shannon spalding, thank you for your bravery and speaking out. former chicago police officer, whistleblower featured in the series. she said she suffered retaliation for reporting and investing -- investigating criminal activity by fellow chicago officer. back, shaun king joins us to talk about many issues. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "human" by rag'n'bone man. the song is featured in ava duvernay's new documentary, "13th." catch it on netflix. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: the election is just 18 days away and three presidential debates behind them now, hillary clinton and donald trump are campaigning. inlary clinton will be raleigh, north carolina, where she will be joined by the mothers of the movement -- women who lost their children to police-involved incidents and gun violence. among them, sybrina fulton, the mother of trayvon martin, gwen carr, the mother of eric garner, and geneva reed-veal, the mother of sandra bland. amy: the event comes as residents

amy: let's go to shannon spalding, former chicago police officer. agrees to chicago settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by spalding and her colleague daniel echeverria who allege they suffered retaliation for reporting and investigating criminal activity by fellow officers. shannon spalding, tell us, what was it that you were investigating? when did it happen? when did the cover-up, you feel, and the retaliation against you start? >> my partner danny and i started investigating allegations that kept surfacing there was a sergeant, ronald watts, and members of his team who work directly underneath them that were imposing what they called on the streets a watch tax. he was receiving money from drug dealers that ran different drug presidentin a housing -- project in the surrounding area. in exchange for that money, they were g guarantee protection from prosecution an arrest. in addition to that, the allegations were that this crew of rogues officers under the command of ronald watts were also planting narcotics on innocent individuals and falsifying