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Palestinian fighters are supposed to not fire rockets during the break. This is the scene in gaza right now. The break in attacks was brokered by the United Nations to allow badly noded supplies coming into gaza. The bombardment killed 235 palestinians, many civilians. One israeli has also died. Among the dead are four palestinian children, who died on a beach on wednesday, during an israeli air strike. Lets go to our correspondent who is standing by for us in jerusalem. Nisreen elshamayleh, how is the humanitarian pause going so far . Well, as youed, israel has agreed to this as you said, israel agreed to this pause, from 10am to 3am local times to allow civilians in gaza to restock on supply and goods. We heard from the army three rockets from fired from gaza into southern israeli communities, the regional council. It landed in an open area. Hamas agreed to abide by the pause, but it may be other palestinian factions have not abided by it. Before this was implemented, before the humanitarian window was opened. We heard 20 rockets were fired from gaza into southern israeli communities. Four of those rockets were intercepted by the iron dome Missile Defense system and before the humanitarian pause was implemented. We understand that the army carried out an attack on 13 palestinian fighters who tried to ipp fill trait into israel infiltrate into israel close to a Border Crossing and the army carried out an air strike to prevent them reaching a southern israeli community. For the time being it looks relatively quiet, what we are seeing in gaza, do you think it could lead to a climate where we have something more substantial, Something Like a ceasefire . Its difficult to tell at this poiftenlt its a human point. Its a humanitarian window. Its not a ceasefire, that has to be accepted by both sides and netted. That has not been achieved. Mahmoud abbas is in cairo and will be meeting with the egyptian president to discuss a ceasefire. We know from sources in the west bank, that the Palestinian Authority is speaking to hamas about a ceasefire. We know that hamas has said that whoever is brokering the ceasefire needs to speak with the israelis and ham a so they can hamas, so they can see it as acceptable. It hasnt happened, from statements from officials in hamas. Until it happens, it will be difficult to reach a mutually agreed ceasefire. Thank you nisreen elshamayleh, joining us from jerusalem. Those are the latest live pictures from gaza, where a humanitarian pause has been brokered by the United Nations. Live pictures from gaza there. Well, do stay with us. Next, one and one east. [ music ] and finally from us this hour, an interesting predicament. If a world Famous Artist painted a picture on a building you opened, what would you do keep the work in place or try a get rich quick by removing it for sale. Do you know where the banksy installation was. I have no idea. Do you know banksy . No. Thanks. Excuse me, sir, do you know where the banksy piece was . Yes, its one block over. Cool. Down here, to the right. Thanks. Soon, this man and his crew found the location where the banksy once stood. I dont think they should have taken it out of the building, removed it. There. This man, true to his brooklyn roots summed up the local sentiment best. It sucks. Red hook is an arts destine in addition of its destination of its own. Once blue colour, this time its bluecollar chique. People here have different ideas to those in miami about what constitutes art. The thing with people who find. [ music ] [ music ] thats it for us on america tonight. If you want more information you can go to the website. Aljazeera. Com americatonight. Join the conversation with us on twitter or at our facebook page. Goodnight, well have more of america tonight tomorrow. Lets check it out. Deep in the heart of rural alabama, the town of greens bro is struggling for survival. A quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. The catfish capital is fighting to keep its head above water. What was the economy like when you got here . 75 of the shops shut. Theres one thing they have plenty of. We have a lot of bamboo. You must have a product you are making. Pam door, a big city designer chucked that life to become a onewoman stimulus plan. She tapped into the towns resource to do it. Bamboo bicycles are not a new idea. They are gaining popularity in small bike shops, a lot like this one. None of those bikes are like the bikes youll find here at hero bike shop. Thats thanks to a designer who took time to get his hands dirty and develop a new innovative design. University of kansas professor new that he could turn the nuisance into a groundbreaking set of wheels. Why did we choose this . Its big enough, we are luking something with a big diameter we are looking for something with a big diameter, something that is green. This is perfect. It cuts easily. Bamboo is a crass. Some grass. Its tougher than my saw right now. Can i try. You might have better luck than i am. There you go. Its eating the saw. Timber. You got it. Yes. Where are we headed next . Its only about three blocks. This is how the supply chain moves at hero bike. All right. Turning left. For three weeks professor raik and a group of students tinkered with a frame coming up with a hybrid called the semester. Which part makes this innovative . I think the most innovative part is making a composite with having carbon fibre with the bam boo. Walk me through what we have . We take the bam boo and split it. On the outside we plain it, and cut angles on the sides. Each one of these has bevel on the side. Now, to get the carbon fibre in it we are using a carbon fibre sleeve. This is just a piece of bicycle inner tube. We can put all this in together. The epoxy will hold all of this together with. If we inflate the inner tube, it will expand the other carbon fibre to blow out the bamboo, and make a strong tool. Its a low tech way for a hightech solution. Its elegant in its simplicity. Thank you. Did you have to consider the skill level of the people you were working with . Yes, in a couple of different ways. I realise ill need people to build the bikes that are not bike builders. We are trying to make jobs na are not a factory so much as a studio. Did you have much of a bike background. Other than riding bikes and tinkering, no. If you hadnt found this job, what would your prospects look like. It was looking rough. The hope for hero bikes is that it will be successful as another hero employment project. I was on a Welfare Programme and i was placed here. I have a job, and can pay my bills and take care of my kids. Sounds like it changed your life. Yes, it works out for the best. You cant do a bike story without a ride. Thank you. Awesome, i cant believe how smooth the bike is. This is really cool. What do you think . If you are not careful, ill steal it when you are not looking. Fullscale production cranks up at the end of the year. The semester runs 850. Every order means one more job for someone in greens bro. We would like to use what is here to create a better future. How does being involved in this make you feel. That part of being back here filled with making these bikes. How rewarding is that. Wow, so after seeing that, i want to bam boo bike. I figure a lot of others do too. How is it selling . If i figured out how to get one on the plane, i would have biked here. You could bike from alabama to california. People love them. They are a lot more trendy in cities, bikes. Its a way around in this economy. We can avoid gas prices. Not only gas prices, the emissions. Are they seeing other applications for the bam boo . They are looking into furniture. With the same structure. I have to buy me a bam boo bike. Im behind you. Well be back next more with more innovations from the field. Audiences are intelligent and they know that their needs are not being met by american tv news today. Entire media culture is driven by something thats very very fast. There has been a lack of fact based, in depth, serious journalism, and we fill that void. There is a huge opportunity for Al Jazeera America to change the way people look at news. We just dont parachute in on a story. Quickly talk to a couple of experts and leave. One producer may spend 3 or 4 months, digging into a single story. At al jazeera, there are resources to alow us as journalists to go in depth and produce the kind of films. The people that you dont see anywhere else on television. We intend to reach out to the people who arent being heard. We wanna see the people who are actually effected by the news of the day. Its Digging Deeper its asking that second, that third question, finding that person no one spoken to yet. You cant tell the stories of the people if you dont get their voices out there, and Al Jazeera America is doing just that. Welcome back toing know. Guys, this story that i got to do was one of my favourites of the its using Technology Changing peoples lives. This is a robot that parapledgic people can use to walk again, lets take a look. I have a big dream mapping. These kids from a summer camp near aspen colorado are about to give amanda a lifechanging gift, a gift helping her do something she hasnt been able to do sense paralyzed in a ski accident 21 years ago. Now i want to invite the kids to rip into it. Reporter its a bionic ro t robot, a Battery Powered skeleton giving her legs the power to do this. count down and this. Im walking, you guys. And even this. Reporter the technology is so cutting edge that amanda is the first person in the United States to own one. The moment she sat up i was amazed. Shes been sitting down for 21 years, and the first feeling to stand up, i would have been thrilled to be in that position. It was an emotional moment for these kids who spent the last year selling lemonade and raising money from donors to make it happen. My most profound moment was when i stood up and tried to see the childrens faces and some of them, the little ones, they were in awe. And to have that heart to heart hug. My hug in a wheelchair , theres a disconnect. I get heart to heart hugs when i stand up. Reporter do you promise me a standing hug . Yes. Reporter okay. Amanda took her first steps towards making that dream a reality in 2010. Thats when she got a call from the robots creators, asking her to be a test pilot for new technology, she travelled to headquarters in the San Francisco area and took it for a test run. How did it feel to stand and look at people . The first time i stood up i went home and i cried hard, in all honesty. These were emotions that i had been dreaming about. I felt so good in my body. I slept hard. I wasnt in pain. Total ending steps. This is exos headquarters, where the magic is made and pereffected. Robots like perfected. Here robots are put their their paces giving those paralyzed a chance to do what they were told was not possible. Nathan is a cofounder and an inventor. It was developed for the battlefield, as a device to help soldiers carry heavy load long distances. Theres a problem in the u. S. Military with soldiers getting injuries through large loads they carry. We were helping to develop exoskeletons to carry the back back and the weight of a vest. The breakthrough was creating a robot supporting its own weight with the minimum of energy, meaning it could be powered by a battery pack. Then theres the walking thing. It takes over the muscle function. It can do that completely for a person par leased below the race. Or partially for someone who is learning to walk. Reporter the only thing i have to do is initiate the first step. Reporter like amapped amanda, jason is a tester. I put it into step. If i stop and dont go to the next position, it stops. I can go forward and lateral. There we go. Test pilots like amanda and jason how did they help you guys advance the technology . They helped immensely. Everything is unpredictable once you introduce a human into the system. I remember being in the room with 13 ph. D. S, and they had a different idea of what would be the exact way to control something. Without amanda and jason, wed be at a standstill, because we couldnt test anything. Reporter exo pushed the boundaries, but the robot has limitations. It can only be used in a rehabilitative setting with a trained physiotherapist. Are you ready . Im ready. Reporter then theres the price tag, from 110,000 140,000. Exo bionics hopes food and Drug Administration can improve the price. I dont get enough of these heart to heart hugs. Reporter if you need another hug, im your man. All right. Reporter all right. Thank you. The emotional impact of this is obvious. Other associate Health Benefits with walking. Absolutely. All the doctors and patients agree standing up helps the way they digest. The pain, lowers infections. This has a lot of applications. Can portions be used for rehabilitation for stroke victims. Absolutely. Thats a recent addition they put in with the technology. It has variable use. One side may be stronger. Its perfect for stroke victims, allowing them to increase the control that they have over it, versus what the robot has. And get people on a solid track. From earthquakes to moss keeto, there has be there has been conversations. Check back next week when we bring you more from the field. Every day across america, militarystyle raids are taking place. Local police dressed like soldiers break down doors in the hunt for drugs. This is not what we think of as police in a democratic society. This is way out of proportion. In the past, Police Swat Teams were only used in extreme circumstances. Now, theyre increasingly sent on routine tasks. They changed my whole perspective. Im telling you, when i seen that, it was just like they dropped a bomb. They dont care what theyve done, they really dont. Tonight, fault lines examines how a massive rise the use of swat is redefining americas police. And we ask who is really paying the price . In the us today, there are now tens of thousands of militarystyle police raids every year. But only the worst cases make the news. Weve come to investigate one that took place in a rural town just north of los angeles. Scared me so bad, they were so military and just huge guns and full gear, like huge puffed out like huge vest. It looked like they were going into a war. Early morning on june 27, armed police from across la county converged on the property of Eugene Mallory and his wife, tonya pate. Their warrant said the property was being used as an illegal methamphetamine lab. Well the entire basis of the search warrant, was that the investigating officers says downwind from the property in spots he was with certainty to smell chemicals. This is where i was. I was inside here. Tonya was inside a trailer on the property, and her son adrian was asleep in another trailer, when she heard the police. And it scared me, they scared me so bad that i said adrian, come out and thats when that guy told her, contain her so she shoved me into the car and then put the handcuffs on really, really tight and pushed me into the car, but i said, but my son is in there. A thorough search of the property turned up no sign of meth. Despite her pleas, the police wouldnt tell tonya what they were looking for. Every time i would ask shed just say my detective will be here to talk to you. You just need to shut up, you know, im protecting my officers. I said, from what . You got all the guns tonya was taken to the Police Station but then released without charge. It was only on her return that she began to realize what had happened. During the raid, the armed officers entered the house where tonyas 80yearold husband was sleeping. Guns drawn, six sheriffs deputies made their way towards his bedroom. I came back to the house and it was horrible, there was blood all over that bed. It was thick and it was running down the walkway, and there was a lot of it. And i was just like, oh my god. Eugene had been shot 6 times five of those shots were fatal wounds to the chest. The bedding was saturated. Pillows were full of blood. The blood ran all the way down that side. I guess he laid over there and bled to death and died. Eugene kept two guns next to his bed in latched boxes. The initial Police Report says the officers were confronted by an armed suspect. So one of the guns was potentially in this . Yeah, but he didnt have enough time. Because their story is that he was exiting, hold a gun with both hands, and leveled it at the officers and i think the report says that he was actually killed outside the bedroom. As he was coming out to confront them. Well, i got blood inside the room and like i said if he was walking this way or right there, there is no blood in this pathway nor on this rug. Both eugenes body and his gun were moved before investigators reached the scene where the body drops, where the gun is, why would you move any of these things . Okay, you say he shot at you, everything, he should be dropped where hes at, his gun should be in his hand why is everything moved . I dont believe genes gun was in his hand. Thats why it was moved. I dont believe gene was where you said thats why he was moved. During the raid, the police found cannabis on the property and tonyas son, adrian who holds a medical marijuana license was arrested. Hes been charged with possession with intent to supply a charge the family denies. Now tonya is fighting to clear her familys name and get answers about eugenes death. Thats him 80th birthday party. He doesnt look like a dangerous man. Anybody with authority, he was very respectful to them, praise them for doing a good job. I mean he would give them thumbs up, fire dept, sheriffs dept, pat them on the back. Tell em you know what a great job, what would we do with you guys, you know . Thats Old Man River yes laughs his clothes and his shoes, they smell like him, still in the bedroom and i dont want to move them. I know you keep taking things away and theyre gone and i dont want him to be gone, sebastian i dont want him to be gone eugenes body was brought here to the la county Coroners Office for an autopsy shortly after, the county had the body cremated without tonyas permission and before she could get her own autopsy we requested a copy of the coroners report to better understand what happened during the raid. Tonya is now suing the county for wrongful death and her lawyers say the police story is full of holes. The decedent exited his bedroom with a. 22 caliber handgun extended out and held with both hands. The deputy fired at the decedent 6 times, which dropped him to the bedroom floor. So any issues with that so far . Absolutely. The shots are all reflected downward through eugenes body. Genes 64. That would indicate that he was not standing when he was shot. He down, probably in his bed. At 6 foot 4, the shooter would have to be like 8 ft tall to shoot him and have that same downward trajectory. The weapon was moved by the officers before the coroner got there. Again, youre not supposed to tamper with evidence. What incentive is there for an officer to move it . Maybe he thinks the guy could still be threat and needs to kick the gun away . Not with 6 fatal bullets in his body was this fellow gonna move. Ok, it says here they recovered the following, florescent lights, two grow lights, a ballast which was on other side of grow room, recovered a black gas mask, some scales, pill bottles that contained marijuana, pill bottle that contained marijuana seeds, empty plastic bags and digital scale. Lets justify killing an 80year old man for a little bit of marijuana, thats what their argument is i guess. What does this say about the Bigger Picture here, about how these raids are carried out . It is not only in our department here. It is across the country. Youve seen the increased militarization of Police Departments. They are like seal team 6 coming into a personal residence. Theres no legitimate reason for the way they carried this out. Consider this the news of the day plus so much more. We begin with the growing controversy. Answers to the questions no one else will ask. Real perspective, consider this on Al Jazeera America in oakland california, gunmen have taken over a passenger train. An elite swat team moves in to neutralize the threat highlytrained units like this are crucial in such situations. This time its just a drill part of a Law Enforcement training event called urban shield. Its the kind of scenario for which swat teams were first formed in the Los Angeles Police department in the 1960s. And so swat had its genesis with that philosophy and the philosophy of protecting life. Stephen downing was there at the time, and says these units were only meant for the worstCase Scenarios these are military type responses, military style tactics and military types of weaponry that are very dangerous in a civilian population. Nowadays while swat teams are still trained and equipped to deal with the very deadliest threats, whats changed is how theyre being used. Are you in this kind of situation a lot . Few and far between, better to be prepared. Save as many lives as possible are you guys fulltime swat . Does that mean that youre permanantly waiting for that kind of an event . Or are you deployed on other kinds of operations . No i mean, the swat guys on a daily basis theyre assigned to a lot of high crime areas. The administration directs them we want to help suppress this. So you train for these worst Case Scenario but when thats not happening youre put onto other kinds of operations. Yeah, search warrants. The job scope is very vast. If all you are doing is waiting for that once every 15 year deployment of some horrible tragedy. We gotta figure out some way to use them. What are we going to use them for . Lets do drug raids with them. Lets go into a high crime, lower Socio Economic areas and lets patrol the street with them. And thats where it becomes dangerous. Peter kraska has been studying the use of swat or as he calls them Police Paramilitary units over the past two decades. Once upon in a time in the early 1980s, about maybe 20 of Police Departments had a swat team, all of a sudden by 1999, 1998 we were looking at 80 of Police Departments, small, medium and large all having them. Based on his surveys, the number of swat raids have gone up by 1400 since the 1980s. An estimated 50,000 take place every year. Upwards of 80 to 90 percent of those deployments are serving warrants and mostly for drug offenses. There have been swat raids on bars, where they though there was underage drinking going on. Using these swat teams to break up poker games, thereve been raids on amish farms and coops that sell unpasteurized milk products. The percentage that go wrong is very small. However, when it goes wrong, it goes extremely wrong. As the use of swat expands, more and more innocent victims are being impacted by the raids. Columbia, missouri. Local police raid the home of man wrongly suspected of being a drug dealer. His family was left traumatized, their dog executed on the spot. Ogden, utah. A man is fatally shot with a golf club in his hand. The police were actually searching for his roommate. Pima county, arizona. Exmarine jose guerena picks up a rifle to protect his family from what he believes to be a robbery. The police fired 70 rounds, hitting guerena 22 times. He never fired a shot. While the botched raids could be isolated incidents, those sounding the alarm say the rise of militarystyle tactics is changing police culture. If you dress a guy like a soldier and you give him a soldiers weapons and you train him like a solider and you send him out in the streets and you tell him hes fighting a war, yea i absolutely think that has an effect on mentality. Meanwhile, the trend is being fueled by commercial interests outfitting swat teams is now a multimillion dollar business thanks to Homeland Security grants that flooded Police Departments post9 11. Here at the urban shield event, private companies display their latest wares. Welcome to urban shield. We have the watch. Dhs grants totaling more than 34 billion dollars have been transferred to local police agencies. The federal government has provided so much money theyve created this military Industrial Complex for local police. For counterterrorism, for drug war. Really reminds me of the vehicles that i rode in iraq and afghanistan. Armored. Its got a gun turret on the roof, the fact that its being used for policing is pretty surprising. This just looks like as heavy as it gets. You go to these events and the vendors halls, theyre not even pretending to make a distinction between policing and military mind set. But private companies arent the only supplier. This is a promotional video for a federal program that transfers excess military equipment over to civilian Law Enforcement agencies. The us military has acres and acres of surplus goods, from our various conflicts around the world, and at one point politicians said, why dont we just give this to the local police. Maybe they can use this stuff. And the scale is pretty big, we are dealing with 1000s of Law Enforcement agencies, 49 of the 50 states and 3 of the territories. Under the program, more than 4 billion dollars worth of military equipment has been transferred including humvees, machine guns and grenade launchers. All for free. Admiral harnitchek is in charge of the program. Id much rather see these things put to great use potentially saving the life of a citizen or a Police Officer than in the scrap heap somewhere. Are there guidelines on how they use that equipment . There are no guidelines from us. We exclusively leave that up to the Law Enforcement agencies, and how they use that. Sumner county, tennessee. Population less than 200 thousand people. Its a region that boasts of being one of the finest places to live, work and play in tennessee. Move quick, lets go we got an officer down it also has its very own 18man swat team and last summer, they received something known as an mrap through the federal program. Its a mineresistant ambush protection vehicle it was designed to protect us troops from roadside bombs in iraq. We average about once a month. Once a month . Once a month well be in this. But this is something thats not really designed for civilian use, right this is a military vehicle . We could get shot at in any particular time, we sign on for that yea but that dont mean we dont use tools that are readily available to use. Thats all this is. Its a tool, this is no different than our gun. The swat team is often used on drug warrants, most of the time the mrap goes along too. There is a criticism that people are concerned that stuff thats being used in conflict zones is ending up in small towns, whats your response to that . Youve been in an mrap . I have. I mean its a big truck with big thick steel on it. Thats really al it is. But it looks, the perception of it oh its absolutely an imposing vehicle, but not a tank, not a bradely, not an assault helicopter a truck that we transport soldiers around so theyre protected from small arms fire, and explosives on the battlefield and in many police roles they have exactly the same requirements. Your teams going first, i want you through and out and then the second team will go in. It teaches Law Enforcement to, when youre telling them youre fighting a war, it teaches them to see everyone as, not as a citizen with rights, not as somebody theyre supposed to be serving, but as a potential threat. You just went in there and you killed something. Be looking for Something Else to get a target on. Go the majority of the people here are good and law abiding citizens and just good people, southern hometown area. Yea, it looks kind of like a nice quiet its a nice place. So well then some people would say why do they need a swat team . Because of the possibility of what could go wrong. So preparing for the worst essentially . Yea just preparing for the worst. In civil society, the peace officer must deal with situation using only that force necessary to accomplish that objective. The peace officer shoots when its absolutely necessary to stop the person from doing or presenting the threat theyre presenting. 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Comcast business. Built for business. Talk to al jazeera saturday 5 eastern only on Al Jazeera America the day that it happened, i was at my job and one of our other friend text me you know what . Theres a lot of swat at your compadres house. You might want to call him, so i text him and like i never got a text back. On january 5 2011, the serrato family came home to find their street barricaded and their house surrounded by police in military gear. Rita serratos son, roger, was inside the house. The police believed he was connected to a recent shooting. I cant get january 5th out of my head. You dont expect to see Something Like that in this neighborhood. Like as if they were looking for somebody that had a bomb, or like terrorists or somebody of that level. It was later determined roger had nothing at all to do with the shooting. An Armored Vehicle known as a bearcat was parked on the lawn and the swat team threw in a flash bang grenade to get roger out. For the next several hours, the swat team kept their rifles trained on the house. How much time passed, can you remember . It felt forever. It felt like he was in their for a long time. And you could see the house on fire . You could see the house on fire. Witnesses say the police did little to save roger from the burning house. Why do you think he didnt run out of the house . Scared. Why would he be scared . Theres so much force and guns and just, i mean, wouldnt you be . By the time roger was brought out, he was already dead from smoke inhalation. The Monterey County Sheriffs Department told us that quote appropriate Law Enforcement protocol was followed. Weve been together for 20 years you know in that house, its just like our whole childhood was gone and they didnt even give a s . Roger was 31 years old and a father of 4. Despite refusing to admit wrongdoing, the county paid the serrato family several Million Dollars in an outofcourt settlement. I think were moving towards a society where laws are more aggressively enforced and where Law Enforcement officers look to minimize the risk to themselves by transferring that risk onto the people they are supposed to be serving. For tonya, her legal battle against those who killed her husband is still ongoing. An investigation by the District Attorney simply concluded that the officers acted in selfdefense. The la county Sheriffs Department refused to discuss the case with us at all, but theres been no acknowledgement that anything other than their standard procedures were followed. But when the standard is a rise in militarystyle tactics, it means the costs are rising too. With that room all bloody like that. Its been 5 months. I go in there every day. I relive it every day. Real reporting that brings you the world. This is a pretty dangerous trip. Security in beirut is tight. More reporters. They dont have the resources to take the fight to al shabaab. More bureaus, more stories. 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