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the pittsburgh police internal 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 received twenty years of imprisonment for 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. i don't know about most. he was working around here he knocked on her door one day the say. so. call the police for another matter because the same officer arrives i just
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don't believe my eyes i mean it felt like my legs was coming from underneath me i was just so stunned that really. i was just scared that you know he may do something to me it is that is another question so. if you want to. join the police who are police. in addition to his disability leon is now suffering from severe anxiety and depression he sued the pittsburgh police department. the prosecutor canceled the charges against you and if you weeks ago in order to improve the relationship between the police and the black community he said. something that's something that is. 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
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shot leant forward. 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 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 homewood and are between ten and sixteen years of age because you guys can make it. are we passing a side issues around us. so we can get started we're going to have or not succumbing to the teacher is like the big brother this situation is hard to believe
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that he is teaching them how to protect themselves from the police. don't say your parents. because with that you're fitting into a stereotype that's the kind of stuff they 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 killed by a police officer. because that can happen remember taylor rice where we talk about the killing clearly it's twelve years old they do it with. who ordered twelve and here. who's two zero. broke. that could've been you know man. that could have been
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one 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 we're here because we feel the need to educate the young people who are community on things that really matter and their lives are things that can really save their lives or we see the police behind us we usually put measure our seatbelts on we look straight forward we know not to turn around using proper you know grammar when they do pull you over try to be polite no matter what the situation or how do you occurs whatever officers on duty how they feel and basically 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 there were all violated those are all criminals and things like that so just try to be respectful and carry yourself differently just so people on first they will look at you different if you carry yourself to. the young people
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who listen carefully to the advice i terrified at the thought of meeting the police . i feel i do have bigger split in the people around me now. do you feel safe when you have to clean the schools and you know play because in the past so many people have been in jail for doing nothing but an arson the police i suppose and i know essentially 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 the fight is in the salt and something happens in a group of people are fighting i would rather put in even if i can't 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 this classroom have has already. been stopped just ups in districts baedeker
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it's. to them by how many guns. i think what the power if it were walking my frameless law at that point before there are three or four or five sounds. so rich reason doesn't it just walking. no waffle no friends well. the pharisees whole life walking home run on a cloud just down to that family's house just on the porch no disc on the stump you can reason. and the story goes on the north the neighborhood. does for nothing goes walking down the street. in my lifetime let's say maybe. six or seven times so there's
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a whole lot of holies i'm not there like i get pulled over why you know what have i done wrong. i can't even tell you he said it's a stop to it that's more than i can i can't even count but it's you mean it ten times and maybe. ten others. i don't know i don't keep track of it. in the us the police is allowed to stop any passers 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. creased contact between police and citizens you increase the likelihood that something can go.
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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 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 revokable but no policeman dares to admit it. yet a 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.
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brady wastes lives out in the countryside far from philadelphia where he said for twenty three days. now retired he insisted on putting on his uniform to reveal the openly racist practices of his former colleagues the first thing he denounces is a quote of arrests imposed on us police in many large cities in this race the 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 person will call their local political committee man a person they'll call the parents perhaps over
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a teenager who call the local politician you know what's going on here my child was arrested just because you can 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 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 afro americans not turning unjustly arrested they're not cheated with the same respect as a white people on iran because nobody else around again to stop somebody from going through like it was a out of your car out of your car so me i did you would say that to a white person you would go up a. mass see your driver's license please. and blacks know that blacks know when you look so out of your car now and then they say well what did i do what 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
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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 and unfortunately when i. would tell other officers well that's not enough then they would think they would argue. an end for the word what are you an and lover and and for. in front of a camera that used between policeman is unpronounceable for a release since he retired he campaigns openly against the racist behavior of the police the film office and has even made a very explicit to count. welcome
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to maximize their political survival god. looking forward to your mention of them. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain delegates. watch kaiser report. join me everything on me alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you. feel enough to tell you that delia bottle study in china six oir. an estimated eighteen patterson's under-age refugees are now living in greece. you
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i'm asking police and open season stop shooting black man just like they're some kind of animal they wouldn't it 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 well if people don't have air conditioning in and they're outside there's a lot of people outside on the steps in the street and if we're writing down my
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partner says well the roaches are out tonight the what roaches cockroaches their little. bugs to crawl into floor they were 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 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
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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 to 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 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.
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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 units ready for three days of these twenty five offices we'll learn how to get rid of a racist pig judges says this optional training is given by two former agents their 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 has placed in a biased manner and you don't even know that you've done it i can tell you the story 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 so this lady trainer uses her test
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and experience as an example in role play 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 gotten us to respond. well the two offices have to control her. blow ups or tell you i'm well how are you good when suddenly. remember that we're going to have to come your husband your kids or just an accident over there you have to come here courtesy of her kids her kids in her husband were in your eyes all but i think written on your hat he was there like they're leaving you not to come model so i told her and the confusion the two police officers let her go without even searching had the next scenario if we were replayed it all right now are ok and shallow down or this time the trainer
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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 they're not like me 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 wanted 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 commit more the lesson that the police 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 as. i thought they certainly didn't tell you that i do involve 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 wait you all walk to know that it was. because i
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want to. change the way i'm working with no part of the i will be more self with your training is designed to teach teach to teach us the rest of the police officers are likely farming to be. more fair. more impartial. jury where we already are fair and impartial of t.v.'s or fair or the head of 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
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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 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 disservice to. the city of baltimore started training its police officers against racial prejudice last year despite that young gaffer 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.
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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 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
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a symbol. here fifty years later the president and 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 a isolated incident. that racism is better. than the work the drew 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 casts this long shadow upon us. on the bridge in selma many share the same feeling many still have the impression of living in
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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 count three he's the last words of every gun 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. have. to get up here to see to write 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
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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 yep but we're still pushing on with was still on just like we're pushing on here we go on the story. erick 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 this bridge is a way to continue the fight for justice and equality the fight that is and. the necessary. the longer term you have blunders and police abuse proves it the united states are still very far from having solved the issue with racism.
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like. a batter sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last bang turn. your attitude up to you as we all know it would i tell you i'm sorry for the echo so i write these last words and hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to
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question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like you it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now as there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. fifty years ago britain and women took cons again as a sleeping pill and thus these were the only images are to does surface on the side effects were terrible but not on known as short induction for boardwalk. the war. across europe victims are still hurting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the constant mind that the people who actually
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perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there's been a couple of. them on the gun some is not so is not a quick place is not as good a country. because it is the minister of libya should come out as well above the storm. because that's what the desperate call that is pulling. the state of the culture. of the culture of less sure of this i'm checking a precipitous. fall in just little and bias from the moment of oneself to be too little. mostly out of the saucer. play almost anything from a member of any place the last second our better john said i'm based on the last night no one can i do not come we must rise from that mcnabb had on our money to.
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