a little light on the. radio guy for a minute. what. if you've never seen anything like this. let up guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set you know you'd think that with all the uproar over the n.s.a. leaks we would be hearing at least some type of reassurance that warrantless spying would be scaled back you know obama has told the public that he wants more oversight me agency's data collection program very few people are taking him at his word and one of those skeptics is former n.s.a. and cia director michael hayden who had this to say on face the nation. president is trying to take some steps to make the american people more comfortable about what it is we're doing that's going to be hard because frankly bob some steps to make americans more comfortable while actually make americans less safe great so

not only is and mean unwarranted surveillance unlikely but the scope of secret spying is only expected to grow the hayden argues that another terrorist attack on the u.s. is likely to happen and when it does we should expect the n.s.a.'s data collection tools to be used even more aggressively as if it isn't aggressive enough already guys i really don't know what more power the n.s.a. can really grant itself at this point so the prospect of those bugs you out to join me and let's break the set. have you ever walked down the street and suddenly been stopped by police for no apparent reason not only stopped but patted down your belongings search for drugs or weapons it was exactly the experience for nearly five million new yorkers who over the last decade have been randomly stopped on the street and searched by

officers of the stop and frisk program and now after ten weeks of legal debates in a class action lawsuit federal judges finally ruled this program to be unconstitutional the judge ruled on nineteen different stops that were made without reasonable suspicion citing testimony from when it suits you say they were targeted because of their race alone and while mayor bloomberg and white p.d. commissioner kelly both tell the program as being the reason crime is in a forty year low in the city others argue that it's nothing more than a racial profiling scheme designed to criminalize new york's minority populations does really mean the program will stop to discuss this more in depth i'm joined by shah had but tar executive director of the bill of rights defense committee thank you so much for coming on thanks for having me on or so before we get to the ruling the talk about the program according to mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly this was the result of the forty year crime drop. did it work it was this the program's doing the drop in crime in america it certainly didn't relate to the spike in the

profiling was in two thousand and nine and that's well after the reduction in crime in new york aside from whether or not it work what we learned today from the judicial decision is that it was a profound abuse of the constitutional rights of new yorkers in multiple dimensions their fourth amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures the fourteenth amendment right against racial profiling and racial discrimination and were both abused wantonly by the new york city police department for years no doubt and you can you break out some statistics that all of the percentage of minorities that were actually stopped and there's that other people. it's striking that in new york city something on the order of eighty four percent of the stops were african-americans and latinos despite each group together comprising only fifty percent of the city's population there were more african-american stopped in the city of new york then lived in the city which is particularly striking right now we've got to work at that you know the n.y.p.d. was waging a war on the people of new york and beyond even the floyd case was specific to the stop and frisk issues but remember the n.y.p.d.

surveillance unit was invading jurisdictions as far away as connecticut and massachusetts right without the authorization of those restrictions on muslim communities in new jersey as well so you're saying that there was actually no you know even if there was a correlation it's completely erroneous because it's a complete violation of civil liberties so it's just it's also just they're picking out one year when really this is a decade long program we're talking about your constitutional rights are not contingent on the effectiveness of a government program private exactly did you agree with the judge's ruling or do you think it went far enough i certainly think that the judge ruled the right way on the claims that were brought before her but unfortunately there are issues with the n.y.p.d. that weren't included in the case particularly because this case was narrowly denominated about the stop and frisk issues and just expand what we mean there stop and frisk means for twenty five percent of the innocent new yorkers who were stopped by the n.y.p.d. they also were the victims of force used by the n.y.p.d. sore talking about innocent people not just stopped and patted down but in many

cases beat up right and so this and these are innocent people so it's much more than just the word stop and frisk even convey but beyond even that now the associated press one of you would surprise for reporting on the n.y.p.d. surveillance and that wasn't even in the suit so i think the judge's ruling was a good ruling on the case but the case didn't present all the issues that the n.y.p.d. has and the last thing i'll just say there is there is a bill pending before the city council of new york actually the city council has voted for it mayor bloomberg is trying to resist the community safety act which would impose an inspector general on the n.y.p.d. for the first time it would impose certain. profiling restrictions in addition to race also according to gender expression and housing status so there are other issues with the n.y.p.d. the included in the lawsuit but even with this new reform or oversight i mean can we really is that really enough when a lot of these people have preconceived bias against these minority populations i mean is that really enough to if this program isn't and for all no doubt no that's a great question to raise and i think you're absolutely right you know the was a prior case by the center for constitutional rights which won today's case i

believe it was decided in two thousand and three it also the n.y.p.d. was on the verge of ruling there by a judge and it agreed in a consent decree to adopt certain changes to its policies all of which seem to go up in thin air subsequently that's what gave rise to this suit so is that enough who knows we do know that an independent court monitor is being appointed and that will at least give someone outside the n.y.p.d. the opportunity to enforce the judge's decision but i do agree with you the rubber the proof is in the putting it will see when the rubber hits the road whether or not this lawsuit transit to be translates into meaningful and as you said i mean we just said there's one thousand cases but what about all the other hundreds if not thousands of people who've been victimized i mean what where's the recourse for them i really can't help but wonder that but also try to i mean in light of all the n.y.p.d. criminal wrongdoing they're almost given expansions ray kelly is going over and consulting with jean kwan in oakland about how they can fight crime there i mean it's just

a potential secretary they are going to bars what really cared i want to see what you thought about kind of did you know were rewarded for perpetuating this kind of criminality across the city absolutely i hope that the ruling actually flip some of that right because what it indicates is that ray kelly while serving as the police commissioner of the n.y.p.d. has been responsible for pervasive systemic and but for the court ongoing civil rights violations i do hope that if nothing else this closes the door on talk of his potentially coming to washington to lead us because he has absolutely no business serving in the federal government does. also seeing that this has implications for bloomberg political legacy right his last act as a mayor seems to be trying to resist the effort to restore accountability to the n.y.p.d. the judge's decision takes it out of his hands and is a final repudiation by an impartial arbiter that no this is not in fact ok you still have to protect and serve and even if you are going to claim law enforcement effectiveness or if you are going to claim a reduction in crime it has to still comply with the constitution and i think this

is very important in terms of resetting the record despite it having been contrived and distorted by people like ray kelly and michael bloomberg. in light of all their greed is overreaching the n.y.p.d. they're still trying to grasp at straws and still defend this program we're just so obviously wrong thank you so much for coming on breaking down where it stands and where we can go ahead with tar bill of rights defense committee appreciate your time they stopped me on. i. as the police force across the country becomes more militarized don with new toys it seems like every day i am hearing about cops gone wild like in austin texas where a police officer just shot and killed a man believed to be involved in a bank robbery however became instantly clear that the man shot was not the suspect officers were looking for since dozens of witnesses describe the assailant as an older car kasian male which is

a far cry from the profile of the young african-american shot because of this obvious criminal error in the community quickly mobilized to protest against the austin p.d.'s racial profiling forcing the department of justice to step in for an investigation but get this only three days after the d.o.j. cleared of any wrongdoing the department shot and killed another young african-american man but guys police across the country are just shooting people for being black on a friday afternoon these days you may want to watch your mouth. kind of a cop because it might cost you your life or certainly the case for homs kevin ariano ariano a twenty two year old homeless resident of santa ana california was recently followed by a police officer into a nearby restaurant and fatally shot in the chest check out what someone caught on video. you.

going. to school. right why did the officer shoot ariano when an exclusive interview with k. cal nine in l.a. and eye witness describe the harrowing details that forced the cops shoot to kill. the man then approach that exit at the restaurant and as he was exiting the restaurant you say what are you going to do but then about a second later. she shot him in the chest wait what the guy simply called the cop that you were apparently swearing is now grounds to be executed needless to say the victim's family was horrified his niece said i believe they should have tase to hit him with a baton anything but not shot him to kill him yes there are many other options that an officer has to subdue a suspect other than using deadly force regardless of oftentimes these less than

lethal tactics that are abuse the most which brings me to the case of israel hernandez an eighteen year old honor student an artist who was caught spray painting an old storefront when police confronted her and as he did what most teenagers probably would do and he ran so they make the arrest the officers he's tim and his hernandez laid on the ground witnesses say that the officers were actually celebrating the catch apparently not realizing the victim had tragically died as a result check out what these bystanders had to say about what they witnessed. i hear the officers on the radio we got the hispanic male in custody and then i go to the scene where they had him by the bank and he was just barely clinging motionless in this cops around the clapping like he graduating and they were high five each other. they were just acting like it was nothing that i actually heard but one of the cops saying oh you should've seen should've seen you know this is you know he

stiffened up and we teased him and stuff like. this past weekend hundreds of people attended a rally in honor of hernandez in his hometown demanding accountability for is unwarranted death although a report from the medical examiner's office is still pending about how the taser killed him one thing is clear the taser is the cause of death and sadly it's far from an isolated incident you recently reported that these five hundred forty one taser related deaths have occurred since two thousand and one it's a stat that should make us to reconsider how overuse these so-called non lethal or less than lethal weapons actually are really though whether it be a taser or gun this is about the need for trigger happy cops to face accountability and not just a demotion or paid leave i'm talking about serving a hard time just the way any other person would because kellin someone was dressed in blue shouldn't put you above the law. stick around you guys still to come i'll

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the where there are still going to be like. oh it's been sixty five years of a struggle that has yet to find any resolve israeli palestinian conflict one that

over the years has frequently been shaped by the role of the us and since nine hundred sixty seven almost every president has made an attempt at brokering peace between the two countries and now five years into his presidency obama's attempting to do the same recently his administration announced that secretary of state john kerry convinced israeli and palestinian authorities to sit back down at the table in hopes to work out a comprehensive peace agreement within nine months of a peace talks just days away israel might already be derailing them with the announcement of the construction of twelve one hundred new settlement units in the west bank a move that's likely to reinforce doubts over israel's commitment to peace so are these peace talks over for they've even begun and given this country's close allegiance with israel will the u.s. be able to moderate them fairly talk about all that more i spoke earlier with norman finkelstein activist political scientist and author of knowing too much why the american jewish romance with israel is coming to an end i first asked him why

he thinks the obama administration is finally attempting peace talks after five years and here's what he had to say most important number one. since the beginning it was so cool that r. . and b. are. states that saudi arabia are willing to do. so as the. number to go over and through. of the muslim brotherhood in egypt possible its principal ally and hamas has been the main obstacle to the powers that are already in the main opposition to a sellout he's truly the number three of power in people who themselves are the silent is there in the press and the other side more than ever a number for the ousting of which grows from one economic crisis to the next and is

no more and throw more economically dependent on the united states or so it would go slow or significant changes there is the hope on the part of the obama administration and secretary of state kerry agree to tailor that they can use fairly terms and settlement obama will be able to claim some sort of achievement in his otherwise failed presidency and secretary of state kerry can claim a significant achievement. right and you've said that in the past is that the similar initiatives for peace talks that happen at the height than popularity in certain presidential cabinets so that could also be the explanation of why the time is right now just days after announcing the start of peace talks israeli government okayed the construction of twelve one hundred new settlements interests in the west bank so norman how can the peace process me taken seriously at all if israel won't make a concession to halt building settlements. because that's. really

turns the result and they are it israel has not been clear over and over again and the bottom line is once approximately nine point five percent of the west bank one who calls the main some to including east jerusalem most of the new settlements that they are right now below are in the areas of the settlement blog. it's if israel gets its way and the annex the nine point five percent the less than there won't remain anything what you might call a meaningful palestinian state the seven blocks they bisect in tricep the west bank they and czar some of the best most our will soil in the west bank they have absorbed the critical water resources they have assumed are the urban center of east jerusalem which is the heart of how to me an economic life the greater

jerusalem triangle which goes from east jerusalem to ramallah and bethlehem you know council forty percent of the economic life in the west bank so if and when is there and center in east jerusalem by this nothing less for those of their terms for resolving the conflict to leave the palestinians basically an indian reservation or in terms of south africa apartheid years back to stand now and the hope now is in the part of the u.s. and israel know that they can impose that settlement in the post the news this the palace the news and so we well israel has claimed that's going to make a concession of releasing one hundred palestinian prisoners i mean how are palestinians rethinking that is that a good enough. well the first announcement came in the first twenty sixth. of the first twenty six prisoners a large number of men were in jail for say twenty years and they were scheduled to

be released a month from today so this new person released say about one month of twenty years in prison that's literally the case and you go through the prisoners one by one but let me say for argument's sake these are more authentic and gentler and genuinely. prisoner releases and not. on the basic quid pro quo is israel says the powers that we will give you one hundred prisoners and in exchange we're taking ten percent of your country. then you have to decide if the a cell is that a fair exchange. good point when you pose it that way especially when they have thousands upon thousands of prisoners from palestine for some really small level crimes here one out of palestine has been recognized as a nonmember state by the un does that give them any more leverage at the

negotiating table. oh problem those who go when they think it and they go shooting tell you go where you have already in the balance feel the brunt of your community feel the arms or can be the battlefield of public opinion the only way the palestinians will achieve anything is the way i mean other groups in the world and other nation people who countries achieved anything and organizing its population through this. i'm an atheist i'm a resolute atheist but those still believe strongly in the adage god helps those who help themselves you're not going to get everything from me it's really not going to get anything. unless you force them to move in order to extract concessions and power israel or should so powerless the indians in the so called post and you negotiate you're going to get anything from the negotiating table so they have one room and mouse insistence on the mobilization encounter and those

notion of international public opinion to the floor extract concessions. right i mean so how can we expect it to be moderated fairly at all especially given that israel is the us its closest ally and receive three billion dollars of aid every year i mean really it is anything to be done that it is beyond just superficial here. our students are we. are forced to be a basic big. time obama all of them powerless then you know. you don't come negotiate. your bills and the absence. those subsidies palestinian authority knew there would be liable to being overthrown because that lives by the via inspired virtue of the monies who.

the public sector in palestine and so they went to the negotiating table because they were ordered to their more interesting question and i don't mean it's the sea she is exactly what are they going to talk about because the palestinians know exactly when it's ready for resolving the conflict are the palestinians know perfectly well what israel's bottom line is because as you pointed out there in the gosh asians negotiations you can go sure she's the best we know exactly what israel's. you know exactly what the palestinian bottom line is so that really perplexing question so these so-called he's thoughts is the exactly are they going to talk about. yeah i mean it exactly it hit on the head right there and i wanted to talk about the perception of this issue norman is i think that stifling a lot of understanding and a lot of consciousness around the world especially here america in light of us

israeli government with our tax dollars the language that used to control the narrative in your parents are holocaust survivors and you actually said that the memory of the holocaust is exploited as an ideological weapon as one if you could talk about what you meant by that and how that's attorney understanding of this whole situation. of the nazi holocaust. and. the well for of the or has certainly is the critical weapon. and charm to justify words. most importantly it is claims to not see how closely is unique that no one has suffered in history of human kindness ever compare to what the jews endured. and then follows from that according to the israel heeds because to suffer abuse you need you can't you can't the israel of the israel and you you can't employ. israel and use the same moral code legal standards that you apply to

any other people and so far it's not a whole even though it's you know repeatedly commits gross human rights violations convince gross. crimes under international law including to believe someone is a work crime under the. international criminal court or whenever you try to call israel to account for the human rights violations a war crimes crimes against humanity that the minutes or the immediately does and invokes the nazi holocaust and says. you time the client to us the same standards the same moral standards and same legal standards. because of what i was using door would work who was allegedly unique and then the same thing comes up for example on kyra negotiations with iran when for example the new.

you wear a resentment there for the united states when she was testifying before congress and she thought about israel's attitude towards her and she says well of course the calf you get the how we only so you know how close means of israel's and fire to newt to snake in center around but that's the thinking it's just the know it all purpose utility i don't for israel not to be vote and every critic critical juncture whether to exonerated of every real war crimes crimes against humanity of violations of human rights whether it's used as a club in or out to the us. and silence criticism of this for months we're making it's for management by the cross and the and from the. desire to wage sure on its neighbors it's quite unfortunate norman because it really deters

a logical rational debate about this issue and the public discourse i really appreciate you calling it out speaking out author activist norman finkelstein really appreciate your time and you're in flight. president you see so far how do you tube dot com let's bring in a separate issue subscribe to our channel especially recommend ever to check out my talk with lance stephenson myth about when the term conspiracy theory became a tool to shut down any questioning and that's it for us tonight you guys have a great night we'll see you right back here tomorrow break to suck all over again.

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