Atlanta Mayor orders police reforms in wake of fatal police shooting; China races to contain new outbreak linked to seafood market; Trump: Rayshard Brooks’ death “was terrible,” “very disturbing”; Trump preps for Tulsa rally as protests continue over police brutality; Landmark 6-3 ruling: LGBTQ workers are protested from discrimination at work;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Atlanta Mayor orders police reforms in wake of fatal police shooting; NY Gov. threatens to shut down businesses again after videos emerge of large crowds with no social distancing; 18 states are currently seeing a rise in new coronavirus cases; NFL network: several Cowboys, Texans players test positive;
Trump to sign executive order on police reform in a few days; Trump’s unsteady walk raises new health questions; Tulsa health dept director “wishes” Trump would postpone rally as local cases spike; Thousands rally for Black Trans Lives Matter, most wearing masks; Human rights watch: black residents in Tulsa more than twice as likely to be arrested as white residents; Outrage grows over video showing teens being violently arrested by Tulsa police for jaywalking;
Major victory for LGBTQ workers as court rules federal law protects them from discrimination at work; Conservative-leaning justices Gorsuch & Roberts vote in favor of laws protecting LGBTQ workers; Justice Alito in dissenting opinion: ruling is a theory Scalia would have “excoriated”; Russia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years on spy charges; Pompeo demands immediate release of American jailed in Russia; Lawyer for American jailed in Russia raises idea of prisoner swap
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the lead. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Jake Tapper and you've been listening to Atlanta Mayor Kisha Lance |
| 0:11.0 | Bottoms expressing condolences publicly for the police |
| 0:13.8 | killing of Rayshard Brooks on Friday and calling for police officers to be |
| 0:18.3 | guardians not warriors in the city of Atlanta. The mayor announced she will sign a series of administrative |
| 0:24.2 | orders to address policing in Atlanta, specifically the use of force by police and requiring |
| 0:30.0 | de-escalation tactics by police. |
| 0:32.6 | 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot by a police officer |
| 0:35.9 | as he ran away following a scuffle with the officers. |
| 0:39.1 | The video shows that Brooks gained control |
| 0:42.0 | of one of the officers' non-lethal tasers and fired it at the police before turning to flee. |
| 0:48.6 | Brooks died from two gunshot wounds to his back, according to the Fulton County Medical |
| 0:55.0 | examiner to his back. The mayor said the use of deadly force was not |
| 0:59.0 | justified and the officer was fired as CNN's Ryan Young reports. |
| 1:03.3 | It's just going to be a long time before I healed. |
| 1:07.4 | It's going to be a long time before this family healed. |
| 1:10.2 | A family grieving, frustrated, and angry. |
| 1:13.0 | There's no justice that can ever make me feel happy about what's been done. |
| 1:18.0 | I can never get my husband back. |
| 1:20.0 | I can never get my best friend. |
| 1:22.0 | I can never tell my daughter, always come and take you skating or swimming lessons. |
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