they profiled trayvon, and they demonized trayvon, 17 years old.wn, they profiled and demonized michael brown. 18 years old. brothers and sisters, now we come to tamir rice. ohio.rs old, cleveland, are they going to demonize and profile this face? it don't matter what they say about our children. we believe in our children. we love our children. are going to continue to speak up for our children. children.ur we are going to stand up for our children here on the nation's capital and in every courtroom in america. brothers and sisters, without -- ado, i want to introduce our president of our national bar association, the largest association of lawyers of color, who are going to make sure we get due process in missouri, staten island, cleveland ohio, and your neighborhood wherever you are from. we are going to represent. people got water hoses turned on them. we can be safe and go make a lot of money. those sacrifices for us to represent our people. give it up for our president. >> who said an african-american lawyer is either a social engineer or a p

you know, if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon. know the world also took notice of the small american city of ferguson, missouri, where a young man was killed and so yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. >> juan, let me go through this. the cambridge police didn't act stupidly. traben, we had an eyewitness that saw trayvon grounding and pounding on george zimmerman. hold on. and in this case, before the u.n., where he said we have ethnic and racial tensions. in every case, mr. constitutional attorney, our president, rushed to judgment without facts and he was wrong every single time. how irresponsible with the power of the bully pulpit of the presidency is this man to do this time and again? >> you know, i see it so differently than you do, sean. >> shocking. >> i think in every case that you just cited -- >> he was wrong. dead wrong, 0 for 3, three-time loser. >> i think he was wrong when he said that word about stupid behavior by the cops in cambridge. but what he's doing i think is important which is he has some sensi

killed trayvon martin, george zimmerman is charged with second degree murder. his heavily watched and heavily debated three-week trial results in an acquittal. in august of this year, another unarmed black teen is shot and killed, this time by a police officer in ferguson, missouri, michael brown allegedly stole cigarettes from this convenience store, leading to a run-in with police. officer darren wilson confronted brown in the street, a confrontation ensues, wilson fires repeatedly at brown and kills him. protests are immediate. response by some are tough. some destroy property. eventually the national guard is called in. a week and a half after brown's death, a grand jury begins to investigate whether charges are warranted against officer wilson. their investigation goes on for months as do the protests. finally in late november, the grand jury's decision. >> they determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against officer wilson. >> reporter: within the hour, the worst fears of ferguson and the rest of the country are realized. the non-viole

they profiled the trayvon and demonized trayvon, 17 years old. then, michael brown.chael brown, 18 years old. now, brothers and sisters, we come to tamir rice. ohio.rs old, cleveland are they going to try to demonize and profile this baby? it don't matter what they say about our children. care for our children. we believe in our children. we love our children. to speak up for our children. we are willing to die for our children. because they are our children. if nobody stands up for our children, we will stand up for our children. we will stand together in every courtroom in america. brothers and sisters, without ado, i want to introduce a great leader. also from st. louis, missouri, our president of our national bar association, the largest association of lawyers of color who will make sure we do get due process in missouri, staten island, cleveland and your neighborhood wherever you are from. we will represent because that's what our people expect us to do. that's why people people got dogs and water hoses turned on them. that's a we can make a lot of money. not so

if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. >> reporter: six weeks after he shot and killed trayvon martin, he is charged with second degree murder. this heavily watched and debate ed case and his acquittal. >> another unarmed black teen is shot and killed, this time by a police officer in ferguson, missouri. michael brown stole cigarettes from this store, leading to a run-in with police. the officer encountered him. confirmation ensues, wilson fires and kills brown. protests are almost immediate. the response by authorities swift and tough. some in the crowd destroy property. eventually, the national guard is called in. a week and a half half brown's death, a grand jury begins investigating whether charges are warranted against officer wilson. the investigation goes on months as do the protests. in late november, the grand jury's decision. >> no probable charge exists to file charges against officer wilson. >> within hours the fears are realized. the non-violent majority drown out by the destructive forces of a few. another tragedy was playing out in yet another city. this time in clevela

trayvon martin was so aggressive. he was using the concrete as a weapon. you hear that tamir rice looked like an older kid because he was 5'8" and 190 pounds. guess what? so was my son. you met him, anderson. he's not aggressive. the threat is always the same. that these boys, these men are aggressive and they're demonic and giant and i think there are a lot of great officers but when they go into the field and police in african-american communities, they are more apt to decide that these kids are threatening and until we start to admit and recognize that there is a problem of implicit bias, we are not going to go anywhere. we'll be covering these stories until the end of time. >> is that because of race or because they were operating in a community with a high crime community and therefore more on their guard? >> i think that it is because of race. i think it's because of bias. to be sure, there are plenty of white kids, anderson, there are shoplifting and not policed with the same aggression that african-american men and boys are policed. that's a statis

i remember after he made those staples and after he spoke again about trayvon martin, i got an e-mailaffer for a leader in the house of represents on the republican side and said i don't agree with him on a lot of things but what he just said was incredibly profound and effected me. i think when he is best able to use the platform of the presidency to talk about these issues in a way that everybody can hear and not just one race or the other. >> so it is an interesting point and a hopeful point that you're making, jay. but april, what do you make what -- it is under me right now. polls. 6% race relations say things are better under obama. 6%. he's a black president. he's taking on this issue. that number seems -- that number seems horrible? >> it seems horrible. it is. 6% of americans believe that race relations are be-- are better. that is saying something. that 6%, i don't know where they live, but race relations have been and will continue to be a problem. it is not just a legislative issue but it is a heart issue. and we are things we haven't seen before. and now literally the who

. >> so when the trayvon martin incident happened, kobe bryant made a comment in the terms of the way the miami heat players addressed it. they came out with the hoodies on in solidarity. and you take a little bit of exception to what will be bryant had to say. give us your perspective. >> first, he gave an interview to the "new yorker." i read the piece, and the question that the interviewer asked really was a ridiculous question. he sort of mixed several things together. he mixed with the miami heat did with kobe giving criticism for not being involved and more active on various issues, and then kobe bryant responded. first of all, people seem to forget the trayvon martin was killed on the night of the nba all-star game in sanford, florida. the game took place in orlando. he was going to come to watch the game. it was another two months before it blew up because, frankly, national media ignored it. it was on social media. i remember tweeting dewayne wade, who i know, and i specifically said -- i am stunned that players who live in orlando and miami are saying nothing about this, bec

let's talk about trayvon martin and george zimmerman. nothing happened. there was no civil rights case. >> you know how the fade rale government, they investigate civil rights violations all the time. many of them are not in media, whether it's white -- >> i'm talking about trayvon and george. >> i'm talking about in general. >> i'm asking a question. i'm asking you that -- >> you're talking about one or two cases. >> do you agree with me were eric, yes or no. was there a civil rights find in the george zimmerman case yes or no. >> that's an interesting point. >> answer the question. >> no, i'm not. >> then you can't be on the show. >> the issue is whether or not there was a likelihood of one. and with those facts there was a chance. >> what was the upshot? >> there was a chance. >> let's not talk about wishing and hoping. >> you don't know unless you investigate, judge jeanine. >> i'm asking you a question. answer it. did the federal department of justice find a civil rights injustice in the trayvon martin-george zimmerman case? no. you're afraid to answ

martin. >> no, he is not trayvon martin and neither is darren wilson george zimmerman and so there are clear differences, and you know, we are not in the relitigation business so we won't go into the whole thing, but will is conflicting evidence and witnesses who were not believed who said otherwise and those who were believed who said that is what happened. >> and the evidence backed up officer wilson's version, and that is why the grand jury dismissed it. >> and cities in baltimore are doing things like diversity of police forces which has nothing to do with the elected -- and white officials can diversify the police forces. >> we will pause for a moment, and the summit of race relations in america will go more in depth a after this break. . >>> "meet the press "sigh [ male announcer ] we know they're out there. you can't always see them. but it's our job to find them. the answers. the solutions. the innovations. all waiting to help us build something better. something more amazing. a safer, cleaner, brighter future. at boeing, that's what building something better is all about. ♪ ao

in the kill iing of mike brown he d this to say -- >> if i had a son, he would have lo looked like trayvon martin and if u u with were younger i could have been trayvon martin and there are very few african-american men who have not had the experience of being followed while slopping, ahoppi that includes me. >> reporter: six years ago, then candidate obama gave what was a risky speech about his experience as a black man in america, and his hand force ed by the controversy of jeremiah wright. >> i cannot disown him as i can my white grandmother, and a woman who loves more than anything, and a woman who confesses her fear of black men who passes her by on the speech. >> reporter: and after that, controversy after he criticized the police officer who a arre arrested henry gates in harvard. >> the police officer acted stupidly, and there is a long history of african-americans and latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that is a fact. >> reporter: police union officials in cambridge called for the apology, and the president backed away from the criticism, and defused

they profiled trayvon, and they demonized trayvon, 17 years old.rown, they profiled and demonized michael brown. 18 years old. brothers and sisters, now we come to tamir rice. ohio.rs old, cleveland, are they going to demonize and profile this face? it don't matter what they say about our children. we believe in our children. we love our children. are going to continue to speak up for our children. children.ur we are going to stand up for our children here on the nation's capital and in every courtroom in america. brothers and sisters, without -- ado, i want to introduce our president of our national bar association, the largest association of lawyers of color, who are going to make sure we get due process in missouri, staten island, cleveland ohio, and your neighborhood wherever you are from. we are going to represent. people got water hoses turned on them. we can be safe and go make a lot of money. those sacrifices for us to represent our people. give it up for our president. >> who said an african-american lawyer is either a social engineer or a

talking about trayvon could have been my son?othing happened.ha >> and you know how the federal government gave investigative civil rights, they investigate civil rights violations all the time. many of them are not in media.it >> i'm talking about trayvon an> george. >> i'msk talking about you in tw general. >> and yes or no? o was there a civil rights finding in the george zimmerman case? yes or not? >> interesting point. >> answer the question. i >> no. i'm not. the issue is whether or not there was a likelihood of one and there was. there was a chance. >> let's talk knot talk about n leaving it open federal department of -- >> you have no -- >> this is a federal -- yo >> i'm asking you a question, answer it.i did the federal department of justice find a civil rights violation in the george zimmerman, trayvon martin case? yes or no? >> they have to investigate it.a >> you know what? here is the problem you're not answering questions. why don't you answer the question? because you don't want to. so let's move on. do you think t

. >> washington is the city where four moms took their voices, the families of trayvon martin, michael brown, tamir rice, eric garner, all unarmed black men and boys killed either by bullets or police. they joined tens of thousands of demonstrators in the nation's capital. >> we need to point out most of yesterday's nationwide protests were quite peaceful. however in new york, two police officers are recovering in the hospital after officials say protesters attacked them on the brooklyn bridge last night and in oakland, california, at least 45 people were arrested after protests there. >> demonstrators calling yesterday's big march in washington an historic moment, a history-making moment as thousands marched to the u.s. capitol demanding change. >> nick valencia has more for us. >> united, the people, we'll never be defeated. >> reporter: they came from the hundreds for a justice march. some were bussed in from organizers from nearby states. >> i live in new york. >> reporter: others walked just a few minutes to get here. >> i'm from d.c., glover park. >> reporter: this man says he sh

the issue i took with that is -- first of all, people seem to forget that trayvon martin was killed on the night of the nba all-star game. took place in orlando. he was going back home to watch the game. it was another two months before it blew up because national media ignored it. we drove it on social media. wade,mber tweeting dwayne stunnedally saying i am that players who live in orlando and miami arson nothing about are because he lived -- saying nothing about this because he lived in miami. meemember him tweeting thinking me -- a day later, they made the statement. factsas missing critical as to what actually happened. saying players were not george zimmerman was guilty. they were sending a signal that we stand in solidarity. though we might be nba ballers, depending on where we go, they might not recognize us. i win at kobe hard. ori criticize the president kobe, i will swing at you, too. he called my office and we had a discussion and he said the issue i stated was i have a problem with people jumping to someone's side because of race. you,d, kobe, let me remind because of the

her new book "let's poem, citizen an american lyric" was written in the wake of the trayvon martin killing and looks at the complexity of race and identity in this country. we're glad you've joined us. those conversations coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> protesters across the nation have been taking to the streets and demanding change to our criminal justice system in the aftermath of yet another failure to indict police for the killing of yet another unarmed african-american man. joining me to assess what changes need to be made to our system, brian stevenson, founder and executive director of the equal justice initiative. earlier this year he published a new book about this subject called "just mercy." he joins me now from montgomery, alabama. brian stevenson, always an honor to have on this program. >> thank you. delighted to be with you. >> let me jump right to that central question. what now? >> well, you know, i think there are really three big issues that both of these instances have revealed. we've got a real

trayvon martin went out to get something to drink, but in the news is something else.ime and time again. we are going through the same history. i tell you, as long as i have a ne in my body i will not leave my son. i promised him i'll stand for him, speak for him, because he is no longer there to speak for himself. this sorority of sisters, we, moms, we don't want to be -- we have paid a price to be ere. [ audio difficulty -- stand by] i am so sorry for that. michael brown, leslie, i'm sorry that it has to end like this. but this is not the end. because of the sea of people who stood up saying we need justice. we cannot close the book. the cause carry on -- equal justice for all the victims, despite where you're coming from. whether sabrina fulton or sean bell's mom or leslie or gwen rr, we are all here, and i admire, i love you all. please don't forget us. don't forget our sons died so that we can open up the book and review what is happening, so that we can open up conversation around the nation, so that we can start building communities, community relations, and the

but when trayvon was shot, what did he say? he said, we are a nation of laws, we must follow through with the trial and accept the trial. >> but he's the president. presidents cannot recommend the breaking of the law. >> but you can't use the language of the father and the next minute act like you're a president and represent an unjust rule of law. it's an unjust rule of law. the killing of michael brown was unjust, immoral, and wrong. he can't say that. he can't take a stand. >> let's think about the structural issues facing the criminal justice system. >> they're very deep. >> and you've gone so deep into this in terms of the statistics and you can point out that a black man is 21 times more likely it seems right now to be shot by the police than a white man, if you dig down into the stats. look at the prison system. i think 1/3 of the entire prison population in the united states is black, despite the fact that african-americans represent only 12% of the population. so something is going on. >> and the intake. 12% white, 12%

a system that allows the murder of trayvon martin to go free.an't breathe because we are tired of jim crow justice in america. and we are out here today to say that we will fight back. we will stand up. in 1911, miss nelson and her son hung from a bridge in 1911. they say we have come far in america, i say not far enough. in 1955, a man was murdered and dragged from his home and dumped in the tallahassee river. they say we have come far in america, i say not far enough. they say that jim crow is dead in america. and i say eric garner is dead in america. that mike brown is dead in america. there is no justice for people of color and poor people in this country. and until there is justice for all, there will be justice for none. anywhere there is injustice, it is a threat to justice everywhere in this country where we are. i want to say, that finally, we are not just out here because we want police reform. we're not out here because we want the police to wear cameras. and though we think that will help we are not out here because , we think the po

trayvon was guilty of walking while being black. and my right wing nut job friends all embraced george zimmerman. if you don't think he's a thug, ask the women who lived with him. he's a thug. and right wingers embraced george zimmerman as a hero and in so doing, they humiliated themselves. there are so many great people to embrace as heroes in the black community that deciding you're going to embrace a guy that knocked over a convenience store and then according to grand jury testimony acted in ways that would get my children shot on staten island or in queens or in brooklyn, that's your hero? that's the reason you want to burn down black businesses that small business owners in ferguson have worked their entire lives for? that's why you want to block african-american commuters with five children going to work in the bay area and get them fired? really? this is your mission in life? donnie, i'm sorry. this was the final straw for me. i have sat here quietly and listened to bs being spewed all over this network and all over other ne

who disagreed with me on trayvon.and. this seems obvious. >> when we cover these stories, we want to be fair. i sat back and watched the entire video. this is a guy who starts off -- he's got his hands in the air. >> hands in the air from the beginning. >> he's saying, please, officer, stop. please, officer, stop. leave me alone, leave me alone. he was selling loose cigarettes. >> selling cigarettes. a man is dead today because he was selling loose cigarettes. >> okay, so if you take the cop at his word and say eric garner was resisting arrest, you have to restrain him somehow, you've got him to the ground now. you can take your hand off his head. you can take your arm -- >> first, he kept him in the choke hold. and then when you let him out of the choke hold, then he was shoving his face into the cement. was still saying, i can't breathe. obviously we went back and forth on ferguson. there's a lot of disputes in ferguson. that's why there's the debate there is. there aren't any disputes on what happened. this is outr

. >> after trayvon that's what eugene robinson and i talked about. the facts are not in dispute in staten island. and also i think for most fair minded good americans the facts are not in dispute. what we've said here since trayvon there are two criminal justice systems in america. let's not argue over the facts of this case or that case. let's talk about the facts that are on the ground today for african-american males. why we have to fix police. why we need to put cameras on cops. >> the story that also wrenched my soul was the 12-year-old boy, because i have a 12-year-old son and these cases will continue to play out because that case -- and yesterday the cleveland police department signed a consent decree with the department of justice and interesting information has come out on the background of the officer. >> yes. absolutely. >> so, discussion is going to continue and you're right it's a broader conversation but, you know, i've been struck by how social media and the ability of people to organize through the use of social media has helped to f

trayvon martin, michael brown, eric garner. tamir rice.e together to share their grief anding an we are anderson cooper. the latest and youngest was just 12. tamir rice shot and killed by cleveland police and it was all caught on video. >> i was just still disbelief until i actually seen my son laying on the ground and the police were surrounding him. >> there's audio that's been released of your doctor of tamir's sister creaming they killed my baby brother. >> um-hmm. >> what happened when you got to the scene? >> when i arrived like i said i seen my son laying down and nobody was doing anything. it was like they was around him. and they were just standing there. while my other son was like thrown against the car and i guess they was trying to retain him. we were probably 30 feet apart. me and my 16-year-old. and me and tamir was maybe 30 feet apart. and i was probably 20 feet from my daughter, because she was already in the back of the car. >> they put her in the police car. >> yes they put her in the police car. so she was actually in t

investigation and civil rights investigations what about trayvon martin nothing?ing there. >> the problem is if you tell a lie long enough it becomes the truth. if you want to enflame the passions. we talk about how muslims get radicalized in this country. he was radicalized by the anti rhetoric of the sharpton, obama and holden. >> just in case our audience doesn't know he has a wrap sheet a mile long. he was 28 years old. just like i said in my opening. >> mayor giuliani said it before i will say it again. these are criminal acts not racial acts. to twist it into a racial situation is outrageous and the problem is, liberal media like cnn gives it to a guy like al sharpton who's a fraud gets invited to the white house. >> he is sitting at the sid delve power. there is an officer down the memorial page. in 2013 law enforcement officers killed by gun fire. 2014 the number is 46 and they say there's a 53 percent increase between last year and the shooting death of police and this year. >> i have to go back to what is being told by the leaders. if you put out the ant

will people be if there are no charges in the trayvon martin case, no charges in the michael brown cased no charges from the feds in eric garner case. >> sorry, erin, repeat your question. >> how devastated will people people if there are no charges in any of the three cases from trayvon martin, martin brown, eric garner? >> i think people are pretty devastated now. listen, in the one where, that you referenced short time ago. i spent a lot of time covering, ferguson. some people thought there was ambiguity about it. there was fighting in the car. what have you. tried to grab the officer's gun. in this one -- there is no am buy gu team aboam -- am buy gu team. it is on videotape. if you have all three together. nothing happens. i don't know what is going to happen. but at some point you have to say, enough is enough. and i think new york is making changes you. can see the mayor, police commissioner making changes here. it's not just new york city. this as it but police departments around the country. >> much bigger than that. thank you very much, to you, don. and of course to all of you

. >> is florida's treatment surprising given the protests that followed trayvon martin's case? >> after trayvon was killed, there was tremendous protest and a movement around this country to appeal the stand your ground law in florida and other states that have similar laws. it's ironic to the florida supreme court is looking at expanding that law, going the opposite direction, so a very interesting development as it receipts to the youth of justifiable homicide and self defense in cases, particularly like trayvon martin and michael brown where you have unarmed teens being shot. >> there is a story out of new york about an african-american killed when police put him in a chokehold. there have been a lot of questions about that and there's supposed to be a ruling on i did. in fact, the new york medical examiner ruled the death was a homicide as part of a chokehold used during his arrest. what kind of verdict could we get out of this case, do you think and what would it mean? >> eric gardner, the death happened before mike brown, so it's another case we've been watching to see wh

he made comments in the wake of the shooting of trayvon martin, and bill de blasio talking about hisrowing up. is interesting, those remarks were some of the most handed and off the cuff remarks -- candid and off the cover marks the prison has made in his presents in office. perjury josh earnest confirmed today that the president has watched the eric garner videotape everyone has been so jarred by. the feeling in the white house is this is one issue they may be able to make serious progress on. the president is always careful not to take one side or the other on these issues, but the resident has already laid out money to fund those body cameras, but also he is in meetings with civil rights advocates and law enforcement, feeling there is a major problem of trust. this may be an area where president obama could have a significant impact if he keeps up the pressure. according to white house officials i have talked to, the pressure will be caps on if the president has anything to do with it. >> up next, senior markets correspondent julie hyman will have another on the market pdate, and

. >> he's wrong on cambridge police, wrong on trayvon martin, he didn't listen to the evidence, he rushedo judge. >> we disagree on that. >> and wrong on sending three white house representatives to the funeral of michael brown -- >> we disagree on that, sean. >> who fought for a cop's gun. >> we disagree on that, sean. >> joe biden saying we'll put you all back in chains, wrong not to confront eric holder -- coward on race because none of that is true. >> i will confront the president -- when he's wrong i'll confront him. but we disagree, my friend, on those issues. >> i still love you even though you're a pain in my neck. >> i still love you too. >> we started our careers together. >> we did. i'll get you right one of these days, sean. >> you invite louis farrakhan to your conferences -- >> good night. i'm out of here. good night. good night, sean. >> you ought to apologize to america. i'll give you one last chance. apologize for inviting farrakhan. >> good night, god bless you. >> coming up next on "hannity" straight ahead. >> what mayor de blasio did was throw the entire nypd under th

though, about garner and the tamir rice case in cleveland, the 10-year-old boy shot, as compared to trayvon martin and the ferguson case. >> right. >> by day, i'm a talk radio host. people call me from across the country and offer opinions. i could usually pick up thein to nation of your face, is it a white person or african-american and know what you were going to say about these cases. garner is different. damere rice is different. now i'm getting whites and blacks who are saying something has gone wrong here and needs to get reined in. if god forbid tomorrow you responded to a situation like that, you've got a 6'4" guy, 360 pounds, what are you going to do? >> well, i'll tell you, i would do the same thing. i would. but the police officers out there now, would they? i don't know. they're going to think, maybe i should have a conversation with this guy. listen, the longer you talk to somebody who you place under arrest, all right, the more of a chance there is of you getting injured. there have been police officers killed in the line of duty for minor things that you think, well, you know

standing side by side, the families of michael brown, eric garner, tamir rice, and trayvon martin marched down pennsylvania avenue-- >> hands up, don't shoot. >> reporter: -- to the u.s. capitol, calling for justice. esaw garner's son was eric garner. >> we need to stand like this at all times. and, you know, our sons, you know, they may not be here in body, but they're here with us in each and everyone of you. wu brought them here today. >> tell me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: garner was killed in a chokehold by new york city police last july. earlier this month, a staten island grand jury decided not to indict the officers. a week earlier, a grand jury in ferguson, missouri, reached the same conclusion in the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. leslie mcspadden is brown's mother. >> what a sea of people. if they don't see this and make ndchange, then i don't know what we gotta do. >> reporter: al sharpton's national action network organized saturday's march for justice. >> we have the same goal and that is equal protection under

felt the way they did about this case. >> let me play you a sound bite from that moment. >> when trayvon that could have been my son and another way of saying that is that trayvon martin could have been me. >> so was that scripted, played ahead of time? >> no, in fact, when he went to the briefing room for long set of remarks for, this he said specifically, he didn't want written remarks and i specifically didn't go there, because i didn't think that it was potentially the best format for long discussions of complicated issues and i said, what do you want to say, and he said word-for-word without notes what he said in the briefing, and so that came through to the people. >> and i was struck that the white house watched the garner tape, and he had watched garner's death, and with were you surprised by that? >> no, he is the first internet president, and has an ipad and he is siis seeing what american when he is surfing -- >> he watched it on youtube? >> i don't know the format and maybe linked to to a news site maybe cnn.com, but he consumes the news like many americans, tablet or compute

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many, including mee think that he stalked trayvon knight was walking home simply because he was blockorhood responding to a stress call from an infant and when he stopped brown he had just receive radio description of the man that matched brown to my eye. there was no racial profiling, period. and so the death of 18-year-old, unarmed mike brown is a terrible tragedy. the process by which it was investigated wasn't perfect. but the result, warts and all was just. there is no doubt that police can give perfectly innocent young black men a tough time for no good reason. but this isn't the case to make that point. eric garner might be. i want to see all the evidence. we'll be right back with a final thought. like my potassium and phytosterols which may help lower cholesterol. new ensure active heart health supports your heart and body so you stay active and strong. ensure, take life in. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all

we're going to protest because -- look at the trayvon martin case, nothing's ever come of it. the federal standards are very difficult to meet. what exactly is he going to do? the only thing that's going to happen is this eric gardner case is going to be that that officer is going to lose his job. >> do you think that's going to take the heat off? >> that's what they did in ferguson, we haven't heard the outcome of whether they're going to investigate or indict the officer in ferguson. in staten island, they said no, there's not enough evidence to indict. if they do indict him on a federal level, would that make people more likely to protest? because it would indicate jury bias? >> or would that satisfy? >> i just think it's very difficult, high standard. >> i think a little bit of a public relations effort to try to take the steam out of it? >> i think it's a standard in good practice, and the keyword to me was expeditiously. but that means different things to different people, sometimes the wheels of justice turn very slowly and not as fast as people would like. >> it seems

they're stigmatized, as a result of that victimized by police violence, and in the case of trayvon martinvictimized by someone posing as the police. we can do better than this, it is time for a new and better america. >> that was reverend rafael warnock at the ebenezer baptist church. >>> there have been big items and intriguing dynamics today. >> lame duck lawmakers returned to washington facing a large agenda. the to do list includes keeping the government running into the new year. the current funding resolution expires in ten days, decembe december 11th. they will try to settle on the details this week, but several conservatives, including house republicans steve king, want to shut down the government over the president's executive action on immigration reform. john boehner is trying to convince them that it would an huge mistake. some of the other items on the congressional agenda, including renewing tax breaks for businesses, and the annual defense authorization bill, negotiators remain at odds with two weeks to go with the pentagon's cost-saving proposals to trim military benefits.

mike brown, ferguson, eric garner, trayvon martin.ushing the movement forward is a new network of women. here in washington, d.c. for example, most members of the national movement leading protests over the deaths are women, mothers, sisters, who told our producer and "america tonight" their stories. ♪ >> when the trayvon martin decision came out, i went into deep depression. i felt a sense of hopelessness. and it was pretty severe that i could see black people walking on the street and i could see them as victims, as potential victims. it was another confirmation that black lives don't matter, and that the value of my son and my husband, that there is no value. my name is erika, i'm a wife and mother, and active in the black liberation movement here in dc. my son is five, and marley is four. and they are two different children entirely. my son is very much a kid, and very much aloof to a lot of things going on. with my daughter marley, she is on the opposite end of that. at four she is very much aware of what is going on, because she

martin, the family of trayvon march continue as well, and there are protests events elsewhere this weekend, including in new york under the banner millions march, day of anger. lots of other events planned saturday and sunday. i know they keep expecting these protests to peter out, but they are not petering out. we will know more when it happens, but the protests have continued solidly over the past few weeks. the ones this weekend look like they are going to be big. we'll be right back. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community, that helps our members connect and share ideas to make smart business decisions. if you mess up, fess up. be your partners best partner. we built it for our members, but it's open for everyone. there's not one way to do something

you got a case like trayvon martin, eric garner, and michael brown in missouri, and others. and others. and our business starts to spin on it 24 hours news cycle, right? and you can be left with the impression the narrative that it's open season on african-americans males. >> mm-hmm. >> put this whole set of events, disturbing events, and deaths, police-involved shootings with african-american males as victims into some kind of context from your background and your legal training, and your life experience on this planet. >> yes, it's not a spin. it's not a narrative. i've been covering these cases for 20 years, and as a lawyer, if you include my law school time, i'll admit to it, almost 30 years, right? and i have ancestry on both sides of the line, black and white. slave holder and picking the cotton. i fully respect both perspecti perspectives here, and i know where everybody is coming from. i see clearly to the root of the problem if folks do not believe that there is a disregard for the black male in this country, the life of the young black male especially, they just ne