rashad robinson, president of color of change.ia, the president and founder of futuro media and also anchor and executive producer of npr's latino usa. and basz it's almost hard to know where to start tonight. basil, let me begin with you. we have heard leaders from some of the states that righteous anger has morphed into something very different. how do you see that morphing? why is tonight so different from last night? >> well, you know, i think if you have -- if -- if there are -- if law enforcement or the power structure in this country has its need, figuratively and literally, on the neck of african-americans for 400 years. once you stand up, how do you expect us to be anything but angry? and i think, as time has gone on, you start to think about the names and replay the images of people who we know or have come to know. and see the way that they've died at the -- at the -- at the hands of law enforcement. or simply jogging down the street. it does get you to a point where you just -- you can't just sit still. and i know ther

. >>> joining us is rashad robinson, president of the racial justice organization color of change. rashad, thank you for your time this morning. first, we want to ask your reaction to the death of george floyd this week and also the protests that we've been seeing, some of the video we've been showing of some of the rioting taking place. >> you know, as someone who's in this work, someone who is a black man, who lives in the world, you know, seeing that video was incredibly painful. it was also just an ongoing reminder of how much the system continues to operate the way it was designed to operate, all of the ways in which police officers who are not held accountable, police officers who are given the ability to treat communities as enemy combatants and a system that does not move to justice quickly unless we have to each and every time build a level of power, of campaign, of pushing to demand it. the fact that a journalist from cnn was arrested before the police officer was arrested is a sign of just how the system over and over again aligns itself to protect police. so, you know, w

i want to bring in rashad robinson, the civil rights and president of color of change. good to have you with us. obviously a developing situation here. some folks were hoping that tonight may be a little different, certainly following that news conference. it's still early in the night. but as you heard there from my correspondent shaquille brewster on the ground, protests are still taking place. you can still see the images of some of those demonstraters throwing objects at the police as they make their way boo the crowd. this is certainly not the start of a peaceful situation. >> yeah, i mean i think what you're seeing is a community that has had absolutely enough. if you or i were on video with our knee on someone and pushing life out of them, they there would be charges. there would be an arrest. there would be an investigation while after we were arrested, but we would not be able to be walking on the street right now and not living our life while folks were figuring out whether or not there were charges. district attorney offices around the country, including the