Trump signs policing reform order, defends police; Model cited by WH predicts 201,000 deaths by October; Study: People under age 20 half as likely to contract virus; "Vigilante" militia suspected of instigating violence at protest; Food banks overwhelmed by Americans laid off due to COVID-19;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Trump signs executive order incentivizing police reform; VP Pence can't say whether it's harder to be black in America; Trump defends police, says "very tiny" percentage of cops are bad; Trump order incentivizes local depts to ban chokeholds, doesn't mandate ban; New model predicts 201,000+ deaths by October, blames easing of social distancing for new spikes; NYT: Pence tells govs. to push misleading stats on testing; NJ will publicly identify cops who commit "serious" violations; Pence Op-ed: There isn't a coronavirus 'second wave';Fmr Obama health adviser reacts to White House Rose Garden event with few masks and social distancing; Albuquerque Police arrest man for shooting protester; Philadelphia court staffer fired after tearing down BLM signs, says black lives don't matter to him; N Korea destroys facility hours after threat of military force; North Korea destroys building used for talks with South Korea; 60% more Americans need food banks to feed families during coronavirus; DC food bank sees 400% increase since COVID-19 began; Food banks struggle with increased demand, supply shortages, donations down;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with the politics lead. |
| 0:06.2 | President Trump this afternoon signed an executive order enacting new policing reforms |
| 0:12.0 | in the wake of weeks of nationwide protests about policing in the |
| 0:15.6 | United States sparked by the police killing of George Floyd. The executive |
| 0:20.3 | order includes some modest changes such as setting financial incentives for local police departments to establish credentialing programs. |
| 0:27.5 | It also incentivizes police departments to ban chocolts. |
| 0:32.0 | President Trump today claimed this moment was about finding common ground |
| 0:36.0 | and bringing together law enforcement with the communities |
| 0:39.0 | they are supposed to serve and protect. |
| 0:42.0 | The President cloaked the event in full-throated pro-police |
| 0:44.9 | language, defending police at large, saying that only a quote, very tiny number of police officers |
| 0:50.5 | are bad. The president in addition lied about the Obama administration |
| 0:56.0 | saying President Obama and Vice President Biden quote never even tried to |
| 0:59.7 | fix this during their eight years. In fact, the Obama administration pushed many |
| 1:04.1 | policing reform measures and its Justice Department entered into special |
| 1:07.6 | agreements with police forces called consent degrees, specifically with |
| 1:11.4 | 12 police departments accused of abuses. |
| 1:14.0 | The Trump administration has significantly reduced what are called pattern or practice |
| 1:18.4 | investigations that lead to consent decrees and undermined other parts of the Obama policing reform program. |
| 1:24.2 | Which should not be surprising, given that on December 1st, 2014, when Obama truly began initiating |
| 1:30.9 | many of those policing reforms, |
| 1:32.7 | then Citizen Trump tweeted, |
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