been the police. Theyve killed eight people here in st. Louis and paralyzed one. Protests are peaceful, the violent people are the police. I want to push back and ask a question that police ask you. We spend a lot of time looking at them. They would ask, should the move look inward. Theyd argue a lot of people are behind blahs are for black on black violence. They handle societies, where should the line be drawn . The department of justice says they were criminalizing justice. Just because they were black, they were victims of the Police Department. There were many criminal records, by the police, who werent criminals. That was proven by the d. O. J. Im struggling with the narrative. Black on black crime is a red herring argument, most crime has been within sort of race groups. That is it nothing sort of special here, this is a Police Department proven to have criminalized blackness in, many ways new police chief, manager and judge, will it be enough for ferguson. You cant swap out people at the top to change a culture. We noted is to be true. The racist Police Practices were deeply rooted, and i look forward to seeing it play out, so we can see the actual structural change, not cosmetic changes, which is the only thing we have seen so far. Will there be a honeymoon period for all the newly appointed officials . The reality is that the policing has not ended. Theres no honeymoon period when people havent experienced justice, and people are still terrorized by police. Hopefully the police in power understand the urgency, and work with the d. O. J. To implement the findings of the report and work with the decree as best as possible. Before i let you go, one thing that emerged last year in ferguson was captain johnson from the missouri police, was he a calming factor and is he still a calming factor or is he viewed as the apparatus, the machine. The reality is captain johnson was in charge when many were tear gassed, pepper sprayed and smoke bombs deployed. Well never forget the moments. I think captain johnson attempted to be a stable force, in some moments he was probably better than the alternative. Again at that time there was a Police Department that was actively hurting us, going out of his way to terrorize us. With that as a backdrop, how do you explain the anger at a white Police Department when the man in charge during those times was an african american. Remember, this is about a structure of policing bigger than any person. The chief was in charge of the county police, and chief jackson with the ferguson Police Department. Ron johnson is one of the people making decisions. He was not the only person. What you said was not true. The idea that captain johnson was the sole person in charge. There were many others leading in the space, its a culture of policing that is deeper than a person. That was activist deray there was a conversation about fresh freedom. Wesley was a journalist working on an article in mcdonalds, when he said police moved in. He told us about his interaction with the ferguson police. It was august 15th, two days after Police Used Tear Gas and rubber bullets, on this day it was a peaceful protest during the daytime. The police made the tactical decision to attempt to clear the buildings prior to nightfall. They illegally took us into detention because we werent clearing the building fast enough to their liking. It was a story that went viral because it was the first time that reporters exercising the First Amendment rights were in custody in ferguson. Ustly, that was something we saw repeated night after night for two weeks following that. He didnt let his experience stop him doing his job. Hes back in ferguson tonight, recovering. There has been a tragic shooting in texas, it happened last night, police have a suspect but are trying to figure out what happened and why. Reporter police say the investigation is fluid, many questions are unanswered. The suspect broke into his former home, restrained the adults and children and killed them. Reporter 48yearold david conley is charged with fatally shooting a family of eight, six children, the youngest six years cold. We do not and cannot comprehend the motivation of an individual taking the lives of so many innocent people. Especially the lives of the young ones. The motive, say police, may have been a domestic dispute between the suspect and a woman valerie, his former partner. Saturday night a phone call was received asking them to make a welfare check. A male was in the home with an aggravated assault on the family member. Thats when the police saw a body of a child through the window. Deputies forced their way into the home and were met with gunfire. After calling for back up, the suspect surrendered. Upon entering the home, victim discovered the victims, jackson, her husband and six children. The victims were found in each of the three bedrooms. David conley is charged with three counts of capital murder. The felony of burglary, along with murdering valerie. Another count is killing multiple people in the same incident. And then the other is for killing a child. Police believe the oldest child in the home, a 13yearold, was the suspects own child. The das office says theres so many victims in this case. The three counts cover different manners and means of capital murder, including multiple people. A judge denied bond for the suspect. Thank you. Tomorrow on al jazeera america, our special coverage that we call summer of the gun. Throughout the day well bring you stories of gun violence that continues to plague america. Also guns are used in Violent Crimes smuggled along the secret highway. Al jazeera looks at the jirn pipeline after the break and a child sex ring broken up in india. It could be the largest ever and marking 70 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on nagasaki, japan. Japan. [ bell tolls ] 70 years ago today japan marking 70 years since the u. S. Dropped a bomb on nagasaki. Todays ceremony at peace park, remembering the 40,000 people who died significantly back in 1945. Both bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki near the end of world war ii, the results so devastating the weapon has not been used since. A troop of u. S. Soldiers arriving in turkey for antii. S. I. L. Operations. Flying in with half a dozen f16 fighter jets, based less than 100 miles from the syrian boarder. It will ensure that i. S. I. L. Doesnt cross into europe. The location allowing the carrying out of bombing raids. Now to pakistan, where a child sex abuse scandal is costing calls for investigation. Several hundred children were used in sex videos some as young as six years old. There are now questions over whether police failed to prosecute everyone available. Reporter Pakistani Police are saying some 280 children from sexually abused and assaulted. There are reports that some 400 videos from made, and thousands ended up on the market sold for as little as 0. 40 each. The parents are saying that the videos could have ended abroad in the u. S. , u. K. And europe. Reports are coming out from the parents and the victims, saying that children had been truant and families forced to pay money, jewellery to the gangs. Essentially they were blackmailed by the gangs. The families of the victims are calling for a full judicial inquiry, and dont trust the police to investigate this, and calling for military courts to hear cases of the accused. This created a great controversy in pakistan, a deal of outrage and disgust among the public, in a country where the protection of human rights is poor, and many have little faith in the judicial system. Which they say is ripe donald trump hitting back at critics that say we went too far with comments been megyn kelly, trump saying you could see there was blood coming out of her ice, out of her wherever, he said he was referring to her knows and dismissed notion that he suggested she was tough on him because she was having her period. Only a deviate would say what i said was what they were referring to. No one can say that. You have to be sick to put that together the comments cost trump an invitation to a conservative gathering in georgia, fellow republicans urging him to apologise. Chris wallace talked about it with Carly Fiorina on fox news. You ask tough questions, you talked to donald trump about his regard of bankruptcy, i didnt notice donald trump insulting you for 24 hours. Theres no excuse for this. I dont think you get things done by insulting everyone trump saying that he cherishes women and would be their best advocate if he is elected president on the democratic side, Bernie Sanders responding to protesters that interrupted this speech in seattle. If you do not listen to us, youll be shot down right now they were protesters from black lives matters. Bernie sanders allowed them to speak and ended up leaving, he posted a statement saying Bernie Sanders talked about the issues during a rally in seattle last night gun violence plagues the nation, the policy fight seems to be more like the civil war, north, rather than south. There are fewer restrictions, but the guns dont say that. Robert ray explains. Hello, how are you. Reporter this is littles bait and tackle shop in a small town in georgia, one of 4,000 licensed gun dealers in the state. This is the owner. Little is the source of the gun used to kill new york city Police Officer brian moore in may, stolen from the pawn shop in 2011. This video caught the masked thieves in action, taking 23 weapons, nine in new york city. And the police never caught the guys that robbed the store. No, they had hoodies, ski masks and gloves. They never caught anything or anything. Reporter the guns make their way up what is known as the iron pipeline, an illegal trade route running up 95 to states of new york. Theres a lot of gun violence in the country. In spite of attempts by lawmaker and police to shut it down, the pipeline remains open. Georgia is ground zero. Two new york city officers ambushed in december were killed by a georgia gun. What do you say to politicians up north, saying the southern laws are too lax, and that is why the Police Officers are armed and shot, and bad guys trade guns . If tell you something, they got the same laws here has they do in new york. Purchase of a gun. Well they are definitely more lax down here. Why are they lax here . The gun laws here are lax. When you purchase a gun, you can carry it anywhere if you have the proper permits, you cant do it in new york or chicago or anything like that. Here, we believe in protecting yourself. Reporter purchasing a firearm in the state of georgia is simple. All you need is a drivers licence, going through a background check taking 2030 minutes, and obtain a gunonline with no check at all. Georgia leads the country as a source of firearms in other states. In 2013, 3,000 guns were confiscated outside the city by police, with florida running behind. According to data from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, we reached out, but they did not respond to the request for an interview. I was shocked initially when i heard happened. Upset, police captain. Law enforcement means fundi gun running. Putting drug addiction that looks for drugs, and that basically stop cars and try to deter trafficking and people. And transferring large amounts of money. Those same units are looking for weapons, not focussed on drugs. Is there enough of them . Well, my opinion theres not enough Police Officers. The author are the safe carry protection law, passed in april of 2014. It allows georgia residents without a record to purchase a firearm, carry a weapon in all public faces. Critics called it the Guns Everywhere law. People compare the guns trade up north. Would you say its on that level . I dont know anything about it. I have the fortune to say ive never been to new york city. I havent really vected to look at what goes on in the nearby corridor. The bills i sponsored have been around georgia, and how we can strengthen the law, making it fair for individuals and make it effective that the law it has makes it easier to understand and effective. Maybe its state legislature in new york to work on theirs too. The iron pipeline and the gun running is media hype. I think its another little tid bit that is thrown out there by media consultants, trying to making is out of this when there are weapons that are unfortunately used recent lip, were bought years ago, legally, and lost track of. As you do. We know who bought it initially. And the subsequent owners, you dont know. According to a report, 2800 firearms were covered, have been traced back to georgia from 2005 to 2014. Clarence little says he wants to sell the pawn shop and set up better cameras in his store. Theres nothing that we can do about it. If the cops were to spend more time in the areas, then you wouldnt have anywhere near the breakins. Georgia law does not require stolen guns, making it easy to buy guns, sell them to criminals, making the iron pipeline more difficult to clog and shut down and another reminder tomorrow on al jazeera america, our special coverage, we are calling summer of the gun continues when the hunters become the hunted. The killing of cecil the lion by an american

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