wait for a grand jury to decide whether the officer who shot michael brown should be charged for michael brown's killing. that process dragged on for weeks and months until finally in november three months after michael brown was dead and buried with the city of ferguson and the st. louis region on edge about what the grand jury would decide people hoping and believing at that time that at least the release of information about the decision would be handled in such a way that would give people fair warning and time to prepare, time to brace themselves. in the end, the way it happened in that case, the st. louis county prosecutor made his announcement at night with no warning. that prosecutor ambled up to the microphone, long after nightfall with a couple hundred protesters already outside, gave a rambling, abrasive, at times bizarre, stem-winder of a long press conference, in which he suggested some of the witnesses simply lied to the grand jury. he had been talking for ten minutes already that night before he finally came to the point about what he was there to announce. and what the gr

dorian johnson, michael brown's friend has now himself been arrested. cnn has learned from st.nson allegedly interfered with another arrest and he was seen dumping what they suspect were drugs. charges have not been filed, but this headline that he's suing the city of ferguson over the michael brown shooting. he's seeking damages in excess of $25,000. joining me is dorian johnson's attorney james williams. mr. williams welcome. >> good afternoon. >> you may not have much on this but i would be remiss to not ask. have you spoken with your client since this arrest? what can you tell me about possible charges here? >> sure. i understand. unfortunately, we don't have any details at the time so i can't really elaborate on what happened. >> okay. let me move on to the lawsuit that you filed in the last 48 hours. what exactly are you or he suing for? >> we want to bring darren wilson to justice. darren wilson committed an atrocious act consistent with the patterns and practices of the ferguson police department and the city of ferguson. unfortunately, the criminal justice system would

let's talk about michael brown. in that case multiple black witnesses said indeed his hands were not up. contrary to the chants quoting him as saying his hands were up, don't shoot. >> wait, wait, wait. okay. >> reporter: the question is why do we rush to judgment? >> we rush to judgment because this has been happening since we got free. >> reporter: this is a specific case, in the michael brown case. you can't compare one case to others. this is a separate issue. >> it's not separate because it's the same system. it's the same system that's ordering black genocide. >> reporter: you're saying the baltimore police department ordered black genocide. >> wait a minute. >> reporter: your questions are redirecting the attention. >> this government -- >> reporter: they're separate governments. they're separate jurisdictions. let me ask you, why do we rush to judgment on these issues? >> the reason we're here is we're justice. and we're here against injustice against a system not working. specifically against the african-am

michael brown's mother was there that night. out in the street out among the hastily gathered protesters as the news was announced in the dark of night. >> they didn't care. >> they still don't care! they ain't never gonna care. >> it ain't they kids. >> they do not care. they're never going to care. in ferguson missouri the prosecutor announced the decision not to press charges until it was dark outside. what happened next was that ferguson burned. the protests turned violent. local businesses burned to the ground. that was ferguson, missouri just a few months ago. today in baltimore, maryland, night and day. we are not yet three weeks out from the death of freddie gray in baltimore, maryland after he suffered a spinal injury while in police custody. he was arrested on april 12th and died on april 19th. freddie gray was buried on monday, when the riot broke out following the funeral when the kids were released from school. the city of baltimore has been under a state of emergency and on a nighttime curfew, 10:500 p.m. to 5:00 a

before trayvon martin, michael brown, freddie gray. we just had a couple of incidents in the last month where the police actually killed some young men. it didn't make national headlines. but it was unnecessary. they didn't have a warrant. how do we keep going? i'm an educator and i'm ready to walk out of the classroom because i can't go any further there. we have a governor who is ready to pretty much split the district and take numbers away from detroit and dollars away from other districts because they say we are low performing. when you create educational disparity and you don't do anything about it, that's where

among them, michael brown in ferguson missouri and freddy gray in baltimore. the justice department says it will soon decide if additional steps are available and appropriate. alan fisher al jazeera. >> myanmar state media says the president signed off on a new law to control the population of minority groups. critics say it could fan the flames of intolerance as kim vannel reports. >> with five children to look after, days can be long and busy but she wouldn't change a thing. >> in the muslim faith, children are seen as a blessing. if the government says i can't have as many children as i want i cannot accept that. >> there may no longer be any choice. a new law forcing some mothers to wait three years before having their next child has, according to state media, been signed off by myanmar's president. it target did ethnic minorities who's populations are growing because they are having

among them the death of michael brown in missouri and freddie gray in baltimore. the justice department says it will review all legal options in this situation. alan fisher al jazeera. >>> in mexico tensions are high after a gun battle between members of a powerful drug cartel and security forces. 43 people were killed on friday. >>reporter: the bodies were taken away in the middle of the night. all 43 of them these bullet holes and burnt out cars more evidence of the brutal three-hour shootout on friday between police and alleged members of the new generation cartel in a ranch in southwest mexico. >> they pursued them. >>reporter: only one policeman died and already there are questions over why the death

he also references michael brown.et us pray for michael brown and freddie gray no♪ ♪ peace is more >> another part of the song which is called "baltimore." it says let's take all of the guns away. >>> thanks for starting your morning with us. >> see you back here at 8:00. after a break, it's a cnn special, "retired your way." ska. i love the outdoors, spending time with my family. i have a family history of prostate cancer. i had the test done and that was when i got the news. my wife and i looked at treatment options. cancer treatment centers of america kept coming up on the radar. so we flew to phoenix. greg progressed excellently. we proceeded to treat him with hormonal therapy, concurrent with intensity modulated radiation therapy to the prostate gland. go to cancercenter.com to learn more about our integrative therapies and how they're specifically designed to keep you strong mentally, physically and spiritually throughout your treatment. i feel great today, i'm healthy, i have never been in a happier place, i ca

michael brown. >> i understand what you're saying. >> the president invoked michael brown. michelle obama invokes it. >> relax and let's see what happens. follow the process and let the process work. instead, he immediately -- he and eric holder immediately jumped in it's a racial case black versus white, turns out afterwards it waste a black/white issue after all. >> if i asked people in ferguson tonight whether it was racial what happened to michael brown, what percentage of people who say yes? he had his hands up don't shoot? >> despite the attorney general and doj saying it wasn't a racial case i think a lot of them will still say it was. >> it was the environment that was set. here in new york city we have big bird mayor de blasio. shutting down the streets. what do you want? dead cops. what do you want? when you allow that to go on we want dead cops we got two dead cops by that bum from baltimore. >> speaking of cops -- >> please let me finish this thought. because it's so important. i talk to cops every day out there. they've taken it in the gut and soul. the officer

so let's talk about michael brown. in that case, multiple black witnesses said that indeed his hands were not up contrary to the chants quoting him as saying his hands were up, don't shoot. >> wait wait, wait. okay. >> so the question is why do we rush to judgment? >> okay we rush to judgment until the information is out? >> we rush to judgment because this has been happening since we got free. >> but specific case, this is a specific case and a the michael brown case. you can't go from one case to others. they're separate others. >> no, it's not separate because it's the same system. it's the same system. >> separate police department. >> ignoring black genocide. >> hang on a second. so you're saying that the baltimore police department ordered black genocide? your questions are redirecting the attention. >> this government, this government was build on oppression. >> that's a separate government. that's a separate jurisdiction. >> america -- >> let me ask you why do we rush to judgment on these issues? why do people

. >> i understand what you are saying. >> the president invoked michael brown. >> tell the country, be quiet, relax, follow the process and let the process work. he and eric holder the former attorney general immediately jumped in, it is racial case black versus white -- >> if you asked people in ferguson tonight, whether they think it was racial what happened to michael brown, what percentage of people would say yes? he had his hands up don't shoot. >> despite the attorney general and saying it was not a racial case a lot of people will say it was. >> bo dietl? >> the environment that was set. here in new york city we have big mayor de blasio that set the environment. when you have people shutting down the streets? what do you want, dead cops when do you want it now. if we want two dead cops we have two dead cops. >> speaking of cops -- >> let me finish this thought because it is important. i talk to cops every day out there. they have taken gut and soul. you have an officer hit with a hammer yesterday. she could have been killed. thank god the reaction of the other cop was not to

amy: then, say her name -- while the names of michael brown, eric garner, tamir rice and freddie grayave become household names, why don't we know more about women killed by police? women like tanisha anderson, rekia boyd, miriam carey michelle cusseaux, shelly frey and kayla moore. today relatives of these women gather in new york for the say her name vigil. >> she will never come back. we will never be able to hug and kiss her no more. we will never be able to say i love you. we will never see the smile again. amy: and we will go to seattle where protests have been held against shell's plans to drill for oil in the remote and -- in the arctic this summer. we will speak to seattle city council member mike o'brien. about the protests and also about the tpp, the transpacific partnership. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.n. says some 25,000 people have fled the iraqi city of ramadi since its capture by the self-proclaimed islamic state on sunday. thousands of iraqi forces and iranian-aligned shiite

michael brown's parents are suing the see for wrongful death. a man walking with brown filed a personal injury suit. the shooting of course sparked racial unrest protests and violence. >>> also new this morning, attorneys for the six baltimore police officers chargeded with the death of freddie gray are asking to move their case out of the city. the attorneys say it will be impossible to select an impartial jury in baltimore. gray's death while in custody last month sparked a wave of protests. the officers change in charges from assault to second degree depraved heart murder. >>> and it's recommended that four lab workers get preventive treatment after working with anthrax spores that may have been live. the pentagon said live anthrax samples were mistakenly shipped to nine states it's unclear if any labs are in this area. but the cdc says it does not believe there's any risk to the general public. >>> new information now on that cyberattack on the irs. the agency now believes that the thieves who hacked personal tax information from a website ar

and up nexus city of ferguson preserves the memory of michael brown.t are they commemorating? we will take it up next with the "a team". i've smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now i use this. the nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that's why i choose nicoderm cq. lou: joining us tonight from "the daily mail" francesca chambers thank you for being here. the hillary clinton e-mail scandal goes on but she keeps going. what seems to be a teflon candidacy of april 12th but she has not taken questions from a the press. [laughter] lou: or a white house correspondent. [laughter] >> but for her it is smart. if she did she would like very much to find and difficult to answer. lou: then she gets away with it. in to be indifferent of the fact with the powless silence that is resolute and to press the issue she was on a choreographed round tables with pre-selected people and it the press asked if he would take questions from the press but they have

johnson has become a somewhat infamous figure to some, because his figure about what happened to michael brownat wilson shot brown in the back was ultimately determined by either forensics or a grand jury and federal investigators and the department of justice not to be credible. and for that johnson has been condemned in some corners of the internet and other parts of the right-wing media as a liar. but if there's one thing we know about eyewitness testimony as we saw this week with the inaccurate witness accounts in the midtown manhattan hammer attack, and as we see time and time and time again, it is because just because someone recounts something incorrectly, it does not mean they were lying. take zzzquil and sleep like... you haven't seen your bed in days. no, like you haven't seen a bed in weeks! zzzquil. the non habit forming sleep-aid that helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. because sleep is a beautiful thing. out of 42 vehicles based on 6 different criteria, why did a panel of 11 automotive experts name the volkswagen golf motor trend's 2015 car of the year? we'll give you four

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michael brown's parents are suing the city of ferguson for wrongful death. a man walking with brown while he was gunned down is filing a personal injury suit. >>> attorneys for six baltimore police officers charged in the death of freddie gray are asking a judge to move their case out of the city. the attorneys say it will be impossible to select an impartial jurily. gray's death while in police custody last month prompted a wave of protests some violence. the officers face charges ranging from assault, to second-degree depraved heart murder. >>> to montgomery county now where dozens of businesses that were evicted from a farmers market will soon have a new home. merchants of the flower town farmers market lost their leases in january. that's when developer brian halligan stepped in. his deal to lease space at the hotel had fallen through so he offered that space to the evicted merchant. the cost of building space for each business inside the building is pretty large, but halligan and the county are pitching in. >> i don't want to see all of these people with

who was shot by a police officer last year. ♪ does anybody hear us pray for michael brown or freddie the absence of war ♪ >> the song is called "baltimore", and in another part he says let's take all the guns away. he performed it the day before before the mother's day concert. >>> the riots broke out last month forcing the orioles to play with no fans in the stands, and now they will return home to face-off with the blue jays, and some are promoting the game as re-opening day and encouraging fans to come out in groves. the washington wizards, they look like they could blow a 21-point lead against the hawks, but with five seconds left, dribbles, and an imbalanced jumper, and it hits the glass and the net and goes through, and with that win, the wizards lead 2-1 in the best of seven series. >> i love that! >> that was part of my job, atlanta. we are right next door to the home of the hawks, just doing the job, not celebrating, just doing the job. >> happy mother's day to all those moms out there. >> yeah, happy mother's day mom. >> happy mother's day mom. "inside politics" starts now.

. >> he was so quick to rush to judgment on trayvon martin and michael brown. why? is it because it fit his narrative. meanwhile, he's ignoring a big underlying issue that could help calm the chaos in many cities in this country. police are now afraid to do their jobs because they are not being supported. take a listen to what a baltimore police officer who concealed his identity had to say on the show last night about police moral in the city of baltimore. >> when you have them targeting, trying to get armed offenders off the street. and those that are doing their jobs get indicted for murder you can't help but have repercussions where police are afraid to get out there and work. that they're not stopping cars. they're not looking for dug dealers. they're not doing the proactive work that reduced crime in baltimore the last 15 years. >> joining me now with reaction. sir, welcome back to the program. >> good evening, sean. >> i have spoken with many officers including the one we interviewed last night. they are afraid to do their job. they feel if they do it they're

before trayvon martin, michael brown, freddie gray. we just had a couple of incidents in the last month where the police actually killed some young men. it didn't make national headlines. but it was unnecessary. they didn't have a warrant. how do we keep going? i'm an educator and i'm ready to walk out of the classroom because i can't go any further there. we have a governor who is ready to pretty much split the district and take numbers away from detroit and dollars away from other districts because they say we are low performing. when you create educational disparity and you don't do anything about it, that's where you create the criminal. that's where you create the opportunity for police brutality. we need to can't touch we need to get our kids -- we need to get our kids while they are young in the educational system. they are three or four years behind. if you show me a youth criminal, of course they are going to be an adult criminal. one they get out there is no program for them. i would like more information about second chance.

on august 9th surveillance video showed michael brown stealing cigarillos. seven minutes later he was confronted dr. officer darren wilson. willing claims brown pushed him back into his patrol vehicle, punched him in the face and tried to grab his gun. two shots fired inside the vehicle. brown turned and ran then turned back toward the officer. some witnesses claim brown put his hands up and said don't shoot. willing and other witnesses claim brown started charging. he was shot six times including a fatal blow to the head. the killing sparked almost a week of violent protests and riots. 3 1/2 months later the grand jury came back. listen. >> all decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence. not in response to public outcry or for political expediency. >> no indictment. the violence in ferguson began anew and despite the fact that michael brown never had his hands up never said don't shoot, the phrase joined i can't breathe in a national outcry. on

ferguson, missouri, erupted after michael brown was shot and killed by a white officer. >> hands up, don't shoot. >> the grand jury decided against indicting the officer who shot brown and a little more than a week later another grand jury in staten island also declined charges against the officer whose actions seen here led to the death of eric garner. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> these two back-to-back grand jury decisions led to nationwide protests, not only for michael brown and eric garner, but also for others like walter scott, tamir rice. all killed by police. >> people tired of being pushed. you push people in a corner, it's only so long you push them in a corner before you fight back. that's what all of this is, people fighting back. >> the demonstrations turned violent in some cities with looting and rioting. the most recent protests in baltimore after freddie gray died in police custody. this time charges will be brought against the six officers involved in his arrest. but even that isn't enough to stop the anger and frustration that's been building for decades.

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cases like the death of freddie gray and baltimore and the michael brown in missouri have fueled nationwide calls for the police to wear body cameras. 7 on your side takes a closer look at how they work. jennifer donelan went to scottsdale, arizona, to meet one of the top makers of body cameras. jennifer: if the answer to this is to put cameras on the bodies of the men and women in blue, the question of will they work might lie in the question of how they work. >> welcome to taser. jennifer yes taser the company known for stun gun weapons is one of the most sought after manufacturers and the nations for police body cameras. >> it's a fisheye lens that captures a wide angle. if i wear these glasses and i have this and i'm looking that way, it's capturing everything i am seeing on patrol. jennifer: the cameras constantly record, but the saving of the footage begins when the officer clicks it into event mode. some have said, do police officers have too much control over the devices? it takes two clicks to turn on. what if an officer wants to stop recording because the arrest is going badly and

lawsuitongful death filed by the family of michael brown is moving to federal court.ear-old african-american shot and killed , touched offfficer months of unrest. deals with constitutional issues. and billionaire david pepper is getting behind a new hedge fund, providing seed capital for the first time in his career. anis giving capital to start asset manage company's year. the new firm will invest in global credit. those are your latest top stories. turns 10 this year, at a time when competition in the streaming music business is heating up. announced it is adding video to its service and aple is anticipated to unveil streaming service next month. how does spotify -- how does pandora deal with that competition. chang ined by emily san francisco. i just joined pandora a year ago. pandora am a huge listener. i am a lean back listener. i don't like curating. i like to press a button and go. founder out pandora on tonight's edition of studio 1.0. a really interesting time for the company, marking territory between spotify and apple. take a listen to what he had to say ab

michael brown's parents are suing the city of ferguson for wrongful death. and the man walking with brown when he was gunned down filed a personal injury suit. >>> meantime lawyers for six baltimore police officers charged in the death of freddie gray are asking a judge to move their case out of the city. the attorneys say it will be impossible to select an impartial jury. gray's death while in custody last month, prompted a wave of protests some violent. the officers face charges ranging from assault to second-degree depraved heart murder. >>> 6:15 69 degrees outside. leaders in pennsauken are saying no to partnering their police with camden county's regional force. the township council made that decision at the meeting last night. hundreds of citizens business owners and police supporters were there. afterwards pennsauken police announced they will remain a separate force. >>> and nearly 100 people working at the cumberland county plant will be without jobs soon. last night gerresheimer announced the move for consolidation. >>> we've got a couple things to

michael brown was killed by a white police officer in ferguson missouri and the officer was not chargedoperstown has not come calling but that does not stop barry bonds headed into the bay area sports hall of fame. the graduate of san mateo high school will join his old this evening and mosley will be introduceed and they have raised money for a local youth sports program since it began in 1979. three is showing larry how to freestyle ski. >> without the skis. without the snow. >> we continue at 6:30 with the top stories. >> three wildfires are sparked in the bay area and the fires are a sign of things to come this year although weather conditions were with their favor. >> the jury's decision is expected to punishing soon in the trial boston marathon bombing defendant, dzhakhar tsarnaev. >> caltrain riders are getting extra room today on the ride to and from work as trains are getting more and more parked in silicon valley. stay tuned. [beeping] ooo come on everybody, i think this is my grandson. [lip syncing] ♪little girl you look so lonesome oh my goodness. ♪i see you are feeling blue

jorge ramos: eh, pastor, porquÉ cuando la policÍa mata a un afroamericano, recuerdo el caso de michael brownebrero; en pasco, washington; en grapevine, texas; o en sanatana, california, no pasa nada. pastor nuÑez: mire, el moreno americano, yo he aprendido mucho de ellos. el moreno americano ha hecho varias cosas. nÚmero uno, estÁ más organizado. la iglesia, el clero, se une en momentos de crisis y ellos han logrado poner en un-- posiciones de poder a nivel polÍtico, alcaldes y líderes para que oigan sus demandas y entonces cuando viene una crisis, ellos se organizan y ellos se unen y gritan hasta que el mundo entero lo oiga, como puedes ver la evidencia. jorge ramos: entonces, ¿es culpa de nosotros no salir a protestar? pastor nuÑez: yo creo que el problema de nosotros bÁsico es la falta de organizaciÓn, la inseguridad entre nosotros. yo siempre estoy diciÉndole a nuestra gente que tenemos que dejar de pelear, que yo soy mexicano, salvadoreÑo, venezolano, puertorriqueÑo, necesitamos ponerse a un lado y necesitamos unirnos, porque estamos pasando por unos momentos muy, muy crÍticos. la falta

sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> the young man who was with michael brown on the day brown was killedn, missouri, is now suing that city. the officer who shot him -- shot at brown and also the former ferguson police chief. you may remember the young man, his name is dorian johnson, he spoke with cnn and other media shortly after brown's death. accusing officer darren wilson of instigating trouble. johnson's lawsuit reported by our affiliate ksdk claims wilson used excessive force and acted with disregard for johnson's rights. >>> a massachusetts man is charged with fatally stabbing his parents in the u.s. virgin islands. 24-year-old mikhail young was arrested in the states after the bodies of james and kenneth young were found in a rented condo on monday allegedly killed on saturday. cnn affiliate wcbb is reporting mikhail young is bipolar and named in a series of restraining orders that had been filed by his parents. >>> the man accused of kidnapping and killing a university of virginia student hannah graham could face the death penalty if he is convicted. a new indictment filed agai

in august johnson claims michael brown was shot like an animal. >>> as you can imagine, strong reactionsthe nfl's deflategate report pouring in from around the country. the investigation into the deflation of footballs in the afc championship game between new england and the indianapolis colts suggests quarterback tom brady knew all about it. as marley hall explains now allies of the patriots superstar are pushing back. >> reporter: the agent for the star quarterback at the center of the deflategate controversy had strong words about the nfl report. don yee called the 240 page document a terrible disappointment containing significant and tragic flaws omitting key facts. the investigation found it is more probable than not that tom brady was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities involving the release of air from patriots' game balls. no comment from locker room attendant jim mcnally who is accused of deflating the balls or the equipment assistant who apparently exchanged incriminating text messages with brady. tabloids are trumpeting flashy headlines about the probe lik

it was a roundtable discussion including the mothers of rice michael brown, eric gardner, and trayvon martin. >> a lot of times people get angry about the stories that we hear on the news and we protest and we have rallies, and then it goes away until the next tragedy happens. what i want to encourage you all to do is to stay involved. kellye: the deaths of their son sparked protests and in some cases violence around the country. a u.s. citizen back on american soil, who had been jailed in egypt since 2013. he had gone on a hunger strike. last month, the u.s. state department called for his release on humanitarian grounds. he is said to be in poor health. right now the next leg of a journey is underway. the airplane is powered only by the sun, taking off from china late at night. it is currently heading towards hawaii. the goal is to fly around the world without a drop of oil expected to be completed in july. tonight, a helping hand for people in oklahoma. fema has opened up a recovery center for the people affected by floods to help people with questions as the cleanup gets underway.

it's why is michael brown dead in the street? from his record. >> whether or not this the work we are doing if you are an activist/journalist, if you then forget to ask questions. i'm thinking about the rolling stone uva piece where the rules of sexual assault activism at the core oh begin with believe the person who is telling the story. but the rule of oh journalism is skepticism about whoever is telling you a story. i wonder about challenges of being the activist journalist. anybody? >> from our part we took the approach from early on from five years ago to do articles bringing dig think ti to those who were killed not just by police but each other as well. we took the idea that do we believe what the media is telling us and can we force the national media to have conversations they weren't having? it's a great credit. you have been at the forefront from the beginning. >> i ain't a journalist. i have a different set of rules. >> speaking truth and power and giving people a voice to have access. for us which was constantly tigh

. >> eric garner, michael brown, and trayvon martin. >> and freddie gray last month.icing. >> there is no credible evidence that law enforcement officers use an inordinate amount of force against the black males. >> our people are proud to support and defend opportunity for all. >> overwhelming majority of people are not racive. >> the presumption is that america is institutionally racist. it is not. >> we have tricia rose, director for the center of race and ethnicity center at brown university. and attorney larry elder, host of the radio programme larry elder show." >>> thank you for joining us. larry elder - america is a racist country yes or no? >> nonsense. >> why. >> wave a magic wand over the hearts of america and remove every smidgin of white people. make the average white person that things like david duke thing like mother teresa. problems remain, crime, kids without fathers, no jobs. the problems will not be solved by extracting marginal racism. orlandio is a professor at harvard, a democrat. he said america is the least racist society, provide opportunitie

he talks about ferguson where michael brown was responsible for his own death, according to the eyewitnesses and the evidence forensics, et cetera in that case. he talked about trayvon martin, he was wrong there. he rushes to jum. why doesn't he address the issue of how cops are being killed on the streets. >> the administration is on record about talking about the injustice of policemen being killed. >> when? >> at every one of those funerals a message was sent from the white house. >> excuse me white house representatives were sent to michael brown's funeral. they weren't sent to brian funerals. >> the condolences were sent. you said the president didn't speak about flaeg. he has spoken out like a brother's keeper. when he tries to go to the source the same black-on-black crime -- >> his own brother needs financial help and he doesn't even help his own brother. >> the issue you raised -- >> no my brother's keeper -- >> the issue was black-on-black crime. he west to the people who you said are the source of -- >> where are the activists -- >> they're all in the street. >> not when a cop's s

you've got tamir rice had was a 12-year-old boy, eric garner michael brown. freddie gray.rch is organized by maria hamilton her son was killed by a milwaukee police officer last year. he was fired by the department for not following the rules in the moments leading up to the shooting. i spoke to ms. hamilton earlier. i asked her what she wanted to see happen after today's march. >> hold these police officers accountable for killing our children. there's no accountability and in none of these police departments. >> this is a cause that's that has swept the nation. not by storm, because these things have been happening. but right now, it's just really hit a head where it's people really opening their eyes to the things that's happening. and we see police officers get off with it you know. racial profiling. it's discrimination. and we need to make sure these things stop. >> let's talk about this. some of the demands put forward by the group organizing this. mother force justice united. we've got with us matt miller a former spokesman for the department of justice under eric h

cases like the death of freddie gray in baltimore and michael brown in ferguson fueled nationwide calls for all police to wear body cameras. tonight "7 on your side" on your side taking a closer look at how they work. fighting back against crime investigator. jennifer donelan went to scottsdale, arizona, to meet face to face with one of the top makers of body cameras. jennifer: if the answer to this is to put cameras on the bodies of the men and women in blue the question of will they work might lie in the question of how they work. >> welcome to taser. jennifer: yes, taser. the company known for the stun gun weapons has become one of the most sought after manufacturers in the nation for the police body cameras. >> the camera lens up here is a fish island and it is capturing a wide angle. it captures most of what my periphery is. so if i wear these glasses, and i have the, i am looking that way it is capturing everything i'm seeing on patrol. the saving of that begins when they click it in a certain mode. jennifer: some raises the question do officers have too much control over the devi

among them the death of michael brown in missouri and freddie gray in baltimore. the justice department says it will review all legal options in this situation. alan fisher al jazeera. >>> in mexico tensions are high after a gun battle between members of a powerful drug cartel and security forces. 43 people were killed on friday. >>reporter: the bodies were taken away in the middle of the night. all 43 of them these bullet holes and burnt out cars more evidence of the brutal three-hour shootout on friday between police and alleged members of the new generation cartel in a ranch in southwest mexico. >> they pursued them. >>reporter: only one policeman died and already there are questions over why the death toll was so lop sided. mexico security forces have a history of covering up extrajudicial killings. this eyewitness too scared to show his face says the high death toll could be partly due to devastating fire from a police helicopter. >> we arrived and saw the helicopter going up and done. every time it went down it dropped a type of bomb and we saw the impact. >

we talked about the shooting of michael brown, which took place nine months ago. >> not much has changedterms of police accountability. we are excited that in the city of st. louis there is a police -- a community oversight board that it was just approved, and we hope that that will be a change agent. we also are hopeful about the police are being potentially disbantded and there are a number of resignations not yet leading to systemic change, but we hope that it's on the horizon. the doj is also involved, and that could lead to some real structural change in ferguson. >> yeah. there was also some change with regard to the city council, the makeup of the city council more reflective of the community. there were several african-americans elected, and that is a change. this is a city that has two-thirds of the population that are black residents and that was not reflected at all before now. >> your question is what has changed about police responsibility? >> it could lead to changes, but nothing has changed yet in terms of the police being accountable. they remain aggressive with protester

millions mom march are the mothers of sons killed the police shootings including the mother of michael brown. in baltimore, a march last night will be followed by one next hour held by the youth of baltimore. we saw last weekend as well. also other events hoping to bring peace and healing. sara has been on the story. you've been there all week. now we this beginning next hour one day after the justice department came out and said they'll do a separate investigation of the baltimore police department. what's been the reaction on the ground there to that? >> reporter: it's interesting. there's some folks that say good. they want to see a top to bottom look at the department. they want to see exactly what has been beginning on in that department from the inside out as opposed to the other way around. we know this department has paid out fair amount of money in civil suits. in the past and then you have this incident with freddie gray where he died in police custody and six officers are charged. we were at the youth rally earlier today at the baltimore city community college. there were a few do