i never thought i would be sitting here agreeing with every word john burris would say. [laughter] this is the first time i have had an opportunity to be with him. however, i do agree with him. it has to be enforced throughout the organization. what we expect up our people. what we want to ensure up our people, particularly the integrity and the values aspect. many of us, not many, but quite a few departments have of all you statement. ethics, integrity are part of those values. it is not just a document that is on a wall. it is something we have to believe that every level and in force at every level. in preparing for this, i found an absolutely wonderful article, "the truth about the police code of silence revealed." i really recommend that you take a look at that. i'm going to recommend most police chiefs take a look at this. there are profiles. he talks about the code of silence. that is about the fact that there is. how you prevent the code of silence? it is like how do you prevent crime? or how do you stop crime, let's put it that way. the best way to prevent these

said today on the panel -- and i cannot believe i am going to say this -- i completely agree with john burris and stuart hanlon. [applause] >> thank you for giving my closing comments from me. i would like to thank the public defender's office for providing the public and anybody he wants to come to this forum, hearing from these experts, and they help you take away some good things from this -- and i hope you take away some good things you take away some good things from this panel. >> so many people here. this is the third and final panel for those of you who have stayed. this is going to be an incredible discussion. leading the panel, this is the chief attorney of the public defender's office, matt gonzalez. >> let me talk about how we decided to have a panel as part of this year is just a summit on the death penalty. san francisco is often known for being a large city, in this case, we have a unique history with the death penalty. during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by

i never thought i would be sitting here agreeing with every word john burris would say. [laughter] this is the first time i have had an opportunity to be with him. however, i do agree with him. it has to be enforced throughout the organization. what we expect up our people. what we want to ensure up our people, particularly the integrity and the values aspect.

morgan to make up for a short haul so there is an e-mail allegedly saying that john burris i knew about this transfer so that's the first big huge issue and the second is that j.p. morgan which is a huge through line in this story a lot of this is the too big to fail angles were j.p. morgan seems to be pulling a lot of the strings here they knew that these were customer funds they thing it well yeah they asked for a letter saying that these because they're concerned. global money customer fund accounts they asked for a letter making sure that these customer funds they never got the lottery pick up the money anyway so there's all sorts of big issues that this brings up it'll be really interesting to see what happens on a hearing one day but the bigger picture is if somebody doesn't pay for this how are people going to have. a ring about that you know are you going to have any faith but how do we already gotten used to this unfortunately in a certain respect no i don't think we have a lot of because although he may just bail you out of global what happened before of global radio entire fi

oakland civil rights attorney john burris believes the investigation was botched from the start. >> most important thing is to get him arrested. let the process work itself out and determine whether or not what criminal of events have taken place. my have you at the very legislature it's machine slaughter could be second degree murder or von voluntary manslaughter as well. >>reporter: niece the crowd of activist and others concerned about the case. grand jury is set to convene next month and the eyes of the people here in san francisco and elsewhere will be watching. in oakland at the frank gases plaza. >> reverend jackson at the rally town hall meeting in florida today. he had very strong words about what happened. >> we do know is that men have a right to walk to his father's house. we know according to the tape that mr. zimmerman spotted the young black male about. discouraged from pursuing him. but he did. should not have pursued him. he did. should not have killed him. but he did. about the polices who came to the crime scene did not tape off the crime scene. chose not to do their d

john burris walked while block. we know it as driving while black.he larger conversation, is this a surprise to anyone that this is happening? or that young black men and their families feel this way? >> the tragic part of the story is that no, it's been a surprise. we can name many national incidents that echo this one. we can name many incidents that we know in our personal lives, our families that echo this one. so many families in america have that birds and the bees talk about sex with their kids. black families in america have another talk with their black boys as they come into young manhood telling them, there are little things that you have to do that you could, that could save your life. we're not here saying that trayvon in particular did anything wrong. important oscar grant did anything wrong or any of these other people did anything wrong. we have to arm our children with that little bit of extra knowledge that somebody might look at you and put their anxieties and insecurities on top of you. and i'm referencing a james baldwin quote fr