i am malcolm young. i lived in san francisco for 18 years and worked in chinatown over two decades. tonight rose's sister asked me to speak on her behalf. she wanted to come but decided not to in the end. it was too hard for her to suffer through the negativity she knew was coming out tonight and it has. tonight we heard the eulogies from the community that i wish joanna could have heard. for the last 30 years she watched rose pursue the grade love of china time. that superseded friendships and family. it is what rose lived and died for. i can say that chinatown is here as an immigrant gateway because of rose's love. she gave her life for our community. let's give rose a little something back. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> goo good evening. i am vice president of north beach business association. >> your name again? zabe. >> i am here to read a statement in support of naming the station chinatown rose pak. we would like to lend support to name the new chinatown statement in honor of rose pak. a chinatown that serves all constituents when it came t to e addition of the stati

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-- if every story i told was a story of an encounter between a young african-american and a police would , then people think, oh, malcolmjust talking about when he says he to es a book about talking strangers, he is talking about interactions between police officers and black people. that.t want i don't this to be -- i don't ant to give people reason to pigeon hole this, i'm trying to say something that is actually the way all ofut strangers. it's funny that i honestly don't believe, i think that many of us have made the same mistakes that that police made, i n that video don't think he is an unusually incompetent or biased or -- i think he is a police is inexperienced and over his head and jumped to some conclusions he didn't. but, you know, we all do that. that's the point of the book. making our mistakes in far lower stakes situations. police officers with guns stopping people on the street, right. in my screw up understanding of a stranger, someone e consequence, doesn't like me or someone is uncomfortable. no one is dead. thing to important keep in mind that this book is really meant to be, to make us complicit in

malcolm: well, it's a -- i start with a single case which is one of the most notorious cases of recent memory, the death of sandra bland. she was the young african-american woman pulled over by the side of the road for no good reason by a police officer in texas, arrested. three days later she was dead in her cell. i spend the rest of the book trying to figure out what happened. and that discussion that -- that process goes in a hundred different places. maybe that's what's meant by an adventure story. it's not a linear story of one case. it begins with one case and then we end up talking about spies and amanda knox and bernie madoff and all kinds of other people who i think help us to understand how this particular tragedy unfolded. soledad: you often talk about how decisions -- human beings make decisions good decisions, terrible decisions. why does how the mind work around decision-making or in this case who was a stranger and who we should trust, why does that interest you? malcolm: well, you know, i'm always interested in -- i'm always unsatisfied with the kinds of explanations that we give for events because i think we spend a litt