well go back to the big picture on tom hartman coming up in this half hour and elderly african-american man accidentally calls for medical help ends up being shot dead in his own home so how did a false alarm turn into a senseless death and in tonight's daily take the fear machine is tearing apart american society how can we turn it off and return america the land of the free the home of the great. with

a nation still trying to figure out what happened in sanford florida that led to the death of seventeen year old trayvon martin back in february and why george zimmerman is still walking around as a free man a new and just as disturbing case is coming to light out in new york it was there that a sixty eight year old african-american man was gunned down in his own home by police officers who were responding to a false alarm ken chamberlain sr a former marine who suffered from a heart condition at a medical alert system but wouldn't but when pressed would call for emergency medical somehow chamberlain's medical alert system was triggered leading to an ambulance being dispatched to his home along with several police cruisers arriving at the scene the police attempted to enter chamberlain's on the chamberlain who insists that he was feeling fine refused to let them in but police snapped the locks on the front door. and barged in on

a clearly distressed chamber when officers fired tasers and bean bag rounds at sixty eight year old man and then according to police reports chamberlain reached for a knife in his kitchen and was promptly gunned down by two bullets in the chest he died in the hospital so how did this false alarm turn into a pile of police response that led to the death of an african-american senior citizen is this about race excessive police force or both hillary shot shelton joins me now he's the washington bureau director and senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the end of. hillary welcome back thomas wait to be with mr shelton police illustrated. first of all trayvon martin just the i'm sorry. and just you know wrapping that up if we could what's what's the latest with that story as things are now

our hope is that charges are being prepared and i guess mr zimmerman very clearly i think it's both of us is listen to the evidence made available is as as is on thought it there is no reason that formal charges for murder have not been brought against mr zimmerman under the circumstances that we have again it is a seventeen year old youth that was walking back from a seven eleven picking up a bag of skittles and a can of arizona iced tea talking to his girlfriend on the phone with zimmerman season upon the same racial profiling strategies that we've heard so often the time to be because he's a young african-american man he's wearing a hoodie and put his hood over his head as it was lightly drizzling outside the somehow know that he must have just committed some kind of crime or on his way to commit some crime the side of even at the speaking to the law enforcement officials call and nine one one on mr martin telling them that this this this this man

walking around looks very suspicious but not saying why he's suspicious not saying why is the problem saying that he's going to pursue and they ask him to stand down he goes after me we're going to send a cruiser out from the police department he ends up dead and mr zimmerman goes to jail for just a minute to the question but for some reason because i knew that interpretation or because of the way the stand your ground law was written it's ok for someone to taunt someone to target someone and then to shoot down the death on the streets and then you set off a chase absolutely it was our hope now the justice department got involved now we have someone actually watching over the police department this clearly flubs so much along the way if perhaps justice can be served charges will be brought and they will also get their day in court to be the people who had to. the forensics on the audiotape from the neighbors who tell not one one and you can hear the help shouting in the background to the tape and zimmerman has been claiming the shooter

as and claiming that i was him yelling for help and they said ninety nine percent certainty we will testify under oath in court to it this was not zimmerman's voice this is that had this estate she had because quite frankly for those of us who happen to be fathers of teenage sons and in my case i have a seventeen year old son and i've had to have that discussion about what to do when you're confronted with the police or when somebody confronts you along these lines how you have to be on a different kind of behavior in response to that kind of thing when i heard those voices screaming when i heard the earlier nine one one tapes their screams for help help help the kid it went on until that shot was fired and then it was silence forever when i heard that i had knew that was a seventeen year old teenage kid but those who have teenage children we know that our boys in that age group and are just going to be on the list of voice changes just having gone through those puberty chains of what not but when they become excited frantic along those lines that all crackly we hear during those early teen

years thirteen and fourteen comes back you could hear that in that tape i would have been absolutely floored if somehow or another that voice that i heard over the television all the recordings of those nine one one tapes was anything other than a teenage boy i have. had virtually every every african-american of my age or you know parent parenting age with whom i've talked about this has told me the story of a conversation they've had with their kids and i've had a number of young people calling my radio show telling them telling me about the conversation that their parents had with them and nowadays you know it's i mean this is a different generation it was in the fifty's sixty's seventy's but it's still there and and and i've had young african-americans call them. going to say you know when when my dear person brought this up with me i thought you know this is nonsense it's not and i don't think most of our white viewers at least those who have not

grown up close to the african-american community have any idea what you and i are talking about right now about that conversation the african-american parents have with their kids can you tell me about that sure is the issue you say for i think many take for granted it's one i wish we could is the one that we recognize that for some reason or another as we look at how things have moved throughout our society that african-american skin to some absolute lowers the threshold for what is threatening that is if an african-american raise their voice in righteous indignation somehow it's perceived as the next step to a violent attack if we're stopped on the streets by a police officer and we know we haven't done anything wrong and we perceive that it might be the practice of racial profiling for us the question is somehow seen as as a preparation for an assault so we have to talk to our children about how import it is when you're driving down if you get pulled over keep your hands in plain view don't make any fast moves we have to tell them how important is for them not to

raise their voice and not to even plead their case but to simply talk to the police officer as respectful as possible but i tell my sons also process in your mind two things that badge number and also process that name tag on their shirts they're not going to be able to do anything for you at that point but you come back and talk to us and they will address it then but make sure you're able to come back and talk to us we've seen too many cases where african-american young people were dealt with as if it was some kind of island criminal because of the perception based on the color of their skin but i'll tell you this if we were able to make those transitions in and show americans what someone look like with a different skin color going to the same thing i believe would be much more outrage than we are it's unfortunate that we have had this kind of us. if a parent's life me there really is the feeling that if we don't is a dereliction of our response to this that parents need our children that come home and we need them not to be another trayvon martin and this is

a conversation that white parents frankly speaking as one don't never felt the need to have with their kids and it's a wonderful it's an incredible divide in america and i hope we can get everyone to that point that we recognize that this is happening this is not a figment of our imagination these happen this happened to our children under those circumstances they're still cases they go back if you think about for a minute even though in new york city what you have real thank you are somehow a wallet and it and it worked. magically transform into a gun police officer able to look over forty two shots hitting him twenty one times killing them when they go before the judge and jury within this is even more outrageous is the police officers cry and say we felt threatened or somehow or another because that man was black is that we understand i think they've got a whole this is the echo of l. until and emmett till is the echo of all the way back to the sixteen hundreds we

have just a minute or so left and we haven't yet talked about mr chamberlain yes as in the sixty eight year old man your thoughts on what actually what we have in this case this is a man that the police came to see about along with the the medical service providers from a former marine he's innocent partment somehow or another his medical alert goes off they come to his door he tells them he doesn't need them actually a discussion would object when he on the inside and the police officer that the medical alert staff on the outside for about an hour he actually called medical alert and told him i don't need any help center ways i didn't send this to this off at least not on purpose and i don't need anything after an hour of them saying we want to see you want to since i don't want to deal with the. they kicked a door down they come and they tase him and then the side to shoot him to death there's something really wrong with the perception of threat they had for him under

those circumstances for fear you have a sixty eight year old african-american standing literally in his boxer shorts pushed shot to death by police officers to forty millimeter shots to the chest that is outrageous we should all be concerned about what happens on his own property by their with to pay to serve and protect. hillary thank you so much for being with us and it was a pleasure kiko keep up the good work as for this we need to all be wary of police power in america the idea to protect and serve has been lost and people are dying. crazy alert what are the odds bill aisles of forty eight year old wichita kansas man bought a ticket for friday's mega millions lottery jackpot and like most americans he didn't want to single penny but he did get struck by lightning just hours after purchasing the tickets aisles of trains storm spotter was reporting on

a storm and he was struck by lightning outside his home total local television network that is whole body started twitching however he did not suffer any major burns. but you are going to have some things with my memory that are going to bother me for a while but i wasn't burned. i had a little bit of an irregular heartbeat he had a one in one hundred seventy six million chance of winning mega millions on friday he had a one in seventy seven hundred seventy five thousand chance of being struck by lightning this year i guess you cashed in on the lightning strike odds iles a story gives new meaning to the old adage you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning and winning the lottery. coming up in tonight's daily take on sunday night out homemade explosive device was detonated outside a window of a planned parenthood office in wisconsin you haven't heard a peep about it in the mainstream media. so you have.

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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so sleek you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else you sure see some other part of it and realized everything you saw you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

your take my take is your chance to send in your questions comments rants and observations about anything we talk about here on the big picture or during my radio show our first comments and i comes from daniel in federal way washington called in to our viewer rant line had this interesting take on the trayvon martin treasure. the i know i just want to know in the trayvon martin case george zimmerman has claimed that trayvon martin as he attacked. her will she the one statement things like you got

a problem with me you do now and you're going to die tonight and after the woman struck trayvon martin claimed. travon kind of stood back and went you got me i just let you know that in a concealed pistol license plain cases which i read up a lot on silly statements like this on the part of the shooters a concealed pistol license guy are very common it's a way that they make their claims look legitimate regardless of whether they are legitimate or not so when you read conceal case histories and files on a. shooter claimed happened that night right before the so-called bad guy attacks him in almost every case you've read that the bad guy was conveniently said something like you're going to die now or i'm going to kill you or something like that and it's basically something that concealed pistol license people learn from books and magazines they read that teach them not only how to kill people

effectively but also what to say to the police after the slain is done just thought you'd like to know about that thanks but. you know my guess is that it isn't so much that there's like you know secret society of concealed carry people who all know the magic words to say to the police that they killed somebody as it is george zimmerman and a lot of men in particular in the united states grew up as little boys watching westerns and watching that dylan and watching dirty or whatever it may be whatever era they came from and you know seeing men use guns as a way of achieving power and when you combine it because a gun is real power i mean here is that they're fairly heavy and they represent instant death that's the power of life or death that's the greatest power there is and when you combine a person who feels fundamentally disempowered somebody feels that their life isn't

working and they've got a crummy job nobody likes them they're a little weary whatever with that power of life or death in their hand. i think that they more often than not may well kind of step into that comic book world that childhood world that they grew up in and that probably accounts for those kind of comments just sniping our final kind of the night comes and gavin in the united kingdom he posted this in our tom hartman dot com message board so i'm sure glad we don't have people walking around with guns like in the states i really don't see the reason for people to have the right to own a single use instruments of death. if i come up against criminals i'd much prefer they didn't have guns like most of them in england and you know it's fine thing in england most you criminals don't have guns in fact when i was a kid growing up your police didn't have guns it would be extraordinary if the world was more civilized if we didn't have this incredible armaments industry

literally worldwide that is making i mean there's far more guns and there are people on the planet. it's really quite a story where you look at countries that actually have strong gun control laws countries like japan and you know very very much lower rates of violence particular country it's like that and you know that's it for your take my take tonight if you'd like your comments and questions for it on this side of the big picture stuff we want to know your take send us your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page by a twitter at tom underscore apartment or in the chat room on the message boards or through the blog at thom hartmann dot com you can also leave a message on our rant line by three six fifty three zero six agreed disagree sound off it's all welcome to remember that your comments may be used on the air. it's the good the bad of the very very trish asli oddly good aung sun suu

kyi key the opposition leader and my amar also known as burma won a seat in that country's parliament following sunday's election he's party the national league for democracy is trying to win forty five seats in the election a fact that he won market major victory for many in the country who have lived under military rule for the past five decades spite wide ranging reports of voter irregularities and voter fraud if there is key and my own mar burma had started the journey to democracy without a us led war to force it on. the back texas governor rick perry rick perry in texas are full steam ahead in executing another potentially innocent death row inmate gene will was arrested for killing a deputy sheriff in two thousand but there's a great deal of evidence to suggest that he's innocent will is in a process of appealing to the courts not sure though that he'll get through it

before they put him to death since rick perry became governor two hundred thirty five prisoners have been executed many with very questionable convictions it's time texas. and the rest of this country stop the death penalty and the injustices that go along with it and the very very ugly arizona superintendent of schools john up until two years ago arizona banned the teaching of ethnic studies in k. through twelve education and now they're going after universities to look at all said that suspended as ethnic studies classes for example like once a mexican american relations teach students to resent whites and the university programs that educate public school teachers are what he went on to say either god for those talks or things starts from here where senator used to be the provos the problem was a lack of balance going on on those cries. and says nothing to do a teaching students they hate whites and everything to do with arizona's all out assault on immigrants from south of the border and it is very clear.

on sunday night someone walked up to a planned parenthood clinic in grand chute wisconsin and detonated a homemade explosive device outside a window luckily no one was inside the clinic at the time so no one was injured wisconsin like a number of other states under the control of republican state legislatures is currently in the midst of a heated debate over abortion and that rhetoric could turn the war on women hot leading to some less than stable religious war you're to attack a planned parenthood clinic we don't know for sure what happened yet as the police are continuing their investigation but you probably haven't heard much about this story have you that's because it's received virtually no coverage from the

mainstream corporate media. but had that clinic been a church or a government building and had that bomb maker been wearing a turban or been member of the new black panthers and you can bet it would have received wall to wall media attention especially at fox so-called news the word terrorism has been plastered with exhibit would have been plastered on the news graphics on televisions all across america but this act of terrorism presumably committed by a white christian. not so much so why is that it's because of the way the fear machine in america works this is the fear machine in america it's a multi-billion dollar industry that makes tremendous profits by scaring americans to death about everything from muslims to undocumented immigrants to the national debt maybe it's flipped on whenever it's convenient to whip up fear in america like whenever americans need to be scared about get out of it and commit to support

austerity measures or profit as ation of the social safety net let's just give social security off the wall street with muslims in particular this fear machine is incredibly effective the center for american progress recently uncovered a network of right wing organizations that are bankrolling a forty two million dollars rama phobia fear machine that serves only one purpose make us all scared to death of muslims so back in two thousand and ten when a muslim organization tried to build a community center in lower manhattan the fear machine was turned on full power and the fear mongers went to work on places like fox news. do i want five hundred sixty feet away from where a lot of my friends died and i lived i work do i want to mosque maybe it may be a meeting place for some of the scariest months of the some of the biggest terrorist market reason the muslim community has so the radical muslim community is

so anxious for this thing to be built is because they want to counter the assimilation into tendencies of muslims in the united states of course. and then someone flipped the switch on again to scare americans into thinking i was on the march they're taking over america. as more muslims move into the west and you see an increase in honor killings they are rampant in year up sunny increased dramatically in canada and now here i mean how many girls have to die where are we in relationship today have we allowed it have we embraced it are they actually starting to live by sharia law within our own us law are you afraid. that the real purpose of the fear machine is not just to make americans fear to death of anyone wearing a turban but also to generate massive profits for certain industries that depend on here from defense contractors who are making billions off the never ending war on

terror to security contractors who are making billions off certo x. three point zero scanners in our airports to islamophobia who are making money off t.v. appearances books and lectures the fear machine is generating enormous fortunes for those who are banking on americans being afraid of muslims not to mention the political benefits the republican party receives when americans hit the polls and vote based on fear so when a planned parenthood clinic gets by on wisconsin there's a real simple reason why that fear machine. isn't fired up there's no money to be made no political points to be scored no one wants to install a porno scanners in planned parenthood clinics no one stands to profit from a never ending war against christian extremism and republicans don't win elections by defending planned parenthood so the fear machine falls silent and the brazen attack and women's reproductive rights is ignored we americans go about our day as if everything is fine least until a fairly sheen gets rebooted when

a muslim does something or an african-american does something could be spun into it throughout our nation was not conceived in fear we stared down the greatest military in the world and one of our independence of the british we were a nation that in the midst of the great depression one of the worst economic catastrophes that we've ever seen we were told that we have nothing to fear but fear itself a president franklin roosevelt and without any fear we'd be back hitler in europe and the japanese in the pacific during world war two we are not the fearful nation that that fear machine wants us to think that we are it's time we acknowledge what's happening in america and take a sledgehammer to that fear machine that is manipulating all of us and turning us into lunatics over fake threats or having us ignore the actual threats against america threats like the destruction of the middle class the war against women you

know we used to be the land of the free and the home of the bridge and we can be that way again if we'll just horror out the fear machine that's it for the big picture and i don't forget democracy begins with you you know they're going to act and say your sibyl. wealthy british scientists are. not on the tireless.

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