the protests over his death helped lead to the exponential rise of the black lives matter movement who originally came into being after the death of trayvon martin at the hands of george zimmerman who like officer wilson was never actually held accountable for committing any crime despite having the death of a young black man on his hands after brown's death we saw the violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott in south carolina friday gray and baltimore and recently philander steele in minnesota just to name a few. these deaths in the bureaucratic resistance to justice surrounding them can all be traced back to that fateful august ninth two thousand and fourteen that day when the white side of the united states was forced to come face to face with the reality of the racism and institutional oppression that still goes on today and could no longer be written off as you know rare one off vestiges of a bygone era confined to the dusty pages of u.s. history so today let us remember august ninth michael brown jr and the countless

lives who struggle we hope will no longer have to be remembered through their tragedy but through their victories as we start watching the hawks. you know that i got. this. week. what are the what. are and on tap at the last august ninth marks the third year anniversary of the death of michael brown many people were outraged by the events that transpired both during and after the killing of the arm black teen by a white police officer forcing many to question the tactics and role law

enforcement and the justice system plays in their communities here's our two correspondent ashley banks with more. on august ninth two thousand and fourteen officer in a wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager michael brown in ferguson missouri brown's lifeless body lay in the street for four hours after the shooting took place which angered the community on august tenth twenty fourteen st louis county police held a press conference claiming brown was killed because he was reaching for wilson's gun later that evening protests erupted through the city now between august eleventh and august twelfth the f.b.i. announced it would join the police investigation and president barack obama addressed the shooting calling brown's death a heart breaking police were outfitted with riot gear dispersing pepper spray and rubber bullets as protests continue now on aug fifteenth the police department released surveillance video of brown taking part in a robbery prior to the shooting brown's family accuse the police of trying to turn

as his character the very next day on august sixteenth the governor nixon declared a state of emergency and ferguson and impose a curfew making it a legal for anyone to be on the streets after midnight fast forward a few months on november twenty fifth two thousand and fourteen a grand jury decided not to indict officer wilson for fatally shooting brown a recent associated press investigation finds why if there are really any convictions in fatal police shootings when african-americans are the victim saying quote many jurors are simply reluctant to reject the accounts provided by police don't yet have barely president of the black lawyers association of cincinnati chimed in saying quote i think white jurors view them as not being capable of any wrong even when the facts show the other side the investigation also finds that racial bias is a factor saying quote studies have shown conscious and unconscious fear of

african-american men plays out in numerous ways leading to the usual not guilty verdict like in the case of flatow could still. terence crusher and sam to boot shortly after officer wilson was found not guilty brown stanley filed a wrongful death lawsuit on june twenty third two thousand and seventeen ferguson's insurance company paid the family one point five million dollars the cost of brown's life studies show more than often families will receive a million dollar settlement paid for by taxpayers before they will see a conviction. and joining us today are civil rights activist perry red and our to correspondent ashley banks. who three years ago. and still it still hits you know i think deep anyone who actually cares about community and cares while people still have some people what happened in the aftermath and serve as per i want to ask you three years later where does the death of michael brown jr kind

of fit historically in the struggle for racial equality and racial justice in this country who are historically speaking the death of michael brown brought forth for civil rights movement black lives matter was an organizing phenomenon so to speak one there was a polish vehemently by a conservative minds in this country but one that was embraced out of guilt of the american psyche american knows that not convicting police who are caught on camera killing a segment of your population is wrong and so this consciousness is guilt consciousness brought us to a place where it looked like we would go in the right direction this country unfortunately nov eighth of twenty sixteen sent us backward in our progress in this country. and we've seen it again and again so that last sentence almost as if a certain amount of americans sort of open their eyes and realize that and

understood what that meant when you talk about this oh my gosh i'm just standing back and letting this happen and what's my part in all of this institutionalized racism perry what do you think are the last and actually says about it what it what are the lessons that we still haven't learned from ferguson from mike brown from tomorrow from freddie gray what are we still not getting unfortunately what we are getting is this cycle that continues to happen and i call that. of a belief first of all first of all there is the shock and then we go to the outrage then we go for the call for calm and want to community because then the. so you know we're happens all the time then the failure to char now we've got more george. but it's going to appeal you too can be when we get on with everyone old it's all good alone let's have these police community

interactions and then there's the amnesia time in the country where we get all about what really happened and then we're back to business as usual so what have we learned we learned we have been. doing the same thing over and over again. the. show when i ask you you know one of the biggest things you're speaking of things we've learned is you know in the aftermath of everything that happened with michael brown of the city of ferguson the justice department came in and said we're going to you know you need to reform the huge investigation from policing for profit from the systemic racism but the mystery you need to reform you know where we have three years now where is the city of ferguson and in those reforms that were supposedly handed down by the justice system at the time you know the city of ferguson it's about two thirds black and during the time michael brown was shot there weren't a lot of black people and high positions there so over the last three years we've

had the police chief in the city manager step down there a white males and now they've been replaced by african-american men in addition to that the seven member council that includes the mayor. at one point during our michael brown to incident there was only one african-american on that council now we have three. some progress and like you said when the d.o.j. investigation came out it revealed a lot of systemic racism and that african-americans were wrongly targeted and the the city they had like two options they were going to sign a legal decree with the department of justice or they were going to use illegal actions. of course they decided yes we're going to sign this we go to korea we don't want to face legal action but they said that they were going to reform the police department and since then allegedly they had been working on hiring and training officers but as we saw in my package the associated press

investigation is basically saying you can do all the hiring you want you can do all the training you want but mentally if the person is consciously or unconsciously afraid of african-american men by the way they were brought out what they see on television all of that won't matter will matter who you hire new won't matter who you train you know a lot of people are upset that the mayor is white because they're saying it's a white male he will be able to represent us in the way that we will like him to represent us because he doesn't know what we've got in there he can't possibly know what we're going through some people are saying the city is moving in the right direction but a lot of people are saying it's not moving fast enough and the right direction i would say that's true of the entire united states right now in terms. of i mean what you saw or you know recently minnesota were flawed because it was extraordinary that you know the officer basically was let go or given the thing of we don't want to question the police you know we never want to question their authority which to me is ludicrous in a free society you're supposed to and unfortunately we see instance after instance

with police officers of course in their own way and more to more two cases involved with you know. who. to plant evidence on black men and i know. to make a claim is ludicrous to the general american public until of course we see it on camera and then. you know it's amazing isn't one of those things that i just wonder if it's going to have to start happening because i've had people in my own life that didn't understand the entire black lives matter movement or what was going on until a friend of theirs who is white was shy. by the police and do you think that's kind of how it goes you you almost in total it till it happens to you don't understand it's what happens to someone in your community you can't see that how how do we teach people how do we get people to understand that and empathize with the black community and that's this issue especially. without tragedy or is there

a way do you just have to really literally feel that tragedy if you don't get it you don't get it. i would have to say of that unfortunately it's hard you can't really convince someone of anything like you said unless they have experienced it themselves it has to hit home for them and with your friend obviously it hit home but when it comes to you know the police brutality this has been a systemic thing that's happened for decades and this country is of course african-americans and other minorities are getting the brunt of this so they know that they live it they breathe it their mothers their fathers their cousins daughters whatever you know sons have been through these tragedies so they understand that there's a long history of this hurt but intel of course all white man a white woman experiences as they won't get it. speaking with what we've done or tactically speaking what we done to to.

change their lives to introduce the concept young to people in to do so black and white like the australian woman a woman who minnesota deserved to be shot she walked up behind the police car and so have the police car according to do revise. and so to introduce to why do. you two can be kewl is an institution people are more heat more there's a propensity to kill people more news country even though less of been shot since michael bromwich there have been documented over twenty five hundred. people in this country just over the last year one hundred thirty two books have been shot and killed by police and so. it only happens to black people in this country is. it more likely. proportionately blacks make up less of the population but will be

introduced to blacks and whites alike yes and that's something. you know when you've got conservatives taking over school systems and yeah we're going to take over curriculum i couldn't agree more we've got about a minute or two minutes left i just want to ask you both we'll start with ashley is what can the news media corporate media do better in their coverage of civil rights tragedies and civil rights movements today i mean why have i guess two points that when it comes to media i think it would be best if they didn't scrutinize our criminal law is the victim we see this more often than not especially when it's an african-american victim they're pulling up their history or heard of what they've done when it has nothing to do with the shooting that just just took place so you feel like this is a human being they were off their lives it shouldn't matter what happened before this incident took place if it has no relation to the incident my second point it would be great obviously if the media were to cover the root causes of what's going

on not just the shootings that are taking place like we covered baltimore cease fire last week and i was there talking to the community there are other issues there i think the media sometimes just takes the side of what i can or a police department is saying or whoever whatever department they're saying the authorities are saying instead of going in the community and finding out exactly what is causing it to you know agree. thank you so much terry red civil rights activist thank you so much actually. everyone but you know as we go to break or watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are. dot com coming up with discover rather intriguing payscale or lack thereof on capitol hill and then we discover just how cracked up immigrations and customs enforcement or ice truly is there is cracked i would say turn the watching the hawks.

in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around corners perforations from washington to washington the media the media the voters elect the businessman to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to

shape out. comes to the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. in one thousand nine hundred five congress passed its own version of the fair labor standards act which establishes overtime pay and minimum wages and employment standards for miners congress's version the congressional accountability act excluded a number of protections and defines those protected as quote any employee of the house of representatives and quoting an applicant for employment and a former employee but shout not include and in turn fast forward two decades later and the only people able to participate in the congressional intern program are

likely white rich and connected and extensive report from the odyssey group advocacy group a our interns released this june found that less than half of united states senators don't well pay their enter in fact barely eight percent of congressional offices ten percent of republicans and four percent of democrats regularly offer paid internships and while some offer access to other funding such as scholarships and a mere fourteen percent of congressional offices have any paid interest what effect does this have on our government well it means only those with connections and money can serve as a congressional in turn the average cost of a summer internship in washington d.c. is around six thousand dollars for three months meaning less privileged and turns will have to incur debt or work other jobs simultaneously ultimately making their experience less fulfilling it means that these super white massively privilege and turn classes on capitol hill won't be going anywhere until we root out twenty years of partisan classism and racism we've allowed to fester in our halls of democracy.

but i get there are you going to drive it to get there because you could see the good the writing is on the wall you know really limited by the but what you're just saying there is the you know the party that apparently claims to be for the poor that we're going to gloss. the democrats there in terms of capitol hill left us alone with her yeah even the republicans. and that's where you're going to get that's where you get your true bread and butter right that's where you see business ravers and who is thing is that kid in that office if they're they're big and they don't have to worry about it whatever it's a favor because somebody has kids and something else and i got you this fundraiser so make sure your kid gets to vote for your nephew and if it's one out of internationally call him in the film industry must hire hero my brothers sisters kid is friends with the producer or in this case the big donor the money can you give them a job on the hill but what really is interesting is that you know is the money

issue on there somehow you know basically you know at the end of the day the big problem is the schools you know the school credit doesn't pay your bills at the other no and flat stipends which are some sort of the congressional black caucus and also the hispanic congressional hispanic caucus institute even though there are stipends only range from about twenty five hundred to four thousand so you're still talking about if you need six thousand which is the bare minimum you're still talking that kids are thirty five hundred to two thousand dollars short and we actually spoke to senior congressional chief of staff senior freshness chief of staff who wish to remain anonymous but about this issue and what they told us is this school credits are are the are only in a sense incentive to d.c. area college students and by definition and they're by definition successful it definitely it's leads to a pretty homogenous pool of resumes to choose from even if we try to hire more diverse applicants so what's happening is people aren't even trying it makes it

less you live in the area and you can afford to work for free you can't do it you can't do it and here's the problem and you know you're already in a place of privilege because you're clearly already in a good school in that area a lot of those i'm looking at here is the problem with this and we're talking about earlier today is that the problem with this is that if you you know congressional staffs you would hope. would be made up from people of all walks of life of the people they're representing right rob so if you know i got a problem you know back home in missouri i got a problem with an accident oh man nobody up here living in the washington d.c. area could relate to this oh but my in turn from over there from a lower income family who's here you know learning how politics works hopefully gets a job later taken political oh he might know but the fact is you're only pulling from this one small pool right people and you need that you need to get into that pool to be able to do it but i think the reason this happened even more nothing it's all goes back to our good buddy newt gingrich at the end of the navy with this when he presented his contract with america which promised to lower taxes and

there's a better deal as a matter of law but your memory and i mean i was not going well one of the initiatives was to eliminate the l.b.j. congressional internship program which had supported internships for what almost three hundred in terms per year that brought me in that think in terms from all walks a lot going on for twenty for. the office of represent elizabeth first told washington post back in ninety four that quote well just we'll just look within our budget and find a way to cut it maybe there's a magazine subscription we don't need maybe we can look at those small things you know that add up but how much did this big push which cut in terms and in terms of scholarship programs out only save the u.s. government about three hundred fifty thousand dollars a year great job maybe it could a cut defense a new. public and. with the white house so laser focused on the issue of immigration perhaps it's understandable that the immigration and customs enforcement agency has been such a frequent sight in the headlines these days the agency already guarded controversy earlier this year by waiting outside courthouses to pick up on documented

immigrants facing traffic tickets and applying for restraining orders but in a recent investigation by connecticut connecticut's hartford grand reporters found that ice agents have started using children yes children as bait to lure in undocumented parents for arrest and deportation proceedings. meanwhile in new york city at american citizen who was held in detention by ice for three years thanks to a case of mistaken identity just. for monetary damages in a case of highly mistaken. all this begs the question where is the outcry over children immigrants and even american citizens facing such a surreal justice system tied up the where is the outcry of some of us are lots of hearings. because you don't see it and you don't understand the sort of the effect that the web that sort of shoots out from like this what happens is i mean you're looking at one kid in this case it was a child the youngest of four was also facing his own immigration hearing and he was

only released on the family on the condition they had promised to attend all of these meetings or all of these meetings and hearings then they show up to the meetings and hearings and they arrest that it was all it's all just part of this you know thing and this whole nightmare scenario is why a lot of local police departments don't want to work with ice and a lot of local agencies don't want to work with them because what it does is it gives this entire fear a factory ends up going into your town and that means that people aren't bringing their kids and for vaccinations for health concerns they are bringing their kids to school they are premium to the hospital when they need things and they're not going to tell the cops when things are happening when crimes are committed because they're afraid then the cops are going to call i use and they're going to get arrested that's a woman gets raped or someone gets assaulted if your kids are really sick they won't go because they're afraid of going around it's a really lawless community and the world of everyone is so afraid of deportation and the police there and look even there's

a little deportation you're going to say well this person is the you legally you know look at the end of the day if they're afraid of deportation i mean this could happen to people who are citizens right that it would look good from new york i mean here. it's like if someone isn't supposedly or abide by children being used to that arrest parents what. should really capture anyone's attention is the case of de vito watson so you know basically ice can view this. the detainees citizens dad's middle name you london with a not so there's a new middle name was livingston nodded at you can confuse livingston is beyond me well this poor kid spent three years in custody because they couldn't prove that he was american citizen he was saying no i am an american citizen here's a well we don't know your dad you know all of this. but to add insult to injury is as i said the court ruled that your watson on one leg eighty four thousand dollars after they finally sorted out saying what a lot i needed to have as i want to ground three years and then

a court ruled that watson didn't sue quickly enough because he had missed the two your stats of the potations all wrong a lot of attention the two year had passed while he was still being detained by the way because he was unknowable to afford a lawyer and he had very minimal education here's the kicker. in the court ruling that he doesn't get this money in the statue of limitations and all that they ruled that watson's case does not merit an exception to the statute of limitations because that is a rare remedy to be applied in unusual circumstances not a cure all for entirely and entirely common state of affairs did i just to submit that it's a common state of affairs for them to lock up american citizens and not realize they are american citizens for three years loose that or the what's what's the other side of that oh well we face a lot of cases with people who are on able to afford a lawyer in this country even though you're guaranteed legal representation in our legal system i mean either way it's a terrible sandwich terrible terrible sandwich and i like. shooting at

the root of the word zero is sanskrit for and to avoid when it comes to having the consciousness to recognize the concept of zero it seems that honeybee are much more aware of the world they inhabit than we've given them credit for scientists have. known for awhile that zero as a quantity is difficult for even humans to grass which is why children are taught zero after they've learned other numbers and until now only vertebrate animals like monkeys humans and birds have been able to recognise and tina but i see no science is led by scarlett howard at the r m i t university in melbourne australia discovered that when they made two platforms one with a number of shapes and one with no shapes they could teach honeybees the concept of zero using sweet and sour taste on the platforms eventually the training saw the bees recognizing the platform with zero shapes eighty percent of the time the team still hasn't figured out why honeybees comprehension of zero is similar to humans

and primate but in the meantime tyrrell i think it's safe to say that honey bee brains are not shown yet but clearly they are hopefully we can save the army of bees long enough to learn more about their saying no more than they are letting on their stamina was zero zero if we don't let them die out. all right that is our show for today remember everyone in this world we are told we love the sword so it was you i am tired robot and i'm part of the wall of people and watching all those hawks all that ever break. here's what people been saying about rejected in the us actually it's the law and also the only show i go out of my way to lunch you know what it is that really packs a punch at least yap is the john oliver of party americans do the same we are apparently

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