this is philadelphia within the hour, and there are also ongoing protests in baltimore, in new york, and likely protests are varying sizes all over the country. we have a lot to get to tonight, but it's worth taking a moment to consider just how we got here. it's been just a horrifying, gut-wrenching, exhausting, crazy, 72 hours in america. it's been hard to wrap your mind and your heart around everything that's happened since last tuesday night. first we were confronted with the chilling video of alton sterling, shot and killed by police who appear to have him pinned to the ground. he was a father of five. that same day in falcon heights, minnesota, philando castile was shot dead by an officer during a traffic stop. his girlfriend whose 4-year-old daughter was in the back seat, broadcast the aftermath live on facebook. the back-to-back killings of black men at the hands of law enforcement were so disturbing that president obama, who had

just arrived in poland for a nato summit, made a lengthy statement to the press shortly after landing, urging us as a country to do better. last night black lives matter and other protesters gathered in peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country. then in one of those peaceful protes protests, in dallas, just 24 hours ago, all hell broke loose. during a march in downtown dallas, shots rang out in what we now know was a targeted attack on police. five officers were killed, seven were founded, two civilians were injured. after an hour's long stand-off, police killed the suspect with a robot originally designed to disarm bombs. but there was widespread confusion about whether there may have been more than one shooter and whether others were

in custody or still at large. president obama gave a second statement just hours after his first one, this time about the virks, calculated and despicable attacks in dallas. today a man accused of a shooting rampage on a tennessee highway early thursday morning, a shooting that left one woman dead and three others injured, including a police officer, that man said he did it because he was angry about police violence against african americans. so this is what has happened in the last 72 hours and we're still learning new information by the hour about the attacks in dallas. the authorities have established there was one shooter in that attack, mika xavier johnson, 25 years old and served in afghanistan as an army reservist. johnson told a hostage negotiator he was upset about recent police shootings and he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers. dallas mayor mike rawlings said

this evening that johnson was moving around, firing at officers from different levels of a building. sources tell nbc news he used an sks rifle, a long gun that generally serves as a semi- automatic weapon and a handgun. he was also wearing body armor. they found bomb-making materials, missiles and ammunitions at his home and a journal of combat tactics. he had no criminal record. investigators have found no links between johnson and any extremist groups. 43-year-old brent thompson, a dallas area rapid transit authority officer, the first dart officer killed in that agency's history. patrick zama ripa who served three tours of iraq. his friends say he became a cop

to help people. michael smith, and lauren arrens, a senior corporal who spent 14 years in the department. that's what we've learned. but we're still left with many questions. what led to this? how much premeditated planning went into the attack? was it meant to be connected to last night's protest, or was the shooter just looking for an opportunity? was anyone else aware of his plans? and can we have a cohesive national reaction that improves things, rather than making things worse? thank you for your time. let's start by asking how your community is doing tonight. >> i think the community is strong. they've really shown a lot of support for the officers. i know the first responders and the people that are out working this crime scene behind me, they feel that support.

we're really feeling that from our community, but understandably, people are shocked and horrified by what happened, including the officers who had to work straight through the night on this, who knew the people who had died. so it's very difficult evening and day for them. and i'm very proud of the work they've done. >> and have you had an opportunity to speak with the families of any of those officers who were killed? >> i have and i've been in the emergency operations center working with the officers that are doing the sweeps of the areas, of the logistics, the investigations, but i understand chief brown had an opportunity to reach out to each family. these were not my officers. these were the city of dallas officers and dart officers. >> and talk a little bit about, you said obviously these were dart officers and city officers. can you give us a sense of what the policing culture was like. the person who is now deceased,

he'll never be able to be questioned about this. the indications are he had animus about police officers and white police officers. can you talk about what the community-policing relationship is like, to your knowledge, in dallas? >> statistically, it's a good relationship. but we have a racial division in this country and our county of 2.5 million people is not immune from that. we have racial divisions and issues with that like any other community. but we do regularly see protests happen in the downtown area of dallas. it's a pretty progressive community here in dallas county. and our officers intermingle with the protesters and these things are done peacefully all the time. unfortunately in this situation, mr. johnson targeted officers

and killed and injured people. >> and do you have a personal concern, sir, that an incident like this, that has so shaken the police officers in dallas county and in the city of dallas, could actually worsen the relationship between police officers in the community. are you concerned about that? >> well, that can happen, but mr. johnson chose his path and he chose his actions. now we get to choose ours. the leadership is calling for unity. and calling for -- what i'm asking is that our fellow man, we look -- try to look at life through the eyes of someone who is not like us. if you're white, try to understand what it's like to tell your children there's a different set of rules for your middle schoolchildren as they grow up than for your neighbor's. if you're not the family of a first responder, try to imagine what it's like when you send your loved one away to work and wonder if they're going to come

home. if we can look at the world through the lenses of others, i think the result of this can be more unity and bringing us closer together. we cannot let an act of hate tear us further apart. >> i think no truer words. very poignant and hopefully people will take that sage advice. dallas county judge clay jenk s jenkins. >> thank you. >> the pictures you're looking at now are out of atlanta where hundreds if not thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets. it remains a peaceful protest, much like dallas last night before tragedy struck. joining us now, kellion nixon who attended yesterday's protest rally with his son. do we have kellion nixon? >> hello? >> as we continue to look at those protest pictures from atlanta, georgia, just some of the protests taking place across the country. as we said, we're trying to get

kellion nixon on the line. but as you can see, what happened in dallas certainly hasn't stopped americans from coming out and these outpourings of grief. i think it's fair to say that people are mixing their grief about the deaths in baton rouge, louisiana, and in minnesota, with sorrow for the families of those officers in dallas. kellion, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate you being here. let's talk a little bit about the protest that you attended -- >> it's kellon. >> i'm sorry, kellon. i mispronounced your name. thank you. talk about how the protest was going before you came to protest and what was happening before the shootings erupted. >> well, i came to protest because i wanted to have a voice amongst those who couldn't speak for themselves, for those who passed recently. as far as the march and the rally, it was peaceful, very

peaceful. again i'll say the people were peaceful, the police officers were peaceful. up until the end. and i hated for it to end in that manner, because that was not what it was supposed to be. >> and if you could, and i know this has been a really horrific experience for you, sort of describe what unfolded, what you saw last night as that horror broke out. >> well, i -- luckily i believe by the grace of god, i decided to leave just a few seconds early, maybe about 45 seconds, a minute early. and as i was crossing the street to leave, the shots began to ring out. i saw exactly what you described, i saw horror. i saw people running. i saw police just as afraid as any protesters or any rallier was. we were all afraid. we were all trying to live. that's what i saw. i heard shots, i didn't see a shooter. and i just saw mayhem.

>> and did you have the sense, as you said, seeing this mayhem take place, that there was any particular target? did you feel in a sense that everyone there was a target, that the protesters themselves also could be targets of those gun shots? >> to be honest with you, i didn't have time to think of that. i had just the time to think about protecting my son's life and my own life in that time. and to be honest, i feel ashamed now that that was all i could do, and that was all i could think about. but, you know, in times like that, that's your first instinct. >> yeah, no, kellon, i think you did exactly the right thing. i want to just ask you about some of the commentary that we've heard. thankfully not most of the commentary, but some of the commentary that we've heard about what happened in dallas, it's tried to vilify the black lives movement at large for what happened. even though, as you said, you were in the crowd, the people who were protesting and marches were just as much at risk of that shooter as the ultimate

targets, the police. what do you say to people who try to blame black lives matter as a movement for this antagonism toward police? >> i say that that's a blatant lie. i hate the fact that any individual that was a part of the organization of this event last night would ever be considered a part of what took place last night. what really took place last night is what's been taking place across america forever and that's hatred. it wasn't black lives matter. it wasn't police. it wasn't any of those things. it was pure hatred. and until we resolve our hate issue, then we'll continue to see these things. >> and you talked about bringing your son to that protest. can you tell us, what message were you hoping to convey to your little boy by bringing him to that protest? to you, what is the point of these marches? >> to me the point is to shed light in darkness. you know, we're the light of the

world, the salt of the earth. stand up for me, son. we're the salt of the earth. if we don't expose the light, then it will only get darker, it will only become more them. i wanted him to see that he could have an impact and that he could have a voice. >> well, i think that you did that, sir and i'm glad that you and your son were safe. kellon nixon, thank you very much for joining us. >> can i say one thing? >> of course. >> hey, julian, hey, katie, i wouldn't get out of here without saying hey to my children and my wife. they've been cheering for me all day. a lot of people want me to come on and hate, to say, kill, kill, kill. i've been getting these messages on social media. but i just want to continue to spread the message of love, to tell us to love one another, to love your neighbor as yourself, to love in the traffic, to love on your job, to love on social media, everywhere you can, love. we got to make our love louder than any kind of hate.

that's the only way we're going to make any kind of change. thanks so much for having me on. >> thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. we are keeping an eye on some of the massive protests happening around the country tonight and we'll head back to dallas to speak to one of the organizer's of yesterday's rally. [ guitar playing ] ugh. heartburn. sorry ma'am. no burning here. try new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmmm. incredible. looks tasty. you don't have heartburn. new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. enjoy the relief.

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a lot has happened in the almost 24 hours since the shooting in dallas, texas, last night. but it is worth keeping in mind what the mood was like in dallas before those shots rang out, before at least one shooter took the lives of five officers and

injured seven more. the reason they were there because of events that took place hundreds of miles away. the death of alton sterling in baton rouge, louisiana, shot multiple times by a police officer while he was held to the ground. today the mother of sterling's son put out a statement in support of the families of the shootings in dallas. responding to violence is violence is not the answer. the other event that brought people to downtown dallas was also falcon heights, minnesota, philando castile's final moments, as he lay bleeding in his girlfriend's car were captured and streamed live by his girlfriend. hundreds of protesters converged outside the governor's residence in st. paul last night, where they remained until early this morning. it's unclear at this time whether the justice department will open an investigation into his death as well. but as those two deaths, the

deaths of alton sterling and philando castile on tops of decades of shooting deaths of people of color at the hands of police officers is what led to the protests last night. 800 men, women, and children, activists alike chanting, enough is enough, no justice no peace, and black lives matter. but the rally was peaceful throughout. police were on hand in dallas not to antagonize, but to protect the protesters as they walked with them, even stopping to take pictures with them at times. that was the scene in dallas last night, protest and peaceful, until approximately 8:58 p.m. when shots rang out. now to say what took place next was precisely the opposite of the theme of the rally in march is a huge understatement. but that has not stopped people from taking to the streets again tonight. thousands gathered in atlanta,

jj, centennial park, they marched blaocking traffic. they marched in new york, philadelphia, and baltimore. the rallies continue. joining me now, president and founder of next generation action network, one of the organizers of yesterday's protest. thanks so much for being with me. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start by talking about the purpose of the protests that you organized. what was it? >> well, the purpose of the protest was, i was traveling to baton rouge, louisiana, and met with the family of alton sterling, and we organized this protest because we know that in the city of dallas, we have some alton sterlings, we have clinton allen, jason harrison, and many cases here in the city of dallas, there's not been an officer indicted in over 40 years in an officer-fatal shooting. so we have these types of cases. we have them in oklahoma city,

with charles petit jr, we have many cases in these instance, and we wanted to come out and stand up and fight for justice and then while we was planning this, in the last few hours, we hear of the death of philando castile. so we are -- people are tired and enough is enough. we wanted to come out to say and stand with the united states that were outraged with these shootings of young black men being shot and in a pool of their blood. >> just going back to piece together how it was possible for the shooter to take position and be in position to commit such lethal acts. did you file a parade route with the city? was it known what the route was going to be? >> no, we never had any route or

anything of that nature. it was clear when we left the park, we just took a route. there were many officers inside of the crowd that was not dressed up. a lot of officers from dignitary protection that were navigating us through the crowd and different things of that nature. so there was no route given to the dallas police department. there was no route that we had planned. we were pretty much just going however the energy of the crowd was going, and prior to the shooting, we were two blocks from basically ending the actual protest. we were on our way back to the park, in which we started at. >> how did you publicize the march? how would people have found out where to meet you to be a part of what you were doing? >> well, we did it on social media. if you go on social media, justice for #alton

sterling, #philando castile, you'll see that over 1,400 people was able to come out last night. that's how we got our word out. we got our word out through local media, through local radio. we have built a strong coalition with our media to address these issues and put these situations when we're trying to galvanize people to fight for justice. >> it does seem that there was a tremendous amount of coordination, between the protest organizers and not just the dallas city police, but also dart, who also lost an officer to the sniper attack. would you say the coordination was good with the police, because they seem to also be mixed in, in a lot of cases with the crowd. >> correct. if anybody is trying to make the fact be that we were not in correlation, or not talking with the dallas police department, we talked with them many times. the only thing that was not discussed was a route prior to.

there is no one's fault on this incidence. it was clearly unexpected and shocked us all. a lot of these officers that died last night, we do many protests inside of downtown dallas. so the same officers come out and many of those officers we have saw time and time and time again, as we come down here in protest in the city of dallas. so, you know, we -- we definitely stay in prayer for their family and all of the victims that have lost their lives to violence across america in this past week. >> i want to give you an opportunity to talk about to some of the people who have criticize the rallies and tried to blame organizations like yours for violence against police. i want you to listen to texas governor dan patrick -- lieutenant governor dan patrick and the former mayor of new york city. take a listen.

they were on the air today. >> all those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. what hypocrites. i do blame former black lives matter protests. last night was peaceful, but others have not been. >> the reason that there's a target on police officers' backs is because of groups like black lives matter. they make it seem like all police are against blacks. they're not. they're the ones saving black lives. black lives matter is not saving any black lives. it's the police officers who are doing it. >> i have my own feelings about those two sound bites that you just heard, but i want to give you an opportunity to respond. >> those type of ignorant statements, and their magnitude, is the reason why we have the rhetoric that we have, and why we have so much hate. that's only feeding into the problem which everybody is protesting about. that's not going to bring -- if they feel like the black lives

matter movement and the next generation action network and many of the peaceful organizations that's addressing police brutality condone violence in any kind of way, we came out here to address of issue of police brutality, we came out here to address the issue of hate, not to afflict hate in any kind of magnitude to anybody. that's the -- that's the problem that we have in america. is that our elected officials want to play the tit for tat game. and our local chief and our local mayor let it be known that we have had peaceful protesting prior to this. this has never happened in any kind of way. and let it be known that this guy had nothing to do with the organizations that organized this protest. and we do not condone violence in any kind of way. but we will say this. until the issue is addressed

with police brutality and the issue of poverty is addressed, we will have situations. the sad part about it, we will have situations in this magnitude, and that's the truth, and that we need to allow -- petition our local lekted officials to dress these issues and not keep going back with the political talk. there's a problem in america when it comes to police brutality and there's a problem when it comes to gun violence. that doesn't start yesterday. that started years before my life. so this is not a new subject. this might came out -- been the same problem when lieutenant dan patrick was born. this is not a new issue. and they need to stop the rhetor rhetoric. for him to come down here in dallas and put that rhetoric in the city, where this city is trying to stand together, it's a problem. it's a very well problem while we have in text, it's a very

wide problem in texas and for sandra bland when he allowed his department to justify her murder down there in waller county. this is the problem that we have in america and that's why we were protesting yesterday, and because of the rhetoric from our officials in that capacity. >> yes, well said dominique alexander, president and founder of next generation action network and one of the organizers of yesterday's march in dallas. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. still ahead, a look inside the dallas police department, a department that has made major strides in recent years in its policing. we'll be right back. looking for balance in your digestive system?

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as police chief, on the ninth largest city in the united states, dallas, texas, chief david brown, got the worst news imaginable. his 27-year-old son who carries his name, david, shot and killed an innocent bystander, driving in a suburb of dallas, he shot him more than a dozen times. but it didn't stop there. >> well, officer craig shaw was answering a disturbance call yesterday evening at the river bed apartments when gunfire rang out. he was killed and so was another man, along with the son of dallas police chief david brown. we have exclusive details on who police believe shot the officer. >> news 8 has learned that chief david brown's son is to believed the shooter that killed a lancaster police officer. brown's son is also believed to have killed another man before he shot and killed the officer. when police officer craig shaw arrived on the scene, david

brown jr shot and killed him too. shaw was the first police officer killed in the suburb of lancaster, killed by the dallas police chief's son. it was a horrible tragedy for chief brown on so many levels and it happened just weeks after he got the job. after taking some time off to mourn his son's death, he addressed his 3,600-member department, saying, quote, the past few days have been very troubling and emotional for all of us. my family has not only lost a son, but a fellow police officer and a private citizen lost their lives at the hands of our son. that hurts so deeply i cannot adequately express the sadness i feel inside my heart. that was june of 2010. but that was not the first time chief brown was touched first hand by violence. more than 20 years earlier, in 1988, he responded to an officer-involved shooting in a suburb of dallas. upon arriving on the scene, he immediately recognized a pair of eyeglasses on the ground. they were the same ones that were worn by his former police academy classmate and partner.

his partner later died in the hospital. brown said, quote, i really relate to all of those in the line of duty deaths on a much more personal level. you lose a partner, you just never get over it. that was august of 1988. three years after that, his younger brother was killed in the phoenix area by drug dealers. that was 1991. david brown is a police chief who has been through a lot of strife and violence in his life. he's experienced first hand on a personal level and yesterday he had to face it again in his own city. the dallas police department under chief david brown has embraced reform, put an emphasis on community policing. they're trained in de-escalat n de-escalation. he began reviewing his department's policies in 2014 after a grand jury cleared a police officer shooting of an unarmed man. he wanted to make changes. he wrote about how he believed

in transparency. his department and tracked and publicized its officer involved shootings and they've seen their arrests go down. they've seen their excessive force complaints go down. between 2009 and 2014, complaints dropped by 64%. they've seen a decline in shootings. the murder rate has gone down. while they've improved a lot, they still have a higher rate of police involved shootings than three other major cities. they were the ones who tweeted out a photo of the wrong man, calling him a suspect, a photo which i'm not going to show you. officers were quick to make statements in the heat of the moment that later did not pan out. but overall dallas has been pretty widely praised for their performance. they're a textbook example of the kind of change we all want it and need to see in policing, perhaps because they're led by a man who understands loss in the same way that many of the cities that he and his department understand it.

joining me now, founder and president of the center of policing equity and college of criminal justice. thank you for being here. i want to talk to you, first of all, dallas has really tried to be aggressive about changing the policing culture, and perhaps because of who the chief is, his only personal experience with loss. what is the right way to reform a police department that's lost trust with its citizens? >> so the right way to reform any police department is to think about this intergenerationally. we were talking just before we went on about how if you start the process and you're working against a culture, there are people there who say, i've seen chiefs come and go. the average career span for a chief, particularly in a major city, is about three years. so they will wait you out. they'll sit in the precinct. you can't just say, well, my tenure, for however long it's going to be, i'm going to do everything. you have to start creating structures that will last intergenerationally.

and you begin at the speed and with the power of trust. >> so if you're a police chief coming into a situation like this, there was a turnover in sanford, florida, after the trayvon martin case, you've seen these turnovers, including ferguson, missouri, with a new chief. you're coming in and that's the culture, they say, we'll wait you out. are there things a chief can do, despite the culture and the contracts that give them tremendous rights over the average citizen, are there things the police chief can do to change the mentality of the lieutenants? >> so changing mentality is frequently the first instinct and it's often the first mistake. they go in and they say, i'm going to change the way that you think about keeping yourself safe. that never really works out well. what you can do is change the accountability structures. so what you've seen is many chiefs walk in and the first thing they do is say, let's find the right people to be in my corner and let's find the right people to let go. they don't need to be part of this department. but here's the extra tricky

thing. you talked about collective bargaining agreements and what the union has power to do, that's been up because campaign zero has been spreading the word. you have civilian oversight that sometimes understands and sometimes doesn't, but you can fire a bunch of people for doing terrible things, but they get reinstated. what kind of power do you have over an organization when you can't choose your own staff and you can't fire people for cause? >> there's this underlying sort of theme, particularly the minnesota shooting, of fear. you talk about training people not to be afraid. can you train people if they are afraid of a type of person, if they're afraid of african americans, if they have a fear response when they see a black motorist? is there any training in the world that can change that? >> yes, but i don't think that can be our focus. it's possible, but it's very difficult, it's incredibly intensive, and i think we should be caring a lot less about hearts and minds. we've been seeing in the same

way that you've done wonderful work, to -- i spent the last two days with a bunch of police chiefs trying to do the right set of things. >> yep. >> you can do all of that, but it's not just about that last second decision. in fact, almost every last-second decision is a result of several tactical decisions that you've learned and been trained on. >> yeah. >> and it's those mistakes, if i'm reaching into the car after you, i've already made about ten tactical mistakes that are deliberatative that you can manage. so if i have a fear of black people, that's not affecting me when i'm a mile back, 20 feet away and you've just stopped your car. we shouldn't reduce it to the life-death half a second decisions because that's not the full reality of even a law enforcement contact. >> got to start with the accountability. wish we had more time. we'll bring you back and talk do you about this more. appreciate it. still ahead, the shootings

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today the white house announced president obama will cut short his european trip to return home sunday night. one day earlier than planned. president obama will also travel to dallas early next week. the news comes as the president has already been forced to address tragic events back home twice within the space of 18

hours. upon arrival in warsaw last night, he spoke about the deadly police shootings that took the lives of alton sterling and philando castile. this morning, he paid tribute to the police officers who lost their lives in dallas. he followed that with a call to action on gun control. >> there's no possible justification for these kinds of attacks, or any violence against law enforcement. today is a wrenching reminder of the sfas sacrifices they make for us. we also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic and in the days ahead we're going to have to consider those realities as well. >> the 2016 presidential candidates all weighed in today in an online video, donald trump said the video in dallas had shaken the soul of our nation, hillary clinton urged all sides to come together after the

combined tragic events of the past 72 hours. >> we do need police and criminal justice reforms to save lives and make sure all americans are treated equally in rights and dignity. we do need to support police departments and stand up for the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to protect us. and we do need to reduce gun violence. we may disagree about how to do all these things, but surely we can all agree with those basic premises. surely this week showed us how true they are. >> joining us now, connecticut senator chris murphy, who previously represented newtown as a congressman and staged a 15-hour filibuster last month on the senate floor to raise awareness about gun violence. we've had the newtown horror, the charleston massacre, victims being young teenagers as club

goers. now that we've added police officers to that ghastly cad ray of victims do dead on the floor of their classroom in newtown, connecticut and that didn't move congress to action. we had young men and women just going out for a night of dancing gunned down because of their sexual orientation and their ethnicity and that didn't move congress to action. we had horror after horror, and memorial day weekend that didn't move congress to action. and we now have the intersection of terrorism and guns, knowing that isis is actively recruiting loan wolf attackers in the united states to go to gun shows and buy assault weapons to be turned on civilians. i'm not sure it can get any worse.

this is horrible. this is horrific these brave police officers being gunned down by a sniper. if america hasn't moved congress to action already, i guess i'm skeptical that this is going to do the job. the nra effectively owns the house of representatives and significant degree of the united states senate. and until the american public clears some of those people out that aren't voting with their constituen constituents, it's going to be hard to get change. >> you know, i'm not sure that there's ever been a poll of individual police chiefs around the country, you talk with individual chiefs and people in law enforcement and one of the things they are very weery about is open carry, as was the case in dallas, it makes their job harder when they see somebody brandishing a weapon and if they're not sure if that person, you know, a suspect or if they are just somebody exercising their right to hold a gun. is it possible that police chiefs might be enlisted for democrats who want to see some reform. >> remember, when we announced

the reintroduction of the assault weapons ban in 2013 right after sandy hook, there were police chiefs and police officers standing with us. i remember chilling conversation on the day of the shooting in sandy hook, in which a police officer was talking about, frankly, how fortunate it was that the shooter killed himself because they were worried about being over powered by the kind of weapon ri he had in that school. for a long time, police officers and police chiefs have been supportive of a lot of the measures we have been pushing. they have not been absent. maybe they'll step up the advocacy, we haven't been losing these fights over background checks and assault weapons bands because police officers haven't been speaking up. they've been speaking up, with them by our side, we still haven't been able to beat the gun lobby and congress. >> not hardening, but we hope that you will continue to fight and keep us posted on what you're doing and your progress. connecticut senator chris

murphy, thank you so much for joining us this evening. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you, and we'll be right back. ♪

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we may never know exactly why the dallas shooter did what he did. we have snippets of what his moment was and they hinted his anger. while no sane person can relate to what he did, the underlying anger is something every black person in america understands and feels and has spent the last 72 hours feeling, as we watch black body after black body lying on the ground covering in blood in ferguson, or killed as police jump out of a car while a child is playing with a toy gun in cleveland. or choked to death in statten island, or tossed into the back of a van like trash in baltimore. or dead scattered cd z he was selling in baton rouge, or covered in blood in the passenger's seat of his girlfriend's car in minnesota. seeing that year after year, decade after decade in your

community and in your country is bad enough, and recent years you get to consume it on your phone, twitter feed, facebook, over the past week, black americans have added, learn how to use facebook live to there ever growing list of strategies, not to make sure you survive a traffic stop, but to ensure your death will be documented correctly. list includes, make sure your loved ones, close your facebook mine to paint you as a menace. and have good attractive pictures of you and your loved ones posted and available to combat the inevitable attempt to paint you as a thug to deserve to die. be ready to record the entire encounter with police and now how to update it somewhere quickly, those methods have been to be learned and paired with the classics like don't move, be exceedingly polite, follow instructions so that hopefully they won't kill you, above all, understand that sometimes as in the case of philando castile

even doing all three, won't keep you alive. and then at the same time, police have also been victimized in the last 24 hours, five officers murdered last night, innocent lives taken for no good reason. you have to wonder how do police officers, some of whom have their own psychological baggage, distrust or alien nation of communities they serves police commune that fears and distrust them. how do you conduct that fear within your head and heart armed with the knowledge that the person in that car is terrified and maybe even angry with you, what is it going to be like on either end of that job, especially in the wake of the shooting in dallas all of this is hard enough for adults to reconcile. what about kids? what happens to the psychological make up of that 15-year-old boy crying for his daddy live on tv. the children of alton sterling

and sergeant michael smith. these kids have been derailed and now face a lifetime of trauma, a lifetime of fear, a lifetime of emotional damage that does not go away. how do they recover from that. how do any of us? i want to read something tonight that i read on red state.com. this is from leon wolf, conservative writer "people's willingness to act rationally and within the confines of the law and the political system is generally speaking directly proportional to their belief that the law and political system will ever punish wrongdoing. that belief is broken, especially in many minority communities. it's the blind uncritical belief that police never do anything wrong that is a major contributing factor to that" if you grew up consuming that and living that reality year after year and paralyzing fear of police and you chase that with a sense of total futility as each

of these killings result in no explanation, no consequences for the officer, no matter what the circumstance is, when that is your every day, there has to be a psychological impact. it even effects reporters who cover these cases death after death after death, i know it's effected me. and that does it for us tonight, rachel will be back on monday. and i will see you in the morning as we continue this conversation on my show a.m. joy. now, it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnel, good evening lawrence. >> thanks, i'll be watching in the morning. >> thank you. this is the continuing coverage of the deadly attack in dallas 24 hours ago when what appears to have been a loan gunman shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven police officers, two civilians were also injured. here is what we know at this hour, the shooter is dead after hours of attempting to negotiate with the shooter who police cornered, police decided it was too dangerous to send officers up against him so theyse