Philadelphia Police Officers in front of his mother while he was having a Mental Health crisis. The National Guard has been ordered into the streets. We will go to philadelphia to speak with professor Marc Lamont Hill about the Police Killing and President Trumps call to four poll watchers to pennsylvania. Is the president sanctioning voter intimidation . Then we go to chile, where voters have overwhelming approved rewriting chiles pinochet dictatorshipera constitution following a year of mass protests. This is the beginning and the end. We are giving birth to a new constitution and leaving behind the constitution of pinochet and his entourage. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 75,000 coronavirus cases on tuesday as the confirmed death toll from covid19 neared 227,000. The u. S. Has recorded over a halfmillion new coronavirus cases over just the last week. More than half of states are at or near record levels of infections and no state in the union is seeing a decline in new cases. Despite the grim news, the Trump Administration declared victory over the coronavirus on tuesday. In a news release accompanying the release of a 62 page report, the White House Office of science and Technology Policy cited ending the covid19 pandemic as one of President Trumps first term accomplishments. In wisconsin, Health Officials reported 64 coronavirus deaths and nearly 5300 new daily cases tuesday shattering previous records. Just hours after that announcement, President Trump rallied his supporters in western wisconsin, where thousands packed shouldertoshoulder at a Campaign Event where few people wore masks. President trump said tuesday that any deal on a new stimulus bill would have to wait until after the november election. Trumps comments came after Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell adjourned the senate until november 9 following mondays vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This comes as more than 54 million u. S. Residents are struggling to afford food according to the Hunger Relief Organization feeding america. York, food bank operator city harvest says 2. 5 Million People dont have enough money for basic necessities. This is guillermo lugo, manager of a Food Distribution market in the bronx. About 250rage was families. Since the onset of the pandemic, the average attendance is 650 families and it does not seem to be slowing down. Amy in philadelphia, hundreds of people took to the streets for a second straight night tuesday to protest the Police Killing of Walter Wallace, jr. , a 27yearold black man who was shot and killed by two philadelphia Police Officers monday while having a Mental Health crisis. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf called out the National Guard to help quell the protests after some people set fires and broke into businesses. On tuesday evening, Walter Wallace, sr. Called for an end to chaos and looting but demanded justice for his son. Has to be held accountable for what they did. Callure going to justified shooting multiple times, what kind of lost we have . Amy after headlines, well go to philadelphia for the latest on the Police Killing of Walter Wallace, jr. Two members of a grand jury convened after the Police Killing of Breonna Taylor have spoken on camera for the first time, calling the actions of the louisville officers responsible for taylors death criminal. The two jurors say kentuckys Republican Attorney general Daniel Cameron never gave them the option to consider murder or manslaughter charges against the louisville Police Officers involved in taylors killing. The pair had their identities concealed as they spoke with cbss gayle king in an interview airing today. Can ask you what you both inc. Of the Police Behavior and actions that night . Negligent. Negligent . They could not even provide any Risk Assessment and a semithey had not even done one, so the organization leading up to this was lacking stop that is what i mean by they work negligent in the operation. Number two . They were criminal leading up to this. The way they moved forward, including the warrant, was deception. Amy a record 71 million early votes have already been cast in the president ial election, surpassing the 2016 early vote count. In texas, 46 of all registered voters have already cast their ballots. On tuesday, democratic president ial nominee joe biden campaigned in georgia a state not won by a democrat since bill clinton in 1992. Trump campaigned in nebraska, wisconsin, and michigan where a judge just ruled voters can openly carry firearms at polling places. Trump attacked Michigan DemocraticGovernor Gretchen Whitmer and downplayed a recent rightwing plot to kidnap her. Trump supporters repeatedly chanted lock her up. He also criticized the medias reporting on the pandemic. Pres. Trump now with them, you cant watch anything else. Covid, covid, covid. Covid, covid, covid. Covid. We have a spike in cases. They dont use the word death they use the word cases. Case, heon trump is a was sniffling. One clean it is all he needed. Amy former president barack obama campaigned for joe biden in order and ridiculed trumps comments. Pres. Obama more than 225,000 people in this country are dead. More than 100,000 Small Businesses have closed. Half a million jobs are gone in a florida alone. And what is his Closing Argument . That people are too focused on covid. He said this at one of his relatives. Covid, covid, covid. He is jealous of covids media coverage. Incoming well, President Trump continues to attack mailin ballots, claim claiming it would be inappropriate to count any ballots received after election day. Pres. Trump it would be very proper and nice if a winner were declared on november 3 instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and i dont live that is by our loss. Amy on monday, the Supreme Court ruled mailin ballots and it was kind can be counted only if they are received by election day. Justice Brett Kavanaughs concurring opinion has alarmed Voting Rights activists. Kavanaugh said counting ballots received after election day could create suspicions of impropriety because they could potentially flip the results of an election. One Voting Rights expert slammed kavanaugh for adopting a trumpian mindset. Meanwhile, many Voting Rights groups are now urging voters to drop off absentee ballots in person instead of relying on the u. S. Postal service to deliver them in time due to cutbacks implemented by the new postmaster general louis dejoy, a major supporter of President Trump. In other voting news, the texas Supreme Court has backed republican governor greg abbotts order limiting ballot drop box sites to just one per county. Muslim communities around the world are denouncing french president emmanuel macrons public backing of caricatures of the prophet muhammad, accusing macron of attacking islam. Macron made the comments during a vigil for a french teacher beheaded outside his school earlier this month. The teacher had previously shown his students a cartoon of muhammad. Erupted across bangladesh, otherine, iraq, and predominantly muslim nations. Meanwhile turkey, qatar, kuwait, and others are demanding a boycott of french products. The United Nations is warning severe child malnutrition is soaring in yemen with nearly 100,000 children now at risk of dying. The Food Security crisis is being driven by a combination of the u. S. Backed saudi war, the pandemic, climate change, and cutbacks in international aid. Fuad ahmad remi is a nurse in sanaa. We are receiving many malnutrition patients and sing many deaths caused by the poor Economic Conditions and the inability of parents to come to the hospital because of poverty. If the aid agencies stop their support, this will lead to humanitarian disaster for the yemeni people who are unable to pe with the economic sanctions and the lack of fuel. Amy the United Arab Emirates has become the first arab state to open a consulate inside Western Sahara, which has been occupied by morocco for 45 years. Meanwhile, the United NationsSecurity Council is voting today to renew its mandate to keep a peacekeeping force in the occupied territory. Amnesty international has issued an appeal for the u. N. To include a human rights monitoring component for the peacekeepers. Most independent human rights organizations and journalists are not able to enter Western Sahara. The homes of right livelihood laureate Aminatou Haidar and human rights defenders mina baali and Elghalia Djimi remain under police siege since they and other activists launched new organization known as isacom that demands selfdetermination and human rights for sahrawis. Visit democracynow. Org to watch our special four days in Western Sahara africas last colony. A teenage activist in hong kong was detained by Police Tuesday near the u. S. Consulate where he was planning to seek asylum. 19yearold tony chung helped found the proindependence Group Student localism and had been arrested previously under hong kongs new National Security law. Two of his associates were also detained tuesday. In the gulf of mexico, Tropical Storm zeta has strengthened back into a hurricane ahead of its expected landfall near new orleans as a category 2 storm late this afternoon. Officials along louisianas gulf coast are warning of flooding and lifethreatening storm rges. On tuesday, zeta struck mexicos yucatan peninsula, which was still recovering from hurricane deltas landfall just three weeks ago. Zeta is the 27th named storm of the 2020 atlantic Hurricane Season which is on pace to break records. In new york, keith raniere, the leader of the nxivm sex cult, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking and other charges. Over a dozen women testified at the sentencing hearing saying raniere traumatized and brainwashed them. He posed as a selfhelp guru. One of the survivors said raniere started sexually assaulting her when she was 15 and he was 45. Others testified raniere referred to them as slaves and branded them with his initials using a cauterizing pen. A federal judge has denied a federal judge has ruled President Trump can be sued by e. Jean carroll, who accused trump of raping her in the 1990s. The judge rejected an attempt to switch theoo defendant in the ce from donald trump to the u. S. Government, claiming trumps rape accusation denial was done in his official capacity as president. The judge ruled the president is not an employee of the government and that trumps comments regarding the rape accusation would not have been within the scope of his employment. And in poland, protests continue following a Constitutional Court ruling last week that banned almost all formsf abortion, tightening antichoice laws that were aeady among the most restrictive in europe. Demonstrators took to the streets tuesday blocking Public Transit and streets in one of warsaws richest neighborhoods. The truth is thathere is going toe illegal underground abortions now, whi many will beonductedn inhumane conditions, devastating conditions. Amy meanwhile, lawmakers opposing the neartotal ban on abortion led a protest inside the polish parliament tuesday, wearing tshirts and masks with a lightning bolt symbol representing the womens strike movement. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and the quarantine report. When we come back, we will go to philadelphia where hundreds of people have been protesting in the streets for the last two nights after the killing of an africanamerican father. Stay with us. [music break] everybody deserves to be free. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman in new york, joined by my cohost Juan Gonzalez in new brunswick, new jersey. Hi, juan. Juan hi, amy. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country d around the world. Amy this story today, a warning to our audience. It contains descriptions of Police Violence and some disturbing images. Protesters took to the streets of philadelphia for a second night tuesday to condemn the Police Killing of Walter Wallace, jr. The National Guard has been deployed to philadelphia as outrage grows after two philadelphia Police Officers shot and killed the 27yearold black father on monday while he was having a Mental Health crisis. Both Police Officers were reportedly wearing body cameras when they shot wallace. Philadelphia Police Commissioner danielle outlaw said tuesday she does not know if she will release body camera footage of the killing. Wallaces lawyer said tuesday his family was calling for an ambulance to help him with a Mental Health crisis, but Police Arrived on the scene instead. Cellphone video of the Fatal Shooting shows Walter Wallace, jr. s mother trying to restrain him before he pushes her away and walks toward the officers, who then shot wallace at least 10 times. Police allege wallace refused to drop a knife he was holding. Wallace was at least 10 feet away from the Police Officers when they shot him. At least one witness told the Philadelphia Inquirer the officers were too far from him and said bystanders were trying to deescalate the situation. On tuesday, Walter Wallace, jr. s mother Cathy Wallace told reporters the officers knew her son was in a Mental Health crisis because they had been to the familys house three times on monday. Did you tell the police about his condition when you called 911 . They already knew about it. They already knew. They were there earlier that day . Yeah, there were there earlier that day and they were standing out there laughing at us. They were not trying to help us. They did not give a damn about us. My sense had come a look at them, theyre there laughing at us. We walked down the street. Lots of cops standing out there. Thats it. Im done. [cheers] amy during tuesday nights emotional News Conference, the wallace familys attorney shaka johnson said wallaces wife dominique who witnessed his killing is pregnant and scheduled to have labor induced today. Johnson said wallace had nine children. Several of his young sons introduced themselves. Name . T is your can you tell us about your dad . Out. , we would always hang around. Play thats all right, son, keep going. Be strong. You can do it. He would teach me how to be a man. Praise god. Praise god. The cops got my own dad because black lives still matter. Amy one of the sons of Walter Wallace, jr. He was killed monday by philadelphia police. For more, we go to philadelphia where were joined by Marc Lamont Hill, professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University. His forthcoming book is we still here pandemic, policing, protest, and possibilit