Democracy Now! 2024-12-11 Wednesday
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for December 11, 2024; Rep. Delia Ramirez: Trump’s Immigration Plans Are “Un-American, Unconstitutional & Undemocratic”; “Indefensible”: U.S. Continues Deporting Haitians Amid Political Instability, Massacres; “We Didn’t Get No Justice”: Jordan Neely’s Uncle Slams Daniel Penny’s Acquittal in NYC Subway Killing; Herman Whitfield’s Family Called for Help During a Mental Health Crisis. Cops Killed Him Instead
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.5 | You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. |
| 0:22.7 | Is that still your plan? |
| 0:23.8 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:25.5 | As President-elect Donald Trump vows to end birthright citizenship |
| 0:30.4 | and carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, |
| 0:35.1 | we'll speak to Illinois Democratic Congress member Delia Ramirez, the daughter |
| 0:40.8 | of Guatemalan immigrants. Then we look at the tragic deaths of two black men who were killed |
| 0:47.1 | while experiencing mental health crises, the New York Street performer and Michael Jackson |
| 0:52.7 | impersonator Jordan Neely |
| 0:54.4 | and the award-winning piano virtuoso Herman Whitfield III. |
| 0:59.5 | Neely was killed by a white man on a subway train. |
| 1:03.3 | Whitfield was killed by two Indianapolis police officers. |
| 1:07.4 | Over the past week, there were acquittals in both cases. We'll speak to Neely's uncle and Whitfield's mother. |
| 1:16.1 | I called for help. I wanted an ambulance. I explained that he was having a mental health crisis. |
| 1:24.7 | And the police came and used force without cause and they killed our son. |
| 1:30.5 | Plus, we'll look at the growing crisis in Haiti. |
| 1:33.6 | After almost 200 people were killed in a massacre in the city's Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. |
| 1:41.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:48.2 | Thank you. Prince. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:55.2 | Israel's militaries continued its massive bombing campaign of Syrian military targets with some 480 strikes |
| 2:03.8 | in just the past 48 hours. |
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