it is fitting because today, june 25th, would have been tamir rice's 18th birthday. a profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession that requires highly-trained officers who are accountable to the public. embarking on a journey toward a new vision of policing in america is only possible because of the incredible leadership in the house of representatives. [ applause ] speaker pelosi has said she wants to see a bold transformative effort, and that is exactly what justice in policing will do. madam speaker. [ applause ] >> thank you, madam chair. liberty and justice for all. that is what we pledge allegiance to every day. today we stand across from the supreme court, where seven years ago today, the court undermined justice with the shelby versus holder decision to cut the voting rights act which we have enacted again to fix with our voting rights advancement act sitting over in the senate. today we sit amid the injustice of the coronavirus which has disproportionately inflicted suffering on our communities of color which we enacted to address in t

school. -- and this may, tamir rice would graduate from high school. when we do not invest in communities, police officers are left to pick up the pieces. police officers are the first to say this is unfair. they weren't trained to be social workers or health providers. homelessness and substance abuse are health and economic problems. in los angeles, we have a jail called the twin towers with hundreds of inmates. and in los angeles, we refer to it as the nation's most expensive mental health institution, because the majority of the people in the jail suffer from mental illness. this did not happen overnight. 30 years ago, in 1990, i started an organization in south central los angeles to address a health and economic problem society was criminalizing. bass was choosing to criminalize. -- that society was choosing to criminalize. that was the problem with crack cocaine. what we did, we didn't expand drug treatment. we just incarcerated people. many of those people are in prison today. the justice in policing act reinvests in our communities and empower

instead, tamir rice never made it passed 12 years old.t little face is frozen in time, this baby face kid who went to a rec center near his home to play cops and ropers in 2018 and was gunned down within seconds by real cops after somebody called 911 on this child looking suspicious. the cleveland cop who killed tamir rice was ultimately fired for lying on his job application and failing to disclose he lost his last police job in another city after being deemed unfit to serve due to emotional issues. his partner was suspended for using improper tactics by driving too close to tamir before lowman fired him. neither cop was fired for killing the 12-year-old tamir rice for no reason. and the prosecutor went way out of his not to indict either of them. he has since lost his job thanks to black voters who torched him in the 2016 democratic primary. after lowman was fired, he went right over to another police force and got another job as a police officer in a town called bell air. and only left that job because of public outrage from a black li

on the heels of the shooting are tamir rice a young boy shot within less than two seconds from police arriving on the scene, in t2004 right before thanksgiving and the governor and i had a conversation. i call the governor and said, govern governor, we have to do something.

arbery, both them john, jordan davis, oscar grant, philando castile, freddie gray, walter scott, tamir rice, michael brown, eric garner, trayvon martin -- any other names? >> sean bell. >> jordan davis. [inaudible] speaker pelosi: during a moment of silence i am sure that those who have been hurt by all of this won't mind if you shout out names then. for those who wish to, we will now kneel for our moment of silence. speaker pelosi: hard to get up. it is better not to have on high heels. you see how long it was to have that that knee. >> thank you. we will now proceed to the press conference. please follow me this way. democratsongressional release their reform legislation. and chair karen bass led a press conference to unveil the bill. with includes banning chokehold's and then starting a thorough registry of police misconduct.

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arbery, both them john, jordan davis, oscar grant, philando castile, freddie gray, walter scott, tamir rice, michael brown, eric garner, trayvon martin -- any other names? >> sean bell. >> jordan davis. [inaudible] speaker pelosi: during a moment of silence i am sure that those who have been hurt by all of this won't mind if you shout out names then. for those who wish to, we will now kneel for our moment of silence. speaker pelosi: hard to get up. it is better not to have on high heels. you see how long it was to have that that knee. >> thank you. we will now proceed to the press conference. please follow me this way. journal,'s washington every day we are taking your calls live on the air, on the news of the day, and policy issues that impact you. tuesday morning, we look at policing during the covid-19 pandemic and nationwide civil unrest with the president of the international association of chiefs of police, and we will talk about race relations in america with the naacp president and ceo. watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning, and join the discussion

so, i would give the names of mike brown, eric garner, tamir rice, philando castile, and most peoplest audiences would be still be standing. then i would say the names of michelle cuseso, tamishia anderson. india beatty. maya hall, taylor moore. by the time i got to the second name, pretty much everybody had already taken their seats. you could actually hear the sound of people sitting down. i call that the, you know, the sound of the silence. the sign of marginality. it's that we haven't heard these names because we don't have stories, the ability to say, oh, i recognize that story. you start a story what police violence against black men looks like, you are walking down the street and police roll up on you. and then it goes back. people get that. but the story is you're sleeping in your own bed at 1:00 in the morning and no one knows how to really complete that story. so that's part of the problem. because we don't tell the story, people are not familiar with them. when they're not familiar with them, they can't hold the names of black women who have been killed by the police. ther

. >> tamir rice, yes. >> after a while you run out of possible explanations. >> i don't think we run out of possible explanations. i think we avoid the most obvious explanation, and that is that black people are seen as an inherent threat. the darker your skin the more threatening you seem. the bigger you are the more threatening you seem. people forget people always focus on the people who have died, which we always have to do. we have to think about the walter scotts, the tamir rices, but i think people forget people are fighting for black lives. people are fighting for the black people who are still alive so that that doesn't happen to them. you know, when you say that to me and i like that you bring that up is the ifs, the ifs, the ifs, if you weren't this, if you weren't this, there is one common thread and that is the people are black. at mercedes-benz, nothing less than world-class service will do. that's why we're expanding your range of choices. many dealers now offer optional pick-up & delivery and at-home maintenance, as well as online shopping with home delivery and speci

floyd, breonna taylor, arman arbery, jordan davis, castile,nt, philando freddie gray, walter scott, tamir rice, michael brown, eric martin, anyvon other names members wish -- >> sean bell. >> jordan davis. >> [indiscernible] speaker pelosi: during a moment of silence i am sure that those who have been hurt by all of this won't mind if you shout out names then. for those who wish to, we will now neil for our moment of l for our- now knee moment of silence. speaker pelosi: hard to get up with high heels. he see how long it was to have thatnee -- that knee. >> thank you. we will now proceed to the conference room. and contrarypiece, to the civil war buffs like to say it was a lost cause, that it was about states rights, the civil war was about racism and white supremacy. host: that is elizabeth there. if you want to find out what she talked about when it comes to the confederate flag or other related topics, we invite you to c-span.org,bsite, find out more pair house democrats set to unveil their legislative package around 10:30 this morning. will heard, republican from "wallhas a piece in the st

you represented the family of tamir rice, 12-year-old cleveland boy shot and killed by police.ne of several in this country that put a spotlight and called into question police tactics and use of force. years later what are your thoughts now on how the george floyd case is unfolding? >> two things stand out, first, it is remarkable to me that it is this case that finally was the tipping point to create the level of protest that we've seen in this country. why that didn't happen with tamir rice, why that didn't happen with eric garner in new york, why that didn't happen on such a national and international scale with michael brown, i don't really fully understand, but it is remarkable and it is welcome. the second thing that stands out is that the hennepin county prosecutor in minnesota deferred to the minnesota attorney general keith ellison. that is remarkable. >> and minnesota attorney general keith ellison announced the charges against derek chauvin have been upgraded to second degree murder. can you explain the difference between the third degree murder charge that he was i

we heard it when tamir rice was suddenly shot. we heard it when walter scott was shot in the back and the taser was planted near his body. we've heard it over and over. why should we believe that it will happen this time, marq, or should we? >> i tend not to be that much of a pessimist. i believe that -- now because of the emotional impact and what i think the nation sees as its personal investment in the sanctity of human life. and i think what happened to mr. floyd in minneapolis really tricked the consciousness of a diverse and wide range of group of individuals. i think it's happening now because there's a playbook to go by. there are suggestions. recommended. that were made in the previous administration that are part of this 21st century policing model that are being re-spro deuintrod modernized, if you will, with additional changes. i think it's happening now. possibility it will happen now because of the movement that occurred on the streets. the demonstration, the public demonstrations, the activism, that continues to thi

by one department and then hired by another as happened notoriously with the officer who killed tamir rice. reddit, did you not hear my question? let me go to you, laura, if you can hear me. this does seem like a legitimately big step. >> it is. and that respect it is one of the aspects that people have been calling for in terms of people being able to track not only those officers who are problematic but also termination. but on the other side of that particular win is essentially the sword and the shield. there is the idea here that although they will have that national database to track, it has to rely on only those officers who perhaps have been terminated or have been provided fair process. so i'm wondering what that's going to mean in the long run, whether there will be some discretion about who can be or should be included in the database. but overall, the idea of being able to track problematic officers and prevent things like the very thing that happened to young tamir rice would be a very wonderful thing. >> and, reddit, i think your earpiece is now functioning again. what's your

to tamir rice, who didn't make it to his 13th birthday. the senseless happens by the hands of law enforcement, the horror of the moment and outrage and sadness and yes, anger that followed have turned into a pattern that too many people appear to believe is normal. it's not, and we cannot, must not let ourselves become number george floyd was someone's son cried out for his mother who previously passed away. he had a six-year-old daughter growing up would ut a father and knowing that she, too, would face the same dangers because of the color of her skin. george floyd was born in a country built on the belief that we are all created equal, but he died in a country that still has not fully realized that we must all be treated equally as well. it is long, long past time for action. we needed it before george floyd. before briona taylor and others were killed, too. and we need real leaders, to give those fighting for justice to have a platform to be heard. sadly, although unsurprisingly, donald trump has done just the opposite over the past fe

tamir rice, dead. event smith, -- evette smith, dead. stephon clark, dead. taylor, dead. george floyd, dead. but, at times, police are able to show restraint under difficult circumstances, is that correct? >> of course. jameseffries: in 2012, holmes entered a movie theater in colorado and open fire on an audience, killing 12 people and injuring 70. arwas heavily armed with an 15, shotgun, and handgun, yet he was taken into police custody outside that very same movie theater without incident. james holmes is white, correct? >> i am not sure of his background. rep. jeffries: he is white. 2014, dylan roof massacred nine black parishioners in charleston. mr. roof was heavily armed with a high-powered glock, 40, -- 45 caliber pistol, and 88 rounds. the police somehow arrested dylan roof without incident and even treated him to burger king. bongino,gino -- mr. dylan roof is white, is that correct? mr. bongino: i don't see where you are going with this. jeffries: last year, in el cius, aexas, patrick cru shooting rampage, used an ak-47 and was heavily armed. yet, somehow, he was

legal segregation to de facto segregation to institutional racism to the killings of michael brown, tamir rice, eric garner, freddie gray, breonna taylor, and george floyd, as well as the vigilante killings of trayvon martin and ahmaud arbery and others. the white police officer who looked at the video as he kept his knee on the neck of george floyd thought he would get away with his actions because he and so many others had not been held accountable before. he thought he could get away with it based on his experience. we must change that. senator booker said we can have our moments of silence, we can have vigils, but that is not enough. it is not nearly enough. this is a moment that demands real action, real change, and real results, starting with changes in police practices and the systemic racism and institutions that shield those who engage in misconduct from accountability. those changes must include establishing truly independent oversight mechanisms to ensure that those police officers who betray the public trust are held accountable. we must ban outright the use of choke holds unless t

they ache for breonna taylor, tamir rice, laquan mcdonald, freddie gray, walter scott, and for so many other victims of police violence in all parts of america. their shocking deaths sparked momentary outrage, but no fundamental change. and for every incident of excessive force that makes headlines, the ugly truth is that there are countless others that we never hear about. every day african-americans and other people of color live in fear of harassment and violence at the hands of some law enforcement officers. this is their reality. our country's history of racism and racially motivated violence rooted in the original sin of slavery continues to haunt our nation. and to those who do not believe it, please look at the tragic statistics. african-americans are more than twice as likely to be shot and killed by police each year. and black men between the ages of 50 and 34 are approximately ten times more likely to be killed by police than other americans. this outrage is a reality we must change. today we examine the state of policing in america and look for ways to prevent racist acts o

how will people know for example, tamir rice -- he died -- he died at the hands of a police officer who had been fired by another department, but the information was not shared by the department that hired him. his misconduct resulted in the so i appreciate your question. as i said when i became speaker, i partisanship, transparency, e pluribus unum, we always have a responsibility to reach across the aisle. but instead of a handshake, you get a slap in the face, then you better go back to the drawing board. that is what they better do. that's up to the senate. and they come to their conclusion, they cannot pass a bill and you think we should embrace it? no. thank you for your question. that's it. thank you all very much. [inaudible] safety is first and people have families at home that they have to go home to and they don't want to carry somebody else's virus there. when the president of the united states says he doesn't want to wear a mask and understands the ad example -- i don't know if he understands anything -- but somebody must over there understand the bad example that is to the

the hearing was held just a month after the death of tamir rice, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by a police officer in cleveland while he played with a toy gun. i said then and sadly i must repeat today when unarmed african american men and boys are killed in our streets, there is much work to be done to find justice in america. this followed a hearing i'd held the previous year where we heard heartbreaking testimony from sabrina fulton, the number of trayvon martin and lucy mcbath, the mother of jordan davis. lucy has been elected to the u.s. house of representatives from florida since. both of these innocent young black men were gunned down by violent white vij antes -- vigilantes. now we again grieve the lives of two black men and a black woman, lives cut far too short in incidents of inexplicable, inexcusable violence, ahmaud arbery out for a jog. breonna taylor at home in her bedroom. and george floyd on a curbside in minneapolis. once again those gut-wrenching words i can't breathe brings tears to our eyes. how many more names of black men, women, and children will we cry out

tamir rice was my 12-year-old little boy in cleveland who was policeo seconds after got to him so it is personal for me. what is different is that in all of the past we had to change the existing system. that is what we have been doing in cleveland for the last 13 years, pushing against the existing system. they currently exist education system as we know it has been obliterated. we not like a knockback there as you hurt my colleagues, but we do not have to -- we cannot only go not go back there but we do not have to. we can design a system that is just and good for kids. children living in deep poverty [indiscernible] cleveland has the highest childhood poverty of any major city. children who are living in deep is the entire environment. i left urban education. mostorked in one of the school systems in ohio, almost exclusively white, and the learning happening was not just the [cheers & applause] --[cheers & applause] [indiscernible] [inaudible] my kids will never have access. i think congress [indiscernible] two sees this and say how do we return [inaudible] fragilenue to support p

this bill is about tamir rice. they know this bill is about breonna taylor, sleeping while black, gunned down because of a no-knock warrant in a drug case that was falsely executed in louisville. and now a husband has lost his wife. about breonna taylor. they know that. it's about countless individuals . and in this great country of ours, killed by police officers without justification. yes, we know that the majority of police officers certainly, the ones i interact with those in palestinian are hardworking individuals who are in the community to protect and serve. but there are violent officers. there are brutal officers. there are abusive officers. and far too often, they are not held accountable because of a toxic culture that exists and that cannot be denied. not month after month. not year after year, but decades after decades after decades. we know the names. many of those names were called today from the floor of the house of representatives, but he names are too numerous to mention. that's why we are here,

attorney for the families of george floyd and breonna taylor and michael brown and trafon martin and tamir rice. so when leader mcconnell scheduled a vote, he led the senate into a cul-de-sac, a dead end, a bridge to nowhere. his claim, that he wanted a bipartisan bill, was belied by the fact there was no democratic input into either the bill or the procedure. none. mr. mcconnell, bipartisan means what it says. you work with both parties. you don't put the bill together yourself, declare what the procedure is, and then say you have a bipartisan bill. and when you don't work in a bipartisan way, you will inevitably fail. but all is not lost. there is a way forward. this does not mark the end of the road, and all hope can stay high. because now, leader mcconnell can do just what we asked him to do. put together a group of democrats and republicans, come up with a bipartisan bill, put it on the floor, allow it for amendments, and a bill could pass and go to conference in the senate. we know when leader mcconnell is motivated to pass legislation, he could make it happen. he sets up bipartisan worki

national registry would have been in effect it would have revealed the officer who killed 12-year-old tamir rice had been fired from another department and had a propensity for violence. he never would have been hired by another department, and this made tamia rice would graduate from high school. police officers are left to pick up the pieces. police officers are the first to say this is unfair. they weren't trained to be social workers or health providers. homelessness and substance abuse are health and economic problems. in los angeles we have a geo called the twin towers with inmates.of in los angeles we refer to it as the nation's most expensive mental health institution, because the majority of the people in the jail suffer from mental illness. this did not happen overnight. 1990 i started an organization in south central los angeles to address a health and economic problem society was criminalizing. that was the problem with crack cocaine. what we did, we didn't expand drug treatment. people.incarcerated many of those people are in prison today. the justice in policing act reinvests in ou

auntie anna jefferson, walter scott, orlando costello, i anna stanley jones, tamir rice, as well as manny ellis, and shea taylor from my home state of washington. the countless people, black people and people of color the vast majority whose names we don't know whose lives have been unfairly taken. even more important these protests are driven by people including many young people who aree justifiably sick and tired of the systemic racism behind those killings that is deeply woven throughout the fabric of our democracy and our history and rightly believe we are not moving forward nearly fast enough. i know this is true in my home state of washington where according to data compiled by the mapping police violence database between 2013 and 2019 black people were more than three times more likely to be killed by the police and it is beyond clear that disproportionate impact of police violence in on black communities as well as other communities of color is not an accident. so mr. president i come to the floor today because our nation has to change, because the people are demanding it and i b

the latest in an endless series of police killings of african-americans, including sharad brooks, tamir rice, alton sterling, walter scott and many, many others that american people are rightly demanding more from justice and an end to police brutality and murder. we have got to hear that cry coming from all across this country from large cities and small towns and the senate must act and act now. now, here is some good news in the midst of a lot of bad news. that is thanks to a massive grassroots movement, the senate will finally begin to debate legislation dealing with the police. that is a good thing. the bad news is that the republican legislation, at least what i have seen this morning, goes nowhere near far enough as to where we need to go. now is not the time to think small or respond with superficial bureaucratic proposals. now is not the time for more studies. now is the time to hold racist and corrupt police officers and police departments accountable for their actions. now is the time to implement reforms in communities that have suffered police brutality for far too long. now her

from eric garner who told us six years ago that he, too, could not breathe to tamir rice who never made it to his 13th birthday, the senseless killing of unarmed black americans at the hands of law enforcement has become an all-too-common occurrence. the horror of the moment, then the outrage and sadness and, yes, anger that follow have turned into a pattern that too many people appear to believe is normal. it's not, and we cannot, must not let ourselves become numb to the reality in front of us. george floyd was someone's son who with his dying breath called out for his mother who had previously passed away. he had a six-year-old daughter who will not only grow up without a father but knowing that she too would face the same danger every day just because of the color of her skin. george floyd was born in a country built on the belief that we are all created equal, but he died in a country that still has not fully realized that we must all be treated equally as well. it is long, long past time for action. we needed it before george floyd. we needed it before breonna taylor, before laqua

tamir rice, freddie gray, walter scott, and many, many, many others. and if anyone thinks that these police murders have just begun to take place in recent years when people had cell phone cameras, you would obviously have been mistaken. this has gone on forever. mr. president, the american people are rightly demanding justice and an end to police brutality and murder. the u.s. senate has got to act now. we have got to hear the cries for justice that are coming from the streets of this country, that are coming from the african american community, from the white community, from the latino community, from all of our people. we must act and we must act now. and let me just suggest some of the items that must be in the legislation that we passed. and this is a limited number. we can do more. in my view, every police officer involved in a killing must be held accountable and those found guilty must be punished with the full force of law. that includes officers who stand by while these brutal acts take place. every single killing of a person by police or whi

tamir rice, a boy with a toy gun, who was shot by a policeman. it matter the circumstances under which these shootings happen, whether or not they're justified or not, whether or not the policeman is disciplined or even tried or not, that there is this effect on the community? >> that's correct, in our research it didn't matter. the one thing that mattered, we found that effect only for police shootings of unarmed african-american men. if in fact the african-american was armed, then there was no negative effect on mental health. so it suggests that it's the perception of the shooting being unjustified and unfair. that's the aspect of this that seems to provoke the worsening mental health for three months. that's significant. the mental health impact we found for police shootings is similar to the mental health impact of having to live with diabetes, being a type 2 diabetic. >> explain what you mean, the snowball effect that racism and these kinds of incidents have on mental health in the community, how does it play out, how does it manifest itsel

if tamir rice can be shot dead in a park playing with a toy gun, something white children do all overs country every day without the fear of being shot, if tamir rice can be killed then white children need to be told at least at the samee age, if they can't be innocent, we don't get to be innocent. >> tucker: your children are no longer allowed to be innocent, says tim wise. happy childhoods are a sign of racism. the man saying this, and being affirmed by cnn's anchors asti e does, is a self-described antiracism activist. he's been saying things like this for a long time. more than once tim wise has suggested he approves of violence against those who disagree. how does tim wise make a living? well, in part by lecturing students. your kids may have seen him speak. you've almost certainly heard a lot of people like tim wise. in america's schools, the revolution has been in progress for quite some time. one school in rochester in new york has a black lives matter themed lesson plan, teaching materials dismissing america's bedrock institutions and america itself as inherently racist. ques

that happened with the tamir rice case and tamir rice was murdered. so there is some glimmers of hope that we are seeing, that my colleagues on the republican side of the aisle recognize that this time must be different. that we should act. we should act decisively and comprehensively to address this problem. >> all right. congressman hakim jefferies of new york, thank you for being with me tonight. >> thanks, chris. >>> next, new mexico protest that ended in gunshots. the governor on the injured protester, the armed militia and the statue at the center of it all, after this. can my side be firm? and my side super soft? yes, with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. come on pup, time to go. can it help me fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. so you can really promise better sleep? not promise. prove. and now, during the lowest

on the heels of the shooting are tamir rice a young boy shot within less than two seconds from policeg on the scene, in t2004 right before thanksgiving and the governor and i had a conversation. i call the governor and said, govern governor, we have to do something. he said, come in, and i did. the governor did not hesitate to create an executive order that created the police task force and put folks on the task force from all walks of life. from community members, millennials, elected officials, non-elected officials, business leaders. the first thing we did, travel all over the great state of ohio so people's voices could be heard, because of that action, people did not bubble over into violence. yes, there were protests, but there were no acts of violence, because the governor acted, he acted swiftly, and he listened to the pain of the people, and then we took what was said, what we learned, that pain, and the governor signed another executive order that created a collaboration, and, a collaborative and our job, make actionable what we haereard fro community members across the stat

>> tamir rice, the video of him being shot, he was 12 years old. it went viral.veryone had seen it. i'll never another get what his mother told me a year after his death. she regularly watched that video. when she told me that, i had to ask why would you keep looking at that? she said i keep trying to figure out did he know, did tamir know what was about to happen to him? because he was playing with an air gun and within two seconds after the police pulled their cruiser up feet away from him, one of the officers, who should never have been hired, cleveland later somewhat confirmed, shot him and he died hours later. i so often struggled why that wasn't enough. and perhaps it is that we're seeing more of it. perhaps these videos are accumulating. perhaps white americans, more of us, are starting to understand this is our problem, too, and we came to that realization because donald trump is certainly our problem. and, again, i think we have to acknowledge how much of an impact his influence is having, first of all, on people's -- there are so many attacks on black p

this bill is about tamir rice. they know this bill is about breonna taylor, sleeping while black, gunned down because of a no-knock warrant in a drug case that was falsely executed in louisville. and now a husband has lost his wife. about breonna taylor. they know that. it's about countless individuals . and in this great country of ours, killed by police officers without justification. yes, we know that the majority of police officers certainly, the ones i interact with those in palestinian are hardworking individuals who are in the community to protect and serve. but there are violent officers. there are brutal officers. there are abusive officers. and far too often, they are not held accountable because of a toxic culture that exists and that cannot be denied. not month after month. not year after year, but decades after decades after decades. we know the names. many of those names were called today from the floor of the house of representatives, but he names are too numerous to mention. that's why we are here,

they are the ones who will make sure that the killer of tamir rice, not only do they call tamir riceenacing in the price, but they make sure that police officer after he is fired gets hired someplace else. we all have police chiefs that will stand behind reforms all to see the fraternal order of police work to slow down the actual -- work to slow down responses to calls in neighborhoods. this is what they do. so unless politicians get clear, don't take their money, stand up against them, we will continue to get policies on the books, policies that are good, but policies we can't enforce. that doesn't make any of our lives better. >> jessica, i have heard a version of what rashad is saying which is this is no longer about the conversation about which reforms you need to put in place, it's no longer a policy questions. this has shifted to becoming a question about political will. so for you, jessica, as an organizer, as you look at these protests across the country, how do you harness that energy and turn it into political will such that you actually see the type of change that rashad

said, tamir rice is in the wrong and called him, a 12-year-old, quote, menacing. the same guy who referred to the citizens of cleveland as the dregs of society. this is just standard fare. standard. and it's not just rhetoric. these organizations are some of the most powerful municipal institutions in every city in the country. and you can elect a reform mayor, you can put a reformer as a police commissioner, and they're still going to have to go through the police union. in fact, that's kind of what happened in minneapolis. where they have this reformer, the current police chief, a soft-spoken african-american police chief. and the head of the police union is this guy. seen here at a trump rally in october. among people on this issue, they've long realized you're not going to get at the problem with policing if you don't do something about the unions. we'll talk to the minneapolis city councilman who tried to take on the police unions next. e filling out forms? maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much vacation time they have. or sending corp

and i thought about tamir rice and i didn't know he had ordered it. and the talk again about condition play with cap guns. children get killed for that. >> mayor bottoms, playing with a toy gun is something that seems to innocent but as you mentioned in the wake of tamir rice, it caused you to fear for your own son's life and could you just tell me what was that conversation like and did he understand your concern? >> actually, he didn't, brooke. he thought that he was in trouble because he had gone into my amazon account to order something that he didn't have permission to order. and that really concerned me even more. because i didn't care about him going into the account. that was completely secondary. but i think, again, it speaks to the innocence of our children that we love and we want to preserve. but also in 2020, the need for our children to be so aware and conscientious of these dangers seen and unseen that surround them. and in that situation he thought that he was going to be in big trouble for going into my amazon account which usually wo

from eric garner who told us six years ago that he, too, could not breathe to tamir rice who never made it to his 13th birthday, the senseless killing of unarmed black americans at the hands of law enforcement has become an all-too-common occurrence. the horror of the moment, then the outrage and sadness and, yes, anger that follow have turned into a pattern that too many people appear to believe is normal. it's not, and we cannot, must not let ourselves become numb to the reality in front of us. george floyd was someone's son who with his dying breath called out for his mother who had previously passed away. he had a six-year-old daughter who will not only grow up without a father but knowing that she too would face the same danger every day just because of the color of her skin. george floyd was born in a country built on the belief that we are all created equal, but he died in a country that still has not fully realized that we must all be treated equally as well. it is long, long past time for action. we needed it before george floyd. we needed it before breonna taylor, before laqua

. >> we'll keep the light on michael brown on, ed garner, on tamir rice. >> they choked a man to death on video. >> when i looked at him, he looks like all of us. we're asking the federal government to come in and bring justice for eric garner. >> we will never let you forget the name of stephen. >> i can't get to heaven tepg over tamir rice. >> with me now is the reverend al sharpton. great to have you with us. i hate to say it's been a long seven years since that time you talked about the travon martin shooting. does this time feel different to you? >> well, it does feel different. i see a more broad based and consistent movement here. we've seen people march all over europe and africa and they continue to march. andle of our people are in various cities, and chapters action, they've been telling me, they've been going out to marches. in some cases, they are mostly white, people other than blacks. i think what has happened is that with this pandemic, everyone was sheltered down and began watching. within three weeks, you saw ahmaud arbery killed in georgia by three people. then right

tamir rice would have graduated high school. i understand change is difficult but i am certain that police officers are professionals who risk their lives every day and are just as interested in building a strong relationship with the communities that they serve based on mutual trust and respect and those who rely on their action. -- as those who rely on their protection are. they want to increase and upgrade the profession, having having national standards should never be that you can do a chokehold in one city and not another. there should be basic standards and basic accreditation. there should be continuing education, just as there are in so many other professions. when i was at the service yesterday, when i was there, i looked at the picture of george floyd, and i saw the year he was born. he was born in 1973. that was an important year in my life, because that was the year i joined the coalition against police abuse in los angeles. that was 47 years ago. our police chief at the time -- we were suffering from victims who ha

breonna taylor, rayshard brooks, eric garner, tamir rice. an unconscionablely long list of so mt. s. exactly one month of george floyd's murder and weeks after the police involved were criminally charged the house of representatives passed the justice in policing act named in his honor. a sweeping reform bill that addresses systemic racism and police brutality and includes a ban on choke holds and no-knock warrants. but hopes for national reform to become law now rests in the united states senate and in the hands of mitch mcconnell who has already declared the house bill dead on arrival. a rejection of a movement that has the support of millions in the streets and a majority of the american people. over the next hour, we're going to be answering your questions about what can be done on the road to reform. and with me for the hour, three members of the congressional black caucus. chairwoman karen bass of california. congresswoman val demings of florida. congressman haw keep jeffries of new york who's also the chair of the house democratic caucus. thank you all for being here. i wan

that happened with the tamir rice case and tamir rice was murdered. so there is some glimmers of hope that we are seeing, that my colleagues on the republican side of the aisle recognize that this time must be different. that we should act. we should act decisively and comprehensively to address this problem. >> all right. congressman hakim jefferies of new york, thank you for being with me tonight. >> thanks, chris. >>> next, new mexico protest that ended in gunshots. the governor on the injured protester, the armed militia and the statue at the center of it all, after this. don't you dare. i don't think so! [ sighs ] it's okay, big fella. we're gonna get through this together. [ baseball bat cracks ] nice rip, robbie. ♪ raaah! when you bundle home and auto insurance through progressive, you get more than just a big discount. i'm gonna need you to leave. you get relentless protection. [ baseball bat cracks ] you get relentless protection. at mercedes-benz, nothing service will do.-class that's why we're expanding your range of choices. many dealers n

when the killer cop of tamir rice, 12-year-old tamir rice was fired by the police department, he thenplace else and gets hired. chokeholds get banned in departments and then police officers use them and the fraternal order of police steps in and defends it. we've watched fraternal order of police leaders say some of the most horrific and racist things. as you read them, you have to imagine what era are these people in. we need folks who are going to be honest about working towards real change. when we have institutions that are supposed to represent people serving the public, that peel like they have to report to no one and have to never have to come to the table with change, then we have to work around those folks. we can't simply continue to come to the table with people who have no interest in being at the table. >> all right, rashad robinson, thank you very much for joining us and giving us that perspective. i appreciate your time. i'm sure we'll be having this conversation in the weeks and months ahead. >>> we're going to have the memorial service for you coming up in a few hours

tamir rice would have graduated high school this month if that police chief had access to a national registry where that officer had just been fired from another department. and officers that have problems move around. and i think if those problems involving abusing citizens, then maybe they shouldn't be in that profession. i can't imagine that police officers want folks in their ranks that they know are unstable, that they know are abusive, they take their profession very seriously. any profession that can result in a death of a citizen should have the highest standards and should be very transparent to the public. >> congresswoman, let me ask you, what is at stake if we do not make any changes as a country this time around? you're trying to tell protesters this time will be different than what we have done in the past. and it is because of the protest. the reality of it is, the system as michelle alexander noted in the new york times, it is functioning the way it was designed to. >> well, i mean, we have to change the design. i don't want to see more videotapes of people being kill

if tamir rice can be shot dead in a public park playing with a toy gun, something white children do allis country every day without the same fear of being shot, if tamir rice can be killed, then white children need to be told at least at the same age, if they can't be innocent, we don't get to be innocent. if we could keep that in the front of our minds, perhaps we would be able to hear what black and brown folks are telling us every day and have been for many years. >> tamika, many protesters understandably will express frustration that they voted before. they voted before for different leaders, different representatives, and yet the violence continues. the atlanta mayor, keisha lance bottoms wrote a stirring op-ed in "the new york times" pushing people to vote, particularly this november, saying think of what could be possible in each of us allied in favor of justice if each of us spent more than nine minutes getting people registered. i wonder, is that a message that resonates so close to the election? is the frustration so great that folks or many have given up on voting as a way to

so removing that all of a sudden allows the officer who killed tamir rice to be pursued.t allows for other people. qualified immunity in 99% of the time, leads to police officers, the thousands of times it happens in the united states, it leads to them not being held civilly or criminally liable. it is worth pointing out that the republican proposal was in fa ct the republican proposal was in fact rejected the republican proposal was in fa ct rejected by the republican proposal was in fact rejected by the democrats in the house of representatives so in the house of representatives so the likelihood is that the senate which is republican majority is going to reject that bill in any case, so we will see where that still has to go but clearly a long way still on the way to reform. the us state of texas, one of the first to ease lockdown restrictions back in april, has now suspended plans to further re—open its economy, because of a sharp rise in coronavirus infections. the number of cases has nearly doubled in ten days. florida, oklahoma and south carolina have also reported

the police shooting death of tamir rice in cleveland. >> reporter: her son was 12 years old when he was shot and killed by a police officer who said he thought the child had a gun. it was a toy pellet gun. >> i don't know what this beautiful face would have developed up as a young man because america robbed me of that >> reporter: she has been fighting to spare other families the same pain she's lived with every day for 5 1/2 years. do you hope that this moment finally brings about change >> i do hope i do i hope this is the straw that broke the camel's back >> reporter: but now she's still afraid afraid for her other children in their 20s and for her community. >> i hope that not one other black person gets murdered in this country on behalf of law enforcement. >> reporter: for so many black parents it's a cruel reality as mothers how do you feel in this moment? >> it's devastating. it's devastating you're scared to even say you know what, okay, you can drive. you can get out there, you can drive to the store and not knowing whether your child will come back >> i've called my son to ma

this unjust cycle in our country that we seem to be stuck in that makes the names of children like tamir rice household names,t is connected with a violence that is pervasive in our nation that demands all of us to speak out against with the same feferror an enthusiasm that people who are condemning the violence we see in america. to fail to do that leaves us in a state of imbalance, to fail to condemn the totality of violence in our country leaves us far from the beloved community that we need to somehow find a way out of that cycle. there is violence in our nation and our environment that we still are a nation where a person's race is the single biggest factor of whether they live near a toxic site or not. ask a mother of a child who drank lead water for months and months and has had their brain permanently damaged if that was not violence. if violence had access to quality care, to not have access to quality care, ask the woman who's lost her child because of lack of prenatal care. ask the black woman in america who today is four times more likely to die herself in childbirth if this isn't