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criming while white.t's white americans sharing their stories with law enforcement: i'll share more of these hashtags later on in the show. >> thank you. joining me now is mary francis berry, a professor of history, and former chair woman of the u.s. commission on civil rights. i need to have a conversation with you, and as we have this conversation, i want to roll in the picturesover the demonstrations going on in new york. it is on the move. >> i want to tell you one thing first, tony. >> yes, please. >> when i was chair of the commission, we did several hearings and studies about the new york police department. a big one after [ inaudible ] was shot and killed in new york. and this very thorough study, which got wide publicity, it's still on -- you can get it on the internet, police practices and civil rights, show that statton island is the place where the largest number of stop and frisk stops without a charge were made and they were mostly of black people, and that that was the place where most of t

after the garner decision, criming while white highlighted white privilege told by those who know it best. for example, successfully shoplifted back in the day because nobody followed me around or assumed i was a risk. and exhaled blunt smoke in a cop's face as i opened the door and told him he couldn't come in without a warrant and he left. on the other sensitivity spectrum there is this ♪ and through it all ♪ she is a loving wife. >> i am excited to not vote. can you run a little more and this time let's rhyme lady with lady. >> ♪ something good with this great lady ♪ ♪ she fights for country and family ♪ ♪ and it is time for us to stand up ♪ >> this surprised me. this is already a big hit with goth teens. >> ♪ one great lady like women in my life ♪ ♪ she is a mother and daughter and through it all ♪ ♪ she is a loving wife >> it is like i don't even know the goths anymore. it is unbelievable. does this prove there is no way to do a campaign song without sounding like a parody? >> "stand with her" is no way to do it without being terrible. you mention the year and the specifics and

but we do know, even when you look at some of the hash tags criming while white, you see example afterxample where those incidences did not end in death. >> carol, the other thing, you have to look at cases individually. i don't think it's fair at all to compare the brown case to the eric garner case. i mean in brown, it's undisputed he had done what they call a strong arm robbery in the convenience store. it's undisputed he struck ld for the cop's gun, the gun discharged twice. it's undisputed that he punched the officer in the face. that's in the brown case. eric garner is very different. i didn't see him punching any police off sefrmts sers, i see a big angry man saying you're arresting me for selling cigarettes, i'm not going to put up with it anymore. he was taken down. there was no consideration given to the man when he stopped breathing. i think it's a very different case than the brown case. i think it's unfair when you throw them in the same basket and say this is an indication as to how police conducted themselves in america. you have to look at cases individually. >> paul ca

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one of these hash tags trending since mike brown, criming while white. eugene's point, police protect in serve, but in minority neighborhoods it is to police and arrest and provide a police state to protect everyone else from you leaving your neighborhood. >> that's exactly the point. the idea that these are outcomes that are somehow aberrant. this is not how the police have functioned and functioned historically in black communities, it is absurd. to eugene's point about how this incident transpired, mr. garner had broken up a fight prior to the encounter with the police, had a record of selling loose cigarettes in the past, but the initial incident he was not at fault. so you never see him acting aggressively toward the police officers, but you see them swarming around him and bringing him down to the ground violently. would this be acceptable in other communities? unlikely. certainly would not be acceptable in the numbers in which we see it happening to african americans. >> and just quickly, eugene, going to the politics of it, we will talk more abou

if you notice, go on twitter, this hash tag criming while white.ou now have white people coming out on twitter saying, listen, when i was in college, i got drunk and i punched a cop and he took me back to my frat house and told me not to do it again. and white people are saying i've done much worse than that and not gotten arrested. and george w. bush doesn't under the garner decision. and i hope we are past the point -- and young, white new yorkers say this is happening to their black friends. so this is past is this a racial dementimension and think about we can do about. >> so dan, you were a police officer with the nypd, and here is the question, and maybe it is a hard one and maybe it is overt, is there a racist atmosphere in the department? just an assumption that perhaps someone is black so they are a bigger threat or more likely to be doing something wrong? >> no, not in my experience at all. now i've been gone for a little while but i've been in law enforcement, most of my life between the secret service and nypd. i think it is dangerous f

alive while black started in response to a #called criming while white.ically white americans showing their encounters. i'll give you one. emily says got pooled open with no license, drug, cop told me to be more careful. i'll share more of these later on in the hour. >> terrific. thank you, enes. >>> joining us now is charles steal the president of the southern christian leadership conference. it's a pleasure to talk to you. are you surprised at all by the decision from this staten island grand jury not to indict the officer? >> yes, i am very surprised due to the fact -- and disappointed due to the fact that we have come a long ways, but we have a long ways to go. what the problem is from our perspective, is that we are dealing with a culture, even with the black and white situation. it's a police state mentality throughout this country and we are saying that we have proven with the history of. [ inaudible ] with peace and training in the. [ inaudible ] theory which we have implemented throughout the world. we know hugh to bring to the table the aspect o

there's an interesting hash tag called criming while white. i spent hours looking at it.re getting on twitter and talking about -- white people talking about their interactions with the police and saying things like, i was driving while drunk, but rather than get arrested, the police escorted me to my home. i was caught shoplifting but rather than arrest me, my police took me to my parents and explained to them that i needed some help. those are the kinds of -- the difference in the way that our laws seem to be applied between blacks and whites that are causing i think a lot of this fundamental distrust of the system. and it's something that needs to be addressed. >> hold on for a moment. i've got to quickly go to brooke baldwin in manhattan. the demonstrations are moving along. brooke, tell us where you are and what's going on. >> reporter: wolf, all of a sudden everyone is sort of moving. i'm in foley square, staring at the federal courthouse. everyone is starting to move. john, walk and talk with me as we're watching everyone head in a direction. you said you wanted to

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while white started. it started as a half joke about white privilege. soon, people were confessing to crimes away with at a rate of 600 tweets per minute. some saw the online campaign as a source of solidarity. one tweet said i shoplifted when i was 14 and they let me go because my parents came down and we beinged like a nice family. by thursday morning there was a backlash by many african-americans on twitter. the senior deputy editor at "ebony" magazine launched a hash tag alive while black. >>> until then the protests were mostly peaceful, nothing like the rioting we saw in ferguson, missouri, last week after the grand jury acquitted the police officer who killed mike brown. michelle miller looks at it. good morning. >> good morning. more than 200 protesters have been arrested this week in new york. most for disorderly conduct violations. the mayor has thanked demonstrators for remaining calm. he's also commended police for showing proper restraint. within hours of the news that a grand jury declined to indict officer pantaleo yesterday, thousands spread across new york city and blocked t

crime occurred while steele was serving his original sentence and got him an additional 23 years. it was an assault that he carried out literally in front of a jury of his peers. >> i saw basically the whites of his eyes and i saw him coming at me. i didn't see his hands, but he moved relatively quickly on me and i feel -- i feel a punch in my chest. >> in 2001 steele was in court acting as his own attorney for allegedly throwing urine on a correctional officer. during a lunch break, steele extracted a plastic shank from his anal cavity. when he returned to the courtroom, he attacked chief deputy district attorney a.j. salazar. >> i remember i was wearing a white shirt, my tie was off to the side, and i looked and there was a hole in my shirt and i was bleeding. i was at the emergency room. it took several blood tests and i remember picking up the blood result and i looked for hiv, hepatitis, negative, hiv, negative. so i was like, well, all right. i'll go ahead and take that. >> we asked steele for his version of the story, and in spite of all the witnesses, he claimed absolute innocence. >> they claim i stabbed him in front of the court and jury and acted as executioner. >> what are you