Its been six months now since the 26yearold emt was killed in her own apartment by louisville police, and after months of protests in the streets, online, and at major sporting events, the city of louisville has finally responded. A Major Development in the killing of breonna taylor. Attorneys for taylors family say they have reached a settlement with the city of louisville, kentucky. That settlement includes a financial agreement and Police Reforms. 12 million in a civil settlement for breonna taylor. But the lawyers and the mom and everybody there making it clear that this fight is not over. They did announce, though, that along with that civil settlement, there are a number of Police Reforms including a housing credit for officers to live in lowincome housing, to live in the communities they police; creating a program to include social workers for assistance on police runs; a Commanding Officer to review search warrants before the officer seeks a judicial warrant. Those are some pre
Life, unlike what happened with breonna taylor, who was left on the ground after being shot for 20 minutes. Another reform is that officers will now be incentivized to live in the communities they police. Which is a step in the right direction. Ill be hont with you. I cant even believe police are allowed to live outside the areas they patrol. You would think they would have an invested interest in the communities they live. Living in the country hes in charge of which i know, technically, putin does with america, but you know what im saying. And, obviously, a large part of this settlement is the 12 million paid to Breonna Taylors family, which is a record for the most money louisville has ever paid for police misconduct. But, honestly, thats not really the type of records we want black people to be setting. And the thing thats messed up about these settlements is its never paid by the police who did something wrong. Its paid by the city. Which which means taxpayers are being punished f
Community of brighton each, in brooklyn. A beautiful place right on the beach. Long island sound. Many poor russians lived there in those days. , we were veryhad poor. My father was a restaurant worker all his life. What did your mom do . Ben my mother worked in the garment industry, so she will take the subway downtown from the bronx every morning to work. My father worked in a cafeterias. My sister and i roslyn i were left more or less alone most of our lives. I was pretty much left alone most of the time i was growing. Growing up. Ut that was fine, i loved it in the bronx, where we lived in the bronx park, a wonderful place, the bronx zoo, a Botanical Gardens that i used to go to all the time, i use to sneak into the bronx zoo overnight to see the animals after it had closed. I had no planes at all. We had a great time being poor. Better, beach was even right next to coney island. I could go to coney island, ride on the cyclone, get hot dogs and at nathans. I was a pretty lucky kid.
And we lived there for awhile. I lived there until i was probably five or six years old. Then we gradually worked our way out of the lower east side. We move north to the bronx, where i grew up mostly. For a while, we lived in a Community Called Brighton Beach in brooklyn, which is a beautiful place right on the beach in Long Island Sound that many poor russians lived in those days. I would say we were very poor. My father worked as a restaurant worker all his life. My mother worked in the garment industry, so she will take the subway downtown from the bronx every morning to work. My father worked in a cafeterias. My sister roselyn and i were left more or less alone most of our lives. I was pretty much left alone most of the time i was growing. Up that was fine, i loved it because in the bronx, we live right next to bronx park which is a wonderful place for kids to grow up. Theres the bronx zoo and the botanical gardens. I used to go there all the time. I used to sneak into the bronx a
Services will hold a including the post deputy under circuitry. Live coverage begins at 9 am eastern on cspan three. Online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. 75 years ago, in the summer of 1945, the u. S. Dropped two atomic bombs on japan. One on hiroshima, on august six and the other on august sassy on august 9th. And this 2016 oral history, recorded by the World War Ii National history, then wed peterson. Was stationed at loss animals and working on technicians switches of the bomb eventually used nagasaki. The National World War Ii Museum provided this video. Im a new yorker born and bred in new york. I was born in the Lower East Side, interestingly enough thats where i am right now. Ive come back. I was born basically in the Lower East Side from immigrant parents. First generation american. My parents come from russia, they came in 1913 just before world war i. They met on the Lower East Side and we lived there for a while. I lived there until i was probab