roxana saberi for us in statton island.nk you. >>> and since the news broke last night, people have been sharing their stories of police encounters on social media. >> yeah, tony two hashtags illustrate the contrast in the stories. let's start with the most recent one called alive while black. african-americans describing their encounters with law enforcement. like this one: and also, christina writing: now a live well black started in response to a hashtag called criming while white. that's white americans sharing their stories with law enforcement: i'll share more of these hashtags later on in the show. >> thank you. joining me now is mary francis berry, a professor of history, and former chair woman of the u.s. commission on civil rights. i need to have a conversation with you, and as we have this conversation, i want to roll in the picturesover the demonstrations going on in new york. it is on the move. >> i want to tell you one thing first, tony. >> yes, please. >> when i was chair of the commission, we did several hea

they tend to say we'll wait and see what the state does first which could have happened in the statton island and ferguson cases is that the feds could have acted sooner but that didn't happen. >> why? >> because the federal government has a policy of sort of waiting and seeing whether or not the state indicts first and in the san francisco cases there, was no state prosecution. the officers could have been prosecuted for perjury and a bunch of other stuff but it is the federal government and the federal cases are harder because they have to prove civil rights violations so that is a higher standard than what the state has to prove. >> okay. i mean it seems like a solution is right at hand and nobody wants to go there for whatever reason. thank you for joining us. back to you guys. >>> thank you, let's look at our sunday morning forecast for today. first here is a live shot at the golden gate bridge where it is socked in with clouds and fog this morning. we're seeing areas of dense fog in our sunday morning. here is what you can expect when you're heading out the door today. that area of dens

>>> from ferguson to statton island, the media pounce on another death of a black man in a confrontation of police. but this time, there was video and this time many analysts on the right as well as the left are appalled. >> there's thought to have been an indictment and it ought to have been an indictment for some form of man slaughter. >> and where is the humanity? how does a human being hear somebody said 11 times i can't breathe and you don't stop? >> but are some pundits melding this into a racial and anti-police narrative? a woman files a lawsuit against bill cosby, saying he sexually assaulted her when she was 14, but that was 30 years ago. >> the bub deserves to know if mr. cosby is a saint or a sexual predator. >> are the media now turning cosby's -- into a circus? >>> plus, a congressional staffer uses facebook to rip president obama's daughters. are the media unfairly piling on? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> the garner case never got that much media attention outside of new york, but with the country on edge in ferguson, a video of garner being surrounded by p

. >> in the wake of the saturation coverage of police confrontations in ferguson and statton island andow the murder of two officers in brooklyn, the media have been consumed by two racially charged issues. fox news convicter frank luntz raised this with a group at cbs. >> i need to ask you are race relations in america getting better or getting worse? >> worse. >> worse. >> worse. >> so you go right to politics sfwlp right to politics. >> right to politics. >> because we have a president who has made everything political. >> walk down this street and the police can see me and kill me. >> that's not even close to being true. i work with the police every day. >> and the mandates basically is to deter crime. >> and frank luntz joins me now from las vegas. frank, when it comes to these rationally charged stories how much are the people that you talk to influenced by the media coverage? >> i think it's significant. and you can tell in the passion and the fact that they go right to politics. i blame the politicians first. because that's where they go to first. i didn't tell them -- we had no

>>> from ferguson to statton island, the media pounce on another death of a black man in a confrontationce. but this time, there was video and this time many analysts on the right as well as the left are appalled. >> there's thought to have been an indictment and it ought to have been an indictment for some form of man slaughter. >> and where

>> i saw some nypd community police say something with the guys from statton island.ful. and very much in solidarity. no violence here. i think people are just chanting their slogans, marching, and i haven't seen any problems with police. the only presence i have seen as i said are the community officers. >> thanks so much for your reporting. moments ago we were hearing from paul who was on -- he is on the manhattan side, where he says things have largely cleared out on that side. a lot of these people have gone into brooklyn and walking around, and we have seen them on the manhattan side at the end transto the holland tunnel, where they were not allowed to enter. we are now looking at live pictures in washington, d.c. this is night two. our reporting so far indicates no tensions -- no incidents between protesters and police. police seem to be surrounding these protesters, ensuring that no danger comes to them, but at the same time it seems to be ensuring they are not getting involved in any altercations. we're going to finish this off in new york city. these are live

wrongdoing, but in an echo of the protests at ferguson and after the death of eric garner in statton islandndreds marches in this small town last weekend, to show that lennon lacy's life matters. ♪ just a little while longer >> we know it was a hanging, but the question is was it self inflicted? was it a staged hanging? or was it a hanging or lynching homicide? >> those questions might be answered now after the fbi announced it would reexamine the local police departments preliminary investigation. for a grieving family, already skeptical of police, an independent investigation may be the only path they can truth. >> there's just a lot of questions that i would like answered and why wouldn't they answer me? because it because of my race? my social status? i just wanted those questions answered. it would be a lot easier for me to have closure and start grieving. >> the woman now tells the daily mail that she believes their interracial relationship lead to his murder. she says she has now left the town sphere -- fearing for her own safety. >>> are there two americas? >> yes, there's white ame

tremaine, i know you're on site in statton islande, can you giv us a sense of how the community is dealing with this. you've been in ferguson. this is a huge surprise for a lot of folk who's were inskpektiinskpekexpects an -- lot of folks were expecting some kind of indictment. >> there wasn't a sieging anger, there was a sense of hopelessness. i spoke to a 23-year-old father with his 1-year-old daughter said he hopes she would inherit a more just america but that hope has faded with these recent decisions. eric garner got lost around the ferveor in ferguson, missouri. but here in stanton island it hasn't been lost. prosecutor has made the request to allow some of the information public. on the ground all they have is the video of the police officer with his arm around garner's neck with garner saying repeatedly i can't breath and then you see the body go limp. that's what the people are left with. they are there left with no indictment, all summer, a string of cases across america where unarmed black men have been killed with little accountability. that's where we are right now. this is s