what bothered me -- it was not only the people hitting rodney king -- but it was the other 19, 20 officers who stood around and did nothing. and allowed it to go on. that bothered me as much. and i was a police chief at the time. one of the things a new chief and parents is the department culture -- inherits is the department culture, which chief suhr is working with, whether you come from internally or externally. sometimes cultures change. what bothers me is when we see evidence like we saw, we can tell the numbers of officers who were allegedly involved in that and put that against the numbers of officers there are in this bay area region or nationally. but it makes good press. and so, what we do is -- including me -- we paid with that broad a brush. i understand what. it is perception, and truth is only 10% fat and 90% perception. -- fact and 90% perception. what do we do to prevent it? we start teaching what our expectations are in the academy. we reinforce those expectations, not just to the academy, but throughout every single daily -- every day, every hour, every minute. this is wh

i have an essay on the representations of race during the rodney king piece that was originally published. also an interesting piece engaging another philosopher, stanley gold, around his reading of the fred astaire movie. it is on like. it is of engagement an attempt to reconstruct the in particular thinker. again, it has more to do with race than contemporary culture and representations'. >> host: who is similar to du bois today? >> guest: i think there is no one. i think that -- i think -- what i would say to my guess what i would want to say about that, adding the question, kind of looking for, you know, one person who might to represent the current tendency of african american political thought. i don't think that there is one person. i'm not even sure there was one person. in days with debating with booker t. washington. a number of other members. nothing that today you find, it's interesting. a great deal of diversity of opinion. the much everything going on. that's reasonable. how we should think about the obama presidency. so i think what we have is kind of a mistake to think i'l

. - and here in los angeles, you helped heal the wounds after the watts riots, after the rodney king riots. you even marched with cesar chavez all in the cause of basic human dignity. - yes. - but now you puff up your church. you fill your donation plates with a campaign that would deny a whole class of people their civil rights, their basic human dignity. and you think i'm cynical? - mr. morales. - withdrawn, judge. withdrawn. reverend, let me ask you one more question. do you consider yourself and your church so indispensable that you would sacrifice your own son to save it, so save your own skin? - judge... judge, i misspoke the other day. i'm not sure anymore when... or even if... i spoke to my son about the mistakes on the petitions. i'm not sure if he said anything to me about derrick joyner. at my age, events become... confused. i'm sorry for wasting the jury's time. - the record will so reflect your amended testimony. anything more, mr. morales? - no, your honor. i'm done. - we the jury find the defendant ben corrigan guilty of one count of murder in the first degree. - thank

cop wars quited in the rodney king beating, he and several other cops raided newspaper stands bee longing to the bay times local newspaper, stealing thousands of copies. why? the paper ran a front page article critical of then police chief dick hungy stow and s.f. p.d. he and other cops were caught and given a slap on the wrist. their defense, they did nothing wrong because the newspapers were free and therefore you couldn't steal them. more important than that, what they did was an assault on the first amendment. any cop that violates their oath to uphold the law is a dirty cop. gary fits that description. jeff, a media whore? no, delaineous is a political whore. where bottom feeding and brown knowsing his way along the edges of san francisco political influence. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, sir. >> good evening, commissioners. mr. harrison, once again i'm appearing on behalf of justice for my brother charles harrison. i spoke with some of the my family members today then asked me to point out the fact due to the fact of my brother's untimely murder, two children have been l

the rodney king riots. this isn't so event drich.t's about something intense, facing death and also the way our system responds to that moment in time. what drew you to this sort of big, sprawling but also very personal idea? >> so in the -- around 2,000, a little bit before i was invited to come to the yale school of medicine and interview patients and was asked to create a performance for a lecture series for doctors. and i was just so drawn to, first all, how people recount stories if they have an interface with medical professionals or if they were ill. and five years later, i thought it would be a good subject to go to for one of my plays. and then at the time, i cast a net very wide. i did over 320 interviews. many of them in three african countries, some at ramstein military bases where our soldier goes and get patched back together before they come home if they've been injured. but then when i was about to bring the show to new york and had already had three other productions is when president obama was rolling out the health

microphone the police officers were so that will never again see a picture embarrassing picture like the rodney king king video nothing the other issue is these can be installed at protest events they could be used by oppressive regimes all over the world to keep protesters from participating in citizen journalism yikes i mean this. there would be there would be no tahrir square if mubarak had access to this technology there would be. just you know it goes on and on we wouldn't know about what's going on we can't underestimate the importance of citizen journalism and the democratic efforts that we've seen in the middle east and even here in our own country macaca moment yeah yeah it's a video that we saw of the young protester neta in iran who was shot by the police those were citizen journalists are the videos that we've seen of protesters being abused here in the united states we need to have this information in order to hold our governments accountable. once it seems the. thinking of the technologies associated with photography. most cameras now have built into them g.p.s. units that inbred into

a new narrative opened in 1991 when a videotape exposed an attack on rodney king and a spotlight was shown on police abuse in the united states. a new narrative. it is clear that in the fourth decade of the war on drugs that we are yet another moment today that a perfect storm is forming on a new narrative. that was in the past 40 years. if there has ever been a moment nationally and internationally when the very real possibility of change has been on the horizon with respect to orienting policy with respect to the war on drugs that quickly became on the black community with selected police practices in the mass incarceration of nearly a million black people where families have been disrupted and communities devastated by drug policy and racism whether overt or institutional fact that time is now. john conyers spoke on that window, jesse jackson opened up, dr. ron daniels open that window but our panel discussion of this afternoon will open that window even further and put flesh on this new narrative triet by discussing what has been the impact of the war on drugs and african-america

that window opened in 1991 when a video tape exposed attack on rodney king and spotlight was shown on police abuse in the united states. a new narrative. it is clear that in the fourth decade of the war on drugs, we are another another moment today. perfect storm is forming on the new narrative. within the past 40 years if there's ever been a moment, nationally and internationally when the change has been on the horizon with respect to the policy with respect to the war on drugs, a war that quickly became a war on black communities which collective police practices have resulted in a mass incarceration of nearly one million black people, families have been disrupted and communities def -- devastated by drug policy, that time is now. john conyers spoke earlier and opened that window. jesse jackson opened that window, dr. ron daniels opened that window. but our panel discussion this afternoon will open that window either further and put flesh on the new narrative by discussing what has been the impact of the war on drugs on african-american communities economically, socially, psychologi