conservatives do, particular those who live in the minority majorities cities and i'm all about leon wolf. he's my go-to guy and consistent in saying you read the whole column. the problem here is coming to the truth. it is -- the truth is not all cops are racist and the truth is not all cops are always right. the truth is your former panelist said and the statistics show is somewhere in between. that's what leon is saying and people of good faith belief and if you live in new orleans or any city like that, we have faced this and we have reformed and corrected it but i want to go to your point, too. it is true that children -- i'm, what, 63. okay, i'm older than all of you guys. i was raised to respect police officers. black friends of mine whose parents were raised in the same era were taught to fear them because that was the legacy of police brutality and jim crow. >> absolutely. >> so we have to understand that but in turn, and here is what we've done in new orleans, black people, our african american brothers and sisters understand the first line of protection in the neighborhoods are

. >> leon wolf writes. the most important safety valve to prevent violence like we saw in dallas last night is the belief that when officers do go off the rails the legal system will punish them accordingly. if the community believes that the resort to reprisal killings will be far less frequent. >> i saw that piece and after my jaw came off the floor i was actually encouraged. i was encouraged by that. i was also encouraged by a somewhat lukewarm statement that came out from the national rifle association about the minnesota shooting which essentially questioned whether philando castile was killed for exercising his second amendment right to keep and bear arms. and it is interesting that there are conservatives who are kind of getting it. who are understanding this idea of equal protection. but i have to say as michael said. this is personal. i'm a father of two sons. and they are often guilty of their -- they are young black men. they are often guilty of driving while black, walking while black. standing

i'm all about leon wolf. he's my go-to guy. he's consistent in saying, if you read the whole column, the problem here is coming to the truth. it's not -- and the truth is not all cops are racist, and the truth is not all cops are always right. the truth is your former panelist said and the statistics show is somewhere in between. that's what leon is saying, and that's what people of good faith believe, and if you live in new orleans or any city like that, we have faced this, and we have reformed, and we have corrected it. but i want to go to your point too. it is true that -- i'm, what, 63, okay? i'm older than all you guys. i was raised to respect police officers. black friends of mine, whose parents were raised in the same area, were taught to fear them because that was the legacy of police brutality and jim crow. >> absolutely. >> so we have to understand that, but then in turn -- and here's what we've done in new orleans -- black people, our african-american brothers and sisters understand that their first like of protectio

this is from leon wolf, conservative writer "people's willingness to act rationally and within the confinestical system is generally speaking directly proportional to their belief that the law and political system will ever punish wrongdoing. that belief is broken, especially in many minority communities. it's the blind uncritical belief that police never do anything wrong that is a major contributing factor to that" if you grew up consuming that and living that reality year after year and paralyzing fear of police and you chase that with a sense of total futility as each of these killings result in no explanation, no consequences for the officer, no matter what the circumstance is, when that is your every day, there has to be a psychological impact. it even effects reporters who cover these cases death after death after death, i know it's effected me. and that does it for us tonight, rachel will be back on monday. and i will see you in the morning as we continue this conversation on my show a.m. joy. now, it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnel, good evening lawrence. >> thanks,

this is from leon wolf, conservative writer., people's willingness to act rationally and within the confines of the law and the political system is generally speaking directly proportional to their belief that the law and political system will ever punish wrongdoing. and right now that belief is largely broken, especially in many minority communities. and it's the blind uncritical belief that the police never or only in freak circumstances do anything wrong that is a major contributing factor to that. if you grew up consuming that and living that reality year after year and imbibing a paralyzing fear of police, and you chase that with a sense of total futility as each of these killings result in no explanation, no prosecution, cor the officer, no matter what the circumstances, when that is your every day it has to have an impact. it even covers the reporters. i know it has affected me. rachel will be back on monday. i will see you in the morning as we continue this conversation on my so "a.m. joy." >> thank you. >>> this is msnb

joining me now is national political strategist williams and smith and leon wolf is managing editor forte.com. thank you all for being here. leon, i start with you. first, give you real kudos. it's not often that i get to retweet red state.com but you wrote really movingly and i think exceptionally on your perspective on what the breakdown and trust between communities of color and law enforcement means. is this something that on the right is sort of a commonly held belief or are you kind of an outlier on that issue? >> joy, i've been talking and writing about this for sometime. but i do think that it's becoming a more common belief and understanding and i think a large part of that is due to the increased prevalence and frequency with which people are taking these cell phone videos and really showing it to people. i think that it's one thing for people who live in white middle class sush suburban to hear stores are police brutality but i don't think they believe those stories because it was different from their experience in dealing with the police was. i think seeing it on video happe

leon: it is. she is amazing. alison: she is going to have a show at wolf trap for a couple of days this su i think it's this weekend. which is fantastic. leon: hopefully the weather is nicer than it is right now. get to that later. michelle: such an inspiration. check in now with jamie sullivan for a look it at traffic. jamie: there are two issues. but i want to begin with the lowest traffic on the outer loop. see it from the interchange to continue to the wilson bridge. that is where you get relief. 29 miles per hour. it doesn't sound like relief. but when you travel in the teens and the single digits here it is going to be helpful. outbound 295 heading to national harbor. jammed from the 11th street bridge. we are seeing slow traffic heading outbound on 66. a crash near 123. it will take you under 30 minutes as you start near the capital beltway, continuing to the fairfax county parkway. here is a live look at this accident activity. this is over on the right shoulder. we have all of our lanes getting by. everybody approaches the want to look over and see what is going on. that is why we are seeing the heavy traf

wolf, we're talking about him again. >> this is like the former cia director. leon panetta just told our christiane amanpour. >> i find those kinds of statements to be totally outrageous, because you've got now a presidential candidate who is, in fact, asking the russians to engage in american politics. and i just think that that's beyond the pale. you know, a lot of concerns i have with his qualities of leadership. or lack thereof. and i think that kind of statement only reflects the fact that he truly is not qualified to be president of the united states. >> i assume, david, we're going to be hearing a lot more of that from other democrats? >> well, there's no question. and that's why i'm really looking for other republicans who work in the national security space to talk about this in a way that can't so easily become politicized. let's remember our short history with russia since 2001. the bush administration thought they had a better relationship. that's what president bush thought. and vladimir putin had a free hand in chechnya. and putin is expert in trying t

case faces decades more b leon: a new sentence for the former drug king once sentenced to death row for killing a fellow drug dealer. alison: more almost 15 years justin wolfer a new trial. once he got it, he abruptly pleaded guilty. richard reeve explains what happened here as wolfe richard: a 41-year prison sen fence for justin wolfe after a plea deal for where he admitted plotting the 2001 murder of fellow marijuana dealer daniel petrole jr. wolfe telling the court, "i understand the pain i caused. an apology is not enough. i'm sorry. i'm sorry." wolfful with's stunning handwritten confession -- wolfe's stunning handwritten confession in march. he had argued from death row often that petrole's shooting death was at the hands of another dealer. >> he is innocent. he told the same story for 12 years. richard: but his confession tells how he and a codefendant wanted to rob petrole of cash and marijuana. they decided to kill him shooting him nine times in his car march 15, 2001, fearing he would try to intact revenge. "my heart literally broke that day petrole's mother court. i miss him every day of my life." talking about wolfe she added, "he shook his hand