07.02.12 07.02.12 >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> the fight against crime will continue with a new strategy to reduce violence and it took the lives of mexicans. let it be clear with organized- crime there will be no pak no. truce. >> once described as the party of the perfect dictatorship, he appears to have won the election amidst allegations of profiling. then, killed at home, at a $21 million lawsuit is being fought today against the city of white plains, new york and it police

department over the debt of 68- year-old african-american veteran kenneth chamberlain. he was shot dead inside his own home when he accidentally set off his own medical alert pendant. >> it is clear the police department and the city of white plains turned a blind eye to these things. if these officers engaged in the same conduct without being able to hide behind the badge and shield, it would be charged with serious felonies and would there will be in jail. >> we will speak to kenneth chamberlain's son and the attorney of the family. >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. early election results in mexico indicate the pri dead candidate pena nieto has won the presidential vote, but his chief rival obrador has refused to can

see. nieto belongs to the revolutionary party, the portable and mexico from 1929 through 2000. we will have more after the headlines. egypt's foreign in its first freely elected civilian president mohamed morsi. the candidate took the oath of office under the watch of the ruling council, which has expanded its own authority since morsi won a routable last month. one day before his official inauguration, he address supporters in carper square. the remarks were clearly directed at the military and morsi said no authority was above the will of the egyptian people. >> no institution, no authority, none can be above this will, your will. if you are the source of the power. the nation is the source of the power. the nation is the one to decide. the nation is the one to give

unity. and the nation is the one to appoint an higher -- and hire, and the nation is the one to fire. >> the following day, morsi sounded a more console tarrytown, praising the military for its role in the transition from the mubarak regime. he also renewed his vow to respect all ofternational oblig. >> we carry a message of peace to the world and we carry with it a message of crisis this -- righteousness and justice. as always, we emphasize each commitment to international treaties and agreements. we will look after these treaties and agreements. >> at least eight people have been killed in the latest drone attack in pakistan. four u.s. missiles struck a village near the afghan border.

pakistani officials say that the dead were suspected militants. the latest attack comes amid reports that major u.s. military firms are lobbying the government to loosen restrictions and open up foreign markets to u.s.-made drones. according to "los angeles times" companies including northrop grumman have asked the u.s. to drop its obligations under the missile control regime which limits the sale of pilot- less aircraft. howard berman says the obama administration will roll back technology sales to foreign countries and expects drones to be covered. according to estimates, spending across the globe is expected to double over the next decade, hitting $11.4 billion in 2022. speaking before the u.n. human rights council, the top human rights official raised concerns over the drone's cyclicality.

>> it is unclear that all persons targeted are combatants, or directly participating in hostility. states must take all necessary precautions to ensure that the use of drones compliance with international law. i urge them to conduct investigations that are transparent, credible, and independent, and to provide victims with effective remedies. >> at least 13 people have died and more than 3 million left without power after violent storms and a record-setting heat wave hit the eastern united states. emergencies were declared in maryland, ohio, virginia, west virginia, and washington, d.c. after a massive storm unleashed hurricane-storm winds. the head of the utility company pepco said residents in washington and virginia could be without power until friday.

>> crews continue to work around the clock to restore service to each customer. they estimate a global restoration time we will provide today is 11:00 p.m. on friday, july 6. that will represent restoration for the vast majority of our customers. at least 90% of customers will have their service restored by friday evening. >> power grids were further strained as a way from the plains to the mid-atlantic brought record temperatures. more than two dozen cities across 10 states set or tied all-time highs, including 106 degrees in atlanta, 104 in charlotte. in new york, the heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90's, and power grids faced further strain after the party~- con edison locked out thousands of unionized workers in a labor dispute. the two sides remain at an

impasse on the new contract. as the east coast endures a brutal heat wave, the presidents of colorado are -- residents of colorado are returning to the community after being hit with the worst wildfire in history. the waldo canyon fire has burned nearly 350 homes and has displaced more than 10,000 residents. firefighters say they finally have the blaze under control after eight days of unrelenting wildfire. the firefighting effort was initially hampered by record high temperatures and winds that fanned the flames. the extreme weather across the country continues a pattern that scientists and environmentalists have linked to global warming. to go to our coverage of the rio + 20 summit, you can go to democracynow.org. thousands marched across japan over the weekend to protest the country's resumption of nuclear power. japan halted nuclear production earlier this year for the first

time since 1970, but resumed on saturday, by bringing the shuttered ohi power plant back on power. it is the first plant to restart since the fukushima nuclear disaster. protester akiko kondo criticized the japanese term its decision. >> saying they are going to restart, there continues to be continuing problems, even with the power plant. when i hear this, under the circumstances, to have the plant running, all i can say is the government and all those involved shocked me. >> tens of thousands took part in an annual rally for democracy and economic equality in hong kong sunday amidst the swearing in of the city's new chief executive. the chinese president came under protest as he presided over the ceremony, when a demonstrator rushed the stage. he is the third chief executive

since regaining control of the city. at least 140 people were killed over the weekend in violence across syria. the clashes came amidst and international gathering in geneva that yielded a call for a new transition plan to end the crisis. russia and china agreed to endorse the proposal after it omitted reference to the exclusion of syrian president bashar al-assad. iran was left out of the meeting at the assistance of the united states. the that in nations educational, scientific, and cultural organization, unesco, has declared west bank and parts of the nativity to be a world heritage site. the palestinian authority had sought the designation in a bid to speed the virgin the needed repairs and help protect the city from israeli occupation. the european union has enacted

new sanctions against iran following their approval earlier this year. the measure bans imports on iranian oil and hampers efforts by other countries to trade with iran. speaking at the united nations, the iranian ambassador said his government remains committed to negotiations and a nuclear-free middle east. >> we believe we are moving towards having nuclear bombs is a damage for all credibility and also for civility in the region. that is why we emphasize that we should have a middle east zone free of nuclear weapons. >> the chair of barclays has resigned in aftermath of an interest-rate fixing scandal that will likely spread to other firms. market ags announced in the departure after $453 million was

discovered by authorities from manipulating key interest rates. a probe found barclays conspired to manipulate the london interbank offer rate, libor, which provides the basis for trillions of dollars in transactions foacross the globe. this meant that millions paid the wrong amount on their loans. other banks could be implicated as well. large crowds marched in the chinatown section of los angeles on saturday to protest walmart's plan to open up a new store. construction began last week with plans to open next year. critics say it will devastate local businesses while bringing in low-paying non working -- non-union jobs. a federal judge has blocked an effort by the state of mississippi to close its last remaining women's health clinic

that provides abortion. the jackson women's health organization faces closure under new state law that would have forced all positions over for my abortions to be ob/gyn's with the power to refer patients to local hospitals. none have been able to obtain the necessary permits from the hospitals. critics say the law would force women to drive hundreds of miles out of state to obtain an abortion. on sunday, the day it was to take effect, judge daniel jordan temporarily blocked the law and set a hearing for this month. hundreds of people began converging in philadelphia over the weekend for a national gathering of the occupy movement running through july 4. organizers say the gathering will focus on direct actions, movement building, and the creation of a vision for a democratic future. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and

peace report. we begin with today's show in mexico, from the old ruling party, set to return to power. early election results showed the candidate peno nieto has won that election, but his composer obrador has yet to can see. nieto belongs to the revolutionary party. the party that ruled mexico from 1929 to 2000. nieto claimed victory in a speech to supporters last night. >> i assume with a motion, with great commitment and full responsibility demanded that the mexicans have given me today. in the past three months, the politicians, candidates have spoken every day. today, july 1, it has been the citizens who spoke, and they did it with absolute clarity, when they voted with a change for

direction. thank you to all mexicans. >> the prd candidate came in second. he is a former mexico city mayor who lost narrowly in 2006 to felipe calderon. he received a surge in popularity things to a national student movement against the return of the pre to power. the movement has been inspired by occupy wall street and the protests in spain. on sunday night, lópez obrador said it is too early to can see. -- concede. >> the information we have indicate something else to what is officially being said. i do not disqualify what they are making known officially put simply, we do not have all the facts. what is lacking is legal

scrutiny. we are lacking legality of an electoral process. >> placing third in the election was vazquez mota. support for calderon's policy has fallen in his support for the drug war. more than 50,000 people have died. to talk more about the elections, we go to mexico city to speak with john ackerman, the editor of the mexican law review. he is also a columnist for proceso magazine. welcome to democracy now! we will start by talking about the results of the election. of all the votes have been counted at this point. >> that is right. the election results are not officially in yet. all we have right now are the preliminary counts, which began last evening.

now is about 80% done. it will be finished this afternoon. there was a statistical survey done of some of the ballot boxes and results, and that is what led create tutu announcing last night. that is not a statistical survey. the preliminary count will not be over tonight. the formal results will not be until the end of this week. those results will then have to go to the tribunal where the supreme court for electoral matters in mexico will actually -- those judges are the ones that can actually judged the president-elect. that will probably be in a few weeks, if not into august. lópez obrador's attitude here is extremely cautious. six years ago, you remember, he suffered what many people thought was open fraud.

the elections, this time around, were not necessarily cleaner than six years ago. there were lots of accusations -- hundreds and hundreds -- of irregularities, ballot boxes being stolen, of counts being done wrong, ballots being filled out by political operators, in addition to the normal machine politics and pressures on the voters. lopez obrador is willing to recognize his defeat, which makes sense given the precedents of the 2006 election, but the most likely scenario is that the pre will end up coming back. this is a powerful message -- not necessarily a good one -- but it looks like the pre may come back to power.

nieto is not exactly a moderate reformer, from an older guard wing of the party of institutional revolution. >> hundreds of election observers monitored the voting process. the lack of faith in mexico's electoral institutions may be rooted in mexico's past, according to one. >> mexico surprised me. for an advanced country, the voting mechanics are still tainted following decades of an insecure process from the point of view of confidence and transparency. there was a manipulation of the vote by the people that took the votes. this lack of trust in the electoral process has occurred in every country that has favored illegitimate process is that were manipulated. >> that is a brazilian election observer. your response, john ackerman? >> we have to wait a few days to

see how all the complaints come in. yesterday was a busy day. for example, there was a citizen-run website that was set up from a sea of voting irregularities. that website was under constant attack by hackers from 6:00 in the morning until midnight, and even though that was the case, it still received over 500 different complaints, many of them actually quite extreme in terms of ballot fraud. no one is talking about open fraud, not even lópez obrador, but it does make sense that the citizens go or carefully what happened yesterday and see what the final results are. there is also lots of accusations in terms of nieto

going over the spending limits. mexico has limits on spending. many indications have show that he has gone over the limit. this would not mean that his victory would be taken away from him, but this would speak to series questions in terms of competition, in terms of the legality of the process. >> one of the key concerns in mexico is drug-related violence. it was noted that none of the candidates had addressed the issue in their campaigns. >> curiously, in the comments of the candidates, the topic has been almost absent. people have talked about what to do with the army in the streets, returning them to their barracks, as well as establishing a national police force, but they have not proposed any sort of measures to take down the levels of violence that we are living.

it is a human tragedy. it is something that has already gone too far, an increase of violence, construction, death, displacement of people. we're talking about 70,000 people dead. >> your response, john ackerman? >> i think jose reveles is right about this. this is the sad part about this election, the pre coming back to power. nieto is clearly the candidate who will give continuity and continuation with calderon's drug war strategies and total subservience see to the dictates from the u.s. government, in terms of continuing on with this drought -- violent drug or, particularly having mexico do the dirty work. nieto has talked about changing strategies, as all the

candidates have done, but it looks clear, especially from today's new appointment of the ex-police chief leaving columbia, that this will continue on. this will be to very dangerous. i do not know how much longer the mexican people will be able to deal with and have patience for this humanitarian crisis we are going through. the good news is the students are still in the streets, they are still an important social movement. lópez obrador has received basically the same amount of votes as six years ago. 15 million people have voted for him. this means there will be a strong opposition against nieto. when he comes in as president, it will be less than 40% of the popular vote. there will be pluralistic politics and hopefully nieto will be in control and can

bring mexico back onto the path of institutional development and strength on democracy. >> thousands of students marched against the old revolutionary party pre. students called for democratization of the media, among other things. >> this movement represents many things. as students, as members of an association, we make many demands. they are not just to in issues, but social issues, such as a democratic media. >> what about this, john ackerman? talk about the role of the media, in the role of the election and nieto. >> the students continue to protest, even today, they have planned a march through downtown calling for more democracy and to democratize the

media. this is particularly important today because peno nieto is the candidate of corporate media. corporate media in mexico is over the top. two companies control over 90% of the audience, the channels. juan company come almost 80%. they are the ones that really fabricated nieto's and lynch and is the principal group responsible for his victory, if that turns up to be the case. if nieto comes president, he will most likely want to pay back the television companies by giving them even more power once he arrives. at that moment, it will be crucial for these students and society in general to be very vigilant to make sure that certain things do not happen and that we do not end up in a bad

direction with media. that is when the crucial reforms we need, opening up a pot -- public dialogue and showing more broadbased participation in politics. >> on sunday, the ruling party presidential candidate, party, vazquez mota, said that their party must not view this as a defeat but a time to reorganize. >> this is not a defeat. this is the beginning of a harder road of a greater unity of reflection and reorganization of the party. for government officials close to the people to recover their convictions of liberty and indisputable service, have no doubt, despite the difficulties, we are the only and best option. democratic of the people and for liberty in our homeland. >> vazquez mota in her

concession speech of the current party. >> this is an interesting concession speech. that was also followed a few minutes later by president calderon himself coming out and recognizing the victors of nieto and the pre. this is strange because they move quickly, calderon and vazquez mota, confirming the idea that perhaps, all along, calderon has been wanting nieto to win and there has been a coalition between the pre and the ruling party, and joining together in order to avoid a leftist victory by lópez obrador. that was certainly the impression that many of us had yesterday. vazquez mota is right. they have not been lost but they

have handed over power back to the pre but many of their own interests will remain intact. the division within mexican society continues between the a large group of people supporting lópez obrador, the students, social movements, and the defective coalition between pre and the ruling party. things will kind of status saying, status quo, for the next few years. we will see how the political situation works out very soon. >> finally, heavier cecilia, the mexican poet who lost his son to a drug cartel appeared he was killed last year. he led a caravan through mexico and is now in the u.s. and will be leading a caravan from california to washington, d.c.

in august. how significant is his movement as he stands up against the so- called war on drugs? he says he wants to be not just in mexico but want to go to where the demand is, where the guns flow from in the u.s. >> very important, his role in mexico. he has really unmasked the drug war, demonstrating it is not the case at the people who have been dying are criminals that deserve to die. these are normal citizens. the drug war has been a war conducted against the mexican people in general. i think this march will be very important in terms of demonstrating to u.s. populations how directly responsible they are for the violence in mexico. most of their drug use and the sale of weapons. this is your important for the u.s. population to become more conscious of their role in what is happening south of the

border. once again, i am not too optimistic about the mexican side of the equation with nieto coming in. we will see what happens in the elections in november. that will be very important in terms of u.s.-mexico relations. there will be societies on both side of the border that we need to come together to impose a change in politics between the u.s. and mexico. in particular, bring peace to north america and reduce the amount of violence and which affects mexico in particular, but is also a serious harm on all north america. >> john ackerman, thank you for being with us, professor at the national autonomous university of mexico. we come back, killed at home.

the white plains police and the city itself are being sued for $21 million over the death of a former marine who was killed in his home by white plains police. stay with us. [♪]

>> la sandunga by lila downs. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we returned to the police killing of kenneth chamberlain, the 68-year old african-american marine veteran who was shot in his own home by a white plains new york police officer this

past november. the police were called to his apartment after he accidentally set off his lifeaid medical alert pendant. his family is headed to federal court in manhattan today to file the $21 million civil rights lawsuit against the city of white plains. the housing authority and eight police officers involved in the incident. death suit comes two months after a westchester -- westchester jury decided not to church anthony carelli in the shooting. when police arrived at chamberlain's apartment, he told officers he was ok, but refused to let them inside his apartment. the police responded by breaking down his door and then shooting him with a taser. then with bean bags, fired from a shotgun, then finally, officer carelli shot him dead. police claimed chamberlain tried to attack them with a knife. in may, police released a video

showing the moment where they shot down the door and shot him with a taser. viewers will see a quick glimpse of chamberlain. the 68-year-old man was wearing boxer shorts and no shirt. it was early in the morning. he had been woken up by police. this was recorded by police. listen closely. you can hear the sound of the taser. >> that was kenneth chamberlain sr. being shot by a taser. the police and then shot the patient dead. we are joined by kenneth

chamberlain jr., the son of kenneth chamberlain sr., and by two of the family's attorneys. randolph mclaughlin is a longtime civil rights attorney. he teaches at pace law school here in new york. welcome to democracy now!. the significance of this lawsuit today, why you're in new york city? >> i tell people, from the very beginning, it is my belief and opinion that the westchester county d.a. did not present the evidence fully and fairly, so coming back with no indictment whatsoever, you have to wonder what was actually on the table for the grand jury to look at. this is just one step of many that we are doing to try to hold the city of white plains accountable for the death of my father.

>> just to be clear on what happened in november, the like a depended that your father wore, goes off, maybe he rolled on it. the lifeaid company speaks to him in his apartment. there is a box in the apartment that links to this medical alert company? >> correct. >> and a recording everything happening in the room. they are trying to speak to him but he does not respond. >> if they do not get a response, they contact the emergency services. the police department would be one of people that they would contact and notify them that they are responding to a medical emergency. this is what many people understand we do not understand when they see the problem to this. you are not responding to a crime but a possible medical emergency. once they arrived and my father told you he was ok, that should of been the end of it, they should have left, and my father

would still be alive today, but because he refused to open his door completely, they then decided, okay, we are going to bust your door down. we know what took place after that. >> after the white plains police arrived at kenneth chamberlain's apartment, he told an office -- operator from lifeaid that he did not need assistance. >> mr. chamberlain, do you need help? >> yes, this is an emergency. i have the white plains police department banging on my door and i did not call them and i am not sick. >> sir? >> i need help. the white plains police department are banging on my door. >> go to your door and answer it.

>> yes? yes? yes? >> open your door for the police, mr. chamberlain. >> i did not call the police. >> go to your door and let them know that you're all right. >> they say they want to talk to me. >> go and talk to them, sir. i will stay on the line. >> i have no reason to talk to them. >> mr. chamberlain? you pressed your medical button? you do not need anything? but the police know you are ok. >> the police department is knocking on my door. >> i understand. tell them you are all right. go to the door and tell them you are ok. >> that was kenneth chamberlain

speaking in his apartment to the lifeaid operator. random but laughlin, talk about the significance of this moment. the pounding that we hear is the police pounding on his door. the company had told police that they canceled their call? >> yes, the company told the police that they cancel the call. mr. chamberlain said that we do not need you. the door was ajar and they could see sufficiently that mr. chamberlain was not in any of it distress whatsoever but they persisted in banging on his door for up to one hour and then using a device to literally take the door off its hinges and break the door down. at no time did mr. chamberlain present himself as a threat to anyone. he never left his apartment. they came into his apartment and shot him dead. >> the tapes that were released, it is unusual to see this level

of documents. the white plains district attorney put out the videos, both of the video of the taser ring, and the audio tape from the lifeaid company. at the time, they did that know everything they were saying was being recorded. that is what lifeaid does, including a police officer balking on the outside window and using the n-word. >> they claimed that that word was used to distract mr. chamberlain. you are a white officer in an african-american community and you are using that word to distract the black person? that does not make any sense. that officer -- none of the officers -- knew they were being recorded. when this document what happened, it happened theday tht indict. he refused to indict.

when the grand jury does not indict, is because the d.a. does not want an indictment. they dump this on the media at the same time. over two and five pages of police reports. i guess they were hoping it would demonstrate to the public and media that there was nothing wrong here. just the opposite. what we saw in those tapes was a man in boxer shorts not leaving his apartment, not threatening anyone, but equally important, in the reports that were issued, one officer says when they shot him with bean bags, -- they also used been back before they used his gun -- that mr. chamberlain went down. what was your plan after he went out? why did you go to the apartment and taken down to make sure that he could not get back up and do anything to hurt anyone? they did not do that. the bean bags were shot in close succession and then immediately

the gun was fired. >> while the police were threatening to break down kenneth chamberlain's door, before they did, his sister called the police and an attempt to diffuse the situation. >> white plains police emergency. >> good morning. my name is carol matthews. i understand the police are down at my brother's son kenneth chamberlain. >> yes, ma'am. >> i tried to get through to him. he is on medication. he has papers that he is supposed to carry around with him. >> no problem. >> he is -- he seems like he has snapped. i just do not know what to do. >> we are going to handle it on our end. >> they say he is coming at them

with a knife or something? >> who said that? >> the people from the life alert station. >> i am not sure. whatever it is, we are going to handle it. we can certainly get in touch with you. >> i do not want them to shoot him. >> it will not come to that. >> my daughter is there also and they have their guns out try to talk to him. touchht, ma'am, stay in with your daughter. i am inside right now and i do not have much information. she can relay any information to you faster than i could. >> ok, have a good evening. >> there is carol matthews, the sister of kenneth chamberlain. she was on the life alert

company's list of people to call in and meditate. saying, you are not going to shoot him, are you? you are one of the attorneys for the family. that is exactly what they did. >> absolutely. they were given ample opportunity not to shoot mr. chamberlain. they knew him, they knew she was a 60-year-old man, was elderly, had a medical condition. they had gone at 5:00 in the morning to give him possible medical attention. they did not respond to a 91 call because any crime was taking place. when they got there, you could hear the manner in which they were banging on the door. that is not knocking on somebody's door as if you want to gain entry. that is to scare or agitate that person. when they continue to do that and eventually broke his door down, and called him racial slurs -- i believe that happened more than one time -- it is absolutely unacceptable and

makes you wonder what do we they thought they owed him. it is my feeling that it should not matter -- mr. chamberlain happen to have had a distinguished premier in the military, retired as a corrections officer, but none of that should be important. what matters is that no one in society should be could treated that way, know when treated by slurs based on their ethnicity or race. i think it is unacceptable for the district attorney's office or anyone else to suggest calling someone a racial slur is a tactic. if anyone else had used that language, they would be charged with a hit crime at bare minimum for aggravated harassment. that makes you wonder what actually was presented to the grand jury. and the suggestion also, from the police commissioner, that recently they are still investigating this matter on the law enforcement side. if they're still investigating a case seven months after the fact, what was presented to the grand jury?

did they make a presentation before the final investigation was completed? these are all questions we have. >> we are going to break and then will come back to this discussion, and then learn about some of the records of the police officers who were involved in this. who are, in fact, facing other cases of charges of police brutality themselves. we are speaking with mayo bartlett and randolph mclaughlin, two of the attorneys for the family, and kenneth chamberlain jr., the son of cain debt -- kenneth chamberlain sr.. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. we will be back in a minute. [♪]

>> blue in green - miles davis . this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. our guests are mayo bartlett and randolph mclaughlin, the attorneys for kent chamberlain. he was a heart patient, 68 years old. november 2011 his life alert pending went off, and the like a company could then reach him, so the call the police and said this is not a police incident. this is a medical emergency. we ask you to come to the scene. when kenneth chamberlain responded, they called back to the police and told the police they were canceling the call, but the police said no and broke down the door, tasered mr. chamberlain, and then shot him dead. i want to go to another one of the recordings we have been

playing. this was released by the white plains police department from the morning kenneth chamberlain was shot dead. listen carefully. you can hear mr. chamberlain say, they're getting ready to kill me or beat me up. >> mr. chamberlain. >> they are going to kill me because i have a bad heart. get out. i did not call you. i did not call you. why are you here? what are you sure? >> life alert called. >> they have a 9 millimeter glock. the police are about to kill me

or beat me up. >> open the door. let us check you out. >> i am ok. i am fine. >> i am not a doctor. >> that was tenant chamberlain sr. saying, now leave, i'm fine, continuing to assert that he was fine. kenneth chamberlain jr., as you listen to this, the other statement that your father made, for example, when he said semper fi. >> everyone knows that my father is a marine. once a marine, always a marine. it is funny that is also the model of the white plains. the city of white plains, on their flag, it is on there. they treated my father with no respect whatsoever.

as randy said, when they released the evidence, the audio, video, i guess it was not an attempt to sway the public, but from what i gather, from what i have found, and served on blogs and of your calls, but they say after all this is, i believe there was no indictment. the second thing that they say is, he said he was ok. why didn't they just leave him alone? that is the main answer. why didn't you leave him alone? my father would still be alive today if you just walked away after he said he was fine. you also hear my father say, you are a racist, after they used the n-word. you guys are really the only one that will play this stuff. the other media outlets will not do it. they just alleged that my father is being aggressive, but they do

not play the 30 minutes before where my father is fearing for his life. >> mayo bartlett, the issue of the n-word. could you set of the clip of what we are about to watch? >> mr. chamberlain is asking the police to please leave him alone. something to the effect that he is just an old man with a heart condition. the police respond basically by telling him, we do not care, calling him the n-word. by doing that and having the district attorney's office suggests that is a tactic is telling us that we are supposed to accept that from law enforcement, but they're really aggravated the situation at that point. >> do not do that, sir. do not do that, officer. do not do that.

i am telling you, i am ok. i am telling you, i am ok. >> that was officer stephen hart. he was outside? >> that is the second time i have heard the n-word. there is another time when he is at the window saying, stop, we have to talk. that is a different portion of the tape. there were two instances that i have heard where the n-word is being used as a tactic. it is a racist tactic. >> you met with the justice department? >> yes, the same day that the grand jury refused to issue an indictment, we met and decided we would reach out to the u.s. attorney's office. the next morning we wrote a letter to the u.s. attorney's office and eric holder, the

attorney-general, demanding an investigation into two things, one come into the death of mr. chamberlain to see if that violated federal civil rights criminal statutes, and also, given other instances we are a way of coming in terms of racist policing in white plains, whether they'd entire department should be investigated for policies and practices that are leading to these outrages. two weeks ago, we met with representatives from the attorney general's office. i cannot disclose what was said in the meeting. what i can say is it was a productive meeting. we believe they will conduct a full and productive investigation. we are hopeful that at the end of the day, after looking at the evidence, that there will be federal indictments. >> do you compare this to the trayvon martin case in any way? >> in some ways, this case is worse. here is why. trayvon martin was killed in a

horrible situation by a vigilante. he was not hired or was an employee of the city or law enforcement. he was just a whacko carrying a gun and did a terrible thing. this was almost like an invading army was storming this man's castle. your home is about to be your castle. it was not like they had to make a spur of the month decision, coming at them with a gun or a knife. they had one hour to figure out how to handle this. they had up to 12 officers around. there was a lieutenant in the station house. it was not like they were a bunch of rogue officers making a quick decision. they planned, they executed their plan, and they executed their men. that is what this was. these eight officers we charged engage in a conspiracy.

that is what this was, the conspiracy to destroy this man's life and to consult and terrorize him for that hour. and this is not the first time. three of these officers have been engaged in these kinds of behaviors. >> who are these three officers? can you name these officers in the case and what they were involved with, in addition to mr. chamberlain? >> i can tell you officer art and officer carelli are involved in other matters. there is another matter involving two other brothers, of a jordanian ascent -- dissent, arrested and beaten and called rag heads, based on who they were. if i could go back to the trayvon martin comparison -- there is a suggestion that the stand your ground law may apply there. mr. zimmermann is not law enforcement. these are police officers that are sworn to protect.

they are supposed to protect the citizens in these homes. instead, they went in there and terrorized residents of their area. this could have been anyone with a medical emergency. in this emergency, they went in there and mr. chamberlain was in one place that you are always supposed to be able to stand your ground. you are supposed to be able to stay in your home without retreating. when you are in your home, there is no place else to retreat. as randy said, mr. chamberlain never left his home that evening. he was there at 5:00 in the morning, never left his home. going back to this other case -- >> you have carelli, who is about to go to court in this case of the jordanian brothers. brought them into a police station. explain what happened? >> it is my understanding that

the officer struck these individuals while they were in handcuffs in the police station and called them redheads as an anti-arab statement. as i understand, there are several other s -- statements where officer carelli has used excessive force against individuals. >> that case is moving toward a september 4. it was supposed to happen a month ago. then there is a case of stephen hart. what was he involved with? >> if i'm not mistaken, he was also involved in the same matter with the jordanian brothers. >> a mexican-american banker who was arrested and beaten, falsely charged with crimes that he did not commit, obviously. they are part of a group called the neighborhood conditions unit. this is a group of cops who patrol certain areas in downtown

white plains and in the housing development where mr. chamberlain was killed. there are at least three of these officers who have been involved in other incidents involving in six of force and it racial slurs. >> kenneth chamberlain, you are filing a lawsuit. while this bring any justice? >> i cannot know about any relief, but it is just another step in accountability. we need to pass laws, especially involving questionable police shootings. >> we have to leave it there. thank you very much. on wednesday, a july 4th special. the politics of woody guthrie. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. email your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693, new york, ny 10013.