and all of you for coming year and listen to me babble for the last 45 minutes and help people think about that relationship or to help understand a community that made you never had contact with before so thank you for coming the of book is for sale. [applause] >> up next from the radical book fair at the baltimore book festival andrea ritchie leads a discussion on how women of color are affected

by police violence. [inaudible conversations] >> i am so glad to see this. un gone to the overthrowing of a russian we're at the radical. it is worlds where you find those books you cannot find anywhere else? they are breaking down information this is a subject we are come -- getting into also a

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make sure you grab the schedule defined what is going on. i'm excited to hear this conversation today because tenures ago this november when nephew was killed by a frederick county deputy on what should have been a routine noise complaint. that ended up in his death half a couple of hours later. the civil trial that my family brought against them or ruled against all seven counts so even in my processing none of us could believe that that time the overwhelming tragic ways

that would follow in the 10 years since. and as the names of michael brown have been lifted up as a rallying call we hear those names those are the extreme cases of murder with interaction between women that identify the person with their police districts. andrea ritchie will present her book "invisible no more" she is day black immigrant and attorney and organizer

and as we can see with those people of color of transgendered. with a gender and sexuality and to tell people to move and. and we are enthusiastic. translator: tying the -- [applause] >> thanks for the introduction now to the issues to convince thanks for hosting today and there is a lot tucci is from with programming today so i am thankful i will start by

talking for a few minutes about the book and and then we'll do a conversation for thoseof ron the front lines to challenge those issues to create issues where black women or girls here in baltimore cannot i know it is warm but let's hang in there and work together. and a national conversation to reignite in a number of police killings with the death of freddie grey and the police officers looking

a police violence with of its history and today about policing or racial profiling or mass incarceration in than targeting at their own right. i am excited to go here today end there is a lot of baltimore in "invisible no more" and in many respects and then to reflect a national trend if you get the baltimore police department arrest data of black women make up 71 percent of all women here in baltimore city.

and as it could impact women and that is the same across the country weather driving while black or reading or walking, brings the numbers down by race and gender. in fact, and ferguson to have more traffic stops than any other group of people. not just does say one of the incidents but as something that affects black women and women of color every day. the more it -- the majority of arrest or drug-related. the attorney general is talking ramping up the war on drugs but that puts women

of color squarely in their sights. but in terms of the national trend that women have been the fastest growing jail prison population 50% faster than men. black women are frustrated at twice the rate. and that is largely based on the war on drugs. end to that invasive and body cavity searches without a strip search and that experience and those

searches and take place on a daily basis that is out of a war on drugs is raised on black women with the perception there always using or hiding drugs on their body. and don the historical motions we although it is a thing and how they experience that that the officer was not held accountable. so across the country there for prostitution that leads to a huge disparity in with that context of prostitution we will hear more in a moment.

there are a number of cases that our reflective in the book. so there is a case many have heard of of a 15 year-old girl that was wildly insulted. and run the police arrived they trigger to the ground put her in handcuffs and pepper sprayed per in the back of the patrol car washy is handcuffed would not let her wash her face until she got to the precinct. and then to be assaulted by a police officer at the pool party you receive the video. and l's that were dragged across the room in south carolina.

so what is happening here? the baltimore sun did an investigation of morgan state university student coming down from work one afternoon and when the police showed up the girls started the fight we're gone and they said go chase those girls i saw an expert witness to an assault one of the officers lunch never wrapped in arms around her neck and threw her round even though they were screaming she is pregnant and threw her down on the ground like a rag doll. and assault of her had a knee in her back and neck. she was not accused of any crime and had done no wrong. the officer later say we

hear that all the time they are pregnant so they have no care for her health or for the child she was carrying four --- carrying. to be part of that national trend against women is the utter disregard for black mothers and children and that is the case with a black mother stand up for community members this time was in "rolling stone" to see police officers and gets out to start filming. and said i hope if i start filming it would stop but they were doing but instead the officer comes charging they threw her down to the ground dried her by her hair and throws her on the hood

of the car who has a two year-old in the back seat screaming in terror then they turn the child over to child welfare. that is the threat and the police action is always present that the use regally to do many things. so that incident that is a trend we see happening across the country. this that has forms of police violence. the stories of black women in the of women who took a wrong turn off of the expressway or one that was killed after they came to her house to serve a warrant for a traffic ticket. police violence against black women don't have the same uprising or outrage.

so one thing i will end by saying as to see the was through william women's experiences to see more forms of police violence and also police sexual violence according to one study is the second most reported a form of police misconduct after excessive force. but in another study found the law enforcement officer is caught in actual sexual misconduct on average every five days over tenure period

that is just the one that is caught. that is just the tip of the iceberg even survivors are advocates will tell you that the former chief of police wrote a book called police sexual violence the dirty little secret but nobody does anything about it. that is starting to come out in the open when they investigated the baltimore police department and the failure. some i want to turn over to the local experts. i one jews are at the end of the table with the department of justice

investigation and the outcome feedback that with july is women that are impacted by gender and oppression in all the years of existence we have documented the sexual violence and their failure to protect women who have been assaulted or sexually assaulted. and those that our least likely to believe. and they ask though women what they wanted to end of their want to speak out it is easy to gather stories of what had happened to them on

the street and they could string together a pattern that had been victimized by police officers sometimes by the same police officer. although it is difficult to report in the first place. en to protect those women. >> thank you. >> how did you know about?. >> my name ms. claudia. >> use your singing voice. [laughter] >> we use to a of groups

over there the director came and said to have a place to go and we just want to get their name are those statistics but lo and behold so i got connected. >> we are in no rush. >> thank you so much.

>> she is modest so in and of a community we're trying to support women because of police violence and there really isn't any avenue at all. to raise awareness about this. >> i'm sorry i did not introduce you properly. as an intern and researcher whenever you are ready. >> afternoon. initially to do research for

the caps that paper with that criminalization of the work in maryland with the "journal" article trying to find an organization that was doing the work and said can anybody help me find an organization dealing in policing? i don't know who contacted her. we had met and months later we were able to gauge a perspective in regards to the doj investigation in

generally policing and baltimore. i got a chance to hear the interviews of the women by the doj investigation and i learned a lot what that organization did it was doing to be a part of it. >> have you see that the overall way that police treat black women on the street here in baltimore? how that fits in the overall picture?. >> the thread of sexual violence is threaded

throughout with prostitution and quality of life. with someone in the community. and can take a sexual charge. with us stop and frisk that is so predominant in the doj investigation that turns into something very dangerous. coursing sex from people language with those invasive searches.

so out on the street this is the backdrop with those experiences that they are facing economic oppression in different types of violence. >> so we will come back to you but and then tell me how black women rising. >> so before 2015 in baltimore and with that

state murder of freddie grey that this is only a black man's problem. that is important for us to push that conversation we did a healing and protest began to that is following the murder of freddie grey that we were a part of. and how black women and girls are impacted. and hasn't with the housing system and poverty.

as connected to use the other systems. and how we are addressing these problems is also about the self and the problem in this area. >> also the city funding for how are we connected that to the defunding of public school systems or public housing? the conversation needed to be opened up and that is how we formed that collective.

>> event thinking of police violence. it is about expressing rage and demanding accountability so what role do you see keeling playing another disconnected to police violence. >> healing is central. it has been important not to think of an afterthought with the protests and marches but it is always working in self how we approach it. in to take root in the idea

to reclaim the of body one way to resist and to take back the body from all of these stereotypes. from the anti-blackness so whenever it is sort to deviant some of the things we do to bring you back into the current moment to be mindful of how you are moving so all of this is moving towards black of and in people being self actualize.

>> in addition to that building the base of black women with that dialogue roughly every month and a half to show those issues affecting black women with yoga and meditation. of up policing system here in baltimore to put those but girls into the prison pipeline. how we're creating space for those voices.

and that we can begin to build power hall we are stealing our committees. so with this pathway to this area if you look at west baltimore. knowing so much money went into this deleted go a you know how to understand in baltimore for an for us who we are as black women we have to tell that together. so when you see that against

the police department that power against them is deeply entrenched. >> before reopen to audience questions adding names to the list of people end of focusing said reclaims our bodies which i appreciate that phrase. , is bringing black women to the center of a conversation with police violence change how we in the sand how does that change the conversation?. >> this is a timely conversation given with the recent article to what is

entitled and that is what i think is ridiculous. i don't understand how we can talk about privilege those of a suffering every metric. but those are reflected on the black bodies but it should not be looked at as a competing narrative. to see any of the work that is none and now that adds to the conversation of the of sexual violence of the black activist of the civil-rights movement not only the the amount who has a bad or

worse? so with that framework how that impacts the bodies to be considered as human and half of us in disgust and her book white women were always granted the privilege to be true womanhood and to be black is something completely different and something softer delicate or feminine to be protected. so this is specific and unique to baltimore and is timely as to creating and as

an allegis want to say so so many women of color is important that we put some emphasis to be demystified we're looking for deductions after. >> for me and understanding the systems are into sectional that racism is

connected to the patriarchy and to understand that complexity to think more creatively or holistic play and for us around the question of healing because we have historic traumas call this violence plays in the body and in the mind so for us is how we think about solutions that that is my day separate process so for me to think with that state violence is opening a the conversation to make it more complex and who we are in

the story. >> i will add to that but the complex part police violence is not just about murder or a black man being shot in sexual violence through a the strip searches and vaginal searches but also harassment having a police presence in your neighborhood. even looking up that with that intimate relationship to redefine that blackness is not just about then there is also black women.

it forces you to sign into that approach with isn't about competing but it is about being complete for the negative four everyone. >> i definitely you wholeheartedly endorse all of that but another way to become complete we start to see different locations driving while black even giving birth while black to experience tremendous forms of an consentual testing and people are charged with the delivery of drugs to a minor

that affects them very specifically for don't know what is happening with police violence with the profiling that we are talking abound and negative about now that the police are answering calls for help because somebody broke into the home in l.a. police respond to domestic violence that is what happens to a the survivor because of the stereotype that black women don't have protection they could have been committing violence. so looking at different places of racial profiling to have a more complete understanding.

we need to major -- make sure that all black lives matter to teach us about white supremacy that is why i wrote the book hoping that conversation will, out of it so on that issue of police violence going back to the usual conversation but actually a panel like this with police violence what that looks like any time and this is how we talk about police violence through multiple lenses. and we have a few minutes for questions. go nowhere because the next panel is essential and of

ways that they experienced those dynamics in the power of the black panther party if you have questions you like to share. [applause] >> i think about the incident deauville's chilean woman with the police officer? with that

disproportionate coverage than outrage the eds for maker tactical point of view. with the movement to raise those issues so what does this mean or does that take a step back?. >> that is an interesting question. honestly know. i don't think so. per case is unique because

in general we can tie that back to charlottesville. for white women wore white people in general are privileged to have that we don't. will this change anything? and no. because heard death along would be valid but with the coverage to be a true victim and doing everything she was supposed to do. and unfortunately with the police could and would fail

baia default. so i don't think that's violence would do anything so of those differences i don't know. >> i think the same is true of a nurse being assaulted by a police officer in utah because she refused to take blood from an unconscious patient without a warrant the outrage around that was widespread and that is every day for black women.

that garnered so much for what happened to her after words so write the ticket so i can bmi way in a call way. with the one confrontation and to be on the radio show in texas with all kinds of vitriol of san troubling and -- sandra planned to tell an officer no. but in that case in minneapolis because the initial attack that he never should have been a police officer going around killing white women the says anti-black racism with maximum accountability in a

way we have yet to see for any of the black women we're talking about here. if anything, it is a tragedy but it hurt my heart to see that outrage at the empathy that we never see four black women. >> therein is clear there is a movement in society so for those misdemeanor crimes after the person has already been involved the producing programs aiming to diverge from the of never being arrested in the first place. soil law-enforcement assisted diversion.

to divert those faults and did practice and to give access to determine if they are ready. and n to be universally celebrated. i don't think i have ever heard anyone of those intersections and particularly those women of color. i have not heard back and sectional analysis anywhere. so does get to those solutions why it is important through the lens

of the experience. they're arresting someone using drugs or sleeping on the street but a police officer would say you can go to this program now to help your needs but through the women's experience i could arrest you know and giorgio with prostitution in the title of the charge to lose your kids and job bin public housing and social programs or get you into a program to get you anything you need. in the moment that is the sexual violence. so you see how that relationship changes for that experience.

wait a minute. body cameras? would that have been going with the police were responding to the domestic violence call? know. because they're not supposed to do in responding to calls for help. what about a body camera the being of one? that footage is now publicly available. to family and friends and now they're on the internet. those are the kinds of things we need to do think about and then that clarifies the then eliminate those interactions altogether.

>> there are solutions proposed with those policing into and invites more communities with a different type of interaction and. and to produce villiers for a warrant that the individuals to know about. and with the of very rationalize policing and profiling to have situations like kim chase to was picked up but a warrant and was in

custody for hours on very low level charging and died in police custody inside day presage we have not heard the results how she died but it started with a stop probably doing some drug gore prostitution enforcement to ask the woman to identify herself and that happens routinely but then from there any direction that she lost her life is in custody from the medical examiner to determine so those manner undetermined

and that medical neglect that is a form of violence and so we're not sure how zero kim chase died but with these contacts with these functions in our societies we will end up with other kinds of problems. >> questions around a body cams or other reforms and what is the history of the inception of this country? savas have argued protect the property interest of the ruling class so policing all together thinking how they

manage conflict so to talk about with the mental called crisis we're not directly calling the police so we're thinking about new and creative ways continuing to do criminalizes historically between the police and others of color that forces us to ask a deeper question those that is in the state house or the senate. to empower those communities to think in radically different ways. >> let's give a huge round

of applause to our guests. [applause] stick around for the next book. it is really good. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> of baltimore book festival continues with a history professor spencer on the black part but -- black panther party from california. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. thanks for