early this morning a complaint was filed on behalf of a number of victims with the office of civil rights against occidental college for violating title knowing the complaint documents violations involving thirty seven occidental college students who were allegedly raped sexually assaulted battered harassed and or retaliated against for speaking out against sexual violence accidental needs to be investigated by the department of education they cannot conduct business as usual while women are being raped we are asking the department of education to take swift and immediate action to force the college to do what they are legally required to do or lose their federal funding. that this point was going to need to conclude however this is a copy of the not title logical place. we wanted to meet with authorities of occidental college. to our surprise they agreed to an interview with the marketing director tricia lange whose explanations remains rather unclear. right in the past year reported for two thousand and eleven under the cleary act we have reported that thirteen rapes have occurred. we h

there are thirty thousand students and former students who have filed a complaint with the office of civil rights. followed by stonewalling. is undergoing an overview of its policies and procedures and with that anything that has changed in the last number of years and the current policy will be over viewed to see that it fits the needs of the students in compliance with the department of education. however we do encourage students and former students cheer for port and to come forward we see it as a positive thing that they're speaking out and that they're helping to address that issue and still being very concerned about the students who are on this campus today and the students yet to come this way carolyn hellman and. the professors in charge of the o.s.a. see complaints never believe the official statements. about two years ago it became apparent that the college was actually not going to make real changes but they were going to tell us they were making real changes so we had to shift our strategy and do more research and more kind of public. efforts to get them to change back was formally f

the health and humor services office of civil rights, just requires that parents give written permissionthat they are aware of and give permission for the doctor to publicly use foetoes. >> here it's -- photos. >> here it's in the clinic's general consent form. >> it's up to them if they want to give it to us for a keepsake, or they want topost it. >> but some offices simply file them away to avoid the problem. at the care center in bethesda, the only ones on display are decades old. >> in this day in age, things are different and i think in posting pictures in the future we would probably be getting consent. >> so to be clear as long as a doctors' office has a patient's permission in writing allowing the photos to be displayed publicly, it's perfectly legal. joce sterman, abc7 news. >> maryland comp troller peter francho has kicked off a drive to keep opening maryland schools from opening after labor day. part of a let summer be summer campaign. he says that starting schools after labor day would be good for the economy and also allow families to spend more time together. >> 40 homeless

pittsburgh, led the department of labor's wage and hour division, and served as the head of the office of civil rights within the department of health and human services respectively. he attended brown university where he earned a bachelor of arts in history in 1984. mr. rodriguez received his jd from boston college in 19 88. thank you very much for coming and we look forward to your testimony. your written statement will be entered into the record in its entirety. i ask you to state your record. there is a timing light on the table. when it turns yellow, you have one minute left to summarize your testimony. thank you and thank you for being here today. you may again. >> thank you, chairman goodlatte. good morning, ranking member conyers, congressman chaffetz and other members of the committee. i am extremely honored to be the new director of the united states citizenship and immigration services and to be before you today. i hope that today is the beginning of a long and fruitful and constructive relationship that i will have with this committee as a whole and with its members in particular. i am als

institute] now, -- church right [indiscernible] thered shuttlesworth was black baptist minister who central nerve center of the civil rights movement in birmingham. he was an officer, one of the original officers of kings southern christian leadership conference, but they were more in thetes and friends ministry. it is often said the people around king are referred to as king's lieutenants. shuttlesworth was never a lieutenant in the sense that he never worked for king. although he was less known. so that the major demonstrations of 1963, which arguably are the watershed events of the civil rights movement, the first really big victory other than the montgomery boycott. those five weeks of demonstrations in 1963 were work on seven years of that shuttlesworth had done in birmingham, battling segregation and, of course, the commissioner of public safety whose icon -- who is an icon of southern resistance to integration, bull connor. there was a great deal of drama leading up to, in those latter years of the 50's and first couple years of the 60's, and it was shuttlesworth who invited, in fact insisted that king come to birmingham. it took a while for king to , but h

led the department of labor's wage and hour division and served as the head of the office of civil rights within the department of health and human services he attended brown university in 1984. mr. rodrigez received his jd from boston college in 1988. thank you very much for coming, and we look forward to your testimony. injure written statement will be entered in its entirety into the record. i ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes, to help you stay within that time, there's a timing light on the table, when it turns yellow, that means you have one minute left to summarize your testimony. thank you, and thank you for being here today. and you may begin. >> thank you. mr. chairman and members of the committee. i am extremery grateful to be the new director. and to be before you today. i hope that today is the beginning of a long and fruitful and constructive relationship that i will have with this committee as a whole and with its members in particular. i am also honored to be the leader of more than 18,000 extremely dedicated men and women who are the employees of the un

officers were injured. >>> in an attempt to ease public anger, police in ferguson, missouri plan to reveal the name of the officer that shot and killed an unarmed teenager. civil rights groups accuse the fire department of protecting after officer that used deadly force. three police officers were hit with rocks and three patrol cars were damaged in over night protests. >> some people here in the bay area are showing solidarity with the protestors in ferguson. rallies were held yesterday near san francisco city hall and at oakland's franco georgia way plaza. >>> according to the san jose mercury news the agent posed as an atlanta businessman and spent tens of thousands of dollars as part of the under cover operation. >>> now to our continuing coverage of california's severe drought. the california public utilities commission made that response. the governor recently implemented a series of restrictions in an effort to get people to save water. violations can face fines up to $500. the cpuc says they need to notify customers of specific instructions within the next 20 days. >>> according to the san jose mercury news the public utilities commission approved a 15% incre

of countless locals, as well as national civil rights activists. today's keynote speaker has made protecting civil rights a tough part of his office. in his commencement address, he offered the following about the future pact of civil right ins our country.q>ínónór not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result. i believe that a presentation and discussion in today's symposium highlight the critical importance of the on going work that must continue to guarantee justice and civil rights for all citizens. as we reflect on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 civil rights act, we celebrate the activists who sacrifices paved the road toward equality. their on waivering commitment strengthened the nation and inspired us to persist. let us rededicate our erts to the past 50 years and advance a robust agenda for the future. we must obsess about the journey. and not any specific destination. the passage of the civil rights act was a destination. an important one, albeit, but not a final one. this is a journey without an end. it is my distinct pleasure to introduce to you, today, the a

this is from one of our viewers, when was the last time an officer was convicted under the civil rights act? >> guest: oh, it happens on a regular basis. the, i think the criminal section of the civil rights division convicts scores of officers every year. there is a distinction, though, between officers who use excessive force short of killing someone and shootings. shootings, convictions for shootings are much rarer simply because it's rare that an officer pulls out his gun when deadly force isn't justified. it does happen, obviously. but in the, you know, there are hundreds of police shootings every year, and a very small handful ever end up being successfully prosecuted. but beatings are -- by police officers of arrestees or people in custody -- are prosecuted much more frequently, and they're slightly easier cases to make. the rodney king case is an example. many people are familiar with it. rodney king was driving while drunk, led police on a high-speed chase. he was stopped, the police got him out on the street, and king started off by resisting arrest. the officers beat him badl

going in there, they are looking hard at a color of law case under the civil i rights statute where excessive force by an authority figure, a police officer is a violation of civil rights. paul knows what i'm talking about. i think they will talk about moving on that independently. they like the states to do it. >> yeah. >> in this case, i think we'll see some action. >> you have a lot of experience, jim. do you think there is probable cause for an arrest of this officer? >> i do. >> paul, do you think there is probable cause for an arrest of this sa this officer? >> i do. i want to make a distinction that there are different standards for an arrest versus conviction versus a grand jury. >> i got that. >> there are three different legal standards used. certainly for an arrest there is more than enough, based on what we know. this is the problem that we don't have the narrative to make full evaluations and, yet, we do have hearsay information from the community. we have some conversations over here. >> counters it either. >> that's correct. >> let me stop with you agreeing about probable cause. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you

john burris is a prominent civil rights' attorney who served police officers involved in the beating of rodney king. he joins me right now. thank you, sir. before we get into the civil rights implications in this case, i want to ask you about the calls to have the prosecutor mcculloch to recuse himself. >> there's no legal issue for him to be disqualified. the question is, do they have confidence in him because his department probably doesn't have a lot of experience prosecuting police officers from that particular district attorney's office, there is fear that you will not evaluate the facts effectivelily and pursue a case against the police. that's really the undercurrent of it. it's not that he's incompetent or impartial in ways that you can put your finger on it that would justify disqualification. it's really the sense that he has not had these kind of cases in the past before and his office basically close to the local police and therefore they don't feel he would be evaluated in presenting a case against the police. >> so far he said he would not step down but we'll be keeping ou

in new orleans, lou, they charged a number of police officers in the wake of hurricane katrina with civil rightslations, the exact kind of thing they're looking at in ferguson. and there was extraordinarily grotesque prosecutorial misconduct. justice department lawyers who work in the office that will be investigating ferguson were found to have committed just outrageous prosecutorial misconduct. lying to the court, it's incredible when you read the 120-page opinion by the federal judge. and these are the fact -- >> this is the determination of a federal judge? >> that's right. this is not christian adams. this is a federal judge ruled the justice department lawyers working for holder committed gross prosecutorial misconduct. they work at the civil rights division now investigating ferguson. >> and that civil rights division, as you stated, has a checkered history, if you will, in terms of corruption and misconduct. the attorney general has said he is going to insist on a full and fair investigation after making some rather prejudicial remarks about the integrity of the local government, the loc

in new orleans, they charged a number of police officers in the wake of hurricane katrina with civil right violations, that thing you are looking at in ferguson, there was extraordinarily grotesque prosecutorial misconduct, outrageous, secret blogging at the times, and lying to the court, it since credible when you -- it is incredible when you read the 120 page -- of a federal judge, he ruleed that justice department lawyers working for holder committed gross prosecutorial misconduct, but they still work for the civil rights division. lou: they have checkered history, if terms of corruption. and misconduct. the attorney general, said he will insist on a full and fair investigation. after making some rather it seemed prejudicial remarks about the integrity of local government, local prosecutor police department. what are your thoughts? >> here is why he is doing this. this is about politics, this is about the election, it is important for the obama administration to keep the fable alive that america is an o pressive place -- oh, prisive oppressive place for minorities, it is about the elect

ferguson police refuse to name the officer involved in the shooting citing a flood of death threats against him and other officers. civil rights activist reverend al sharpton joined in downtown st. louis today demanding the officer's name and justice for the slain team. >> no one has the right to take their child's name and drag it through the mud, because you angry. don't be so angry that you distort the image of who his mother and father told us he was. don't be a traitor to michaelenl brown. >> reporter: but sharpton was clear. he also wanted an end to the violence and rioting. diane eastabrook, al jazeera, clayton, missouri. >> back for more of the news hour. after this. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow. that's why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn't i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. that's why i always choose the fastest intern

accused an attorney who still works in the civil rights division of wide-ranging intentional misconduct in trying to win conviction of five new orleans police officers on civil rights charges. in a blistering 100 plus page finding the judge, even called out the attorney general, heather, for holding a press conference announcing those indictments. heather, back to you. heather: leland vittert, live for us, thank you, leland. jon: russia sending dozens of trucks carrying aid over the border into eastern ukraine today. ukraine's government did not approve the shipments. calls the move a direct invasion. amy kellogg live from our london newsroom with more on that. amy? >> reporter: hi, jon. aid getting to people is a good thing but situation of course is tense, because even though the ukrainian government said that it is not going to fire on any of these trucks, it is also saying that the fact that they crossed into ukrainian territory without approval is a quote, direct invasion. there is also the point of course that food and humanitarian supplies getting to people who are caught in the conflict is still being politicized. the trucks, according to me

that we have any number of witnesses who's the gentleman was facing the officer, hands up, and he was not doing anything to the officer. he's dead. if you look at the civil right cases before the courts in the past, rarely is a police officer convicted for using excessive force against anybody, especially anyone of colour. all of that shows whether a white african-american community has a problem. >> from what our fellow panelist said, you may think he was there and obvioused the shooting. none of us was there and none of us knows what happens, and that's the purpose of a grand jury, and why they are held in secret is precisely to clamp down these passions. it's understandable that people will be outraged and want justice swiftly and immediately. the justice system - the wheels grind slowly and fine. we don't rush to judgment. we hear the evidence. we figure out who's hearing the truth. the damming piece of evidence appears to be not a witness testimony, but an autopsy report, that the young man was shot while backing away. given the grand jury process, and it's a low standard of proof, probable cause. not for ponderance of the evidence. we'll see an indictmen

> an army of police officers went after looters in ferguson, missouri, emotions spilled over after the shooting of an unarmed black. ferguson is a black suburb of saint louis, some civil rights leaders compared his death to the death of trayvon martin. the race of the police officer in the case has not been disclosed. a federal investigation may follow a local probe. >>> another cease-fire is in effect in the middle east, so far it's holding going on now for 12 hours. israel said it was not fired upon overnight it did not target suspected hamas targets. both sides agree to a 72 hour cease-fire brokered by egyptians. of peace talks could see assume in cairo. thousands have been caught in the crossfire of these clashes. >> the woman who was killed in pennypack park last week will be laid to rest today while her husband is locked up charged with killing her. christopher murray has confessed to killing connie murray and failed a lie detecter test. according to investigators murray intercepted his wife during her walk outside the park a week ago. they want to a park bench to talk and the discussion took a violent turn. >> i think it was more of a rage incident more than premedita

ferguson police refuse to name the officer siting a flood of death threats against him and other officers. civil rightsverend al sharpton joined brown's parents and attorney in downtown st. louis today. demanding the officer's name and justice for the slain teen. >> no one has the right to take that child' name and drag it through the mud because you are angry. don't be so angry that you distort the image of who his mother and father told us he was. don't be a traitor to michael brown. >> reporter: but sharpton was clear, he also wanted an end to the violence and rioting. diane estebrook, al jazerra, clayton, missouri. >>> investigators have shared further light on the circumstances in which the comedy legend robin williams was found dead. the 63-year-old oscar winner's body was discovered by an assistant on monday. >> mr. williams' personal assistant became concerned at approximately 11:45 a.m. when he failed to respond to knocks on his bedroom door. at that time, the personal assistant was able to gain access to mr. williams' bedroom and entered the bedroom to find mr. williams clothed in a seated po

of innocence. they may start out ahead, but there's cases that say police officers have civil rights too. s, you know, they're looked upon as door mats. it's kind of a mixed bag. in a case like this, we want to believe in cops. i've defended cops for 20 years. i've seen jurors over and over and over again agree with the police officer in every use of force that i've seen. >> right. and the use of force, when it does occur, is a police action. people look to the cop often not only as credible for the reasons you said, but also as the expert. because they know protocol. a lot of other people don't. that's something that often comes up. caleb, we just played something there from local radio that some people are looking to as a potential argument for the officer. we haven't independently confirmed whether that caller actually knows the officer. we'll have to wait a long time before we find out directly from the officer, direct evidence on the real side of the story in full. and yet, we do know systemically i'd like you to speak to the difficulty when das are asked to deal with these kind of ca

officer and not releasing their name. >> reporter: and the family's attorney, john burris, will be filing that lawsuit after a rally this afternoon. the family says the lawsuit is for the violation of nieto's civil rights for excessive use of force by police officers. so, again, there will be a march from bernal heights park here at noon to the federal building, and at 3:00 in the afternoon, they're set to hold a rally in support of the san francisco native. in san francisco, stephanie chuang, nbc bay area news. >>> new at 11:00, a meeting of the minds in the south bay today to stop kids from killing kids. members of the national forum on youth violence prevention and the san jose mayor's gang task force also gathered this morning to see how the city is working to prevent and intervene with youth and gang violence. >> we are this week celebrating a great success in reducie ining violence from last year, when we had some serious problems. our partners with the gang task force and police department have done a tremendous job, despite their staffing problems, they put in a lot of overtime, they really brought the gang violence down and we really appreciate that. >> san jose has been one of those that we w

of patience. the much touted civil rights investigation into the shooting of trayvon martin 21s 2 years ago is still ongoing and experts say a civil rights charge against ferguson police officer wilson is far from a slam-dunk case. >> in a case luke the brown case, the government would have to prove the officer intended to use more force than was necessary. so even if the officer panicked, even if the officer made a mistake, all manner of things where it might not be viewed as a good shoot by a policing expert, that wouldn't even come close to meeting the standard for a standard criminal rights violation. >> reporter: in new orleans five accused in shooting a suspect in the post-katrina chaos became the subject of another civil rights d.o.j. investigation. they were convicted only to have the federal judge order a new trial after finding grotesque misconduct by the attorneys on the case. >> unfortunately the office within the civil rights division that would investigate this kind of incident has a very bad record and a real hostility to law enforcement. >> reporter: at least two of the attorneys named by the judge are still with the civil rights division, and the judge spared

civil rights movement. what would we think happened if there was a civil rights movement now, with the weapons of mass to instruction that ?ocal officerse we might not have had a civil rights movement. if we had it, it would have been short-lived. this is why we need the president to be more aggressive, not just in trying to make both sides happy. no president can make both sides happy. these are matters that have to be taken up at the federal level, the legal level. those do not involve just asking for theret better or to be mentors. there's only so much you can do holding up your hands. this is the end of post racialism, but is it the beginning of something else? >> you are recently speaking at a church in missouri that was founded by freed slaves that was celebrating something like a 150th anniversary. this issue of dred scott being buried down the road? >> d professor framed it well. the dred scott decision was a bad decision. it would have been a bad decision that would have -- thank god it did not go unchallenged. it caused an uprising. what moved public debate was the uprising. we can begin to openly discuss race, openly discuss

of unfair treatment. >> they have no cultural connection to police officers. >>> adoltphis pruitt is head of a chapter that filed a civil rightsomplaint against the police for disproportionately targetting blacks. >> a young black kid lives in an urban area. when he leaves the house, going for a walk, work, school, he stopped by police, to be questioned, he has to produce identification, ran through the system to see if he has warrants. and at the end of that they say "you can go ahead. >> in some cases it happens for no reason. that's what is festering the problem we have. >> even if they avoid the police, the young men have other odds stacked against them. the unemployment rate for african-americans in this county is three times that of whites. >> st louis is probably one of the most segregated communities in the country. both racially and socioeconomically. as african-americans move in, whites move out. what happens also with that is some of the highest paying jobs, some of the best living conditions go with them. >>> among black males aged between 16 and 24, the unemployment rate has reached nearly 50%. >> coming back to l

prosecutor's office, is looking at this for potential homicide charges and the feds are looking at for what's called 1983 charges, which is under the power of the officer violating someone's civil rights which obviously would be homicide. >> we see all this rioting and looting, et cetera, going on. that's on the side ostensibly of the family because they're upset what happened. but you also had a rally this weekend in support of the police officer. now does any of that come into play legally? >> gretchen? i certainly hope not. this is to be decided by the law enforcement officers, the prosecutors, along with law enforcement that will look at the toxicology, look at the autopsy reports. they should not be looking at all on public influence on this. not just this case. any case. >> lfis, thank you so much for your thoughts. >>> the pentagon now warning of a risk of a humanitarian disaster causing the u.s. to launch new air strikes in iraq. the latestul dam. >>> back here at home, a democratic state senator blasting the democratic governor to his response to the unrest there. >>> some hunters making a huge splash after capturing -- look at that thing! looks fake! as it gigantic gator. ju

we have any number of witnesses that says the gentleman was facing the officer, hands up and he was not doing anything to the officer. he's dead, if you go and look at the civil rights cases before the courts in the past, rarely is a police officer ever convicted for using excessive force against anybody, especially anybody of colour. all goes back to show and answers your original question as to why the african-american community and people of colour have a serious problem with the justice system. >> mr furness. >> from what our fellow panelist said, you might think he was in and obvioused the shooting, which, in fact, none of us were there. and that's the purpose of a grand jury. the reason why grand jury proceedings are held in secret is to clamp down on these passions. it's understandable that people would be outraged and want justice swiftly and immediately. justice grinds slowly but fine. we don't rush to judgment. we hear the evidence and figure out who tells the truth and who significant. the damning evidence is not a witness testimony, but an autopsy that indicates that an unfortunate young man was shot whilst backing away. very likely, given the grand jury

not on the would the feds have to prove that officer darren wilson deprived brown of his civil rightsut he intended to do it. they have had success at times prosecuting officers who engaged in unspeakable behavior, including sexual assault while on the job. in some cases the doj was able to make a case. those included something more complicated than an off-duty officer shooting one. in one case a judge was charged with -- the judge even held out eric holder who held a possible conference announce those indictments. ed: president obama's golf game bringing out criticsen both sides of the aisle. martha: what c that morning cup of coffee any better? one starbucks customer's good deed kept going and going and going. ed: we just learned the pentagon will hold a briefing today at noon. rear admiral jim kirby will be at the microphone. stay with fox we'll have live coverage throughout the day. martha: the parents of james foley are speaking out about their son. they say his biggest gift to the world was his love and dedication and how much he cared about so many others. his mother talked tod