footage, tamir rice never had a chance to respond to the police being there.as no put up your hands, put the gun down. none of that -- he was shot instantaneously. i talked to a lot of cleveland police and other experts, and they really believe it has to do with how the police officers pulled up on the scene. amy: and explain how they pulled up and what then happened with t said mr. cop -- sister, who was just 14 years old at the time. they pulled up on the scene in a way where it does not appears they used the tactics they were taught. you're supposed to take cover, i am told. i lived with two police officers . they put themselves in danger if that gun had been real, but what they did not allow is for tamir rice to recognize they were on the scene. the police officer on the passenger side shot tamir rice in less than two seconds from the car hitting the scene. tamir rice's sister came on the scene, they tackled her, and placed her in a car right next to her brother's body -- no sensitivity whatsoever. amy: as he lay dying. senator turner: no sensitivity. they

tamir rice would have turned 14 on june 25. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we will be talking about turkey, the attempted to this weekend, and about the fbi visiting homes of people they thought might be protesting this week here in cleveland. we will talk about the corporations that have refused to supupport the republican convention here. and we going to talk about the document,ased something like 13 years in the waiting, around saudi arabia and 9/11. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: that is johnny cash singing "hurt." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. turkey remains in a state of crisis after turkey stages a coup. close to 300 people were killed them around 1400 room did -- when did friday night. the two began when the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, was vacationing at a cease-fire resort. the muniz faction in the military said it has taken action to protect democracy from erdogan. turkey has arrested 6000 people,

it is young people like tamir rice. people older like walter scott and eric garner. it is men, women. it is really sort of disturbing and people are simply sharing how it feels to live inside of their skin. i think we need to pay close attention because officer-involved shootings of african-americans is not some sort of cost free endeavor. it is very costly and damaging to society, not to mention loss of life, broken trust, not to mention massive police payouts and civil damages. i can go on. we need to address this national crisis. we have an epidemic and serious problem. >> i want to remind viewers the governor of minnesota expected to make comments on the shooting any minute now. speaking to congressman keith elson who represents fifth district of state of minnesota. you and i have talked about this phenomenon before, americans have talked about this before, sadly, many times. the hope is that as more attention is paid to it it might get better but we just noticed that fatal shootings by officers increased to from 465 in the first six months of 2015 to 491, same p

win tamir rice was killed so unnecessarily in cleveland, lebron james came out and said something about it. that was very important to me, the fact that lebron, despite his incredible celebrity and achievement as an athlete, he was concerned about the killing of young person in his community that should not have been killed. that was awesome. i was happy to see. i'm glad that whole position of activism has not died in our community. steal a couple members of the cleveland browns also who came out and said something. some of the guys on the police force seem to have an issue with that.n these guys were parents and they could see easily how their kids could have been tamir rice under the same circumstances.ances. so their concerns were valid and they voiced their concerns, and i'm happy they did that. >> host: is it controversial and harmful to a professional athlete to take a political stand? >> guest: they can be harmful to a professional athlete, but i think you have to take that risk if the issue is that important and that meaningful to you, it's worth taking the risk of stomach when

when tamir rice was killed so unnecessarily in cleveland, lebron james came out and said something about it. i think that was very important to me. the fact that lebron -- besides this incredible celebrity and achievement as an athlete, he was concerned about the killing of the young person in his community that should not have been killed. ... >> i think up to take that risk if the issue is that important and that meaningful to you. it's worth taking a risk. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> host: so lara heimert, what are some of the books coming out from basic this fall in. >> guest: i'm very excited about the word detective by john simpson which is a memoir by former editor-in-chief of the oxford english dictionary who had been there for about 40 years until his retirement in 2013 and in that time oversaw

the overwhelming majority of cap's are doing their job but you hear about the tamir rice cases, you hear about the bad and once law enforcement starts weeding them out, because every time you see one of these cases, you look at the person's background, seven complaints for use of force, five substantiated. and then we don't find out until they kill somebody. nationalithsonian's air and space museum opened 40 years ago. july 1, 1976. leading up to the anniversary, american history tvs real america is showing a series of nasa films.

if you look at what happened to tamir rice's sister i cleveland, ohio, when he was killed a couple of years ago, his sister -- his 14-year-old sister was tackled of the ground, place in handcuffs and placed in the back of a squad car as she ran to her dying brother. jamarn minneapolis, after clarke was killed, the red dozens of african-american witnesses on the scene. when police arrived, they sprayed them with mace and pepper spray. they pulled guns on them and physically pushed them. it is not an, to treat black victims and witnesses -- uncommon to treat black victims and witnesses as criminals in these types of cases. amy: nekima levy-pounds, thank you for being with us. we will continue to follow the story. we go to baton rouge to find out what is happening there. then we will be joined by two people who sadly, their books have just come out on this very issue. i say sadly because this does not stop. we will be joined by marc lamont .ill and mychal denzel smith , thank you sounds much for being with us, president of the naacp in minneapolis and st. paul right now in front of the g

you hear about tamir rice, eric garner, you hear about the bad cops, and law enforcement needs to start weeding them out, because every time you see one of these cases, you look into the background -- seven complaints, five substantiated. the guy was a mess. at and we don't mind out about it until they kill somebody. >> tonight at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. on american history tv, a conversation with history professor susan sleeper-smith about 17th-century native american and european interactions in the great lakes region. c-span's american history tv interviewed professor sleeper-s annual meeting of the organization of american historians in providence, rhode island. >> wind do native americans -- first migrate? professor sleeper-smith: at the same time, indians are moving out of the ohio river valley in an apt

. >> my sign talks about tamir rice. it is not about any candidate. standing here holding this is a mother. my sons are six and nine. tamir was 12. i'm standing your for all the mothers all over the country and all over the world that have lost their children to state violence, to police brutality. it is time for mothers to stand lined put our lives on the for our children. this is what we are doing now. amy: can you read me your sign? are openingte men carrying assault rifles in a city where one black child with a toy gun was killed by police. tamir rice was 12 years old, he had a toy gun. you have grown white men waving assault weapons all over the place. >> the most segregated city in the whole country is still affected by redlining and gentrification. in a suburb of cleveland. this is east cleveland. we asked one of our friends to take pictures of her neighborhood. she took a whole bunch of pictures that came out a amazin. these are the potholes on the tracks that fill the city. >> my name is jennifer longstreet. my point with the issue is that all

the overwhelming majority of cap's are doing their job but you hear about the tamir rice cases, you hear about the bad and once law enforcement starts weeding them out, because every time you see one of these cases, you look at the person's background, seven complaints for use of force, five substantiated. and then we don't find out until they kill somebody. nationalithsonian's air and space museum opened 40 years ago. july 1, 1976. leading up to the anniversary, american history tvs real america is showing a series of nasa films. up next from 1979, planet mars documents the search to a understand our earthlike planet. the film includes an overview of the flybys of the red planet between 1964, 1971. also, the viking mission that landed two craft in 1976. ♪ narrator: of all the planets in the solar system, earth and mars are the most similar. despite the similarities, mars is essentially like no other planet. it is an unique world. it was elusive to astronomers for hundreds of years. through telescopes, it appeared to be a small, red sphere. it was estimated to be half the size of earth.

you hear about the tamir rice, the cases, you hear about the bad cop some bad policing. and once law enforcement start we know about because every time you see her case you look at the person's background, complaints of use of force,'s five substantiated, the guy was a mess. we don't find out about it until they kill somebody. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> sees fans "washington journal", live every day with news and policy that impact you. coming up on thursday morning former senior advisor to the 2012 romney presidential campaign, peter will join us to discuss the 2016 presidential race, the gop platform and the republican party as it has into next week's national convention. we'll talk about donald trump's candidacy in his potential vice presidential nominees. democratic new jersey congresswoman, bonnie bonnie watson coleman will discuss house democratic efforts to push gun control, the recent violence of police involved shootings, and the 2016 campaign. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal", beginning live at 7:0y morning. join the

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just think it can foster fear and violence 52 weeks a year particularly in the same city where tamir rice was shot and killed for open carrying a toy gun. now, the theme last night was make america safe again but as long as anyone can carry an ar-15 down the street and police have no idea who they're supposed to be watching out for i don't think anyone in cleveland should feel particularly safe. we'll be right back. ♪ my brother and i have always been rivals. we would dream about racing each other, in monaco. ♪ we were born brothers. competition made us friends. wish bold in the 2017 camry. toyota. let's go places. at our house, we're always down for more... case in point: our handcrafted skydiving chamber. be hungry for more. just never be hungry. with premium pepperoni and 100% real cheese... ♪ ding! hot pockets! library break! shhhhhhhh. have a break, have a kit kat! it's here, but it's going by fast. the opportunity of the year is back: the mercedes-benz summer event. get to your dealer today for incredible once-a-season offers, and start firing up those grilles. lease the c300 for $3

you hear about the tamir rice, the eric garner cases a year about the bad cops in the that , and everyof these cases you look at the person fuzzy background, seven complaints, use of force, five substantiated. the guy was a mess. we do not find out about it until they kill someone. announcer: tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. all weekend, "american history tv" is featuring cleveland, host of the republican national convention that begins on monday. the river is sometimes called the river that caught fire after the story of an oil fire made national news in 1969. posted by our charter communications cable partners, visitedities tour staff many sites showcasing the city's rich history. learn more about cleveland on "american history tv. " >> we are currently looking at a standard oil delivery wagon that would have been used to deliver products, various oil products for the standard oil company in cleveland ohio, and on the board we see various product packaging for other products that were made by or eventually made by standard oil out of the refining process of petroleum here in

heart-rending images seared into our psyche as they join the ranks of michael brown, eric gardner, tamir riceub no one wants to belong to. last year alone, roughly 1,000 men and women were killed by police. and while it's true that in overall numbers the majority of those killed were white, black americans are disproportionately the victims. they're just 6% of the population, yet 40% of the unarmed men shot and killed by cops. >> hands up, don't shoot! >> reporter: the fight for black lives versus blue lives tragically intersecting. as an otherwise peaceful protest is obliterated by the assassination of five police officers in dallas. by a man who didn't heed martin luther king jr.'s words -- darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. investigators will try to shed light on what happened in that car. and at that gas station. those stinging videos combed through frame by frame in elusive pursuit of justice. >> it could have been me versus him. >> you're always thinking, i could be next. you're always thinking that. >> reporter: black men posting to facebook and twitter detaili

and tamir rice, 12, was shot by 2 police officers in cleveland after waving a plastic gun.ast year freddie gray fell into a coma in a police van. you never woke up. -- he never woke up. reported ton is have opened fire on a police officer today in the town of valdosta. the police officer in fire returned suspect -- returned fire. the suspect has not been identified and officials say for now there is nothing to suggest it is related to the incident in dallas. heads of state from the nato military alliance gathered today in warsaw for what was a landmark summit. it was a host of security issues . a re-armed and increasingly unfriendly russia and violent islamic extremism. the nato secretary-general hailed the alliance's successes, adding it has become faster, stronger, and more ready. u.s. president barack obama announced that washington is going to be sending an additional 1000 troops to poland to reinforce its presence on the frontiers of the alliance. reporter: sending a message to moscow. gathered in warsaw for a landmark summit, nato heads of state said they would deploy

in keeping racial tension from careening out of control and that includes the shooting death of tamir rice by a white police officer back in 2014. the clergy again this afternoon stepped up. "action news" reporter sarah bloomquist is live at cleveland state university, a couple of miles from here, and sarah a, i know you want to talk about the peace demonstration is today but also about the event you are attending right the now. >> well, jim, that is right free concert underway here tonight at cleveland state university, it is called peace of promise, root are the headliner, philadelphia's own. roots head liner tonight, mary, mary, social activist are taking the stadium dianne guerrero are taking the stage. they are calling on republicans to address social issues including income equality and hiv and aid. we have attended that huge peace rally, this city trying to set a positive tone ahead of the start of the convention. hundreds came from across cleveland in a show of unity and peace. they marched across the hope memorial bridge a span of links the east and western side of the city. they

michael brown, tamir rice, eric garner, freddie gray.es associated with some of the more high-profile police killings in recent times. but the list goes on and on. this year alone, 123 african-americans have been killed by the police. >> it is stunning, to see in two days what we have been seeing for years. that is, police killing of citizens. the question is, when will there be a systematic response to what has been a systemic problem in the united states? i think that we have been saying this, over and over again, and i think the last two days brought this to a real tipping point, one that this country has to deal with. >> no justice, no peace. prosecute the police. security with so much in so many communities, the fear is this could be the start of a long, hot summer, words which for decades have been uttered with a sense of foreboding. laura: for more on the most recent incidents, i'm joined by a law professor at georgetown university. two black men shot dead by the police within 48 hours. are these killings increasing in number, or

earlier this week i sat down with the mother of tamir rice, killed here in cleveland in 2014. louisiana and most, the mother of the youngest victims of police shootings continues to speak out. miss rice has been critical in the past in the lack of response from one particularly prominent local resident, lebron james, telling news one this year that, quote, it is quite sad that lebron james hasn't spoken out about my son, unquote. comments she doubled down on during our interview this week. >> absolutely. he needs to speak out more. it was a great win he brought to the city of cleveland that was much-needed. but he needs to speak out and say something. i mean, you are in african-american, you have -- you are african-american and you have two black boys. other athletes need to say something. >> and on wednesday james and other stars did answer the call to say something. dwyane wade and chris paul and anthony opened the espys by addressing the recent activity. james urged the audience to denounce all violence, declaring, we all have to do better. and we'll hear more from samaria r

john: she has spent a lot of the winter with a lot of their families like trayvon martin and tamir ricee has a lot of practice talking about these issues. he does not. she has an advantage. mark: we are waiting for hillary clinton's speech in philadelphia but up next week will talk to the democratic mayor of dallas. and a friend of president obama's. we will talk about the tragedy in his hometown when we come back. ♪ john: joining us now from dallas, democratic mayor, the first african-american to hold the office, ron kirk. the former trade representative under president obama. you were mayor of dallas from 1995 to 2002. tell us what you know from your time running and afterwards, tell us about the state of relations between the community and the police force. ron: thank you for giving me in opportunity to join you. this is a horrifically sad day for the city. i have to say, even though i have said it many times, how and sendingfor my prayers for the families of those incredibly brave law-enforcement officers who were executed last night. being in the unique position being privileged to

if you look at what happened with the tamir rice case in cleveland where there was a little boy playing in the park with a toy gun, and the cops get a call. they don't know it is a toy gun. what do they do? boy.roll up on the literally, the cop car has not stopped moving before the police jumped out and gunned the little boy down. we saw a similar response in baton rouge where the police get a call that there is somebody with a gun outside of a convenience store. the same thing. the cops roll up on the guy. they pushing against the carpet seconds later, he is shot dead. -- they push him against the car. seconds later, he shot dead. that is ineffective policing. every officer learns on day one in the police academy that you don't run out and voluntarily expose yourself to fire and use that as an excuse to shoot the person down. you are supposed to conceal yourself to protect yourself, and then communicate with the person. when we look at these situations, these are deaths that did not have to happen. these are the result of negligence and either ineffective training or training of people

. >> reporter: then 12-year-old tamir rice who only had a pellet gun was killed by a police officer in. tony harrison, eric harris, walter exalt. fuelling the anger and amping up. there are now dozens of black lives matter chapters across the united states. and while some believe that the movement has actually incited violence, its founders disagree. >> the reality is this is a peaceful movement led by incredibly courageous black people. >> we'll have more from dallas, texas, after the break. for now, i go back to my colleague natalie allen following another story. >>> thank you, george. north korea has launched a ballistic missile. u.s. strategic command say they as detected that presumed launch. they say it happened off the post of sinpo and eastern north korea. let's go to our matt rivers in seoul. the question is, matt, was it successful? >> the defense officials here in south korea say, no, this was not a successful test. it happened around 11:30 in the morning here local time. and while officials would not comment beyond saying that it wasn't a successful test, local media here i

thereafter you look at cleveland, tamir rice, the child with a gun. no diamond.e, in looking at that -- and i would never advocate a grand jury doing anything other than following the evidence. my issue when i say independent investigation is should the staten island district attorney have been the one to present that to the grand jury being that you work as a district attorney i am a former prosecutor, with the police every day. am i the guy when i have your partner in my office yesterday handing them the evidence when i'm going to see your partner in my office tomorrow. when you have the department of justice step in and they are investigating people feel a little sense of relief, that there will be fairness, whatever the out come, they can buy into it. if there was one law across the country i would like to see whether it is the federal government that takes the investigation, whether it's another district attorney that takes the investigation other than the single person who works every day with local police officers. >> i heard bail reforms, some people can'

it's not just eric garner, walter scott, tamir rice. >> there are things that need to be looked at.out it, >> don't say but. >> but when you have people taking to the streets saying we want dead cops. >> is it racist because -- >> let me finish. you have them chanting, a whole group of people, we want dead cops, and one week later, wenjin liu died. you have them yelling, pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. a group of people shouting this. and then you have police officers killed on the streets. all lives matter, black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter. all lives. >> we don't have the question about the value of young white males in this country, but there is a serious question about the young black males. >> and police lives. >> nobody's questioning those lives. >> yes, they are. >> who? >> because of the simple fact they don't get the benefit of their humanity. there are many things you can do and get shot while being black. that is a point. >> let me -- >> if all this was happening under eight years of a trump administration, we'd be blaming it on him. obama g

you hear about to mere rice -- tamir rice. once law enforcement starts weeding them out to because every time we see one of these cases, you look at the person's background, seven complaints for use of force, five substantiated. and we'll find out about it until they kill somebody. >> sunday night on q and a. >> the hard-fought 2016 primary season is over with his store conventions to follow this summer. >> colorado. >> florida. >> texas. in the first non-politician in several decades. watch live on c-span, listen on the c-span radio app or get video on demand at c-span.org. you have a friend roast the to every minute of both conventions beginning monday. >> this is the facility where the 2016 republican national convention will take place. we are standing on level four of the quicken loans arena. we are in one of the suites being converted for broadcast purposes. arehis level, there hospitality suites for guests but about 30 broadcasting media suites. in the earlyd infighting to get these suites for the media, which is about

the tamir rice shooting in cleveland, where you sit, stephanie. shot a man carrying a bee-bee gun and now a guy with a toy truck. in every one of these cases, if patrol officers arrive, they get out a pair of small binoculars, we assess it, we wouldn't have these shootings. everybody is rushing in too fast, getting their fingers on the triggers too fast, and this is what we have. >> then what needs to be done. >> i'm sorry? did you see what needs to be done? >> if we're seeing -- what needs to be done, if these incidences are happening over and over, if the climate is as tense as it is, and not changing, immediately, what needs to change? >> training, stephanie, first of all. training. tactics. you need to give the patrol officer some better tactics. you've got to equip them with the binoculars, small and large. and you've got to tell them, be smart going into these things. be smart. sit down. look and see what you've got. it's an autistic guy with a toy truck. this is not an unusual call for any patrol officer in america. it's not an unusual call

. >> reporter: 12-year-old tamir rice who had a pellet gun was killed by police in cleveland. >> theg man pulled a weapon out and the officer fired. >> reporter: tony robinson, eric harris, walter scott, freddie gray. in most instances the officers were not indicted. >> they need to take care of our country. the police are supposed to project us. >> reporter: while some believe the movement has actually incited violence and worsened race relations, its founders disagree. >> the reality is this is a peaceful human rights movement led by incredibly courageous black people. i think we're demanding justice and freedom for our people. >> the controversial shooting deaths of two black men after encounters with officers has sparked so much emotion and outrage across the country. a lot of people calling for charge. and a lot of people wondering, does the change come regarding police attitudes or police training? is it something within the community? we are live for you in dallas, stay close. my dentist if an electric toothbrush was going to clean better than a manual. he said sure...but don'

the flags should have been at half mast for to me a rice -- tamir rice. >> what is your assessment ofp? >> he is the most inappropriate person ever to think that he can actually run a country. dude try to run a town or a city first? it is the arrogance of businessmen. i've got to be the top kahuna or nothing else. that arrogance. i can run america like a corporation. it is like, dude, it is disrespectful to think that somebody could come from left field and do the job of a person who holds public office just because they feel like it. >> my name is luke nephew of the peace poets. i'm here with witness against torture and my crew the peace poets. we are here to support the good people of cleveland. >> what are your thoughts about donald trump? especially his call to bring back waterboarding. >> i think it is really important to recognize that donald trump said the words "torture works." it is profoundly ignorant of the toth, as well as in contrast the united states military that told her infantry for decades and decades never to torture a prisoner because the intelligence you get from

we've known that and saw it again with eric garner and tamir rice.ou can have video and it still not culminate in a fundamental change or people being given justice. so i don't think there is really a panacea for this. but it is horrific and it's exhausting and it's draining and it's frustrating to see this type of scenario again and again and again pop up. seeming not learning anything from the previous incident to that. >> i want to play a clip from your front line special. take a look at this. >> i'm not doing nothing! i'm not doing nothing. come on, man! >> stop, stop, stop. >> you're making me man. you're gonna get hurt. >> i swear to god i didn't -- >> stop, stop. >> just just saying -- >> stop. >> i didn't do nothing. >> just stop, sir. just stop. sir, you're not under arrest. just for your safety -- >> this is a guy who wasn't doing anything. >> on his way home. >> i watch that now and i think, thank god me got out of that alive. >> right. >> and also this public announcement on handcuffing you for your safety, the police officers in this cas

so whether we're talking about michael brown or eric gardner or ezell ford or tamir rice, john rawford, walter scott, freddie gray, sandra bland, rikah boyd, laquan mcdonald, or the last two that we have seen on television almost every night for the last eek or so, alton sterling or philando castile or names that we don't know, names not mentioned here because they have not been reported and we don't have the kind of database of these killings that we should have. that's another recommendation that i'm making, that we must have a database that is kept so that we can know for sure exactly who is being killed and why, supposedly, they are being killed. this is tough business that we have to deal with. this is painful business that we have to deal with. but when you see those mothers on television, as i saw last evening, saying i have a 14-year-old and i'm afraid for his life every minute he's not with me. and folks, -- and folks tell us you should talk to them more. and you should tell them how they should act when they're stopped by the police. i want to tell you, every african-american

sterling, but what they're seeing is walter scott and tamir rice and eric garner, etcetera, and reactingh little faith and confidence and policing. ask it's a sad state of affairs that we find ourselves in right now. >> mya, does the police department -- we lost our connection to mya at the scene there. marq, based on what we know about it, what's your analysis of the tactics that we are aware of at this stage that the police used? they had a call about a suspect with a gun and they chose to physically move in on him and in effect kind of tackle him app as opposed to standing off at some distance possibly with their weapons drawn and giving him orders from a distance. >> what would be very helpful in analyzing the tactics would be the 40 seconds or minute prior to the actual physical contact. and i think people need to be aware that the second video that you referenced and played part of actually shows the moment of initial contact by the police officer. and there lies many of the problems that occur, not only that have occurred and not only in this shooting, that deal with mr. sterling,

in november of 2014, police in cleveland responded to a call in a local park, 12-year-old tamir rice had been playing with a real-looking pellet gun and within seconds of pulling up on him, one of the officers shot and killed him. following february police in pasco, washington, shot a man who had been throwing rocks at them. he was shot 17 times as he ran away from officers, and then he died. in tulsa, oklahoma, a reserve deputy in the sheriff's department there shot and killed a suspect in an undercover drug sting. that reserve deputy, a 73-year-old insurance executive, he said he meant to draw his taser, but instead he accidentally pulled his gun and shot eric harris fatally. that was two days before the shooting death of unarmed walter scott. that confrontation began with a traffic stop. it ended with the officer firing multiple times at scott's back as scott fled across a vacant lot. shortly after that incident, video emerged of freddie gray's arrest by baltimore police. he suffered a spinal injury in police custody and died a week later. all these fatal encounters with police ha

we've known that and saw it again with eric garner and tamir rice.ave video and it still not culminate in a fundamental change or people being given justice. so i don't think there is really a panacea for this. but it is horrific and it's exhausting and it's draining and it's frustrating to see this type of scenario again and again and again pop up. seeming not learning anything from the previous incident to that. >> i want to play a clip from your front line special. take a look at this. >> i'm not doing nothing! i'm not doing nothing. come on, man! >> stop, stop, stop. >> you're making me man. you're gonna get hurt. >> i swear to god i didn't -- >> stop, stop. >> just just saying -- >> stop. >> i didn't do nothing. >> just stop, sir. just stop. sir, you're not under arrest. just for your safety -- >> this is a guy who wasn't doing anything. >> on his way home. >> i watch that now and i think, thank god me got out of that alive. >> right. >> and also this public announcement on handcuffing you for your safety, the police officers in this case, sayin

it's not only michael brown, la kwan mcdonald, tamir rice.and see the guy that gets shot right in his back. >> you're right about that. >> i can go on and on. >> you can't go on and on. >> yes, i can. there is a bias. as i said to you last week, "the washington post" reported there's 6% of the population in this country is black men but 40% of the people killed unarmed by police, black men. >> do you know the correlation to the statistics are also on crime. >> you went on and on about those statistics. i want to tell you it's clear including from "the new york times" report that you cited that the incidents of people being pushed to the ground, beaten -- >> right. >> -- all of that, handcuffed, disproportionate. it's when it comes to the shootings again that this fellow who had limited data mostly focused on houston could find no racial correlation. >> and that's an important fact because this movement is based on the shootings. dana. >> well, will "the new york times" be against science when it comes to reporting about this? but i do think t

but then i remembered tamir rice. i remember trayvon martin, michael brown and aiyana jones.ountless black bodies piling up in our streets and i remember my own experiences with police officers as a kid. the struggle must continue for our future's sake. >> professor, let me begin with you, listening to those letters, you said in yours that you wish that your son, langston, was 7 years old again. why is that? and why did alton sterling's death drive you to write this letter? >> well, you know, i saw alton sterling's 15-year-old son weeping at the press conference, and it reminded me of my own child. and you know, combine that with diamond reynolds' extraordinary 4-year-old child having the resources to comfort her, it just made me think of my own son, and i just said that it would be better if he was just home, if he was with us. we could at least make sure he was safe. because when he was 7, he was so cute, you know. he was fixing his own cereal. you know, we were watching sponge-bob together. he wasn't that maddening teenager that he became. and you know, he was just my man.

i am speaking to you from clcleveland, where t tamir rices killed b by police officers just two years. the officers in that case of the 12 euros boy who had a toy gun in a park were not charged. >> and y you know, i thihink tht this country will move forwaward ononly if we asas individuals -t will not come inside of a courtroom. justice will n not be served therere. justice will become reality when we as indidividuals stop making excuses. we see sheriff clarke'e's comments, and he i is being used as a puppet to perpetutuate this myth that black lives matter is get police officers. philando castile was a law-ababiding citizen withth a permit to carry a weweapon.. he was killed. amy: we have five seconds. kwame rose and sheryl wood. thank you for being with us. that does it for our broadcast. special thanks to the denver open media crew. i am amy [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from the republican national convention in cleveland, ohio, this is democracacy now! >> i i found thehe leader who wl help us deliver a safe society and a prosperous society for all amererican.

i am speaking to you from cleveland, where tamir rice was killed by police officers just two years agoe officers in that case of the 12 euros boy who had a toy gun in a park were not charged. >> and you know, i think that this country will move forward only if we as individuals -- it will not come inside of a courtroom. justice will not be served there. justice will become reality when we as individuals stop making excuses. we see sheriff clarke's comments, and he is being used as a puppet to perpetuate this myth that black lives matter is get police officers. philando castile was a law-abiding citizen with a permit to carry a weapon. he was killed. amy: we have five seconds. kwame rose and sheryl wood. thank you for being with us. that does it for our broadcast. special thanks to the denver open media crew. open media crew. i am amy (music playing) ♪ over here i have a bread pudding made with some cherries, and we're serving it with an assortment of ice cream. sometimes it kind of makes me chuckle because when i grew up as a kid in france, bread pudding was called mendiant. mendiant m

you hear about the tamir rice, eric garner cases.long for starts weeding them out, every time you hear or see one of these cases, you look at the person's background, seven complaints, use of force, five substantiated, the guy was a mess. we don't find out about it until they kill somebody. when the cursor layout, we should be handling it. brian: where does your last name come from? mr. pegues: french origins. i trust my roots to north carolina. brian: you say in your book your dad was an alcoholic? mr. pegues: he was a functional alcoholic. he went to work every day that was drunk every day. brian: what year elected he die? die? his life did he mr. pegues: he left in the third grade and he died my second year as a police officer. came toto one o -- the police graduation. he told me he loved me that day. youn: different feeling for if a guy sitting here asking you questions is black versus a white guy? mr. pegues: it does not matter. i don't base the things on race unless it is quite obvious that there is a racial component. i'm comf