crump. when the book signing out there afterwards and please stay for that. think mr. krupp are coming here and sharing his story. [applause] next from this year his boston book festival is the discussion on the environment. including harriet washington, writes about what she calls environmental racism. soon a good evening and welcome today to the boston public library. and the president of the boston public library and we are sponsoring this particular session of the festival and we

our format today is we will allow mr. crump about 15 minutes to introduce us to his book and the really difficult stories that inspired it and i will ask him questions for maybe another 25 minutes and after that you will have the opportunity to ask questions of mr. crump and that will be the remainder of our time. without further ado we will start with mr. crump and give him 15 minutes or so to introduce us to this provocative and important book. >> thank you so much. thank you for having me at the boston book festival. as a trial lawyer i may stand because -- [laughter] i will tell you this is my mission that this morning i was in atlanta georgia with our common kaepernick, nfl, quarterback and activists and we were talking to a high school gymnasium of thousands of young people and so i spoke about 15 minutes and kept them engaged so if i can do that to high school students i feel okay with you all. but in all seriousness i would just tell you the three reasons that most -- mostly inspired me to write this book. it was ben fr

mr. crump is very intentional that we bring attention to the way black and brown peoplere being killed, not just by the bullets in these high-profile police shootings, but more poignantly, how they are killing our people,al espe our young people, every day in every city, ine, every stn every courtroom in america with these trumped-up feny convictions. in many ways, what i endeavored to do with this book, "open season," is hold a mirror up to america's ce so they would have to acknowledge the hypocrisies, that they would acknowledge that racism and discrimination is part of the governance of all the institutions that exist in america. yamiche: you came to prominence whhe you represented family in trayvon martin. that is when i met you. you say in the book that when you were first speaking to the father of trayvon martin, you said he wasn't gonna need you. you thought that that george zimmerman would be immediately arrested, but he wasn't. explain what hpened there. mr. crump: because as an offic

crump. when the book signing out there afterwards and please stay for that. think mr. krupp are coming here and sharing his story. [applause] next from this year his boston book festival is the discussion on the environment. including harriet washington, writes about what she calls environmental racism. soon a good evening and welcome today to the boston public library. and the president of the boston public library and we are sponsoring this particular session of the festival and we are thrilled i may be actually be surprised if we were sponsoring something because it's all about boxing and reading and writing. and so are thrilled to present the section on paper or plastic and brother environmental and perhaps some brother choices that will be hearing about from the panel. let me introduce our moderator and we will get the session going. a couple of logistical things first. there will be a brief signing after the session in the lobby. library normally closes at 5:00 o'clock on a saturday will be holding library open until 515 which is the conclusion of the session. wh