Senator cory Booker Joining fellow democrats today in announcing support of new Police Reform. Supporters say the Police Reform legislation is overdue and unprecedented, democrats hope to push the bill through the house and hope to have a vote in the senate by july 4. This bill is in response to the nationwide protests. It is and it was drafted by the Judiciary Committee and the black caucus, or than 150 democrats have signed on as co authors. For those who wish we will now kneel for our moment of silence. Reporter on capitol hill house and Senate Democrats took any for nearly 9 minutes in emancipation hall before announcing the new justice and policing act. A profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession that requires highly trained officers who are accountable to the public. We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change. The bill includes federal mandates the police funny and dashboard cameras, limit transfer of military weapons and a b
Lockdown measures were in place. The Prime Minister talked about lands for reopening the uks economy at this hearing which was held by videoconference. Order, order. Welcome, Prime Minister to the first evidence session that appears on committee today. We are very grateful to you for responding so promptly to the imitation we sent at the end of last week i would like to thank the working group of members of the Committee Established by the whole committee that is helped set this up very quickly. Working group has agreed to the topics to be discussed and the chairs are here that are representing the committee today. Prime minister, last time we had a Prime Minister before this committee was 12 months ago and the committee agreed the session will focus on the Coronavirus Crisis but remain many other policy areas such as boxes, international areas, trade agreements, domestic qualities that require scrutiny. Prime minister, can i just ask you for housekeeping points can you commit to atten
Downtown san jose and returning to city hall. This is the very spot where we saw some of the unpeaceful protests, launching rocks and bottles at Police Officers. And today, the chief said his officers did what they had to do that day, to prevent this city from falling into further chaos. Metal rebar. Glass bottles. Rocks. Chunks of asphalt. San jose police chief, read out a litany of items he said were thrown at his officers of friday and paid five minutes of silent videos showing what he calls a mob mentality by those who had no intention of protesting peacefully and introduced the captain in charge of the police response. When i was on the ground at seventh and santa clara, i stepped into an end zone, that is not hyperbole or embellishment. I have been a cop of 21 years and spent half that time in special operations and ive never seen anything like it. Jason dwyer called for tear gas and weather foam batons known to the ing about the at weather bullets and now as innocent protesters
From the bay areas local news station. The news at 6. Now at 6 a peaceful protest in oakland as hundreds march on the peninsula demonstrators take their message to the bay area streets and stand in solidarity with a nationwide outcry over the death of george floyd floyds death on memorial day was caught on video and it sent shockwaves across the country and a call to action that has now followed that has been answered by millions of americans. In minneapolis today, an emotional gathering as friends and family mourn the life of the man known as the gentle giant. Friends gathered in minneapolis today to honor the life of george floyd you can see his family that arrived at the Memorial Service floyds death has prompted a global movement. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman now George Floyds family and friends and those inspired by him remember his life today darryl forges is in minneapolis but the very latest. Song and prayer in memory of george fl
Before the days over right now the wildfire continues to burn we dont see the huge flames that we saw in the overnight hours but now that the sun is up you can clearly see what it did to this community you can see some of the firefighters right there on the hillside. It has burned so far about 90 acres, firefighters are on the scene here. Its such a remote area that you can see the hose has to go along this ridgeline here just to get to the firefighters and at one point they actually had to take to the air and drop retardant down because he was not obviously an area you drive to to access a fire. Hydrant let me show you video of whats called the colleen fire. It started late last night and its right next to thousands of homes in this community that at one point they actually had to evacuate the people just out of fear that the fire could jumped the fire line and spread throughout this neighborhood. Fortunately theyve been able to get the upper hand on the fire and the people were told