Having a Mental Health emergency. We will go to the san diego for the latest and look the shocking study that shows people with Mental Illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a Police Encounter than other civilians. Been to syria. This s is worse. Morea slaughterhouse is humanitarian. Hospitals, clinics, ambulances and medical staff in aleppo are understaffffed. Amam as the assault continueues with the bomombing of two more hospspitals, the Obama Administration is threatening to cut off talks with moscow. Well u. S. Escalates its u. S. Military involvement . We will get the latest. All of that and more, coming up welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Protests continued wednesday in san diego, california, suburb of el cajon, where police shot and killed an ununarmed africanamerican man tuesday after his sister called 911 to report her brother was having a mentalal health emergency. Eyewitnesses in el cajon said 38yearold Alfred Olango was holding his hands up when he was tased by one Police Officer, and then fired upon five times by another officer. Police initially said they fired when olango pulled out an object. On wednesday, the police admitted that this object was, in fact, an ecigarette. This is protester asaac ali. This is not just about how i am feeling about it, it is about how america feel about it. Police are terrorizing america. Each and every state. They are killing each and every corner. This is time for america to look into it. This is not isis in the middle east. Are killing people more than i says. That is what we need to look at really careful. Amy this comes as questions are being raised about El Cajon Police officer Richard Gonsalves, one of the officers involved in olangos shooting. Last year gonsalves was sued for , Sexual Harassment after making lewd propositions and texting explicit photos to his subordinate officer. He was demoted to officer from sergeant. Gonsalves was just served with a second suit in august of this year after the harassment continued. Well go to san diego for more after headlines. Meanwhile, in louisiana, a judge has released body cam video showing Police Officers shooting into a car and killing a sixyearold child in september 2015. The boy, jeremy mardis, was in first grade. He was killed on site after being hit by five bullets. Authorities say the marshals began chasing the car after seeing an argument between a man and a woman. When the car chase ended at a deadend street, the marshals approached the car and opened fire. The video shows the driver, christopher few, with his hands in the air. The Louisiana StatePolice Superintendent said the video is the most disturbing thing ive seen. Two u. S. Marshals involved in the shooting are on trial facing seconddegree murder charges. In washington, d. C. , congress has voted to allow americans to sue saudi arabia over the 9 11 attacks, overriding president obamas veto of the bill. Its the first time during obamas presidency that his veto has been overridden by congress. The senate rejected the veto 97 to one, while the house rejected 348 to 77. This means the justice against sponsors of terrorism act now becomes law. This legislation would allow courts to waive claim of foreign sovereign immunity after an act of terrorism occurs within u. S. Borders. This is president obama speaking at a town hall on cnn wednesday night. Pres. Obama if we eliminate this notion of sovereign immunity, then our men and women in uniform around the world could potentially start seeing ourselves subject to reciprocal lalaws. And the coconcern thatat i haved has nothing to do with saudi or my something before 9 11 families, it has to do with me not wantiting a sisituation in which we are suddenenly exposed to liabilitis for all of the work were doing all around the world. Amy the bill had passed both the house and the Senate Earlier this year, but president obama had vetoed it earlier this month. In july, the Obama Administration declassified 28 pages from the september 11 detailing possible ties between the saudi government and the 9 11 attacks. The declassified documents raise new questions about the role of the saudi consular official based in the los angeles area. He personally helped two of the hijackers after they arrived in los angeles in early 2000. 15 of the 19 9 11 hijackers were from saudi arabia. In news from the campaign trail, a new investigation by newsweek reveals that one of Donald Trumps businesses violated the u. S. Embargo on cuba and secretly did business there in the late 1990s. The investigation draws on internal Company Documents showing trumps company, then called Trump Hotels Casino resorts, spent at least 68,000 in cuba during a secret business trip to havana. At the time it was illegal under , u. S. Law to spend any corporate money in cuba. The investigation also reveals trump had knowledge of top executives working to cover up the illegal expenditures. Only one year later, trump wrote in an oped in the miami herald in 1999 i would rather take a financial hit than become a financial backer of one of the worlds most brutal dictators. Of course we should keep the embargo in place. Meanwhile, Forbes Magazine is reporting that donald trump has lost at least 800 million in personal wealth since 2015. Forbes estimates trumps net worth is now about 3. 7 billion. In more news from the campaign trail, libertarian president ial nominee gary johnson stumbled during a town hall interview on msnbc wednesday night, when host Chris Matthews asked him to name his favorite foreign leader and johnson couldnt name a single one. Instead, he said he was having an aleppo moment, referring to an earlier interview when he was asked about what he would do to stop the devastating bombing against the major syrian city, and he responded by asking, what is aleppo . This is former new mexico governor and president ial candidate today johnsnson. Hoosier favorite foreign leader . Any one of the continents. Name one for leader you look up to. Anybody. Shimon peres. Im talking about living. Anywhere. Any comment. Canada, mexico, europe, asia, south america, name before leader that you respect. I guess im having an aleppo moment in the former president i am giving it the whole world. Anybody. Pick any leader. The former president of mexico. Which one . Im having a brain trucks anybody. Amy in new york, Authorities Say they have identified the two men who found a bag containing an unexploded bomb placed on 27th street in chelsea earlier this month during the bombings in new york and new jersey. Authorities say video shows the two men taking the items out of the bag, and then walking off with the bag itself. Police described the bags contents as a Pressure Cooker bomb connected to a flip phone, packed with shrapnel and wired to detonate. Authorities say the two men have now been identified as egyptians who were visiting new york and have since returned. Authorities do not think the men have anything to do with the bombings. This comes as the main suspect in the bombings, ahmad khan rahami, has retained the American Civil Liberties union to represent him. After judges in both new york and new jersey rejected efforts by public defenders seeking to represesent rahami. The head of the aclu in new jersey udi ofer said violates the constitution and needlessly sacrifices Civil Liberties in the name of national s security in more political news, new jersey governor chris is under fire over the George Washington bridge link closures. Prosecutors say his top aides conspired to createe a traffic jam to punish the mayor of fort lee for failing to endorse christies reelection in 2013. No former Port Authority official and former ally to Chris Christie, david while steam, has testified in federal court that kristi knew all about the plan ahead of time. He sayays chris chrisistie was d about the planned two days before the link closures began to the september 11 1 Memorial Service and that Chris Christie laughed at the idea. Pastshington, conversation legislation to avoid a Government Shutdown only two days before the agencies were expected to run out of money. It will keep the government funded through december 9 including 1. 1 billion to respond to the zika virus and 500 million of aid for flooding in louisiana. The white house has authorized the deployment of an additional 600 u. S. Troops to iraq at of the battle to retake muzzle for isis mosul from isis. The deployment will increase the total number of u. S. Troops in iraq to more than 5000. In somalia, Officials Say a u. S. Airstrike has mistakenly killed more than 20 somali soldiers. The security minister of somalias galmudug region says the u. S. Strikes were requested by officials in a rival region, who told the u. S. The strikes were targeting alshabab militants. The pentagon says its investigating the incident, but has claiaimed at least nine alshabab fighters were killed in the strike. In south carolina, a 14yearold boy shot and killed his father, and then wenent on a shooting rampage in the p playground of e townviville Elementary School in anderson county, about 100 miles from atlanta he shot and injured wednesday. Two boys, as well as a teacher, befofore being arrested. One of the boys who were shot in the leg is in critical condition. The shooter was not named. A oneday strike thursday to protest the governments attempts to in a legislation tying salaries to productivity rather than seniority. This is one of the union organizers. About 60,000 workers from all over the country went on strike today and about 50,000 workers join the rally here. We demand a stop to adopting illegal wage system based on performance pushed by the government. It will hurt the peoeople. People marched to mark the second anniversary of the kidnapping of 43 students from the ayotzinapa teachers college. The students were attacked by local police and subsequently went missing in the southern mexican state of guerrero. This is jose nava garcia, a student who survived the attack. We are herere to demanand e because we dont forget. We as survivors of yasser munif. We are constanantly we are survivorors of ayotzinapa. Ththey wed war on n us and we dd not at this time understand what was happening. We were just freshmen will stop amy meanwhile, in the bordederg state of michoacan, Police Arrested at least 4747 students from anotherer teacherers colle on wednenesday after a confrontation with police clad in riot gear. Police say the students had stolen busses. Some news reports say police fired at the students during the confrontation. On wednesday, fellow students blocked highways to demand their classmates be released. And in north dakota, 21 people were arrested wednesday by police in riot gear, while the group was conducting native american ceremonies to Block Construction of the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. The pipeline has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock sioux tribe and members of hundreds of other tribes from across the u. S. , canada, and latin america. Land defenders say police carrying assault rifles responded to the ceremonies with armored vehicles, tear gas, and helicopters. This is a Sicangu Lakota grandmother. Ceremony a really n nice and then we l looked and over tt there were ae few police. In the next thing i knew, there were like 40 police all dressed in riot gear. We did exactly what we were supposed to do, except the ones in the road just to telll people to keep moving, keep moving. I have never in my life seen a gun in r real life. And i have never had a gun pointed at me. We all i went into shock. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen and im nermeen shaikh. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Protests continue in the san diego, california suburb of el cajon, where police shot and killed an unarmed africanamerican man tuesday after his sister called 911 to report her brother was having a Mental Health emergency. Eyewitnesses in el cajon said 38yearold Alfred Olango was holding his hands up when he was tased by one Police Officer, and then fired upon five times by another officer. Olango was a 38yearold father of two and a ugandan refugee who moved to the san diego area 20 years ago. In a dramatic video posted to facebook, a woman named rumbie mubaiwa begins filming moments after Alfred Olango is shot dead. In the background, olangos sister is heard crying over the death of her brother. Ok, so the police did it again, yall. They shot another unarmed black person, as usual. And the lady is saying she called them for help not to kill her brother. And they shot her brother. Amy in the video, Alfred Olangos grieving sister is seen tearfully confronting police. She tells them, i called you to help me but you killed my brother. Why couldnt you tased him . Why couldnt you tase him . Why . Why . What is his birthday so they can find his information . Whyhy didnt you tase h him . Amy theheister of a alfred olao can be heard in the video saying i called three times for them to come help me. Nobody came they said its not priority. Police scanner audio at the time of the shooting reveals that officers knew they were responding to a socalled 5150 call, or a Mental Health emergency. It does not appear that officers dispatched a psychiatric Emergency Response team. El cajon police chief jeff davis acknowledged it took officers 50 minutes to respond to the 911 call of olanangos sister. He s said there was nono weapon found at the scenene of the killing. Chief dadavis dispsputed witness acacunts that t olango had his hahands in the a air, saying thn pointed an objecect at an ofoffr with both hahands as if to firea handgugun. Nermeen d back male subject pace and forth, rapidly drew an object from his front pants pocket and placed both hands together on it and extended rapidly toward the officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance, putting the object in the officers face. At this time, one of the officers with the taser discharged his taser in an effort to subdue the subject. Simultaneously, the officer who had the object pointed at him discscharged his fireararm, strg the male. Nermrmeen on wednesday, Police ConfirmedAlfred Olango did not have a gun. The object he pointed at police was a threeinch long silver ecigarette. The shooting is just the mostt recent in a string of Police Shootings of primamarily men of color wiwith Mental Illness s or disability. Just lasast week pololicin charlotttt north cararolina shst and killlled kthth scott, a 43yeaearold father of seven wo reportededly had suffered aa traumatic c brain ininjury duria motorcycle a accidenent in 2015. In july,y, a Police Officer in north miami contends he mistakenly shot an africanamerican behavioral therapist, charles kinsey, when he was aiming for arnaldo rios soto, a 26yearold autistic man. Amy who was simply cradling a toy truck. In addition to concerns over the El Cajon Police departments response to what was a Mental Health crisis, questions are being raised about El Cajon Police officer Richard Gonsalves, one of the officers involved in olangos shooting. Last year, gonsalves was sued for Sexual Harassment after making lewd propositions and texting explicit photos to his subordinate officer. Naked pictures of his private parts to his subordinate officer. He was demoted to officer from sergeant. Gonsalves was just served with a second suit in august of this year after the harassment continued. Well, for more, we are joined by two guest. Dan gilleon is the attorney for the family of Alfred Olango, and also represents officer christine greer, the plaintiff in the Sexual Harassment lawsuit against Richard Gonsalves. Christopher ricewilson is associate director at alliance san diego. We welcome you both to d democry now dan gilleon, lets begin with you. Explain what took place. You are the lawyer for offered s family. How this happened with a sister called and said her brother was having a Mental Health emergency. Explain what took place e next. There is a lot a fact that we just dont know right now. That is one of the problems i have with the way the city of el cajon and the Police Departments handling this. There is a video available. They took a still image from that video yesterday and put it out there in the media and began litigating this case in