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the report states that the officer had repeatedly violated the rules he shouldn't have sat in the car. despite this why in hospital leo is told that he risk twenty years of imprisonment feeling and putting the lives of policemen in danger. today with his family by his side near tries to get back to a normal life. the officer who shot lee and still works in the pittsburgh police department. well i know that. he was working. he knocked on her door one day to say this. so. called the police for another matter because the same officer arrives and i just don't believe my eyes i mean it felt like my life was coming. it was just so
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stark that really. i was just scared that you know he may do something to me. is this is another person so. if you want to shoot a black man join the police were police did in addition to his disability leon is now suffering from severe anxiety and depression he sued the pittsburgh police department. the prosecutor counseled the charges against you and if you weeks ago in order to improve the relationship between the police and the black community he said there's something that's something that is a work. in pittsburgh the relationship between the police and the black community is far from being good it was in homewood an afro-american neighborhood that the police shot leant forward. in these disadvantaged districts with high crime rates they get between police and citizens
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is huge. we met these americans who live in poverty and who are the first victims of police abuse. people are more afraid of police than of criminals. faced with this fear the community gets organized. after school the young gather in the house they all live in which and i'm between ten and sixteen years of age because you guys can make it. there are we pass an aside issues around us. so we can get started learning when or how or not succumbing to the teacher is like their big brother the situation is hard to believe but he is teaching them how to protect themselves from the police. say your parents. because with that you're fitting into
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a stereotype that's the kind of stuff dick can avoid to keep you out of any kind of situation or keep you out of trouble or not go horrible on you just because we're not. we're dormant because i don't want to be the next person that we point you to as some i just got killed by a police officer. because that can happen remember tamer rice where we talk about the killing clearly it's twelve years old do it with. who ordered twelve and here who's two zero. broke. that could've been you know man. that could've been one of either you or three that could have been you know he has the three cheech is a part of an ngo and the protection of the black community make something attend this cost twice a month we're here because we saw the need to educate the young people who are
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community on things that really matter and their lives with things that can really save their lives or we see the police behind us we usually put mace or a seat belts on we look straight forward we know not to turn around using proper you know grammar when i do pull you over try to be polite no matter what the situation or how you occurs whatever officers on duty how they feel. personally you just got to go off of his prayers and hope you can find a way out this is worse a lot of people look at us as a threat they think their we're all violent. criminals and things like that so just try to be respectful and carry yourself differently just so people on firstly will look at you different if you carry yourself to. the young people who listen carefully to the advice i terrified at the thought of meeting the police. i feel i do have the respect in the people around me now. do you feel safe when you have to
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go to school to you know play because in the past so many people have been in jail for doing nothing when there are some of the police i suppose and i know one thing . you can see something happening in this is like i don't want to call the cops well. because well it's a it's a day where it's a fight it's an assault and something happens and a group of people are fighting i would rather fit in either i can see let that happen rather than call the cops and then those young black men lose their lives. if the trade it is because they're constantly controlled without reason in the classroom the head has already. being stopped just industry it's better to produce.
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them by how many times. the way our. mind frame was going at that point. three four five times. the rich reason doesn't really just walking. the walk home of friends and. family see a life welcome home around nine o'clock this. family's house just on the porch just on the stump you can reason. and the story goes on and all the neighborhood. does for nothing goes walking down the street. in my lifetime let's say maybe. six or seven times so there's a whole lot of i'll be all about foley's i'm not the light i get pulled over for you know what have i done wrong. i can't even tell you no it's not stopped that's
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more than i can i can count but it's you mean it ten times. maybe. ten eleven twelve i don't count i don't know i don't keep track pretty in the us the police is allowed to stop any passes by if it suspects a risk or criminal threats according to the agents this practice is a way to prevent crime but from professor james brown's point of view it increases the risk of making huge blunders the idea was you want to increase the contact between the police and only certain public you know not everybody is mostly folks in high crime or poor urban communities any time you increase the contact between police and citizens even. the likelihood that something can go. in two thousand and thirteen in pittsburgh half of the time these controls did not lead to any arrests and blacks who represent twenty six percent of the population
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were controlled in sixty two percent of cases like. this practice had its heyday in new york in two thousand and eleven where the police record a nearly choose thousand checks a day in one cases out of ten they were unjustified and as always those who are most targeted where the black people. in the figures are vocal but no policeman dares to admit it. i've. yet former officer has agreed to break the silence his assessment is alarming the hunt for black people in which he participated is part of a racist system that he condemns today. bravely wastes lives out in the countryside far from philadelphia where he served
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for twenty three years. now retired he insisted on putting on his uniform to reveal the opening races practices of his former colleagues. the first thing he denounces is the quote arrests imposed on us police in many large cities. this race for numbers pushes them to control black people for no reason quotas lead to arrests for no reason. that isn't credibly. disgusting they would take a person's freedom away to meet a quota. minorities have no one to call if they're wrongly arrested the white person will call their local political committee man a person they'll call the parents perhaps of a teenager will call the local politician you know what's going on here my child was arrested just because he didn't have his license why don't you just tell him to
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go home and get his license and things like so the white person has more power but people have no connection to the people in power so you know there's not going to be any. blowback on arresting a minority because they don't have any power to complain and after americans an attorney unjustly arrested they're not cheated with the same respect as the white people of iran because nobody else around again stop somebody from going through a like he was a out of your car out of your car show me i did you would say that to a white person you would go up and say. may i see your driver's license please. and blacks know that blacks know when you look so that your car now and then is it well what did i do it all don't what did i do don't say that don't ask me why i'm stopping you i said get out of the car and that's right there is your first disrespect and i saw that happening and blacks know it's happening they know it's not happening to white people so automatically they start resenting the police just
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from little things command verbal commands let alone the physicality of grabbing somebody and putting them in handcuffs while you check their id unfortunately when i. would tell other officers well that's not enough then they would think a what are you. in an for the word what are you an and lover. and for and. in front of a camera that used between policeman is unpronounceable for a luis since he retired he campaigns openly against the racist behavior of the police the former officer has even made a very explicit. manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect
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themselves. with the famous merry go round. to ignore middle of the room sick. leave. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got full time. let me just published or do it if. i start is not a significant. i
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tearing up. a political a life of the whole you know disability and the still give up food for the over the . earth. but you don't read this through an actual human being in that. and then. the guy just came over to me assure me a good judge of this blog. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last to bang turn. your attitude up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my
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life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind gets consumed with death this one different person i speak to now because there are no other takers. to blame that mainstream media has met its maker. i'm asking police and open season stop shooting black man just like they're some kind of animal they wouldn't deny me that white now why they have they
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devalue the black man the black man is well let's put it this way in driving down a street in philadelphia on a hot friday night in august i was with a partner and of course hot august night in philadelphia it's a lot of people don't have air conditioning in and they're outside so there's a lot of people outside on the steps in the street and if we're writing down my partner says well the roaches are out tonight the what roaches cockroaches they're little. bugs to crawl into floor they're all like that i can garbage and it's a very derogatory term roach the roaches are out tonight so if you view. people as a roach as an insect an undesirable very undesirable insect. you're going to be able to shoot them much easier than you would a person that you value hire
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a white person or spoke to them at the time maybe it was did not know how to respond to the violence against the black people and he even got carried away by it that was. something that i became hard and somewhat so that i was not an angel. i use an excess of force and i. slap somebody when he said something really insulting to me and after i did that i realized wow i should that i had no right to do that that was not professional it was it was not i was not professional was not human about a week later. another incident occurred and i used more force than i needed after the guy was handcuffed i grab more pushed him up against the wall and i said don't you dare say that they are going to understand and i realize
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this is a disease i'm starting to develop. what is saying really wish is not specific to philadelphia agents. in march this year the ministry of justice published in the law many reports about the ferguson police more than one hundred pages show how the police violated the rights of black residents in the city. of racism with the american police has become such a big issue that a conscious awakening in some police stations has started we are in norwalk connecticut. going back to school. in small unit growth for three days and these twenty five offices will learn how to get rid of a racist pig judges says this optional training is given by two former agents their
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mission is a challenge to make these offices understand that they too have to judge this is what we're going to learn today is it a possibility that everyone in this room has biased as police in a biased manner and you don't even know that you've done it i can tell you the stories you'll hear from me is i helped police in the biased manner i know that now didn't realize that twenty or thirty years ago this lady trainer uses her personal experience as an example in role playing in the first simulation the suspect is a white woman. officers are to be reporting party calls i reports there's a woman sitting on the bus stop across the street he's been robbed several times he thinks he may have a guide us through respond. but the two offices have to control her. blow ups or her you i'm well how are you good when suddenly. remember that we're going to have to come your husband your kids are just an accident over there you
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have to come here courtesy of her changing her change in her husband were in your eyes over i think written on your hat he was there like the leading up to conquer novel so i'll fill in the confusion the two police officers let her go without even searching had the next scenario if we were replayed this right now are ok and sound down or this time the train a chooses a black suspect what would happen automatically bronzer to grow they're going to stop and why this is more likely you know that he's a person that's going to have a gun and so they're not like me and i let him go. and talk about their perception of the what they see is that so they don't then i don't let him go given that wanted to be would give to our selves even black officers get it the white woman had the weapon but the police arrested the unarmed black person more the lesson that the police whatever happens tend to see black people as criminals but it is not easy for them to admit that they have races pre-judge as. i thought they
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certainly didn't tell you that i do involving you know not that i haven't really thought about it you know or now so i don't know that i. was accurate. answer the question but you know maybe three days ago do you think that's after these training you are going to the same sit to way you all work to know that was. because i want to. change the way i'm working with no part of the i will be more self will your training is designed to teach teach us to teach us the rest of the police officers are likely farming. or fair or impartial. jury where we already are fair and impartial of the best or fair priority for the head of this department office this training after the numerous cases of police violence throughout the country well this is not what this shows our community that
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we're doing everything we can to make sure we're policing in a fair manner is going to make our job easier the media's going to trust us more and everybody wins so it's really it's a win win the only point on which this manager loses is the price sixteen thousand dollars it is one of the most expensive optional courses the only case in which it is financed by the ministry of justice is when recent blunders were committed few agencies have been trained so far but since ferguson demand is soaring i'm going to allentown at the end of the year and was trying to look into twenty fifteen this is my schedule so far. the n.y.p.d. has asked for the training it's expected in pittsburgh this year. but is this a solution. just a very visceral sort of. the city of baltimore started training its police officers against racial prejudice last year despite that
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a young afro-american died in april this year players or demonstrations for the protection of black people in the riots that shake the city images that suddenly reminds america if it's past. the task that continues to haunt the country. in the southeast of the united states three hours from atlanta america has a meeting with its own history on this film a land of slavery blacks did not have the same rights as whites. fifty years ago the police were beating up blacks here. fifty years ago young african-americans would not have had the right to walk on this bridge. the march that changed the destiny of the black community is coming very to today the fight for black freedom to fight against racism to the right to vote like white people that. little bad
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boy all right all right first of all. on sunday march seventh one thousand nine hundred sixty five on a bridge in selma six hundred african americans demonstrated peacefully to demand their right to vote. the state governor ordered the police to charge the activists . over fifty people were taken to hospital. the event became a symbol. here fifty years later the president the protesters are waiting for is black history acknowledgement has witnessed. in his speech barack obama makes an analogy between the come immigration and the recent events in the country. he admits that there is still a lot to be done. of course the more common mistake is to suggest that. ferguson is so isolated incident. that racism is better. than the work
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the girl men and women to selma is now complete. we don't need the ferguson report to know that's not true. why does need to open our minds and our ears and our hearts to know that this nation's racial history still cast this long shadow upon us. on the bridge in selma many share the same feeling many still have the impression of living in a racist country. black people are popular anywhere not in america not in france on any ice this is a little different because we were former slaves so that mentality is still there even though we're not currently slaves we can still be viewed as slaves sometimes. and this white has a slogan black people i can breeze the last words of every gonna strangled by the n.y.p.d. . my god. why did you well this shot today because we can't breathe either way because for black. berry gun his mother was also they.
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have. to get up here to feed your business and our great great this is a commemoration not a celebration and now we have to go forward with this we shouldn't stop until everybody gets justice you know justice in this city justice in every city you know because what happened on this bridge is similar to what happened to my son you know they had no because for our wives and. kids and we didn't get justice yep but we're still pushing on we want to show and just like we're pushing on you know we've got the story. eric on his mother will continue to fight in order to sentence the policeman who killed her son it will not be easy to hand and for all those in selma today walking on
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this bridge is a way to continue the fight for justice and equality the fight that is unfortunate . necessary. the long litany of blunders and police abuse proves it the united states has still very far from having solved their issue with racism. how does it feel to be a share of the greatest job in the world it's as close to being
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a king as any job there is what business model helps to run a prison now we just do or don't like is there nobody you know visitation i don't no one comes anymore we don't have to serve them anymore is cost effective that's what they want to do that knowing they don't give a damn if you do the chores and that there are actually paying us to put it back into the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the us same breach what she could is behind such success. this is the last edition of cross talk for the year and we're doing something different we answer questions from you our viewers. we are so deep in the corruption soul and i think that the reason of corruption is liberals our awesome interpretation of liberalism his or her because one of the
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not a misuse and kind of bones an explosion at a supermarket in the russian city of st petersburg was a terrorist attack the identity of the attacker is still on the learning. we speak with former islamic state slaves from a kurdish minority in iraq who escaped terrorist captivity but half of those abducted remain missing. i was pregnant but i was so terrified that i lost my child my husband and my family were captured i was left alone with my mother so we took the boys and i decided it was better to die. on facebook reveals it as a unit to assist politicians in that campaign was boasting that it helps the scottish national party and its landslide victory in twenty fifty.
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