st. louis browns because he thought it would be a good way to sell more beer.e opened up a kind of branch of his ty vergne, i guess. like a little beer garden in the outfield's. it would be a branch of his tavern from down the street. then he had -- he was good at cross marketing, because he also had the waiters in the actual tavern dressed up in rounds uniforms. he was pushing both directions. he had a lot of other things to entertain people. he billed sportsman's park in the old st. louis ballpark as the corny island of the west. it was all about entertainment. if we think that there is too much destruction and ballparks today, it has a long history. >> but he was like a working class. if you wanted a working class audience, he kept prices down to a quarter. he served beer. he did all this other stuff to draw when -- >> it was all about entertaining the working class. >> that was like american -- >> he was part of some of a group of teams that were officially called the american association. it was colloquially known as the beer and whiskey lead. >> that is t

st. louis browns in the 1880s. could you introduce people to him? if they're not familiar with him. >> sure. this is a great story. this is a missouri story even though it's the other side of the state. chris vanderuy was a german immigrant, a tavern owner who -- >> who had -- i'm sorriment i'm going to get to this later. i interrupted you. he had a beer station in the outfield. >> he bought the st. louis browns because he thought it would be a good way to sell more beer. he opened up a branch of his tavern. >> the balls would roll in among the chairs. >> like a beer garden in the outfield that was a branch of his tavern across the street. he was good at cross-marketing because he also had the waiters in the actual tavern dressed up in browns uniforms. so he was pushing both directions. >> talk to the new royals ownership about putting a bar in there. >> and he billed sportsman park as the coney island of the west. and it was all about entertainment. so, you know, if we think that there's too much distraction in ballparks today, it has a long histor

st. louis browns, did you introduce people to him? >> yes it's a great story.his is a missouri story and even though it is the other side of the state crisps was a german immigrant, a tavern owner. >> who had like a -- sorry. go ahead. i interrupted. he had a beer station! >> he bought the st. louis browns because he thought it would be a good way to sell more beer. he opened up a kind of branch of his ty vergne, i guess. like a little beer garden in the outfield's. it would be a branch of his tavern from down the street. then he had -- he was good at cross marketing, because he also had the waiters in the actual tavern dressed up in rounds uniforms. he was pushing both directions. he had a lot of other things to entertain people. he billed sportsman's park in the old st. louis ballpark as the cony island of the west. it was all about entertainment. if we think that there is too much distraction in ballparks today, it has a long history. >> but he was like a working class. if you wanted a working class audience, he kept prices down to a quarter. he served beer.

st. louis browns? but did he sound -- did you pay him a bonus? and all of this was in the league office file, and major league baseball dumped it across the street here in cooperstown, to the hall of fame, and the national baseball library. now they didn't have the staff to go through all this stuff, they just sort of keep it and treasure it and preserve it for the baseball researchers, primarily for members of the society for american baseball research. and these guys really went to work. and they went hard by card by card, and they figured out about the black sox were making, and you've got to have context. so they were making something. well, the numbers of what any of them was paid in 1919 are pretty pathetic compared to what they're being paid now, because the dollar is pretty pathetic now. but what were the black socks being paid then? consider this. the white sox finished sixth in 1918. okay? it was the war, they had lost some guys, and other teams had lost guys as well. probably all evened out. but they went from world champions in 1917 t

st. louis, the michael brown case in ferguson, a flashpoint in this whole issue. been the reaction in st. louis? it's jason: been a reaction of relief and a lot of surprise. with the michael brown case, there was never any sort of trial on a state or federal level. to see a police officer be guilty of a litany of charges for killing on unarmed black man, i think a lot of activists are not used to that sort of thing. st. louis and the region have changed quite a bit since 2014 when michael brown was killed by a police officer, both politically and policy wise, but while they feel this does bring a sense of closure to one incident, there's a lot of ways to go to engender trust between police departments here and around the region. john: in ferguson last year in the midst of the protes over the george floyd death, ferguson elected its first black mayor. st. louis elected its first black mayor. has this changed people's attitudes? is there hope there is going to be a greater connection between communities and city hall? jason: certainly, there is hope. one thing peopl

st. louis, of course the michael brown case in ferguson, a flashpoint in this whole issue. tion in st. louis? >> it's been a reaction of relief, and also, frankly, a lot of surprise. with the michael brown case in ferguson, there was never any sort of trial, either on a state or federal level, so to see a police officer be found guilty on a litany of charges for killing an unarmed black man, i think a lot of activists here aren't used to that sort of thing. st. louis and the st. louis region have changed quite a bit since 2014 when michael brown was shot and killed by a ferguson police officer, both politically and policywise. but i think that they feel like, well, this does bring a sense of closure to one incident. there's a whole lot of ways to go when it comes to overhauling police departments and engendering trust between black people here and police departments around the region. >> yang: staying with you, jason. of course, in st. louis-- in ferguson last year in the midst of the protests over the george floyd death, ferguson elected its first black player. st. louis it

brown. ferguson is a suburb of st. louiss as the city's first black woman mayor. she will take the oath of officer on april 20th. joining us now, tishara jones, mayor-elect of st. louis, missouri. thank you for joining us. this is a night where you're sharing a screen with the kinds of stresses that cities are facing across this country because of the way that police officers have been using deadly force. what is your reaction to the situation in brooklyn center tonight, and the minneapolis area generally, and how they're trying to maintain the peace with a combination of a curfew and a very large police presence there? >> lawrence, thank you for having me. it's an honor to be here with you. first, my condolences to the family of daunte wright. as a mother of a black son, i know all too often how fearful mothers can be when their sons leave their house. my son and i had the talk one too many times, too many times for me to remember. and to watch this energy in brooklyn center, minnesota, reminds me of ferguson. and i know th

martin died, and president obama said if i had a son he would look like tray brown or michael brown in st. louisr rice in -- what was it about george floyd's death or eric garner in new york where a prime minister need on his neck and we watched him die. why do you think that george floyd's death set off such an incredibly powerful and active activate all this active jim that didn't happen. is it just president trump? so covid. >> that is the betts question that has been asked of me during the entire process. a large part of it was denial before. people did not want to believe that the incidents happened in the numbers they were happening to the extent they were happening. and some of those were caught on camera but not like this. for as long and as sustained a period of time. so i think there's always one incident that sort of is -- becomes the straw that says okay the straw that breaks the camel's back, and george floyd was it. when you look -- we were all sitting in our homes. covid had -- was the biggest thing. i do think donald trump was the biggest thing because they were tired of his anti

brown of the st. louis police department.. by the way, if you haven't watched that entire thing that i just played a part of, you should watch it. it is so good, the video op-ed from the lieutenant. it is so incredibly good. talk to me first about why the death of george floyd, for you, lieutenant, was such a turning point as you mentioned there. >> well, to just look and see, in america, in addition to the world, saw what i saw on that day where law enforcement -- we are supposed to be there to help serve and protect. but in this case, we failed to do that. we went too far, and we cost a man his life. and anyone who was watching that, i'm sure, felt the same way that i did, totally devastated by the fact that someone that is in the position to serve and to help and support instead took a life unnecessarily in my opinion. >> you talked about police unions in that piece, and you say police unions are all about loyalty, but they need to start to defend what's right and not defend loyalty, per se. can you see that change happeni

brown. ferguson is a suburb of st. louis. which last week elected its cities first black woman mayor.f st. louis on april 20th. in joining us now is to charge owns, mayor elect of st. louis missouri. thank you so much for joining us tonight, we really appreciate it. this is a night where we are seeing your sharing a screen with the kinds of stresses, that cities are facing across this country. because of the way police officers have been using deadly force. what is your reaction to this situation in brooklyn center tonight, in the minneapolis area generally? and how they are trying to maintain the peace, with the combination of a curfew, and a very large police presence there? >> lawrence thank you for having, me it's an honor to be here with you this evening. first and foremost, my condolences to the family of dante wright. and as a mother of a black son, i know all too often how fearful mothers can be when their sons leave the house. my son and i had the top one too many times, too many times for me to remember. and to watch this energy in brooklyn center minnesota, reminds me of fe

st. louis and nearby ferguson after the police killing of michael brown in 2014. columbus, ohio, that you would rather bystanders call you, your wife, essentially anyone but the police should your own 16-year-old son be in jeopardy because you fear for his life. you devoted your life to helping kids of color. i would like to hear your thoughts as we keep burying them unnecessarily after fatal encounters with police. >> yeah. reverend al, i'm a father to four children, three black boys. we continue to wrestle with the realities of safety. i'm on the journey of abolition, because i find myself in a place where having fought in the context of ferguson late at night in the streets with activists, being tear gassed with young millennial mentors of mine, and then fighting through discussing solutions for police reform through the ferguson commission with leaders in our region, quite frankly, to having some of the legislation to be repealed years after, i find myself disheartened, i find myself feeling the hurt, the pain and the stress every time i see one of these video

st. louis under the obama administration after michael brown's killing.e sure that message continues to be pervasive in everything that we do. we see that in all walks of life these days. we see it in school, we see it in the way that corporations, united states corporations are behaving in reaction to this. but i think it's also important to look at this case and to respect the fact that within a courtroom, you have a finite universe of an event, a crime, and in this case a homicide that this former police officer was con vikted of yesterday. we should feel good about that. we trust 12 jurors to listen to this entire process and they did that and came out with three guilty verdicts against derek chauvin. as i said yesterday it is great this was televised and people watched it play out. they talked about believing your eyes when you see that video. i think people should believe their eyes when they look at this verdict. it is a very hefty verdict and this jury found it was justified by that video. whatever narratives you want to continue to push and use t

st. louis and queens and other communities across the country, those that are predominantly black and brown. i knew that large-scale investment would not be possible if we did not have a plan and that is why the senator and i have put forward the environmental justice data collection act in the month of january. to map the many types of environmental ability to ensure that the federal government will direct funding to those that need it most of all. that was my first environmental bill and yesterday we took some bold action with the introduction of the new act, which is my first original explicitly green new deal legislation and i cannot be more excited to be a part of this as a total. and so from the moment that i heard about the green new deal, i knew that we needed it right at home in st. louis so that we could directly hire our own people to clean up our community. our community is home to out-of-control nuclear waste. let me say that again that our community is home to out of control nuclear waste and we thought that that was just regular. the truth is that we have lead paint, mold and

st. louis, master of science at the national science graduate fellow at brown university. welcome, dr. elman. our third witness is principle investigator of the mars perseverance habitable environments with luminescence at the jet propulsion laboratory. dr. beagle is responsible for conducting nasa-funded research as a pi and co-i focusing on organic molecules for the identification of potential biosignatures. receiving bachelor of science of physics in as tronmy from university of delaware and doctorate in astrophysics from the university of alabama at birmingham. welcome, dr. beagle. i'm sure our president will be pleased to know we have the university of delaware graduate. and our final witness is dr. tonia bozak and return sample science co-lead of the mars 2020 perseverance rover. dr. bozak's research focuses on how microbial morphological in sediment rock, interpret co-evolution of life in the environment in the first 80% of earth's history and look for signs past life on mars. dr. bozak received her undergraduate degree in geo physics, and doctorate in biology from the californi

st. louis, and hopefully we will be able to do the work together and deal with our police unions that don't care for all the people. they don't care for the black and brown pop in our communities. they don't care for the indigenous folk in our communities. so, we do this work together. that's one. the other thing is alternatives to policing. let's remember police don't have to be the ones to show up when someone is having some type of an issue with their mental health. they don't have to be the ones to show up. how do i know? i'm a mental health nurse. been there, done that. i see how we can do other things. there are other options. we just have to think that thing through and actually put it to work on the municipal level, ton state level and the federal level. that's why i'm in congress, to work on the federal level and bring that voice. and this too. when we talk about police showing up for -- some are saying you really want police to show up for certain calls. well, you know what? there are other people that are paid that actually have, you know, the training to handle certain situations. why not let them do their jobs? there are social workers and t

brown communities. there will be consequences. at first, bare minimum accountability is ending our government's financial support of fossil fuels. my community in st. louis is home to the headquarters of two of the most egregious corporate polluters in the world, peabody coal and arch resources. peabody and arch are the largest coal companies in the u.s. the most policing -- polluting nation in the history of the world. counties like these bird in our communities with pollution that make our air and water dirtier while also dangerously warming our atmosphere. the last thing the government should be doing is uplifting the egregious impact of coal and oil on black lives. a new report from greenpeace found further evidence that extracting and burning fossil fuels disproportionately harms black, brown, indigenous, and pork communities -- poor communities. black americans have four point five times exposure of particular matter compared to the overall popular -- population. it is found that natural gas increases the risk of cancer for one million black americans. natural gas also contributes to wonder 38,000 -- 138,000 asthma attack's. could you tell us more

brown communities. there will be consequences and at first bare minimums set forward by account ability is ending our government financial supportty of fossil fuels. my community in st. louis is home to the headquarters of two of the most egregious corporate polluters in the world. [inaudible] peabody is the largest company in the unitedmo states and the most polluting nation in history of the world and companies like these have the burden our community withlu solutions that make our air and water dirtier while alsoly dangerously warming our atmosphere. the last thing the government should be doing is [inaudible] and coil and oil on black lives. greenpeace and the centers for law and poverty in the movement for black lives in further on down further evidence of extracting and burning fossil fuels disproportionally harms black and brown and indigenous airport committees and the report found that black americans have 1.5 times the exposure to the particulate matter compared to the overall population. what is that?e ar and found the natural gas has increased the risk of cancer for 1 million, 1 million black americans but natural gas has also contributed to 138,000 asthma atta

brown and indigenous and poor communities. >>> could you tell us more about how the fossil fuel industries attacks on your community in minnesota could affect areas like st. louis? >> yes, we just had a moment where derek chauvin is going to go to prison for murdering george floyd. that's happening in minnesota. our struggles are intertwined and we are interconnected. racial justice is climate justice. when it comes to the desperate impacts felt by this industry, i discussed earlier, with every single stopping point, whether it's the point of extraction or the transportation of fuel and the end point when it's refind, it's black and brown folks, and over every else, we're the ones getting cancer and the sacrifice zone. it's shocking to hear this committee continue to say this is about jobs. this is about jobs. what about the jobs in our communities and the economies we have as people? what about the economies of wild race that existed before the united states, and i talk with these people and these are my family and friends. i am from those places. you don't think we want to stop extracting from and destroying the natural world we live in? they get to benefit f