Great question. I wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the long epidemics for the year of covid and beyond but that would speak to an interested reader, not just a specialist in the field. There are lots of specialists in the field and i thought my valueadded might be to translate from specialists in the field to reader who are fascinate by the blizzard of legal issues that werent really on most peoples anda until now. We never thought about pt epidemics but think about them now, particularly what we can learn from them andhat do we know when its going to be over. I want to begin, john, if i can, really at the end of your book, and then ill pivot book at the end of our interview to ask you more but this question. You write, america has two histories, one ugly,he other far more appealing. In the months and years ahead, americans will hold the power between them. Lets hope the make the right choice. Im going to be asking you more but what that right choice
Answered. In the last 2 weeks weve been witness to tear gas pepper spray but tons shields rubber bullets chemical balls piss boots yes even knees again unleashed on us citizen citizens and whats become an all too common sight on the evening new why in the last few days weve seen police in buffalo by only push a 75 year old man down to the ground with such sports that you could hear the crack of the mans skull on the concrete before he lay motionless bleeding from the air while they all walk by why. In denver we saw the police after they fire a chemical weapon at a car carrying a pregnant woman when confronted by her boyfriend the police opened fire with a hail of pepper ball shots on him and his pregnant girlfriend and the car why. Weve seen journalists legal observers and medics all targeted by Law Enforcement people people whose very job at a protest is to both documented and keep people safe are now being beaten arrested and shot by rubber bullets and pepper sprayed in the face why
Tonight at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis we first told you about others being evicted and arrested around 4 30 this morning. And now those 2 women are free and theyre working out to to try to figure out what comes next our kron fours Haaziq Madyun is on that well get back with him in a just a few moments meantime. Noticed him in the back. With a minor i noticed age difference right away. And obviously theres something wrong. In south bay, a sharp eyed Security Guard is being credited with interrupting the alleged assault of a 13 yearold girl. This is behind a strip mall in san jose and the guard confronted the man took him into custody and called police who arrived to make the arrest. Ivers rob fladeboe spoke with a Security Guard joins us now live from sams a rock. Thats right. They can graduate this neighborhood here off east capitol expressway in san jose can be kind of a tough neighborhood at times which is why Security Guards here at this strip mall. The
Watching kron 4 news at night. And the support were back with if it was me by myself. A group of homeless oakland mothers and tivists now known as the group moms for housing have returned to the home they were evicted from early this morning. After a couple of them were arrested good evening, everybody thanks for being here, im grant lotus Vicki Liviakis our cameras were there this morning. When the Alameda County Sheriffs Office showed up to carry out a Court Ordered eviction they banged the doors and arrested 2 of those moms and 2 activists. Now the moms for Housing Group is back at the magnolia street home this evening to join supporters and continue their moving moving evidently proffers a tell the sec is there now live with the latest taylor. Well the home is now fenced in and boarded up, but the moms here and their supporters say that theyre not letting that stop them from sharing their message tonight now few of them are still here. The moms were shot inside that home for nearly
Very latest hala. Well you can see the home is now fenced in and boarded up, but the moms and their supporters came here earlier and they said that there. Theyre not going to let this stop them from spreading their message now theyre inside that home for nearly 2 months, and they said that it was never about the house the point of this movement in the point of their fight was to make a statement about the housing and homeless situation in the bay area. That to be back. In because of all the support we were back quicker if it was his me by myself to lonnie king returned to whats been dubbed the moms house in west oakland tuesday night thats after she and other homeless moms like miss t cross victim from the property on magnolia street and arrested earlier that day thank you for supporting this throughout this mold because again it was never about taking over the house the state minimal man was way bigger than that and thats the reason that we standing in front of moms house today, the h