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work in a row here he knocked on her door one day this is a car this. so. called the police for another matter because the same officer arrives i just don't believe i mean it felt like my legs was coming from underneath it was just so stark that really. i was just scared that you know he may do something to me it is that is another pattern 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 counseled the charges against you in a few weeks ago in order to improve the relationship between the police and the black community he said it's something that's something that is a work. in pittsburgh the relationship
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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 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 younger out there in the house they only even home which and are between ten and sixteen years of age but you guys can make it. all we pass aside issues around us. so
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we can get started we're going to have or not to covington the teacher is like the big brother this situation is hard to believe he's 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 hard on you just because we're not we're dormant because i don't want to be a next person that we pull you to as some i just get killed by a police officer. because that can happen. remember tamer rice where we talk about the killing it's twelve years old do you think who ordered twelve in here who's two zero.
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road. that could've been you know man. that could have been one of either your 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 for community on things that really matter and their lives with things occur when they say their lives or we see the police behind us we usually put mace or a 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 you occurs whatever officers on duty how they feel. personally you just gotta go of his prayers and hope you can find a way out a situation a lot of people look at as a threat they think they were all violent those are all criminals and things like that so just try to be respectful and carry yourself differently just so people on
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force they 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 split in the people around me now. do you feel safe when you have to go to schools and you know play because in the past so many people have been in jail for doing nothing when there are some police i suppose and i know i say to you can see something happening 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 an assault 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 trait it is because they're constantly controlled without reason in the
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classroom the head has already. been stopped just industry it's basically just. to them but i mean it on. the way they were walking with my frame was the water at that point. three four five times. the rich reason those who just walk in. no walk home of friends. found receipts. walking home around nine o'clock this. family's house just on the porch the disc on the stump and the reason. and the story goes on the 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 lot of i'll be all about police i'm not there like 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 need ten times. maybe. ten eleven twelve i don't count i don't know i don't keep track beauty 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
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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 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
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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 for twenty three years. 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 over 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 of 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 that 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 thin not cheated with the same respect as a white people i ran 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 and say. may i 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
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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. would tell other officers well that's not enough then they would think hey what are you. and and for the word what are you an and lover and 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 take out. it's. a play for many clubs over the years so i know the guy even saw you guys. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch put a funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spend the two to twenty million aplomb playa. it's an experience like nothing else on here because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so well paul chimes with that. and thinks it's going to. fifty years ago britain and within to come together as a sleeping pill just this is what i mean because. the side effects were terrible
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but not on no. one for. the war. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation. in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the concert mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been pulled the justice and there's been a couple. i would still like to be you for the thick book everyone in it for the sake of peace and stability that but it's the russians or the americans or the pakistanis or the indians although month by and large we are addicted to the theme just peace and stability within the region that is the board then clearly. no one is done or for the region the long term presence of all foreign troops inside of one is not borne
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kind of animal they were going to be that white now but 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 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 always 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
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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 it all excessive 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 was it 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 our ground were pushed up against the
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wall and i said don't you dare say that and they are going to 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 conscience awakening in some police stations has started we are in norwalk connecticut. going back to school today in small unit growth for three days and these twenty five offices will 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 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 as i help police in a 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 gotten us to respond. but the two offices have to control her. blow ups are her you i'm well how are you good when suddenly
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grew out of 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 and her husband were in your eyes all but i think written on your hat he was there like they're bleeding not to come cuddle so i'll kill her in the confusion the two police officers let her go without even searching has 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 broke into the world they're going to stop and 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. 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 more the lesson that the police
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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 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 that question but you know maybe three days ago do you think that's after this training you are going to same suit the way that you all work to know that it was. because i want to. change the way i'm working with you know part of the i will be more self-aware with your training is designed to teach teach us to teach us the rest of the police officers are likely farming to be. warfare or impartial. jury where we already are fair and impartial of the best or fair or 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 the media's going to trust us more and everybody words 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 disservice to. the city of baltimore started training its police
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officers against racial prejudice last year despite that 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 and under 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
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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 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 a isolated incident. that racism is better. than the work the drill men and women to selma is now complete. we don't need the ferguson report to know that's not true . where does need open our eyes 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 do 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. to get up here to be 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 nobody guards 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 go the story. eric 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. 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.
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i would still like to be for the big book everyone in it for the sake of peace and stability that with it's the russian gold american dollar the pakistanis or the indians although month by and large will be our objective is the theme which is peace and stability within the region that is the board. no one is down or border region the presence of foreign troops inside of one is. bored with what the region for a one month. month done some is not says no that can put in place is not a good country. to see to administer to live much.
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of the storm. does exist without the us to go to school. to study the culture. of the culture of the shores of the tragedy of christmas. pulling in just a little bit from the insult to be a little. little. play almost religious in the numbers for the most the last to come out of that john said i'm based on the much less how to fight and i mean can i do not the last i would be a slice home trapped matter how on amanita. from a shallow. truth from a canal he was almost feel no words to fuck them on the cool notes of this original song and numbers go show you will see battle of the lord of the season the messiah forces him as are the one of the the street. facing a move i got the you know the loudest the saudis who are supposed to.
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pay everybody i'm stephen bach russian the task hollywood guy will suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.'s to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different i'm out of the one guitar no no no no the with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have some fun meet everyday americans come home and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right to access education low it's high
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education is becoming just another product that can be pulled from the sold so there's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you could you know most of the regime you could look good is also the kind of fellow they could name you. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now i'm running stream or higher education the new global economic war. is focused on ending the war and that's not going to mean goldish humanitarian concern which is the bombing of hospitals or bombing of civilians the shelling of damascus by rebel groups that's not add up so the bombing by the reroutes was much earlier it's a mix of that with the political objectives which some people may still have.
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the new stories that shape the week i'm happening right now first off a cold war frenzy in the mainstream media in the week just gone off to president putin unveiled brushes new strategic are still in his annual state of the nation address. the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning he said at first reason and in the west particularly to mess with russia and he says he's not bluffing. so recapping i'm talking happening right now the polls and it's elise general election just closed off for a bit to campaign over immigration and jobs with the e.u. nervously waiting what could be a game changing result was exit polls expected within the coming hours we're on the plus. a week on how the humanitarian corridor set up in syria is east and.
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