. >> during a recent virtual event hosted by haymarket books yet university history professor elizabeth hinton, the history please violence and social unrest. >> the idea that somehow the riots were these moments of criminality and that they were examples of criminal behavior,, again, that sense be very much like johnson because after harlan erupts in 64 after 15-year-old high school student is killed by the newark police department, johnson takes, makes the same steps in those obama did. he said this is not about some rights protest. this is criminal, tied to the crime problem, tied to juvenile delinquency. it's meaningless.

. >> during a virtual event hosted by haymarket books, yale university history professor treated like full citizens by their city and by their country. that's what the rebellions were about and ignoring those root causes and ignoring the demand and the people who participated were making we get into this policy cycle where the only response to this violence is more police is not to give people jobs and invest resources in the community is to invest resources in the form of police and surveillance and later incarceration. what year did you say that was? 2013. very alive and very well. that's been the dominant view ever since. there is some forms of respectable protest and other protest that is being as criminal and ignoring the fact that this political violence is in response to police violence. >> you can watch the rest of this program on our website booktv.org search for elizabeth hinton or the title of her book america on fire using this at the top of the page. >> weakens on cspan2 our intellectual feast, every saturday in american history tv documents america's story and on sundays

. >> during a recent virtual event hosted by haymarket books, yale university history professor elizabeth hinton examined the history of police violence and social unrest. >> the idea that somehow the riots were these kind of massive moments of criminality and they were examples of criminal behavior , that sounds to me very much like johnson because immediately after arlen robson 64 after a 15-year-old student is killed by the new york police department, often makes the same steps that obama did. he said this is not about civil rights protests. this is criminal, this is tied to juvenile delinquency. it's meaningless. it's a horrible act and it's a riot. and as the riots the best way to respond is with police force. and what johnson miss and what obama miss is that these this political violence is rooted in the same social economic demands of the civil rights movement. that is an end to police brutality, and end to white supremacist terrorism. people are saying we want welfare, they're saying we want jobs and we want decent housing without roaches and rats running through our beds at night

. >> during a recent virtual event hosted by haymarket books yet university history professor elizabeth hinton, the history please violence and social unrest. >> the idea that somehow the riots were these moments of criminality and that they were examples of criminal behavior,, again, that sense be very much like johnson because after harlan erupts in 64 after 15-year-old high school student is killed by the newark police department, johnson takes, makes the same steps in those obama did. he said this is not about some rights protest. this is criminal, tied to the crime problem, tied to juvenile delinquency. it's meaningless. it's carnivalesque and it's a riot, right? as as a right the best way to respond to it is with police force. and what johnson meant and what obama meant is that this political violence is rooted in the same socioeconomic demands of the civil rights movement. that is an in to police brutality, an to white supremacist, jobs, people and talking, what did he say? people are not saying we want welfare. they're saying we want jobs and we want decent housing without roach

. >> during a recent virtual event hosted by haymarket books yet university history professor elizabeth hinton, the history please violence and social unrest. >> the idea that somehow the riots were these moments of criminality and that they were examples of criminal behavior,, again, that sense be very much like johnson because after harlan erupts in 64 after 15-year-old high school student is killed by the newark police department, johnson takes, makes the same steps in those obama did. he said this is not about some rights protest. this is criminal, tied to the crime problem, tied to juvenile delinquency. it's meaningless. it's carnivalesque and it's a riot, right? as as a right the best way to respond to it is with police force. and what johnson meant and what obama meant is that this political violence is rooted in the same socioeconomic demands of the civil rights movement. that is an in to police brutality, an to white supremacist, jobs, people and talking, what did he say? people are not saying we want welfare. they're saying we want jobs and we want decent housing without roach