clark. general clark let me play you what the state department spokesman told andrea mitchell this afternoon. let's listen. >> what we've seen here is an escalation of aggression by the russians, a pattern actually over the last several months. that's what we're concerned about and that's what we're watching close lui. next week is also a very important opportunity for the international community at nato with the president there, with secretary kerry there, with secretary hagel there to have a discussion about what's next. there are sanctions we can, there's a reasoning of tools at our disposal. >> general, we already got sanctions that the united states and western europe have levied against russia. what tools are there at the disposal of the united states and nato? >> well, i think the united states can do several things through nato and with its own

assets. first of all we could obviously provide security assistance to ukraine. they do need more modern equipment, they need intelligence gathering information, they need night vision goggles and other equipment so they can fight more effectively, they need improved body armor, they need logistics, assistance with their helicopter fleet, et cetera. so you provide the security assistance. you could also over fly and do a lot more more with intelligence. you could put the nato awacs overheard. put the airborne radar that looks hundreds of miles forward, flying over kiev, let's say and look into the battle zone and that would be a strong signal to russia that it should stop. yes, you can do more sanctions built putin is not deterred by sanctions. he's not turned back by sanctions. he actually likes the sanctions because the people who are trading with the west are potentially his adversaries at home, the sanctions hurt them

directly and they have to come to him for help. he likes that. it gives him more power. the sanctions have played their role but further sanctions may be in order, but they are not going to be decisive. what would be a decisive is a nato peace keeping proposal that would call for an immediate cease-fire that put nato forces on the border of ukraine to assure there's no more intervention. let the russians pull back out and broker some kind of political arrangement whereby the separatists can go back to russia. and the ukrainians who are in eastern ukraine can participate in the parliamentary elections that are forthcoming. i think that's the strong option. >> but, again, r is this worry moscow that more and more of

their former satellites are drifting into the nato orbit and away from them. putting nato forces so close to rush would it provoke to putin? >> you offer it to putin. if he doesn't want to take it there's other alternatives. if he wants to stop the war he'll stop it. nato has to put a strong stand forward. look, putin is not actually being provoked. putin has had a 15 year plan to re-absorb ukraine into russia so he can build the new soviet union. he's worked it very patiently and ramping it up bit by bit. the more the west worries about provoking putin the more advantage he takes of the west. i heard this same line from the russians, you know, when i was in nato 20 years ago as a u.s. three star general, the russians

asked me i assume you'll have your nato ships in our port soon. i said well first of all, that port is in latvia, so it's not your port, it's their port. the more you keep asking this question the more you incentivize the eastern europeans to come forward. we had 20 years of this on the part of the russians and they want their empire back. it's very much akin to what happened in germany after world war i. i know it's been 100 years. none of us were alive then. but the historians report that the germans believed that they were betrayed by their political leadership, they hadn't actually lost the war. and this feeling of betrayal over 20 years led to the recreation of conflict in europe and led to world war ii, led to the rise of adolf hitler. so we need to be firm now. we don't need to repeat the lesson learned from central

europe and world war ii. >> wise and experienced counsel from general wesley clark. president obama's other major international crisis how combat the growing strength of the terrorist group isis. joining me now discuss that is our diplomatic correspondent for "the washington post" and a gentleman from the national security council. we do have a situation where you have this growing conflict with russia over what's happening in ukraine and simultaneous need to put together a coalition to deal with the situation in the middle east and to deal with syria and, of course, russia is a sponsor of syria. how much of a complication is that? >> it is a complication. the united states would direct any kind of new coalition of the willing surrounding syria and you're starting to see them begin to try to round up some

political support, ideally a bit of perhaps fig leaf arab military support to go with that. but that's for action inside syria against isis which is also clearly assad's biggest foe at the moment although russia is assad's main principal military ally. i think putin is smart enough to see that action inside syria against isis actually benefits assad and while there might be a lot of of muster from assad and putin the prospect of getting into some kind of armed conflict with assad, inside syria with russian backing is to no one's liking including assad's and that i think is unlikely. >> michael, do you feel in some sense this whole discussion is upside down. we have the united states starting to reach out and find allies to take some form of action against isis, potentially

in syria, but as the "new york times" in an editorial pointed out today there doesn't seem to be plan, a comprehensive plan of action that comes ahead of that. are we putting the cart before the horse here? >> well, the cart and the horse are both about three years overdue in syria. we stayed out and we see what happened when we stayed out. assad retained power and isis became the strongest group in the insurgency. to highlight that we do have a dilemma longer temple. i agree with ann about syria in the short term. in the longer term we have a problem. in iraq it's simpler. in iraq there's a government in formation that we should support and should intensify our military involvement not with major combat units but in various other ways because we do have a fairly clear strategy which involves helping the iraqi government control its own territory. syria is a much more difficult proposition and i have some

ideas on bosnia kind of model for syria, little less ambitious overthrow against assad, a more of a power sharing that the administration has advocated. >> on the subject of having to put the cart back before the horse, congress has been largely silent. you have some members of the congress, united states senate typically hawkish. at some point doesn't there need to be some sort of action in congress, authorization to use military force before we escalate our involvement potentially into syria, obviously not even consulting with that government first because we have no relationship with that dictatorship. >> you're hearing from members of congress on both sides of the aisle calling for that. it's a fairly scattered call at this point. there's really no direct political pressure become applied to the president on that score, but you're right. over the long term, it will

become an issue for congress. and the longer this goes on the more likely it is that you'll get that pressure coming from congress to come to them and lay out a strategy and seek approval for it and you'll also, i think, see the white house trying to look proactive in doing that, in seeking congressional buy in. the model last year of the chemical weapons first going it alone and then he decided to seek congressional authorization when it was clear he wasn't going to get it he backed away from air strikes at that point. that really, really sticks in the minds of everyone, clearly. but most highly at the white house. >> at some point you think congress has to step up and take some action and make themselves heard to the american people. thank you both. breaking news now from the entertainment world. comedian joan rivers has been rushed to a new york city

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just a few hours from now a group of activists will gather outside of the white house to deliver a petition demanding justice in the police shooting of unarmed teen michael brown. the group says nearly one million people have signed the online petition calling on the justice department to carry out a full investigation and prosecution of the officer who shot brown as well as systemic changes to the way police departments operate nationwide. >> how is your petition different from what the justice is already doing and how is it different from the request sent in a letter by about 100 activists detailing about seven things they would like to see changed in policing in the united states? >> well, you know, first and

foremost the justice department is doing many things right in terms much putting an investigation, you know, investigators on the ground and moving something independent from what's happening in ferguson. i was one of the 100 black leaders who signed that open letter so we very much stand behind the calls in this. this is an opportunity for every day americans, people all around the country, black folks and their allies who have been watching this and outrage and want to ensure they are standing up and talking about what the future accountability means. the administration understands this is not a professional activist but a broad coalition, multiracial coalition of every day americans who believe we can do better and we must do better in this country to ensure our law enforcement, that our police departments, that our communities are open and accessible for all of us. >> how many people signed the petition so far? >> a little over 900,000 signers. it's been a huge turn out from a number of groups from activists

all around the country. the petition are not just pieces of paper but in them we see a plethora of comments from people of all races what's happening around racial profiling or lack of accountability or sort of how this splits the community from law enforcement and prevents real crimes from being solved. there's a lot of work we must do but we want to ensure people realize this is not just ferguson, this is america. >> darryl, the family, obviously, this has to be overwhelming. nearly a million people signing a petition that's related to the death of this family's son, you know, this is their family member. how is the family holding up under this huge national spotlight? >> it's been tough for them. however we had the funeral earlier this week. that was very big, very painful. now we're moving on to justice because we need to get justice for michael brown in this situation. but talking about this police department, i think it's rather clear that we get to a point

where you obviously this police force is having difficulty getting to know its community. so they have to deal with that issue at some point whether it's training, sensitivity but it's a serious issue. so we really think that this petition that's been put out there is a good thing because at some point you need authority that's beyond just the locals to help get some insight and guidance for what's going on. so often local departments work together so there's conflict of interest there. if you were to have a higher source involved, it would certainly give a better opportunity for accountability. >> you're talking basically about federal oversight of police, needing investigations that aren't done by the local department. >> i'm dodging the word oversight. that's something we will fight that. you have the state authority that's a federal authority. as often the federal government can do some things to do great guidance to a situation to help those departments that may not have the resources.

>> are there specific changes that the color of change in your organization or that people who have gotten together to sign this petition believe would make positive change between these departments and communities? >> absolutely. we think there needs federal database of police brutality and police killings so we have information when these incidents occur. we do need a standardized, you know, standardized level of what does you want mean to have anti-bias training. anti-bias training, we need a federal standard. each department local department can say they do sort of anti-bias or anti-racism training and the devil is always in the details. then we actually do need some sort of real accountability. we see far too many cover ups when black and brown people are put in harm's way by the police. there's a code of silence that exists that prevents the type of investigations that will lead to justice. far too often in these

situations black and brown people are hurt, murdered or killed by police. and there's no sense of justice. that becomes a situation where black people are seen, brown people are seen as enemy combatants in their own communities and does nothing to make our communities safer long term so the activists have gotten together to call on the federal government and that's the big thing here. when locals fail and state governments fail it's always been the federal government that stood up for civil rights in this country whether in schools or voting, and now is the time once again we need our federal government to stand up and that's what people are calling for. >> darryl, what do you think of those proposals? does that make stones you? >> it makes plenty of sense. the feds -- it's a systemic problem we have in our country, problems related to blacks. traffic stops. all of america sees who gets stopped, whose cars get ransacked. we need to deal with the problem. >> quickly, has the prosecutor in the case of michael brown specifically, has he spoken with the family?

>> he has not. for example, the mom has spoken to the fbi, teen governor has cell phone the family but this prosecutor has not had a victim's advocate come out and talk to this family. obviously they are in need of some services. the federal government has reached out through victim services to see what needs they have. >> all right, darryl parks an attorney for the family of michael brown. keep us posted rashad. when you get to a million let us know. join me today at 3:30 p.m. eastern for a twitter chat on the events in ferguson and how this can be a starting point for creating political change with campaigns like my one voter registration challenge that's 3:30 p.m. eastern right on the reader's hash tag. three things to know on this thursday. national institutes of health and drugmaker glaxosmithkline announce they will start the first-round of human trials for an ebola vaccine. the virus has ravaged several

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walmart while carrying a toy gun says surveillance video contradicts police claims that crawford ignored their commands to drop the bb gun before they opened fire. >> i believe the public has the right to know what happened in that walmart. right now all the information is one sided. it appears the information that's been released shows that, you know, john of at fault, that he was waving this bb gun at women and children and that definitely was not the case. we do believe it should be released because it will show specifically what happened in this walmart. john was doing nothing but shopping and the police came in and shot and killed this young man unjustifiably. >> right now only family has been able to view that surveillance video. ohio attorney general says he'll not release to it the public because he doesn't want to taint the jury pool. he has appoint ad special

prosecutor who will present evidence to a grand jury on september 22nd. today crawford's family is meeting with the federal prosecutor and will ask the justice department to begin a civil rights investigation. meanwhile in georgia, allegations of excessive use of force by police have resulted in a wrongful death lawsuit in suburban atlanta. today the family of 24-year-old gregory towns jr. took legal action against the city and two former officers from its police department. the suit claims he was unjustifiably tased more than a dozen times while handcuffed. after police responded to a domestic dispute call from the mother of towns' child on april 11th of this child. the coroner ruled the death a homicide. sergeant eberhart has resigned and the corporal has resigned.

east point police chief woodrow blue resigned too citing personal reasons. according to newspaper, they are still waiting evidence. eberhart refused to comment. i want to start with you miss towns and first of all, we're sorry for your loss. what do you believe -- what do you believe should to be done now in the case of the two officers, neither of whom are on the force any more. >> we need to have a trial. we need to have a jury. we need justice. >> mr. start your, this was a case that did start with a domestic dispute, we should point that out and was mr. towns

running from police? walk us through how this encounter happened and what you believe the officers did that was potentially criminal? >> yes. mr. towns did have a domestic dispute at the home of the mother of his child. he left the house. he was walking down the street. police arrived at that point after he had already left the house and he did run from the police which no citizen should do and he ran and was caught by a policeman, gave up, put his hands behind his back and was handcuffed at this point in some koods down the street. he was tired from the run and couldn't get up, and more officers arrived and in order to get mr. towns to walk they began using a taser on him. that taser further led to mr. towns' death. >> there are guidelines to the way that east point police in their manual are supposed to use a taser.

we highlight a couple of ways they supposedly are not to use a taxpayers. one is coercion, intimidation, to get subjects offering only passive resistance. in the document you filed your alleging any of those things were done? >> yes, all of them were done. particularly to prod and escort a subject. you can't use a taser to make a person walk. especially when they are complaining that they are tired. mr. towns -- this is a human tragedy. no person deserves to be handcuffed behind their back and tasered time and time again like an animal to make them walk when they are begging you, begging you just to rest. >> and one of the other issues that i read through in your complaint is the question of how many times mr. towns was tased versus how many times the officer said he was tased. explain that. >> we received the initial police report and all of the officers that were on the scene,

the total count that the tasers triggered was about five. we requested on our own documents showing the records from the two tasers that were used that day and we were astonished when we got those records when we found out it wasn't five times. officer eberhart triggered his taser ten times and officer williams triggered his four. so the police report didn't add up to the facts. >> we should note in this case the officers in question are african-americans so this is a case where you're alleging that the officers did not follow the guidelines that are set forth in using tasers which are supposed to be the nonlethal form of bringing suspects to submit to the police. and i want to ask you, miss towns, what did the police department tell you when you were informed that your son had, in fact, passed away? >> i was not informed by the

police, i was informed by the gbis. >> what is the gbi? >> they say thieves not at liberty to speak, they would have to further investigate. once the investigation was over, they would speak to me. >> yeah. miss towns didn't find out that her son had been killed until six hours later. though the same officers that were involve in the incident came back to the house she was at and talked to her and spoke to her. and never told her that her son had passed away. she found out six hours later. >> and, you know, miss towns, obviously now what we know of your son is, obviously, his death and what happened and the fact that there was this incident before he died. what do you want people to know about your son? >> i want people to know what they took from him was his life. great love living.

they took away my only son. >> we should note the gbi is the georgia brewureau of investigations. what's the status of the investigation? >> to my understanding the district attorney's office is looking into it, doing their own separate investigation and that's all we know as of right now. >> all right. thank you both, and our condolences for your loss. thank you very much for being here. up next the police perspective how officers are dealing with some of the pressures they are under and possible steps to bridge the divide between police and the community. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth?

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scrutiny. we also talked about a number of suggestions for fixing the problem from body cameras that every officer will be wearing to calls for racial bias training. so what are the most effective fixes? robert parker is the former director of the miami-dade police department and chief parker, thanks so much for being here. >> my pleasure, joy. >> talk a little bit about, you were the chief of one of the largest metropolitan police forces in the country and when you arrived as the head of the miami-dade police department what were the issues you confronted in terms of how individual officers relate particularly to communities of color? >> well, joy, certainly one of the first and most pressing issue was the issue of potential racial profiling and i'm certainly pleased to say that the prior director had already initiated a process to look into that, tissue of rishl profiling.

that study turned out pretty much in the department's favor or to say that there wasn't any real serious issue towards racial profiling but there was something in our practice that needed improvement and we were just as pleased to get that kind of a result because then it led for the opportunity to actually make improvements where sugge suggested. that had to do with some of the actual practices of officers during stops. some of the thing that could be perceived as prejudicial or racial. of course, we acted by implementing policies to make sure that that ceased. we recognized our vulnerabilities and we took the initiative to conduct training to stop some of the things that were identified. i would love to say that training is one of the keys to addressing any of the issues that you have in terms of your workforce and their practices and i mean advanced training prior to an incident occurring. >> but, chief, we're talking

about adults here, people who have already been raised, whatever conceptions they have of other people, whatever social skills they have are baked in. these are adult people coming to you as police officers. how do you train someone not to exhibit bias. >> contrary to the popular perception that once a person receives training they act the right way. that's not the case. that's the objective and what an agency hopes for when they provide training to its law enforcement officers. when they are not performing to that standard or going contrary to their training that's when an agency looks, need to look at whether or not they actually would retain a person, who they know is going against policy. so one of the key things is really to keep an eye on your workforce. and whether or not you develop informational databases that

show individuals that quite often violate policy or some other methodology they need to be identified. if necessary they need to be disciplined and if really necessary they need to be removed from the force. now that is a responsibility of an agency's lead or head the chief. in some cases if the chief is not acting it's the responsibility of the government lead, such as mayors, managers, council people, things of that nature, if their law enforcement is not acting responsibly or taking charge of actions that are needed. if there's a pattern for disparate treatment the agency head should notice it and the government head, mayor, vis-a-vis commission should notice it as well. >> it's so important you point that out good leadership is important. the police department is a microcosm of the world. there are good people, bad people and some people not so

great. you're doing a very dangerous job. you do have a disconnect that from the police officer's point of view they are going out particularly in a place like florida with so many people having concealed to carry where a traffic stop could be fatal for the officer. >> first, let me say, we're fortunate as law enforcement officers that government and the people recognize the danger that's involved and inherent to police work. and because of that, there's law enforcement officers -- quite often the actions a police officer takes is justified. initially it doesn't look justified. when you put it to the scale of the law and scrutiny of the law their actions would be justified though people wouldn't agree. in terms of the people's perspective of that, quite often

without a similar amount of knowledge and exposure to what a police officer knows and a citizen is very likely to assume something is wrong or inappropriate or should not be done, and that's why the educational component needs to go beyond training the police officer and train its community and its citizens as well. >> when we look at the cato institute has done there's a national database that crunches the numbers on police misconduct claims but they identified something like almost 4900 unique reports of police misconduct just in 2010 and then excessive force claims about 1575 claims. could body cameras change some of this cal can you laws. we noted in selena, texas, the dash cam on the police car showed one side where there was

force on a citizen but when the body camera video came out it showed a completely different story. there has been some resistance to the idea of body cameras from some police unions. could body cameras protect officers and citizens more? >> that's exactly the case. in most instances it tells the closest thing to the truth. whereas opposed to an officer may represent it, skew it to the left an an individual who is the subject of an investigation may skew to it the right. the camera comes out and tells the truth about it. yes, a law enforcement agency leadership, government leadership in a lot of cases are opposed to the enactment much came -- of cameras not only for what they might reveal but law enforcement agencies face

serious issues with budget. the equipment costs could be significant. if more agencies bought them the costs would come down and more could have them. i'm not sure you ever reach a consensus in terms of whether or not they should be used. i personally think they should be used but unfortunately prior to the end of my tenure in leadership of law enforcement in miami-dade county we faced a budget issue and the talk about it was somewhat quashed and the proposals to get them was quashed. i think now is a perfect time on the heels of what has repeated itself several times is a perfect time to implement body cameras or cameras worn by officers with appropriate guidelines so that they protect both the rights of the citizens and the officer, timelines established in terms of when they are to be put on and when they are to be taken off.

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