we will go to louisville for the latest. did we remember the life and legacy of albert woodfox, former black panther who spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement, longer than any prisoner in u.s. history. he died of covid at the age of 75 thursday, six years after he was freed on the angola present in louisiana. >> i remember reading something from mr. mandela and he said you can carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. i thought what we were is doing was a noble cause so we were prepared, so the beatings and the gas and the decades of solitary confinement, although painful and difficult, never got to the point where they were able to break us. amy: we will hear albert woodfox in his own words and speak to his brother, his attorney, and robert king who was imprisoned in angola with woodfox for decades. they were collectively known as the angola three. all that are more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the justice department has announced federal

the only officer in louisville who has faced charges locally was acquitted. does the justice department feel compelled to step in in part because you believe justice was not served on a local level? do you believe the fact that prosecutors did not charge any of the officers except hankinson and he was cleared of those charges will make this case more difficult? >> the justice department brings charges where they have been brought before when we believe substantial federal interest has not been vindicated -- vindicated that needs to be vindicated. federal offenses, obviously the state did not. that the -- that dictates our determination in this case. i have every degree of confidence in our prosecutors and investigators in this case. >> attorney general, was there a piece of evidence for a witness that drove the department's decision to fact breonna taylor's case? >> this investigation has been going on urgently. it is run by career prosecutors and investigators. it is a complex case. you can tell by the recharging documents we found -- we filed today. >> the

not very much has changed locally in louisville. stephanie: in the last 30 seconds we have, what would you say as far as the message that this sends? the fact that these charges against four officers, no less, federal indictments, have come down. what message does it send to police departments dealing with their own cases of excessive force and questionable police practices? roberto: i think there is a broad understanding that police departments are not capable of regulating themselves. there are examples of cities and states not doing it either, and anything the federal government is coming in in saying if are not going to do it, we are going to do it. stephanie: roberto ferdman with vice news. thank you so much for joining thnewshour and for your reporting. roberto: thank you for having me. judy: as we know, social media can certainly motivate people for good and otherwise. calls to action to clean up the oceans, rivers, and beaches have galvanized volunteers and gone viral. given the magnitude of the problem, how should we assess

and it was shot dead enough not to louisville kentucky in 2020. her death led to must princess crossed us or not. this was the reaction of the tailor family just a few moments ago. once they were caught on their lives in may, they met to conspire again to cover it up and try to tarnish brianna taylor's name . we've sad this. we've been san it since 2020. we've been san they blad, we've been saying brianna was not involved. we've been saying they should not be at brianna's home. we've been saying the officer should be held accountable for brianna taylor's murder. and today is the 1st day towards getting digestive the day is a day for happiness is for 2 years of almost lose and complete hope that we would, that we would see today by having to maintain hope. so that to make a palmer still had hope. it's been a rough or rocky, 2 years for the attorneys, the community, the activists, everyone that has been involved in this case, that is known to truth about this case. but today is a little bit of vindication. to show that our fight was righteous, they

for us in louisville, it is the first step and a long process.ther and fight and make sure that breonna taylor continues to get justice. >> i want to play some of what attorney general merrick garland said when he announced charges, let's listen in now. >> we share, but we cannot fully imagine the grief felt by breonna taylor's loved ones and all those affected by the events of march 13th, 2020. breonna taylor should be alive today. >> we are two years after her death, but how significant is it to hear that from the nation's chief law enforcement officer? >> what he said is correct and what we have always known in louisville is that they never should have been at breonna taylor's apartment, that she should be alive today. miss tamika palmer at one point in time said that every day is march 13th, and that is something that will continue to bring throughout my head. for us here in kentucky, we knew that her fourth amendment rights had been violated, which is why the first thing we did here in louisville was to ban no knock warrants in the city. we

they were informed for the justice department is charged for current and former louisville metro police department officers with federal crimes related to ms taylor's death. those alleged crimes include civil rights, offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses. the officers are also accused applauding to cover up their behavior. if convicted, they could get up to 20 years in prison for obstruction and 5 years for conspiracy and line oh, along with the killing of george floyd and may 2020 taylor's death lead to protest across the united states against both racism and police brutality. the lawyer for taylor's family called there is days arrest a product of speaking out because we don't fight for our children, like brianna taylor, who will fight for the city of louisville, paid brianna taylor's family 12000000 dollars to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. on thursday, tamika palmer said the rest are just one more step in holding the police accountable. today's overdue. but he still has a recognition that all the legal success in the world won't bri

breonna taylor was shot in her home in louisville in 2020 by plain—clothes police.nt as part of a drugs investigation. no drugs were found in the property. it led to scenes like this — racial injustice protests all over the country. this is the lawyer for breonna taylor's family reacting to the news. because of a breonna taylor, we can say this is a day that black women saw equaljustice in the united states of america. we can now speak to dr rashawn ray who's a senior fellow at the brookings institution. dr ray regularly testifies at the federal and state levels on racial equity, policing and criminaljustice reform. good at you happy with us. thanks so much forjoining us. tell our viewers a little bit about what is happening procedurally because they will remember this case. then it was decided instead to reinvestigate some of these charges. reinvestigate some of these charaes. ., .,, reinvestigate some of these charaes. . ., ., charges. thanks as always for havin: charges. thanks as always for having me — charges. thanks as always for having me on. _ charges. thank

on march 13, 2020, louisville police officers raided taylor's apartment, searching for drugs allegedlyed by a former boyfriend. kenneth walker, who was in the apartment and dating taylor at the time, fired one shot at police. louisville police officers fired more than 30 shots, many blindly into the apartment. >> my girlfriend is dead. >> reporter: taylor was struck and killed. >> i've waited 874 days for today. >> amen. >> reporter: taylor's mother tamika palmer spoke to reporters along with family attorney ben crump. >> this is a day that black women saw equal justice in the united states of america. >> reporter: sergeant kyle meany and former detective joshua jaynes are charged with falsifying an affidavit to obtain the raid search warrant. former detective brett hankison is charged with blindly firing into tayloras apartment. jaynes and detective kelly goodlett are accused of covering up their actions. >> those two defendants met in a garage where they agreed to tell investigators a false story. >> reporter: breonna taylor's death during the botched police raid galvanized the socia

we will share more once the investigation has concluded. >> thank you, the only officer in louisville who has faced charges locally was acquitted. does the justice department feel compelled to step in and part because they believe justice was not served on a local level? delete affected prosecutors and a charge anyone, the fact that he was cleared of those charges will make your case more civil? >> the justice department brings charges including charges where they have been dropped before when we believe substantial federal interest has not been vindicated and needs to be vindicated. this case charges violations of federal offenses, the state did not, that explains our place in this case. >> doesn't make it more difficult that he was acquitted and the others were not charged? >> i have every degree of confidence and our prosecutors and investigators in this case. >> cbs news, attorney general, was there a piece of evidence or witness that drove the deferments decision to fast-track the briand -- the departments decision to fast-track the breonna taylor case? >> has been going on urgen

kasia: a short time ago, i got reaction from will clark, a radio reporter in louisville. thought about the charges. >> i think it came out of nowhere for those of us here in louisville. we were aware of the fbi was involved, the department of justice, but the decision at least from a public perspective, came rather abruptly. we got a notification from the justice department about one hour before merrick garland come of, was at the podium we were able to piece some of the things together, but the government capped this particulars to the vest until they announced it at theodium. one of the charges against brett hankison, firing through the door and blinds and curtains, he had been acquitted on that in a state court just a few months ago. so, now they will obviously g back and get this on a federal charge and civil rights charge, so he will go through the whole process again. the rest of it, it basically undermines the entire foundation of the breonna taylor search warrant. it alleges that joshua jaynes and t-- two others played a role in falsifying the affidavit that led t

was involved in all kinds of corruption in louisville himself will admit that if he's pushed and i pushedhim an interviews to acknowledge that before because as i said earlier brazil is a country that doesn't have occasional instances of corruption, but his run systemically uncorruption and the workers party in louisville himself having been in the middle of it in brazilia. there's no way you can get anything done unless you grease the wheels of that corrupt. and pt the workers party unquestionably played that game. question of how much did rule of personally profit from corruption is something we genuinely answer to because the child that he got was a show trial it was it was a trial in which sergio moro along was plotting and secret with the prosecutors, which is what our reporting showed to ensure lula's conviction regardless of the evidence. so i i don't know the answer to that, but i do know that there's no doubt that was government and louisville was party was heavily interacting with and dependent upon the system of corruption that has always run brazilian greenwald. what is your c

and we went on to louisville and spent the weekend touring distillerys. we stayed at the seal back hotel, which is just a beautiful old grand hotel. and it was the place where f scott fitzgerald got thrown out of the bar several times while he was stationed there. it's got a very lively reputation al capone was also said to have stayed there. and what is always said about anywhere al capone state is that there was a secret tunnel so he could get out of the building should the law enforcement converge on him and that there was a girlfriend somewhere around and sometimes an illegitimate son or two or three so i kind of to began to take all the al capone slip here stories with a grain of salt and that's why i can tell you i can only verify two for sure. okay. well, thank you so much for your attention.

. >>> a major development in the police shooting of breonna taylor in louisville, kentucky. federal prosecutors charging four current and former police officers with violating taylor's civil rights and other crimes. ron allen tells us more. >> say her name. >> breonna taylor! >> reporter: nearly 2 1/2 years after breonna taylor died in a hail of police gunfire during a botched drug railed, igniting a storm of protests across the country -- >> breonna taylor! >> reporter: today federal prosecutors charged four current and former louisville police officers with civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracy, unconstitutional use of force, and obstruction in connection with the 26-year-old emergency medical technician's death. >> breonna taylor should be alive today. >> reporter: specifically attorney general merrick garland accused three officers of lying to i adjudge to get the search warrant being executed that night as taylor and her boyfriend slept, neither the target of the raid. >> we allege that the defendants knew their actions in falsifying the affidavit could create a da

abc's faith abubey tonight in louisville. >> reporter: more than two years after breonna taylor was shot to death in a botched drug raid, u.s. attorney general merrick garland today announcing federal charges for four current and former louisville metro police officers. >> the federal charges announced today allege that members of the place-based investigations unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of ms. taylor's home. >> reporter: prosecutors say sergeant kyle meany, and detectives joshua jaynes and kelly goodlett knew the search warrant lacked probable cause. and they say those two detectives later conspired to cover up their lies, allegedly meeting in a garage to come up with a false story for investigators. >> we allege that the defendants knew their actions and falsifying the affidavit could create a dangerous situation. >> reporter: prosecutors say the officers who executed the warrant at taylor's home knew nothing about the false affidavit. and when taylor's boyfriend mistook police for an intruder -- firing a shot from his registered gun in self-defense

all 4 men were arrested in louisville earlier on thursday. and rosalind won't happen, lead to great social unrest and protests which still resonates today. doesn't. it does still resonate job, but certainly this does answer a key demand from brianna taylors family and from the larger community in louisville, kentucky. given that they were extremely dissatisfied with how, while local and state authorities investigate abriana taylors killing, they say that there were in their view, miscarriages of justice. evidence not being properly brought in the jury, not getting all the information that it needed in the various court cases surrounding her death. and so they say that this is justified their repeated demonstrations, their repeated calls for boycott, their repeated calls on public officials to step aside. they say that tub for more than 2 years, they have faced blow back for us making a very public, a spectacle of brianna taylor's death, what they're saying in order to ensure that people are held accountable for her killing. they say that they

and she's joining us live from louisville, kentucky fires. very good to have you with his mom on i'll just, you know, thank you very much indeed. and was their confidence at all stages amongst the family and their supporters that these charges would be brought? i wouldn't say confidence 1st of all, thank you so much for having me. i wouldn't say confidence. there was hope shortly we prayed and we had faith that something would happen, but confidence was certainly low. because in order to have competence, you would have to believe that the system wouldn't back protect not just black people, but particularly black women. and we know that the history has shown that that is not the case. and so certainly hope but confidence. now, i wouldn't say, given the fact that the, the cases are now being brought, has that changed to do you think the view of the way the system will deal with cases like brianna? why think what it does say and, and indicate for us that elections matter, and we hope that people around the nation, especially folks who are rightl

graduated from the university of louisville with honors. he went to washington dc to attend the march on washington for jobs in freedom for dr. martin luther king deliveries. i had a dream speech he interned for a senator. he graduated from the university of kentucky college of law where he was president of the student bar association. he became a lawyer and worked for another center back in kentucky. he practiced law and talked political science at the university of louisville. he served his deputy attorney general under president ford. serving with the now household legendary names of bork silberman and scalia after a few local political electoral victories he ran was elected to the united states senate in 1984 where he has served with distinction ever since both his majority leader and on on unfortunate occasion, its minority leader. but distinction does not capture the impact. he has had not only on the senate but on our country. relevant tonight to tonight's proceedings his argued before the united states supreme court. while serving a

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. >> todd: crime surges, look in louisville, kentucky, thief smashing into a downtown brewery costingbusiness owner $17,000 in damages, the owner calling for more police in his neighborhood department struggles. gentlemen, thank you issue ted, what happened to you on saturday? >> well, there was a guy walking down clearly a professional thief, i think we were one of seven or eight businesses hit, he tried to enter on main street. we have hurricane glass there, he shattered the glass, but wasn't able to get in. he went to the side and broke in a door not as secure and stole cash and alcohol. >> todd: louisville crime up, property crime surging 99%, let's face it, my visits to louisville, very safe city, why do you think something like this happened and the numberss, why do you think things are happening in your once safe city? >> it's quite unbelievable, over the last couple years, we've seen a huge exodus of the police from the police department due to lack of support from the administration or the mayor's office and anti-police sentiment. we are down 300 police officers, officers wor

breonna taylor was a 26-year-old medical worker who was shot to death by louisville officer during theaid. she was not a person of interest. >>> a russian court has sentenced u.s. basketball star brittney griner to nine years in prison. the judge found her guilty of possessing and smuggling narcotics. here is tina cross. >> reporter: from a cage in the back of the russian courtroom, brittney griner listened as a translator passed along the verdict. the judge found the 31-year-old basketball star guilty of deliberately bringing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil with her when she flew to moscow in february. before the verdict, griner offered an apology to the court. >> i made an honest mistake and i hope that in your ruling that it doesn't end my life here. >> reporter: griner's lawyers had argued the phoenix mercury center and two-time olympic gold medalist inadvertently packed the cannabis canisters. they presented character witnesses from the team she plays for in the wnba offseason and written testimony from a doctor who prescribed cannabis for pain treatment. medical marijuana

according to the department of justice, another louisville police department detective claimed a u.s.fied that a target of their narcotics investigation had been receiving packages of breonna taylor's home and even used it as a current home address. goodlett admitted to authorities she knew this claim was false, but she didn't speak up and she knew the affidavit was requesting a no knock warrant executed at night. now, according to the department of justice, goodlett admitted that this claim was misleading, because officers knew that j.g. did not live at taylor's home, goodlett acknowledged she and the other detective knew of no evidence that j.g. had even visited taylor's home for several weeks before the warrant was obtained. the department of justice says that decision resulted in the 26-year-old being shot and killed inside her louisville home. goodlett admitted she and another detective conspired to obstruct justice by providing investigators false information after taylor's death. goodlett is expected to testify against her former colleagues. court records show she is scheduled

the justice department has indicted four current and former louisville police officers on civil rightsna taylor during a police raid of her home. joshua janes and kelly goodlette and kyle meany were charged with submitting a false affidavit to search her home and then working together to create a false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility. brett hankison was indicted on two counts of deprivation of rights. attorney general explains why they stepped in after the state failed to charge any officer for killing taylor. >> just department brings charges including charges where they've been brought before when we believe substantial federal interest have not been vindicated and need to be vindicated. th

. >>> attorney general merrick garland just announced new charges against four louisville police officers in the death of breonna taylor. >> earlier today i spoke with the family of breonna taylor. this morning, they were informed that the justice department has charged four current and former louisville metro police department officers with federal crimes related to ms. taylor's death. those alleged crimes include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force, and obstruction offenses. the four defendants were charged through two separate indictments and one information. >> cnn's jessica schneider is here in washington with the latest. jessica? >> reporter: this investigation into breonna taylor's death in terms of the federal civil rights component, this has been ongoing for a very long time here. there's a large team of investigators. in fact breonna taylor's mother met with the justice department just a few months ago in march, pressing them to file charges against these officers. and in fact as you heard from the attorney general today, four officers fro