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

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

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

my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin.ou know, if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon. i 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 doi

. >> 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

story became page one news, the president weighs in. >> my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. 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 b

. >> 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

that allows the murder of trayvon martin to go free. we are tired of jim crow justice in america. we are out here today to say we will fight back. we will stand up. 1911 miss nelson and her son in 1911. a bridge they say we have come far in america, i say not far enough. 1955 a man was murdered and dragged from his home to a tallahassee river. they say we have come far in america, i say not far enough. crow is dead jim in america. dead inic garner is america. that mike brown is dead in america. peoples no justice for of color and poor people in this country. until there is justice for all, there will be justice for none. ,nywhere there is injustice there is injustice everywhere in this country where we are. finally, wey, that are not just out here because we want police reform. we're not out here because we want the police to wear cameras. although, we think that will help. we are not out here because we think the police >>we are out here because there is a systematic and consistent effort to dehumanize and criminalize people of color i

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

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

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

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

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

thank you. >>> now the mothers of trayvon martin, michael brown, eric garner -- are expected to be there. >> and their sons with your unarmed when police officers killed them. except for trayvon, you'll recall he was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer. >> and cnn exclusive anderson cooper sat do you know with all for of them to have a really important conversation about race. >> this audio released of your sister screaming they killed my baby brother. >> um-hmm. she was actually in the police car looking at her brother just bleeding there and nobody's doing anything. >> as a mom do you -- the video is released. is that something you even watch as a mother. >> i -- yes. i watched it. i had to watch it. i'm the one that released had video. >> you are. >> they had to get permission from me to release the video. >> why did you want people to see that video. >> i think it's very important that the world knows what's going on with my son. he's only 12. >> just hearing this is hard for you. zblp yes. this is hard. a 12-year-old, not even a teenager. that is horrible. for a mother to see h

>> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my so the justice departmentas opened and independent federal civil rights investigation into the death of mike. brown. the attorney general himself will be traveling to ferguson. >> but james foley, an american who never committed a crime and was beheaded is nothing more than a blink in the president's golf game. why do you send white house official to brown's funeral but no one to james foley's memorial service. i don't remember you injecting yourself in the death of a young white american or sending the attorney general on a local crime before the justice system can act, as you did with eric holder, sending him to ferguson. why not speak about young african americans killed by other african americans, black which your hometown ofd of chicago is so infamous. instead you see racism everywhere. >> i think ferguson laid bare a problem, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color. >> mr. president, you say we need trust between police and the af

the mother of trayvon martin. sabrina fulton. [applause] >> we love you! >> first of all, i love you guys, too. from my family to your family, from all of these families up here, you guys mean the world to us. and if we don't know how to express it all the time, we can -- if we can't touch you all the time and take pictures all the time, just know that our hearts and our minds are with you. we have a few things to talk about. since i have the mic. first thing, this guy right here to my left. reverend sharpton, where would we be without him? [applause] people don't quite get it. they don't quite understand. they want to talk about we are not together. look around. >> amen. >> look around. take a look around. we are together. we are united. we are standing and we are going to fight this fight, together. together. it hurts me to my heart to know that so many men are getting away with shooting and killing our young people. and not being held accountable for it. but i truly believe by us being here together and united that god sits high and looks low and the li

. >> 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

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

, 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, why a

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

so the words may come out, if i had a son, it would look like trayvon martin. 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

was first shot, i said that could have been my son and another way of saying that is that trayvon martin 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 computer. >> and he says there are times when we have not been successful in letting people know what it is that we are

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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

. >> 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 wha

investigation and civil rights investigations what about trayvon martin nothing?was nothing 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

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

the families trayvon martin, michael brown, rice and eric garner. all four boys killed by bullets of police. garner's mother addressed the huge crowd there in washington. >> it's just so overwhelming to see all of you that came to stand with us today. i mean look at the masses. black, white, all races, all religions. this is just a great moment. this is a history making moment. >> that's right. >> let's go to our reporter in d.c. you heard there garner's mother talked about all of the diverse group and she saw people there of all ages and races. i imagine that's what everybody saw. >> this crowd was peaceful but empassioned. the mood is really one of focus. protesters seemed like they had a task to do and they took that task very seriously. and organizers say they were going for size and symbolism. symbolism in choosing spence avenue, a very iconic street in washington, d.c., to hold this march. and we marched every step if start to finish, nearly a mile, with the protesters. we met people if all over pennsylvania, connecticut, florida, all who had

just like it was easy when they came out with hoodies after trayvon martin.easier to say why were 80 people killed in newark a tiny city of 200,000 so far this year? you know, that's a much more. >> 80 black people. >> 80 young black people. >> who has been saying this forever? >> well, we have. i have been criticized. >> i have been called a racist. >> they can't call mey+kp that you are right in the sense that the larger issue fuels the smaller issue. you are wrong in the sense that there is a police epidemic of shooting down blacks. there is 123 out of a population of 43 million in 2012 the last stats. that's infans at the -- infans at the sim mall. the perception is that the cops are hunting us down by the young black men. that's a perception. >> and the mom's perception that the cops represent more of a danger to their kids than the crooks. >> but that's not the reality. it? >> is a a perception. >> it's a fantasy. but the real problem is jncts it's a worry. i wouldn't demean it. >> the real problem is that president obama, who has the platform, he has d

trayvon martin would look like my son, again, before any evidence is presented in that case.sent three white house representatives to the funeral of michael brown, a guy that robbed the store, tried to intimidate a clerk, charged a police officer all according to the evidence in those cases. whoa. here's my question. why does mr. constitutional attorney, the president, rush to judgment before evidence is presented on these high profile race cases? isn't that wrong for him to do it? and isn't it wrong for him to hang out with sharpton? >> first of all, he has not rushed to judgment. >> yes, he did. >> let's go to this issue about hating cops, sean. the truth of the matter is just because you might have concerns about some police policies, police brutality, that does not mean you're anti-police. why did -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa. the white house sent three representatives to the funeral of michael brown, a guy that tried to steal a cop's gun. >> we don't know that. we don't know that. >> yes, we do. >> we do not know that. >> none of us were there. not one of us was there. >> but

the facts are that trayvon martin was not speculation. michael brown was not speculation.ride is not speculation. shawn bail is not speculation. eric garner is not speculation. these are facts. black life is being -- there is no respect for humanity and dignity of black life in this country. >> let me ask you a couple questions, tavis. do you know how many blacks were killed by police by gunfire last year? in 2012? >> i do not know that number. >> the number is 100 and 123. do you know how many whites were killed? 326. there are 43 million plus black americans. 123 were killed by police gunfire. and the garner thing is most of those police deaths are gunfire not the other. so there is an epidemic of this. but when it happens it's extremely troubling. i could be wrong. >> bill, i think respectfully you are wrong. there is a pattern here. >> the pattern is minuscule. >> bill. >> 123 as opposed to 143 million is minuscule. >> tell the parents of these precious young children. >> everyone values life. >> if it were your child, you would not call this minuscule, bill. that's di

. >>> coming up, trayvon martin, michael brown, eric garner. these names are symbols in the debate about police brutality and racial injustice in the u.s. next up, cnn's anderson cooper's conversation with their mothers. >>> and next a homeowner watches as their house slips into the ocean. ear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. >>> well, more people in the u.s. will take to the streets today demanding an end to police brutality. that will happen in just a few hours. some of the largest protests, we're told, will be held in new york city today and washington, d.c. as you know, in recent weeks, many people across the u.s. have marched after grand juries decided not to indict police officers in the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. well, for the mothers of these victims, the protests are deeply personal. their sons, as well as trayvon martin and tamir rice have become symbols in the debate about racial injustice across the u.s. cnn's and

saying he would have looked like a young trayvon martin, he always weighs in how people can takehat they want to hear out of it. and any activists listening hear the message that if you know if you're black in america you have a rough road to hoe. so feeds into this victimization ideology that too many in this country have that are black and activists and that's really very unfortunate. you'd think after six years the president would have figured out and been able to utilize his biracial background to weigh in a far more progressive way on this. very disappointing comments here. >> what do you think? his remarks sounded down on the state of things in america and yet the polls seem to bear him out that race relations have gotten worse according to poll. >> we are no longer in the late 1950s or '60s. obviously there's been tremendous progress. but i think one point that needs to be made, i'm the foreign affairs columnist for "the wall street journal." i've lived all over the world. i've traveled all over the world. i think the united states is almost certainly the least racist coun

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