brooklyn center, about ten miles north of minneapolis, where tensions are already high amid the murder trial of former officer derek chauvin. family has identified the victim as 20-year-old dante wright. according to the brooklyn center police department, officers were attempting to make a traffic stop, when just before 2:00 a.m., they decided the driver had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. police tried to take him into custody, but they say he reentered his vehicle. that s when one officer fired a weapon, hitting the driver. the driver died at the scene of the crash. brooklyn center officers wear body cameras and the police department said yesterday that it believes the body cameras and dash cameras were on during this incident. in the hours after the shooting, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the brooklyn center police department headquarters and clashed with officers in riot gear. multiple rounds of tear gas were fired by law enforcement in an effort to disper
little capacity to mitigate risk. covid-19 in short is a men as in work settings. the proof is all around us. since the disease s on set most american americans have seen workplaces transformed. so the administrative agency charged with ensuring health and safety in work places did what congress commanded it to do. it took action to address covid s continuing threat in those spaces. observera, the occupational safety and health excuse me the occupational safety and health administration issued an emergency temporary standard requiring either vaccination or masking and testing to protect american workers. the standard falls within the core of the agency s mission, to protect employees from grave danger that comes from new hazards or exposure to harmful agents. osha estimates and there is no ground for disputing that the standard they proposed would save more than 6500 lives and prevent over a quarter million hospitalizations just in six months time. yet today the kwort issu
justices elena kagan, sonia sotomayor, and stephen breyer, which did block the osha safety rule for employers requiring workers to be vaccinated or get regularly tested. r now in a separate ruling today, the court did leave in place thp vaccine requirement for people working in a health care setting. but if you don t work in a diin health care setting, if you re stacking i shelves or on the factory floor working in a big open-plan cubicle and your workplace doesn t want to protect you from a covid-rich environment, well, the supreme court just blocked the biden administration from helping you. the supreme court just blocked n the biden administration from being allowed to require that your workplace be made more safe. it s not necessarily an unexpected ruling given how right wing the supreme court is right now and how weird and scientifically uninformed the conservative justices questions were during the oral arguments, but now it is done. we will have more on that ahead toni
service, frankly, heroic an unusual service. you will see what i mean from this headline that ran about him in ebony magazine in may, 1959. g.i. risks that 65 times for science. these images are from a documentary by the jacksonville historical society that credited the u.s. air force. and these images are realtime images of him in the late 50s at service in the air force, and they show some of what he went through as part of his service. his name was alton yates, his 23 years old in these pictures, it was the second class in the u.s. air force. and what you see him doing here, is participating in important testing that was conducted for the u.s. space program. they were using airmen in the u.s. air force, for tests that were designed to see whether the human body could really withstand what we re expected to be the rigors of space travel. and the vast stretches of acceleration, and rapid deceleration, and presser changes, and everything else. ultimately it was not the only a