ramarley graham's father spoke outside the district attorney's office. he gets to go back and do his job and maybe kill again. we have to ask ourselves the question, if my son had been white, would this have been happen? would they have run in a white person's home? we don't want to talk about racism in america, but why not? we need things to change three . like our attorney says, we need a special prosecutor to deal with these cases. we cannot trust the office at work so closely with the nypd to prosecute them. i don't think you'll ever change as long as they're prosecuting these police. we need real changes. holderrney general eric has openly criticized the u.s. drug saying too many people are now behind bars and it is time for federal sentencing reform. holder made the comments in an interview on npr. >> there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. the war on drugs is 30 to 40 years old and there have been a lot of unintended kwanzaa quinces. -- consequences. there is been a decimation of particularly those comm

ramarley graham's mother constance malcolm told the new york post -- the family will hold a news conference today to announce the next steps. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today with a major development for opponents of new york city police department's controversial stop and frisk row graham. in a settlement announced wednesday, the nypd agreed to stop storing the names of people who were arrested or issued a summons after being stopped and frisked -- and later cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. for years police have used the database to target new yorkers for criminal investigations, even though it includes people who were victims of unjustified police stops. since 2002, the police department has conducted over 5 million stop and frisk. the vast majority of those stopped have been black and latino. according to the police department's own reports, nearly nine out of 10 new yorkers stopped and frisked have been innocent. two of the people at the center of the case spoke about what happened to