Crime in communities. Reporter Minnesota City council announced they planned to defund their police force following the killing of george floyd, explaining defunding is a reallocation of funds from police to other forms of police safety. At this black lives matter rally pin san jose, theyre calling fr reforms but not quick to take a stand on defunding police. We need a dialogue on reformative change. Reporter the mayor is expected to announce his budget tonight, aware that his community is looking for change. Its critical for us to respond with action for reform. Reporter in san jose, chris reyes, for abc7 news. Chris touched briefly on what it really means to say defund the police. Lets get into that a little deeper. Heres an explanation. Reporter its something were hearing about right now as we talk about solutions for ending police brutality. Defunding the police. Its not a new idea, but sit new to a lot of people just learning about it. So what does it mean . The answer really depends on who you ask. On one end, theres some who say defunding the police means stripping away Police Funding and disbanding it all together. A Community Advocacy organization in minneapolis is working to a police free future. But for many, its not about abolishing Police Departments, but divesting from Police Departments and investing that money into other community services. In time magazine, matrice colors, a cofounder of black lives matter says police should not be in charge of dealing with homelessness or supporting people with drug addiction. Those are line items we can cut out of the police budget. That brings us to city budgets. According to a report, Police Spending vastly outpaces Community Resources and services. They say in oakland, 41 of the general Fund Expenditures in 2017 was spent on policing. The highest program of all the cities they studied. For every dollar spent on the Police Department, the idea of defunding the police is about closing that gap. Those against this idea say an underfunded Police Department will only make cities more dangerous, and reforms that much harder. It costs money to train, hire, and develop good leaders. But those say its about reimagining public safety. By shifting money away from the police and toward services that meet those needs, well be able to get to a place where people wont need to rob banks. And thats broadly what activists mean when they say defund the police. And we have an explanation of defunding the police on our website. Its an article you can read and share with your friends. Youll find it on abc7news. Com. A peaceful protest in oakland after a man was shot and killed by police. You see there at Cherry Street and 96 street where the man was killed. The 23yearold was shot multiple times by the chp on saturday night and tonight, as you can see, the demonstrators are demanding that officers be fired while the family is in mourning. I think im good right now. Reporter mourning the death of her younger stepbrother, amanda agreed to speak to us. Why not try other methods of getting him out of the car if he was such a danger, that hey had to shoot him 40 times. Reporter 23yearold eric was shot and killed saturday night during an officer involved shooting just a block away from his mothers house. Family members confirmed to abc7 news his pregnant girlfriend was a passenger in the vehicle. She got shot in the stomach. Thats why hes in and out of a coma right now. Reporter according to the oakland Police Department, the california Highway Patrol was conducting a criminal investigation in the neighborhood. The vehicle is believed to be one of 74 vehicles stolen from a dealership. Reporter Community Members organized a rally to demand justice for eric, and end to police brutality. What happened to eric was no less than a public execution. The keys were still in the ignition. So once they started shooting at him, i guess his foot ended up on the accelerator. Reporter the Police Department has not released the names of the officers involved in the shooting. I want him to be remembered as a good person. Ep sis w under invtigation by the oakland Police Department. The district attorneys office, as well as the chps investigation unit. The fbi is expected to be in ben lowman tomorrow as it helps with the investigation into the killing of a Santa Cruz County deputy. The sheriff praised the resident who tackled the suspect. Sergeant damon gutswiler was killed in what the Sheriffs Office called an ambush. Its important for damons memory we get this case right. And we encourage anybody who saw something, who knows something, or who may have been a victim of this guy to contact the district attorneys timline. Carillo is an active duty u. S. Air force sergeant based out of Travis Air Force base in fairfield. The fbi is looking into whether there may be some connection between the weekends shooting and the killing of a federal officer over a week ago. As protests continue daily, a former mayor is praising the leadership of students. Crediting high school and College Youth for rallying Public Opinion in ways her generation didnt. David louie is live with her thoughts on how the movement has changed. David . Reporter for one thing, claire max generation grew up without social media and devices to mobilize people quickly. She sees it as an important dividend with sharing Martin Luther kings message. At age 83, claire mack is busy seven days a week filling orders. She was san mateos first black mayor, serving on the council for 12 years. What strikes her most about the protests locally and across the nation is how many were organized and led by young people. This group of youngsters is changing the world. And its not happening just in san mateo. Reporter help from her great niece and nephew in the kitchen gave her a chance to pull out some albums showing her familys affiliation with the naacp. It reminded her the time her brother was beaten by the police. She klsees how the spirit of Martin Luther king has had an impact on younger people. They celebrate Martin Luther king and they have been doing this for 23 years. Theyre the ones in high school, and theyre believe thing country is not what it has what it is. Theyre not believing it. Reporter while some of the youngest marchers are years from voting, she sees them serving as a catalyst to get elders to engage and initiate reforms. Theyre giving their mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles the incentive. Theyre showing initiatives that the adults havent shown in this country. Adults are out there marching also. Reporter well, times have changed. She remembers not being allowed to be a high school cheerleader. Some doors were closed as she grew up in san mateo. However, shes hopeful that in the weeks and the months ahead, what young people are doing today, she says hopes will lead to a new era. Were live, david louie, abc7 news. David, thank you. Changes are coming to the san jose Police Department. The chief announced the department now expressly forbids officers to kneel on somebodys neck, part of the departments prohibition on chokeholds. Officers are required to report and enter seed when they witness Excessive Force by another officer. And rubber bullets will no longer be used to disperse crowds. Doctors from a major Bay Area Medical Center are joining the calls to ban the use of those socalled rubber bullets. On this mophthalmologists draft paper these rubber bullet injuries, when they are targeted at peoples face, especially their eyes, its a blinding eye injury. The petition supports the American Academy of ophthalmology, which demanded that Law Enforcement stop using those projectiles as a method of breaking up crowds. The abc7 news iteams dan noyes found one of those rubber bullets and spoke to one activist who was hit with a rubber bullet in the groin today and had to have surgery and may not be able to have surgery. We posted his story to our website, abc7news. Com. Next, a live update from the iteam on this incident in alameda. A black man taken into Police Custody for dancing in the street. Racism has been ram pant on social media since the coronavirus outbreak. Im spencer christian. Our most recent warmup has begun and its going to get warmer. Ill hav George Floyds funeral is tomorrow and well have live coverage of the live service and celebration beginning at 9 00 a. M. You can watch it here on tv, as well as streaming online through abc7news. Com as well as our abc7 news apps. Tomorrow at noon, muni will pause all service for 8 46 to honor george floyd. That is the length of time his neck was pinned down by the knee of a Police Officer. Alameda city officials are dmn demanding action after a black man was handcuffed by police after reports he was dancing in the street. Tonight, the iteam is learning new details criticizing the Police Department for not telling the whole story. Stephanie joins us live with the details tonight. Stephanie . Reporter i spoke with the vice mayor john knox who told me he was apalled to see that body camera footage released on friday. But he was even more disappointed that police were not fully transpart from the beginning. Stop resisting now. Im not. Reporter this is body camera footage of five Police Officers hand cuffing molly watkins, a 44yearold martial artist who says he was exercising in front of his home. Youre dancing in the streets. Im dancing in the street . Yes. They were trying to break me, physically break my body, physically. Gentlemen, what are you doing . Reporter this all happened the morning of saturday, may 23rd. Alameda vice mayor John Knox White heard about it not long after it happened i. The impression that i was given from the Police Department is that this was probably just one officer, Things Department go quite the way they wanted to. But looking at the video reporter as clearly shown in the footage, it wasnt just one officer cuffing watkins but five. Let me go reporter watkins says he was handcuffed and pushed around by police for an hour. Just two days before the death of george floyd. For me to hear what happened to this man, again, one slip, its me instead of floyd. Reporter following our story, knoxwhite held a town hall to address police enforcement. It was supposed to last 90 minutes but went on for five hours. The point he walks away, he tries to exercise a right that were supposed to all have as americans, but as a black person you dont have that right. We both just felt like we tried as hard as we could to tell the Police Officers to stop and they would not listen. Reporter the iteam reached out to the police reach, requesting an interview for the third time. But we have yet to hear back. It has shaken my confidence in the leadership that we have at the alameda Police Department. Sir, let me go reporter the vice mayor could not comment on whether any of the officers shown in that footage should face any disciplinary action. The outside investigation that will determine that is still pending. Stephanie sierra, abc7 news. All right, thank you. Happening today, democrats in the house introduced legislation aimed at reforming policing. Some things that could change might be the requirement for police body cameras, as well as dash board cameras. Chokeholds would be banned and victims of police abuse would have an easier time suing Police Officers. Senator Kamala Harris appeared on the view. Right now when a Police Officer uses Excessive Force, the question in a courtroom is to ask was that use of force reasonable . Well, as we all know, we can reason away just about anything. The real question, the fair question should be to ask, was that use of force necessary . Hearings on the ledgislation will start on wednesday. Discrimination towards asianamericans towards the coronavirus is an issue we have covered here on abc 7. One of the people reporting on it is dion lim, who joins us live with a look at a new online tool aimed at not only tracking the racist incidents, but educating the people behind them. Dion . Reporter this tool does a lot, larry. And much of the hate is online. Ive not only seen it myself, but ive also been a target. And thats why a new bot is using this technology to raise awareness and to do more. We dont want you here thats why we elected president trump. Reporter there has been no shortage of haterelated incidents targeting asians since the coronavirus outbreak. Go back to where he came from. Reporter the stop hate reporting center has documented nearly 2,000 incidents like this across the country since the pandemic began. When maria lees brother and then mother experiencedis first hand out of nowhere, someone just started throwing all kinds of racial slurs at her. Telling her to go back to china. Reporter maria knew something had to be done. She and a group of volunteers who work at her ad agency started an initiative called respond to racism. It is a platform to empower people, sense racism demands a response. Reporter hateful speech towards asians has exploded 900 . Heres how the bot works, it uses Artificial Intelligence to identify racist hash tags. It then automatically sends a message to the user of education and why this language is wrong. First it talks about how these words or hash tags theyre using online has a big impact on peoples lives in real life. Reporter the program also sends video messages from asianamericans to users who may not even know the terminology theyre using is wrong. It forces the audience to look eye to eye with the person that may be impacted by your words. Reporter the bot sevrves purpose to be an ally on how to respond when they see hateful speech. It makes us feel like there is an action that we can take. Even while were quarantined. Respond to racism i facing a big hurdle because twitter flag bots that are used for spam or to spread hate, so theyre limited to how many tweets they can respond to. They also hope to of enough resources to help people from all back grounds. In San Francisco, dion lim, abc7 news. Dion, thank you. Young, local activist who is on a mission to end discrimination and promote lbgtq rights shared her message with a National Audience today on the tam ran hall show. Something that i would like to let parents know is to just you dont have to understand it now, its a really long process. I know my parents is still taking them time. Shes a coorganizer of the Online Movement virtual pride, designed to bring together members of the lbgtq community virtually during the time of the coronavirus. Virtual pride is holding special Online Events throughout june, which is pride month. And tameren hall, you can her every weekday right here starting at 1 00 p. M. The weather is warming up. Spencer shows you the beaks High Temperature in the forecast, ne theand we want to thank times, the Extraordinary People in the healthcare community, working to care for all of us. At novartis, we promise to do our part. As always, were doing everything we can to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. If you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online. Were here to help support you when you need us. Take care, and be well. 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Seems like a weekly pattern now we start to get this warmup in the early to midweek days and then cools down with windy conditions later in the week. Lets look at winds right now. Even as the warming started today, we had a breezy day. And right now surface wind speeds ranging from 16, 18 to about almost 30 Miles Per Hour across much of the bay area. So its quite breezy, but its also quite warm. Notice the 24hour temperature change. Most locations are six to ten degrees warmer. In fact, 13 degrees warmer in san carlos than this time yesterday and so on we go. This is the view from the roof top camera, looking across the embarcadero