in america. the u.s. police shot more than 1,000 people dead last year, compared with 3 in the uk and 30 in denmark and switzerland. >> if you've got a highly weaponize society, you've got the police highly weaponize, it is a disastrous cocktail. >> reporter: british police don't routinely carry guns and under european human rights law, police are only allowed to use deadly force if it's absolutely necessary. >> wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, he didn't do anything. >> reporter: of course nobody has all the answers. british police apologized last night to bianca williams, a champion track athlete, who was handcuffed in front of her partner and son. >> for what? >> reporter: williams claims the incident was racially motivated. police say it was a routine stop and search in a high-crime area. >> no one's going to be hurt. get out of the car. you're going to be detained for a search, okay? >> reporter: a push to make police officers better

qualified, michael furl told us. in some european countries police training is in national academies and takes three years. in contrast, the u.s. has no national standards. and in many states training lasts just a few months. >> police officers have tremendous power. they have tremendous discretion. and what you want is the police officers to use that discretion wisely, but in a way that demonstrates they're nondiscriminatory, and i think the better educated they are in these issues, the more likely they are to make good decisions. >> that was holly williams reporting. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn

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from the new york press club. diehl or no deal focused on the growing importance of dollar stores around the country. and in the feature story, all her sons followed the tireless efforts of ruth corker, an early caregiver in the battle against aids. here is that award-winning report. >> you inherited part of a cemetery? >> i did. what am i going to do with a cemetery? not a nice ring or watch. >> but it would wind up that you would need a cemetery. >> who would have ever thought? >> reporter: ruth coker burks told us this unusual inheritance of 262 cemetery plots was left to her after a family feud. >> my mother got in a huge argument with her brother when i was 10 and bought all the remaining spaces in the cemetery so he and his family couldn't be buried with the rest of us. that was the meantime thing she

could think to settle the score. >> reporter: the plots sat mostly unused until the aids crisis hit hot springs, arkansas. >> you were with some of these guys as their took their last breaths. >> oh, yeah, death and i got to be old friends. >> reporter: coker burks, a self-described straight church lady, remembers when the disease went by another name. >> there are more lives claimed, victims claimed than toxic shock and legion airs disease combined and yet most people don't know about this cancer. well, i think it's because it's a gay cancer. >> reporter: scientists scrambled to learn more. by 1984, researchers identified that the hiv virus as it would become to be known, caused aids. by 1985, there were more than 20,000 reported aids cases worldwide. >> people think the aids crisis happened in san francisco and new york. of the try, it did. the center

>> as is the case with so many aspects of aids, the enemy isn't just disease, it is fear. >> reporter: and as fear swirled, ruth coker burks, then in her mid-20s, found herself face-to-face with the disease while visiting a friend at an arkansas hospital. she noticed a room no one was entering. an aids patient was inside. >> he was so frail and so pale and so near death. he weighed less than 100 pounds and you couldn't really tell him from the sheet from the bed. >> the young man in 6h. >> did you go in that room? >> reporter: what happened next was dramatized in a short film when the patient known as jimmy asked to speak to his mother. >> i'd mother's phone number, please. he wants his mother. >> honey, his mother is not coming. he's been in that room six weeks and nobody is coming. >> reporter: but ruth coker burks returned to jimmy's room and said she sat with him for

the next 13 hours. >> what made you stay with him until he passed away? >> he needed me. thdy aed >>teody wanted remains, so burksays she paid for his cremation and then put his ashes in a cookie jar and brought them up to that cemetery. she thinks she ended up helping maybe hundreds with aids, mostly men abandoned by families and churches. >> it sounds like it wasn't always love thy neighbor. >> no, it wasn't. >> after helping jimmy, what made you think, i'm going to help others? >> well, i didn't, they just kept coming. i couldn't turn anybody down. there was no one else to take care of them. >> there were just no other options. >> there was none. the kkk burned crosses in my yard three different times. >> really? >> yes. >> you must have felt threatened? >> no. i was -- i had a killer on my hands.

i was dealing with aids. why was i going to be afraid of somebody burning a cross in my yard? >> reporter: coker burks became a one-woman aids help center, driving patients to appointments, trying to find doctors, drugs or fill out birth certificates. >> they're all people who died. >> here were were pretty much left on our own. i have ruth. that was about it. >> how did you meet ruth? >> i met her at work. i managed a bar and she came in one night trying to raise some funds to bury someone that had died of aids. >> reporter: paul says they'd spin up drag show fund-raisers to support coker burks' work. one of the performers was his own partner of ten years, billy. >> and then it turned out that i

needed her because of billy, you know? >> reporter: billy was diagnosed with aids. before dying he left ruth his favorite red dress. >> just to know that someone cares for you can prolong your time. >> you look gorgeous. >> oh, look at you. >> reporter: jamie's younger brother joe ross was buried here, too. >> you have just been our savior angel, you know that. you just, like, melted all the fear and all the panic and anxiety. >> reporter: she and her family had little money and were struggling in those final days of her brother's life. until a nun gave her coker burks' number. >> she did everything for us, and all you had to do d&o was come out here and pick a spot >> jimmy's right here. >> do you have any idea how many people you buried here? >> there's over 40. >> reporter: she admits her memories are a little fuzzy.

>> there's tim and jim. >> reporter: and maybe that's not so bad. >> you know, back then it was just incomprehensible that this would go on and on and on. but it did. >> reporter: she says she found solace out on the waters of arkansas's lake hamilton. >> no one was dying on the lake. no one was sick on the lake. you could catch a fish and throw him back in and he'd swim to live another day, and it wasn't that way on dry land. >> reporter: coker burks took on an informal advisory role on aids in the clinton administration and would eventually be recognized for her work. >> that was a good man right there. that's a good man. >> reporter: in 2010 she had a stroke, which in part she blames on the stress of that era. >> i forgot to point out, this is miss seema calls' grave. >> reporter: she has one

biological daughter, but during that crisis ruth coker burks became a mother of sorts to countless sons. >> i didn't have the honor of giving birth to them, but i had the honor of being there for them in the moment where they needed somebody the most. i would take them in my arms and carry them across the river of death, and there would be on the other side waiting all of the people who loved them and didn't judge them, and i had that honor of handing them back to their friends and to god. >> they were lucky to have you. >> i was lucky to have them. >> congratulations to executive producer rand morrison and his excellent sunday morning team. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

if you've always wanted to own your own little chunk of the universe, you have just a few more hours to place your bid. deep impact, the annual meat right auction at rifty's wraps up later this morning. dana jacobsen has details of a sale that is simply out of this world. >> will you listen to me? that meteor is five miles wide and it's definitely going to hit us. ♪ >> reporter: giant space rocks clashing into earth have long been one of hollywood's go-to disasters, but now some people will be welcoming them in a much smaller and less threatening form. this week dozens of meteorites in all shapes and sizes went up

for bid at christie's here in new york. >> it's our annual auction of meteorites at christie's, and it represents the very best meteorites available on the market at this moment. >> reporter: meteor rights have been raining down on our planet since it formed and serve as our principal materials from other worlds. discovered in namibia, expected to fetch around 80,000. . >> it has this beautiful form and shape to it that's been carved by celestial and terrestrial forces over the eons, and it originates from an object that is 4.5 billion years old. >> reporter: and an actual piece of the moon ejected into space following an impact on the lunar surface. estimated price between $300,000 and $500,000. >> it's just incredible.

having a piece of the moon in your hand is really a magical moment. it transports you to another world. and being able to touch it i just an incredible and humbling experience. >> reporter: they're all being sold for an auction house better known for dealing in works of art, but many see these objects in the same vein, prized to their beauty and rarity. >> since we've been doing these sales since 2015, we've seen corners of the art market flock to this category when they previously weren't aware of it. many of them are beautiful sculptures in their own right and i have seen meteor rig displayed in our clients' houses alongside antiquities and contemporaryieces ohatas da jac reporting. the gavel comes down at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and that is the overnight news for this tuesday. check back later for "cbs this morning" and join us this evening for cbs news coverage of

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