Six states are reporting record coronavirus case increases. New coronavirus infections hit record highs in six US states on Tuesday, marking a rising tide of cases for a second consecutive week as most states moved forward with reopening their economies, Reuters reports. Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas all reported record increases in new cases on Tuesday after recording all-time highs last week. Nevada also reported its highest single-day tally of new cases on Tuesday, up from a previous high on May 23. Hospitalizations are also rising or at record highs. Health officials in many states attribute the spike to businesses reopening and Memorial Day weekend gatherings in late May. Many states are also bracing for a possible increase in cases stemming from tens of thousands of people protesting to end racial injustice and police brutality for the past three weeks. Read more of the Guardian’s live coronavirus coverage : Philadelphia’s police commissioner Danielle Outlaw received racis emails, according to a US attorney who announced charges against a Massachusetts man for sending “vile and disturbing” threats. Peter Fratus, 39, was arrested and charged for sending at least two threatening emails. Outlaw, the first Black woman to lead the Philadelphia’s 6,500-member police department has been tasked with reforming a police force after a series of scandals. In 2019, hundreds of officers were found to have made racist and offensive Facebook posts. The former police commissioner Richard Ross resigned last year after a lawsuit accused him retaliating against an officer after she ended their relationship, and She had been tasked with helping reform a department that faced a series of crises in 2019, including a scandal over hundreds of officers making racist or otherwise offensive Facebook posts, the abrupt resignation of former commissioner Richard Ross over claims in a sexual harassment lawsuit, and stubbornly high levels of gun violence. In recent weeks, Outlaw has faced criticism over the police department’s excessive use of force against protestors. Leadership is broken. From the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality to the marginalisation of minority communities around the world, our leaders are failing us. Self-serving and divisive, they are gambling with public health and the future of younger generations. We have to make them raise their game. This is what the Guardian is for. As an open, independent news organisation we investigate, interrogate and expose the incompetence and indifference of those in power. Your support helps us produce quality, trustworthy, fact-checked journalism every day - and publish it free so everyone can read. Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you. In Tacoma, Washington, the police chief said today he plans to ban chokeholds and require officers to intervene if a colleague uses excessive force. Hallie Golden reports on a recent case of an officer in Tacoma using a chokehold against a Black man: New video released on Monday shows a police officer using a neck restraint on Manuel Ellis, in the crucial moments leading up to the African American man’s death in Tacoma, Washington. The silent video, taken by a man on 3 March in a car directly across the street from the scene, appears to show Ellis in a chokehold, struggling on the ground, when a second officer uses a Taser on him. Ellis is then turned on to his stomach, and at least one officer’s knee is put on his neck or back. “The level of force that the officers used was remarkable,” said James Bible, the lawyer for Ellis’s family. “And there’s nothing that suggests that any portion of what they did was OK at all, including approaching him in any way.” Bible said the man who shot the 59-second video just happened to be driving by the scene, and started recording about 35 seconds to a minute after pulling over “because it was such a shocking event”. The footage contradicts accounts from the Pierce county sheriff’s office that said the officers did not put Ellis in a chokehold and no Tasers were used. New York banned chokeholds. Seattle required de-escalation training. Los Angeles restricted shooting at moving vehicles. But those reforms did not stop police from killing Eric Garner, Charleena Lyles or Ryan Twyman, who died when officers used the very tactics that the changes were supposed to prevent. Since the early days of Black Lives Matter protests six years ago, lawmakers and criminal justice groups have pushed reforms aimed at curtailing discriminatory and deadly police conduct. Some mayors and police chiefs mandated the use of body cameras for police officers. Other local governments passed regulations that banned controversial policing tactics. Departments hired more officers of color, and African American officers took over troubled departments. But as the death of George Floyd continues to spark a national reckoning over police violence and an avalanche of videos has shown militarized officers brutalizing protesters, city leaders are facing mounting pressure to recognize that those incremental reforms have not addressed systemic harms and, as some studies show, have not diminished bad behavior by police. Activists say those realizations have created unprecedented momentum for the more radical ideas they have long promoted, like defunding and abolishing police, and reinvesting in services. Los Angeles’s city council has introduced a measure that would send crisis response teams, rather than police officers, to handle nonviolent situations. The motion instructs the city’s police department to work with the county’s departments of mental health and homeless services to send in unarmed responders in cases of drug abuse, mental health emergencies and other non-violent situations. The policy was introduced by council member Herb Wesson, who said, “We have gone from asking the police to be part of the solution, to being the only solution for problems they should not be called on to solve in the first place.” The measure would allow trained specialists to respond to mental health emergencies, he said. The lawsuit filed by the US against John Bolton aims to stop the former administration official “from compromising national security by publishing a book containing classified information.” But it states that “on or around” 27 April, Ellen Knight, who was reviewing Bolton’s manuscript, “had completed her review and was of the judgment that the manuscript draft did not contain classified information”. After that, the lawsuit details, Bolton reached out several times to inquire about the status of the review, but Knight repeatedly told him that the review process was ongoing and she wasn’t able to provide any information. After contacting Knight three times, the document details, Bolton stopped inquiring and announced that the book could be published on 23 June. Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened will be a critical account of the Trump administration, according to the publisher. Bolton “shows a president addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government”, according to Simon and Schuster. Yesterday Trump told reporters that Bolton would have a “very strong criminal problem” if he publishes the memoir. Trump administration sues to block John Bolton book The Trump administration has asked a federal judge to block the publication of former security adviser John Bolton’s book, arguing that Bolton had breached a contract and would risk exposing classified information. The suit alleges that Bolton’s manuscript is “rife with classified information” and alleges that Bolton backed out of a White House vetting process for the book. Bolton’s lawyer Charles Cooper has said that the administration’s efforts to block publication are “a transparent attempt to use national security as a pretext to censor Mr. Bolton, in violation of his constitutional rights to speak on matters of the utmost public import.” The book is scheduled to be published later this month. The mayor of Richmond, Virginia has fired the city’s police chief, saying, “we are ready to move in a new direction.” Mayor Levar Stoney asked chief William Smith to step down after a police vehicle drove through a crowd of protesters on Saturday night and officers doused peaceful demonstrators in teargas two weeks before. Smith had said that protestors “were intent on provocation and creating mayhem by throwing rocks and other objects at the officers on duty, who showed great restraint in response to these attacks” but witnesses said the demonstrators were respectful until police deployed pepper spray. Hi there, it’s Maanvi — blogging from the West Coast. One of the reasons Donald Trump’s executive order on police reform has drawn criticism is that it never addresses race and racist policing. J’Ron Smith, Deputy Assistant to the President, defended the choice to omit mention of racism. “A lot of people want to make it about race but it’s really about communities and individuals,” he told reporters. “You’re trying to fix something that you can’t really fix, the heart of people, but you can fix individual pieces that deal with the real problem, which is access, opportunity.” The “goal of the order was not to demonize police officers,” according to a senior administration official who spoke to Politico’s Nancy Cook. The executive order, which emphasizes training and incentivizes police departments to review their use-of-force policies, doesn’t go far enough to address the issue, according to critics. Today so far That’s it from me today. My west coast colleague, Maanvi Singh, will take over the blog for the next few hours. Here’s where the day stands so far: Democrats and civil rights groups criticized Trump’s executive order on police reform. Critics said the order, which incentivizes police departments to review their use-of-force policies and ban chokeholds in most cases, does not go far enough to address police brutality after the killing of George Floyd. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell signaled he would be comfortable with renaming military bases named after Confederate generals. The annual defense authorization bill currently includes an amendment laying out a plan to rename the bases within three years, but Trump has said he will “not even consider” the idea. The Buffalo protester who was shoved by police officers has suffered a fractured skull and cannot currently walk. A lawyer for 75-year-old Martin Gugino said in a statement to CNN, “I am not at liberty to elaborate at this time other than to confirm that his skull was fractured.” The two officers who were captured on camera shoving Gugino have pleaded not guilty to assault. Virginia’s governor proposed making Juneteenth a state holiday. “It’s time we elevate this,” Northam said of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in America. “Not just a celebration by and for some Virginians but one acknowledged and celebrated by all of us.” A new poll indicates Joe Biden is pulling farther ahead in Michigan. The Detroit Free Press poll showed Biden leading the president by 16 points in Michigan, which Trump carried in 2016 and will almost certainly need to win again to secure a second term. Maanvi will have more coming up, so stay tuned. Virginia governor proposes making Juneteenth a state holiday Virginia governor Ralph Northam is proposing making Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in America, a state holiday. “It’s time we elevate this,” Northam said at a press conference. “Not just a celebration by and for some Virginians but one acknowledged and celebrated by all of us.” The proposed legislation seems likely to pass, considering both chambers of the Virginia legislature are controlled by Democrats, and Todd Gilbert, the Republican minority leader of the Virginia House of Delegates, said he would support the bill. “July 4th is the birthday of our nation, but Juneteenth is the day where it truly began to fulfill its promise of freedom for all,” Gilbert said in a statement. “For the first time since enslaved Africans landed at Jamestown in 1619, the chains of bondage were finally cast off.” Trump was recently criticized for scheduling his first campaign rally in more than three months on Juneteenth in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of a deadly 1921 race massacre that targeted African Americans and their businesses. In a rare moment of reconsideration from this president, Trump announced on Friday that he was rescheduling the rally for June 20. Men carrying guns and wearing Hawaiian-print shirts, a symbol of the “Boogaloo,” have showed up at protests over the police killing of George Floyd across the country, including in Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Atlanta, and Philadelphia, the Washington Post reported. Boogaloo rhetoric often identifies law enforcement officials, especially federal officials, as the enemy. The term “boogaloo” has also spread among a wide spectrum of pro-gun activists, including in the leadup to a massive protest this January against new gun control laws in Virginia. “The Boogaloo movement is not a defined group,” an FBI agent noted in the affadavit supporting the criminal complaint against Steven Carrillo, who has been charged with murdering two law enforcement officers in Oakland. “In general, followers of the Boogaloo ideology may identify as militia and share a narrative of inciting a violent uprising against perceived government tyranny.” Law enforcement officials discovered a ballistic vest with a “Boogaloo” flag on it in a van they said Carrillo had used, and also alleged that Carrillo had written phrases associated with the movement in his own blood on the hood of a car he hijacked, according to the criminal complaint. The phases in blood included “Boog,” short for “Boogaloo,” and “I became unreasonable,” a phrase associated with Marvin Heemeyer, an anti-government extremist from Colorado who is frequently cited in Boogaloo social media groups, NBC News reported. Heemeyer’s attack happened on June 4, 2004, “almost 16 years to the day,” of Carrillo’s alleged attack on sheriff’s deputies in Santa Cruz, NBC News noted. The man who allegedly killed a federal officer during a George Floyd protest in Oakland had multiple links to the far-right, anti-government “Boogaloo” movement, federal prosecutors said at a press conference on Tuesday. Steven Carrillo, 32, an active-duty US air force sergeant, has now been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two law enforcment officers: Damon Gutzwiller, a sergeant with the Santa Cruz county sheriff’s department, and David Patrick Underwood, a federal protective security officer who worked at a federal building in downtown Oakland. Law enforcement officials identified multiple pieces of evidence that linked Carrillo to a developing anti-government extremist movement associated with the term “Boogaloo,” an ironic word for “a violent uprising or impending civil war in the United States.” The imagery in the Boogaloo flag patch -- an Igloo and a line of Hawaiian print -- reference alternative terms for “Boogaloo” that have spread in social media discussions, including “Big Igloo” and “Big Luau.” While the concept of “the Boogaloo” is popular with white supremacist accelerationists, it has also attracted a broader spectrum of American anti-government extremists, including those who do not think the movement should be racist, as Guardian contributor Jason Wilson and Robert Evans reported in late May.