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Get up off of us and we can be and do whatever we can be. Floyds brother was among those speakers today. He says his brother has touched peoples hearts. You know, you come to third ward where we are from. People are crying right now. That is how much they love him. I am staying strong as i can because i need to get it out. Everybody wants justice. We want justice for george. He is going to get it. He is going to get it. Over the coming days, there will also be a private service in North Carolina where floyd was born. And floyd grew up in houston texas. Three of the four former officers involved in floyds arrest made their first Court Appearances today. Derek on the left is the officer seen yelling on floyds neck. He has already been charged with seconddegree murder. Thomas lane and Jay Alexander along with another officer are charged with aiding and abetting floyds death. The attorney for lane says his client and king are both rookies. He says elaine asked shopping twice to let floyd rollover. You have a 20 year cop in the front and my guys back there for four days, should we roll them over . He says no we will wait for the ambulance twice and then he says he is suffering from a delirium . I dont know what you are supposed to do as a cop. The Attorney Says he was king and lanes training officer. The judge set bail at 750,000 for each of them. If convicted, they face a maximum of 40 years each and prison. A man who stood the Antioch Police department and and Excessive Force case is now sharing his story. Our Crime Reporter tells us the man says his experience was very similar to that of george floyd. I was down there for a long time. When he saw the video showing what happened to george floyd, he was crushed. Is the same thing. The same thing happened to me. Back in 2014, he said he was the victim of Police Brutality. He said Antioch Police officer putting me on the back of his neck. What they did to me, i wasnt no criminal. I wasnt doing no crime anyway. Antioch police say bob was drunk, acting erratically and violently resisted officers. Baldwin says an officer yanked him from his mothers car and slammed him face first into the ground. He said a second officer put his knee on the back of his neck forcing his head to scrape the pavement. Baldwin says both officers punched him. Baldwins mother came outside when she heard the commotion. He was on the ground unconscious with two officers on him. Bleeding from the face. Wade said her son wasnt moving. Im saying wake up, please wake up. The officer on his neck never got off my son. Mother and son filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. Attorneys for the city said baldwin was drunk and had been wandering the street yelling at people. They said police used force because he violently fought with the officers. A source close to the incident rejected any comparison to the floyd case. The mother and son say they do see similarities. For me to witness george floyd on that floor, on background being murdered, what grown men is calling out to his mother . The only words he had to say was he called for his mom. The only thing i could do was turn my head to look at my mom. Wade says they are both discard. My son had dreams and aspirations. That is what i remember my son being. Of allegation ed after two litigation. Henry lee, ktvu, fox 2 news. Happening now, take a look at this protest. It is underway in Mountain View. It was organized by los altos and Mountain View residence. It has been very peaceful so far. All of the protesters gathered at the wells fargo at san antonio road and El Camino Royale and now as you can see, they are in front of city hall there in Mountain View. In fremont, a crowd of several hundred people marched to Police Quarters late this afternoon to demand the changes in how the city polices schools and residence. The protesters are calling for fremont unified to end its relationship with the police and use that money instead to pay for Affordable Housing and other community services. The protesters say that candidates for Public Office in fremont should reject donations from police organizations. In oakland, demonstrators held a sit in outside of city hall this afternoon demanding an end to Police Brutality. Sky fox flew overhead and saw people gathered at the plaza which is right in front of city hall there at 14th and broadway. Organizers stress that the event was a peaceful demonstration. They say that they warned people about any acts of violence or destruction of property. A group of mostly young people also gathered in hayward this afternoon for a peaceful demonstration. Video from the sky fox shows a group of protesters on his bearing boulevard outside a closed walmart store. This protest was organized by students at san leandro high school. California School Superintendent tony thurman says that some of the issues raised by the george floyd case have their roots in the classroom. He wants to provide implicit bias training for teachers and educators across the state. New at 6, andre senior joint is now with what thurman said about the initiative today. Julie, the death of george floyd is once again the problematic issue of race in our country. To that end, thurman is working this evening to address racism in Public Education and not from the students but from the teachers. We are rolling out a campaign of sorts, a campaign to talk about implicit bias. California state superintendent tony thurman announcing a more urgent effort to address racial bias in the classroom through training for teachers and educators. Im banking on our ability to start the conversation about using education as a way of helping to build healing and understanding, to promote tolerance. Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner. Herman says he is initiating conversations with educational leaders, parents and students about racial bias and how education can teach empathy and tolerance and build racial justice. Doctor gt, a professor says the perception of black men starts to take shape in schools. Implicit bias is based on the idea that we are not aware of whiteness as a norm. We as people have been so acclimatized into our society that the construct of whiteness is how to be, how to become, how to think, how to speak, what to do. He says teachers many times unknowingly reinforce institutional racism on black or brown students. That is the nature of implicit bias. I know there are other kids doing the exact same thing but i am targeting that black boy right there in that quarter who is doing something similar to these group of students who might not be a student of color. Indeed, that starts and can start as earl prekindergarten. We definitely see those disparities that early across the country. Doctor jason was behind this study when he was at stanford called two strikes, race and the disciplining of youth and students. It examined the school to prison pipeline and found large Racial Disparities and discipline towards black students. Not only are they more likely to be suspended than their peers but as you look at more suspensions and so more than one suspension, that disparity becomes even larger. In the aftermath of the death of george floyd, the work that we were talking about around implicit bias has come into painful focus about where we must go from here. In addition to disciplining studies show that black and brown students often are given unequal and inadequate educations, says his initiative will focus also on legislation and inequalities in schools as well especially were black and brown students are often pushed into the criminal Justice System and are expelled more often. Andre senior reporting tonight. Two of the bay areas largest demonstrations this week were organized by students and they both went off safely and without any destruction. Rob roth talked with one of the student organizers. Reporter the protests against the killing of george floyd by police and against racial inequality drew an estimated 10,000 people to Mission High School in San Francisco wednesday night. More than 15,000 protesters rallied in front of oakland tech monday evening before marching downtown. The protests were similar in two key ways. There were both nonviolent and organized by students. I think it went well. I think i couldnt have asked for anything more. As long as everyone was safe and we were able to speak our truths. 19yearold xavier brown organized the oakland demonstration with another teenage friend. He graduated from Bishop High School and attends ucla. Brown says he had no idea that demonstration would be so large. He put the word out on social media just five days earlier. At first, it wasnt getting that much traction and i said even if it is just me and you, we will still march. He said were began to spread to various Community Organizations stressing that the demonstration would be what they called nondestructive. Oakland police did use tear gas to disperse crowds late that evening which has sparked criticism but the want and violence was absent. We wanted to give the community a voice and through that, a standing up against Police Brutality and the system of oppression in america. James taylor is a professor of politics at the university of San Francisco. I think that our young people should be commended. The discipline they are showing, the intelligence they are showing. Taylor says youre not surprised younger people are becoming involved. They are the next line up to be impacted by Law Enforcement. Even now as teens, they had disproportionate contact with Law Enforcement. Organizers say young people cannot bring change by themselves. I think it is up to all of us to fix it. Is we are all on this earth right now, we should all take part. Brown says he is considering organizing another protest but he hasnt set a date yet. Rob roth, ktvu, fox 2 news. Coming up, a pulmonary hearing today for the three men accused of killing a jogger in georgia. A black jogger in georgia. What one of the men allegedly said as he stood over Ahmaud Arberys body. That at 6 30 in san jose, Police Discuss protest tactics and while they acknowledge they did make some mistakes, the chief says his officers were being attacked. Triple digits again, yes, some communities have them but we are all going to start cooling down. I will have details coming up in your forecast. Curfews are being lifted. We will look at whether they work and where curfews are still in effect. And taking a live look now at highway 24 in lafayette. If you more cars than we are used to seeing as we reopen here in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic but still nothing like we would normally be seeing at this time of night during a normal workweek. Ktvu, channel 2 news at 6 will be right back. Z3wvpz z1s6z y3wvpy y1s6y three white man will stand trial for murder in the Fatal Shooting of a black jogger in georgia. It happened back in february. A judge found that there is enough evidence for the cases against greg and Travis Mcmichael and william brian. That is him on the right. Prosecutors say Ahmaud Arbery was jogging when he was boxed in by two pickup trucks and shot three times. A Georgia Bureau of investigation agent testified that Travis Mcmichael then stood over aubreys body and said a racial slur. Brian is the one who film to the encounter. The racial slur could play into whether hate crime charges are warranted. Todays revelation came amid nationwide protests over police bias. One person is under arrest and another is in the hospital after a stabbing on a train. The mercury news says it happened last night at about 9 30 before the train arrived at the 12th street station in oakland. Authorities say two men were in a fight when 22yearold keith stabbed the victim several times with a pocket knife. He was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. The victim is expected to survive. Most cities and counties in the bay area have now allowed their curfews to expire. That after protests this week were largely peaceful. We did some research and found only two cities with curfews still in place. Fremont and vallejo have curfews that go into a affect until 8 pm tonight and run until tomorrow morning. Authority to say they can only bring always bring back a curfew if they need to. Days of protest in solidarity with cities over the country over the death of george floyd gave way tonight, sometimes filled with chaos. In response, many bay area cities and counties responded with curfews. Now many of those curfews are being lifted. Alameda county sheriff released a statement saying because order had been restored, he rescinded the fiveday curfew order after only three days. Sergeant ray kelly said the curfew is an effective tool in restoring order allowing officers to surgically target looters and to those who would take advantage of the protests. When the curfew that went into effect, a lot of the Community Members went home. They follow the curfew guidelines. That allowed us to focus on that element that was still out on the streets and traveling up and down to the different cities. Alameda county Sheriffs Office saying they made more than 120 arrests after monday nights curfew. That number dropped to about 30 by tuesday night and about a dozen wednesday nights. The Sheriffs Office saying they had imposed a curfew in decades and the sheriffs listening also and understands the criticism over how curfews impact to the community. And the implications it had around policing, around the fact that a lot of people said curfews are racist, that they are harmful to our most vulnerable communities, he took a lot of that to heart. Individual cities within Alameda County still have curfews of their own. Oakland lifted there is late thursday afternoon. It is a similar story in Solano County with a curfew is expired but still some cities have orders in place. San franciscos mayor announced via twitter the curfew for her city would be lifted at 5 am thursday morning. San francisco residents saying they are relieved. God bless america. Santa clara county and san jose also removing the curfew restrictions. The south bay city keeping the option open to put a curfew back in place should the need arise. We have intel about something serious that will be going down that night. May have to institute it again. Contra county Contra Costa County announced it has released its order but there are still some areas that had their own curfew order in place. Christian, fox 2 , ktvu news. Lets talk whether. I think everyone has been talking about the weather today in your house because it has been very warm especially if you are inland. We did start to see a pretty distant decent cooldown. There is haze in the air as we take a live look at the oakland estuary and that is because our marine layer will start rolling and. Current temperatures right now, San Francisco, 65 degrees. Still warm in santa rosa. 90 in livermore and 84 in san jose. But we had some heat out there today. No doubt about it. Certainly we have seen a cooldown as we have headed into the last 24 hours. Temperatures running about 10 degrees cooler than they were last night at this time. So we are going to see things bit better. If we take a live look at the radar out there, lets see if we can get it to pop up there. So this is a difference in temperatures from 24 hours ago to today. In napa, it is about 15 degrees cooler than it was we are certainly going to see a big difference as we head into the next 12 hours. We start to see the marine layer role in. I am having a little trouble with my graphics but we will see temperatures drop as we get into tomorrow. I will see if i can pop this up here and show you. We will see overnight lows to about 60 degrees and as we get into tomorrow, we will see those temperatures really dropped and be a heck of a lot cooler than they were today. We are talking a good 1015 degree drop. So again, you see that layer r to pictures will be more in the 6380 degrees range. We will talk about the extended forecast once i have be in my computer into submission. All right. Thank you. Coming up here, no jobless numbers out today pushed the total to more than 42 million claims in less than three months. The trend we are saying and what the Trump Administration is now saying about it. Plus the widow of a safeway employee who died from the coronavirus is now suing the company. Why she says a safeway is responsible for his death. And another live look at the protests being held in Mountain View right now was organized by los altos and Mountain View students and as you can see, they are gathered there in front of city hall in Mountain View. Today after a new Labor Department report showed nearly 2 million more americans are out of work, the dow rose 11 points, the nasdaq gained 67 and the s p lost 10 points. The s p had been on track for its longest winning streak since december. Delivered Department Report shows 1. 9 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. That b

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