With Violent Crime spiking across the country and antipolice sentiment is on the rise. Welcome to America Reports. I am john roberts in washington. Sandra i am sandra smith in new york. Homicide rates are surging. Minneapolis and Portland Sharp increases and protests and calls to defund the police. Shootings are all up in big cities like atlanta, chicago, los angeles and philadelphia with portland seeing the largest increase. John in new york city, every type of crime is up including attacks on asianamericans. A suspect hits an asian woman in the face with a hammer in times square. Stunning Surveillance Video released by the nypd captured the moment a mother is sucker punched a 23yearold woman and ripped off her backpack. Live in new york to start off this morning. What happened to americas safest big city . John, i dug into those crime stats in new york city and we are living in troubling times. Look at this past week. Shooting incidents jump 182 compared to the same week last year. W
From a member of congress. Maxine waters joining the crowds and demanding justice. Listen. Question have to persist calling for justice. We have to let people know well not be satisfied unless we get justice in these cases. Reporter waters said if exminneapolis officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted we got to get on the street, get more active, get more confrontational. They have got to know we mean business. Anticop sentiment spreading nationwide. Sacramento Police Declared an Unlawful Assembly after protesters threw rocks and hurt officerses with a irritant liquid. Same in New York City. What are you doing for . You can open the door. Oh. Oh [bleep] reporter suspect throwing a chemical on an officer after being pulled over for running a red light. He threw a Molotov Cocktail before being arrested. Even the citys emts are being targeted with a union chief telling the New York Post a crew had a brick thrown at their ambulance. In d. C. Several protesters were arrested. They were throwing f
Off. Paul eisenberg is here but we begin with Congressional Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, live outside of the Supreme Court for us. We just wrapped up a Press Conference with the bill sponsors and we asked about House Speaker nancy pelosi saying she has no plans to bring this bill to the floor while the president s commission is still studying the very proposal. They said they are really not surprised at that answer but they expressed faith that pelosi and others will change their minds and come along as more destructive decisions come down. In fact one of the bill sponsors said today they laid blame on the Supreme Court for the january 6th insurrection saying this Supreme Court has been Dismantling Democracy Allowing Dark Money in politics, gutting Voting Rights and paving the way for racist voters suppression and help put donald trump in the white house. They reject the assertion that they are packing the court in response. It will enable us to do justice and rectify the great injus
Expect to cause those. Understood but if you were in the midst of a struggle with Police Officers and the Police Officers brought mr. Floyd to the ground, the moment of impact with the ground could have resulted in some of those abrasions. Objection, your honor, beyond the scope and calling for speculation. Overruled. Would you mind repeating the question . Sure. The abrasion, some abrasions we looked at, it would be consistent with mr. Floyd being taken out of a police car and putt on to the ground. Same objection, beyond the scope of the yupgs. Overruled. Yes. Depending on how he made contact with the ground. If the direction of motion is correct and enough abrasive force, yes. That contact could explain those abrasions. Okay. Would awe gree with the general proposition that the prone position is not inherently dangerous . As far as i know based on my understanding of the medical literature that is true. Now, in terms of your Autopsy Reports, there is no you dissected mr. Floyds shou
President trump blasting social media after facebook upholds his ban. These platforms have gotten to be monopolies. The only way to get this straight properly regulate them or break them up. First pitch swinging, he has done It John Means has no hit. The mariners the First Complete game no hitter. Orioles jim palmer did it 52 years ago. Ainsley this is very exciting first time year and a half we are back on some sem plans of the curvey couch. We are 6 feet apart and vaccinated. Steve up deed. It couch occasional tables. Part of the couch. Brian gradually get people back in studio as things get back to normal. Finally i might go back to broadway september 14th. I might be working at night for a while. September 14th audience. Steve brian, when is the last time you went to a broadway play. Brian i actually went to hamilton. This is how crazy it is. I actually liked hamilton so much and first time im admitting this. I bought the sound track. I mean, can you believe this . I bought a broad