15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged michelle alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies america's criminal justice system the reality is that thousands of people. every year and the united states wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because they're the they're railroaded by police officers who give them false information or corners confessions or because they are afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea. every general you don't know anything about you know the president the politics in county jail you don't know anything so they put you there with these people in this is how they force you to take deals the u.s. justice system just like any justice system in the world a system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain you know it's no longer a trial system it's a plea bargain system the whole purpose of plea bargains from the

15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged michelle alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies america's criminal justice system the reality is that thousands of people. every year and the united states wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because they're the they're railroaded by police officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because they're afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea. every joe you. know the president the politics in county jail you don't know anything so they put you in there with these people this is how they force you to take deals the u.s. justice system just like any justice system in the world a system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain it's no longer trial system it's a plea bargain system.

15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they are charged michelle alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of them.

from her to the scholar michelle alexander to james baldwin, many emphasized these are not new systems continue old ones. >> we are still governed by the slave codes. now, when i say a slave rebellion, i mean that what is called the civil rights movement was really inter recollection. >> everything i told you is a brief tour of racism and criminal justice, which itself is one slice of systemic racism in america. for that i want to go through a top ten list. number ten, the american dream of owning a home, most white americans do. compared to a minority of black americans. t most whites graduate college, most black americans don't and the racial wealth gap persists apart from education bringing us to white american households with a high school diploma make $100,000 a year, ten times the wealth of black households with the same exact education. it gets worse. 7 in 10 americans today, i should say 7 on our list of 10, if you're a white person with only a high school degree in america today, you're going to make more than a black american with a bachelor's degree. so when you hear that pe

recent weeks, black authors including isabel wilkerson, brett bennett, ibrahim kennedy and michelle alexander amongst many others have surged to the top of the bestseller list. i know we wish all of us at this moment had been brought on by this racial reckoning took place in the aftermath of the murders of innocent black people. george floyd, breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery. does this still feel like, i mean do you think this one is going to last? doesit feel like a moment and what can black professionals do to continue to sustain recognition of authors of color so it's not just sort of uplift that winds down >> it is a moment and i don't believe it's a reflection in the history of publishing . one remembers that books by black writers were hugely popular in the 60s and 70s. in the, during the civil rights movement and during the black powermovement . and that went away. right now, we're at a moment when the narrative is still being defined to a certain degree by people in power so that those books that are on the bestseller list are there mostly to educate whites, okay? whites who have taken o

michelle thanks very much. we have some sports now in tennis germany's alexander has admitted playing with a fever after going out of the french open in the 4th round and called for a doctor during the 1st set of his defeat to italian teenager center and was seen coughing on court players at the tournaments are regularly tested for the coronavirus and very of last test came back negative but speaking after his defeat . he should not have been playing. what can i say i'm completely sick of really bruce as you can hear but of course. fever you know as well so. i'm not in the best physical state. i was. really sorry you're not feeling well and the very showing a lot of coming to a press conference tomorrow since you said you know if you can tell me or tell us much grace i mean the grease. points out he ate was 38 and. in the evening. over to the bundesliga now and byron munich are back in the winner's column but just barely trying to bounce back after their 1st loss and months the bavarians turn to robert love and asking for help against her beloved. a cerebral robert levon dusky urging his byron munich teammates to

. >> the next question comes from ingrid alexander who is undecided but leaning towardses biden. michellez is from coral gables, used to be registered republican but voted for hillary clinton in 2016. let's go to ismael who voted for hillary clinton but has voted republican in the past. [laughter] lou: not how recent the past. the president tweeted this, responding: did anyone get to see that absolute joke of a town hall interview with joe biden, that joe biden did with comcast nbc news hosted by lester not what a disgrace to our country that free public airwaves can be used that way. all softballs. a big fix. time should be paid by the corrupt dnc. well, there might also be a mea culpa at least on their part that those independents didn't seem very independent, even to the left-wing national media which has been working overtime to run cover for biden's shortcoming. during that very psalm town -- same town hall last night, biden was back to his blundering. >> 210 -- 210,000 people have died. if you put this mask on between now and january, you'll save 100 -- he said it's more important t

and leading a crackdown on peaceful protesters president alexander lukashenko himself is not on the list. your paint council president charles michel said the sanctions sent an important signal very important is a clear signal that we are critical it's very important to do what 3. decided a few a few weeks or do that we will implement dissensions. you know that what's on the table is a list was about 4040 names and we repeat it we would like to to to consider that the people of the have the right to do to mean what own future it's also our intention to continue to develop in order to support the important use such as the freedom of the press freedom the freedom of speech. society. and the sticking point in agreeing sanctions was getting support from cyprus cyprus wanted the e.u. to sanction turkey as well because turkey is drilling for gas in an area of the mediterranean sea that cyprus sees as its territory they w.'s brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena explains how member states finally managed to break the deadlock. the breakthrough on below saying was possible because cyprus agreed to come from my in return leaders toughen

that would be alexander kirby, michele taylor and shannon ferguson and our technical specialist that has been working on the monitoring programs this year. so the items before you today are three mills act property contracts. the mills act legislation authorizes local governments to enter into contracts with private owners of qualified historic properties. this agreement provides property tax reduction to owners of those historic properties who can then allocate the savings toward an appropriate maintenance and restoration plan. the planning department currently holds 42 active mills act contracts. the department received three mills act applications this year. the department staff reviewed each application for completeness. department staff conducted free approval inspection. and worked with applicants to revise rehabilitation, restoration and maintenance plans to ensure work will be conducted in conformance with the standards of rehabilitation. the staff also reviewed applications on the merits of the five priority considerations. which are provided on page 7 in the executive summa

ours who had to quarantined michel it shall michel be rippin council presidents had to self quarantined and even to postpone their last summit 2 weeks ago alexander phenomena in brussels thank you. germany has it registered a massive increase in corona virus cases with more than 6 and a half 1000 new infections over a 24 hour period let's take a look at how rapidly new infections have served us surged over the past 7 days so here last wednesday the 8th of october we were up to 2828 new cases you can see the gradual increase and this decline here because over the weekend when some local health districts don't report the figures after vast you see this the sharp increase to 6638 newly registered cobbett 19 infections with numbers more than doubling in one week this means case numbers are growing exponentially the figures were released just hours after german chancellor angela merkel met with the leaders of the country's 16 federal states to agree new pandemic control measures. once seen as a role model for europe germany now feels the pandemic is getting out of hand that a country has fared relate the well so far with cases rapidly rising i'm glad

correspondence an alexander farm nominee in brussels and mass in london welcome both let's start with. those rumors that britain had told the chief negotiator michel barnier not to come on monday are we any clearer about what's going on. well as far as we know they have discouraged the e.u. delegation from actually coming to london which was originally the plan however there are talks a possibly phone call so there are talks about how these talks are going to continue so britain has not completely slammed the door hasn't said this is all going to and we are going to leave with it no deal a lot of commentators here in london are thinking that this is further posturing you have to remember that boris johnson was always somebody who said we have to be believable that we will leave without a deal otherwise we won't get what he what we want say we know that there are some crucial issues that are still sort of not being agreed upon fisheries being one of them and then also there is the issue of how much the u.k. government can subsidize u.k. companies so that the issue of stay safe and we know that progress has been made but it's not there yet they don'

to our correspondents in london and brussels and alexander the nominee burgard there are now reports that britain has told chief e.u. negotiator michelunyan not to come on monday what does this mean for hopes of striking a deal it's really difficult to say at this point it seems that the u.k.'s position is a little bit ambivalent feel to know that there will be talks but not just past the talks we just had the e.u. spokes person saying that there will be talks to discuss that the talks a britain hasn't yet really slammed the door to wants to european union. there is speculation that this could be just more posturing of the ultimate pressure that they want to put on the european union boris johnson had always maintained that in order to get a good deal that has to be a close possibility that he would who out and that britain would really be happy with out india that he has always maintained that that he would be prepared to work out he always criticised to reason may that she wasn't tough enough and that she wasn't believable that she would also only sell that that she would ever walk out so this could be his also metaxa to say well i