[speaker not understood] cases and finally i spent a year working for federal district judge robert tagasuki on a single case, the criminal prosecution of six l.a. county sheriffs for civil rights violation, for police brutality, for planting evidence on suspects and for stealing from the homes of the folks they were investigating. my interest in the criminal justice system more than two decades ago lead me to become the public defendener los angeles where i tried 50 trials in the course of 4-1/2 years, mostly in east los angeles where i lived and where i worked. i dealt daily with complaints of police misconduct, of police brutality and racial profiling. i successfully defended a man who had been charged with assaulting a police officer who had suffered 20 blows of a baton, parallel marks left on his leg from his ankle all the way up to his inner thigh. [speaker not understood], i also found, initiated and offered a class action suit which challenged l.a. city's practice of targeting middle eastern cab drivers in sting operations. i have spent nights at mosques, community hall [speaker not