Things out in public. And so i emailed commissioner taylor to add it on for action. Commissioner taylor responds, i cant do that. Its on for status. I get an email that thats whats going to happen, but theres no reason its not on for action. This should be adopted tonight. This august 5 . This should have been passed last august. This is disgraceful, embarrassing, disgusting conduct, and i Vice President taylor all right. Dont be so hard. Commissioner hamasaki now, dont interrupt me commissioner dejesus yeah, its showing. Youre being rude right now. First of all, parents are here. Youre being rude, first of all, and second of all, i dont normally do this, but there are a whole bunch of lies happening tonight, so you want to have this conversation . Let me finish. Were going to have this conversation now. First of all, were not going to do is compare every situation to the slaughter of black people. Not everything is a knee to the neck, and were not going to do that. Second of all, i wa
Im not the smartest commissioner or the most knowledgeable person. This is a constant fight, but you know, this looking at the country, looking at what happened to all of the individuals who have died recently from from White Supremacy and Police Violence, weve got to do better, ive got to do better, and, you know, i didnt really i guess i just as you can see, i got out of i had surge in the last week, and ive spent a lot of time on my back thinking, and i dont have any answers tonight. Some people think that were you know, as i said before, and ive read it online and on social media, were putting a gloss over operator your conference is now in questionandanswer mode. To answer each question, press one and then zero. Commissioner hamasaki do i need to stop for something . Clerk no, you can go. Commissioner hamasaki i dont have anything deep or profound to say, other than i really hope, i really hope that this is a moment that we rise to, and i i just we cant just keep going and reading
We have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. In the last few weeks, we watched the barbaric murder of george floyd by vile, racist Police Officers. We watched Ahmaud Arbery get gunned down by white spr supremacists. Study after study shows that white people and black people are not only more likely to commit crimes, they think that we feel less pain. We have a less nuanced feeling, and less worthy of protection, so we often have to fend for ourselves. Racism is definitely a police problem, one that is as old as our entire nation, but lets be clear no ones off the hook. Racism is an america problem. Trayvon martin, Ahmaud Arbery were killed by citizens. The overwhelming number of hate crimes are committed by ordinary citizens. Every Single Member of this commission is committed to rooting out bias in this Police Department, and after seeing the murder in minneapolis, after seeing the recent video circulating of what appears to be neck restraints used here in San Francisco in janua
Republic of congo for oil fields anger against u. N. Peacekeepers accused of failing to provide protection and a grim task for flood survivors in kenya digging to find the remains of missing loved ones. I am. Thank you very much for joining us u. S. President donald trump assigned to bills into law that back hong kongs for Democracy Movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and on kong special trade status will be reviewed every year the territorys leaders say it will damage relations with the u. S. While china has expressed extreme regret on the move saying it will respond with firm count and measures will get more reaction from beijing with Andrew Thomas very shortly for a sabbatical hane in washington d. C. Patty president toms team had voiced reservations about these bills why did he sign them. Because he had no choice congress forced his hand this vote was near unanimous there was just one voting no
Its president signed 2 bills into law that back hong kong prodemocracy movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and hong kongs special trade status will be reviewed every year the territorys leaders say itll damage relations with the u. S. While chinas expressed extreme mcgrath over the moves saying it will respond with foreign countermeasures particle has been following developments from washington. The president aware that he was sort of forced into this not wanting to see china react sending out a fairly unusual statement saying that he signed these bills out of respect for president g. China and the people of hong kong they also put in their announcement that he had signed these 2 bills that he believes some provisions interfere with the president s Constitutional Authority and they would be treating the bill it with that if it were in mind what exactly does that mean they didnt spell out what provi