Live from our studios in moscow this is our Duty International certainly glad to have you with us as we recap weeks top stories with our weekly program. An autopsy report has confirmed that a 27 year old africanamerican man died as a result of being shot by police in the city of atlanta on friday night the killing of rae shard brooks has further inflame tensions in a country already grabbed by protests over Police Brutality and racism incident was captured on a one of the officers body cameras and a bit of a warning you may find the footage disturbing. Blah blah blah blah blah blah almost 30. I dont read or a few i see what kind of drinks again. Im not sure some see orders on i think youve had too much the trying to be granted us a chance when in fact going. To put one of our. I dont know how to stop by. Late on friday Police Received a call saying that a black man was asleep in his car blocking the entrance to a fast food drive through rush hour brooke subsequently failed a breath test but resisted arrest grabbing officers taser and attempting to flee the scene after pointing it at one of the policemen he was shot twice in the back and died later in the hospital and protesters set fire to the restaurant where the killing took place following the incident atlantas mayor said the officer who pulled the trigger had been sacked the other one involved was suspended while the citys police chief had quit attorney Gerald Griggs told us what he thinks will happen next. People are going to try to argue on both sides but georgia law is quite clear you cannot use lethal force in response to nonlethal force d so i think that both officers will be charged with murder and weve had conversations with the District Attorney in this case and hes opened an independent investigation separate and apart from the Georgia Bureau of investigation and people need to understand that Law Enforcement is not alone in georgia the law in georgia happens in courtrooms and you cannot use. You cannot use lethal force to match. Lethal force theres a case of tennessee versus gardner United StatesSupreme Court case stands for the proposition so i think that this case is going to end up in the superior court of johnny with murder charges against both officers. We also spoke with ben swann the cohost of arties boom bust to explain why the use of force by police sparked to such outrage in atlanta. In almost every case where were seeing black lives matter protests it comes down to use of force and it really seems to be the overwhelming theme that we see over and over and again so the point youre making here its critically important that some people will say yes why didnt you should and like others will say you came across a man who was asleep in a drive through and he wasnt moving his car and that when the drive through you gave him a sobriety test he resisted being handcuffed so at what point is it incumbent upon an officer to finish that arrest and to get this person behind bars how important is it to lock him up and thats where some protesters feel the use of force comes down to a common sense issue of this person did not seem to be a danger to the public he wasnt harming anyone at the time so why did you feel the need as officers and im this not necessarily my criticism but certainly the criticism of some protesters why is there a need by officers to ask elate whats happening with that person. Here. Meanwhile new b. L. M. Protests have erupted in other parts of the u. S. Hundreds of demonstrators have come to the streets of Portland Oregon to protest against racism and Police Brutality activists from the b. L. M. Movement were chased by the police who deployed tear gas it has been almost 3 weeks since george floyd was killed at the hands of Law Enforcement officers in minneapolis on tuesday the man whose death sparked a nationwide riots was buried in a small private funeral in his hometown of Houston Texas earlier that day thousands paid their respects on tuesday around 6000 mourners filed past his coffin in houston the final stop in a series of memorials held in his on or around 30000. 00 was spent on his gold casket with the money taken from a record breaking Fund Raising Campaign that amassed nearly 13000000. 00 die. Alors the fallout from floyds death has provoked claims politicians are trying to use it to score political points democrats for example were criticized by some for kneeling for an 8 minute silence in congress the length of time prosecutors say floyd was pinned under a White Police Officers knee before he died. Every american should try to stand in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to acknowledge the pain of george lloyd and the pain of racism its hard enough to grieve but its much harder to do it in public its much harder with the whole world watching your incredible family his little daughter was there i want to say daddys going to change the world and i think her daddys going to change the world hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this a great thing thats happening for a country this is a great great day in terms of equality i just want to finish by saying to save the economy we passed several pieces of critical legislation. For this oh. Were going. To take place that. Democrats have proposed a justice in policing act which would make it easier to prosecute misconduct and require local police to report data on the use of force officers would also be obliged to undergo bias training and chokeholds and other dangerous practices would be prohibited officers would also have to wear body cameras political commentator jeff charles told us that it remains to be seen whether democrats are committed to meaningful change. You know what they say right i mean never let a good crisis go to waste there will definitely be people from both sides who are going to capitalize on what happened to george floyd to bolster their political careers it is an Election Year so its hard to tell whether or not the people really pushing for this are really wanting to effect change or if theyre posturing for november the true test of whether people really want to affect change will will occur after the election is over if this is still going to be an issue that were going to be pushing in our in our media and also at a political level as well then it is possible for for positive change to come. At the beginning of the week a black lives matter protesters seize control and barricaded themselves into 6 blocks of central seattle theyre calling the area the capitol hill autonomous zone their move came after police retreated from that neighborhood hundreds of demonstrators led by the local City Council Also occupied city hall. Protesters inside called for the city mayor to quit they accuse jenny durkan of not being strict enough while implementing reforms that was in ski an activist inside the autonomous zone told us about the atmosphere there. There is a serious serious 5 here a serious attitude to be fair yeah there is a certain celebratory atmosphere as well but i think thats to be expected when we seem to have won a bit of a victory here and now for the 1st time real hope and real change seems possible but to be fair. To be fair there should be perhaps a little bit more seriousness people here are being relatively responsible theyre handing out masks for free there are hand washing stations theres Hand Sanitizer stations but it is still a concern and that should not go unnoticed and unmarked tense up and put up now free food being handed out there are tents for Homeless People there is a Medical Center slowly this is becoming a small little fixture in community in seattle this is going to keep on happening people are going to keep protesting theyre going to keep writing and. Eventually somethings going to have to happen somethings going to have to change the zone is a self declared commune no police or cars are allowed into the area and reports suggest as some inside are armed the citys mayor later defended the protesters saying that they arent just patriots President Trump on the other hand has demanded law and order in seattle he also called out those he felt are responsible saying all this happened in a radical left democrat state later trump threatened to send in the army if the local authorities dont deal with the situation but the issue of law and order is nothing new and has been on the lips of both republican and democrat president s for more than 5 decades. Law and order perhaps more familiar as the popular t. V. Show you running for 3 decades already law and order. But also exactly whats triggered nationwide protests across the United States. That the us. Law and order is the 1st responsibility of government dont send people up there that come home and talk tough on law and order and crime and then go back and vote some other way are they were allowed to merely a symbol of law and order a policeman on the campus and that was the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken by the scruff of the neck intro out of the university one. By law and order i mean for everybody weve got to reestablish respect for law respect for law and order a concept thats existed since the Founding Fathers the catch phrase that helped take Richard Nixon to the white house during mass civil unrest and race riots. Around 200 people died back then in clashes Martin Luther king was assassinated so waving in a new era for society nixon proposed an agenda in which Police Powers were about to increase in 1968 the green light was given for the use of stop and search and powers have expanded since in new york it became infamous stops dramatically increasing under me and Michael Bloomberg in the 2 thousands. But it raised a key issue racial prejudice during the peak of the program more than half of the people stopped were black but the black community made up just over one quarter of new yorks population 1st started new york 7 philadelphia. California. First. As new ways to keep order were introduced laws became tougher since 1928 states have adopted some form of whats known as the 3 strike practice it meant lengthy sentences for repeat offenders even life behind bars the policy came in as the war on drugs peaked which raised further questions of racial targeting at the turn of the century more than half of all inmates serving time for drug offenses in state prisons were black 3 years ago it was still around 30 percent despite only being 13 percent of the population as a whole with both Police Powers and sentencing increased prison numbers skyrocketed there are more black people than any other racial Group Behind Bars in america something that has not changed under bill Clinton George bush or barack obama for every 100000 people in the u. S. Sentences for black people a 5 times higher than whites. So law and order it was a response to rioting like the unrest ravaging the United States from coast to coast in 2020 provoked by Police Actions it happened in los angeles in 92. 00 after the beating of rodney king by the authorities it happened after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson a year later in baltimore with the death of freddie gray. In the last 5 years on record the number of those fatally shot by the police per 1000000 people is higher among blacks than any other ethnicity and now history is repeating itself yet another Police Related death has provoked unrest and again triggered discussion on black rights so as we look back on whats unfolded since nixon and his slogan in the sixtys donald trump has reassured the nation now saying i am your president of law and order. Trumps demands for law and order come at a time when police in the u. S. Are becoming increasingly militarized many forces now boast of the kind of hardware previously only seen in front line combat abroad parties give them up and explains. Predator drones are a staple of u. S. Foreign policy they have been used in afghanistan pakistan bosnia serbia yemen iraq syria somalia and now minneapolis though the protesters didnt see it it was flying over their heads in order to help federal officials gain situation awareness and go reports indicate it was on armed people are angry and afraid the deployment of drones and offices to surveil protests is a gross abuse of authority and its particularly issuing when they used against americans who are protesting Law Enforcement brutality it appears that the war on terror has come home the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles built by the u. S. Military to a stand attacks in iraq have been rolling down american streets as well the 1033 Program Allows the u. S. Military to provide local Police Departments with weapons local police can order weapons like remade launchers automatic rifles and bayonets as well as body armor robots aircraft watercraft and survey one strongs these are Defense Department products deemed to be excessive old or surplus 7400000000. 00 worth of Defense Department property has been provided to over 8000. 00 different Law Enforcement agencies by the 1033 program ex new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg once referred to the new York City Police department saying i have my own army and the n. Y. P. D. The 7th largest army in the world well with lots of military equipment the n. Y. P. D. Certainly does seem like an army barack obama rolled back the program after the ferguson protests and National Outrage about the militarization of police who. 7 c are. Now back. However trump has ruled by of the program now many are asking the question why does the department of defense have so much excess gear that it needs to unload anyway the us has been involved in so many words that they become occupations and the military is as developed techniques were operating as an Occupying Army and theyve brought this home they brought the war home after they made by these things and the military you know uses some of them they become surplus or if they dont buy of them all you know the military orders a certain number and then they back out of buying some of it a lot of the stuff sitting in military warehouses and so they want to get rid of them and basically Congress Passed a law saying that these things are to be given to Police Departments so we have the ridiculous situation where small towns are being given em wraps theyre totally impractical they dont make any sense theyre terribly intimidating though. And thats part of the purpose i guess for years americans have been told that the military budget is necessary to keep them safe and protect them from bad actors around the world but its starting to look like the bad guys these weapons are intended to be used against our a lot closer to home the very people whose tax dollars pay for them it will mop and artsy new york. Tens of thousands of coronavirus deaths in the e. U. And public anger towards its a leadership over the crisis the block now he says russia and china of waging a descent from asian war during the pandemic thats why much more after a short break this is the weekly on our to international. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. The day or thinks. We dare to ask. We dont leave you see the rise of a new secular religion and its called a quokka is that the moment in a short history is gold and racism by well everything is now considered races the believers in this cold demand obedience to you so this isnt the really never told how racism is to be eradicated or how it helps serve the interests of working people oh. Back to the weekly right here on our Team International germanys foreign minister visited jerusalem this week where he has expressed opposition to israels plan to annex parts of the west bank and hike a mosque made it very clear he has the backing of the e. U. It. Together with the European Union were of the opinion that an exception would not be compatible with International Law and that is why we continue to stand by a negotiated consensual 2 state solution words. For earlier this week hundreds of palestinians gathered in the city of ramallah to protest the israeli plan since if implemented it would bring 30 percent of the west bank under permanent israeli control the move follows Donald Trumps socalled peace plan for the region that recognizes israeli settlements while offering a path to Palestinian Statehood albeit with severe restrictions on its arties policies lir explains it seems it is not only palestinians and the e. U. Who are unhappy about the move. Im here in the west bank an israeli settlement of a lawnmower way where youd expect most of the cities to be enthusiastic about Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is plan to annex such areas to part of israel proper but surprisingly more and more of them are speaking out against such a move well as per trumps peace plan or settle