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Men. One in tulsa, oklahoma, and one in charlotte, North Carolina, where hundreds took to the street and blocked interstate 85 to protest the Police Shooting of 43yearold African American keep lamont scott. We will get response. The president obama addresses the global migrant crisis in its final speech to the United Nations. It is part of the first ever summit for refugees and migrants. Pres. Obama i called this summit because this is one of the most urgent tests of our times, our capacity for collective action. It tests first and foremost our ability to end conflicts bececae so many of the worlds refugees come from just three countries ravaged by wawar syria, afghanistan, and somaliaia. Amy we will get an update onn the refugee c crisis from mohamd badran and Manfred Lindenbaum. With oxfamo speak president raymond offenheiser, then the u. S. Objected to language of the original draft of the refugee summit revolution resolution that said children should never be detained. We will get response from a teenager held for more than a year at the Berks County Residential Center, and immigrant family jail, in pennsylvania. Of us here, for all the children and the mothers, this is a horrible looks france being in detention because more than a year of incarceration for a child is not just without having committed a crime. Amy we will stick with a former unaccompanied minor who fled honduras at the age of 15. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Charlotte, North Carolina, was rocked by protests overnight after hundreds took to the street and blocked interstate 85 to protest the fatal Police Shooting of 43yearold African American Keith Lamont Scott on tuesday. Video footage shows protesters blocking the highway, where fires were lit. Police in riot gear responded by throwing tear gas at the crowds. Police say about a dozen officers were hurt during the conflict. Protesters were also injured. Keith lamont scott was shot and killed around 4 00 p. M. After Police Arrived to serve an arrest warrant for another person at scotts housing complex. The accounts of the shooting diverge sharply. While the police claim they first tased and then shot scott because he was armed and posed an imminent deadly threat, scotts family says he was not armed except with a book in hand. They say hed been sitting in his car, waiting to pick up his son after school. This is scotts daughter speaking in a Facebook Live video recorded at the scene of the shooting. What are they over there are doing . Shot my daddy for being black . Shot my daddy for being black. He is disabled. Hows he going to shoot yall. He aint got no gun. Amy Police Identified the officer who shot and killed scott as brentley vinson, who is black. Three years earlier, police in charlotte shot and killed jonathan ferrell, an unarmed africanamerican College Student who was seeking help after a car crash in 2013. Officer Randall Kerrick fired 12 bullets at ferrell. Officer kerrick was tried and acquitted of voluntary manslaughter last year. This comes as protests also erupted in tulsa, oklahoma, over the fatal Police Shooting of 40yearold African American Terence Crutcher, who was shot by a w white Police Officer whie his hands were in the air. Hundreds gathered outside the Tulsa Police Department demanding her firing. Crutcher wasas shot and killed around 8 00 p. M. On frfriday afr s car broke down. Some of the videdeo reased mond comomes from popolice helicopterer footage in which yu can hear the man in the helilicopter saying abouout crutcher, that looks like a bad dude. Fooootage from m police dasashcm videdeo shows crutcherer walking away from officers with his hands in the air, then putting his hands on the side of hisis o car as hes surrounded b b officers. The video cacaptures a voice ming over ththe police radadio saying, hes just been tasered,d, and then a womanans voice yelllling shots firired,s the video shows crutchers arms falling to the pavement. We will have more on both of these shootings with bree knew some of North Carolina and vince warren of the center for constitutional rights. In news from the war in syria, secrcretary of state j john kery and russiaian foreign minister sergei lavavrov are meeteting iw york city today to discuss the collapse of the ceasefire agreement in syria. This comes as the United States is saying russia is likely responsible for the attack on the u. N. Aid convoys on monday, which destroyed 18 of the convoys as aid workers were unloading food and other supplies at a red crescent warehouse. The red cross says 20 people were killed. Russia has denied responsibility. In updates to this weekends bombings in new york and new jersey, suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami has been charged in a Manhattan Federal Court with bombing, property destruction , and the use of weapons of mass destruction. He was not charged with any terrorism related crimes. Rahami is the main suspect in the bombings. Police say they identified him from Surveillance Video which showed him at both sites , in manhattan where bombs were planted on 23rd street, where the bomb did explode, injuring 29 people, and four blocks away on 27th street, where a bomb did not explode. Authorities also say his finger prints were found on the device on 27th street. He was arrested after a shootout in linden, new jersey, on monday, in which he and officers were both injured, and he also faces multiple counts of attempted murder of a Law Enforcement officer. The charges filed tuesday in the manhattan courtroom suggest prosecutors have not been able to tie rahami to any nonstate terrorist organizations. This comes as information continues to emerge about rahami. His father says rahami was arrested in 2014 for allegedly stabbing a family member. He was not indicted on the charges. His father says at the time, he called the fbi can refer to his son as a terrorist, prompting the fbi to open an investigation which found evidence to support his fathers statement. In news from the campapaign tri, a New Washington post investigation reveals donald trump used 258,000 from the donald j. Trump foundation to pay off legal fees associated with his businesses which is illegal under u. S. Law. The disputes included 120,000 in unpaid fines over the height of a flag pole in palm beach, florida, and a dispute over a trump golf course e in new york. In both cases, trump reached settlemements that involved him paying out Foundation Money to other charities. But this money should have been paid by his forprofit businesses, not the foundation. A previous Washington Post investigation showed donald trump has not donated any of his own money to his foundation since 2008. Meanwhile, the New Washington post investigation alsoso reves trump used Foundation Money to buy advertisements for his hotels and to buy a 10,000 portrait of himself. This is now the second documented case of donald trump using his own foundations money to buy portraits of himself. The other one was a sixfoot tall portrait and cocost 20,00. Meanwhile, trumps son, donald trump, jr. , continues to spark controversy with his comments that compared Syrian Refugees to poisoned skittles. On he tweeted a graphic reading monday, if i had a bowl of skittles and i told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful . Thats our syrian refugee problem. Now the man who shot the photo ofof the skittles in thehe grapc has come forward, revealing he himself is a former refugee. David kittos lives in britain. He said in 1974, when i was sixyears old, i was a refugee from the Turkish Occupation of cyprus so i would never approve the use of this image against refugees. The Parent Company of skittles has also pushed back against the tweet, saying skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We dont feel its an appropriate analogy. In financial news, massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren grilled wells fargo ceo john stumpf during his twohour testimony to the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday over the growing scandal at the major wall street bank involving thousands of employees who took private customer information to create 2 million fake accounts in order to meet sales targets. The scandal dates back to at least 2011, and ceo john stumpf admits hes known about the practice since 2013. Wells fargo has been fined 185 million. On tuesday, senator Elizabeth Warren called on stumpf to resign. But you squeezed your employees to the breaking point so they would cheat customers and you could drive up the value of your stock and put hundreds of millions of dollars in your own pocket. And when it all blew up, you kept your job, you kept your multimillion dollar bonuses, and you went on television to blame thousands of 12 and hour employees who were just trying to meet quotas that made you rich. This is about accountability. You should resign. You should give act the money that you took while this scam was going on and you should be criminally investigated by both the department of justice and the securities and exchange commission. Amy here in new york, the United Nations General Assembly held its firstever summit for refugees and migrants. The summit produced a nonbinding declaration detailing a more coordinated and humane response to the biggest migration upheaval since world war ii. President obama also announced the United States will resettle 110,000 refugees from around the world a nearly 60 increase from 2015, but still only a tiny fraction of the number of refugees resettled in other countries. Only hours after the meeting was occurring in newework, a masasse fire swept throughgh a refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos. The fire at the moria camp destroyed dozens of homes and tents and forced thousands of people to flee. We will have more on the summit for refugees and migrants later in the broadcast. In brussels, belgium as many as , 15,000 people marched tuesday to demand the eu abandon two controversial trade deals the transatlantic trade and Investment Partnership between the eu and the u. S. , and the comprehensive economic and trade agreement between the eu and canada. This is one of the protesters. The aim of the treaty is true move all barriers to allow more competitivity, free trade, free market. At the problem is that those barriers also include food controls, food security, safety of the food chain, and that is not something we can tolerate as citizens, as human beings, fathers. Amy the transatlantic trade and Investment Partnership would be the largest trade deal in the world. Its faced resistance both in the United States and across europe. In a landmark ruling, a federal judge in pennsylvania has ordered the Immediate Release of a prisoner from longterm solitary confinement. Arthur cetewayo johnson has not touched another human other than a guard since 1979. He is challenging his conditions as cruel and unusual. He described his isolation in a statement for the court. During my over 36 years in solitary confinement, my cell has been about 7 feet by 12 feet, smaller than many cages used to hold animals at zoos my cell has been lighted 24hours per day, with no break during day or night. I have been allowed at most one hour of time outside, five days a week, in a fencedin exercise cage that is slightly larger than my cell. I have been forced to eat all of my meals alone in my cell. Each time i leave my cell i am forced to undergo a mandatory strip search. I have not been accused of any serious disciplinary infraction in more than 25 years. On tuesday, judge Christopher Connor calleled for a plan withn a week to reintegrate johnson into general population in 90 days. Johnson was convicted of homicide and sentenced to life without parole at age 18. He is now 64 years old. While behind bars he became , politicized though the black liberation movement. His case is handled by the Abolitionist Law Center and jones day law firm. And in news from the Ongoing Movement to stop the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, Standing Rock sioux tribal chairman Dave Archambault has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to oppose the project, saying the United States has failed to honor the tribes sovereign rights and treaty land. While we have gone to the court in the United States, our courts have failed to protect our sovereign rights, our Sacred Places, and our water. We call upon the human rights all and all members Member States to condemn the construction of our Sacred Places and to support our nations efforts to ensure our sovereign rights are respected. We asked that you call upon our parties all parties to stop the dakota pipeline and protect the e environment, our nations future, our culture, and our way of life. Amy that is the chair of the Standing Rock sioux tribe speaking in geneva at the United Nations Human Rights Council on tuesday. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We begin todays show looking at Police Killings of two unarmed africanamerican men. One in tulsa, oklahoma, and one in charlotte, North Carolina, which was rocked by protests overnight after hundreds took to the street and blocked interstate 85 to protest the fatal Police Shooting of 43yearold africacan american keep lamonont scott. Video foototage shows protesters blocking the highwhway, where firewere lit. Policece in riot gear respspondy throwing tear r gas at the crow. Police sayay about a dozen officers were e hurt during the conflilict. Protestersrs were also hurt. Amy k Keith Lamont Scott t wast and killlled around 4 pm tueuesy after r police arrivived to sern arrest warrarant for another peperson at scotts housing colex. The accounts of ththe shooting diverge shsharply. While the popolice claim they fifirst tased and ththen shot st because he w was armed and posd an imminent deadadly thrhreat, scototts family sayays he was t armed except t wi a book in hand. They say hed been sitting in his car waiaiting to pick up his son after schohool. This is scotts daughter speaking in a Facebook Live video recorded at the scene of the shooting. What are they doing . Shot my daddy for being black . Shot my daddy for being black. He is disabled. How is he gonna shoot yall . Juan this comes as police in tulsa, oklklahoma,a, have releaa video showowing a white Police Officer shshooting and killing unarmed 40yearold African American Terence Crutcher while his hands were in the air. Officer betttty shelby shot crutcher around it 00 p. M. On after his car broke down. Frfriday some e of the video released mononday came from m pe helicopter footage, in which one can hear the man in the hehelicopter saying about crutcr that looks like a bad d dude, too. This is a clip frorom the police footage. This guy is still walking. Not following commanands. Time for r taser, i thihin. I got a a feeling that is abt to h happe that looks s like a b dude, too. Which way are they facing . Westbound. I think he m may just have been tared. Shots fired . 321, shots firered. No one s suspect down. Get this eastbound closed down because they are not going to be of the let anybody ok. Amy other footage from a Police Dashcam vehicle shows crutcher walkingg slowly away from officers with his hands in thehe air, then putting g his hands on the siside of his own car as hs surroundnded by officers. The video captures a voice coming over the police radio saying hes just been tasered and then a womans voice e yellg shots fired as the vidideo shs crutchers s arms falling to the pavementnt. The justice e Department Says it is invnvestigatiting the shohoof Terence