Very good evening it is great to have you with us here on r. T. International. First this hour protesters in the newly formed autonomous in seattle in the United States are considering their next move having seize control of the area after to been abandoned by Police President trump has threatened to send in the army if local authorities failed to resolve the matter. Were not going to let this happen in seattle if we have to go and were going to go and to go there is you going to do it but to go to do it hes got Great National guard troops to iraq he can do it but one way or the other its going to get done and these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city our president wants to tell a story about domestic terrorists who have a radical agenda and are promoting a conspiracy and fitzs law and order initiatives its simply not true the threat to invade seattle to divide and incite violence in our city is not only unwelcome it would be illegal. The capitol hill autonomous zone was formed to the beginning of the week by black lives matter activists they are ahead of themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle and declared it a Police Free Zone activist theres a raid to loach explains what life is like inside the called me. I am down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chavez and the mood here is come a peaceful ok you can see it over here. Weve got people really get some food and over here we also have free pizza shrinks water all types of snacks weve got people handing out bags with masks and Hand Sanitizer literally everything you can think of and over here is the memorial that is set up to all of the people that weve lost or during the george lloyd rebellion as theyre calling it thats what the the wall says of him there is they could constitute 24 hour vigil people could light candles and you know say their prayers see you know just just hang out this is the West Entrance to the capitol hill autonomous zone back there we have the the precincts which is where this is where most of the violence was inactive by the police for the last 2 nights the last week or so this is where most of the stuff happened and there are still 4 main barricades point and inside is the autonomous zone people are anticipating on staying as long as possible there have been several tents that have already been set up people are preparing to stay overnight main goal i would say that i could say right now is that people are they calling for the defunding of police you know nationwide weve seen this minneapolis city council. Already you know completely dishpan vote to disband the Minneapolis Police were calling for the same thing here in seattle were calling for a complete defunding of the police a completely allocation and to black and Brown Community is where its needed the most and so that is definitely a goal of people. I would say the number one. Great now. Protests are continuing in other parts of the city too on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets in what they called a silent protest rally came on the same day as a federal judge ordered officers to temporarily stop using tear gas or pepper spray against the protesters in seattle. Meanwhile protesters showing no sign of easing in other u. S. States to with the center of american commerce no exception new yorks or demonstrators come out peacefully to support the black lives Matter Movement rally coincided with a womens empowerment margin ended with a joint platform rounds gathered in manhattan reportedly starting out from trump tower people were seen Holding Placards and chanting various demands they included defunding the Police Justice which will destroy them to focus on the lives of black women. Aside from the general public the black lives Matter Movement has the backing of major u. S. Companies think loued Amazon Microsoft and starbucks however it seems that when it comes to the racial equality cause its more talk than action has more. 21st Century Companies live in fear of castle culture of phone tree to i misjudged joe kony 20 hoss sentence in the court of Public Opinion so with black lies much of the protests sweeping the globe every business is clamoring to say they are part of the fight the problem is they forgot to do a background check on themselves just found out starbucks is catering to the comfort of their racist customers by asking their stuff not to wear anything in support of black clothes matter so i wont be visiting them and theyll be telling everyone i know to boycott them as well that ought to be about attire was late for a bus but it was too late because by then incensed activist had gotten a Pumpkin Spice latte fuel deep ties to the companys history and sure enough starbucks got scolded by its low hypocrisy starbucks users scoffed at the 6 tracked by 18 year old can taste in slaves and what Tamara Kenyon costa rica and panama. Remember when they wrote lets talk about racism on the cops remember when the close to half a day because 2 black men were arrested for being black at a starbucks as we always thought there are only about black lives matter when its convenient lucky for starbucks so its not taking all the heat as other companies also suffer from selective memory fashion powerhouses i see Christian Prada tweeted how how sick and sad and they were by inequality and how they were companies with ethics which could be seen as false up the ties and given that if you google though you might stumble across words like child labor exploitation. Ask the vocal obviously the most influential fashion magazine well now its promoting voices and brands in the black community which probably came as quite a surprise to the publication brazil director who recently celebrated her 50th birthday weve been problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter not on to amazon then youll be welcomed by the movement santa and jeff bezos is publicly naming and shaming customers he sent to me emails because of the companys starts which would be a full proof plan to boost your popularity than to make another couple of 100000000. 00 if it wasnt for the fact that i was and makes a tidy sum from its dealings with the police it is opportunistic a furnace on to use this moment to make empty and hypocritical statements when it is similar tenuously building the backbone for Many Police Departments across the country the company perpetually policy isnt acknowledges that are clearly targeting and harming black and brown communities and into the mix that only 8 percent of its managers in the us a black and youll see why slapping a ban on your home page doesnt quite make the cops. As a black woman i feel like it is time to boards theres a help us troubles Everyone Wants to join in and profit from us and what microsoft has started posting messages from its like employees they dont mind and runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire what force is law so we get a lot couple of pages here an emotional peak that bathroom is a social media stunt the pundits will laugh it up and the books balance but it looks like the wind blows to the other. Police in the United States are facing increasing hostility amid the ongoing black lives matter protests major in the Tolson Police department has been criticized for insisting officers aunt targeting africanamericans. He has the figures to back it up its an issue i discussed with him. You had those isolated incidents rifles and go incidents that occur and especially on body camera video theyre shown over and over again so i think the general public thinks thats happening in the states we make 350000000 contacts year and obviously the fast majority of those are not in the instance that occur we use force less than one percent of all arrestees but when that mistake happens you know were all healed that skinner all went back i would encourage your audience you go to the Washington PostPolice Shooting database and they come pahl the state of source you can go back and look and since 2016 if you want to look tough simply about the unarmed individual shot by Law Enforcement if you break it down between africanamerican and white its 3 percent unarmed white shot unarmed and 2 percent of the normal unarmed black so theyre very even numbers and you know if race isnt a factor generally those numbers should be even theres a real sphere here in the states to actually talk about that and what ive been trying to say is weve got to be able to weve got to be able to we can at least talk about those facts its really hard to move forward a problem solve a piece of power and use of Excessive Force by police in the us who goes right back to the Civil Rights Movement has been going on for a you know 50 is. Can you understand why the rickles even like a Public Movement to defund the police force do you think that that is the right direction to go in given that the problems have been around for so long isnt it time to try Something Different or is this the case of just making a bad situation worse if you if you start to defund thats a huge huge decision and youve got to really think about Law Enforcement in america is it well funded now i think were we have gone astray in america is Law Enforcements been tasked with doing things that we never had to do from the mentally ill that that system is broken so Law Enforcement final straw that we end up you know about 60 percent of the people unfortunately at this countrys are are mentally ill and forcing off which it doesnt always know that on a sunny and so i actually. Right Climate Science and programs of the Law Enforcement to try to take some of that burden away from Law Enforcement what you cant do is you cant take funding from Law Enforcement and then ask lots more to do the same exact work just really very typical. Right wing demonstrations have defended the boxtops that youve been sittin churchill in this Parliament Square which last week was targeted by activists who sprayed he was a racist on it police have imposed restrictions demanding protesters leave the streets 5 by 5 pm local time in order to prevent violent clashes between the 2 sides to brown reports from Parliament Square. This is the designated Meeting Place for right wing groups who say that they have come here to defend britains Cultural Heritage to defend its monuments however there have been a number of clashes with police that have taken place throughout the day here where police were charged police had bottles thrown at them and we noticed 2 cameramen from different stations coming towards us with seriously bloodied faces who were obviously injured in other parts of london in Trafalgar Square there were also clashes smoke was released what we think is a smoke bomb and fireworks were also let off of there so parts of the day have been more eventful than others in other parts of london in the black lives matter demonstrations theyve been making their way from hyde park down towards to follow the square and much of the controversy that surrounded the black lives matter protests has been around the vandalism and attacks on statues which are connected with britains colonial past last week for instance in bristol the statue of edward cost in the slave trade it was taken down thrown into the river and Winston Churchill who normally can be seen behind me here had his pedestal dog with the slogan was a racist now in response to that the mayor of london city can decided that he would board up this statue in a number of others mostly to protect it from any further damage now that decision has proved controversial and elicited an angry response from the Prime Minister youve got a situation in which the statue of Winston Churchill who is a National Hero has had to be boarded up for fear of violent attack and that to me is both absurd and and should not have a situation which people who are protesting on one basis are violently tacky the police are public property and its not just politicians who have strong views on what city can this is sided to do here we were out on the streets of london. Finding out exactly what locals think about subjects qantas isnt to board up the structures here in holland where i guess people are here to defend statues and i support people defending their people trying to take it down so i try to look at things from both perspectives theres a lot of good history behind it but people dont want to talk about the bad history and thats one of the issues thats trying to be changed i didnt realise he was racist i didnt realise a lot of things hed done i never learned and i certainly wouldnt learn it from the stuff he outside. I would. Museum or. People should remember it was a lot harder but. I dont think a lot of the statue should be taken down after gags or balls and something bought that pos i think it should be just insulting for all the People Living in the world to be to see the. Several 1000 have defied the curfew to keep protesting violent clashes between rival demonstrators have been taking place in several locations in the capital well bring you more information on this developing story as it comes. Meanwhile in the Northern City of new castle scuffles broke out on saturdays black lives matter activists faced off with counterdemonstrators Army Veterans along with football fans and right wing activists encircled the monument to former Prime Minister earl grey saying that they would defend it from racism groups earlier a contributor to the Guardian Newspaper suggested taking down the statue claiming its linked to slavery he was mocked on linus slavery was actually abolished in britain under that premier the gays peoples opinion in the city on the monument. To create a delicious bill for the slavery of look. Bill was passed when he was Prime Minister. I dont know or pacific what he was free and he was famous for taking. Totally disagree with that he was british he got rid of slavery feel like i dont know enough about his interest in slavery as to whether its a good or bad thing so i couldnt say until i knew that more about it. Covers he generally this should be taken down because nobody likes to you know anything a push to not be as it is causing offense in any leadership for these museums we can have this just you know history sure need sure that some of them probably do need demolishing but as with so often the situations what starts off as a good thing all tends to go a bit too far. Lets take this monument fine is fine since in one night were talking face you found was taken down it wouldnt be reassessed because you could still put in some heritage site which for full safety if hes in a book in a in need in website if he can be searched online. If the people who. Are on these wanted to represented on these monuments. A certain person in slavery or that their own profit then i think it needs to be seriously looked at whether we have them as as points of reference or point power thousands of demonstrators came out in the center of paris on saturday protesting against Police Brutality and widespread discrimination. I a protest called by the black lives Matter Movement saw protesters climb a building to tear down a huge banner denouncing anti white racism has been placed there by a group of far right activists from the Generation Identity Group until racism does demonstrators also jumped on statues held flares and marched with signs in largely peaceful rallies took place despite a National Coronavirus related ban on gatherings of more than 10 people try to disperse the demonstrators with tear gas. It is essential to improve the system because we are talking about systematic violence here its not just Police Violence there is up he has discrimination overall inequality goes way too deep we need to reform the system in order to create equal conditions for all. Those with no support we need to support this battle against racism this is extremely important its our duty as french people now after everything this happened. To join their people you know this is a special day for us because were showing our support for the families of those past the way far too early those who were commemorating today besides we are protesting against the violence weve been facing in the pol districts for a long time now this demonstration is a possibility to speak up to deliver a point and express our anger with the situation. I think something historic is happening now in france i came here today to support those faced discrimination that was experienced as well