Protest Police Killings following a new york grand jurys decision not to indict the officer who put eric garner in a lethal chokehold. As new york mayor bill de blasio orders a retraining of the citys police force, we will speak to a former new York City Police to take to Graham Weatherspoon. When a Police Officer gets to the point where he is crossing from the actions of a Police Officer to the actions of the criminal, something has to be done. The grand jury decision was announced in Staten Island, a fruit roll was were wrapping up in cleveland for tamir rice, a 12yearold africanamerican boy who was shot dead by police while holding a toy gun at a park. Wherel go to cleveland the Justice Department just wrapped up a probe of the city police force. We have determined there was thatnable cause to believe the police force engages in a pattern of using Excessive Force. We will speak to ohio senator nina carter. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Thousands of protesters have swarmed the streets of new york city for a second night to protest the grand jury decision not to indict the white Police Officer who killed eric garner. Garner, an africanamerican father of six, died after police placed him in a chokehold, and pinned him to the ground while them saying at least 11 times, i cant breathe. That phrase has become the rallying cry for protesters who shut down very as bridges in new york. Police arrested nearly 200 people, many near times square. The decision came on the heels of another grand jury decision not to indict the officer that killed Michael Brown. Reverend al sharpton has called for a march on washington a day to demand action from the federal government. We need to be centralized and focused. The federal government must do in the 20 First Century what it did in the mid20th century. Federal intervention had to come into the south to protect peoples civil rights and voting rights. Federal intervention must come now and protect people from state grand juries that keep exonerating any seeking redress on police matters. That is why the 13th is about. Them in the nationwide uproar, another case has come to light in phoenix, arizona where a white Police Officer killed an unarmed black man. Phoenix police say the officer theng that he feared that man had a gun, which turned out to be a pill bottle. Protesters say brisbon was delivering dinner to his children. He is the father of four. Marci kratter is an attorney for the brisbon family. Need to take a deeper dive into white Police Officers are feeling compelled to shoot and kill, as opposed to apprehend and detain, arrest, and jail. A Justice Department investigation has found a pattern of unreasonable and unnecessary force by Police Officers in cleveland ohio. The report reveals a history of ,buse across hundreds of cases characterizing Police Behavior as chaotic and dangerous. Police cases, cleveland opened fire on people running away and cause no threat. Police officer punched a handcuffed 13yearold boy in the face repeatedly. The investigation was launched last year but comes on the heels of the Fatal Police Shooting of 12yearold africanamerican tamir rice, who was killed while holding a toy gun in a park. We will go to ohio to speak with democratic senator nina turner later in the broadcast. Fast food and other lowwage workers have walked off the job in nearly 200 cities across the country. The wave of action on thursday may be the largest in history of the fast food industry. The workers were joined by other employees across other Industries IncludingHealth Care Aides and airline employees. Federal contractors who work in sites like the capitol and pentagon were also expected to take part in the strike for a 15 an hour wage and a union. Kerrysy of state john pledged to continue investment in afghanistan. Speaking in london, he praised the government of afghan president ashraf gandhi. We have a government in kabul. Hat merits our support never before has the prospect of a more fully independent and sustainable afghanistan been more clear than it is at this moment as we assemble. The Afghan People should be very proud of this progress. Forwardcontinue to move , they can be confident of the support of the international community. His remarks come as a new report in Rolling Stone has revealed that afghanistan has become a narco state and has opium supplyf the for the year. 20 people were killed in the city of grozny in chechnya after militants attacked the police. Identified as are those that want to have an independent russia. Legislation for genetically would ban them even if regulators approve them. Environmentalists looking to curb gmos have voiced concern the measure could leave countries that ban gmos vulnerable to legal retaliation from multinationals like monsanto. The latest disclosures from nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed the National Security agency has spied on communications among employees of major Cellphone Network operators in order to exploit vulnerabilities in networks. To the intercept, documents reveal a covert operation called auroragold which involved monitoring more than 1200 email accounts associated with the cell firms. In one case before the intervention in libya, the nsa helped an Intelligence Unit hack into libya and Cellphone Networks using information obtained by spying on company employees. Israel has experienced one of its worst environmental disasters after a ruptured oil pipeline sent millions of gallons of crude gushing into a key nature preserve. The spill heavily damaged the reserve near the jordanian border. Or than 80 people in jordan were hospitalized with breathing problems. In nigeria, the niger delta has suffered one of the worst oil spills in years after nearly 4000 barrels of crude poured from a shell pipeline. Shell has blamed the spill on oil thieves. Environmentalists say the devastation stretches for miles with dead fish and crabs washing up on the shoreline. Germany has unveiled a plan to reduce Carbon Emissions that are warming the planet. The plan aims to help germany meet a goal of reducing emissions by 40 by the year 2020 but environmentalists say the proposed steps to not go far enough to reduce the country use of coalfired power plants. U. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon touted efforts by germany and other countries before traveling to participate in the Climate Summit in lima, peru next week. We are determined to sustain the momentum generated by the recent important announcement by the united states, china, european union, and yesterday germany, on a mission reductions. Next year is an opportunity to take a big steps, transformative steps in the right direction. We must do all it takes to provide hope for people and the planet. Headed tocy now is lima, peru where we will broadcast all next week from the human Climate Summit. State Department Spokesperson been to psaki has been caught on a hot microphone criticizing the u. S. Talking points on an Egyptian Court decision to drop charges against hosni mubarak. A News Conference after mubarak was cleared of ordering the killings of hundreds of protesters during the uprising against his regime in 2011. Togenerally we continue believe upholding impartial standards of accountability will advance the political consensus on which egypt longterm stability and Economic Growth depends but beyond that i would refer you to the Egyptian Government or any further comment. At the end of the conference, the microphone captured heard telling a reporter that the egypt line is ridiculous. She later said in an email that it is just the latest Scientific Evidence of global warming. Now we have to worry about hot microphones. But as secretary kerry reminded me, im in good company in this administration. The navy has revoked the honor that it gave to bill cosby amid report that he drugged and assaulted women for decades. More than 20 women have accused him of assaulting them. The navy said in a statement herman badillo, a trailblazing politician who became the first Puerto Rican Born member of congress, who has died at the age of 85. He served as a powerful voice in new york City Politics for decades and went on to hold a range of city posts and held four terms in congress. He championed the rights of the latino and the poor. Those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. I am Juan Gonzalez. Everythingidst of that is happening, you did your column on herman badillo. He died actually wednesday morning. All of the press attention obviously went to the eric garner case. Take aole story have to second place to all of the big news occurring. Herman badillo, was, for 50 years, the most influential figure of the Latin American Community in new york city, had an amazing career. While he started out as a very important liberal civil rights advocate in his later years, he turned somewhat more conservative in his views, but nonetheless, was always considered the key figure in latino politics in new york city. I have known him for 40 of his 50 years in public life, and often sought counsel and debated him on a number of issues and and theespected him energy and passion he brought to fighting for equality for all people in new york city. You are speaking at his funeral on sunday . Will alsody giuliani be there, Many Political leaders of new york city of the past halfcentury will attend. We will link to your column in the new york daily news. Now to the ongoing protest of the Police Killing of eric garner in new york. Peace. Ustice, no black lives matter. If we dont get it, shut it down. I cant breathe. For a second night, thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to protest the decision not to indict the officer that killed eric garner after placing him in a chokehold. Garners last words were i cant breathe. The Police Reported making more than 200 arrest, including many near times square. This is supposed to be 80s will protest. Bill de blasio said we could be out here as long as we were not causing trouble, but they are pushing and hitting people, throwing them on the floor and arresting them for no reason at all. Protesters held symbolic dieins across cities. They marked the time that medics on therner untreated ground unresponsive. Another one lasted 11 minutes, one minute for each time garner was heard telling officers quote i cant breathe. Outside the Barclays Center in brooklyn, protesters carried mock coffins while singing protest songs. Similar protests were hurt across the country in washington, d. C. Hundreds staged a die in near the washington monument. We are peacefully protesting that our lives matter and everyone should care. Police brutality is not ok against anybody. In boston, protesters shut down the turnpike 93 as well as the city subway system. Chicago, demonstrators blocked the lakeshore drive. In san francisco, marchers shut down market street. Hundreds also marched in oakland. Blasiosday, bill de announced a major retraining of 22,000 patrol officers and supervisors. Know thatneed to black lines and brown lives matter as much as white lies lives. Just a problem in new york city, its an american problem, and american challenge. Its an issue that goes back to the founding of this republic that we still have not solved. Our generation has to resolve it. The leaders you see around me, we are all responsible now. The weight of history cannot be our excuse. Issuesthat i feel these very, very personally. Case against new york Police OfficerDaniel Pantaleo, who placed eric garner in a chokehold, is far from over. Garners family is thought to be lawsuit. Civil death newer or to show pantaleo was the subject of two civil rights lawsuits in 2013 over false arrests and abuse. In one incident, he ordered two black men to strip naked on the street for a search. The charges against the men were dismissed. Today we are joined by three guests here in new york and well also go to ohio. Harry siegel is with us, a columnist and editorial writer for the new york daily news. His latest piece is the lonesome death of eric garner when men are treated like pieces of meat by cops and medics, trust erodes. Graham weatherspoon is with us, retired direct detective with the new york Police Department, and then sell michael smith. His latest piece is the system that failed eric garner and Michael Brown cannot be reformed. He was at last night protest, as so many were. We want to start with harry siegel. A part of the video that has not been seen as much. We have seen over and over again the horror of eric garner being taken down in that chokehold by the Police Department and piled on by these officers in Staten Island on the sidewalk. But as you write about in your column on wednesday, it is the second video that made me cry. Not the one where officer pantaleo chokes him for 15 seconds before smashing his head into the sidewalk as others held him down come in lowering it ignoring his pleas. It is the video shot minutes later as garner lies dying among men and women in uniform, who do not give half a day and, which broke me down. He goes on to describe the second video that shows garner laying unresponsive on the sidewalk after he was put in a chokehold, as police and medics do nothing to help him. Eventually they lift his body onto a stretcher and then he describes this scene in the video where onlookers question the officers. Listen closely. Why is nobody doing cpr . He is breathing. In this second part of the video and it goes on to show thehe emt workers in video we are showing, the camera turns to officer pantaleo who is in the distance. He notices the video is being taken and shows him waving at the person filming. Part of thehis video the entire scene, including the emergency workers. This man is on the ground, unresponsive, on his stomach, which is not procedure when somebody has been arrested. That is the way you stop someone from being able to breed, especially a larger guy. Officers there, two of them are holding him but are more or less holding it ignoring him. The emp shows up and finds a pulse. The cop says that we are here to help, in response to the unconscious guy on the ground. As you heard, ordinary citizens are saying, he cannot breathe. It is not that hard to figure out. He is ignored. Eventually the emts and medics come back and a bunch of cops lift garner, and plop him onto a gurney. What was the comment as they were going to pick him up . Something like it will take six men actually they said five. When they do pick about they give a ugh and then drop him from about six inches up. It looks like he is about to fall off. This human isr just palpable. And there is no attempt by someone to resuscitate him, not even the emt. We are reporting in the news today, in a significant case that has gotten less attention, whoofficer, it looks like accidentally shot him in this other case, the reason there was a long delay is because they called their union rep before they called 911. All the attention is on eric garner. Gurley has not gotten all the attention. This, midst of all of actually before the ferguson decision of the grand jury came down, explain what happened in new york. Two Police Officers are doing a vertical patrol. When youre in a Public Housing building, you go to the roof to make sure nothing that is happening, you go into the stairwells. These are considered dangerous assignments. They go into a stairwell, its dark, the light is off. One of them takes out his gun, which is a matter of officer discretion by new york policy, which is its own problem. They open the door and a young man with i believe his girlfriend opens the door. Somehow the officers gun goes off and he ends up dead. He does not realize he is shot. Police officers run back upstairs. Now maybe they are scared of what they have done, maybe they did not understand what happened. But they do not try to resuscitate the man or find out what happened. The news today is reporting that the first thing they do is call their union reps, and one help arrives, only because one of the neighbors called 911. After these officers without any ill intent just the kind of sloppiness where you have your gun out and you shoot and you think you may have hit someone and your concern is what have i done with my life . Run upstairs and call your union. Not 911 or try to help the man. Now there were also indications that they were not supposed to be on vertical patrol, that they were told not to be. I cannot even wrap my around my mind around that. This has to go with the fact that the elevators were not working in the Public Housing, which is why they had to use the stairwell, and the fact that the cops went into this dark stairwell and ended up shooting. If there is a light out and they have not dealt with and by the time the staff has left keep in mind, p