And for standards for Police Training and greater diversity proposals made and in several cases adopted in the wake of numerous other Police Murders including those of eric garner and Michael Brown the Minneapolis Police department for example established a duty to intervene required by Police Officers after the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in ferguson this requirement did not say floyd joining me to discuss the role of the police and what we must do to end the power of police to inflict indiscriminate violence is philip mackerras a writer activist and ph d. Candidate in sociology and africanamerican studies at Yale University so lets begin with a history because its not new we go all the way back to the Johnson Administration and all of the mechanisms and this has been bipartisan that has been used to a step simply reform the police have actually boomerang and made the police more on the potent and more lethal can you take us through that history yeah i mean we can even go back a bit
Way out of mass incarceration or this current you know policing apparatus that we have or the culture of surveillance that is actually under the broader culture tradition and control that is its actively harming certain people when its also not operating in this way of giving public its a way that the broader public can see that to instill the entire thing has to be an error in that there is no tweaking it but along that way there are certain steps that can take in north to begin dismantling and shifting resources our way in the end thats diverse framework which is fundamentally about the best and from systems of punishment in this specific context policing in reinvesting those lines into Community Resources and institutions because we know what makes this in this community is this research as we look around the country to say this means that most resource not least. Our National Conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction it is the fiction that the organs of internal security
The arrests there are claims as moves illegal as it was through to the local authorities. First across the line russia says it has a covert vaccine good to go but 1st its already coming from the west of the khalid made such a quick. Look at r. T. Dot com for more on those and other stories coming up next the dissident voices the missing plane stream media the focus on on contact with chris hedges coming up now. Welcome to our own country today we discussed Police Reform with philip mackerras a writer activist and ph d. Candidate in sociology and africanamerican studies at Yale University this entire system has to be and there is no way to reform and we cant tweak a reform here where mass incarceration or this current you know policing apparatus that we have or culture of surveillance that its actually under a broader cultural tradition and control that is actively harming certain people with its also not operating in this way of giving public with a broader public consumes and to insti
60s in San Francisco. Ill let you know what you can expect and were going to continue on the cooling trend for the ofek andville the fourth of july forecast coming up. Happening today, Governor Newsom ghn stayathome orders ahead of the Holiday Weekend. That mary just mentioned. The recent spike in covid cases fueling fears of a bigger surge. Kpix 5s kiet do is live in morgan hill this morning with the governors warning on the large gatherings. Kiet . Reporter yeah, so were seeing cities and organizations all over adapting to the changes for the july 4th weekend here in morgan hill. They have canceled one of the states longest running parades and then moved it online. You can watch it on youtube at 10 00 a. M. This saturday not quite the same but thats how it goes. Here we are now just a couple of hours away from yet another big announcement from Governor Newsom. This time about july 4th. And were expecting him to get tough on masks. Now yesterday, he said if people are not going to sta
Stand down. There is not many protesters at the monument happening now. Look at the shot. Hillary vaughn with the latest what is happening in washington. What is going on . Reporter liz, the area is roped off. Youre right, so far nothing has happened. The attack on the monument is scheduled for 7 00 p. M. Also happening this evening, the house is expected to vote on their much anticipated Police Reform plan after Senate Democrats blocked the senates republican Police Reform proposal from getting a vote on the senate floor. House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy says it is up to House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to decide if Police Reform has any hope in congress. I dont get to determine that. The speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and Chuck Schumer because of the rules of the senate. They both apparently made a decision to kill these bills. That will not stop us from working, trying to solve it. Reporter congresswoman ilhan omar whose home district in