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struggling surviving. and it may never be the same. this is "cnn tonight." i'm brooke baldwin in for don lemmon. this is the shocking dash cam video you have to see. watch this with me. why police say they saved the suspect's life by ramming him with a police car. plus the suspect in this incredible video. he falls from a horse, is beaten by deputies in california while a news chopper captured this whole scene. he tells his story right here live tonight. and this. imagine you're in a crowd of hundreds of people broad daylight when you realize a terrible crime is being committed right next to you. would you do something about it? are you sure? it happened to a young woman who was allegedly gang-raped in a
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crowded florida beach during spring break. the crime caught on camera and authorities say no one did anything to stop it. how can that happen? tonight, dr. drew weighs in. and the chipotle effect ladies and gentlemen. is hillary clinton headed to a fast food joint near you? we have a lot to get to tonight. i want to start with one of the most shocking dash cam videos ever and i have to warn you, it's graphic. my ranno, arizona, it happened february 19th. this was aren't 11:00 in the morning when the suspect walking down the road mario valencia, allegedly robbed a 7-eleven in his underwear, set a fire at a church. we'll play it again, as you watch him walk. he apparently entered a home stole a car, later stole a gun from a walmart. the suspect allegedly pointed the gun at an officer tailing him, turned away fired in the air, police say in an area of
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local businesses. it was crowded. i know it makes you gasp. i've seen this multiple times tonight and i continue to gasp. about 300, 400 people around waving this rifle. that's when another patrol car, as you're seeing zoomed past and ran into him. i can tell you that he was in the hospital for two days. he's now in the pima county jail's medical unit. so first up tonight, joining me via skype, the chief of the marana arizona, police department. good evening. >> good evening, brooke. how are you? >> i'm all right. let's talk about you and this officer. my first question is whose decision was it to use the patrol car to stop mr. valencia from waiveving that rifle? >> that was the decision of the officer that actually used the force. if i could just correct a couple of things. number one, the suspect isn't in a medical unit. he was cleared without any injuries two days after the
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incident and is currently awaiting trial at this time. >> we were told by his public defender that he is currently in the medical unit in the jail but i understand if that's the information you've got. i also understand you're telling me it was the officer who decided to use his patrol car like that. given everything you know about this whole situation tonight, sir, was it the right call? >> well i think there's a lot of things to consider in a situation like this. and certainly, there's going to be a number of people critiquing from all directions. and i think we have to welcome that. i think we have to embrace that. it's part of what we do and if those critiques aren't coming then you know we're out there doing things that maybe we shouldn't be. in this situation, i should tell you that it escalated very quickly. and the subject who had the gun refused to obey commands from the officers who was giving those commands telling him to put it down. he had multiple opportunities to put the gun down and walk away
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and he didn't. if the situation is exacerbated by the fact that he then gets very close to some businesses that are occupied by several hundred people. at some point, we have to take an action and if we don't take an action we certainly don't know what the individual's going to do but we can't allow him to get to the point where he enters the office complex. we can't allow him the opportunity to take somebody who's in the parking lot hostage to do a carjacking or something o that nature. so i'll grant you 100% in fact when i watched the video for the first time i had the same reaction you did. it's graphic, it's violent, but at the same toke it warranted deadly force, given all the circumstances. it would have been completely justified in shooting the individual to the use of force that's utilized by this officer, and he does a great job, quite frankly, or articulating the thought process and why he did what he did, and it put an end
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to this guy's crime spree and -- >> no, i understand. i mean i hear you loud and clear. i know the priority is the safety of the people in the community and in the surrounding area and even potentially his own safety. according to some reports, he was pointing this loaded rifle at himself. i do find some of the reaction from some of the officers newsworthy. let me someplace something else. this is a different perspective, a different patrol car, before you see the actual car hitting him, you hear this officer anticipate it and react. take a listen. >> unit right there, stand off, stand off, the gun is loaded. unit on -- stand off! >> i mean you're hearing him saying stay off, stay off, and then you hear the officer say, "oh, jesus christ," he says "man down." two questions for you tonight and i've got to let you go chief. one, what other ways what other
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methods could your officers have taken as opposed to using a patrol car. and two, has anything happened to this officer? >> first of all, to clarify, the officer that's speaking there is not speaking to the officers behind him. he doesn't even know the officer is behind him. he's speaking to an officer who's at the end of the street telling him not to come any closer because the subject has a .30-.30 rifle, so he's not talking to that officer. so yeah he was surprised, absolutely the officer was shocked in that situation. as far as other things that we could have done, yeah you can monday morning quarterback and you certainly have the benefit in, you know not being a patrol officer anymore, i have the benefit of sitting in my officer or sleeping on things to make those kind of decisions. this officer made a split-second decision and in retrospect when all the dust clears i think we look at this and say,
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yeah there's things we can learn from this but the entire community is safe, all the officers are safe and even the suspect in this case is safe. >> that's right. he's okay. and i really do appreciate you taking the time with me tonight. because, listen no one's casting any judgment. i'm trying to get to the bottom of it and hear every single perspective first from you as the chief of police there. thank you so much. and now, you know the other side of this. let me bring in michelle cohen metzger, the public defender for mario valencia. michelle welcome to you. >> thank you. >> listen you heard the police chief saying your client was there, it sounds like he had had quite a morning, a crime spree. he's waving this rifle, people are in the area could have taken his own life and his argument is that he you know, the safety of others was his priority in having this officer taking him down. your response to that? >> a couple of things i would like to clarify. based on the records that i've
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looked at and even what's out in the media, i don't think it's at all clear that the officers had made the conclusion that this was the same individual that had been on this quote/unquote crime spree. and he was not waving around the rifle at anybody. he was clearly suicidal. he was clearly in crisis. he was not threatening anybody. he had put the gun to his head multiple times and then when we see the video, he has the gun straight up in the air and shoots it off one time. we also then don't hear any officers giving commands to my client to put down the gun, any effort whatsoever to try and de-escalate the situation, to have a conversation with him. >> but let me just jump in,
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michelle. i once you're clarify welcome the chief wants to clarify, this is your client. you're saying maybe he had the wrong guy. bottom line he's out there and he does have this rifle. whether he's waving it or not, there are people in the area when he could have taken his own life there are officers around. why not -- and i understand it sounds like you know you have questions maybe over his mental state, but why not just let police take him in? >> well taking police -- having police take him in sure but the method that they used was excessive. >> but they wouldn't have had to use that method if he would thrown his arms up and said okay. >> i'm sorry? >> they wouldn't have had had to use that message, they wouldn't have had to use the patrol car if he would have stopped where he was, realized what he was doing with this rifle was wrong. >> right, but you're making certain assumptions about his mental state and his ability to do those things.
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that's why we have things like crisis response teams and that's why we train officers to be able to de-escalate situations. this was the ultimate opposite of that and, you know, i find it ludicrous to say that we're saving this man's life who's suicidal by almost killing him. i mean he could have died. it's miraculous that he didn't die, given how hard he was hit. >> is he just to clarify, because i was talking to the chief of police and he said no no no this man is fine he's not in a medical unit. it's my understanding from hearing notes from you he is in a medical unit in the jail. is he or is he not? >> i have had conversations with him while he's in the medical unit. as of today, i don't know if he's been moved out of the medical unit or not, and if he was moved out, i don't know when that happened. and i can't speak to his particular medical condition, because of you know hipaa laws and things like that. >> i understand. i would never ask you. michelle metzger, public defender thank you so much for
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joining me. let me turn to candice mccoy professor of criminal justice at the graduate center the city university of new york and also retired new york police detective, harry hauk. to both of you, welcome. harry, there's a lot to sort through. you hear the chief's side and hear his argument and hear this from the public defender. in all your years in law enforcement here in new york city have you ever heard of an officer using a patrol car in that manner? >> yeah. >> how many times? >> at least twice i can remember. you know would you rather fill him through of holes, shoot him up or hit him with a car where he could probably survive. but that's not the issue. the issue is you had a man here and they had a confrontation with him earlier and they were following him. this man had a rifle. what if some children came running out of a building and he started to shoot and he killed a kid, we'd be talking about, why
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didn't the police react faster. i don't care what his psychological position is he is putting people's lives in danger walking down the street. allegedly he had pointed the weapon at a police officer in the vehicle. in the video, you can see him fire a shot. he fired a shot in the air. he's suicidal. he doesn't care if he lives or dies? what are the options police officers have at this time? number one you can't diddle around. you've got to get in there and take this guy out quickly. if they get into a shoot-out, maybe a police officer is killed and bullets flying all over the place. that wasn't a good idea. but this officer, former nypd i might add, decided the best way to take this guy out was to hit him with the car. i'm 100% for it. save a lot of lives. >> how would he know to do that? given training he was nypd according to you. >> you've got to think on your head. you've got to think on your toes and say, okay i'm a police officer, i've got to make a
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split action decision here. a man is walking down the street and he's got a gun, nobody's doing nothing. >> it's risky. >> you got to do it. that's what we get paid for. we get paid for taking the risks. that's what this officer did. he should be commended. >> candice, do you agree? do you think they should be commended? do you think this was the best option given what we know? >> i don't know about the commendations. i do know that the primary purpose of the police is to protect life. and this gentleman, suspect, mr. valencia had, in fact shot. you can hear the shot on the tape. in fact from what we know he was dangerous to himself and others probably. now, he's protecting the life of mr. valencia by not putting everybody in the situation of
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having to shoot mr. valencia. so i do agree with mr. houck that given the options, this was a way to put an end to the situation without putting the police officers' lives in danger and being able to simply stop the suspect, mr. valencia from shooting himself or others. now, the public defender of mr. valencia i think, is also correct in saying it could have been much worse. it could have been really bad. and -- >> in terms of the riskiness of this maneuver. >> on the other hand, the point is -- >> quickly. >> what can you do? >> right, thinking on your feet to harry's feet. it's not like they have training on taking their patrol cars and
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doing this. >> elwell this was arizona, not new york. and patrol cars in arizona are much more used. >> different situation, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions. we've got to move along for. we talk about that piece of video. there's something else i have to share with you. when we come back another violent incident also caught on camera but this one may be more shocking for what it actually does not show. nobody tries to help this young woman, allegedly gang-raped on a florida beach, broad daylight during spring break. we'll talk to dr. drew and ask him how so many people could just stand there and let this happen. plus you saw the suspect fall from a horse and then be punched and kicked by these deputies. tonight, he is here, he's sharing his story.
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welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. growing outrage tonight over the alleged gang rape of a young woman during spring break in panama city beach, florida. police say it happened in broad daylight on a crowded beach, and you know what? no one did a thing to stop it. the victim believes she was drugged. two college students have been arrested. . but in a big break for authorities, the incident was recorded on cell phone. part of that video has been released and i have to warn you, you may have find it tough to watch. here's cnn's alexandra field.
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>> reporter: panama beach, florida, spring break the way you've seen it. but just a few feet away the images we can't show. >> people were more interested in spilling their beer than they were about what was happening right next to them. and it was happening two or three feet away from them. >> reporter: a brutal gang rape on this beach in broad daylight last month. a party raging while a young woman is assaulted by at least three men. >> it pissed me off. they looked like wild animals feeding on a corpse in the middle of the woods, on a carcass. i mean it's just a frenzy. >> reporter: ryan calhoun and delante, students arrested but only after video of the attack comes to light during a separate investigation by police in alabama into an unrelated crime. both students have been suspended. no one on the beach ever reported anything to police. >> she was totally incapacityate
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incapacitated. she was not even moving at some points. and one point in the video, she actually was able to get her hand up and grab a hand and try to move it. >> the victim is identified only after parts of the video are made public by the bay county sheriff's office. she says she doesn't remember being raped and only realized it when she saw the video. the sheriff says it's possible she'd been drugged. >> if not for this video, would she have had any idea what happened to her? >> well she knew something happened. she didn't know exactly what happened. >> more videos of the attack have come to light and police say they've uncovered videos of other incidents of lewd behavior on that beach that merit more investigation. they're looking for anything they haven't found, trying to separate endless images of questionable spring break behavior from unreported crimes. >> there is a problem out there. it's not occurring every day,
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but more importantly, it's indicative of the fact that there are things going on out there that we don't even know about. >> reporter: all of it casting a dark shadow over a spring break that police say has spun out of control. alexandra field, cnn, panama city, florida. >> cnn attempts to reach calhoun and marteze for comment has been unsuccessful. neither man has made any public statements. let me bring in dr. drew. listening to that sheriff, he says he's pissed off, i'm pissed off. and listen i've been to panama city beach and i've been on spring break. but to think of a crowded beach, broad daylight. and this apparently happening and no one doing a darned thing. how is that possible? >> right. it's almost unthinkable. and yet if you've ever been down there during spring break, it starts to begin to make sense. i've been down there to try to speak to crowds down there and looked across the kids and
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thought to myself oh, my goodness all i see here is alcoholic and sex addicts. and every time you find an adverse outcome, you find alcohol and substances. this young woman thinks she was drugged. i bet she was not. i bet it was strictly alcohol related. we do not raise our young people to understand that when someone is incapacitated by alcohol, this woman should have been taken to an emergency. she could have just as easily aspirated and died. instead, she becomes the victim of a gang rape and it happened in front of other effect. we all know a bystander effect. this is more than the bystander effect. the more people around the more you're likely to stand by and not help somebody. this is about something endemic in our culture, both in the spring break culture and on our college campuses. we have institutionalized binge drinking and hooking up culture. it's becoming normative, so
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these kids don't even understand they're engaging in criminal behavior when people are in a condition to not even be able to defend themselves. >> and the fact that this young woman says she doesn't even remember that it happened. she saw the video surface on -- >> alcohol. >> on the news. she recognized her tattoos and said my god, that was me. >> yes, that's right. and if you go to college campuses and you measure adverse outcomes whether it is a sexually transmitted disease or unwanted sexual contact or an injury a fight, an accident whatever it is you always found alcohol and you find binge alcohol more than anything else. and it is the un -- the whole hookup culture that is so indoctrinated that these kids those that aren't necessarily addicts, alcoholics sex addicts, which are people who are encouraged to spin out of control, the other kids have to consume enough alcohol to deal with their anxiety of just keeping pace with how unnatural and anxiety-provoking their
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social structures are. and then they go to spring break where this is just encouraged. there are rooms -- i've been to those bars there are rooms where people are encouraged to do things just like what had on that beach. >> but the fact that she says she doesn't even remember that it happened. i hear you, you're saying you think it was just alcohol, but i want to say, how is that possible because i know it is when you have too much. she thinks she was drugged. >> it happens all the time. >> it happens all the time when people do not remember. you're gang-raped? >> it's not just when they don't remember brooke. that happens all the time when they don't remember and still appear to be walking around and having their faculties in tact. what also happens all the time is people are completely incapacitated to the point they can't move and they don't remember. they're unconscious and they don't remember. and they're peers don't take them to medical care. it's how people die as well of alcohol poise png >> okay. dr. drew pinsky thank you so much. coming up next caught on
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it's an incident that has shocked people across this country. deputies in san bernardino county california subduing a suspect last week. the whole thing caught by a camera by this news helicopter. the suspect, here tried to get away on a horse, but once on the ground he was repeatedly punched and kicked by these deputies multiple investigations are now underway. joining me now, francis pushock, the suspect who was beaten and his attorneys. welcome to all of you tonight. and francis, let me begin with you. i once when you were in the middle of this on thein the desert on the ground you thought that you were going to die? >> i did. >> tell me what happened. tell me how many times you were kicked and beaten. do you recall? >> it felt like an eeternity.
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i thought it was never going to end. >> do i still see a bruised left eye here some of your injuries from that incident last week? >> yeah. a lot of my injuries are underneath but you can see a few bruises on my head or lacerations on the head and my eye. >> francis, have you actually -- >> if i could just add -- >> have you seen it yourself? >> a few times i've seen edited versions of it. >> and your thoughts watching yourself in this video? >> completely unnecessary. even without watching the video, completely unnecessary. >> jim, i want to talk to you in just a second but francis, let me stay with you. i understand this all began after deputies were trying to serve a search warrant in this
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identity theft investigation. you hopped in a car, you got out of there. at some point, you stole a horse. this whole pursuit with deputies this thing lasted two hours. i have to ask, why were you running? >> i left the house originally. the cops were coming to -- they tried ramming me and they sent me through a fence, and i've had previous encounters where they have beaten me so i was trying to avoid that. >> i understand previous encounters also involve convictions, according to court records, resisting arrest animal cruelty, attempted robbery. is that correct as well sir? >> that's correct. >> so when you're there, in the desert you're -- what's happening? you're being tased, they're punching you, they're kicking you. in your head at the time why do
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you think they were doing that? >> i believe that's their protocol. >> that sort of excessive force you think -- >> i think they're trained that way. >> why do you think that? >> i -- uh bad trainers. wrong trainers. >> for their side of this let me just let our viewers know of course we reached out to the sheriff's department tonight, and they referred us to the news conference on friday. just some of the notes from that sheriff john mcmahon what he saw based in the video, the use of force appears to be excessive, this is what he acknowledged. an administrative and criminal investigation is being conducted and if there is criminal whereon doink wrongdoing they acknowledged that they will take action. ten deputies francis, they're on administrative leave.
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what would you like to have happen to them? >> i would like to fbi to look their background and see their history history, see if there's any excessive force, multiple incidents of excessive force. >> and if there is -- >> i know, just a -- >> go ahead, please jump in sharon. >> on my behalf brooke i know our client has discussed that he wants this to stop. he wants there to be reform. he wants accountability. the reason he fled in the first place is because he has been beaten in the past and there's documented evidence of that. and he didn't want that to happen again. he knew it was going to happen and it did happen. i know he's had some long confers conversations with us about, it has to stop. and he doesn't want anyone else to go through what he went go through. it was just so brutal.
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>> and this is an ongoing problem we have here. both sharon and myself are also involved in another case with another fbi ongoing investigation as to how this department runs the jail. this isn't a new thing about people being fearful or brutality on the roads and highways in san bernardino county. this is something that goes on all the time. and i know after talking to francis, the number one thing he wants is for this to stop. we want some kind of thing like the fbi or the civil rights division in washington, d.c. involved. there's not going to be a solution by the sheriff at all. that's not going to happen. >> i once you want the other investigations and we'll be following all of this with you to see where this goes with these multiple investigations. francis pusok, jim terrell, sharon brunner, thank you, the three of you tonight for your time. i really appreciate it. coming up next the latest news on the tulsa volunteer deputy who's charged with manslaughter in a shooting death of a suspect there. he claims he meant to fire his
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robert bates turned himself in today. he's the 73-year-old tulsa volunteer deputy who shot and killed a suspect when he was allegedly mistook his gun for his taser. the shooting was caught on camera and bates was charged with second-degree manslaughter and this is certainly not the only case of violence by law enforcement to be caught on camera. cnn's stephanie elam has more on that. >> reporter: the examples are nationwide. police officers is often caught on video, accused of excessive use of force. we've seen it in south carolina. 50-year-old walter scott, running away from officer michael slager, who wul pulls his gun and shoots scott from behind several times. slager has been fired and is in jail charged with murder. and in oklahoma where police say reserve deputy robert bates meant to fire his taser. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: instead fires his gun, killing 44-year-old eric harris.
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bates is now facing a second-degree manslaughter charge. in ohio a cleveland police officer is on trial for the 2012 deaths of timothy russell and melissa williams. after a chase, michael brilow fired shots into the car. these cases are the exceptions. according to the "washington post," only 54 on-duty officers have been charged since 2005, despite the thousands of is people police fatally shot during that same period. police advocates would say that's because the use of force was justified. and in the cases that have been resolved most of those officers were cleared or acquitted. >> it's not surprising that police are prosecuted for lethal force, much less than regular civilians. because factually, the reality is police are expert testifiers. it's not necessarily being dishonest or disengineingenuousdisingenuous
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it's marshaling the facts in a way that would best serve their own interests. >> in officer, ten officers were on leave after a knbc helicopter caught them beating up 35-year-old francis pusok at the end of a pursuit. while he's disturbed by what he saw in the video, john mcmahon of the san bernardino county sheriff's department says it can be difficult for officers to pull back the reins after a chase. >> it is very difficult at times to control your emotions and clearly to control the adrenaline adrenaline. not that that's an excuse but it is certainly a challenge that deputy sheriff and law enforcement officers across the entire country face every single day. >> reporter: a challenge that slager in south carolina can be heard acknowledging right after killing walter scott. >> probably a good idea to jot down your thoughts about whatever happened once the adrenaline stops pumping. >> it's pumping. >> oh, yeah oh, yeah. >> reporter: officers under pressure not just in the heat of the moment but to explain
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themselves after. >> joining me now, samuelson young, a researcher and analyst who studies police shootings in america. and samuels, i know it's tough to find toile numbers. there seems to be at least anecdotally, more officer-involved shootings recently. what do your numbers show you? >> so first, thanks for having me. what we've seen by comparing the most comprehensive databases out there, which are the killed by police database and the fatal encounters database, and coding for race we've been able to find that police shootings are on the rise. for example, just in february 85 people were killed by police. in march, 115 people were killed by police. it's a 35% increase. for black people in particular the rates are going up at a faster rate. so 71% more black people were killed by police just this past march, compared to february. >> how are you, samuel how are you collecting your numbers? >> so a recent report from the bureau of justice statistics
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basically admitted that the official tasks were under counting the number of people killed by police by over 50%. luckily, nate silver auditdyed the most comprehensive database on police killings and found that their records were 100% accurate. what we've done is taken those records and coded them by race to come out with a comprehensive database that we anticipate is about 90% of the total universe of police killings. these are sourced from local media reports. >> okay. i know you mentioned race. one finding we just wanted to point out to our viewers, black people were nearly three times more likely than whites to be killed by police in 2014. what more can you tell me about that. >> so as you said it's a much higher rate with black people. black people are being targeted by police. we've counted at least 304 black people killed by police in 2014 alone. as i said, the numbers are actually on the rise. and so what we have found is
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that actually these numbers are nationwide. indeed ferguson is everywhere. but what we've also found, there are particular places where police violence and police killings are more severe than other places. >> how do you mean targeted specifically? let me push you on that. >> by targeted i mean police are overpolicing in black and brown communities, in particular in black communities. we know that police are more likely to kill unarmed black people compared to unarmed white people or people of other races. so by targeted police across the country are more severe when encountering a black victim versus a white victim and we have the data to show that. >> samuel researcher and activist trying to keep those numbers. thank you very much. >> thank you. coming up tonight, hillary clinton was under the radar in chipotle yesterday. today, as deputy reporters chased down her presidential scooby van, is this the new hillary?
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jones street java house. candidate clinton is on the road. joining me to talk about this is ben ferguson host of "the ben ferguson show," and also with us mark lamont hills, political commentary. howdy to both of you all. let's begin with the much ado about this chipotle video. here's the new nugget today. she was at a community college today, a very intimate forum, answering questions. but everyone's talking about this video of hillary clinton with the shades in the chi chipotle. here's the news. that "new york times" reporter maggie haberman was apparently tipped off to this stop. she then called the manager. they were like what hillary clinton wasn't ear, checked the surveillance tape alas she was. ben, how do you even think -- was this camp clinton calling maggie haberman? we don't know. what was this? >> it's the weirdest thing i've ever seen in my entire life. if you're hillary clinton and trying to be the normal new, i feel your pain candidate, i'm
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not stiff, i love you, i'm going to almost be as nice and as friendly as my husband is if that's your goal why not say hi to someone at the chipotle? wearing your sunglasses i don't think, is going to necessarily help you here especially when you're in the scooby van. i mean it maybe one of the most odd things i've ever seen a campaign do where it's like hey, i'm hillary. i'm literally on the road to meet people and i'm not going to talk to anyone at chipotle so they don't notice me. >> i mean maybe she just wanted to enjoy her chicken burrito bowl in private and carry her tray to her table, mark lamont hill. >> or maybe she expected that they would respond -- look she's supposed to have 100% name pid. i.d.. >> one recognized her. >> i'm more judging the people of chipotle. >> let's juxtapose this of course "saturday night live." remember all the days of the jogs and the trips to mcdonald's. it was a bit of a different
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scene. roll it. >> speak of the devil, that's one of those mclean sandwiches isn't it? >> would you like to try it? >> maybe just a bite. mm. mm that's not bad. but you know my national service trust fund will allow every student, like yourself -- do you mind if i wash it down? >> mark i mean that was a very -- right, bill clinton. we going to see more of that. is she going to take a page out of her husband's playbook and say hello to more people when she's getting her fast food? what's going on? >> she's already taking a page out of the playbook. mcdonald's was the it spot 20 years ago. every investor every pop culture expert says that chipotle is the new mcdonald's. the stock has gone up 480% in the last four years. millennials love it because it's supposed to be fresher and give you more choices.
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she basically did what clintons do. they figured out, what's the best fad foodst food spot to be at. >> yet not meet any of the voters. this is the thing here. you can try to morph hillary clinton into this really nice grandmother. i don't think a lot of people are going to buy it. i think she is the strong powerful -- >> she was saying hello to those at the java house -- >> yeah but -- >> i hear you. i hear you. >> can we please move on to actually i think this is my favorite slice of video of the day. standby for our audio. and i want you both to listen for the commentator from msnbc, this is a stampede of correspondents. wait for it. you're going to hear. watch the guy with the orange pants. >> she's going around to the back -- wow, they're -- >> we'll see her very soon. >> guy in the orange pants is pretty quick. alex i mean i'm looking at these people -- wow! orange pants, he's really
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outnumbered now, by all the people that are racing around the back. i'm glad that you have not taken off from your live shot and you remain with me. but that was the intended area where she was supposed to go in in the back? >> well the campaign didn't tell us exactly -- >> i don't know if this is the kentucky derby. alas it's not. folks, listen i'm a member of the media. these are my colleagues racing around to try to catch the scooby van. is this the beginning, mark lamont hill? >> yes! and we have 18 more months of this. every twitch every move every burrito bowl we're going to be following all of it. i can't wait until there's some competition in this race so we don't spend all of our time chasing down hillary clinton's every move. have been even if you like her, she's not that interesting. we're going to be bored stiff if we don't get some new candidates in the field. >> this is the democrats most
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you hear a lot of stories these days about entrepreneurs, but you've never heard one quite like this. a pair of visionaries doing what it takes to make their dream a reality. they want to be the first-ever moguls of marijuana. they are featured in the cnn original series "high profits," which premieres sunday night at 10:00 eastern. here's a preview. >> they're parasites. they've got no contribution to this society. they're preying on our community and our kids. and it's going to end badly. we've got exactly $100,000 in cash in the back of this car. i bet there's guys right there in that prison for doing just what we're about to do. >> i want the breckenridge cannabis club to be a household name. >> this is us pioneering a new industry. >> he's going after every resort town in colorado. his town is brilliant. >> this is a big boy operation now. >> we are not the amsterdam of the rockies. we're breckenridge.
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