and i'm really excited about television for the first time you know you go to dinner parties now and people talk about did you see the last breaking bad episode or did you see house of cards or can you are you excited about the new homeland season people are talking about television of them rate yeah lots of the i mean i love this is a show called rectify that i love it's on the sundance channel it's a sensational i mean the writing is great the character development is great and i think a lot of really good things are being done in tell anybody thought this is now all the actors in hollywood want to do and tell a want to do television and the creative people want to do television because there's more creative freedom thank you rob reiner and so it goes stars michael douglas and diane keaton directed by mr wright who also costars is out in theaters now for more information on the film check out and so it goes the movie dot com thanks as always for joining me on politicking number i want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page share your thoughts on twitter.

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live. what's really good folks i'm an old filling in for abby martin and this is breaking the set so for the last five nights the st louis suburb of ferguson missouri has seen large protests over the killing of african-american teen michael brown by a yet to be named police officer and it's no surprise that the response to these mostly peaceful demonstrations has been a full on military operation by the ferguson police force in fact no one has been spared from the tear gas rubber bullets in mass arrests even journalists check out how some of the news outlets have been covering the story it seems no one was exempt in the chaos surrounding the protests in ferguson missouri last night even journalists covering the protests got left out in it too many foreigners arrested at a local mcdonald's while they were recharging their phone batteries i do want to say

. if i saw that video and my son was the one that the police arrested that for that episode i'd say joe here's a clue when the cops tell you like to thirty it's time let's go you know what that . means let's go we have a black attorney general who's a liberal in this country all right and he's certainly not going to let this go by the wayside as a result of this that people in that community is saying shoot the police whatever let's roll some video here does people in that unity or rioting people in that community a steely the people in that community are. syrup satisfied with that is that any way they react why do they have to shoot to kill why can't they shoot a warning shot in the air scare someone off if they think they're in danger why can't they shoot to injure shall we say why do they have to shoot to kill make some a police officer tells you that you've got to move along because you've got riots outside well you probably should move along. listen it's far past time

we cut through this talking head absurdity and break the set on the reality of police brutality. they are very hard to take. that back with that hurt right there.

if the recent clashes with police and ferguson missouri are any indication the lack of accountability for the death of eighteen year old michael brown by a police officer and the continuing refusal to answer basic questions are only contributing to the community's outrage during the latest confrontations police launched tear gas and shot rubber bullets into the crowd at least ten people were reported to be arrested including two journalists broadcasting from the scene of the violence before being picked up by officers. see as the demonstrations against team last night police walked into a mcdonald's where wesley lowery of the washington post and ryan reilly of the huffington post were charging their phones police force them to stop recording the events and took both reporters into custody this arrest was only one of several instances of media crews facing intimidation by police another news crew was able to capture images of the swat team firing tear gas directly at an al-jazeera

reporter before doing a live broadcast that same swat team then proceeded to take apart and seize the camera crews camera equipment with the situation continuing to unravel president obama took a. a break from his vacation in martha's vineyard to address the nation in a press conference earlier today when something like this happens the local authorities including the police have a responsibility to be open and transparent about how they are investigating that death and how they are protecting the people in their communities there is never an excuse for violence against police for for those who would use this tragedy as a cover for vandalism or looting there's also no excuse for police to use excessive force against peaceful protests or to throw protestors in jail for lawfully exercising their first amendment rights and here in the united states of america police should not be bowing or arresting journalists who are just trying to do their jobs in the president's statements on the need to respect civil liberties and

press freedom in ferguson were spot on but his remarks weren't nearly substantive enough to address the underlying issue the fact that without justice and accountability these riots will only continue and that police then that the police shooting that took the life of michael brown is far from being an isolated incident seem over the last few weeks there have been at least four police killings resulting in the deaths of unarmed black men in the u.s. side from michael brown whose case has sparked a nationwide outrage that was eric garner of new york city who was choked to death by police officers last month and all the other instances have involved questionable shoot to kill circumstances and beaver creek ohio community is demanding answers after officers killed twenty two year old john crawford and when a shopper called police to report a man holding a gun in a wal-mart. a gun that ended up being a toy dayton daily news spoke to the victim's mother who was on the phone with her son when the shooting took place she added that quote he said he was at the video

games playing videos and he went over by the toy section where the toy guns were and the next thing i know he said it's not real and the police started shooting and they said get down on the ground but he was already on the ground because they had shot him and i could hear him just crying and screaming i feel like they shot him down like he was not even human. police insist that the victim's gun looked real and that he had been walking around the store clicking it conference families demanding to see the video of the event but it has yet to be released and well crawford's death hasn't quite captured national attention it certainly sparked a call for justice and accountability from local activists another recent case coming just days after michael brown's killing involved the shooting death of a mentally ill man by the l.a.p.d. the victim was twenty five year old ford police claim that ford had struggled with them and actually forced the shooting witnesses on the scene however of painted

a completely different picture suggesting that ford was complying with officers before he was shot and while both of these stories have been buried by the national attention on ferguson they paint an incriminating picture of the shoot for by cops across the country one that continues to fuel a trend of violence that disproportionately affects african-americans and minorities now exactly how disproportionate that violence is it's hard to know for sure because just sista to sticks nationwide speak for themselves and knowing that on average across the u.s. a black male is killed by police security guards or armed vigilantes every twenty eight hours it's hard to see this as a simple coincidence. but the longer we ignore the fact that this is the result of institutionalized racism the more we will continue to allow america's police to be at war with its own communities and what media pundits. i'd be shaking their heads at some of the rioting happening in ferguson maybe they should consider the words of dr king a riot is the language of the unheard

i in the wake of the outrage over the death of michael brown the governor of missouri jay nixon just announced at the state highway patrol will be taking over security in the city and we can only hope that the state patrol is an outfitted in the same military gear that has become typical of police forces in towns and cities across the u.s. just take a look at the evolution of police here over the last fifty years you know we've come a long way since the days of blue shirts done with billy clubs and in fact between the helmets kevlar body armor and bulletproof shields today's riot cops look more like star wars storm troopers than peace officers but it's not just police uniforms it's also the change in tactics and technology that are turning city streets into battlefields it's a topic that abbie and i discussed only a few months ago and it's extremely relevant given the current media attention on

ferguson today check it out. there's so many types of quote less than lethal rounds because first of all you can't call them non-lethal because they still kill people is right next to scott olsen got hit square in the face with it being nagged around denver and all that and shot out of a gun and good rule of thumb is that it's not like it very well and they're doing this at point blank range and so you know a lot of these people already know that being dragged around the spawning grounds die around staying around pepper ball rounds actually a bunch of little balls within like a i don't even know the arsenal a grenade and it's crazy and i guess point blank is it good enough that we just flashed a. kind of a photograph of one of these these new devices which is you know from the most trusted name in electrocuting people to use or international you have this shotgun that that fires this is there it is right there is a projectile that actually will. person it's insane what they're able to do with this thing it's called the x. twelve it's a twelve gauge shotgun they can fire

a extended range electronic projectile make a hundred feet away because that's what we need you know i mean we're not tasing enough people people already dine. related deaths oh my god five hundred people since two thousand and one have died as a direct result of taser when you can argue that if you want but that's that's amnesty international that's a.c.l.u. that are providing the sadistic swe been reporting this on the show we have we already have such a gun happy police force so really militarized we really need to be arming cops with taser guns now do you think it's just unbelievable just to use or shotguns i mean that's all about everybody state a crazy thing is crazy to use economics but let's talk about the stun. gun it can get crazier it is eight hundred thousand volts in that you're looking at right now they're actually already in use believe it or not the buchanan sheriff's beginning county sheriff's department is already using these things there are two of them to be the guinea pig that's off to say we've covered similar device before which is

probably the line of the future of these are already in production. how do you i can administer drugs yeah let's talk about this because this is really shocking i don't understand how police would justify using this on protesters less than lethal land mines i mean that's kind of the way things are these days i mean you take it from the battlefield and you ply to the streets. doesn't work well i mean if for veterans watching the show anybody is a vietnam veteran definitely recognize what this looks like it looks like a claymore mine point this side away from enemy has it's full of little rubber pellets the same as some of the projectiles that you described at the very beginning you know you step on it you trip over it and it shoots these rubber rubber bullets out there i mean it could easily shoot. that's very much the case with that's great so now is the worry about tripping over these and having done. we have to worry about money well let's talk about you know on recall chemical agents

of course we know already about pepper spray tear gas these are things that are regularly used. you see those all the time actually the footage that we're looking at right here is something completely different this is called the skunk spray. a report on this it's actually used in israel and if it's been used here in the united states i was actually looking into this i couldn't find out what the actual chemical that's used inside this is but it's a putrid putrid rotting smell it will burn your eyes and leave a horrible taste in your mouth and it's absolutely powerful to do that because they did that it's like rotting the sewage water. protesters heard the same of her that it's just raw sewage and it's with such force that it actually you know i don't want to you know and you know i don't to be around at all and of course they use you know water cannons here in the u.s. let's talk about the sound cannon because this is something that's really crazy you can actually have a sound that can actually make you this is yeah absolutely i was looking into this there are also called acoustic hailing devices or long range the cue stick devices

i think people are more familiar with the l. rad this is able to travel you know five hundred meters at a time very powerful powerful sound they're using this off the horn of africa to you know send loud messages to pirates but this is this is a very effective crafted turn it's actually already been in use for a few years here and then it's very. sound waves at you and it can actually move you out of the way it can there's been reports that it produces it and it has a sick feeling in your stomach it was used in two thousand and eleven at the chicago nato protests it was used at the last superbowl it was used against occupy protesters this is you know it seems like science fiction and i mean it is very scary if they're able to do this today you know we're finding out you know a few years later what are they capable of doing today is the question right and also i mean i can totally incapacitate you can make you crap your pants. here and there you go it's no matter no it's not a lot about it this is how powerful this thing is i mean picture that's been used

during protests i mean these are these your peers saying not even your prison i mean body piercing where you are just completely incapacitated really disturbing let's talk about the heat can and that was disturbing we're talking about an active microwave weapon used mail on the head that's actually exactly what it it's an open air microwave device it's capable of producing burns on your skin heating heating the human body to one hundred thirty plus degrees actually this is no longer a watch i don't know if that's true was first used in afghanistan and it quickly was pulled out for political reasons because they were thinking that it might be. something that could be used against the united states saying that the u.s. is torturing people using this device but the last i heard about this he can and or order the a.t.f. the active denial system active denial technologies what it's called is that it was used in a pilot program at a california prison and prisons across the country are looking at this calling it the holy grail of riot control using this technology to disperse crowds to disperse

and just present no this heats the skin off its targets up to one hundred thirty degrees is how powerful this thing is what if something malfunctions i mean is there going to be said that this has all the potential to be a deadly device this is this is not less than lethal this is one of those things that we that we should look at right now and say look this is a little bit too much yes you could use this for torture yes you could kill people with this there's really no reason to be pulling things off the battlefield and using them here at home these are the things that we really need to raise this thank you so much b.t.s. producer appreciate breaking this down. coming up guys an interview with activists and journalist mike prize interstates. are you like what you comedy use for the t.v. what your comedy used to be a bear no hold. fight to the dad. but the truth vampire biting into the necks of the corporate elite billionaire freaks well they're going.

that's what you get with my new show projected in night. there's a media leader so we leave them to. the scene motions secure. the party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with to get they deserve answers from. politics only one of our. recent events in ferguson have been a perfect example of how local police forces are treating neighborhoods like battlefields it's a phenomenon that's become institutionalized just look at the responses from cops

themselves about the inner workings of the force according to the national criminal justice reference service forty three percent of cops agree that always following the rules is not compatible with getting the job done twenty five percent say that they have witnessed fellow officers harassing a citizen most likely because of his or her race fifty two percent say it's not unusual for officers to turn a blind eye to misconduct by other officers and forty nine percent feel the only way a criminal would receive any punishment is to punish the individual. the way that police feel about their own misconduct probably doesn't comfort the thousands of family members affected by police violence across the country but one group tackled the subject with a documentary called no justice no peace now i have to warn you some of these images are graphic.

follow. the ever cell found in israel and they say yeah i'm ten times in a bad man i'm way right here. and believe and i. want you to stop crying pre-crime one for every year my wife and me like it here they shout. at our wife one in large part and. shocking him in the back running back who was shot by the back. there. so close there's little left. to discuss this film in america's police

abuse epidemic he was joined a while back by michael prysner an organizer with the answer coalition if you first asked him what story this film is trying to tell. well you know the issue of police misconduct and police violence is of course very multifaceted so you can ranges from racist harassment of black and brown communities with the stop and frisk like with one clip that you showed to mass incarceration and all of the poor people of particularly african-american community rolled up into the mass incarceration system to militarize crack down on. peaceful protest and constitutionally protected activity all of these things are part of this issue of police brutality but what this film focuses on and what the movement that it centered on is focusing on is the outright execution of innocent unarmed people by police officers you can give no rational explanation whatsoever for why that killing was justified who have complete impunity and zero accountability for their crimes and

a lot of it's that around the families and their messages and that was really really powerful of the lawyer representing the family the victims of these families talking to police murder is now an epidemic in southern california and you can some examples of the most egregious cases that have come to characterize so well sure and of course i mean that's kind of the main point of the film too is that all of these heroic families that have stood up when they've dealt with such a deep perfect tragedy instead of hiding in their houses or at fact confronting the police and standing up and working very hard to build this movement but one of the families on who we work with this coalition to take action on this is a recent case of a police killing of someone who brought to our sorrow who was killed in california this past may this is a very typical case ringo was a well known community member he was a worker at the local hospital everyone knew him he was racially profiled because the police were looking for someone who had been in a fight so of course they were on high alert they racially profiled rigo he gets out of his car right in front of his house many witnesses have confirm the story followed police instruction got out of the car with his hands up and there was

a mediately shot in the heart and killed he was one of thirteen people in the month of may alone who was killed in that area so that speaks to how widespread of a problem that is this was not a story of a police officer who thought that rigo was a danger to his life this is a story of an officer who wanted to shoot someone and had his justification to shoot someone and took that action and so i think that the problem in the what most people don't aware is that people want to characterize these as well the cops thought their life was in danger come up with excuses he was going from a. gun he was reaching for his waistband but i say it really comes down to really these cowards sociopath doods who want to act like cowboys and go live their dream of shooting some people who might be listening and think you know that's crazy cops look out for their citizens i can't help but bring up speaking of sociopath captain ray lewis former police captain of the philadelphia police force said that police are actually vetted specifically for tendencies and also

a lack of empathy i mean could this play into why we're seeing such cases of brutality and aggression against us and yeah absolutely i mean of course there's a lot to be said about the individual personalities of many people who are wearing a badge and carrying out a daily action of brutality against the community so they're going to be policing but i see this issue goes beyond individual personalities it goes beyond training better training and it goes beyond the people saying this is a few bad apples that need to be rectified this is about an entire system where there is this inherent adversarial relationship between the armed men who are employed by this government which is the government of the big banks the corporations the rich against the communities that there are policing poor communities the press communities those who experience the amount of brutality and look at so it's not the individuals it's the role of the police in our society you know if you're going to get evicted from your apartment you can't call the cops and say hey my landlord is trying to kick me out can you come help me the cops going to

come to you the police you know if you're going to strip your worker who goes on strike the cops are going to come and say to the boss you need to give these workers a fair contract we're going to hit you over the head to stop breaking the strike and nothing showed that exemplified more than the n.y.p.d. and occupy wall street showing that they really do work on behalf of the banks given to have donation from the banks let's let's play another clip from the film that really stuck with me here. if we look for solutions for my solution which how hard if we looked at soft homicides. how many people. for so many people the killing of the hard questions that we have to ask each and every community i mean here you are talking about how this is an institutionalized problem when i hear something like that i think i don't even know i mean what would the breakdown be if we actually saw this is to six of how many people are being killed versus say well you know we know that the number of killed is extremely high and one hundred every year i mean one study shows between four and five hundred per cent people killed by

the police and this is something of course inherent in this type of system where you have a system of the vast. minority ruling over the vast majority i mean to employ these different types of things first if you know what people really knew the numbers i would say that if you look at the cases in this film and you know more than fifty families who had i will have a loved one killed by the police and all of them give their testimonies in this film telling what happened and not a single one of these cases can you say that that officer could have possibly believed that his life was in danger and so people can say whatever they want about you know in general cops are fearing for their lives but if you actually look at the stories of what's happening there's absolutely no explanation for why don't they should be used and so this is i think we're in a situation where people be really shocked at the level of epidemic that this is absolute and then amount of gun shots for these people is just absolutely extraordinary for cops that actually are held accountable and go through the justice system what sort of punishment do they generally receive none i mean you

know when they go through the justice system they're a part of that you know racist oppressive justice system so of course you're not held accountable the police investigate themselves when they commit a killing and of course if you're investigating yourself you're going to come out and say yes i was justified in this killing but in the rear cases that police do go to trial for a killing of a unarmed innocent person the courts are lined up behind them to the media is lined up behind them too and there's absolutely no type of fairness you know whatsoever we have one example of a police officer who murdered someone on camera joining us measure we murdered oscar grant in front of of tons. witnesses and video he went to jail for a lemon once only because there is massive uprisings in the street all over the country so that shows you just how much this justice system cares about people who are murdered by cops back on the force now and he's an armed security guard and so he's carrying a gun. but he's going to go and that's really a great sarcastic obviously why is this war being waged because i think people look at cops and they say they're here to protect why are they waging

a war against us right well you know we can look to the massive growth in the military as ation of the police and the hyper aggressive tactics coinciding with growing radicalism in the united states so in the sixty's and seventy's when swat teams were formed cops were pumped full of all the fancy gear you see them wearing now and this was coinciding with growing radicalism among african-american communities native communities latino communities people were in motion in political motion fighting back against the status quo challenging the core institutions of society and so this government responded with vicious brutality against those communities to crush those movements and of course those things have remained in place today why is simply an issue in beverly hills of course there are dangerous people in beverly hills there are crazy people in beverly hills but this isn't an issue in beverly hills because the people living in beverly hills don't have the potential to really come out against the current status quo this rule of the rich that we live under and so cops are employed and poor and oppressed communities that those are really in power in this country no have the potential to

be radicalized and have potential to fundamentally change this way that this society is not something they very much want to protect thank you so much everyone check it out no justice no peace very powerful documentary my crimes are from the answer coalition really appreciate your time. thanks for watching guys be sure to follow me on twitter and to see this content and much more sure to tune in to youtube dot com breaking the set every night.

i think i'm just looking. over my shoulder doing the job did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioning the constitution. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy right calvo's. going to go on i'm sorry and on this show we would be a little picture of what's actually going on we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have my ready to join the movement

then welcome to the big. boy i'm sorry but it was an in d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. in just five days ferguson missouri has been transformed from a normal st louis suburb into something resembling a war zone why is that what you tell us about how the response to nine eleven has changed our country for the worse also the right of a journalist to protect his or her sources as essential. free and open press so why is the obama administration forcing new york times reporter james rise and to reveal his sources under threat of prosecution and imprisonment and if there's one lesson we can take away from the terrifying scenes in ferguson missouri it's that wars always come home i'll tell you how it's nice dealer to.