butler who is a lawyer, thinking on his toes, said no, these people are no contraband of war. that is where the term comes from. it's spread like wildfire. this term today, we use it as historians describe formally enslaved people who found their freedom during this time. during the war, this term was used in white communities as a derogatory term. it was used to describe formally enslaved people, but with this idea that they were helpless or childlike. in the african american community, this term was used to differentiate between people who had their freedom before the war and people who games their freedom during the war. so in alexandria and these catchment started cropping up, women started noticing that they needed basic human necessities, food, shelter, clothing. women like elizabeth, as formally enslaved woman, best known as mr. lincoln's dressmaker, she helped establish these contraband camps around washington d.c.. she appealed to the first lady, mary lincoln, and asked for money for these encampments. mrs. lincoln wrote to the president and said we will give them 200

i can just tell you, remo butler. there were confederate generals. i understand that.uld rather the military work at the percentage of them, i.e. promotions of minority officers. prob tghhet'srehe command, you're not going far. you'll go up. and if you look at the systematic pro19blem, i wrote a paper, five black officer fail. 2010, lieutenant colonel smith wrote a paper, why black officers continue to fail. 2020, there's another one written by another person, and he goes into the history of why there is systematic ues in the military. so i think we've made some progre, but not a lot f progress. you know, people don't see the problems. the people in p wpeople don't see the problems une til itr 'ssa affec this be ore. now we hdeos. now people can see things that are happening. protestors, because now theyre feel the effects of it. and i think tha you know, the military is a great organization. the army is great i enjoyed my time in it,ut i think more could be done. s ifrin: and those military lead centers charge right now do say and admit that more needs to be done. the

joined by georgia state senator gloria butler. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much for allowing me to be with you today. >> so you're awaiting this decision on charges as really the country is here, because we're expecting it this afternoon. what do you want to hear from the fulton county d.a.? >> well, i'd like to see charges that are appropriate to the crime, because it was a crime to shoot somebody in the back. >> and what would that look like to you? >> well, probably -- either murder charges or -- according to district attorney paul howard, he would probably charge murder or voluntary manslaughter, and i would be comfortable with those charges. >> i want -- as you know, there are people who have very

baltimore joyce we know via skype from baltimore in maryland could have you back on the program mr butler the pictures that we're seeing now from minneapolis just to get your reaction really to what you'll see in there to what you experienced in baltimore in the way that the community now. you might say getting around the florida family and around the community of minneapolis well i think they're very similar in the response i mean the odds were quick and pretty immediate to work we perceived to be inhumane treatment of pretty grave and the baltimore city police department back to 2016 full week you clearly see with george floyd in minneapolis i think that's primarily the difference and responses least the large your response you see is that the nation is seeing that the in the main treatment 9 minutes of mr floyd and i think that's why you see probably more lingering are protesting in and an arrest that we did back here in baltimore we're seeing an elevation of the

so that bias is ever present. >> woodruff: paul butler? >> so bias is something that is learne we're not born prejudiceed. that's good news. that means we can unlea it. i think the exchange that we the problem is a few bad appler cops, which is how the trump administration positions it, or rather the issues are more systematic. we know in atlanta, that's theic same pdepartment that two weeks ago fired officers because they stopped a car, dragged two college students out of the car, and tased them for nnt appare reason. president obama's commission on policing said thatefore reform starts, cultures have to change. the problem is too my cops think of themselves as warriors. guardians is the better model. so if we had that culture change in atlanta, we high see the kind of policing that citizens respect. >> woodruff: huge conversation, hunting subject. this is st one of many conversations we're going to be having on the news hour about this. but i want tonk both of you for joining us. paul butler, david thomas, thank you so much. >> thank you

butler. let me thank you for being there from the litany of names, including eric garner and trayvon martin we have been together and there was a long list i am not ignoring. michael brown, but thank you very much. butler: thank you for your leadership. breeds impunity. accountability. it allows for all of those names, to keep adding up, adding up. need to attack this like an epidemic on black people, because that is what we see happening in our communities. this is about misconduct. we know there are good police officers, help us understand. how much of that staying permeates into policing when they go into the african-american community and deal with african-american men? >> far too often, officers view themselves as warriors and it is though the communities they serve experience them as occupying forces. there has been so much attention to the pandemic and how we are going to find a treatment. for this epidemic of police violence, already have a treatment. president obama's commission on 2

it's.hat america we all have our s likeanrd ou e. >> woodruff: paul butler? o bias is something that is learned. we're not born prejudiceed. that's good news. that means we can unlearn it. just witnessed is about whether the problem is a few d apple cops, which is how the trump administration posititns or rather the issues are more systematic. we know in atlanta, that's the same police department that two fweeks agoed officers because ude lltopped a car,e draggd two stf reastson. president obam's commission on starts, cultures have to change. the problem is too many cops think of themselves as warriors. guardians ishe better model so if we had that culture change in atlanta, we high see e kind of policing that citizens respect. conversation, hunting subject. this is just one of many conversations we'rgoing to be having on the news hour about this. for joining us.hank both of you paul butler, david thomas, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> always a pleasure, judy. >> woodruff: before the killings of rayshard brooks in atlanta and of george floyd in manneapol

i can just tell you, remo butler. there were confederate generals. i understand that.ould rather the litary work at the percentage of them, i.e. promotions of minority officers. that's whe the problem is. if you don't have the right command, you're not going far. you'll go up. and if you look at th systematic problem, 1997, i wrote a paper, five black officer fail. 2010, llutenant onel smith wrote a paper, why black officers continue to fail. 2020, there's anoer one written by another person, and he goes into the history of why there is syintematic issue the military. so i think we've made some progress, but not a lot of progress. you know, people don't see the problems. the people in power, it's in the affecting them. people don't see the problemsit unti affecting them. george floyd, people never saw this before. now we have videos. now people can see things that are happening. that's why you're getting more, protestocause now they aeft, yelou know, th military is a great organization. the army is great. i enjoyed my time in it, but i think more could be done. >> schi

butler called an extended performance. not as a standalone performer on the historical stage but alongside other aspects of the american experiment in democracy. >> i am going to start framing myself as a heathen historian. [laughter] echo somely, i would of what was said, i think there is an assumption that historians who work on religion are religious. that is definitely not necessarily the case. folks are coming from an external perspective have a lot to offer religious studies. one of the challenges that i think historians face when they seek to examine religion, it is challenging to demonstrate how a worldview leads to a specific policy. it is not always possible to show the exact mechanism by which that happens. which means you have to be a creative and reading sources and thinking about the ways and influence work in making policy. it may be a methodological challenge. how do you prove that it was faith and not an appraisal of power or national security that was the driving force in shaping a particular decision? it

steven butler says he wants to do everything he can to bring attention to what he believes is a major fire hazard here on olive street between polk of an s at san francisco's to delight multiple power lines going across the street going up and down the block spliced into each other. >>is is >>tremendously fearful. he says he's noticed the number of unsheltered residents has grown here in recent months so we have people actually coming from other locations charging their devices representative of the san francisco coalition on homelessness told me one reason for this is the lack of available options for charging laptops and cell phones because public spaces like libraries and dropped it is being closed due to covid-19 there are way too many people or living on our sidewalks and streets and alleys. i'm during this pandemic whether san francisco supervisor matt haney says the city's healthy streets operations center is making progress to make cut the number of tense on the streets in the tenderloin in have just in the last 2 weeks. >>i'm getting hundreds of people in the hotels and actua

natosha butler reports from paris.er french prime minister arrived in court in paris with his wife pennetta pleat for the verdict in the trial. judge found him guilty of fraud and misusing public money when he was an mp, paying his wife for a job she never did. he was sentenced to five years in prison, with resuspended. his wife received a three year suspended term. their lawyer called the verdict a disgrace. >> naturally, this decision which is unfair to be appealed. we are in the process of doing so and there will be another trial. natosha: the corruption scandal surfaced during france's 2017 presidential race. the conservative candidate was widely expected to win when a french newspaper alleged it paid its wife more than $1 million in taxpayers money as a parliamentary assistant. the couple were placed under investigation. the campaign was destroyed along with his political career. the trial was closely watched by many people in france not only because he such a well-known public figure, but also because politicians

paul butler, when i was at the memorial site today, i was talking to people on a nightly news story, what does justice look for? what is the answer to the calls we've heard in the street? is there a clear place that officials can move very quickly to answer the calls of these protesters that will make a strong statement that change is here and it's happening? >> i think mr. floyd was arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. that's not a crime where you need to be arrested. people can be given citations. we seen too often in middle eastern offenses, eric garner a cigarette in new york that those cases escalate as deep. president obama had the commission that recommended a number of reforms that president trump essentially tossed in the garbage. so it's not like you don't know how to make police officers for effe effective. it's not we can't implement those reforms and, hopefully, this is the moment. >> yeah. i'll pick up that point with you. life moves very quickly. right now we are transfixed on this story. we are horrified by what happened. but as we've seen going from c

octavia butler, audrey lord. i was the chicago public library yesterday and when i was in the green room there, there were images of other writers, alice walker and my presented, lisa renee holmes. she does antiracism and unconscious pieas work and also uses a process of reflective journaling to help people get interest the core. and they're amazing brilliant people who have passed transitioned and people who live today who are living an sissters and all of -- ancestors and they imprint on you. >> i'm going to ask one more along the vein. you mentionedbell hooks, october care ya butler and the differences, the essayist and the scholar versus the science fiction writer. which do you think has more impact on making people thing? >> i can't talk for women but i can talk for me and for me i need all of it. tony more morrison and octavia butler and audrey bell. i held in the poets, lucille and the nickie jo. i need them all because i'm a human being who processes things in maintain different kinds of ways and i need k

steven butler says he wants to do everything he can to bring attention to what he believes is a majorire hazard here on olive street between polk of an s at san francisco's to delight multiple power lines going across the street going up and down the block spliced into each other. >>is is >>tremendously fearful. he says he's noticed the number of unsheltered residents has grown here in recent months so we have people actually coming from other locations charging their devices representative of the san francisco coalition on homelessness told me one reason for this is the lack of available options for charging laptops and cell phones because public spaces like libraries and dropped it is being closed due to covid-19 there are way too many people or living on our sidewalks and streets and alleys. i'm during this pandemic whether san francisco supervisor matt haney says the city's healthy streets operations center is making progress and they cut the number of tense on the streets in the tenderloin in have just in the last 2 weeks. >>i'm getting hundreds of people in the hotels and actual

steve butler is the asia program lead for the committee to protectjournalists.ns me now from washington. can we get your reaction to this verdict? i am horrified by it. it is a complete miscarriage of justice. it. it is a complete miscarriage ofjustice. if you look at all of the cases you're corresponded has outlined, it is clear there is a campaign against maria ressa and rappler and it has grave implications for press freedom in the philippines. everyjournalist 110w philippines. everyjournalist now is under threat because of what has taken place. he also mentioned the cyber law under which this case was prosecuted. how was that law applied in this case? initially the government decided the law did not apply because of the timing of the law but it is true, in 2014, they change one letter in a typo and this was considered to bea a typo and this was considered to be a republishing of the article, which is a bit of a stretch, to be honest. they looked at every turn and really twisted the law to create a climate for conviction. twisted the law to create a climate f

in the middle of the marching and the chanting, we found keith butler and his family. his children had to be here. >> in this particular situation, black lives matter. he's a young black male. if he doesn't want to deal with that tomorrow, he's got to be a part of this. >> reporter: his son is 14-year-old julian. >> if you keep on pushing you will get what you want eventually. >> reporter: joshua lee, a recent college graduate, came out of fear he could be next. >> as a black man in america, we all feel the pressure. >> no justice, no peace. >> reporter: for four-year-ol misha hoffman and her parents, it's a new sign of the times. >> as a middle-aged white male, right, i've lived a pretty privileged life, and i feel like it's time for us as white americans to stand off and say, "we will no longer accept that." >> reporter: for the butlers, that is a march toward progress. >> we are really heart filled at the people who are caucasian or different races who are out here to support us as a people. >> keep your voitions loud. make your voices known. because that's the only

. >> now to our discussion that paul butler is joining us, a former federal prosecutor. mark class acti marq claxton is with us, the director of to black law enforcement alliance. and marq, because we're coming off a video of a police tactic there that we just saw where these two officers knock a man to the ground, his head immediately begins to bleed, i want to get your reaction as someone who has been there, someone who has been on the street in situations like this. someone approaches you, starts to talk, how does it become this? how does it turn into we're knocking him to the ground? >> what you just witnessed to what the video shows is what many refer to as a toxic police culture. you start with the unified police presence marching in unison. that's the us, marching towards some protesters. obviously peaceful protesters. that's the them. an interaction occurs where a police officer uses an excessive amount of force, violating the use of force continuum, which basically says you want to meet equal force with equal force. the use of force continuing, shoving an indivi

caron butler played in the nba for 16 years.hen he played for the washington wizards. my team. he's now an author, activist. thanks for joining us. do you agree with dwight howard? is this the wrong time to restart nba games? >> thanks for having me, wolf. think that he made an excellent statement and he drew a line in the sand saying that -- and he has the right to say this, and i think a lot of people feel this way as well, as you see kyrie irving, so many more, just explaining that, look, we feel like our energy and our efforts should be still with the social injustice, with the systemic racism and all those things, and, you know, i echo those we keep our energy and our focus on that. however the game and playing in orlando, the nba has already went full steam ahead with making that happen and the announcement came out. but you can understand his emotions and his feelings. and i feel the same way right now. >> i know you are involved also with lebron james in more than a vote campaign, caron. it is focused on energizing black

experienced the 255 sea cliff tear down here which was the first demo three years ago and by the butler design and again, reviewing this design the commission could take a look at the plans because they showed this corridor and this is a huge highway going back to where the pool area is. it doesn't show anything with the driveway dropping into the third floor, basement floor for the cars so again, i don't like to see plans that are well designed and this is flawed and that's a change and also, there is elevation, things that should be looked at and they have a class rail up on top of the roof and it doesn't state where it's going to have a penthouse entry or an interior entry. so, you know, there's details that are not there as they went through all the of the briefs on this listening in my computer so, let the real information on this house because you know, my experience with the butler design was he was terrible person to work with and i don't know about this architect that's taking it over from him. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> hello. i'm theodore randolph. i'm a

they're saying this is westbound calibers boulevard which is to 37 and butler street we have an injury accident involving an overturned big rig and it's one of those large special oversize load rig. so you see was loaded with something it spilled it's a it's low fare, it's on its side we have no other details regarding this crash. but they're just asking you to avoid this calaveras at butler there saying stay away from this intersection until they can get this big rick uprighted and clear to once again this is in milpitas on calaveras at butler all right switching over to the bay bridge i saw a tow truck that was just sitting there and one of the lanes it's gone now, but i didn't see any stalled cars i was like hey what's going on for minutes out of your way now we're looking at 9 minutes into san francisco. so your backup is gone, it's going to be a quick trip coming in and the richmond sandra fell trouble free. we have not seen heavy traffic here all morning so in great shape. so far 7 minutes from the pay gates off to one o one marty. >>all right love and thank you will happening to

paul butler is joining us, a law professor at georgetown university. marq claxton is with us, retired nypd police detective and the director of the black law enforcement alliance. and, marq, because we're coming off of a video of police tactic there that we just saw, where these two officers knock a man to the ground, his head immediately begins to bleed, i want to get your reaction as someone who's been there, someone who's been on the street in situations like this. someone approaches you, starts to talk. how does it become this? how does it turn into we're knocking him to the ground? >> lawrence, what we just witnessed, what the video shows is what many people refer to as a toxic police culture. and really it gives a clear example. we start with the unified police presence marching in unison. that's the us marching towards some protesters, obviously peaceful protesters. that's the them. an interaction occurs where a police officer uses an excessive amount of force, violating the use of force continuum, which basically says, you know, you want to mee

. >> well, i think back to when i was reporting my book, the residents, mostly african-american butlers who served the president and the first lady in the second floor of the white house, one of whom retired butler was 91, passed away from coronavirus recently who i interviewed for the book. i remember talking to wilson and several other butlers and when they saw the obamas there on inauguration day they -- their eyes filled with tears, they had never thought the day would come. many of them had lived through segregation, you know, and you hear michelle obama talk about relative towards slaves and white house built by slaves and i know that george w. bush was very emotional the night that obama was elected. so i think that there is something very important about that -- that moment to remember and also what was happening inside the white house at that time and the feeling of pride that the staff had. >> iconic photograph on the day of inauguration back in january 2009, as you pointed out wilson roosevelt german who passed away earlier this month, he was 91 year's old. >> good morning, s

butler, you may begin. mr. butler: chairman nadler and ranking member jordan, honorable members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify. mr. floyd and ms. underwood-jacobs, i so sorry for am your loss. may the memory of your brothers be a blessing to people all over the country and world who are rising up in what martin luther king called the beautiful struggle for equal justice. there is never, for what in american history -- never, not for one minute in american between been peace black-and-white people in america. black people have endured jim crow segregation, being shut out of social security and the g.i. bill, massive resistance to school desegregation, nonstop efforts to prevent us from voting, and poisoned water. but, the rare times black people have set aside traditional civil rights strategies and have risen in the streets, destroyed property, and resisted symbols of the state has been because of something the police have done. 1967, in 1965, newark in miami 1980, l.a. 1992, fergus

paul butler is here. paul butler, your thoughts to the charges nouannounced by the district attorney. >> the district attorney is throwing the book at officer rolfe. there have been 182 people killed by georgia police officers in the last five years. only one before today had been charged with murder. so officer rolfe is the second person to be charged with murder. that first officer that was charged with murder was not convicted of murder. so the district attorney has quite a task ahead of him. in georgia, police are only allowed to use deadly force if they reasonably believe that they are about to be killed or seriously hurt or someone else is about to be killed and seriously hurt. so the issue will be whether it was reasonable for officer rolfe to think that mr. brooks was about to kill him. now, the defense will be that that belief was reasonable. the defense will be that a taser, when it's used by a non-trained civilian is a deadly weapon. the rebuttal to that defense will be that the officer shot mr

butler. let me thank you for being there from the litany of names, including eric garner and trayvon martin we have been together and there was a long list i am not ignoring. michael brown, but thank you very much. butler: thank you for your leadership. breeds impunity. accountability. it allows for all of those names, to keep adding up, adding up. need to attack this like an epidemic on black people, because that is what we see happening in our communities. this is about misconduct. we know there are good police officers, help us understand. how much of that staying permeates into policing when they go into the african-american community and deal with african-american men? >> far too often, officers view themselves as warriors and it is though the communities they serve experience them as occupying forces. there has been so much attention to the pandemic and how we are going to find a treatment. for this epidemic of police violence, already have a treatment. president obama's commission on 2

joining us is paul butler.sks what do people mean when they suggest we defund the police in are they suggesting communities operate without law enforcement? what do you think they mean in. >> i think that they mean a range of things. i think at the core, many folks when they say defund the police, they are saying take those astronomical police budgets that have overpowered many of the bij budgets for things that are needed for education, mental health, social work and those resources have been transferred to police departments. they act as if they are the solvers of many problems. those resources need to be placed back into the community, specifically the black community which has been neglected for far too long. >> what's your sense of why the budgets are too high if they are considered too high? how have they grown too much? >> it puts a lot of concern on fear and anxiety by african-american men and the way to address the problem has been to lock them up, throw away the key, restructure out, stop and frisk. w

. >> diane butler bass joins us now. she is an author and historian of christianity.ank you for joining us. tell us what you make of the president using kind of appropriating these places and the bible for himself during these crises. >> well, in certain ways, it's not unusual at all for a president to appear in front of a church or another religious building. but as the bishop of washington so rightly pointed out, that is usually the background towards a speech about unity or the brotherhood or sisterhood of the american people. what happened yesterday was not that. the president used is made episcopal church as a pack drop for a message which is, indeed, at odds with both the church he was standing in front of and the bible he was holding up. >> you have a bit of a personal connection. a friend of your daughter's was there outside of the white house and she told you about her experience. what did she tell you? >> i was actually at another church. i thought that yesterday was so upsetting, that i walked around the corner to the church in my neighborhood. i was sittin

steven butler says he wants to do everything he can to bring attention to what he believes is a major fire hazard here on olive street between polk and said san francisco's to delight multiple power lines going across the street going up and down the block spliced into each other. >>is is >>tremendously fearful. he says he's noticed the number of unsheltered residents has grown here in recent months so we have people actually coming from other locations charging their devices representative of the san francisco coalition on homelessness told me one reason for this is the lack of available options for charging laptops and cell phones because public spaces like libraries and dropped it is being closed due to covid-19 there are way too many people who are living on our sidewalks and streets and alleys. i'm during this pandemic whether san francisco supervisor matt haney says the city's healthy streets operations center is making progress and they cut the number of tense on the streets in the tenderloin in have just in the last 2 weeks. >>i'm getting hundreds of people in the hotels and a

irene in butler new jersey -- butler, new jersey, democrat line.ler: thank you for taking my call. i would like to first hats off to the lady calling for more women in government. to the men who are so concerned about the deficits we have, i would refer him to the new york doctor who learned to love trillion dollar deficits argument thatthe deficits are ruining the nation. i would like to talk about my concern about the so-called republican, but i guess it is now the trump party. and the vitriol and hatred toward democrats. i hear democrats want to bring sharia law. stuff.s horrible it's not true, folks. democrats are your fellow americans, and they may see things differently than you do. that doesn't make us bad, evil people. we are not weak snowflakes are crying about the election. democrats are trying to make the country a better place to live for everybody. host: you will remember a couple weeks ago a walk president trump took across lafayette square for that photo op in front of the church. there are couple tweets regarding that this morning.

right now i want to bring in christina grier, political science professor and paul butler, form federal prosecutor. author of 2017 choke hold. policing black men. christina, let me start with you on this. it's interesting, jenny durkan is the mayor of seattle, done a very good job of managing the pandemic there in that city. the question of what the protesters want, what success would look like, particularly when you're talking about police departments in cities like minneapolis, seattle, boston, philadelphia that are run by democrats, sometimes have reformers on the city council, sometimes have reformers in the police chief, which is the case in minneapolis. and this tension between the police, how they act, and the politics of the place and what citizens want and what mayors allow or don't allow. >> mm-hmm. well, i think what we're seeing is a real tension between residents of these major cities and the fact that big "d" democratic politics, they feel, has failed them. we know that far too many city councils and mayors have negotiated with police departments on salaries and benefits b

joined by georgia state senator gloria butler.ator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much for allowing me to be with you today. >> so you're awaiting this decision on charges as really the country is here, because we're expecting it this afternoon. what do you want to hear from the fulton county d.a.? >> well, i'd like to see charges that are appropriate to the crime, because it was a crime to shoot somebody in the back. >> and what would that look like to you? >> well, probably -- either murder charges or -- according to district attorney paul howard, he would probably charge murder or voluntary manslaughter, and i would be comfortable with those charges. >> i want -- as you know, there are people who have very different voinpoints of view wht comes to this. i want to play one, sheriff alphonso williams told me this yesterday here on the show. >> to officers hit with that taser, that he, all of his muscles locked up and he'll have inability to move and to respond, and yet he is still responsible for every weapon on his belt

. >> reporter: i hold in my hand the top five for this day in sports. 2017, the t wolves acquire butlerfrom the bulls and he wanted to hear from his critics. >> if you want an interview, there you have it. >> reporter: number four, pete rose, most career games played. a record he still holds today. happy birthday to kawhi leonard. and number two, 1990, fernando mania in los angeles. and number one, earlier that night, dave stuart through a no . >>> late show with stephen colbert is next. >> thank you for watching. news continues streaming on cbsn bay area. have a great night. - [narrator] the following program is sponsored by freedom forever solar power systems. - [announcer] during these unprecedented times, freedom forever announces a special solar stimulus program. stay tuned to find out how you can receive a check for $1000, plus make no solar payments for six months when you switch to solar with freedom forever. (mechanical squealing)

paul butler, thank you. >>> coming up -- paul just mentioned it. that video of police shoving a protester, a 75-year-old protester in buffalo, new york. even president trump weighed in spreading misinformation about the protester. the mayor of that city, byron brown, joins us next to respond. >>> plus, another 1.5 million people filed for unemployment last week. tom steyer joins us to talk about his plans to get people back to work and to reopen his home state of california. >>> but first, history for nascar. the sport has banned confederate flags at all events. and the number 43 car now painted with black lives matter. the sport's only black driver, the driver of that car, bubba wallace, spoke to craig melvin on the "today" show. >> to most, it's a sign of heritage. to a large group of people, it's a sign of hate and oppression. we had a lot of first time watchers last night which was super incredible. a lot from the african-american community that would never give nascar a chance. i don't keep track of regrets and i don't add up the years, but wh

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for more, i am joined by paul butler, former federal prosecutor., we are seeing what feels like an epidemic of the cases, and this is since george floyd which is one month ago today, one month since george floyd was killed. in north carolina, one item here, police officers have been fired after a video caught them making extremely racist comments, one officer referred to a plaqblack woman as a negro. another officer said he would buy a new assault rifle, soon we're going to go out, start slaughtering them expletive, fing expletive. you can imagine what they're saying. that's in addition to protests. what do you do about that in police reform? >> these officers have been on the force for more than 20 years. if i'm a black person who they locked up, i am immediately moving for my case to be reopened. you have to wonder about the culture of a police department where police officers feel free to engage in such racist hate speech. the democratic bill proposes that when officers have been disciplined, that goes into a national database so that dirty cops

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joining me now, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and author of "chokehold" paul butlergood to have you on with us for your final thoughts. it's been about 15 days since george floyd died in police custody. today we see him put to rest next to his mother. in the last 15 days we've seen an outcry for justice, black lives matter movements all over the world. we've seen statures taken down that represent oppression. how would you recap what has happened since the death of george floyd in this country? >> i remember emmett till, he was a 14-year-old child who was lynched in mississippi in 1955. his mother and insisted there be an open casket. she said she wanted the world to see what they had done to him. rosa parks, a political activist went to a rally in support of emmett till. after that she refused to give up her seat on the bus. it galvanized a movement. i'm thinking that the very graphic video of mr. floyd's suffering and death has also galvanized a movement. yesterday the house introduced the justice act of 2020 that will represent the most sweeping changes in the cri

right now i want to bring in christina grier, political science professor and paul butler, form federalrosecutor. christina, let me start with you on this. it's interesting, jenny durkan is the mayor of seattle, done a very good job of managing the pandemic there in that city. the question of what the protesters want, what success would look like, particularly when you're talking about police departments in cities like minneapolis, seattle, boston, philadelphia that are run by democrats, sometimes have reformers on the city council, sometimes have reformers in the police chief, which is the case in minneapolis. and this tension between the police, how they act, and the politics of the place and what citizens want and what mayors allow or don't allow. >> mm-hmm. well, i think what we're seeing is a real tension between residents of these major cities and the fact that big "d" democratic politics, they feel, has failed them. we know that far too many city councils and mayors have negotiated with police departments on salaries and benefits but not on community policing or anti-bias trainin

paul butler, i'm happy to have you back on the air, and let's start there. because what we're looking at, the members of the guard in full uniform on the right, the members of the police on the left, this is now a very typical scene in big cities. the hold that we saw the police officer apply, on camera in the street as we watched human life drain out of mr. floyd's body, it is not taught in a single police academy. but as i've said to other people in this broadcast and others, don't lie to me. it's applied to people all over the country. how is that? how is that allowed to happen? >> it's applied to mainly african-american and hispanic people, and it's allowed to happen because the governments of these states and cities don't require police to follow policies that they should. there are no national requirements regarding police for their training, for their competency, for their use of deadly force. 18,000 different police departments, and each one does it its own way. so that has got to change in order for us to avoid these situations. >> professor, anothe

butler. our next witness is benjamin crump. the principal owner of ben crump law. he is representing george floyd's family. mr. crump received his ba from florida state university. you may begin. >> thank you, chairman nadler. and distinguished members of the committee. i know all the speakers have five minutes to speak, but i wish it was eight minutes and 46 seconds, not as a symbolic gesture, but as an actual exact time reference of how long george floyd literally begged. documentary of his death, begging for his life. , saying saying he can't breathe and calling for his mama. this has mobilized americans to demand a more just system of policing. obviousecome painfully that's what we have right one for white americans and another for black americans. is one in a long line of luck americans, unjustly, are killed at the hands of police at thegeorge's case, knee of the police including breonna taylor, pamela, rice,garner, tamir philando castile. on, but ites on and is important we remember their names. we revise thee role of police to become peacekeepers and communi

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butler. our next witness is benjamin crump. the principal owner of ben crump law. he is representing george floyd's family. mr. crump received his ba from florida state university. you may begin. >> thank you, chairman nadler. and distinguished members of the committee. i know all the speakers have five minutes to speak, but i wish it was eight minutes and 46 seconds, not as a symbolic gesture, but as an actual exact time reference of how long george floyd literally begged. documentary of his death, begging for his life. , saying saying he can't breathe and calling for his mama. this has mobilized americans to demand a more just system of policing. obviousecome painfully that's what we have right one for white americans and another for black americans. is one in a long line of luck americans, unjustly, are killed at the hands of police at thegeorge's case, knee of the police including breonna taylor, pamela, rice,garner, tamir philando castile. on, but ites on and is important we remember their names. we revise thee role of police to become peacekeepers and communi

best way in the right way to move for and to bring healing to your city and as you speak to me mr butler we can see that mr gray's. floyds body is actually arriving for the memorial service and it's been ceremonially taken there slowly in minneapolis and as we sort of see those pictures you know we have to also understand that there will be a court case in in the near future and the one phrase that i was asking various contributors to al jazeera over the past 24 hours was this issue of qualified immunity that's been criticized by justice sonia sotomayor on several occasions in supreme court and basically for our international viewers it's basically a phrase is used often in court cases involving law enforcement officers to protect them when they think their life was in danger and they often find this a very credible defense this is where the reform needs to take place doesn't it with issues like this. i agree and i think that really. it should in its best practice so be used to provide a secure to protect our officers who make a legitimate and honest mistake not for those who break the l

to protect them with more anti racism protests planned the hope is the change might come natasha butler al jazeera paris. ok let's stay with that story and bring in the president of the french national consultative commission on human rights john barry joins us from paris welcome to the news hour is your country in denial over racism thank you. in france we cannot say that police is says beds it may have been it may happen to it some police officers would be recist. there is no special action against minority but some control is often done tittie are directed against minority people to a point ok so you're saying there may be some people in the system who are racist but at points of contact between yes the republican system and this is just it just finished my points are that the principle here is surely there shouldn't be any racism because a point of contact between the republic of the country and people of color france is not color blind to color. yes you know our feeling in france to know the systems of french system is every snow a different communities black people mostly people i

commission is urging all members of this engine area to allow citizens to travel freely again toss a butler has more from paris well the european commission say that it wanted borders to reopen across europe from the 15th of june which is today of course that the idea was to get people traveling again and to piece the tourism sector across the european union which has been severely.

our democracy that was maria ressa there speaking with us earlier today i'm joined now by stephen butler he is with the committee to protect journalists he joins me tonight from washington d.c. series good to have you on this show we just heard maria there saying that she's an old journalist and she's never seen anything like what she's seeing right now do you agree i mean how do you explain what's happening in the world right now the press freedom. well i think that what the philippines in a sense is leading the charge that applying spiritus charges against journalists using twisting laws and the implementation of those laws to go after journalists who they disagree with you're certainly saying other instances of this across asia not not to such a high profile journalist as maria as you know maria has established yourself as one of the leading voices in asia but certainly in india and thailand malaysia cambodia you see the journalists are really on the cusp of government efforts to control what the press says you know maria and she is she is this huge figure in the world of journalism k