14 Jul
News and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective
Boris Johnson a liar with his back against the wall, says French FM
Video by FRANCE 24 Text by NEWS WIRES
In Boris Johnson, Britain has appointed a liar with his back against the wall as its new foreign secretary at a time when somebody reliable is needed in the role, his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Thursday.
Johnson campaigned successfully for Britons to vote to leave the European Union last month. In France, a founding EU member, he is seen as a key player in the departure and in the setback to European integration it represents.
“I am not at all worried about Boris Johnson, but… during the campaign he lied a lot to the British people and now it is he who has his back against the wall,” said Ayrault on Europe 1 radio.
After the vote on June 23, Johnson turned his back on a chance to stand as prime minister in place of Conservative David Cameron, who stepped down having led the campaign to stay.
However, on Wednesday, Cameron’s successor, Theresa May, appointed the former mayor of London and one-time journalist as her foreign secretary.
Johnson will not be in charge of talks about how the divorce will be arranged. May named David Davis, a pro-Brexit former Conservative Party leader, to a special ministerial role for that purpose.
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She may lack a grand political vision, but in a time of national crisis, her calm consistency and sense of moral duty may be just what is called for
by Gaby Hinsliff
For a woman on the verge of running the country, Theresa May has seemed almost preternaturally calm over the past few days.
“She’s basically the same as ever; quite relaxed and cheerful. There’s no sense of the prison shades falling,” says a longstanding friend who has observed her closely during the campaign. But then, unlike Andrea Leadsom, seemingly badly shaken by a single weekend of hostile media coverage, May knew better than anyone what to expect.
Over the past six years, May has weathered riots, sat in on a decision to go to war, and chaired an emergency Cobra meeting in the prime minister’s absence following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby………….
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Dylan Noble was killed after being pulled over at California gas station
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Multiple shots were fired even as he was wounded and lying on his back
Sam Levin in San Francisco
The Fresno, California, police department released graphic body-camera footage of officers repeatedly shooting an unarmed teenager, including multiple shots that were fired as the adolescent was gravely wounded, lying on his back and barely moving. Dylan Noble, 19, was shot at a gas station last month
Police in California have released graphic body-camera footage of officers repeatedly shooting an unarmed teenager, including multiple shots that were fired as the adolescent was gravely wounded, lying on his back and barely moving.
The release on Wednesday of video of the killing of Dylan Noble, a 19-year-old shot at a gas station in Fresno on 25 June, occurred just hours after the police department told the Guardian it would not release the footage.
Officers privately showed the video to Noble’s family last Friday but had initially refused to release the video to the public until the investigation was complete.
“They just wanted to shoot him,” said Darren Noble, Dylan’s father, after watching the footage. “They’re just trigger-happy.”
After watching the footage, Noble’s family launched legal action against the city alleging that the shooting was “an inexcusable use of excessive force”.
According to the Fresno police department’s account of the shooting, officers pulled Noble over while investigating reports of a man carrying a rifle at around 3.20pm.
Police claim that the officers believed Noble had a gun, though they later learned he had no weapons on him or in his pickup truck…………….
From the death of teenager Trayvon Martin to this month’s killing of Philando Castile, cellphone, dashcam or CCTV footage has lifted the lid on police violence
Phoebe Greenwood in Maiduguri
This footage posted to Facebook Live on Wednesday night appears to show the moments after police shot a man dead during a traffic stop in Minnesota. A woman sits in a car with a man whose shirt is soaked in blood. She says the police officer in the footage has shot her boyfriend. Local reports have named the man as 32-year-old Philando Castile
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This video has been shortened. The original can be viewed here.
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Aftermath of black man’s shooting by Minnesota police caught on video
Since the death of Eric Garner in New York almost two years ago, a series of disturbing videos documenting police violence have emerged around the United States. Some, as in the case of Garner, were filmed by witnesses on mobile phones, others were captured by police dashboard or body cameras, and some were recorded on CCTV. In many cases the footage has gone viral on social media, leading to protests, criminal charges, and increased scrutiny of the local police departments responsible. But on other occasions the videos have made little impact.
The death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, Staten Island, New York
Date of incident: 17 July 2014
Footage filmed by a bystander shows Eric Garner being wrestled to the ground in a chokehold by an NYPD officer before turning limp. The father, 43, can be heard gasping ‘I can’t breathe’. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Protests have erupted in New York after a grand jury failed to indict the officer responsible
Warning: contains upsetting images
• Protests continue in cities across America after Garner decision
The cellphone video, filmed by eyewitness Ramsey Orta, captured both the buildup to Garner’s death, the altercation, in which the unarmed African American was placed in a banned chokehold and repeatedly told officers he could not breathe, and the aftermath, where minimal medical assistance was offered to Garner as he died.
The incident caused widespread protest, and condemnation from New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, but officer Daniel Pantaleo was not indicted by a grand jury. A federal investigation is still ongoing. Garner’s family settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $5.9m……………
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