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george floyd. in that video you could see him cry out for his mother as officer derek chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes. all over a pack of cigarettes. floyd allegedly paid for with a fake $20 bill. we would not see any of the police body cam footage for another 11 weeks. the lack of transparency there, the delay and the horror of floyd s death ignited a mass movement. i can t breathe was plastered across signs and social media posts as millions across the country protested. facing intense pressure, then president donald trump signed an executive order calling for police reform. at the ballot box, voters said yes to legislative policing reforms in at least 30 states. at least a dozen cities promised to slash police budgets and redistribute those funds to community programs. though not all followed through. then it was congress s turn. democrats introduced the george floyd justice in policing act. the bill passed twice in the house but died in the sena ....
Yes, we have an easterly breeze that brought smoke from the saddle fire. Today will be better. Fog and low clouds will send temps plummeting, 60s, 70s and 80s. Sal, things better or picking up again. Its slow. We dont have a lot of crashes but we have a lot of slow traffic. Good morning, steve. Lets go out and take a look at the east shore freeway. 55, minutes to dry between the carcinas bridge and mcarthur maze. We dont have anything to blame. Its slow traffic. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza, you will see another 20 minutes or so. Maybe longer than that trying to get onto the bridge, and slow traffic on 80. Highway 4, slowing from antioch through bay point to concord. Well if you want the maps up. 68 well put the maps up. An accident right near a street. Traffic in hayward is not doing well. Another rough morning on thursday. 7 01. The city of oakland has handed down punishment for a dozen Police Officers implicated i ....
Before. federal legislation has to be done at a state and level local, and that s up to the leadership of that department and that state and community to make that happen. john burris, thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate your opinion and given all the history that you have been involved with in this frankly awful, awful subject that we hate having to talk about again and again. thanks again. thank you. and still ahead, speaker mccarthy will head to the white house this week as washington stares down a debt limit deadline. what mccarthy just said is and is not on the table. plus, war with china. nbc news exclusively obtains an internal memo from a four star air force general. what he told his officers to get ready for and when. and what new polling tells us about what president biden stands ahead of 2024 and what ....
Anyone s entaengs to come out and protest. a lot of locals decided to stay home, and those that did protest did it peacefully. guad venegas, thank you very much. and joining me now is civil rights attorney jon burris. he represented rodney king in his civil rights lawsuit against the lapd. thank you for being with us. i m curious to get your reaction to what jim jordan just said to my colleague chuck todd over the weekend, there s no federal law that can stop this from happening? i have to agree with that. unless you have some consistency nationwide, you just won t have federal involvement but i think a lot of good work can be done at the state and local levels. many states have passed new laws since the george floyd act. some states in california have done different kind of work and at the local level. unfortunately there s 18,000 police departments in this country. all sort of acting independently of each other. ....
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