The coup toppling the president. Could have you with us this is our theater. Protesters chanting black lives matter slogans of seize control d barricaded themselves into 6 blocks of central seattle in the United States they are calling the area the capitol hill. The move came after police had retreated from the neighborhood and now hundreds of demonstrators led by the local council have also occupied city hall. The 1st is to run the resignation of the citys berth and for the police to be defunded their main goal to build a Community Inside the zone without any police were those holed up inside city hall probing community and not politicians should be controlling decision making. Capitol hill autonomous zone or chances a self declared called me aside from black lives matter activists claim that the ante for movement has also helped to set up the zone although theres been no official acknowledgement of its involvement no police or cars are allowed into the area reports suggest some of those inside the zone are armed online theres been a mixed response to the coming. In. Prison terms demanded law and order in seattle and also called on those he felt responsible saying that all this happened in a radical left Democratic State the concept of law and order has been on the lips of both republican and democrat president s for more than 5 decades. Law and order perhaps more familiar as the popular t. V. Show you running for 3 decades already law and order. But also exactly whats triggered nationwide protests across the United States. Thats the. Law and order is the 1st responsibility of government dont send people up there that come home and talk tough on law and order and crime and then go back and vote some other way around with. The symbol of law and order a policeman on the campus and that was the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken by the scruff of the neck intro and out of the university once by law and order i mean order for everyone weve got to reestablish a respect for law respect for law and order a concept thats existed since the Founding Fathers the catchphrase that helped take Richard Nixon to the white house during mass civil unrest and race riots. Around 200 people died back then in clashes Martin Luther king was assassinated so waving in a new era for society nixon proposed an agenda in which Police Powers were a bouncer increase in 1968 the green light was given for the use of stop and search and powers have expanded since in new york it became infamous stops dramatically increasing under mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2 thousands but it raised a key issue racial prejudice during the peak of the program more than half of the people stopped to a black but the black community made up just over one quarter of new yorks population this started new york 7 philadelphia this was like california this serving its 1st stop its a day at least. As new ways to keep order away. Entergy sed laws became tougher since 190428 states have adopted some form of whats known as the 3 strike practice it meant lengthy sentences for repeat offenders even life behind bars the policy came in as the war on drugs peaked which raised further questions of racial targeting at the turn of the century more than half of all inmates serving time for drug offenses in state prisons were black 3 years ago it was still around 30 percent despite only being 13 percent of the population as a whole with both Police Powers and sentencing increased prison numbers skyrocketed there are more black people than any other racial Group Behind Bars in america something that has not changed under bill Clinton George bush or barack obama for every 100000 people in the u. S. Sentences for black people a 5 times higher than whites. So law and order it was a response to rioting like the unrest ravaging the United States from coast to coast in 2020 provoked by Police Actions it happened in los angeles and 92. 00 after the beating of rodney king by the authorities it happened after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson a year later in baltimore with the death of freddie gray. In the last 5 years on record the number of those fatally shot by the police per 1000000 people is higher among blacks than any other ethnicity and now history is repeating itself yet another Police Related death has provoked unrest and again triggered discussion on black rights so as we look back on whats unfolded since nixon and his slogan in the sixtys donald trump has reassured the nation now saying. I am youre president of law and order. Terms demands for law and order come at a time when police in the america are becoming increasingly militarized many forces now boast the kind of hardware previously only seen in front line combat a broad scale of more than explains. Predator drones are a staple of u. S. Foreign policy they have been used in afghanistan pakistan bosnia serbia yemen iraq syria somalia and now minneapolis though the protesters didnt see it it was flying over their heads in order to help federal officials gain situation awareness and go reports indicate it was an armed people are angry and afraid the deployment of drones and offices to surveil protests is a gross abuse of authority and its particularly issuing when they used against americans who are protesting Law Enforcement brutality it appears that the war on terror has come home the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles built by the u. S. Military to stand attacks in iraq have been rolling down american streets as well the 1033 Program Allows the u. S. Military to provide local Police Departments with weapons local police can order weapons like remade launchers automatic rifles and bayonets as well as body armor robots aircraft watercraft and survey one strongs these are Defense Department products deemed to be excessive old or surplus 7400000000. 00 worth of Defense Department property has been provided to over 8000. 00 different Law Enforcement agencies by the 1033 program ex new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg once referred to the new York City Police department saying i have my own army and the n. Y. P. D. The 7th largest army in the world well with lots of military equipment the n. Y. P. D. Certainly does seem like an army of iraq obama rolled back the program after the ferguson protests and National Outrage about the militarization of police who. 7 c are. Now back. However trump has roof 5 the program now many are asking the question why does the department of defense have so much excess gear that it needs to unload anyway the u. S. Has been involved in so many words that they become occupations and the military is as developed techniques were operating as an Occupying Army and theyve brought this home they brought the war home after they made by these things and the military you know uses some of them they become surplus or if they dont buy of them all you know the military orders a certain number and then they back out of buying some of it so a lot of the stuff sitting in military warehouses and so they want to get rid of them and basically Congress Passed a law saying that these things are to be given to Police Departments so we have the ridiculous situation where small towns are being given em wraps theyre totally impractical they dont make any sense theyre terribly intimidating though. And thats part of the purpose i guess for years americans have been told that the military budget is necessary to keep them safe and protect them from bad actors around the world but its starting to look like the bad guys these weapons are intended to be used against our a lot closer to home the very people whose tax dollars pay for them it will mop and artsy new york former minnesota governor and america host Jesse Ventura says its clear the police on becoming more heavily armed. Why do cops now look Like Star Wars commandos i mean when they come out and you look at them they dont look like your friend they look like an Occupying Military today not only that i was driving down minnesota a year or 2 ago and i saw on the freeway this big black vehicle looked like a long i rack and i pulled alongside and said mr silver state Highway Department this state was unbelievable i mean it was it was a combat military machine we did get bad stuff out of our Police Forces we do i was in the philippines when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law i was physically there and there were military on every corner with machine guns lets not do that. Protesters are not just about confronting racism in modern society but also about the links to it in the past and new cases that used to slavery being torn down and there are calls for famous galleries to be renamed but colonial history does run deep throughout europe in paris for instance around 200. 00 streets take the names from the past so the doobs king takes is now on the tour of the most controversial. Paris the city of light yet could the shadow of front this past be seen. As protesters across the world that demanding that monuments and stop using the store of cool figures with links to the slave trade and colonialism are pulled down how could that play out here well to start with the city would have a lot of renaming to do some 200 how many streets in squares or have a colonial reference take this one who. Seems pretty innocuous right minister louis the 14th but you only have to scratch the surface to find out that the. Its named after is accused of drawing up the code you are now in laymans terms thats the legislation that not only defined the conditions of slavery in french colonies but it also restricted the activities of black people who were free and what about this were. Named of a distinguished french general but there was little to let you know that he also once was head of her sleeve owning plantation and took part in frances brutal subjugation of algeria better scrub that one off to hold her was as you all are just and a physiologist hes credited for his publications which showed the oxygen could be toxic to some insects and animals now im not only is this street name dove to him but so too are some of the the cafes here so he must have been good right though it seems his theories on race were even more toxic than the air that we breathe he wont School Textbooks used until the 1930 s. Which claimed that white people were not only superior but also more intelligent than black Chinese People perhaps we could just rename this street appalling birth. Now this is one of my favorite streets in paris it is teeming with busy cafes and food shops and it would take you weeks to ease your way through here but then there is this. As you can see its already been targeted by someone who was less than happy with it being in plain view and then theres the p. S. Still has its stalls napoleon the bonaparte monuments in paris just like this one in front of the are littered with his image hes possibly the most famous and celebrated frenchman in history but the former emperor has a checkered past and no im not just talking about the. Feet sit waterloo in siena which are by the way has become a word in front synonymous with the proverbial poop hitting the fan napoleon the bonaparte not only invaded and plundered countries like egypt and syria he also restored slavery in the caribbean a whole 8 years after it should be abolished by france what about raising dams this monument to the little cool proles victories but that its going to be a tough sell changing of the street names or even taking down the monuments may be easy i took over the recognition but much more difficult is to raise the entire colonial history of a country like france a history that is weve throughout a city like this in paris instead some argue that we shouldnt change anything and instead educate people about the misdeeds of the long praise to raise who also had a long and dont list of transgressions so its even ski ati carries. The New York Times which if there were major flaws in a key report into floor during last years believe it elections which triggered the coupe details to the break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. Spearing dramatic. Only. Exists i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical. To sit down in. A. New york times has surprised many of its readers with a major having previously back to kenya reporting to fraud during last years believe an election sit down says that those findings were incorrect and it was the very report that triggered a coup in bolivia toppling the re elected president ever more or less aunties my guess the it takes a closer look. Forget who sions 11 or the italian job this was Something Else they didnt rob a bank or a casino vault this heist was so much more ambitious they stole an entire election without forging a single vote see if you can figure out who the robbers were as we start from the very beginning of this heist the oas mission expresses its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard to justify change in the trend of the preliminary results known after the polls closed just as vote counting ended the oas the organization of american states which monitors the elections came out and cried foul allegedly incumbent president evo morales was getting too many votes too fast which was too good to be true that was all the opposition needed to hear. What followed was just shy of a civil war a military coup the incumbent president was forced to resign to flee with his family to mexico and an unelected far right woman white and reach takes power indigenous bolivians scepter they knew what life is like and minority white rule which is why they elected morale is indigenous himself 3 times in a road but the oas segments the coup by issuing a final report on the election the conclusion is that there was intentional manipulation and serious irregularities that make it impossible to validate the results originally issued by the believe you know electoral or thorazine who do you think did it do with the proverbial robbers was it evil morales the. Hugely popular president running for his 4th term and leading by 10 percent of the book was that the opposition who were so far behind that their only chance was to spoil the election was in a foreign power someone who wanted morale is gone the United States applauds believe in people for demanding freedom and believe in military abiding by its oath to protect not just a Single Person but believe in this constitution it was none of them the robbers those who stole the election the mosques will carry guns they held clipboards in the skies themselves as election monitors was ingenious you would expect an election monitors to essentially falsify fraud its like the police robbing a bank unthinkable but thats what they did remember when they claimed that morality got too many votes too fast and it all but had to be frugal turns out he didnt have to be fraud they just changed the graphs and played with the data to make it seem that way we revisit the evidence finding that the jump does not exist a secular trend explains that within precinct results and we can predict that both 7 40 pm results almost exactly using data from the previous poll which the organization of american states indorsed this isnt news back in december academics and statistics rang the alarm saying that the oas wasnt being entirely accurate truthful essentially the election monitors were either incompetent by jumping to the wrong conclusions or malicious by manipulating data either way the result was a military coup and people have been calling for months for an apology in fact it is easy to show with election data which is publicly available that the change in marlice lead was neither drastic nor hard to explain we call upon the oas to retract its misleading statements about the election. Which have contributed to the political conflict and served as one of the most used just if occasions for the military coup so why isnt this a matter of Public Knowledge why arent people outraged well that was taken care of by the media which essentially then dusted the robbers traps the media misled millions by jumping the gun and essentially laying it all on morales look at the New York Times then burying morality his presidency versus the New York Times now a close look at believing election data suggests an initial analysis by the oas that raised questions of vote rigging and helped force and the president was fluent the oas by the way is to sting sham pay see they now claim there were so many irregularities that new one could find the truth youre doing the statistical exercise on documents that are falsified the question is not whether the false numbers add up the question is whether they false or not and the its like the movie inception you know a dream within a dream within a dream except in this case its apparently election monitoring fraud inside made up statistics inside thick grass and at the end of the day bravo ladies and gentlemen the oas an organization mostly funded by the United States you may be surprised to hear virtually stolen elections sparking a military coup and got rid of a leader that the United States didnt like without falsifying a single vote now that is a heist professor of latin american studies at the City University of new york Daniel Schorr believes that the u. S. Media always vilifies nationalist leaders that washington finds difficult to control. The media always does is the media demonizes vilified as it will more alices the khadafi the daniela day. Fidel castros mugabe in zimbabwe they completely vilify these nationalist leaders who they cannot control and that becomes a headline that this film feed the American People for months and months and months building up towards the coups the invasions the occupations and then once they have a bolivia or a libya. Back quote unquote under control and once its functioning is us near new york only we never hear about their country again and thats the same blueprint that theyve used over and over so theres no reason to think that theyre going to walk back anything in terms of their misreporting on bolivia months ago theyre going to continue to try to recolonize bolivia with their eyes towards an electoral cool instant sound or if necessary. For this news out thanks for staying with r. T. International we will be handing over now to my colleagues in london our team came when you right up to date have now. International memorial awards has extended its deadline for submissions. All media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media of a global News Platform you can submit to your published works in either video format go to award go to auntie dot com and in to no. One is right there. Where i did bad it could be in this house right now. Its hard. To make minimum wage he can be recruited. And sell drugs and make dollars a day. Sooner so when a person is still thrilled with. The flying to say this. Is one of. The cant find somewhere else because they have a criminal record. Because they dont have the money. Anyway. They. Want black people. Think might want one black or they want one black famous person they want one black this and one. Welcome to the alex simon show from stricken album in scotland where we time to day to the subject which has swept even the covert crisis off the front pages of social media and the Television Screens over the last few weeks the killing of george floyd in minneapolis a spark of waves of protests across the United States and internationally from london to petrolia from said they to glasgow people of taken to the streets demanding justice and racial equality betty have held by the proclamation that black lives matter while some have neeld many of students silence for 8 minutes 46 seconds the time jobs for it was struggling to brief while Police Officers detained them and killed them and the United States press to come under sustained fire from retired generals for suggesting that regular troops might be deployed on the streets across the United States the imagery of a president coding in the white house bunker while Peaceful Protesters were the spastic with tear gas may not be one which is conducive to his reelection prospects today we examine this wave of protests from the human angle we ask a believe mother from baltimore about the pastoral pain of the killing of her son at the hands of the police she campaign all the way to the gates of the a bomb a white house and then we ask a young woman activist from chicago what has motivated her to be involved in the demonstrations and them to place this new wave of protest of its Historical Context we turn to Medea Benjamin who gives an assessment of why this time around it might really make a difference but 1st it does mean im glad school with your tweets your emails and your messages. Thank you alex in response to russia last week a labor leader secure stormers 1st report card fiction commentator steve riches and professor Richard Murphy alley says starmer has done billy very clear very concise very measured basically the opposite of Boris Johnson everyone can see he has one tools to p. And q. She says i think your stomach will need the s. And p. To support his campaign for Prime Minister so im sure hell give scotland independence vote and this time scotland be ready for independence alan says i disagree that storm has to make inroads into scotland scotland is lost to labor his best bet is to write scotland off recognise our right to selfdetermination and us such make labor an english s. N. P. In my opinion such a party would clean up at the next hopefully scotland free general election christine says i was a traditional scottish labor voter even though my labor was more akin to people like tony benn i had my light bulb moments in 2014 and voted just independence as a labor voter never having with todays n. P. Since 2049 i vote s n p s for me its the only way to rid scotland of westminster 20 governments and to achieve independence i still cant get my head around in which working class wilting toady graham says from what ive seen he has a measure of the current Prime Minister toughie he steps up part with ease im an independent supporter by the way however i like to acknowledge go david says im looking for a new democratic