local from his face before a house judiciary subcommittee. this is an hour and 50 minutes. the sum committee will come to order. we will declare a recess of the subcommittee at anytime. we welcome everyone to today s hearing on the challenges faced in law enforcement in the 21st century. i recognize myself for an opening statement for a matter of quick personal indulgence. i would ask everyone to please remember our friend and colleague, tom tillis north carolina. i want to thank everyone for being here today. i want to thank chairman for this hearing. this week we celebrate national police week and that s important to all the members of the subcommittee that we have a hearing to honor all law enforcement officers. i want to extend a special thank you to our witnesses for being here. we have with us to canterbury, my own personal chief, and director of public safety, alonzo thompson from the great city of spartanburg, south korea from los angeles county sheriff department.
picture. happy monday. happy monday, looking at the commute coming in from the tracy triangle, and not a lot going on as you drive through the altuve altamont pass. right now is a good time to be driving from tracy to livermore and into the tri-valley. as we take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is off to a nice start. san mateo bridge, traffic looking good. the weather is clear and traffic looking good over to the peninsula. 4:01 am. protests held in cities across the country in response to the rash of fatal police shooting of black men, killing five police officers in dallas on thursday. protests continuing in atlanta for the fourth day, and confrontation was minimal and the protest was largely peaceful. that was not the case in louisiana, the protests in baton rouge turning chaotic. the protesters decided to remain on the routes and the police arrested dozens of people. people marching in support of black lives matter movement, organizers went to soc
breeze and it will be warmer, and down the coast, we have just a patch of fog along the san mateo coast, and that is about all i can find. we have a northerly breeze, and it is calm, 40s, 50s and 60s, big differences on the temperatures, upper to mid 40s on the santa cruz mountains, and low 50s, santa clara at 53 and skies clear, high pressure coming back in for a warm up on wednesday. today 60s, 70s, 80s and a few low 90s. it is a little bit quiet still, and i start talking and all of a sudden you have to call. cough. slow traffic coming up through the maze, and getting into the livermore area, no major problems, and it is slow on 205 and live 80. 580. looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, not backed up, and right now looking good. in san jose, 280 northbound looks okay driving up to highway 17. 5:02 am. protests in cities around the country in response to the fatal police shootings last week of the african-american men in louisiana and minnesota. and atlanta, a fou
to contend with and that s exactly what that is but i do believe 90% of the people that will come here will come here to protest and demonstrate peacefully. reporter: though peaceful, weekend protests escalated outside the 24th and 25th district in philadelphia. [ bleep ] police. reporter: the in-your-face aggression by this group who calls themselves the philly coalition for real justice was unlike anything they experienced in some time. there are white pigs. there are latino pigs. they were profession a. they were patient, and i admire their resolve. reporter: the demeanor and contrast that with former police commissioner tom timoney. during the republican national convention of 2000 he physically clashed with protesters. his bike was called and the so-called timoney three were acquitted. dozens of protesters were locked up at times overnight during the rnc. since that time philadelphia authorities have also dealt with the occupy movement, the nonviolent protest