Good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors. Role call, please. role call mr. President , all mr. President , all members are present. Well say the pledge of allegiance. Would you like to join me . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, everybody. On pa behalf of the board i woud like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv and making it available to the public. Colleagues, i want to do a Little Something different before we get on with the show. I would like to have you join me in starting our meeting today with a moment of silence. Sorry. For george floyd and his family, friends and community. George floyds tragic death at the hands of four Police Officers in minneapolis last week. This is a reflection of the systematic oppression, racism and injustice that the black community ha has endured. Our city mourns minneapolis and
Mr. President , all members are present. Well say the pledge of allegiance. Would you like to join me . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, everybody. On pa behalf of the board i woud like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv and making it available to the public. Colleagues, i want to do a Little Something different before we get on with the show. I would like to have you join me in starting our meeting today with a moment of silence. Sorry. For george floyd and his family, friends and community. George floyds tragic death at the hands of four Police Officers in minneapolis last week. This is a reflection of the systematic oppression, racism and injustice that the black community ha has endured. Our city mourns minneapolis and the people across the country. The officers responsible for George Floyds death must be held accountable and that i
Continue. At least for me, ive heard the arguments that people have presented, and i think this is valid on both sides of this, and i personally, not knowing whats going to happen in the next two days, i personally would vote on the side of supporting it. But if, in the next two days, we find that the situation has calmed itself radically, i would say theres no need for the emergency. So thats how im looking at it. Supervisor haney, were you going to Say Something . I wasnt sure. Supervisor haney no, that was the point. President yee oh, okay. Supervisor haney i think that we need a unanimous vote ahead of it, to accept it or reject it. Otherwise, it stays in place until saturday. President yee right. So i made a motion. Its seconded, and we can vote on this. Clerk mr. President , we would take Public Comment first. Supervisor walton president yee, i had questions. I hate to ask twice ahead of your motion. I had a clarifying question. I dont want to vote no on your motion without a lit
Hello and welcome to the program on the image of june. A historic climate case has begun at the European Court of human rights and stress support. Young activists are taking on powerful governments over there alleged in action against Climate Change. The courts rulings are legally binding on member countries. The legal route seems to be increasingly favored by active is to hold leaders to account, and young people are increasingly at the forefront of Climate Change. Activism could an approach based on childs rights, be the wife way forward and tackling global warming. We have lots of discuss, but 1st let me go so im sure weve set it up for us. Its 6 you versus 32 countries. They argue, governments are not doing enough to start until reforming. And the inaction both is listed they have and like the youth age between 11 and 24, made their way to the your pin code of human rights to argue that case with the support of all the time of active we are not the 6 we are the 6 representing gener
Also tonight, new developments in the case of a mother and her three sons mowed down on the boulevard. Investigators say two men street racing were to blame. Today, one of those drivers pleaded guilty as the other gets ready to go on trial this week. Nbc 10s Mitch Blacher is following new developments live in north philadelphia. We heard from members of the victims family who were live inside that courtroom. Reporter this is an intersection that changed lives. Two years ago, two men were racing down the boulevard when they struck and killed a mother and her children in the intersection, an intersection that is now renamed in their honor. They were real people and they had a life. We loved them. Reporter an aunts heartbreak cant change the past. Rose banks is talking about her niece and nephews who were killed in july 2013 when a silver audi and white honda drag raced down the boulevard. No matter what goes on in that courtroom today, tomorrow or next week will never change the fact my