Killing,ther Police Another shocking video. In baton rouge, protest continue over the killing of alton sterling, shot to death by police early Tuesday Morning after they penned him to the ground. Sterlings son began weeping uncontrollably on live tv wednesday while the boy mother addressed the media. Then to st. Paul, minnesota, where a woman broadcast live on facebook from the car moments after her boyfriend, Philando Castile, is shot to death by police. Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back and the police he is covered. They killed my boyfriend. My we will go to minnesota here in new york, we will speak with the author of nobody casualties of americas war on the vulnerable from ferguson to flint and beyond and mychal denzel smith. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds of protesters are gathered outside the governors house in minneapolis following the Fatal Police Shooting of africanamerican man Philando Castile during a traffic stop for a broken tail light. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was broadcast live on facebook by his girlfriend, lavish reynolds, who is speaking in the car next to her dying boyfriend as the Police Officer continues to point the gun into the car. A warning to our viewers, the footage is graphic. Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back and the police he is covered. They killed my boyfriend. He is licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his id and his wallet out his pocket and he let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet. And the officejust shot him in his arm. You told him to get his id, sir. Please, do not tell me this, lord. Do not tell me he is gone. Please, do not tell me he gone please come officer, dont tell me you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir. Amy later, the video shows the Police Officer ordering lavish reynolds out of the car. She is ordered by multiple officers to walk backward. She is handcuffed and put in the back of the police car along with her fouryearold daughter who was in the car with her. This is more of the video. Lavish reynolds continues to narrate, now from the back of the police car. Dont be scared. My daughter just witnessed this. The police just shot him for no apparent reason. Its ok, i am right here with the littleop amy daughter comforting her mother lavish reynolds. Meanwhile, protests and vigils continue in baton rouge, louisiana for africanamerican father of five alton sterling who was shot dead by police while pinned to the ground early Tuesday Morning. More than 300 protesters held a vigil last night outside the Convenience Store where sterling was killed. Protests also spread to ferguson, missouri, and to philadelphia where protesters were arrested after blocking rushhour traffic by lying down across interstate 676. This comes as a second video showing the Fatal Police Shooting was released online. The video shows sterling pinned to the ground by two white Police Officers, one of the officers then shoots sterling at least twice. The audio then captures the sound of multiple additional gunshots. On wedneay, sandra sterling, altons aunt, spoke out. He passed out twice already. Thats because i saw the second video. I did not know he was alive after he was shot. I dont ever want to see that again. He saw the second video . Yeah. What does that second video tell you . They sat there and watched my child die. They watched him take his last breath. And i am mad and angry. Amy ell go to baton rouge after headlines. In news from the campaign trail, the Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump has defended his decision to tweet an antisemitic image, which showed Hillary Clinton, a pile of 100 bills, and a sixpointed star of david, along with the words most corrupt candidate ever the image originally appeared on a white supremacist message board. Trump later deleted the tweet and retweeted the same image, but with the star of david replaced by a circle. Speaking at a Campaign Event in cincinnati wednesday, trump said he wished that his team had never deleted the first tweet. It could of been a star for anything. To me, it was just a star. To me, it looked like a sheriffs star. Cnn started saying, it is the star of david. And because it is the star of david, donald trump has racist these people are sick, folks. I am telling you. They are sick. So you have the start, which is fine. We should have taken it down. They took the star down. I said, too bad, you should have left it up. Just leave it up. I would rather have defended it and said, it is not the star of david, it is just a star. Amy former fox news Gretchen Carlson has sued fox news chairman roger ailes for sexual harassment. Carlson says ailes repeatedly made advances toward her, calling her sexy and explicitly , asking for a sexual relationship during a meeting in his office. She says that when she rejected his advances, he retaliated against her by cutting her salary, curtailing her airtime and then refusing to renew her , contract. Roger ailes has denied the claims. Fbi director james comey is slated to testify before Congress Today over the agencys decision to recommend no charges be brought against democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of multiple private email servers while she was secretary of state. On tuesday, comey said clinton had been extremely careless in her handling of classified information, but that her actions did not merit charges. The decision sparked outrage from republican lawmakers, from donald trump, and from Green Party Nominee jill stein, who called for charges against clinton, saying Hillary Clintons failure to protect critical security information is not the only thing in her tenure as secretary that deserves the term reckless, including her decision to pursue catastrophic regime change in libya, and to support the overthrow of democratically elected governments in ukraine and honduras. Dr. Jill stein, the green Party President ial candidate wrote. British labor leader Jeremy Corbyn has apologized on behalf of the labor party for its role in pushing britain into the iraq war. Politicians and Political Parties can only grow stronger biotechnology when they get it wrong by acknowledging when they get it wrong and facing up to their mistakes. So n i apologize sincerely on behalf of my party for the decision to go to war in iraq. The apologies are first to the people of iraq hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost in the country still living wi a devastating consequence of the war and the forces it unleashed. They have paid the greatest price for thmost serious calamity in years. Amy that is Jeremy Corbyn who habeen president of the stop the war alition. This comes one day after the lease of the longawaited chilcot report, whh blames british Prime Minister tony blair for deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the leadup to the iraq war. Blair was the longest serving labour Prime Minister in british history. The chilcot report revealed blair had been warned multiple times by britains joint Intelligence Committee that the invasion of iraq would increase the threat of terrorism by al qaeda and other militant groups. Meanwhile, in news from the u. S. War in afghanistan, president obama has announced the u. S. Is once again delaying the withdrawal of troops. Pres. Obama im announcing an additional adjustment to our posture. Instead of going down to 5500 troops by the end of this year, the United States will maintain approximately 8400 troops in afghanistan and the next year through the end of my administration. Amy president obama had pledged to withdraw the majority of the thousands of u. S. Troops deployed to afghanistan by the end of 2015, but he has repeatedly changed this timeline. The war in afghanistan is the longest war in u. S. History. In bangladesh, two Police Another attack has occurred, this time at a prayer ground where more than 100,000 people had gathered to celebrate the end of ramadan. The attack comes less than a week after militants seized control of a trendy restaurant in dhaka, killing 20 people. Lawyers for imprisoned Army WhistleblowerChelsea Manning are demanding access to their client, after unconfirmed reports surfaced wednesday about a possible suicide attempt. Chelsea manning is currently in self in stable condition her cell in stable condition after being taken to the hospital Tuesday Morning. It is not yet known if she did in fact attempt to committee suicide. Mannings lawyers were scheduled to talk to on tuesday but the law call could not be connected. Mannings attorney Nancy Hollander said were shocked and outraged that an official at leavenworth contacted the press with private confidential medical information about Chelsea Manning yet no one at the army has given a shred of information to her legal team. Mannings legal team has been told they cannot talk to her until friday. The university of tennessee paid nearly 2. 5 million to settle a Sexual Assault lawsuit filed by eight women who argued the university condoned a hostile environment that led to Sexual Assaults by male athletes. The lawsuit argued ut football coach butch jones called one of his player a traitor and said hed betrayed the team after the man helped a woman who said shed been raped by two other football players. And in puerto rico, hundreds of people gathered in old san juan in opposition to a proposal for toxic aerial fumigations aimed at fighting the zika virus. The protest brought together activists, environmentalists, farmers, and students. Many were also protesting the recently signed promesa bill, which will establish a federally appointed control board with sweeping powers to run puerto ricos economy. Activist Melissa Vargas spoke in front of an ongoing protest camp in front of the u. S. Federal court, where activists have been protesting the promesa bill. Really, all of this, every one of these particular problems are technical of the big monster, which is the government. The government is not fulfilling its duty to protect its citizens. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Hundreds of protesters are gathered outside the governors house in minneapolis following the Fatal Police Shooting of africanamerican man Philando Castile during a traffic stop for broken tail light. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was broadcast live on facebook by his girlfriend lavish reynolds, who was speaking in the car next to her dying boyfriend as the Police Officer continues to point the gun into the ca a warning to our tv viewers, the footage is graphic. Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back. And the police he is covered. They killed my boyfriend. He is licensed. He is licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his id in his wallet out his pocket and that hehe officer know had a firearm and it was reaching for his wallet and t officer just shot him in his arm. To get his id, sir, his drivers license. Please dont tell me this, lord. Do not tell me he is gone. Please, dont tell me he is gone. Please come officer, dont tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir. Amy the video shows an officer ordering lavish reynolds out of the car. She is with her fouryearold daughter. She is then ordered by multiple officers to walk backwards. She is handcuffed and put in the back of the police car along with her daughter. This is more of the video as lavish reynolds continues to narrate from the back of that police car. Dont be scared. My daughter just witnessed this. The police just shot him for no apparent reason. Its ok, i am right here with you. Amy joining us now from st. Paul, minneapolis, is nekima levypounds, president of the naacp minneapolis. Can you explain exactly where you are and your reaction to this latest Police Killing . Right now there are several of us, dozens of us outside of the Governors Mansion here in st. Paul. We are outraged that this egregious incident happened. Many of us were focused on the killing of alton sterling at the hands of the Baton Rouge Police department. Little did we know that this type of tragic shooting would happen in our own backyard just months after joe mark kirk was clark wasw killed. Nermeen can you talk about the same Police Department, which has jurisdiction over falcon heights, where Philando Castile was killed . We dont know much about the same Anthony Police department. It is a rather small department. And there is a strip of land that is in a rather strange place, right outside the city limits of st. Paul, that the same anthony Main Police Department has jurisdiction over. They are actually a minneapolis Police Department. Mpd, not the same as the but theyre located in northeast any applets. So many of us were surprised to learn that that strip of land was their jurisdiction and that they actually were responsible for killing Philando Castile. Amy what are you demanding of the governor . Number one, were asking the governor to issue a statement saying that this type of egregious conduct on the part of the officers of minnesota will not be tolerated. We have a very poor track record in the state of holding officers accountable. We have not held one single officer accountable for shooting an unarmed civilian in the state of minnesota over the last decade or more. That is problematic. We do not have a public to othern unit similar jurisdictions around the country. So when an officer involved shooting happens, we rely upon Law Enforcement to investigate themselves. There is no independent body that insurers justice was served and investigation was carried out in a fair and impartial manner. The bureau of criminal apprehension, which is currently responsible for investigating the shooting death of Philando Castile, has not held a single officer accountable over the last several years. So we do not trust that particular system. We want the governor to use the to appoint a has body that is responsible, such as a special prosecutor and a citizen advisory board, that would look specifically at officer cases and hopefully, ensure accountability. Nermeen have the Police Responded in any way . Has a Police Department issued a statement or any official from the city . The same Anthony Police department held a press conference shortly after the shooting became public. As you may have seen in the video, the Police Actually took the phone from Philando Castiles girlfriend. The way in which we were able to get access of the video was because she used an app on facebook that cost, what i would say, is more like a live stream to take place. Had she not done that, the footage from her phone might not have ever been recovered. As a matter of fact, after many of us share the video, the video disappeared from facebook and her whole Facebook Page had disappeared for long period of time. Im not sure if it is even backed up yet. Some people have placed the video on youtube as a result. Amy this is some of the most astounding footage we have seen. Almost in realtime. It is livestreaming. She isrotecting herself doing this with her boyfriend die next to her and her fouryearold daughter in the back of the car. When she is ordered out of the car, she also, a victim, having experienced she is ordered to walk backwards . And she is handcuffed . She is with her fouryearold daughter and put in the police car as her boyfriend is dying in the car . Yes. She was being treated like a criminal, which, unfortunately, is not unusual in these types of cases. If you look at what happened to tamir rices sister i cleveland, ohio, when he was killed a couple of years ago, his sister his 14yearold sister was tackled of the ground, place in handcuffs and placed in the back of a squad car as she ran to her dying brother. Jamarn minneapolis, after clarke was killed, the red dozens of africanamerican witnesses on the scene. When police arrived, they sprayed them with mace and pepper spray. They pulled guns on them and physically pushed them. It is not an, to treat black victims and witnesses uncommon to treat black victims and witnesses as criminals in these types of cases. Amy nekima levypounds, thank you for being with us. We