2014, alicia garzer wrote a Facebook Post that changed the world and created a movement, it read black people, i love you, i love us, all lives matter, black lives matter. That continues today. Tonight alicia garzer and Chris Jackson will discuss resistance and resilience and how they ground the work in the vision, every day people are powerful enough to end practices that are unfairly Holding Black people back and harming our country and we Champion Solutions that move us forward. In the last few weeks we held help 6 Million People take action for racial justice, both an important conversation. Chris jackson, one world editor in chief will kick us off. Thank you very much for being here with us. Cant imagine who i would rather be talking to tonight. Alicia garzer, one of our countrys most powerful who can speak particularly well at this moment. I want to thank color change for working with us on this project tonight and people who have been so active in getting it organized. To take a
Weeks after the death of george floyd lawmakers across the country at all levels of government have announced legislation to address the issue of police reform. Today californias attorney general revealed his plans to tackle Police Brutality across the state. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala shows us his proposals. Shes ever before. Got to be in California Attorney general have ems said on monday announced his proposals for Police Departments across the state among them a proposal to decertify Police Officers for serious misconduct. System the state does not have says what that looks like is to be determined it could take any number of you can think of other professions that require certification or license e. Certainly there would be a due process requirements any easter patient. There would be a collection of the facts and evidence the attorney general also calling on agencies to require officers to intervene if another is using Excessive Force along with a ban on the use of
Rights. The u. S. Supreme court ruled today that a landmark civil rights law protects and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The court decided by a 63 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as title 7 that bars job discrimination because of one also applies to orientation or gender identity with more we go now to kron fours justine waltman shes live in our newsroom with details just team. Well this outcome is expected to have a big impact for the over 8 million lgbtq workers across the country and i want you to think about this way until todays ruling it was legal and more than half of the states to fire workers for being bisexual or transgender most states do not protect lgbtq people from workplace, discrimination this ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration. The white house would argue that the Civil Rights Act did not extend to claims of gender identity and orientation, but the conservative court disagreed. Governor gavi
States Supreme Court ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protecting americans from workplace, discrimination also extends to those who are part of the Lgbtq Community this ruling is expected to have a major impact for an estimated 8. 1 million workers in the u. S. Thats because most states do not have protections for lgbtq people from the workplace discrimination. The ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration for more on the ruling we talked with Shannon Minter legal director with the National Center for rights. Unfortunately, i the current president has done a lot to try to restate new ties tbt to people in kind of with first cody unbiased with their community and it really means a lot that the Supreme Court of the United States, including justices appointed by this very president. We are being sent a very clear powerful message to the president and to our whole country that the court is not going to go along with that kind of scapegoating her attempts to foment divi
Hold such get reasonable choke hold is a assist and elation. Its a lynching. I think that that is almost like the lowest common denominator. In a complete you turn today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said he wants the senate to vote on its Police Reform bill before the 4th of july holiday californias attorney general is calling on Police Departments across the state to ban the practice of chokehold and to decertify officers for serious misconduct attorney general Javier Becerra announced Police Reform proposals today he says he wants agencies to place limits on how officers respond with their crowd control tactics with guidance on rubber bullets tear gas and batons he also suggests the state to reexamined the role of police in addressing homelessness and Mental Health issues. These are serious real proposals that will make a difference. Make no mistake. Expectations are high and we will fight vigorously to meet that. Thats why were urging local authorities across california an