>> the nation mourns the loss of the victims killed in the washington navy yard shooting. investigators try to piece together the moments that lead up to that scene. vigils are being held across the country to remember those killed. the latest developments ahead. congress has postponed a hearing to review the standard ground law. it has been two years since they occupy wall street movement kicked off in sioux county park -- in zucotti park.

has anything changed? we will look back on the movement later in the show. it is tuesday, september 17. i am making lopez, and you are watching rt. essential navy yard employees are back at work one day after a man went on a shooting rampage that killed 12 people. while they deal with grief and shock, the public is learning more about the people who passed away. the names of all 12 victims were released today. 51-year-old arthur daniels, 51- year-old mary knight, 58-year- old gerald mead, 54-year-old martin bo dog full, 52-year-old richard rijo, 53-year-old sylvia fraser, 60 two-year-old kathy

guard, john johnson, frank kohler, 46-year-old kenneth proctor, and vishnu pondit. others were injured during the shootout. they are said to be in fair condition. [taps] defense secretary chuck hagel, along with members of the defense department and the navy, had a wreathlaying ceremony and a moment of silence at the navy memorial in d.c. today. >> ♪ by the dawns early light

>> the washington nationals baseball team took a moment to honor the victims before beginning a game that was postponed yesterday as a result of the shooting. the stadium is a few blocks away from the navy yard. the team sported patriotic uniforms and hats with remembrance. local law enforcement are trying to piece together the events that led up to the shooting rampage in building 197. namely, who the shooter was and how he was able to enter a secure facility and open fire. for the latest information, we turn now to sam sacks. >> behind me are the gates to the navy yard. there is still a police presence. a few cars have come and gone. the facility is open, but only two essential -- but only to essential personnel. >> we obviously have had a horrific tragedy here at the

navy yard in the immediate area. >> monday morning, police responded to an active shooting at the navy yard. witnesses described the carnage inside. >> a person came up to talk to me to say -- he basically asked me what was going on in my building. he said, i hear there was a shooter. i said, that is news to me. then i heard shots, and he got hit. >> in general, people seem to be -- not a state of shock, that they did not understand what was going on. it was not like a chaotic war of the world thing. it was a shock of what to do next. >> i thought immediately of 9/11. i knew it was going to be bad. and that was confirmed. >> police believe 34-year-old aaron alexis was the single and sole person responsible for the shooting.

he is former navy, honorably discharged in 2011. officials say he had been receiving mental health treatment from the veterans administration since august, reportedly suffering from paranoia and hearing voices in his head. he had previous run-ins with the law, some of them gun incidents, although he was never charged. he had a valid key card. alexis had recently begun work at the navy yard for a subcontracting company called "the experts." he used a shotgun he purchased legally a week ago in virginia. he went to the fourth floor and shot into the atrium below. when it was over, 13 people were dead, included the suspected gunman, who was killed in a firefight with police. all victims were civilians or contractors. no active-duty military personnel were killed.

police still do not have a motive. survivors now try to cope. >> i have no great wisdom about what to do. i am a religious person. i draw comfort from my religion. i do not think i have any special wisdom. i just go home and try to process it. >> meanwhile, washington moves on. the nationals played a baseball game down the street. a game was canceled because of the shooting. but questions persist. due to many americans have security clearance that should not? is it too easy for the mentally ill to write guns? and what should the united states do to confront another mass shooting? >> just a few miles away from where that shooting took place,

the senate judiciary committee postponed a hearing set for this morning on the contentious "stand your ground" law. it is what george zimmerman used as a legal defense after shooting and killing 17-year-old trayvon martin. trayvon's mother was expected to testify, along with the parents of an unarmed black teenager shot and killed recently in florida. this is a picture of a 17-year- old boy shot to death last november was sitting in a car at a gas station. this is a picture of the man who shot him, 46-year-old michael david done -- dunn. dunn got into a verbal altercation with three boys sitting in the car at a gas station after he told them to turn down their music. in the middle of the altercation, dunn pulled out his gun and fired a number of rounds into the car, killing davis. dunn is claiming he was standing

his ground, because he believed he was in danger. the father of the boy join me earlier. ron walked me through the events of that night. >> he was enjoying thanksgiving. the next day after thanksgiving was black friday, november 23. he decided to go out with his friends. they went to the mall and came back. it was still early, about 7:30 in the evening. they stopped at a convenience store gas station, and one person went in to get something. they were blasting music and playing the music loud, like teenagers do. he is a 17-year-old. he was seated in the passenger side, with his best friend next to him. a guy drove up with a gun, rolled down his window, and told his girlfriend, "i hate that sudden music -- that thug music."

he kind of profile him. he told them to cut it down after his girlfriend went in the store. they thought, if you are not my parent, i do not have to listen to you. he got into a verbal altercation with my son. my son never got out of the car. he had the window halfway down. michael dunn was in his car. michael dunn rolled up his window. for a minute or so, when the other kid came back, he decided that michael dunn was going to roll down the window again and say, you guys are still talking to me, and had a concealed weapon in his car, and started shooting at the car, and he shot my son twice. as the car was pulling away, trying to get away from him, he was continuing to shoot at the car with these children, 17- year-old children, in the car.

a few yards away, he still shot more bullets in the back of the car, trying to kill these kids. which to me, as a father -- i cannot believe in our society today that someone would try to kill children. but i see things that happen on the news. sometimes, you do not know if it will hit home or not. it hit home because it has torn jordan from me and his mother. and you have a teenager at home who is missing, it breaks your heart and ruins your life. i am standing up for jordan. i am standing my ground for jordan. his mother is standing her ground for jordan. >> do you think your son's skin color played a role? >> at first i did not. but then, when there were tapes that were released from the interviews from michael dunn's girlfriend -- he said when he drove up he said "i hate that thug music."

why is his music considered thug music? i keep telling people, we are so focused here in america at least on skin color. 99% of your dna is the same. skin color and hair texture is only one percent of your dna. why do we focus so much on that 1%? >> a good question. i want to bring you into the conversation. we are hearing so many similarities between this case and the case of trayvon martin. the area, color of the skin, age of the boys. you think it is a fair comparison to make? >> they both have similar elements. both george zimmerman and adam dunn were empowered by the standard brown law, and are trying to use it as a get out of jail free car. -- card. that said, there were some encounters between trayvon and zimmerman where there was a

fight of some sort that happened. in jordan's situation, he was just sitting in the car listening to music. where is zimmerman said he felt fear for his life, jordan -- the most significant thng is michael dunn's last words before he fired. you are not going to threaten -- you are not going to talk to me like that. he fired 10 shots, nine of which pierced the vehicle. there is a bit of a difference there. this was an argument. as was words that led to deadly violence. >> you said in florida courts, you do not need to be right. you just need to believe you are. how does that play into this case in specific? like stand your ground, since

2005, when it was implemented, it has taken the role of the jury to judge the facts and look at evidence and try to figure it out, and said, we do not need to do that. let us just find a legal gun owners in a legal place, and look at what their situation is. examine their brains and try to determine whether they thought they were in fear for their life. if they were, that is all they have to prove, not that the situations warranted killing, but that they believe they were warranted to kill. that is absolutely contrary to the american jurisprudence system. it is contrary to where we should be as a civilized society. >> your son is going to be portrayed in the media as a boy sitting in a car listening to music, but that is not necessarily a correct narrative. who was your son? what would he want the people watching this to know about him? >> i want them to know that he

was a good family member, that he was a high schooler. when you go to high school, you are supposed to have fun. you are supposed to learn, but you have fun while you learn. everybody in that high school were saddened by that. i go up there and mentor some of the students up there. they are shaken because of the fact that somebody would just fire on somebody who looks like them, plays like them, it teenager like them. in society, our kids do not realize how society has turned. we know what happened today at the naval yard. when you are angry, for whatever reason, you get your gun and start violence toward people who are innocent. i want people to know he was an innocent bystander. he was an innocent young man. this guy took out his aggression. the worst thing about it is that

when i stood in front of michael dunn in the courtroom, he has no remorse whatsoever. he looked at me with such disdain that it was palpable. i felt myself coming toward him. my lawyer, john, grabbed my arm, because i did not know -- something overcame me. i could not believe that somebody would not say, i am sorry for murdering your son. in society right now, the humanity is gone. >> there is supposed to be that hearing coming up. obviously, you have a long way to go still in your trial for your son. i appreciate you sharing your story with us. ron davis is the father of jordan davis. it was the grassroots movement that aims to change the political dialogue of the country. the occupy wall street movement was supposed to represent the 99%, force the hand of america's

financial institutions, and hold bankers and lawmakers accountable for their actions. two years later, the leaderless movement is no longer visible in city parks. still, some of the people who participated in the protests are paving the way for systematic change. we look at where the movement stands, two years later. >> on september 17, a movement changing national dialogue was born in the u.s. for many, opening a new chapter in american history. >> the awakening of a collective consciousness about staggering economic inequality, the rise of the corporate state, the loss of a genuine democracy, and the attempt i the part of large numbers of people to do something about it. >> two years later, the protesters are out again.

on their two-year anniversary, occupy wall street is back on the streets of manhattan to demand an end to wealth inequality, as well as accountability for wall street. >> it is a birthday party. it is our second annual awareness of what is wrong with this country day. >> under heavy police presence, many familiar places return to the place where it all started, zycucotti park. >> it was an amazing, beautiful moment no one expected. it was brought down by the nypd brutally taking it out and destroying it. >> a systematic nighttime raid means occupy no longer has a permanent physical presence in new york, although it gathers on occasion to bring attention to issues still plaguing the u.s. >> the ideology has not turned over.

the dominant assumptions of free-market capitalism that have incubated in the american cultural sphere, political sphere, legal sphere, and economic sphere for the last half a century, especially the last 30 years -- those are going to take a long time to reverse. >> and even a longer time if they are not highlighted. occupy catapulted the idea of the 1% into the national conversation, giving birth to widespread debate about the changes that need to come. at a pepper spray by the new york police -- the protesters have dwindled largely due to the police violence they faced. >> people saw police brutality is a real issue facing this country. >> despite crackdowns, activists have kept working, with thousands continuing to struggle the year after hurricane sandy. >> 7500 displaced as of the last

figure we got a few months ago. we have a very complicated mess in all these areas. >> plenty of other active projects that came out of occupy are up and running. >> people doing work against the pipeline in new york. there are people who just released a banking booklet about how to understand the banking crisis. so many different still>> few expected the movemo keep afloat as long as it has. >> something is going to come. it may not look like occupy, and yet its genesis will come back to this park and what happened here two years ago. >> but two years later, the question remains. what good came out of the movement? the banks are still bigger than ever.

the penalty they have to pay to make up for their risky behavior was just a slap on the wrist rather than a real punishment. jpmorgan chase agreed to pay $800 million in fees for a multibillion dollar trading loss , a case known as the london whale. it is really just chump change for this bank. jpmorgan will acknowledge it should have caught the problem faster. the settlement reflects a tougher line now taken by the fcc. they are seeking admissions from defendants. they want the bank to admit it -- admit it's trades allowed a risky position that would cover their losses. they are admitting guilt. but is this the type of punishment the occupy wall street movement was looking for? are -- are occupy protesters

satisfied with the movement? i am joined by mike perlman, director of the film "the 99% -- occupy everywhere." i started by asking sam to characterize the movement, two years after it began. >> people do not see occupy in the headlines the way they did before, and assume it has gone away or something. for a lot of people involved, it really connected us with each other. i think a lot of us felt alone in our politics. it brought us together in a deep way. we have legitimate critiques a lot of the country identifies with. it is going to take a lot of civil disobedience to start to change things. it has really connected us.

since then, we have worked on a lot of labor things, antiwar, all kinds of issues. i think it has brought new teeth to the left. >> you directed a documentary about the occupy movement. what kind of narrative did the documentary hit off? >> it was really important when i went down to zucotti park, listening, helping organize actions. i saw and heard people speaking intelligently and passionately about critical issues of our day, and offering solutions. i was not seeing that narrative being told in the press and mainstream media. i have been making documentary films for more than a decade now. this has been a struggle for freedom and justice, told through emotional stories.

i thought occupy would be a great way to do it. we want money out of politics, where the state is literally often controlled by corporations that are instrumental in passing legislation for their benefit, at the expense of the rest of us. if we are able to remove that money from politics, we can address the critical issues of our time. then we can have fair elections and fair trade. that is the umbrella in which we developed the film. we are happy to have jeffrey sachs, a well-known economist, connect the dots in a concrete way. we were amazed to find out that with fair taxation, the same taxes being paid by the wealthy and the corporations that the middle class are paying, we could raise more than $500 billion a year. that would be more than enough money for preschool through college education for free for all americans, to build a green

grid. we could create american jobs. that is the kind of thing we found to show in the film. >> obviously, the tents are down. what is still happening? >> we have a lot of occupiers who have opened up student debt, housing crisis, activists. we are discovering different ways in which we can mobilize the left or the radical, those discontent with what the system is now. occupy is a way -- there was not an infrastructure necessarily built. there is a lot of creativity being brought up by people who are older, people who are younger, families, homeless people, coming together and trying to make the world a better place. we have all of these types of people who want a better world coming together, bouncing ideas

off each other. we have a lot of leftist groups, whether it be unions or other radical groups, that have been using different ideas by occupy. it has helped re-energize the left, and helped the morale of activists across the country and across the world. suddenly, we connected. there is a community where once we felt very alone. >> would we talk about the occupant -- the movement two years later? are there any tangible results? the banks are still huge. the disparity between the rich and the poor is still massive and growing. what tangible results are there? >> these are tangible problems that will take time to rectify. i think we have really empowered and connected the left. we personally know many people who we struggled with who have

gone on to do labor organizing here in d.c., new york, chicago. along with those people have come those tactics of civil disobedience, really making big demands and generating some anger and some fight to it. >> the fact that you know what the 99% means or what the 1% means -- that is a huge improvement. mitt romney, the whole 47% thing -- people automatically knew what he was talking about, and it resonated with them. what does that mean for the country? there is a lot of people -- i am not the biggest obama fan by far. but i think that groups like occupy brought up things that the robin hood tax, etc. -- things like that, which i think the democrats have their issues,

and definitely utilize in their messaging to appeal to the masses. i think we brought up some ingesting and pertinent issues that resonate with the country. >> we have just about a minute left. from your experience, any regrets? obviously, timing played a huge part in this, considering the fact that it happened right before winter, when it got really cold. what do you think? >> i think the movement has many legs and is operating in many different facets, and maybe does not get front-page news, simply because there is not an active conflict between police and protesters. the movement continues. the robin hood tax -- that is a huge coalition of more than 200 organizations, representing more than 200 million people around

the world, agreeing we need a tiny financial transaction tax that will help stabilize the markets and raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help peope. >> that was mike perlman from our new york studio, and sam and alana in our d.c. studio. at&t is using a new alert system that warns users who have been accused by the movie and recording industry of copyright infringement to discontinue alleged illegal activity. this according to the internet site torrent freak. they posted, we have received a notice that your internet account was used in connection with possible infringement of their copyright protected materials. to determine who will get the letter, at&t has been allegedly using the copyright alert system , which is designed to notify phone companies when files may

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