michael brown, eric garner, tamir rice, walter scott, freddie gray, sam dubose,alton sterling, philando castile and terence crutcher are just some of the names on a long list of unarmed black boys and men who were killed by police officers in recent years. although black men have been the victims of violence at the hands of the state since the time of slavery, technology and social media now permit us to literally bear witness to many of these killings repeated hi. repeatedly. millions of people have watched the video of a police officer choking eric garner to death as he struggled for air. similarly, millions have watched the video of a police officer shooting walter scott in the back as he ran for his life. who can ever forget the grainy footage of tamir rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot by a police officer while he played alone with a toy gun in a park near his home. two videos, one from a police helicopter and another from a police dashboard camera, show terence crutcher walking away from police officers with his hands raised high in the air just before he was shot and killed.

the tragic owns a trayvon martin, michael brown, eric garner, walter scott, tamir rice, freddie gray, and others served as the catalyst for this anthology. but these killings also inspired the contributing authors to think about all of the ways that black men are policed in the broad sense of the word, have old and harshly at every step of the criminal process. in fact, black men are policed and treated worse than the similarly situated white counterparts at every step of the criminal justice system, from arrest through sentencing. these unwarranted disparities exist whether black men are charged with crimes or are victims of crimes. police officers stopped, search, and rest black men far more frequently than white men engage in the same behavior. prosecutors charge black men more frequently and with more serious crimes than white men who engage in the same behavior. they are disproportionate numbers of black men in the nation's prisons and jails. criminal defendants regardless of the race are punished less harshly when the victims are black men. this anthology explores and explains t

who can never forget the grainy footage of tamir rice 12-year-old boy who was shot by a police officer while he played alone with a toy gun in a park near his home? two videos, one from a police helicopter and another from a police dashboard camera show terrance krucher walking away from police officers with his hands raised high had in the air. just before he was shot and killed -- these image hads e feelings of fear, sadness and outrage and serve easy reminder that lives of black men and boys continue to be devalued an destroyed with impunity at the hands of the state to date not one of the police officers who killed these men and boys have been convicted of a single crime. from arrival of the slaves to 19 t and 20th centuries to present day, black boys and men have been unlawfully killed by those warp sworn to upthe law by vigilantes who took the law into their own hands. the national museum of african-american history and culture opened its doors on september 24th, 2016 includes exhibits that tell the story of many of these killings. yet these killings are not just a part of africa

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black man on his hands after brown's death we saw the violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott in south carolina friday gray in baltimore and recently philander steele in minnesota just to name a few of these deaths in the bureaucratic resistance to justice surrounding them can all be traced back to that fateful august ninth two thousand and fourteen that day when the white side of the united states was forced to come face to face with the reality of the great cism institutional oppression that still goes on today and could no longer be written off as you know rare one off vestiges of a bygone era confined to the dusty pages of u.s. history so today let us remember august ninth michael brown jr and the countless lives who struggle we hope will no longer have to be remembered.

black man on his hands after brown's death we saw the violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott in south carolina friday gray in baltimore and recently philander steele in minnesota just to name a few. these deaths in the bureaucratic resistance to justice surrounding them can all be traced back to that fateful august ninth two thousand and fourteen that day when the white side of the united states was forced to come face to face with the reality of the racism and institutional oppression that still goes on today and could no longer be written off as you know rare one off vestiges of a bygone era confined to the dusty pages of u.s. history so today let us remember august ninth michael brown jr and the countless lives who struggle we hope will no longer have to be remembered through they're trying. but through their victory as we start watching the whole. world. looks like real that is what. the bottom. line is what it looks like you know that i got. the. lyrics or. the watching the hawks i am tyrone them and i'm thomas a while last august ninth of march

after saying the deaths of traem, michael brown and tamir rice were an example of black people behaving like a savage, he and pounded on the issue of violence. >> of course we're capable. i'm carrying a pistol. i go to the gym all time. i'm trying to make myself more capable of violence. i'm here to spread ideas, talk, in the hope that's somebody more capable will come along and do that. >> i'm sarah we did not initiate force. we're not nonviolent. we'll kill these people if we have to. >> language like that is obviously offensive and outrageous and highly alarming. there was one thing that brought that white nationalist tough guy to tears. that's next. >>> a participant who gave a tough talking interview was on a somewhat different mindset when he posted a video saturday after he says he learn that had there was a warrant out for his arrest. >> there is a state of emergency, the national guard is here. i think it is a good idea for me to go there, frankly. and i don't know had a to do. i've interviewed the police department. sorry. what option dozen we have left? if somebody would like

after saying the deaths of traem, michael brown and tamir rice were an example of black people behavinge a savage, he and pounded on the issue of violence. >> of course we're capable. i'm carrying a pistol. i go to the gym all time. i'm trying to make myself more capable of violence. i'm here to spread ideas, talk, in the hope that's somebody more capable will come laalong and d that. >> i'm sarah we did not initiate force. we're not nonviolent. we'll kill these people if we have to. >> language like that is obviously offensive and outrageous and highly alarming. there was one thing that brought that white nationalist tough guy to tears. that's next. i needed something more to help control my type 2 diabetes. my a1c wasn't were it needed to be. so i liked when my doctor told me that i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do what it's suppose to do, release its own insulin. i take it once a week, and it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen and i may even lose a little

maybe we need to talk to the families of a tamir rice, who wuz a 12-year-old child. to sit down and talk to the families of walter scott, and keith lamont scott who didn't get the benefit of their humanity. maybe there is a disconnect and maybe in this country we're talking beyond one another. but whether or not it's scott jennings or someone in trump country is a level of empathy for those of us that register that as fear and if can have that level of empathy for an issue near and dear to my heart, i should be able to sit down j the same level of empathy with you. >> i agree with you. as i said i think the tension is extremely worrisome. the president was actually speaking about violent gangs and so if you're one of his supporters and you're listening to that peach and you hear him talk about the violent ms-13. >> and there are people who should get empathy who have been in that violence. >> and you have the liberals come in and say -- >> this is not a liberal -- do you understand that some people look at me as being inherently dangerous because i'm a black male? do

>> when the trayvon martin case happened, michael brown, tamir rice, every case it's a black [ bleepingi like a salv annual and he gets himself in trouble. i'm here to talk and hope somebody comes along like donald trump who does not give his daughter to a jew. >> so donald trump but like more racist. >> a lot more racist than donald trump. i don't think that you can feel about race the way i do and watch that kushner bastard walk around with that beautiful girl, okay? >> so the alt-right is very organized. they have a lot of numbers, shields, protective gear like helmets. we've seen tear gas, water bottles, [ bleep ]. >> i should pour it on my face? >> what just happened? >> they maced me. >> who? >> i don't know. communists. >> oh, my god. >> there are people on the ground being treated by the medics. there were people running up the street screaming and crying. there's many people on the side injured too. it's a really horrific sound. >> i'd say it was worth it. we knew that we were going to meet a lot of resistance. the fact that nobody on our side died, i'd go ahead and call tha

. >> when the trayvon martin case happened, michael brown and tamir rice, every single case, it's something black [ bleep ] bhaifg w behaving like a savage. whatever problems i have with my fellow white people, they are generally not inclined to such behavior, and you have to take that into consideration when you think about how to organize your society. when guy to the gym, i'm trying to make myself more capable of violence. i'm here to spread ideas, talk in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do that. somebody like donald trump who does not give his daughter to a jew. >> so donald trump but more racist. >> a lot more racist than donald trump. i don't think that you can feel about race the way i do, and watch that kushner bastard walk around with that beautiful girl. i came very well prepared for this thing today. .380 acp, 9 millimeter, ruger lc-9, also 9 millimeter. and there's a knife. i have another ak in that bag over there. i ain't saying it was worth it. we knew we were going to meet a lot of resistance. the fact that nobody on our side died, i would call that p

>> when trayvon martin case happened, michael brown and tamir rice, and all of these different things happened, every single case it is some little black -- behaving like a savage and he gets himself in trouble shockingly enough. whatever problems i might have with my fellow white people, they generally are not inclined to such behavior and you have to take that into consideration when you are thinking about how to organize your society. elle: oklahoma city. >> exactly, you have to go back to oklahoma city to talk about a white active terrorist. elle: elliott roger, dylann roof. >> ok, so now you have managed to name three people and i am pretty sure elliott roger was not explicitly white, by the way. the thing is you remember the names of white bombers and mass shooters. can you tell me the name of all 19 hijackers on 9/11 off the top of your head? you can remember dylann roof's name. elle: you were asking whether white people were capable of violence. >> i didn't say capable -- of course, we are capable. carrying a pistol, i go to the gym all the time. i'm trying to make myself more

you think what's gone on 50 years away has gone away, we know eric garner and sandra bland and tamir ricee this repeated. the reality is that it makes us feel that we are not crazy because it can't be black people's fault if it happened 50 years ago and is still happening 50 years later there must be something about the police department itself, the police culture that produces this kind of stigma on young, black people. i think this film is such a powerful, as you said, i was 8 years old and i remember the trailer and asking my mother what this was and she told me something about a blind pig. i said what does a sightless, right, but i found out later this after hours' club sparked off the whole thing and, again, two returning soldiers from vietnam who were being celebrated and the police coming in to really devastate us, that's the story that you have helped put on the front pages, as well. >> well, how the detroit police approached the investigation after the incident. >> right. >> when we have these conversations, we do them in stages. okay. stage one, witnesses. stage two, suspects. >

>> when trayvon martin case happened, michael brown and tamir rice and all these things happened. every single case, it's some little black [ bleep ] behaving like a savage. he gets himself into trouble. whatever problems i may have with my fellow white people. they generally are not inclined to such behavior, and you have to take that into consideration when you're thinking about how to organize your society. >> pastor, are you comfortable with is that? this is a man who supports the president, who believes the president believes in what he believes in. these are people that are marching in the president's name. you have david duke saying, look in the mirror, white people are who voted for you. are you comfortable with the amount of push back that this president has given to this? would you like at the very least to see him come out and say, i do not want your support? i do not want you to march in my name? i do not condone this. i think you are filled with hate? don't you want to hear that from the president of the united states? >> if i'm allowed to talk, i'll tell you. first o

i said, black men and women, whether it's mike brown, freddie gray, doesn't matter whether it's tamir riceite supremacy is affecting us regardless of who it comes from. so what i'm saying is what i think should happen is this. it's what you all do as supposed good white people. you see what germany did. why do you even care what the people from the confederate feel? they lost the war. it should come down. because if you really care about history, what about the native american history? what about the african history? everywhere that white men have conquered some -- anybody on this earth, they have literally almost totally decimated their culture. so why all of a sudden, because it's other white men, they care about the history. when you think about it, think about public flags. public flags are supposed to be a conglomerate effort of everybody in that state. so, as a mississippian and knowing how many black people stay in mississippi, that is -- that does not represent me or my culture. that means death and slavery to me, and just like most things in america, if it's something that's impor

>> when trayvon martin case happened, you know, michael brown and tamir rice, every single case, it'sack [ bleep ] aking likecting like . whatever problems i have with my white people, they are generally not inclined to such behavior and you have to take that into consideration when you're figuring out how to organize your society. >> they told vice news they don't see themselves as violent. they blamed it on some one else. >> that is because this city is run by jewish communist and criminal natives. that's exactly what it is. >> so you're the true nonviolent protests? >> we did not initiate force against anyone. we are not violent. we'll [ bleep ] kill these people if we have to. >> not violent but willing to kill. and they came armed to the tee. >> right now we have people on the ground at the statue with equipment and they're being told they're not allowed to have a vehicle come through and pick them up or anybody pick them up. i'm about to send at least 200 people with guns to go get them out if you guys do not get our people out. >> i came very well prepared for this thing today.

mean, maybe we need to go out and sit down and talk to the families of these individuals like a tamir rice man, but who was a 12-year-old child wild donald trump, jr. was a good little boy. maybe we need to sit down and talk to the families of keith lamont scott or alton sterling who didn't get the benefit of their humanity. so i understand that maybe there is a disconnect and maybe in this country we're talking beyond one another. but one thing whether or not it's scott jennings or somebody in trump country needs to have is a level of empathy for those of us that register that as fear. if you can have that level of empathy for an issue near and dear to my heart, i should be able to have that same level of empathy with you. that's all i ask. >> i agree with you. i think the tension that exists between police and our citizens in many communities is extremely worrisome. the president was speaking about violent gangs, and so if you're one of his supporters, and you're listening to that speech and you hear him talk about the violent ms-13 -- >> and there are people who should get empathy who h

the cleveland police department was engaged in a pattern of abusive behavior where 12-year-old tamir ricepolice officers at the moment of his exit in a city park. this has gone the way of racial strife, and it's exactly within their right. i expect them to stand up for something like this, and i applaud them for that. the only thing i'm upset about is they beat the giants last night. >> i have no problem with them -- it is absolutely their right. i'm not saying it's not their right. but this is my point. i think if you actually do things in the off-season and you actually are registered to vote and you actually get involved -- >> the assumption is so biassed, though. >> let him finish. >> -- then i think you're legit and i can respect the idea that you're kneeling during this national anthem. i may not agree with it, but i can respect you. what i don't like is hypocrisy. what i don't like is when i see players that are like, oh, this is the new cool thing to do, and i'm going to walk over and kneel, too, so i get some free press. >> let me bring in dave, because dave, you say some of the

wrote this poem after tamir rice was killed, reflecting on the conversation mist father had with me andn son. >> one night when i was 12 years old, on an overnight field trip to another city, my friends and i bought supper soaker. turned the hole at the parking lot into our phone water, filled battlefield. he hid behind cars, running through the darkness between the streetlights, across the pavement. within ten minutes my father came outside, grab me by my forearm and led me into our room with an unfamiliar grip. before i could say anything, telling me how foolish i looked in front of my friends the eh derided me for being so naive. looked me in the eye, fear in his face and said, son, i'm sorry, but you can't act the same as your dwight friend '. can't pre trend to shoot guns, canned round round any dark. canned hide behind anything a ooh than your own teeth. know how scared he was, how could i have fallen into the empty of the night as some man would mistake the water for a good reason to wash all of this away. these are the sort odd message if was inundated with my entire life, alway