s.n.c.c. >> my name is phillip agnew, serve as director of the dream defenders in florida.ivil rights legends marched and we decided to mar from daytona beach to florida. >> outside the sanford police department, an act of civil diso disodi disbodi disobedience forced the department to shut its doors. >> tell me why. >> it was after that, we wanted to start something that cannot only fight back against what we saw as attacks on our community, attacks on us, but also be able to bill an infrastructure so we could fight back against people in the legislature who don't respect us and don't reflect our values. >> bloody sunday, the event that turned the tide in the civil rights movement. >> a jon young john lewis, leader of the march. marching today to drama advertise to the nation, dramatize to the world, thousands of negro citizens of alabama, particularly here in the blightville area, denied the right to vote. >> ordered to disperse, go home, or go to your church. this march will not continue. >> we were prepared to put bodies on the line, to change america. but we were prepa

joining me now, phillip agnew, executive director of dream defenders working to physicflor challengebrutality. what's your reaction to this story and the broad trends in florida in terms of how law enforcement conducts itself? >> to us, it's nothing new. we've been saying this since the michael dunn verdict that there's nothing that has changed in the state of florida. there's nothing new. the videos that are now coming out, there's been video of children being assaulted. there are stories in miami gardens of rampant stop and frisk. so this is not a new story for us. it should come as no surprise that a police department is now finding that some of its members are in the ranks of the kkk. something that many young people and people of color have felt when they encounter an officer, they're encountering someone that hates them every single day. it's really no surprise to us when we hear a story like this come out because it's been very obvious and apparent to us. but it's in times like these that we don't worry so much about the ones pictured in the hoods, but the ones who are not. th

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