you and. this is why you should want your only on the old. coming up on r t the n.y.p.d. stop and frisk program was dealt a serious blow today a federal court ruled the police department has violated the constitutional rights of minorities for years with excessive stop and frisks so what does this mean for the practice moving forward find out in a moment. and you've likely heard a lot about immigrants trying to enter the u.s. but how about americans trying to leave the number of people renouncing their u.s. citizenship is on the rise we'll explore why and do you have a student loan as well a group is launching a nationwide video campaign to raise awareness of the student loan crisis we'll look at the campaign later in today's show.

it's monday august twelfth four pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching r.t. while a major federal court ruling out today will have huge ramifications for the new york police department's controversial stop and frisk policy federal judge sheindlin handed down a one hundred ninety five page decision that says new york's finest have violated the constitutional rights of minorities for years here's part of that ruling the city enacted with deliberate indifference toward the n.y.p.d. as practice of making unconstitutional stops and conducting unconstitutional for its success even if the city had not been deliberately indifferent the n.y.p.d. as unconstitutional practices were sufficiently widespread as to have a force of law in addition the city adopted a policy of indirect racial profiling by targeting racially defined groups for stops based on local crime suspect data. but while this ruling is

a major victory for opponents of the stop and frisk law it does however fall short of killing us all together to talk more in-depth about why this what this ruling actually means i'm joined now by carl dix he's a co-founder of the stop a stop and frisk movement hi there karl thank you so much for joining me so you are one of the people that thinks that this ruling falls short why is that it doesn't go far enough because what's stopping for risk is it's a policy of treating black and latino as especially youth as criminals and guilty until proven innocent if they can survive to prove their innocence and that's not just me trying to hype this marley graham was a stop and frisk that went fatal he's dead and the cop is now free to walk the streets so that's why this policy was no good. and it needed to be gotten rid of this ruling is not any reason for us to stop our resistance not only to

stop and frisk but to mass incarceration over all and all of its consequences including the criminalization of black and latino you now call part of this ruling requires a monitor to oversee the stop and frisk actions undertaken by the n.y.p.d. already former assistant district attorney and wisely lead attorney peter azim rauf has been selected for the job do you think that this monitor position will have an effective check and balance kind of a fact on the discrimination that the judge alleges. well i think that if the monitor is acting under the direction of the justice department then i have a problem with that because the justice department has presided over racial profiling. law enforcement targeting black and latino communities across the country and what we're going to have here is maybe a rounding of the edges of a racist illegitimate policy that's why i said last year when cornell west and i

issued the call to stop stop and frisk and founded the stop mass incarceration network that reforms and tweaks won't cut it stop and frisk has got to go now realistically how does this ruling change the lives of the people who have already been stopped and frisk of which there are approximately five million in new york city alone. well for one and it doesn't change what has already been done to people what it holds out is the potential promise that that practice will no longer be allowed to target blacks and latinos but we just have to remember that stop and frisk itself was a reform of previous abusive n.y.p.d. practices by the giuliani era street crimes unit so what we got was a policy that spread out the targeting of blacks and latinos from elite units to

the entire n.y.p.d. that's why i am. suspicious of a new approach that says we're going to reform stop and frisk because if you allow the system that's been responsible for the abuse to reform itself and i'm not talking about new york because new york is not the only place that racial profiling goes down if this system is allowed to reform itself then expect those reforms to bring you the problems in another way similar to the way that jim crow segregation was gotten rid of in part by a powerful movement from among black people and others but today fifty years later we're facing mass incarceration with most of the people incarcerated black and latino facing torture in prisons and more so let me ask you this does this lawsuit have national implications for the practice of stop and frisk and is this really does it go beyond this lawsuit what the ruling of being unconstitutional several of

these stops does it open the way for more lawsuits. it possibly opens the way for more lawsuits but let's just be clear what the judge did the judge did not rule that stop and frisk was unconstitutional the judge ruled that the n.y.p.d. application of it was unconstitutional and the monitor is going to over see reforming the stop and frisk policy so the policy is allowed to stay in the effect and they're going to hone it and round off some of the edges my feeling is that this is came down to racial profiling illegitimately targeting blacks and latinos and it is a policy that was no good and needs to be stopped and it represents a system that has historically and current day targeted blacks latino's and other oppressed people and the fight is going to self is got to go finally on what is the response of the people who say that the huge racial disparities in the stop and

frisk program are a reflection of the people who actually commit the crimes in new york city well first off this is a criminal system let's look at what happened with the big recession and what the people on wall street did they violated numerous laws none of those people got targeted by law enforcement they are all walking around free today most with most of the wealth that they stole so don't tell me about it's blacks and latinos who commit the crime it is blacks and latinos who have been criminalized by this system and that's a part of why i say that we have to get rid of this system through revolution in nothing less carl dix co-founder of the stop stop and frisk movement thank you so much. thank you while also happening today u.s. attorney general eric holder announced up said he plans on taking to curb minimum sentencing laws when it comes to minor drug offenses he said in a meeting with the american bar association in san francisco he presented a new policy to reserve the most severe sentencing penalties for serious high level

or myal and drug traffickers his reasoning is straightforward the u.s. is wasting resources to imprison nonviolent people. because they oftentimes generate unfairly long sentences they read disrespect for the system when applied indiscriminately they do not serve the public safety they must be honest so the enforcement priorities that we have set have had a destabilizing effect on particularly particular communities largely poor and of color and applied in appropriately they are ultimately killed to productive. and you know one statistic supports that claim after all incarceration costs in the u.s. were a staggering eighty billion dollars in two thousand and ten alone and the federal prison population has grown by about eight hundred percent since one nine hundred eighty four saying federal prisons to operate at nearly forty percent above

capacity here's an outline of the smart on crime plan that holder actually presented today instead of mandatory minimum sentences that allows judges to decide sentence length based on the crime here's how instead of listing the exact types of drugs or the quantities collected when the offender was arrested holder has new instructions for federal prosecutors on how to write criminal complaints when charging low level drug offenders the plan will also allow for the possibility of early parole for nonviolent elderly prisoners who have served a significant portion of their sentences but again it needs to be stated this plan does not work to repeal or to rewrite minimum sentencing laws currently on the books. meanwhile u.s. drone strikes have ramped up in a major way in yemen at least nine strikes have been reported in the last ten days alone this comes at the same time that the u.s. and other western nations tighten security at embassies across the middle east

after a tip came in about a potential terror attack yemeni president. do rob monsoor hadi has been supportive of these strikes however critics argue that these are potential for future consequences and that people will turn militant as a result of these in an article in the independent yemeni journalist for real mussolini argues the u.s. is running to drones every time a counterterrorism efforts fail on each occasion the public rage against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula grows and its image is tarnished and the us via drone strikes restores it again in its recent actions the us has become public relations officer political commentator sam sachs look at looks at these drone strikes and what they have or have not accomplished. in the last two weeks drone strikes have pummeled yemen here in the arabian peninsula we know there's been at least nine strikes in the last ten days and last thursday alone yemen was hit by three drone

strikes and one dead thirty four so-called militants have been killed in these strikes over the administration admits they're not entirely sure who's being killed and what effect it's have it as the washington post reported officials said tuesday there is no indication that senior al qaeda operatives in yemen have been killed in the drone strikes it's too early to tell whether we've actually disrupted anything a senior u.s. official said and as american robots rained bombs on a foreign country like yemen there's not even an acknowledgement by the president the united states that this is even taking place at all he was last friday when asked directly about it. i will not have a discussion about operational. issues now this is all in response to that terror threat allegedly gleaned from that legion of doom conference call but ask ordinary folks on the ground in yemen the only terror they see are robots with bombs talking with scott as one some based lawyer told the huffington post it's like there are

two different yemen's the one that the u.s. and yemeni government claims is always under a terrorist threat and the one that we actually live in with drones it's like they step through the looking glass and we can't know for sure but estimates suggest that as many as six hundred people perhaps more have been killed in both confirmed and unconfirmed drone strikes in yemen but as foreign policy noted this month for all the strikes and all the dead al qaeda in the arabian peninsula continues to attract more members growing from three hundred in two thousand and nine to well over a thousand today and investigative journalist chris woods told me the u.s. is entirely unaware of the long term consequences of this drone bombing campaign. and again you must are aware of the consequences of the invasion of iraq are in the us and you. ten years ago and some of the consequences the only sure radicalization many young muslim terrorists attacks across europe tend to disperse or to actually

go and stay somewhere which. is a consequence of the. drone strikes in this you might get some of the parents' behavior. in yemen the definitions of terrorism have been blurred where is the terror coming from murky al qaeda conference calls or killer robots stalking the skies if there are legitimate terror threats emanating from the arabian peninsula that is our drone bombing campaign they're keeping us safe or radicalizing more who want to do us harm those are questions for the administration once it comes around to acknowledging these strikes or even happening in the first place in washington same sex are to well president obama says he's had enough of the n.s.a. leaks that only show half of the picture of america's surveillance program on friday the president held a press conference to announce his four major reforms aimed at increasing transparency and oversight of the program or as he describes it what i'm going to

be pushing the i.c. to do is rather than have a. trunk come out here and like come out there and a tail come out there let's just put up the whole elephant out there so people know exactly what they're looking at let's examine what is working what's not are there additional protections that could be put in place and let's move forward. president obama went on to say that it is not enough for him to have confidence in these programs but that it is important for the american people to understand and support them as well here are the four proposed reforms for section two fifteen of the patriot act will of the change to allow for greater oversight and additional constraints although the exact plans are still unknown and second president obama says he wants to reform the foreign intelligence surveillance court by forcing the court to hear all sides of the story somehow it will also make a public make public twenty eleven face a court ruling that found some spying the government does is unconstitutional third

of the n.s.a. is now working on appointing a privacy and civil liberties officer for oversight the intelligence community will also launch a new website with information on what activities these agencies are involved in and finally the white house is creating an independent advisory group of outside experts to review the government surveillance activities and publish a public report with suggestions so there you have it president obama's elephant is out cue the media circus well when congress comes back. reform will no doubt top their agenda but while congress eyes the immigration ball perhaps lawmakers should not only be worried about keeping foreigners out but also how to keep americans in why well the number of americans who have chosen to renounce their citizenship has get this increased six fold in the second quarter of this year alone as compared to last year here to tell me how and why our t. correspondent aaron aid aaron thank you so much for joining me so let's start off

by breaking down the numbers if you wouldn't mind doing that for us ok so like you said before a lot of people are leaving no longer not only do they don't want to stay they don't want to pay taxes and they're willing to give up their u.s. citizenship so it starts off in q q two of twenty thirteen one thousand one hundred thirty residences according to an ira list of our list of those who are now in their citizenships this is in the second quarter of twenty thirteen they're gone no more u.s. citizenship and this is from the previous q four of two thousand and twelve of six hundred seventy nine people and that was the high of all time it was never above that so we're obviously seen an increase and their kind of the u.s. estimates of tax evasion by u.s. citizens it results in as much as one hundred billion dollars in losses for the federal government so it's quite a bit of money that they're losing and they really want to stop in there thinking that this is a way with this big bill that they're instituting is a way to kind of curb all of this exodus that is a lot of money that could be used on a lot of different things what are some of the reasons that people are giving for this mass exodus is has to be more than that or is it really does it all come down

to money well i actually think it's important to point out that it isn't necessarily a mass exodus is an exodus yes absolutely but mass not so much is a little over a thousand people and this is of the six million people that they have recorded globally working and living abroad so it's not a tremendous amount of people but yes it is an increase more than we've ever seen before and they're saying that a lot of the reason this is happening there could be personal reasons there could be professional reasons but a lot of it has to do with the provision within the hire act which was. instituted two thousand and ten the provision in the act that specifically is the foreign account tax compliance act it's called that kind of like the second to have an account that's gone so the theft is basically what it says is they want international banks foreign banks to tell the i.r.s. the i.r.s. is saying you have to tell us whatever u.s. citizen or green card holder has an account with in your bank we need to know withdrawals we need to know their address we need to know all this information about them and basically what these foreign banks are saying are we don't want to

do that so the easier way instead of going up against the i.r.s. in the federal government is to not accept u.s. citizens as clients so if we have a bunch of money we want to put in a bank overseas do you want to pay all the taxes they're like no never mind to prefer to work with french person or german person or someone else not from the u.s. to avoid having to deal with the i.r.s. and let's talk a little bit more in detail about the foreign account tax compliance act does the u.s. have the only is it the u.s. that does that or do other countries kind of implement this on other citizens that go and live abroad the u.s. is the only truly developed country an economic power that institutes this on their citizens living abroad now there's three point portions within fatca that need to be addressed and the first one is it's requiring like i said before the us to disclose names account numbers account balances withdrawals etc whenever a u.s. citizen does these sort of financial things within their own financial institution that's number one number two us people with foreign bank accounts with over fifty

thousand dollars in a foreign bank account need to fill out paperwork it's just a new form just incredibly long tax returns that your citizens are already subject to and it's not millions millions dollars it's yes it's a large amount of money fifty thousand dollars but it's not what we think you are thinking of like offshore bank accounts it's smaller than that relatively so that's another added negative for the individual with a foreign bank account and the third point is that it's trying to close this tax loophole that we see and we hear about all the time with foreign investments and foreign bankers just making all this money over. so there's the three portions of the five that need to be looked at dressed so not going after the mitt romney is of the world just going out exactly the. people but can you give us some examples of famous people is there anyone that is notable that has a bunch actually which is really surprising and kind of makes you wonder hey if you had all this money would you do. the ones of note tina turner who knew tina turner she actually replied for citizenship and is all the time because of your husband.

a significant other is in zurich so she's going to be over there bobby fischer the chess player no longer an american as well denise rich she wrote amazing hits for marriage a drama she didn't want to hear in the u.s. she got out of here because of a daughter savva and a facebook fan you know that original investor he gave up his u.s. citizenship last year that was a big hoopla as well and he's in singapore now and there was a lot of noise those are the ones of note off the top of my head so let's say that i have a bank account somewhere and i do withdraw my citizenship how can i get it back could i would be very difficult as a u.s. citizen to absolutely it once it's gone it's gone you actually elizabeth taylor in one thousand nine hundred sixty five wanted to renounce their citizenship and she ended up not going through with it because there was a part there is a i actually have a quote right here she taylor reportedly balked at the ceremony where she was a drawer all a lie a lie and says and fidelity to the united states america that she didn't want to

say that so she didn't go all the way through with it but like you said no that once it's gone it's gone you give up your citizenship say goodbye you're not going to get it back marcy correspondent erin a growing us that report thank you so much and all of your check up on your entertainment news i know right yeah. now one nonprofit organization based in new york wants to know what's your number but not in a sleazy half in the very a good boy comes up to a girl no bar way this group is dedicated to raising awareness about student debt and they are telling. college grads to stop being ashamed of their number and to start a showing how student debt burdens even america's most successful student debt crisis dot org is launching a nationwide video campaign where participants from all over the country share their personal stories about how student debt has impacted their lives take a look at a few of those submissions. my name is emily and i am about ten months away from a medical doctor to greet i'm coming out with my student loan debt in currently one

hundred forty four thousand dollars what would i do if i didn't have that student loan debt well first you know i probably wouldn't live in a one bedroom apartment for the rest of my life or my entire budget will go to one student if nothing changes for the rest of my life. the top to talk more about this campaign attire abrams as a co-founder of student debt crisis natalia thank you so much for joining me so let's start off by talking about your new campaign why is it important to tell these stories. well it's important to join the out with student debt campaign because we need to shed the stigma of student debt students no longer need to feel ashamed of their outstanding student loan debt it's it's everyone's feeling this or everyone with that is feeling this and they no longer need to hide and we took a point from the community which encourage their members to come out over the last twenty thirty years and we've seen great achievements in legislation coming out by

putting a face to the name of the issue and that's what we're trying to do here we want to if we feel that if there's a face to the issue and people understand that this is everyone it's your brother it's your cousin it's your mailman with student then maybe you can help change the legislation because we can as i said before have a face to it and tell you i hope you don't mind if i ask you what's your number i know the last time that you were here you actually brought in your diploma and you're a degree to show it to everybody yeah my number is quite low my number is fifteen thousand i'm lucky but i also only went to school for two years i was a transfer student to u.c.l.a. so when embers fifteen thousand for two years i am natalia abrams and i have fifteen thousand dollars in student debt and talk about what that fifteen thousand dollars has mean for you personally and professionally when it comes to your finances and your career goals. right well for me like i said it's a smaller amount but i still spend one hundred fifty dollars

a month that could be sponsored other things and it changed my whole career direction i saw how this problem got has become worse and worse and donate a lot of my free time to student debt crisis thought org where a nonprofit organization and you know i don't get paid for this this is out of the kindness of my heart but because i feel that there's a really big issue and so does all of our other co-founders that we need to tackle this so it's changed my life incredibly because i feel lucky to only have fifteen thousand and debt when as you saw in that video people are suffering with one hundred thirty two hundred thousand far more death than mine and fifteen thousand dollars is still a lot and a lot of interest can actually collect on that but i do want to quickly play another one of those submissions that your organization received great back in ninety two to ninety four i went to graduate school and i borrowed money to do so. a borrowed about fifteen thousand dollars. since then i've made between seven and

eight and as of today. eighty nine thousand dollars eighty nine thousand dollars and tell you i can't believe that so as he showed there are some graduate student diet is spiraling out of control like you say what kind of reform do you think would help these people that you show in these videos well first and foremost we have to resist to restore consumer protections to student loans and we're actually working on a new bill with the members of congress to create consumer protections they've been stripped away over the last twenty years where it's near impossible that a clear bankruptcy. compound interest is out of control so that would be first and foremost the second step is we're big advocates of h r thirteen thirty the student loan fairness act where we need to readjust lending programs that students can enroll into where they can pay off their debt in a reasonable amount of time and get out from under this overwhelming number so we believe in many reforms but first and foremost we need to restore consumer

financial protection for student loans specifically and all those a reforms that you've spoken about how realistic do you think they are in the short term versus the long term. or a bit discouraged in the short term especially after the new bill that president obama just signed which we don't feel goes at all far enough and actually can in the next few years hurt students but we're hopeful there's a lot more attention to this matter than there has been in the last few years my team members of my team have been fighting this for over the last four years and only in the last two have we really seen other organizations our legislation in our senate and congress come on board and care about this issue so i would say feel more confident today than i did two years ago that we can actually see systematic change and it's only people who've been talking about student debt for years and years we've seen it on so many different news programs obviously a lot of people are talking about it is there something do you think is misrepresented or under republican or under reported in these public discussions

absolutely i think that the student has debt or is you know for lack of a better word as a loser when in fact as you can see in these videos these are people that would happily pay their loans back but they don't want to pay back eighty thousand dollars for a fifteen thousand dollars loan so something has to be done and that's why we're we want we launched this out with student campaign to show that face to show that that person wants to pay their loan back they just want to fair deal on the table and i think that's been misrepresented that students are just trying to get by and it's actually you know it's education and it's not student debt over sixty percent of the people with education that are over the age of thirty there myself there my my mother people like that so we really need to put a adulterant face on this and show that this is everyone's problem not just students problem is co-founder of the student debt crisis thank you so much thank you meghan and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go

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