Good thursday morning, everyone. The city of minneapolis is preparing to honor the memory of george floyd today. At the same time this afternoon the former Police Officer is now being charged in his death are scheduled to appear in court. All four officers at the scene that day are now in custody. Prosecutors have upgraded the most serious charge against former officer Derek Chauvin. Overnight, this powerful scene. Protesters shining the lights from their cell phones, the crowd in denver fell silent for nearly nine minutes, the amount of time chauvin kept his knee on floyds neck. In a Bombshell Development from washington, former defense secretary james mattis is now speaking out slamming President Trump for the way he responded to protesters. We will get to that in just a moment, but first abcs Megan Tevrizian with the scenes unfolding overnight. We have been being killed all over, you know, all over the place, everywhere, you know, our black men are being killed. You know what im say
Then could Bernie Sanders win the popular vote in the democratic primaries and still lose the nomination . Lets look at New Hampshire. Sanders trounced clinton 60 to 38 , but they split the delegates evenly. And that is what counts. We will look at how unelected superdelegates could sway the democratic nomination in clintons favor. Then the Justice Department sues the city of ferguson. Cooks the systems deserve what every american is guaranteed under the restitution, for us to be free from excessive force, unconstitutional stops and arrests, and from a fine system that was literally breaking their backs. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The department of justice sued ferguson, missouri to force an , overhaul of the beleaguered citys criminal Justice System. U. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch filed a similar civil rights lawsuit following a decision by fergusons city council on tuesday to challeng
We will speak to congresswoman barbara lee. She is pushing for congress to finally debate the u. S. Actions in syria and iraq. Plus, we will find out if she will be joining the Congressional Black Caucus today in endorsing Hillary Clinton. Then could Bernie Sanders win the popular vote in the democratic primaries and still lose the nomination . Lets look at New Hampshire. Sanders trounced clinton 60 to 38 , but they split the delegates evenly. And that is what counts. We will look at how unelected superdelegates could sway the democratic nomination in clintons favor. Then the Justice Department sues the city of ferguson. Cooks the systems deserve what every american is guaranteed under the restitution, for us to be free from excessive force, unconstitutional stops and arrests, and from a fine system that was literally breaking their backs. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcomto democcy now , democrynow. Orgthe war d ace repo. Im y goodma the dertment ojustice ed rguson, msouri toor
We will speak to congresswoman barbara lee. She is pushing for congress to finally debate the u. S. Actions in syria and iraq. Plus, we will find out if she will be joining the Congressional Black Caucus today in endorsing Hillary Clinton. Then could Bernie Sanders win the popular vote in the democratic primaries and still lose the nomination . Lets look at New Hampshire. Sanders trounced clinton 60 to 38 , but they split the delegates evenly. And that is what counts. We will look at how unelected superdelegates could sway the democratic nomination in clintons favor. Then the Justice Department sues the city of ferguson. Cooks the systems deserve what every american is guaranteed under the restitution, for us to be free from excessive force, unconstitutional stops and arrests, and from a fine system that was literally breaking their backs. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcomto democcy now , democrynow. Orgthe war d ace repo. Im y goodma the dertment ojustice ed rguson, msouri toor
Companies say the bill for 500 had been automatically generated after a request was submitted by the administrator of the estate ask in asking the city to submit the billing statement. Because, che of the process being retained, none of the managers, in the finance department, the Law Department or anybody here today, was notified of this, he was following a routine process that he has done many times before youou he said that it was not sent to theid family he said that the city absorb the amount of medical bills not covered by medicaid,oror stressing that the case should have been red flagged so thatst supervisors would have known not to send a bill. And now, at this point, that account is going to be closed again and we are withdrawing the claim that he was shot by an officer november 2014 the officer thought that it was a pistol that looked realistic. The fact that the claim was filed has drawn criticism from the attorneys for the family, Subodh Chandra released the following state