my name is frank gale. i'm a 23-year veteran in the denver county sheriff's department and currently hold the rank of captain. i am the national second vice president for the fraternal order of police, representing more than 330,000 rank and file law enforcement officers in every region of the country. i'm here this morning to discuss our strong opposition to s-1670, the end racial profiling act. i want to begin by saying that it is clear racism is morally and ethically wrong. and in law enforcement is not only wrong but serves no valid purpose. it is wrong to think a person criminal because of the color of their skin. but it is equally wrong to think a person is a racist because they wear a uniform and a badge. this bill provides a solution to a problem that does not exist unless one believes the problem to be solved is that our nation's law enforcement officers are patently racist and their universal training is based on practicing racism. this notion makes no sense. especially for anyone who truly unders

my question is to chief davis and to officer gale. both of you have served as law enforcement officers. how do you earn the trust of the diverse communities that you serve, some of which -- some of whom may be initially skeptical of the police? >> thank you, senator, and one stop at a time, one day at a time, one interaction at a time. i think when people -- i think we have, to one, acknowledge the history that police have played, the role of law enforcement with regard to race in this country. i think we still have generations of people that remember desegregation. we have generations of people that were still -- are still here that remember when the police were the enforcement tool and the rule of law with regards to jim crowe laws and black codes, and so we have to acknowledge that we may start off with this lack of trust and confidence, so it's one interaction at a time. i think the first thing law enforcement can do is acknowledgement, to take our heads out of the sand and acknowledge that we have this horrific history. we should

it's my pleasure to introduce gale. gale was born and raised in san francisco.bined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a unique asspect much the language of threads, dreaming water and others. please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] >> so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book? [laughter]. i'm always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now? i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunny. it's the book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the p

gale, do you think you have ever been racially profiled? >> probably. >> yeah, i -- i can't say i understand because i don't. i've never been in that situation. but the fact that you're a law enforcement officer and you probably sometime in your life have been viewed with suspicion by police makes your testimony pretty persuasive to me in the sense that you're now sitting in the role of a law enforcement official trying to protect the community. and the zimmerman case is a private individual, not a law enforcement organization. and i just really -- i think i understand the problem. i just don't know where the line between good law enforcement and racial profiling ends and begins because let me tell you one thing about congress. we'll be the first one to jump on you when you're wrong. when you get a phone call that somebody looks suspicious in the neighborhood and you ask a bunch of questions, well, that doesn't seem to justify us going in and that person winds up killing somebody, or robbing or raping somebody, we'll be the first ones to bl

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and i just wanted to start, officer gale and chief davis, by thanking you for your leadership in the policing community and for your service to the public. i appreciate your starting by just helping me understand what's the impact on a police force? that practices racial profiling, where it's either part of the policy or training, part of history or part of current practice? what's the impact on professionalism, promotional advancement and cooperation with communities? that's been touched on. you noticed because of votes, a number of us have had to step in and out and i'd be interested in your response. >> thank you. i think it's multiple parts by me. inside the organization, which we did not talk about, an agency that does engage in systemic racial profiling usually has very low morale, because now you have ulcers inside the organization that are opposed to it, those that are engaging in it and in its causes a conflict within itself. within a community, i would also probably argue that the community is suffering, because now you have a practice in which is losing touch with the comm

coming up on coffee with, knockout gale kim.we're taking a break and coming right back. ,,,,,,,, >>> 6:30 on a wet start to your friday morning. i'm jessica kartalija. wjz has weather and traffic together. let's go straight to marty. >> let's take a look at first warning doppler weather radar. it's humid and misty in the city. steady rain off to the east will be moving our way. a watch, warning and advisory graphic shows a flash flood watch in effect for rain that has fallen and is expected to fall. 73 right now on tv hill, 4 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. 79 at lunch going to a high of 82. passing showers and thunderstorms. >>> now over to sharon gibala at traffic good. >> good morning. we still have some problems to talk about. the roads are wet so we've had some accidents. three of them in the city. one of them on east center at saint paul, another one at cars well at kennedy and homestead. we have that water main break downtown still blocking light street. streets blocked for art scape, charles is one of them. the

anthink that happens with our communities and we need to stop doing that. >> officer gale? >> i think i aee with the iehaue i e ontt b i inu t m gl. u tokth community you serve and the diffent populations in that community and you have to make a concerted effort to be in those communities and having dialogue with those people and you ve to listen. d oe mr y t agwiheng thhey. s i in mar anweo adip ol thama that said any problem real or perceived is still a problem, and i agree with that and i've tat d'tte ino e albl ifs eitoa prm om o aup snee tst av vat a we have to dialogue thrgh it and i think we have to take encies and train agenci to understand who these pulations ar aty'er. d crn t cire agalith ievi thyoow hto kndge or l enem it has not always been one of stelr conduct, and i think thathat's being done in a lot of organizations. i k hete o ofic tabity ne aany o er aayisth yoedgoime yoelnsh communities that you serve. and so it's importanto do those things, to hear what they have to say. t aiman ai twhhe chngre whe t i'r in pctpl atu -atre ceththales, when we are protec

. >> thank you, gale so much for coming. >> [applause]. thank you. [music] [applause] good afternoon, everybody. thank you for joining us today. the first thing i will ask you to do is put your hands together in front of our heart and bow slightly and say nanasta it means the good in me greets the good in all of you. who knows where is this is from? india. today we are sharing an form. we are members of the dance company based here in san francisco and we are taught by somebody who has been doing this art form for over 50 years much the ladies including myself we have been studying with him for a long time. you will see different things. lots of sounds with our feet. a little bit of story telling through mime and expression and you will learn about math in dance. who would have thought. today we will start, our next piece means the coloring of the stage. dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage with the water. plucking fl

supervisor -- and gale gillman, the head of the community partner. this is what i had to deal with. this pertains to the apartment inspection. i was complaining about the mice in the building. i did my own investigation and found out there were people complaining about mice there before i moved in. when i further complained, they told me you will go to the health department because i did not unpack my boxes because i am in an apartment infested with mice. several other units were infsted. -- infested. >> do you have any questions? i am not done. >> we have no questions. the next speaker. >> can i speak to you about this? i have to retaliate. >> thank you. we will listen to more comments later. >> i can come back later? >> on other items. and this hearing will be open -- the senior action network should be listening. >> mr. wright, the next speaker is ready to speak. youv''ve had your time. the next speaker? >> i am a tenant organizer. at the all-star hotel. senior action network as well as the central city -- i would relalally like to say -- the seniors and disabled members of the c

please welcome gale sher >> the first one is why did she care? why did she care, she wondered, laying aside the book. a dim light could be seen possibly from a cabin reaching in not for the word, but for the space which a time. fat drops driven violently side ways. the man's mind into which she tossed herself becomes a bird. fly away, bird. fly south where you are needed. letters moved, she could barely make them out. the sky moved, hanging bluntly. a circle swayed toppled to the sea. to you, sea, i chant and to the one with ears, hearing you into me. this one is called, having eaten fish. having eaten fish, i open myself to make them more comfortable. i pet the fawn, twisting my calves. two fish leap, kiss, and die. fish, fry here, oh my fish, sway grass in coin of rain so far we kill the all of fishes presides while i walk by, covering my head. the last one is, my bones are in the mountain. my bones are in that mountain, in the veil of flowers beyond its southern pass. slipped down to me by the sky long ago. broken, a coterie of lambs thought o

. >> thank you, gale so much for coming. >> [applause]. thank you. >> in keeping with the university of san francisco tradition to invite the mayor to speak, we are honored to have in our presence today, the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, the honorable edwin m. lee. mayor lee received his law degree from the university of california-berkeley. for more than 20 years, he has contributed to san francisco in numerous capacities, including as director of public works and the director of the public rights commission. in january 2007, mayor lee answered the call to complete the remaining year of former mayor gavin newsome. during that time, a groundswell of support in the boisterous campaign, and he was finally persuaded to pursue elected office. in november, he was overwhelmingly elected mayor of san francisco. he is the first asian-american to serve as mayor of san francisco. please join me in welcoming the honorable edwin m. lee. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. members of the board of trustees, faculty and staff of the univers

. >> thank you, gale so much for coming. >> [applause]. thank you. >> one of the most extraordinary things to me about this program is we are going to be treat todd an extraordinary panorama of style and diversity. we will start off with mr. james cagney. please, welcome the poet james cagney. [applause] >> there is sun. there is sun. there is a snake on the path sunning. there is sun. there is water in the stream, there are daisies, there are sun. there is a snake on the path sunning, there is sun. there are trees, there are daisies there is a feather there is sun. there is the feather that she gave me there is a feather there is sun. there are daisies there are words trees things there are more things than words, there is sun, there is sun. there are fox tails there are blank there are irises that are blank there is a snake on the path in the path sunning. there is a squirrel in the trash, there is sun. there is water in the stream, there is a squirrel in the strash, there is a snake in the path on the sun sunning. there is is sun. there

down their weapons and come to the table for talks so we could also hear some criticism from such a gale of rolf leveled at some of russia's international partners in the peace process particularly those west involvements that have influence over the opposition russia doesn't think this is western policy doing enough to put pressure on the opposition to put down their weapons now currently we're seeing the u.n. security council in deadlock those two resolutions on the table that could be voted on one of those was put forward by russia and we would see an extension of the u.n. monitoring program on the ground in syria the the second of those resolutions put forward by western countries and would focus on assad only and on the assad government saying that they have ten days in which to adhere to the kofi annan peace plan otherwise action would be taken now since that's resolution only focuses on one side which is something that russia said can't be done it's extremely likely and almost definite in fact that if thought goes to a vote russia will use their veto so it's interesting to note th

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hub for organizing a summer festival to bring together for a cultural and political event to mark a gale protest. series and the pressure not just on the diplomatic front but in the major's world some opposition supporting arab nations have banned syrian programs and movies that hope proved popular over the years. reports now from damascus. great t.v. soap operas something syria has been famous for all around the arab world they are considered the regional emotional and funny in all syrian society there would be a man a storyteller who would sit at a cafe or just outside his home and tell stories and everybody would come to listen today this is what syrian drama does it tell simple and timeless stories about good and evil all ages and genders like it and it in no it's all arab people but during the conflict in syria its trademark dramas have become yet another dividing factor gulf countries which had traditionally helped fund them withdrew from production live in a huge financial gap and the matters were made worse when the arab league called for a boycott of syrian satellite channels in

incident of extreme weather that has battered poland since the start of the month but hail storms gales and even flash floods. now ideal to help save guard children adopted by families in the united states has been ratified by the russian parliament the changes come a hot on the heels of some chilly examples of abuse against russian children by their adoptive american parents. has more. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border towns a remote train chidden in the mountains and forests of this northwest part of the u.s. for many adopted children from russia who have found themselves abandoned once again this remote trains in the state of montana has become their last resort. rejection but despite its noble goal care homes like this and there are several across the country are close to the outside world and it's almost impossible to discover the fate of these. neglected children last week russia's children strides commissioner pavel isto health try to visit the range but it was denied access to the children living there. there are so many lies about the real conditions of childr

scrapping her, said set every thread bear sail and give her to the god of storm, the lightning and the gale. throughout the 1800s constitution served actively in the united states navy. you would have expected this ship to have lasted 15 to 20 years. so launched in 1797. she had her victories during the war of 1812, but she continued in service. the only image of her under sail was 1881. this is off the capes of virginia and she is serving as a training vessel and they would serve on this famous frigate each though the navy is make the transition to steam. sailors would still climb aloft and set sail. the naval board looked and decided that she was getting too old and too weak and they shouldn't be sailing her anymore. so they lowered the ship's masts. you can see her with the mast is in sections and they've taken them down in the new york navy yard, but the time she celebrated her 100th birthday she's actually been roofed over, people are shocked when they see this, instead of destroying an old ship i like to think of adaptive reuse. they built a barn over the deck. she was being used as a

and mario, i'd never galed before, an to play back rat,soe gave m icen gave nher10 and, fortunately, i made enough to pa back. >> the 200? >> the 200. while, he made about $7,000. so after joapny an left random house, he asked for me to be his editor. and the only reason he asked is because he thought i was good luck. [laughter] so, anyway, fun. >> have you been gambling since with him? no, i never gambled again. well, except for that.o for n'to [inaudible] >> i did. i acquired less than zero. >> i once heard a story about you actually having to fight for that. >> yeah, absolutely. aisle not sure i can use the language on tfl of what some of the editors wrote, but you used to have to se around a manuscript, and everybody would note their comments before the editorial meeting and, you know, there were some pretty strong negative comments about that book including one i can't peat on the air. but ending with if there is a market for this kind of book t resign. >> yeah. >> do you still send around those memos at simon and zeuser? >> that's what's so funny because i really want it to b a

both sides have been fighting for ten days to gale gain control of syria's largest city. u.s.efense secretary leon pa they ta spoke about that while starting his trip to the middle east. >> i think if they continue this kind of tragic attack, on their own people, i think it will ultimately be a nail in a saddam's coffin. >> he is visiting israel and jordan this week. >>> four homes damaged by fire. the fire began just after 11:00 last night in montgomery village near lake forest mall. you can see flames pouring out of one of the townhomes. it spreads to three other units. massive flames, fortunately no one was hurt but about 20 people are out of their homes this morning. >>> dc police are looking for the gunmen who shot two women along u street. they were both hit, one was grazed on the neck and ear, the other was shot in the chin. both will survive. councilman jim graham doesn't know if the women were targeted or hit by stray bullets. >> they are unrelated females, not together, weren't friends, they didn't know each other. it looks as though the target was somewhere else and

. >> they lived in fear of being with by a gale. it was carried by pet the officer. a sailor never wanted to see petty officer is getting ready for a flogging. do not let the cat out of the bag. you do not want to see the cat of nine tells coming out of the bag for if blogging. >> that is today at 7:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. -- pacific. also this weekend, 1928 democratic presidential candidate al smith at 7:30 p.m. eastern and pacific on a local american history tv." this year's national teacher of the year urged teachers to remember their role in american society and to teach beyond a standardized testing. she is a seventh grade english teacher from california and spoke at the national education association 2012 meeting last week. this is about half an hour. >> we have a special presentation from a special person. thing is my honor to introduce to you the 2012 national teacher of the year, rebecca mieliwocki. [applause] this woman rocks, she is real. i love her. you will love her. she is an english teacher in the gray said of california. -- in the great state of

yeah, it sticks to him, and gale collins in the "new york times," every every week she writes about it. >> have a great fourth. >> a great fourth to you. >> remember to answer tonight's question. share your thoughts on twitter at ed show. >>> coming up, this is what global warming looks like. find out what republicans are saying. now to deny the scientist facts. we're coming right back on "the ed show." it seems like every cy has a facebook page these days. but where's the relationship status? well, esurance is now in a relationship...with allstate. and it looks pretty serious. esurance. click or call. idide? it looks pretty serious. you're not my dad ahh!! hey honey, back feels better, little dancing tonight, you and me? dr. scholl's pro inserts relieve different types of lower body pain by treating at the source so you're a whole new you. go pro with dr. scholl's. >>> coming up, oklahoma's senator claims mentioning climate change as a reason for this summer's intention weather is a scare tactic. eugene robinson weighs in next. >>> joe walsh attacks his opponent for discussing her mil

>>eric: but, again, think of it as a big football gale. for a while president obama had the football. he had mitt romney on the defense, talking about bain capital service and releasing more years of tax returns, talking about whether he set up a situation at the naacp and this happened on friday 13th comment "you didn't build that," and the ball was back to romney. if i were obama i would be looking for a way to get the ball back. >>guest: of course, but right after she finished speaking bill clinton will come on and bill clinton is the more moderate liberal, the old school liberal compared to obama. he is trying to reach out to the swing voters and the independents while pleasing the crazy left-wing part of the democratic part. he is trying to balance it out by having both a moderate and someone more extreme. >>eric: those would hang out in the political circles here and we have our ear to the ground with the politics in washington, dc, we are trying to figure out, we know the clintons and the obamas do not get along that well. >>guest:

bill gale, foremost expert in taxation and a senior fellow here at brookings. bob greenstein, the center on budget policies, he masquerades as director, but he's the whole shot. and he has written frequently and very, i think, perceptively on this issue, and so it'll be interesting to hear what he has to say s and alice rivlin who has been more involved in this debate, commenting on others' plans and generally teaching all of us, including people here at brookings about what we have to do to get a budget deal. so this is a remarkable statement. i should tell the audience that several months ago xavier becerra came here and for a friday lunch, quiet session with about 30 people, and we had a very lively discussion because he proposed the democrats should do exactly what patty murray just proposed. i think a lot of people in the room were incredulous at that point, but now we have it from a person who's on five committees in the senate, head of the senatorial campaign committee, so now we have to count this as a serious proposal. obvious first question to the pan

when you have a sitting senator saying this thing is a game, playing a gale -- >> that was appalling. i found that utterly appalling. most of us go to line of duty funerals all too regularly. what so many hard working families have had to endure over this protracted conflicts, that's a sacrifice. that's a tremendous sacrifice. and to have the united states senator talk about playing the game at the same time that his tea party extremist allies in the house are talking about dismantling large portions of our army, of our navy, of our marine corps, is disgusting, and i think it is not befitting of a great and free people and the once proud party of lincoln. the question we have to answer this fall is do we want to move forward with a economy that is growing or continue to believe the ridiculous story that the bigger and richer a guy's swiss bank account is the more jobs is creates in america. give me a break. >> i agree with you, and the same people clamoring for obama to come forward with a birth certificate are the same people who don't want to vet mitt romney and find out about his f

while gale's familiar face will be missed, we wish her only the best as she begins the next phase of her life. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek recognition? >> address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor the memory of a great man, mr. william raspberry who died tuesday at the age of 76. he was hired by "the washington post" straight out of the army and worked his way up from teletype operator to the op-ed page. mr. nunnelee: at the time he was only one of a handful of nationally syndicated and widely read african-american columnists. though he lived most of his life away from mississippi, he never forgot okalona. he devoted much of his time in retirement to the foundation that bears his name that helped at-risk families be prepared for entrance into kindergarten. he was a model of how to talk about complicated and divisive issues in a respectful and civil tone. in fact, he once said, perhaps

. >> joining us now from philadelphia to talk about this messy breakup, gale shuster, columnist and writingl tloe university of pennsylvania. put everything aside, let's talk about those moments, the emotion that came pouring out of ann curry as she bid farewell to the "today" show audience. >>. >> i think that she was coming off of shock really. this went down, you could argue, it went down quickly. you could also argue it went down very slowly depending which side you look at. the funny part is, ann curry's nickname within the shop is curry in a hurry. and she can be very emotional. but the way nbc took so long and had so many leaks before she -- she actually did leave, i think contributed to her stress level. i think that she kind of had reached her limit, and she was being very open and -- and maybe too open. it made some people uncomfortable. >> certainly didn't look like she was anxious to embrace matt lauer, who was trying to be graush us on, of course. did nbc end up humiliating ann curry as this dragged on, and unconfirmed until finally we saw the tearful exit? >> i don't know how