and a forbes contributors, and britney cooper, a professor at university. these activists said they were trying to uncover wrongdoing, are they going picked on. could this have an effect on activists. >> i think they got what they dished out. they are folks that edited videos more than 40 times to tell a narrative they wanted to tell, it was not correct. it doesn't matter that deposition is seemed to be a moral position. there are grounds, and the right of those folks to have freedom of the expression should be defended. >> what if they were left wing. >> this is not the political positionality of the organization, it's an organization in an act of deception, it wasn't that they decided to collect the information, but when they knew what they were going for, theyed itted video. there has to be legal accountability for that. >> you have a district cornery in the state of texas that found no wrongdoing. but felony charges. all. >> why not? >> in a free society you have to defend whistleblowers, there's an unwillingness to give the benefit of the doubt to thos

joining me now, britney cooper, assistant professor at rutgers university.ren, and adam howard, reporter for msnbc.com. where do we begin? so what is the formation? >> i begin with my hot sausz. >> girl. >> hot sauce and my bag swag. listen, there's just so much wonderful stuff that we can say about this, but i think one of my most favorite moments happens about the 3:45 mark. >> about the 3:45 mark. have you watched it? >> i was watching this, right. when the young man is dancing in front of the police line. >> right, and that's clearly the baltimore picture come to life. >> that's right, and then immediately, it shoots to a clip of black women in formation. so i love that she is saying the police are getting in formation, but it's also black women who are in formation, running this movement, telling it how it is going to move, choreographic freedom. she literally shows us a young black boy, choreographing freedom and black women falling into line and figuring out how to create a spine for the movement that moves and shifts in the way it needs. gr also the