similarly, millions of watched the video of the police officer shooting walter scott in the back as he ran for his life. who can ever forget the grainy footage of tamir rice, a 12-year-old boy, who shot by police officer while he played alone with a toy gun in a park near his home? two videos, one from the police helicopter and another from a police dashboard camera, showed terrence crutcher walking away from police officers with his hands raised high in the air just before he was shot and killed. these images have invoked feelings of fear, sadness and outrage and serve as reminder that the lives of black men and boys continue to be devalued and destroyed with impunity at the hands of the state. to date not one of the police officers who killed his men and boys has been convicted of a single crime. to -- to the arrival of the first slaves in 1619 to the lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries to the present day, black boys and men have been unlawfully killed by those who are sworn to uphold the law and by vigilantes who took the law in to their own hands. the national museum of africa

after brown's death we saw the violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott and some.

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

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

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

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we saw walter scott running from mr. slager in south carolina.wn eyes but told it's not proof. philando castile announces to the police officer he has a gun. seven seconds later he ends up shot and then subsequently dies before his girlfriend and her child in the back as she live streams it on facebook. >> no, this did not happen. >> you cannot believe it. yet when a young white woman is killed in minnesota, the police chief is forced to resign and people wring their hands and the policeman who's usually seen as a hero and exempt from a kind of moral scrutiny is immediately indicted because he's of somalia descent. race changes the dynamic depending upon who they are. >> it's a very broad conversation we've had, but i think we know that film, it's a. powerful, powerful. i highly recommend people see it. >> thank god for kathryn bigelow. >> and good job for you, for having helped to advise, that's nice, thank you, eric dyson. >>> the question of colossian. are democrats spending too much time on the russia investigation? that's next. when you've b

>> yes, well, race relations have lakes been on a sharp decline ever since the walter scott and dylannincident. the flag over the south carolina state house has been a boiling point in the media and the minds of the people here. race relations have basically gone down. so essentially what we are looking at now is a situation rough two ideologies basically amongst white people and black people and there are people who don't actually see it as a race issue, it's also looked as a class issue because classism is an issue also more so as race. right now, it's almost like a boiling point and there has been a lot of words exchanged lately, tensions are very high. now with the -- a lot of leaders, black and white, calling for the jon c. calhoun statue and a lot of the confederate monuments to come down in the city, that has sparked the ire and attention and put the focus back on race relations in the city and they were already very tense to begin with. >> sreenivasan: james bessenger, for your group, the confederate monuments and statutes are a source of pride, for members of shakem's group th

walter scott, philando castile.ve committed a crime but the penalty for that crime was not a death penalty by any stretch. we can talk about black and brown people and they don't get the benefit of their humanity when it mcomes to their interactions with law enforcement. being presidential. if, in neerkts was making a joke that was in bad taste, you know what would be presidential if he came out and apologized. how about just put a tweet out. >> or spoke about police brutality. >> he tweets about everything else. just tweet that my remarks were in bad taste. i apologize. >> this is how he hasn't, you know, changed from being a candidate to being president of the united states. this is the kind of thing -- >> let's go back further. but this is not just about how he hasn't changed from the candidate. this is about the same donald trump we talked about many nights who took out the op ed piece against the central park five. >> the other problem to this is that it also -- i think this makes it harder on all of us. white,

this with walter scott, who is a perceptive cowboy performer in buffalo bills wild west, who recognized and appreciated bill's abilities and adopted quite a few of them to create his own famous and long-lived identity as death valley scotty. for example, scotty staged a fake ambush in an attempt to scare away his investors from tooming -- who were getting nosy in trying to find out the truth of where the sources of wealth and the mines where. when thish jack, staged gun fight went wrong, it was scotty shooting his brother in the groin rather than himself. [laughter] >> whereupon scotty was out missing a beach -- a beat, turned this mishap to the battle of wingate pass, which received national attention and further added to the legend that he was creating. an accidental groin shooting should be handled. [laughter] also, unlike jack, scotty was proud of his association with buffalo bill and was not jealous. scotty's roomis duringty's castle, and his life, he had a bigger photograph of buffalo bill on the wall. it is still there. the story. full- to bring the story circle, buffalo bill hir

walter. peak of hurricane season, september 11th. >> scott pagett. thanks.ah o'donnell in houston. >> anthony, thank you. we should note that some who have made it out of the floodwaters are still struggling to find shelter relief and medical attention. some take refuge in churches as they wait for help to come. here is jericka duncan. >> this east houston church quickly turned into emergency shemter as evacuees searching for higher ground had no place else to go. like fabian perez and his family, very little belongings left. >> i see your children don't have any shoes. >> nobody, nobody has any shoes. we are doing whatever we can. >> literally escaping for your life. >> some found comfort where they could. sleeping under tables. and on rows of chairs. and the darkness we found an emotional nancy gomez. holding on tightly to her 7-year-old son jesus who has cerebral palsy. cousin linda rojos says he hasn't eaten since yesterday. >> his machines got wet. his medicine got wet. so, he already had three seizures. that's very intense for him. but all we can dupe

new orleans t scott pag wor >> anthony, looking like a major hurricane is on the way. see a well defined eye right now. a lot of open, warm waltere official hurricane track. as you take a look, center of circulation, moving north, northwest at 10. wind at 85 miles an hour. as we talked about coming on shore, late friday night into early saturday morning as category 3. then what is interesting to me its by saturday afternoon, still a category 2. and it slows down and then it starts to make its way back toward the coastline. as the a tropical storm. so the concern here is, as it works its way back down to the southeast, possibly over the opening water, restrengthening going into tuesday next week. we talked about the storm surge higher in spots. as we take a look, friday, saturday, sunday, monday. some, 25-30 inches rain into louisiana as the track of harvey will start to work its way to the northeast. right now new orleans, 4 inches of rain. could see the number go up. anthony. >> scott padgett, thanks. >> now to the political storm in washington that pits the president against fellow republicans. in a tweet today, the president