tv Documentary RT March 3, 2018 9:30pm-10:01pm EST
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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 the unfolds. in these disadvantaged districts with high crime rates the gap between police and citizens is huge. we met these americans who live in poverty and who were 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 younger out there in the house they only even home which and are between ten and sixteen years of age because you guys can make. errors are we past aside issues around us. so
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we can just start to learn where or how to or not so coming to the teacher is like the big brother the situation is hard to believe he is teaching them how to protect themselves from the police. say your parents. because with that you're fitting into a stereotype that's the kind of stuff they can avoid they keep you out of any kind of situation or keep you out of trouble or not go horrid on you just because we're not. we're dormant because i don't want to be the next person. to as somebody just got killed by a police officer. because that can happen remember taylor rice where we talk about the killing six twelve years old. who ordered twelve in here whose two zero. broke
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bad binyomin. that could have been one and either you or three that could have been you know he has three teaches a part of an indian for the protection of the black community make something attend this cost twice a month where here because we saw a need to educate the young people who are community on things that really matter in 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 use improper or deliberately do pull you over try to be polite no matter what the situation or how you occurs whatever officers on duty how they feel and personally you just got to go off of his prayers and hope you can find a way out the situation a lot of people look at as a threat they think they were all violent as are all criminals and things like that
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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 a bigger threat than the people around me now. do you feel safe when you have to go to school so you know like because in the past so many people have been in jail for doing nothing when there are some clues i suppose and i know a sense of. 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 it's a day where the fight is 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.
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if the trait it is because they're constantly controlled without reason in the classroom to have. has already been this stuff it's just industry it's baedeker it's. them but how many times. the way our. mind frame was well at that point for four or five times. the rich reason those guys just walking. the walk home of. the pharisees. walking home romana clogged this. family's house just for the disc on the stump and the reason. and the story goes on in north the neighborhood. just for nothing goes walking down the
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street. in my lifetime let's say maybe. six or seven times so there's a whole law i'll be all about bullies i'm not the light i get pulled over for you know what have i done wrong. i can't even tell you he's not stopped that's more than i can i can count but you mean it ten times. maybe. ten eleven twelve i don't count i don't know i don't keep track believe 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
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in high crime or poor urban communities any time you increase the contact between police and citizens. we were increased 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 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 in yearly 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
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hunt for black people in which he participated is part of a racist system that he condemns today. greatly wastes lives out in the countryside far from philadelphia where he said for twenty three years. now retired he insisted on putting on his uniform to reveal the open erases practices of his former colleagues. the first thing he denounces is a 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 there are only arrested the white
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person will call their local political committee man a person they'll call the parents perhaps over 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 go home and get his license and things like so the white person has more power than 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 was thin not cheated with the same respect as a white people i ran because nobody else around again stop somebody from going through like it was a out of your car out of your car show me id you would say that to a white person you would go up it's a. mess see your driver's license please. and blacks know that blacks know when you
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look so out of your car now and then i say 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 you forced disrespect and i saw that happening and blacks know what's happening they know it's not happening to white people so automatically they start resenting the police just 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. were to tell other officers well that's not enough then they would think what are you. in and 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 race since he retired he campaigns openly against the racist behavior of the
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police the former officer has even made a very explicit. god bless kaiser one for my guide to financial survival this is a god it's a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hausfraus are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for god's guys are. still on a hot day at the dinner table bottle was already in china six oir to. an estimated eighteen thousand since under
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a truck she jeans are now living in greece. you know just don't want to go. to your home in there you go food bring. in many sell their bodies just to make ends meet. for the second or again you know all the sins and when that is the hope and the says and the leftovers could. also has turned to dealing drugs to make a living. the single is unlawful. they move then you. move. about your sudden passing i phone li just learned you worry yourself and taken your last turn. right up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for me i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i
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never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my lai. i turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was a cave still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one different person to speak to now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. focused on ending the war and that's not intermingled issue military and concern which is the bombing of hospitals of all of civilians the shelling of damascus by rebel groups as lot and also the bombing by the rear as i was mentioned earlier it's a mix of that with the political objectives which some people there saw at.
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the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education as being supplanted by the right to access education low it's high education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold so there's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good models of. the good is also the kind of fellow we couldn't be. more is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now and i'm extremely more higher education the new global economic war. i'm asking police and open season stop shooting black man just like they're some
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kind of animal they were going to be that white now why they have. they 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 as we're writing down my partner says well the roaches are out tonight the what roaches cockroaches they're little. bugs that 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
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to be able to shoot them much easier than you would a person that you value hire a white person or a speck of them at the time maybe 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
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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's me again do you understand and i realize 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 an alarming report 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 with in small unit growth for three days these twenty five offices we'll learn how to get rid of
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a racist pig judges says this optional training is given by two former agents their mission is a challenge 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 as biased as police in a biased manner and you don't even know that you've done it i can tell you the story for me is i helped police in a biased manner i know that now didn't realize that twenty or thirty years ago this lady trainer uses her test and 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 a bus stop across the street he's been robbed several times he thinks he may have gotten us to respond. the two offices have to control high. blowups or tell you i'm well how are you good when suddenly grew out of that we're
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going to have to come your husband your kids are just an accident over there you have to come here courtesy of her kids her kids and her husband were enjoying all but i think. you're happy was there like they're leaving you not to come cuddle 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 shout down or this time the trainer chooses a black suspect what would happen automatically bronzer to grow they're going to stop him why this is a more likely you know that he's a person that's going to have a gun and so then i like and i let him go. and talk about their perception of what they see is that so they don't then i don't let him go given that want to be we 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
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whatever happens to tend to see black people as criminals but it is not easy for them to admit that they have races pre-judge this is. a lot of things certainly like telling me that i do it all day you know not that i haven't really thought about it you know or now so i don't know that i. accurate. answer that question but you know maybe three days i'll be getting this after this training you are going to same's it to way that you all want to know that was. because i want to. change the way i'm working with you know part of the i will be more self will your training is designed to teach teach to teach us the rest of the police officers are likely pharma to be. more fair or more impartial. jury we already are fair and impartial. of the more fair priority for the head of
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this department office this training after the numerous cases of police violence throughout the country while this is not what this shows our community that we're doing everything we can to make sure we're policing in a fair manner is going to make our job easier we're 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 the end of the year and was trying to book 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 deserves. the city of baltimore started training its police
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officers against racial prejudice last year despite that 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 past 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 former 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 come in
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memory to today the fight for black freedom to fight against racism to the right to vote like white people off. the bat 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.
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ferguson is all isolated incident. that racism is banish. the work 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't breathe he's 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
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because for black. berry gone his mother was also they. have. had to get up here to see a business and are very sorry 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. and we didn't get justice yet but we're still pushing on we want to show and just like we're pushing on here we've got the story. erick on
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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 this bridge is a way to continue the fight for justice and equality the fight that is and. the necessary. the long litany of blunders and police abuse proves it the united states has still very far from having solved the issue with racism. and.
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what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to be pressed. to do i have to be pressed to say what the forecast korea or can't be good for. i'm interested in the waters of our national. back i should. fifty years ago pregnant women took cons again as a sleeping pill and dusty's or don't leave because of the dozen services on the side effects were terrible but not on the road as shown in dodge one for boardwalk here not the war. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation. in two ways first will the physical
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damage itself as well that the constant mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there's been a couple. with no make this manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round to listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to me any more you leave room. left on some is not so is not that can quit place is not a good country and. true yes it is the bush administration of olympus
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are supposed to. focus on ending the war and that's not going to mingle to show men a tear in concern which is the bombing of hospitals or bombing of civilians the shelling of the damascus by rebel groups that's a lot and also the bombing by the us i was much earlier this i make that with the political objectives which some people may still have.
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