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Transcripts For KCSM Democracy Now 20160926

Days of protests and release to police videos, dashcam and body cam footage, of scotts killing. We will get response from journalists Marc Lamont Hill coauthor of, author of, nobody casualties of americas war on the vulnerable, from ferguson to flint and beyond. Then tonight, 100 Million People are expected to watch the first president ial debate. Among the topics, Foreign Policy and terrorism. Today in a democracy now exclusive, we speak with the former guantanamo prisoner who was cleared to leave under president bush and obama, but remained at guantanamo for over 12 years. His name is jihad Abu Wael Dhiab. States saysunited in the media, human rights, human rights, human rights. I never had human rights. Never, never, never. Amy released to uruguay, he is currently on a Hunger Strike to push for his demand to be allowed to leave uruguay in order to reunite with his family. We will also speak with his lawyer, with a lawyer, ramzi kassem, who helped negotiate the deal to get dhiab and others released to uruguay. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In north carolina, charlottemecklenburg police have released two videos of tuesdays Police Shooting of 43yearold africanamerican Keith Lamont Scott. One of the videos is from a Police Dashboard camera and the other from an officers body camera. The dashboard camera video shows scott exiting his vehicle and taking steps backwards with his arms at his sides. Police fire four shots at scott and he falls to the ground. The body camera video shows scott on the ground after being shot. The Charlotte Police have also released pictures of a handgun , marijuana cigarette, and an ankle holster they say was in scotts possession. It does the police say not show he is clearly holding a gun. North carolina is an open carry state. Scotts family responded to the footage sunday. What we see will we look at the video, mr. Scott steps out of the vehicle. He doesnt appear to be acting aggressive towards any of the Law Enforcement officers on the scene. He doesnt appear to be making gestures or motions as though he is arguing with anybody. He doesnt want at the officers lunge at the officers. It appears he has his hands by his side. Amy on friday, nbc news obtained cell phone video capturing the shooting, filmed and narrated by scotts wife rakeyia scott. In the video, she tells officers that her husband is unarmed and suffers from a traumatic brain injury, or tbi. He doesnt have a gun. He has a tbi. He is not going to do anything. He just took his medicine. Quite drop the gun keith, get out of the car. Dont you do it. Dont you do it. Keep. Dont you do it. Did you shoot him . Did you shoot him . Amy that was cell phone video filmed and narrated by scotts wife rakeyia scott. Meanwhile, Charlotte Police have arrested a man they accused of shooting and killing a protester during demonstrations over Keith Lamont Scott step. 26 are all justin carr was apparently shot in the head near a line of riot police during protests wednesday in uptown charlotte. He died in the hospital on thursday. On friday, officers arrested Rayquan Borum and charged him with carrs murder. Charlotte police chief kerr putney said extensive Video Evidence was used to identify borum, though the department has not made those videos public. Several eyewitnesses dispute the polices explanation. Charlotte public defender eddie thomas told the guardian he believes the protester was shot by a tear gas canister, pepper ball or other police projectile , that caused him to stumble back and hit his head on the brick sidewalk. But daily beast reporter ryan james says he witnessed a civilian firing a pistol into a crowd leaving carr laying on the , ground in a pool of blood. Meanwhile, hundreds continued to protest for a sixth straight day in charlotte. Uniformed National Guard soldiers carrying rifles were deployed outside a Carolina Panthers football game, while police in riot gear surrounded about 100 demonstrators who were chanting black lives matter. On sunday evening, charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts lifted the curfew that had been in place since thursday. In tulsa, oklahoma, hundreds packed the Antioch Baptist Church saturday for the funeral of terence crutcher, a 40yearold African American man shot dead by police on september 16. Crutcher was remembered by his cousin, shea seals. s death is being mourned by an entire city. He was that special. That terencee is loved everyone. He had the incredible gift of putting others before himself. Amy police video showed crutcher and shot dead while his hands were in the air. His family says his suv stalled as he was driving home from a Music Appreciation class. The killing sparked protests across the country. Officer betty shelby was booked and released last week on felony manslaughter charges for crutchers death. If convicted, shelby faces beeen four years and life in prison. We will have a discussion on the videos of keith lamont plus killing after headlines. In washington, d. C. , thousands gathered on the National Mall saturday as the countrys first black president helped dedicate the National Museum of African American history and culture. President barack obama and First Lady Michelle Obama joined the daughter of a slave, 99yearold ruth bonner, ringing a bell to signal the opening of the museum. [bell tolls] the 400,000 squarefoot museum will house some 37,000 artifacts, including relics from a slave ship, a shawl owned by harriet tubman, emmett tills casket, shards of glass from the 1963 Birmingham Church bombing, a dress owned by rosa parks, Louis Armstrongs trumpet, and muhammad alis boxing gloves. President obama said the museum helps to teach a richer and fuller story of who americans are. Pres. Obama by knowing this bettertory, we understand ourselves and each other. It binds us together. It reaffirms that all of us are americans, that africanamerican history is not somehow separate from our larger american story it is not the underside of the american story. It is central to the american story. Amy in news from the campaign trail, donald trump and Hillary Clinton are set to face off tonight in whats expected to be the mostwatched president ial debate in u. S. History. Some tv Network Executives predict as many as 100 Million People will tune in. Third party candidates, including libertarian gary johnson and the green partys dr. Jill stein, will be excluded under stringent rules set by the commission on president ial debates, which is controlled by the democratic and republican parties. Tonights 90minute debate will be held at Hofstra University on long island. Nbc nightly news anchor lester holt will serve as moderator. Ahead of the debate, Hillary Clintons Campaign Said holt should act as a factchecker and call out trumps lies and false statements. This is Clinton Campaign manager, robby mook, speaking sunday on abcs the week. Ifall that we are asking is donald trump lies, that it is pointed out. It is unfair to ask for hillary both to play traffic cop with trump, make sure his lies are corrected, and for her also to present her vision. Amy Trump Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway fired back, telling abc i really dont appreciate campaigns thinking it is the job of the media to go and be these virtual factcheckers and that these debate moderators should somehow do their bidding. The head of the commission on president ial debates later agreed that moderators should not factcheck during debates. This is the commissions executive director, janet brown, speaking on cnn. If you start getting into fat checking, im not sure what is a big fact . What is a little fact . If you and i have different sources of information, does your source about the unemployed it rate agree with my source . I dont think it is a great idea to get the moderator into essentially serving as the encyclopaedia britannica. Saiddonald trump had lester holt is a democrat and in fact he is a registered republican. Meanwhile, donald trump said on saturday he might bring Gennifer Flowers to sit in the front row of tonights debate. Flowers had an affair with bill clinton in the 1970s. The Trump Campaign later said it had not extended an invitation to flowers and that she would not attend. Democracy now will have be broadcasting the debate with, to her afterwards. You can tune in tonight from 8 30 to 11 30 Eastern Standard Time. Texas senator ted cruz has endorsed donald trump for president. Fridays endorsement came despite a bitter primary season that saw the pair hurl invective at one another. During the campaign, trump suggested cruzs wife was not as attractive as his own, and linked ted cruzs father to the plot to assassinate president john f. Kennedy. Cruz previously called trump a pathological liar, a narcissist, a bully, utterly amoral, and someone who lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth care go in july, cruz was booed off the stage after telling delegates to the Republican National convention to vote your conscience rather than voice support for trump. But on friday, senator cruz said prayer and careful consideration led him to an endorsement, citing trumps likely Supreme Court nominees. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Hillary Clinton and donald trump on sunday in closeddoor meetings. Trump hosted netanyahu at his new york penthouse, where his Campaign Said trump compared israels separation wall favorably with his proposed wall along the mexican border. Netanyahu met with the clinton who said whose Campaign Said she expressed support for a new u. S. Military aid package to israel of 38 billion over 10 years. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seeking to distance himself from a Corruption Scandal backs all two of his closest eight indicted last week on federal corruption charges. Prosecutors say they took bribes using the positions to help companies received hundreds of millions of dollars in new york state contracts and other official state benefits. Both are claiming their innocent not in cuomo said he was charge of the contracts involved and that he at no idea about the alleged bribery and contract reading laid out by prosecutors. Brazils Supreme Court has opened a corruption investigation into newly installed president michel temer. The inquiry stems from allegations that temer solicited bribes in return for contracts with the Brazilian Oil company petrobras. Temer was sworn in just three weeks ago after lawmakers voted to impeach his predecessor, president dilma rousseff. On thursday, temer told business and Foreign Policy leaders in new york that he worked to impeach rousseff after she refused to implement his partys economic plan, which included cuts to health, education and welfare spending. That contradicts the official reason for her impeachment accusations she tampered with government accounts to hide a budget deficit. In britain, Jeremy Corbyn will remain head of the labour party after winning 62 of the vote in a leadership contest. The win strengthens corbyns position as head of labour, which has grown dramatically under his leadership to more than 500,000 members. In washington state, 20yearold arkan cetin will be arraigned on murder charges today after a shooting spree in a burlington Shopping Mall friday left five people dead. Cetin used a rifle to fatally shoot four women and a man at a Macys Department store, leaving the weapon at the crime scene. He was arrested on saturday after Police Identified him from surveillance video. Theres no known motive for the killings. In southeastern iowa, twelve activists were arrested saturday as they disrupted efforts by the Dakota Access Pipeline Company to drill under the mississippi river, fearing a possible oil spill could contaminate the water. Three of the protesters chained themselves to a backhoe just before the start of the work day, delaying construction at the site for several hours. They were charged with criminal trespass and interference with official acts. And in news from the Berks Family Detention Center in pennsylvania, a woman from el salvador who has been detained for over 400 days reportedly fainted last week after she suffered headaches, dizziness, and vomiting. She was taken to a hospital thursday to undergo gall bladder surgery, only to be returned to detention on friday. Her fellow berks detainees issued a statement saturday that the woman had no nurse to tend to her in her room, and was relying on her two teenage daughters who are detained with her. They say the womans prescribed medical diet has yet to be approved and that she wasnt allowed a visit with her sister because she was in too much pain to walk down stairs to the visiting room. Women at the berks jail have called for the mother to be immediately let go so that she can be taken care of by actual trained and professional staff. Officials have so far refused to release the mother and the two girls while their asylum claim is being appealed in federal court. To see all of our coverage of the berks jail, go to democracynow. Org. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We begin todays show in north carolina, where charlottemecklenburg police have yielded to pressure and released two videos of last tuesdays fatal Police Shooting of 43yearold africanamerican, Keith Lamont Scott. One video is from a Police Dashboard camera and the other from an officers body camera. Police say they also have more video that they have not released. The scott family is asking the police to release all of the videos. The dashboard camera video shows scott exiting his vehicle and taking steps backwards with his arms at his sides. Police fire four shots at scott and he falls to the ground. The body camera video shows scott on the ground after being shot. Scott family Attorney Justin Bamberg responded to the footage on sunday. What we see will we look at this dashcam video is mr. Scott steps out of the vehicle, he doesnt appear to be acting aggressive towards any of the Law Enforcement officers on the scene. He doesnt appear to be making gestures emotions as though he is arguing with anybody. He doesnt lunch at the officers. It appears he has his hands by his side. Again, there is no definitive evidence in this video as to whether or not there is an object in his hand. And if there is, what that object is. That question still remains. But what we do know is the moment mr. Scott is shot, it appears as though he is not aggressively moving toward Law Enforcement. He is actually doing the opposite. He is passably stepping back. Amy the Charlotte Police have also released pictures of a handgun as well as an ankle holster and a marijuana joint they say was in scotts possession. They did not say where they found the gun. North carolina is an open carry state. This came after nbc news obtained gutwrenching cell phone video capturing the shooting, filmed and narrated by scotts wife rakeyia scott. Nbc released the video on friday. In it, scott tells officers her husband is unarmed and suffers from a somatic brain injury, or. Dont shoot him. He has no weapon. Yes no weapon. Dont shoot him. Dont shoot him. Dont shoot him. He did not do anything. Drop the gun. He doesnt have a gun. He has a tbi. He just took his medicine. Drop the gun. Keith, on out the car. Drop the gun. Keith, dont do it. Keith, get out of the car. Keep, dont you do it. Dont you do it. Keith. Keith. Dont you do it. [gun shots] did you shoot him . Did you shoot him . He better not be [bleep] dead. He better not be [bleep] dead. I know that [bleep] much. Im going to record you. Im not coming near you. He better be alive. He better be alive. And 9450 three lexington court. These are the Police Officers that shot my husband. He better live. He didnt do nothing to them. Make nobody touched anybody, so they all good. I know he better live. I know he better live. How about that . Im not coming to you guys. But he better live. He b

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