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Democracy Now! 2023-08-28 Monday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 28, 2023; Gary Younge on Jacksonville Shooting & Why America’s Gun Problem “Makes Its Racism More Lethal”; 60 Years After “I Have a Dream”: Gary Younge on MLK’s March on Washington & the Fight for Racial Justice; Family of Kenneth Chamberlain, Black Man Killed in 2011 by Police, Settles with City of White Plains

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:19.0

I have a dream, but one day, this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its

0:29.6

creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created in truth.

0:37.4

Sixty years ago today, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic, I have a dream speech

0:44.1

at the 1963 March on Washington. On Saturday, thousands gathered in Washington to mark the

0:50.4

anniversary, but the day was marred by news that a white supremacist gunman had shot dead three

0:56.8

black people at a dollar store in Jacksonville, Florida. This is a dark day in Jacksonville's

1:02.6

history, and it also life is tragic, but the hate that motivated the shooter's killing spree adds

1:08.3

an additional layer of heartbreak. Speak to the prize-winning journalist Gary Young about racism

1:14.4

in America, gun violence, and the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. Then the City of

1:20.2

White Plains, New York has agreed to a five million dollar settlement with the family of Kenneth

1:25.6

Chamberlain, a black 68-year-old former Marine shot dead by police in his own apartment after they

1:33.2

came to him for a wellness check when he accidentally triggered his medical alert pendant.

1:39.5

We'll speak to his son, Ken Chamberlain Jr. I think that people are now coming together and

1:45.9

they're saying that extra-duty killings and summary executions of unarmed black men, women,

1:52.3

and children, is no longer going to be tolerated. I mean, what we have been witnessing for decades

2:00.3

or crimes against humanity. All that and more coming up.

2:09.6

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

2:14.7

In Jacksonville, Florida, gun men shot and killed three black people Saturday in a racist attack,

2:20.0

which the U.S. Justice Department is investigating as a hate crime. The three victims who were killed

2:25.3

in front of an inside-a-dollar store were identified as 52-year-old Angela Michelle Carr, 19-year-old,

2:32.9

an old Joseph known as AJ, Laguerre Jr., and 29-year-old Gerald Dishon Gallion. The shooter was identified

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