things craig could only dream of from his cell and death row. something to chair with a role after college horror. that in his character it really took a whap a full real. he is in jail for murder but outweighs fail i will one day. he was coming home cory story begins here on december twenty sixth two thousand and one when police executed a warrant against his favorite jamie smith before proceeding to his side of the duplex what happened next would change corey's life forever corey says he was asleep when police broke down the door looking for drugs came in the someone you know this is actually happened you know someone breaking in your house when your little girl. is trying to defending his eighteen month old daughter corey says he hid behind her bed and fired three shots killing prentiss police officer ron jones he was

a white troll one whose dad was white. teeth police are going to bash the fact that corey is black and he's charged with killing wrong police found enough marijuana for a one hundred dollars fine because he was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in just two hours by a jury of ten whites in two black there's more to do no senate to listen to the truth i feel like the true google search for bastow. i would never would have thought they would be what they'd done to. take me to the way they. convicted me like this there was that. they had to do is just not in the mouse and never would have the warrant for the raid was based entirely on a tip from this quote reliable police informant. who are very good out. there were. you were part of.

this again tribute is huge for a rebel even the gracious. because it became very valuable in the pursuit of this but you still spent nine and a half years in prison three on death row before he won his appeal and eventually his freedom when his mother came to me who are happens to be the same age. i went to school together. and i couldn't help but think you know that i could be muslim for defending corrie evans was fired as princes public defender. today corey is among friends and family who are. spouse a man and an update they hear they had against him because this is nature he's been my data research seems the small chance he will always smile. and open to you he

came home. good to see you. still haven't says it isn't safe for corey in jefferson davis county court is always going to be the yeah that he will because. even though we have certainly proven that there was no way to know his part do you need any of that he's always going to be there yeah he's always going to be a big phelim now thirty corey is eager to get on with his life or go to flaws this . time with this new world sea world stuff like that. probably seven. confident that it was the truth that set him free. kill in florida r t monticello mississippi. and there are a lot of issues that this one man's story touches on miscarriages of justice the possible inequality of our judicial process in this country and the tactics of police now in this case you see the consequences of one of them no not. grades no

knocks no announcement police rolin and is this case shows and as critics argue they can be extremely volatile and leave very little margin for error here to talk about tactics like this in the name of the war on drugs is erin houston he's executive director of students for a sensible policy now thank you so much for being here thank you critics of no knock raids argue that possibly in very volatile situations where you have a fugitive on the run or hostage situations or that kind of thing they can be effective but that this this day and age they're mostly used to serve drug warrants is this a problem in your eyes absolutely it's a problem we have about one hundred ten no knock raids occurring every day in this country and that's a lot of raids and we've had a proliferation of swat teams since the mid ninety's throughout the country and really you go back to the old phrase in american culture if you only you have a hammer all you see is nails and so we see that as

a problem here where every town in america does not have terrorists necessarily that would require a swat team going in guns blazing what every town in america does have is drugs and people who use drugs we have students responsible drug policy marginalisation says base we say basically the war on drugs is a war on us it's a war on all of us and it recognizes that this is a failed war that caused cost people's lives across blood and treasure it's cost an enormous amount of blood and treasure for this country but how do you really prove that in this situation as something like no knock raids that the violence or that the consequences outweigh the success of serving warrants with this method what are the real hard facts are examples well the proof is in the pudding you see the case of a columbia missouri man in two thousand and ten whose home was raided he was purported to be a drug dealer he had a small amount of marijuana on him and the police came in and they shot his dogs and he watches. dialoguing with his children

a small children his wife watched their family dog die and it turned out the man was charged with a misdemeanor possession of marijuana charge that's outrageous and then he was actually also it is his kids taken away from i believe child endangerment charges and the charge was that somehow he and dangerous children more by possessing marijuana than the cops had by coming in and shooting his dog and turning his house into a shooting gallery so that when food is in the pudding it doesn't it just doesn't work it's not necessary before the proliferation of these teams in the mid ninety's we didn't have an epidemic of people police officers going and getting shot trying to get information about basic drug crimes they were knocked on the doors that's what happened this is the part of the problem it's unfair to both the citizens get arrested and to the police are put in a terrible position and force and on and force war on drugs i want to get back to that but if the worst cases are where someone's dog is getting shot but they're serving one hundred ten no knock warrants a day and most of them for drug offenses i don't know that makes that's the case

that these are so dangerous and so over bearing well unfortunately a lot of people actually die as well a lot of a lot of kids a lot of people who are on arms innocent people get shot and they get killed we saw that recently we saw the mayor of the town of berwyn heights here locally his home was raided in a mistaken raid i mean these this is serious stuff that the cops themselves will tell you any time you bring out a gun and you bring a bunch of people with guns around but it's a serious business that's that's a dangerous situation and you mention that it was always like this that you know back decades ago there would be a knock on the door there wouldn't be this kind of a raid what do you really pinpoint as being the tipping point that allowed for this expansion because i know one of the factors in the expansion of swat teams many analysts one point two is that when the department of defense began giving extra weapons extra military equipment to local police departments all over the country so i'm curious what you know one element you think is really responsible for the six. i see that as one major component i would mark that is one major event on this

timeline the memorandum of understanding that is struck between the department of defense and the department of justice to provide as you say military grade technology and weapons to police local police and states around the country in one thousand nine hundred four that was followed by an expansion of that funding for that kind of technology after september eleventh because again congress in the rush to address terrorism after september eleventh wanted to do something and what they did was they threw a lot of money at money in technology for these. weapons of technology for local swat teams law enforcement of the country and again what we know we all have in every town in america is drug users what we do not have in every town in america is al qaida and then one of the things that radley balko who's covered this extensively was talking about was you mention that back in you know decades ago there would be knocks at the door and he said back you know during the cold war people would say you know everyone knows that this is

a democracy because it three am if someone knocks at the door they think it's the milkman and that masked men with guns was considered something that a totalitarian state would only allow for now that we have that happening so broadly in the united states does that just prove the acceptance of what's become more of a totalitarian state certainly we've seen the growth of extreme tactics and militaristic paramilitary tactics all in the name of the war on drugs almost all in the name of the war on drugs it's an outrage people's lives are at stake people die because of this and what we're really talking about is a war on people or people that continues it is quite amazing story tells us there are major consequences and thank you for giving us some more insight into those as well that is here. and still to come on tonight's show new government agencies meant to protect the consumer are called dictatorships by a congressman and he is tonight to a time when our bacon gas and then a happy hour the g.o.p. is rallying there calling the debt debate. they're bringing up ben affleck.

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or should close up. alright it's time for tonight's tool time award and it goes to drum roll please republican congressman randy bauer now he is a good ole boy from texas and until president obama released his birth certificate earlier this year he was also a birth or he was actually one of the three texan lawmakers who co-sponsored the so-called birth or a bill which would have required all presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate to prove they meet constitutional requirements to be president and during a heated debate over health care reform not about became famous for a very ugly outburst while another congressman was speaking take a listen and i warn you the sound is a little low so we'll play it twice but it is worth it.

mr speaker. mr speaker do you hear he shouted baby killer while another congressman was addressing his fellow colleagues now that all aside now the republicans are in control he has landed a top seat on the financial services committee now doesn't that make you feel secure in your government now he says it's his mission to help dismantle some of the laws dealing with banks and wall street passed by the last congress he doesn't like that dodd frank bill that created the consumer financial protection bureau and the office of financial research he believes that these government agencies are evil because they're looking out for the consumer and not wall street and big banks but the way he is right now basically these these agencies the two girls that i just mean richard

a little dictatorships i mean you point this person there they dictate what they could do to you how much they could george you for and if you don't want to answer there's really not much help you process to it you don't think that's you know the type of thing that are democracy. yeah he called the new agencies little dictatorships but this is not unique from the g.o.p. crowd when it comes to trying to rein in banks business and wall street since the new congress was sworn in naga bauer and some of his fellow republicans have worked to defund the new financial regulations so they can be a forced effectively and mind you many analysts and economists that i've interviewed say that these new regulations are even tough enough to begin with to end too big to fail so there's that but back to these republicans they've also set a boards that can override any rules created by the two new government agencies that too but i have a question for congressman neugebauer and other g.o.p. lawmakers in his camp at what point will you stop protecting the people who helped

cause the financial crisis in the first place the big banks and wall street played by their own rules for years and look what happened they helped plunge the global economy into a recession and yet just a few years later the g.o.p. is back protecting them wall street and big banks have proven that they can't be trusted and lawmakers still want to ease off on the restrictions which aren't even tough enough to begin with so far as fancy regulation blocking replete with dictatorship comparison we are giving tonight's tool time award republican congressman randy nada bauer of texas. all right the country may be headed for default but there is still time for happy hour and joining me for it is r t correspondent christine and j.p.

fair he is senior communications strategist with new media strategies thanks for being here you guys all right so sticking to the debt debate and some of the interesting against surrounding it apparently the house g.o.p. used a line from a recent ben affleck film to get fired and row. rally around boehner as planned he played it for republicans so they could do just that and check out the scene that they watch from the town. and as you know i can't tell you what it is you can never ask me about it later i'm going to hurt some people. i. was kind of going to take. is that a joke i mean you've got to be kidding me it's not only from the town but it is like they're plotting like a revenge attack which i guess you could say perhaps that's what the republicans are doing i don't know i mean they think follow me blindly without knowing what exactly i'm planning for what i had to do just say yes i mean if we want to be like really sort of literal with the metaphor and really work it all out i mean the guys that they're about to go wreak havoc on are actually very bad people so you know

they're very bad people in the film but it's somebody that's already been real life but it real life i mean despite both sides are characterizing the other side as being the you know the sum of all fears so i think you know i mean i don't know why they would show this in a briefing but you know it's just it's a metaphor it's a stupid metaphor or whatever i like the idea of bringing movie clips to congress as you know the hell can be such a stiff place so you know if this is what's doing it for them why don't play always an optimist and i are that after their clip congressman allen west apparently said i'm ready to drive the car i don't really blindly drive the car whenever it's headed whenever and i mean to say that this is this is a guy who is assured into office with with the whole war crime up you know firing off a firearm next to him insurgents had to find out where a terrorist attack might be happening and the voters of florida said well this is a feature this is not a bug this is not a problem we like this about this guy so of course going to jump all over this he looks like i'm going to jump on it will ben affleck come down and actually

responded to the news that the g.o.p. used his film for inspiration he said this he said i don't know if this is a compliment or the ultimate repudiation but if they're going to be watching movies i think the company men is more appropriate. well there's been a flex political commentary thanks ben i know i should congress be listening to that maybe a little bit more better than the town now let's move let's move on ok so the office started in britain and it was a hit in the u.s. of course and now ricky gervais's concept is spreading somewhere maybe unlikely afghanistan. and they're doing a new show they're based on the office they're calling it the ministry and we actually have a clip. of this is just going to the john. it was chicken.

all right what you think is going to be a huge success in afghanistan i think this is so awesome because i mean i'm a huge fan of the office both the british version and the american version it's so funny there's a lot of stuff going on in afghanistan that's hard for people to deal with and i love that they're talking about issues like women saying i hate men they're talking about drug cartel issues within afghanistan i mean i found this to be a little surprising knowing what i know about the strict laws are not accountable and right now because i'm missing it and i'm really upset at the box when it comes out i'm going to show told my friends during frat parties would be like do this episode is a really good one you have all the time i want to know how long before the u.s. is using this as propaganda and i want to know who is behind it because this seen the woman saying i hate men like what is that to show that women are allowed to say that now in afghanistan it feels like there is propaganda being spewed. it's very the way things actually are in afghanistan in terms of how they talk about about maybe they'll appreciate it because you know there's always that sense that you know what's going on underground even if you're not allowed to talk about it so maybe in the comfort of their own homes they'll be able to live with and they're

also they're also making fun of the graft stuff so that's that's nice that you know the government officials just somebody's brother or something like that so so that's good i mean you know we need a little bit more of that here in the u.s. because of the government so yeah maybe this will inspire our version of the office and moving on most people have heard of pole dancing fitness classes they've been pretty popular in the united states but usually they're popular among you know adults and u.k. there is actually a gym that has taken customers as young as seven years old for pole dancing and they've posted the pictures on line on facebook of these young girls these are seven year olds doing. some really sophisticated pole dancing but i don't think about that well i mean i started pulled in to get a very early age when it was around it was around you know we don't have a pole i didn't bring it with me but. i sort of when i was six and it was really really hard charlie who taught you to pull dance at sixty i'd rather not get into. but i got really good girls expects the consequence really bad tips i'll just say

you know at the age or at the age of seven when i started really working i just didn't really get that much money so all this is what. i mean i think it's very strange but i'm not one of those people that's going to say this is teaching these young girls how to be strippers now i mean it is though isn't that exactly what it's doing to it's what you do when you're a stripper i mean that's it's one of the very also what you're doing when you're in pole dancing classes and i mean i'm not i'm not going to the fact that the parents allow these pictures to be posted on facebook of their kids doing strip dancing but there's a lot obesity is all for obesity ok if it does that i'll actually advocate for or fighting obesity but meanwhile speaking of living conditions new details are out about some good ones not somewhere you'd expect a prison in norway where the norway bomber is expected to perhaps take a look at why some people are calling this the nicest prison in the entire world. a typical bedroom at the holden prison complete with a flat screen t.v. prisoners have access to a state of the art gym where they can shoot hoops or do

a little rock climbing and there's artwork sprinkled throughout the facility including this mural and we're not even showing you the prisons recording studio where inmates are rehearsing the prison first musical production come on glee and the norway prisons how is that reasonable for prison well i mean i wouldn't recommend just overhauling their entire prison system it's just that in every in every prison and so they have a toilet this guy should just be the toilet i mean this is just replace one of the toilets and you should be this is really tough because what the person who may go there and. did it is still so fresh in our minds it's atrocious and it's horrible and to think that people like that could end up there is just awful on the other hand think about the prisons we have here in the us in norway they only go to prison for twenty years and they're going to get back out into society so this guy excluded if you have you know lower offense people going to prison maybe it's nice that they're in places where they can learn how to musicals eat healthy food i don't know if i want terrorists convicted to be lead in

a musical that we've got to move out hit with a brick ok well speaking of i don't know prison something that i don't think they get in norway is a smartphone i hope everyone has one these days but they are shelling out tons of money and what are they doing it for an article the daily mail says that a third don't even know what they're selling at the money for that if there are going to purchase the new i phone five even though they have no idea any details about the phone when you think about that are these just really pulls can i say i'm going to say that or i've heard that once you go back you never go back. and then you know my entire life and i don't i mean. you know i you know people people give me like sad eyes when i show them that i have a droid and you know there's this whole debate over versus other but i really think it is and we were talking about this earlier just brand loyalty and it's of you know that you're going to get something that you like with a mac product. you're probably going to buy it and expect it's going to be good and you're probably going to be right i don't know just shelling out money though for something that you have no idea what is even going to be involved they could just

get away with doing nothing and getting more money you know it's like congress you know you're they're going to grow out the link on grow you know this managed to tie it all back into full sort of i want it all back to the beginning and thank you guys so much for being here and we are out of time but i really like how you wrap that up but i don't need to do this job that is that precise so thank you so much for tuning and make sure to come back tomorrow in a sense from cato will be here on this show to discuss the latest out of afghanistan and in the meantime do not forget to become a fan of be alone or so on facebook and also to follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can catch it all on our you tube channel you tube dot com slash below your show and don't leave because coming up next is adam versus the man.

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are you watching r t world twenty four hours a day welcome to the program more than four hundred days without an official government is a world record but belgium still has no solution on the horizon and things look likely to get even worse deep divisions between the dutch and french speaking hearts of the nation may well cause it to split into permanently. reports that could start a chain reaction across the whole of europe. so wait till they're divorced before planning their next marriage but not well known near the southern region of belgium the country's been with delta fictive government for a record fourteen months free speech looms in the self's and flemish speaking flanders in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into

a soon as it splits with flanders is complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for richer. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing and while they say political clout is important the main appeal is money. the loonie is part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. no belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french firms. polls suggest that whole foods and sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would wear the southern half of belgium with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with you m.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case.