Transcripts For CSPAN Justice For All March 20141214

No justice, no peace. No justice no peace. [indiscernible] no justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. [marvin gaye whats going on playing] [marvin gaye whats going on playing] [marvin gaye whats going on] if we could all do this together. Let me introduce myself. Im not really important. Joe madison. I will be running this program. If we could all do this together. Let me Say Something before we get started. There are a lot of people in the media that want to try to suggest there is a division among us. That this is young versus old. White versus black. When my son walks out of the house, i pray every day he will come home. I dont care what color he is. All human life is sacred. And so, let us gather here for a purpose. Let me tell the people in the media something right now. Theres a lot of pain on the streets. But where there is pain there is a purpose. And we are here for purpose. And we are going to be here together. This is intergenerational. And with a few and weairs on her chin are proud of the young people who are standing up and speaking up. Let them hear you. You are the john lewis. You are the people who started this. It is you who are targeted. And you have a right to stand up. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. Ladies and gentlemen, let us do this. Let us all grabbed each others hands in unity. Every single hand. Every single hand. I dont care if you have a phd or no d. Ged or whatever you got. Grab somebodys hand. When there is a funeral, we all bow our heads and hold hands. We praise our god, or whoever we want to. Hold your hand. Every hand should be held. Im going to bring forth for prayer the chairman of the board of directors of the National Action network. Chairman richardson. We have gathered here today because we believe in the value of all human life. We gather here today, because we know we have to move from protest to problemsolving. We have got to go back home and take on the issues, and bring unity to our community so we can transform behavior. And transform expectation. Today, join together in our diversity. Join together in our multiple faith expressions. I went to ask you to join me. Whatever your spiritual grounding is, i want us to focus on our spiritual center. On the thing that gets us through the night. The thing that holds us when everything lets us go. The thing that gives us hope when despair is all about us. Let us pray. O god, our mother, and our father. We thank you to the legacy of struggle that we embrace in this hour. We confess our pain. We confess our frustrations. We confess we have to come back here time in and time out. Generation after generation seeking justice. We are tired, but we wont give up. We come today, god, asking you to bless these families. These families who have gathered around. They are hurt and have lost children. Their pain inflicted by insensitivity. We pray, god, for this nation that is on its way to catastrophe unless we turn around and come together and speak hope to each other. We thank you for al sharpton, who has been a clear voice in this difficult time. Not just his voice but the multiple voices of men and women all over this country. The voices of the young people, the voices of our children. We thank you, god, for the voices that are being heard. We thank you for those who put their feet on the pavement. Who walk through the streets. Who, by our presence, demonstrates there is an unsettling spirit in our midst. We asked, god, that you drive out the things that would destroy us. Drive out the violence in government hands. Drive out the violence in the hands of our brothers and sisters. That black on black crime will not continue to be. Drive out the pain, the frustration that leads us to turn on each other. Drive out Police Officers who act without accountability. Drive out government officials and Corporate Leaders who are insensitive to our pain and struggle. And god, then open the window of hope so we can believe in tomorrow. Help us believe in tomorrow. Help us not to be encumbered by the burdens of today. We love you. Make us whole. We are broken. Make us whole. Amen. Amen. [applause] while you still have your hands as far back as i can see. Grab the hands of your neighbor. Hold those hands up. Everybody put your hands up. This is interesting. The cameras are still focused here. They should be focused out there. Look at the hands. Black, white, brown, asian. Come on, media. Wake up. There they are. Nobody is doing nothing wrong. Everybody is doing everything right. That is right. We will make you look today. Congress may be on vacation, but we will never take a vacation until we get what is right. Ladies and gentlemen, a young man who hails from these parts, powered university, isrsity now mayor of newark, new jersey. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. We said i cant breathe not just because eric garner lost his life senselessly in the streets of new york from an illegal chokehold. We say i cant breathe, because we are being suffocated by a system of jim crow justice in america. A system that allows the murder of Trayvon Martin to go free. We say we cant 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. Were 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 Police Department is the problem. We are out here because there is a systematic and consistent effort to dehumanize and criminalize people of color. That has been going on for decades in america. We are out here because we want we reform in the Police Departments, congress, our states. We need reform in our cities, institutions, colleges. We need reform. Thatntil america realizes they have to invest in every citizen in this country, it will always be a problem that this country will never have peace, rest, justice, and until all people are treated fairly and equally and treated like human beings. God bless you. Keep up the struggle. Keep hope alive. Keep fighting. Keep pushing. There were 400 people who came here from ferguson, missouri. 400 folks came from ferguson, missouri. Hands up. This all began. Hands up. Gentlemen, we are going to we want you to understand. Everybody is going to have a voice. Sharpton,t what al joe madison would do. You have to ask the question, what are you going to do about it. Everybody can do something. My next speaker, a young man, jostle williams, decided he was going to do something. Give Joshua Williams of round of applause. [applause] how are you doing . How are you doing . How are you doing . All right. I came all the way to washington, d. C. To support you and us. The reason why we came appear is we are are tired of being shut down in the streets like dogs. The police have a trigger finger. Control the trigger finger when they see a black person in the street. There is no reason why we should walk down the street and look over our shoulders because the police are coming. Is no reason why we should get followed around the store because we are black. We should be black in america and be free. Watched over like dogs. We are going to stand up to these Police Officers. We are going to tell them that we are going to put an end to Police Brutality. Youre going to stop beating our kids. I went to jail for five days. Five times a week to joe for protesting. Every night i got out of jail i was back. That shows them that i dont care about them. You can lock me up all you want i get oute next day of jail im going to be in your face. The next time i get beat and get out of the hospital, im going to be back in your face. I was beaten to. Too, during the ferguson protest. Officers rushed in. They stood at tackling the people. I got beat on the ground. They took me to jail. I checked out and it took me to the hospital. Anyways, after the hospital visits, i went right back out there that same night in their face. They did not like it at all. These people you see on the stage, this is my protest family. Right here. You are all my family right here. I wenzhou to put your hands in the air. I want you all to put your hands in the air. I want you all to put your hands in the air. The cops do not understand we are surrendering. They took a young mans life. They shop to that mans body. He was about to be in college the next day. He was about to be earning his education. He did not understand that they took sun away from her. Now shes got this been all the holidays without her sun. They dont understand how hard it is to have a Family Member taken from you with bullets. So, we need to tell them to stop doing the stuff, man. We all want to live. All want to see our kids we all want to see our kids grow up. We all want to see our kids have an education. We want to make it. Forget when we go back to ferguson. Protest with us. This. M in this with i see a lot of good signs. I cant breathe. Murder is illegal. Thats nice. I see that. I see that, too. That is nice. No justice. No peace. No justice. Hands up. Dont shoot. I love yall. I love yall, man. My name is tony sanders. Im originally from north carolina, but i have been a washingtonian for 10 years. I want the people out here in the streets. I am one of the organizers who , anddown 395, 14th street shutting down the streets everything will not. I want to tell you why we are outer shutting down the streets. This is not an issue of Police Brutality tonight. This is a human rights issue. Owns human rights were violated. He did not get the rise to a fair trial, due process treaty did not get the rights to be judged by a jury of his peers. We are here fighting human rights tonight. It is not black against white tonight. It is us against the system. It is us against white supremacy. If you make a mistake of calling , an issue ofghts Police Brutality, the system will win. What we are doing right now is exactly what the system does not want to see. Black faces, white faces, asian faces, hispanic faces, together today. They dont does is united. Salsa othing but a social construct. It is been invented to divide us. With our race to the side. We look at one another as humans. We do not say, hands up, dont shoot in washington, d. C. We say, best up, fight back and washington, d. C. Fight back. Fist up. Fight back. Universal sign of surrender. That is why we dont say. We try to that way. We tried to be nonviolent. We try to throw our hands in the air and say we surrender, but nothing has stopped the killing of black and brown people in america. Nothing has stopped it. And so we say, this stuff, fight back. Up, fightwe say, this fight back. And then she looked at me and said, sorry. I aint mad at her. Youve got a lot to say. Folks, they on the program. President of the how would University Student association stopped by to say hello. Up. Ands dont shoot. In the three and a half years since i have been at harvard university, we are about troy davis, Trayvon Martin, eric garner, Michael Brown, we , anded, we protested we got zero guilty verdicts. All that says is that the system is working for the people that it was meant to work for. That is not how the story ends. The people that you see back here in ferguson have been protesting for 127 day straight. They were not let the story in the process of the new york are saying, i cant breathe, let the story end. We are here in washington, d. C. By the thousands to say, that this is now the story ends. If they thought this is how the story is going to end, up america better wake up. This is our time. This is our fight. This is our chance to tell america that we are tired of police getting away with murder. America, a black man is 17 times more likely to be killed in a white man. According to the department of justice report, a black man is killed by a white officer twice a week. Not up here becomes because i am an activist, i am up your because this is personal. Tom someone who is not middle class into comfortable to understand that it could of been my parents there were sitting back here crying over me being in the grave. Im someone who cant look at those people in their eyes and see the pain and see their grief and not do something about it. I could care less about all the media. I could care less about the press. To i want is for this event not become an annual event. What i have come to realize is that america is really a living, breathing contradiction. This is a country that wrote that all men are created equal, but then in the same document said that people that look like me and you are only worth three this of a person. Put is the same country 115,000 japanese in internment counts in california. We dont like to talk about it, but it happened. People that are commissioned to protect us and service are instead harassing us and killing us. Is american as apple pie. Has alwayse task been to narrow the disparity between the justice that has been enumerated in theory and the way that justice is continually operated in practice. The question becomes, what next . What we going to do about it . We need Real Community policeman. Im not talking about cultural sensitivity policeman. Im talking about the dude you play basketball with on the court. The girl you went to get your hair done with. We need police to debt programs that go back into those police cadet programs that go back into those high school to get those kids to become Police Officers. That is Community Policing. The second thing is, we need accountability for these officers who were acting with impunity. I believe that the president should expand the department of justice to include a division specifically dedicated to deal with cases of Police Misconduct the result in death. That needs to happen. That is amended to do on his own. He doesnt have to wait for congress. He doesnt have to wait for the house. He can do that on his own. There are things we can legislate, but we alternately cant legislate peoples presumptions and stereotypes. What we need is a cultural shift that identifies black lives as equal to any other life in america. , nobodyyou with a quote can give you freedom, nobody can give you quality or justice or anything. If you are a man, you take it. Malcolm x. The next speaker is the director of the National Action network from atlanta, georgia. Hello, everybody. How are you . Let me say can everybody give themselves a round of applause. You can, you march, and supported the movement. Dr. Martin luther king jr. Said we are caught in an Inescapable Network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. That directly affects us all indirectly. It is the echo of our young people. Without america, our young people are dying in the hands of those two serving protect us. When i looked out into this crowd, and privacy different , genders, affiliations, and organizations. It takes all of us working together to make this change. Every millennial standing up against Police Violence and other atrocities. From the daily human relations humiliations and counted with the police, assume the position in chicago, or up against the wall and logan in oakland. They make it clear that we are the reason you have no rights. It is our request for justice that we embrace the truth of americas promise and we must hold america accountable. So, what will we do . We need to use our 1 trillion buying power and support our communities. [applause] in this country today and every day until we see change we will make you uncomfortable. Africanamerican people in this country have been uncomfortable for too long. We will march. We will protest. Well rally. We will come back to this capital as many times as we have to. Another is enough enough is enough. What if we come to do . , why have weking come to washington, d. C. Congressome to tell that Police Misconduct and retarded it would lead to legislation. We will Tell Congress to enact legislation that addresses the jurisdictional threshold regarding the department of justice. Today, we come to dz to Tell Congress to do their job. Thank you. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. Thank you very much. I made a mistake and said that congress was on vacation, but that is not all of congress. Some folks decided they were going to stay. I have a congressman from houston, texas. Ladies and gentlemen, congressman al. Let me start by complement the convenernding of this great march. I believe that when a person takes the initiative to a copper something for others, that person ought to be recognized. I ask that you now kindly recognize and show some love to the honorable al sharpton. The leader. The man of courage who convened us today. Lets show him some love. Lets hear it for him. [applause] who question why we are here. I want to let them know that we are here for the same reasons that the pilgrims came to plymouth rock. We are here for the same reasons that people through tea into the boston harbor. We are here for the same reasons tractors to got on traverse the country and bring their complaints to congress big we are here for the same reason that rosa parks took a seat on a bus and a racist southern town could we are here for the same reason that dr. King march from, to montgomery. Here because we refuse to accept injustice. That is why we are here. That we ando know congress who are members of the Congressional Black Caucus have heard your cry. Legislation. Ding you are demanding that we take up the duty that you have given to us when you elected us to congress. I want you to know that the honorable marcia fudge has made it clear that we will take up legislation to bring about change in the way policing takes place in this country. [applause] we have bobby scott, who has just not the piece of legislation through congress that will again require the reporting of death at the hands , thee constabulary do police. We want to make sure Congress Gets an annual report on what is happening. That is not enough. Pendinghave legislation , which will require body across on peace officers the length and breadth of the country, because we understand that although body cameras dont make all the difference, it will make a difference when we can see what happened to people like garner. Rte without the camera, he would be like Michael Brown. Pass legislation for body cameras. Not enough. We must give the Justice Department the Additional Authority so that it can investigate every one of these questionable shootings. We must take it to the federal government so that we can get a greater degree of transparency. That is not enough. Takely, its going to people like me saying to young people that we are not here to lead you. We are not here to be in your way. We are here to get out of your way so that you can continue the movement that started before we all came to this podium. That theu to know Congressional Black Caucus will do its part. I promise you that we will take up the legislation that you bring to our attention, regardless of who you are, where you are from. We believe that this movement has to continue. It started before i was born, and we wanted to in before we die. Got bless you. Thank you. For those of you who think onlythe next speaker showed when he got a tv called politics nation, let me give you just a brief sketch. He is a preacher. , long inong time ago this business, many civil rights marches. When called upon, he answers. We all answered. You answered good ladies and gentlemen, the reverend al sharpton. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. No justice. Note these. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. All right. We are here today because we nation deal with the fact that just like 50 years states had taken a rightsn to rob the human and civil rights of citizens with states rights rejected laws. This empowered federal law. We have seen in ferguson, missouri. We have seen in Staten Island. S havestate grand jury suspended the right of due process. To call onwashington this congress and National Government to do what was done before. We need National Legislation and intervention to save us from state grand jurys that say its our right to choke people, even on tape. And you wont bring them to court. Right to have prosecutors, have private themes, and if we question , we are starting trouble. We did not shoot anybody. We did not choke anybody. Asdont come to washington shooters and chokers. We come as the shot and the choke to as few to deal with american citizens who cant brief and their own communities. Who cant breathe in their own communities. Look at these thousands of people, black, white, young, old. This is what america looks like. I stood in the city and was inspired when i saw black man put his hand on the bible and become president. I have also been inspired today when i see young white kids old enough holding of signs that say, black lives matter. I know the media wont show that. Hadow they will say we only 500, but i dont care how much you try to distort it. United will never be defeated. Castigate the leaders. You can try to divide us by generations. You do not understand my itst daughter ashley says, you may bury yes, but you did not know you were bearing seeds. Yes, we sprout up and start blocking traffic. Our seeds grow into civil disobedience. Our seeds go into nonviolence. We will grow stronger and last longer. This congress, we are here for three things. One, we need a law on judicial thresholds. High fore threshold so you to protect citizens . Not saying all police are bad. We are not saying most are bad. We are not antipolice. We are antibrutality. Must havel government a threshold to protect that. Second, the Justice Department must have a division funded to deal with this. Sadly, we must have the power of special prosecutors, not the local prosecutors. Those that Work Together every day and depend on each other to do their work to nonconflicted inquiry of each other. Was led by they victims. They say you dont speak for nobody yet. When we come marching, thousands come. They get other people to denounces. This is about the victims. We dont all agree with each other. We dont all have the same tactics. ,ut we have the same goals equal protection under the law. And that is not blacks against whites, is right against wrong. That is why whites and blacks are here together, showing the world that this is not a black march or white march. This is an american march for the rights of american people. [applause] let me say that there are those as the what wet says is unreasonable to what is unreasonable about asking for court cases . Abouts unreasonable asking for due process . What is unreasonable about asking for the constitutional constitution to work for everybody question mark what is unreasonable about saying that and eric garner had rights, too. What a lot of people dont understand is that just like policeman have the right to get unions and others to defend them , citizens have the right to get civil rights and human rights organizations to stand behind them. You thought it would be kept quiet. You thought youd sweep it under the rug. You thought there would be no limelight. We are going to keep the light on Michael Brown, under gardener eric garner. Way you makenly roaches run is you got to cut the light off on. I dont have the words that others may have. I dont have the polish that civil rights leaders before me had. I dont have the understanding of law that some of my brothers and sisters have. Me,some of you may be like you, the rough side of the mountain. Side,ou come up the rough sometimes you might get scarred. You might get a little mud underclothes, but i come to washington anyhow. , andave me a little light i am going to let it shine. [applause] i am going to shine on Michael Brown. Im going to shine on eric garner. God gave me my light. Let it shine. Let it shine. Let it shine. [applause] i want to bring to the stage before we bring our closing speaker. I know its cold. Some of you wrote all night long. Some of you have a long ride home. But we want to stand together. Me ring to the platform and fathermother and family of Michael Brown junior from ferguson, missouri. Michael brown sr. [applause] , on. Come on. Where is the mother and father of Michael Brown junior. . Garner. Er of eric of eric garner and her children. Junior. A 12yearoldir boy shutdown include, ohio. We are standing with them. John crawford, also shot with a toy gun in ohio. Mother theresa is here. Father John Crawford is here. The families here. The family is here. Ease right here. He is right here. Where is the family . His this is his partner and mother of his child, both of them came to stand up for him. They were writing in the new york tabloids that she was not here. Shes here. We are joined and we are joined by the mother who has the mother of Trayvon Martin. Mother of. Now i want and were going to bring my partners to the stage, the National President of the National Urban league. He president of the naacp of National Black civic participation. Thenhe families were going to move and let the others speak. This is not a revival to we will not be her all night. This is not a revival. We will not be her all night. Here alll not be night. I want to thank all of you that said you and got to call my name, but you are here. Who is see my home boy ting his around the world the legendary Filmmaker Spike Lee in the house. Tobrought his daughter march. Do the right thing. [laughter] do the right thing. Gresham. Thank george randi weingarten. I want to thank all of our partners that made this possible. I wantl, i want to congress to know we are serious. It was the wednesday before last that the grand jury came back. We will be back. Over and over again. [applause] let the congress the where about the three things we raised. When you get a ring ding on christmas, it might not be santa. It might be reverend al coming to your house. First e how are you all doing . Ll the way from st. Louis the brown family loves yall. Ill respect. Man, you kept this alive. We love yall. We really do. We love yall so much. The mother of Michael Brown. Unior sister hey, washington. Thank you. Wow. What a sea of people. , i dontont see this know what we have got to do. Thank you for having my back. [applause] hands up, dont shoot. Hands up, dont shoot great hands up, dont shoot. Hands up, dont shoot. Hands up, dont shoot. Up, dont shoot. Hands up, dont shoot. Hands up, dont shoot. Mothers start with the of eric garner. Good afternoon it, everyone. Overwhelming to see all of you have something to stand with us today. I mean, look at the masses. Black, white, all races, all religions. Just a great moment. This is a history making moment. And you know we need to stand like this at all times. Sun he mayur not be here in body, but they are here with us in each and every one of you. You all brought them here today. And i thank you. I thank you so much. Haventyou, we would empty podium, ok . We just love yall so much. Said, we willal come here as many times as it takes. We will come here over and over and over again. But the next time we come, we we want to come for a celebration. Not an assassination. Again, we thank all of you. We hope they hear our voices. You are helping us have our voices heard. Hopewe go home today, we that they have heard our voices, they yield to our commands, because no justice, no peace. Thank you, everybody. The wife of eric garner. Hello, everybody. Each and every one of yall for coming out here. Like i said in the beginning, my husband was a quiet man. His voice will be heard. I have five children in this world, and we are all fighting. Or everybody, not just for him for everybodys future. For everybodys past. For everybodys present. It strong. Make i want to hear everybody in unison say, i cant breathe. I cant breathe. Everybody who just supported us and, you know, my father, he was a great man. The way that the media has per trade him to be, he was not that man. He was a family man. He loves his kids. He did anything for his kids. And about is all i want to say. Thank you for the support. And, i cant breathe. Amen. I cant breathe. The mother of tamir rice. Who has come from cleveland. Just yesterday the autopsy was released. But with her heart in pain, she wanted to stand with the people today. Give a big hand. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon. We are all family here, right . I just want to thank everybody for coming out. For all of your support. And across this nation, we will get justice for our children. Believe that. Said,everend al sharpton the autopsy came out. Ok. Ts so, the autopsy came out. My sons death was ruled as a homicide, like everyone should know. And, with that being said, let that officer get arrested, and bring him in front of a criminal criminal jury so he can get the opportunity to prove his innocence. And we can prove our justice. My son was 12 years old. Just a baby. A baby. My baby. The youngest out of four. And he is here with me right now. And this is what he would want me to do. I want to thank the nation, and the world for their support. Because thats only way im standing up right now. Thats the only way. [cheering] and for everybody who doesnt know, im a mother i keep my kids away from toy guns, water guns, bb guns because, boys , boys of all color, they like those types of things. You know . They just like those types of things. And, you know 12 years old had a promising future. A promising future. May god bless this nation, all the families, we share the same pain. All of the mothers across the world that have had Police Shooting for the sons. For their sons. Hands up, dont shoot. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. We got your back. Please dont shoot. I want to grow up, too. Thank you. You are family. Give her a hand. [applause] the family of John Crawford the father who lost his son. To a toy gun in ohio. I am a John H Crawford junior i am John H Crawford junior. Ea slain johnher of the crawford iii, who was murdered in august in the largest retail store in the world. In walmart. Let me say the name. Walmart. Where most of america spends the money. Even myself at one time, but that is no more. I am here today to support the rest of these families in the is wall of shame. Im here today to let everyone know my sons name will be vindicated. I worked under the system often off and on for almost 20 years under the criminal justice umbrella. Never before have i been so ashamed. That the same system under which i carry out my duties, is the same system that im saving an that im receiving injustice from, the same system that we all are receiving injustice from. I would like to let everyone know to please stay focused. Dont forget the name John Crawford iii. Dont forget the name walmart. Associate the name with the place. He was not killed at a department store. He was not killed on the street. He was killed at the biggest retailer in the world. And we did not get even one condolence. Walmart was under no prohibitions whatsoever to not the footage when he was murdered, but did they do so . Absolutely not. Did we get an im sorry . Absolutely not. Shame on you. Shame on you walmart. Shame on the walton family. But i tell you, please stay focused. On what is going on, really. Whats going on is simply, we have prosecutors who are not prosecuting. We have prosecutors who are not prosecutors. Prosecuting. These cases most of which, are what we call cases, open and shut. These should not even make it to the federal level, lets be frank about it, they should be handled at the state level. The attorney general can handle most of these cases. So lets please, stay focused. On that. We need for you to continue to apply pressure where pressure is needed. When we have people in office not doing their job, that is the biggest injustices that we can have. When you do not have an agenda in congress its almost from the inside that works the way to the outside. When you do not have balance on the inside, you will not have balance on outside. So we need more people we need more people we need a more Diverse Community within congress to make things happen. Im going to close it by just saying that we thank you. Do not forget my sons name. And they all will be vindicated. Thank you much. [applause] how are you doing . Im the brother of taril junior. A lot of you may not know who he is. But they never, st. Louis never wanted the nation to know about this story. They shot my brother 21 times with his hands up standing over him with 18 of those bullets. Full of holes in the sound from was a list of his back. Timothy ground for how his back. Bullet holes in the ground from when they went through his back. Since the day he died, i have been determined to get his story out there. This broke my mama, aand my daddy down. Im going to keep on fighting. Im going to fight with these families all the families so we will get justice for him. I want you to remember his name. The prosecutor in st. Louis did not indict the officer after six months of socalled investigation. We are taking it to a higher investigation. They keep wanting us to accept a civil suit. We dont want that. We want indictment. Send them to jail. I love all of you. Just under a month ago, in a Public Housing in brooklyn, new york, the pink houses, a young man was killed, named gurley. We the National Action network responded to his partner. He has a twoyearold child that she will have to explain where what happened to their daddy. Disputestrying to get going, and she said, i do not care about disputes. I want justice for my baby and for my partner who i bared this child with. Ode down here with the baby to stand up in the Nations Capital for him. Give them a hand. Kimberly. [applause] i think everyone for the thank everybody for the support. We really appreciate it. He was killed for no reason, walking down the stairs. On his way home. All i really need right now is justice. How do i explain to my twoyearold that daddy is not coming home. As we yelled justice for akail gurley, im calling for justice for others as well. Thank you all for the support. Keep the spirit alive. Unity, education. United we stand. United we fall. Alright. We have this man that many of you saw he pulled into a gas station in south carolina, and for no reason a state trooper shot him, and he said why did you shoot me . He is in washington today with us, saying hands up, dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. Hands up. Dont shoot. Our family taught us that the race was not given to the swift or the strong, but to the one who endures until the end. America, i hope you are listening. I hope you are watching. It seemed like we were in a race to get somewhere. And the spot was not this stage. I do not think so. We are in a race to get to justice. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. The officer in this case was terminated. The officer in this case was charged. The officer in this case was arrested. And were waiting for justice a grand juryg for indictment. In the future is yet to come. And the future is yet to come. Thank you. I would like to thank everybody for coming out, and putting themselves into something bigger than themselves. On september 4, my life changed. God showed me that there is a reason for me to be here. Not just as a black man, but as a human being. All right . All of you out here, when you leave here, dont let it end here. Ok . Can i see the hands of black men here that whenever they get pulled over by the police they automatically get nervous . No, no, no, no, no, no. I know we have the supporters of all kinds are here so how many of white or caucasian supporters out here get nervous when they are pulled over by Police Officers . Ok. Right now, we know what the problem is here. We know the problem is. We know what the problem is. We are being targeted. Ok. The only way were going to get somewhere is if we Work Together and if we dont stop. As soon as you stop it is that. Dead. As soon as you stop, it is dead. All right . God i think god i thank god every day that im here. God every day that im here. I believe in this movement. I believe there will be change in america from coasttocoast, all 50 states, even in alaska. Right now, this is our team. We got to Work Together and stay in touch. Our social network so we can communicate with each other. If you meet someone out here, exchange cards, figure out how to make this network work in your community. When you come to south carolina, i would like to see every phase out here, so we can all lift our hands when we get a conviction. Were going to stay active. I would like to thank everybody for being here. Thank you for your support. Give him a hand. [applause] 1999, young man shot dead, 41 bullets, in the bronx, new york. His mother came and stood for him. She is Still Standing for him and others. The mother of im a dutiable the mother. [applause] no justice. No peace what do we want . Justice. When we wanted . Do we want it . Now. We have been there so many times. It has been 16 years. Reverend sharpton, thank you for your leadership. You have been fighting all your life for righteousness and justice. You fought for my son, you fought for sean bell, you fought for ingram, you fought for and the list goes on. Why are we here today . Let me tell you something. I know in 2000 when the white four white officers were acquitted of killing my son of all charges, i thought the world was ending. We had then a conversation that we began in this country. I want to lift this one up and show the world. The cover of the time magazine. What did we say then . We said cops, brutality and race. And today, 16 years later, we are standing still and demanding the same thing. Just think about that for a moment. Think about all these Young Children who were taken away from us. B faith and humanity behind the headlines. The phase and humanity behind the headlines. My sons wallet looked like a gun. When sean bell went out to celebrate the best time of his life, for his wedding, he looked suspicious. Thought the 41 bullets shot at my son were so much, but with sean bell, 50 bullets. I went to the hospital to see the survivors of that brutality and violence from police guns. I went and saw them chained on the bed. And i cried. Nobody can imagine the trauma. In that for me. Because i was seeing this young man, for no reason, being gunned down and he came out of it. My son never lived through that. He didnt stand a chance. Im here today to support the eric garner family, michael family,mily, tamir rice and the young man killed in brooklyn. In the end, we all have to ask the same question. Why do our sons look suspicious . Sons areeach time our gunned down, are they stereotyped and portrayed . Why . Leslies son was supposed to go to college, but in the news, you see something else. Trayvon martin went out to get something to drink. But in the news, its something else. Time and time again, we are going through the same history. I relive my tragedy every time. But i tell you, as long as i have a bone in my body, i will not fail my son. I promise him im going to fight stand for him and speak for him because he is no longer there to speak for himself. This is something we demand. We paid a horrible price to be here. [indiscernible] that eric garner was killed. I am so sorry for that. Michael brown, im sorry that it has to end like this. But this is not the end because of the sea of people who said we who stood up and said we need justice. We cannot close the book. We have to carry on until justice for all, equal justice for all the victims. Despite where you are coming from. Whether sean bell or leslie work or gwen, we are all here. Please do not forget us. Dont forget that 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 finally, when that happens, when we have strong laws, good cops policing our neighborhoods, then we can heal because we want to heal. We need healing, america. Thank you. God bless you. [applause] we must here and we must hear and are going to hear from our partners in leadership. But we must hear from the mother who has symbolized the challenge of our time. 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 dont know how to express it all the time, we can if we cant 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 dont quite get it. They dont 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 light is absolutely shining on whats going on. This is not something new that just started. This is something that has been happening. This is something that has been going on. It is just that some folks just woke up. Some folks just woke up and realized, hey, this race of people is being treated a little differently. We want to make sure we not only are talking to ourselves and our own groups and organizations, but we have to make sure they understand what we are going through. Because some people dont quite get it. Dont preach to the choir. Because they get it, they understand. I dont have to tell one single africanamerican about racial profiling because you guys know. So what i challenge you to do is talk to somebody that does not know. Talk to somebody and make somebody else knowledgeable and make somebody else aware and educate somebody else about what you are going through. Because as long as we stay to ourselves, we are going to stay in our same circle. And we have to get out of the circle and make positive change. The last thing i want to say is, dont just come to the rally and then go home. The numbers look nice and look good. You guys look good out there. And we are very proud to stand here. But it cannot stop here. I want to challenge you to also commit yourselves with a nonprofit organization, somebody that has purpose and meaning. Something that an organization that supports the same ideas that you have and the same goals you have. We are going to fight this together. God bless you all. Thank you. [applause] sabrina fulton. Give her a hand. [applause] thank the families as they step down. I want to thank the black eagle, that is hosting us at our request. And then he will bring on the National Bar Association and brooks,book brother who coconvened this. Judge mathis is in the house. We will hear from the judge. And then reverend jamaal ryan will send us home. Hold on. Dont leave us. Hold your bus. Totally the luster not charge over time. Tell the boss to not charge over time. I have the pleasure of introducing one more Family Member. The daughter of eric garner. Where is she . Are you here . Please, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. I just want to start by thanking everyone for coming out and supporting our families. [indiscernible] hands up. Dont shoot. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. I just wanted to stop by and take my new family on the stage. Think my new family on the stage. I joined a National Action network after the march in Staten Island. I go every sunday and monday to the house of justice to figure out what i can do to make the policing better in our communities. I have come up with a list i cant find it right now but i have it. I came up with a few pointers i want to outline so that we can Work Together to get these policies enforced. Public protests are important because we all have to come out and get our voices heard. And if we dont make our voices heard, they wont listen. So we have to make them listen. We have to go out there and protest together, peacefully. Today was so peaceful, i cried the whole way from down pennsylvania avenue until i was right here. All the love and support being given. We have to learn how to speak to each other. If you dont know somebody and they are going through something, give them a hug. Go to a young person and tell them, you dont have to riot and lived and flip cars. That is not what my father did. He wanted young men to take care of their kids. My father took care of his kids until his last dying breath. When he said, i cant breathe, he is saying, i cant feed my family. Hands. Dont shoot. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. If there is no justice . No peace no justice . No peace thank you all for coming out and supporting me. [applause] lets bring now and were near the end with our speakers. I have judge mathis here, spike lee is here, the naacp is the urban league. We know its cold and just cuddle up and warm up and were going to get it right and everybody, archie elliot, 14 times they shot him in prince georges county. Ladies and gentlemen, bringing to the podium now, melanie campbell, president of the National Coalition on black civic participation. No justice no peace no justice no peace i cant breathe i cant breathe we cant breathe we cant breathe black lives matter black lives matter all lives matter all lives matter i want to thank reverend sharpton for your leadership and your leaf Time Commitment to justice your lifeTime Commitment to justice for all people, for our people. You have been there for the families of the victims of Police Killings and brutalities for decades. Im going to age myself, but i can remember way back in the 1990s you were there for the family of philip pinel from englewood, new jersey. Any New Jerseyans in the house . [cheering] he was killed unjustly by police. You have always been there for our community. When the cameras were off more times than when the cameras were on. You are our goto guy. You fight to the end and we love you. I want you to repeat after me. We love you, reverend sharpton we love you right now all i want to say, when we stand here today we can look behind and we can see the congress. You see that White Building back there . We are here today with all the families representing the black vote. Were here to pledge to our families to stand in solidarity with you until justice is served. We need congress to do their job. President obama, attorney general eric holder, theyre doing their jobs. But they cant do it alone from a federal level. We need congress to act. There needs to be an end to Police Brutality and excessive force. I have two brothers standing before me, reverend tony lee and my brother Sherman Justice who spoke earlier to close us out. Thank you. I love you. Tony . Ive come today to tell you that we have to call this United States of america into a sense of repentance. Youve got to understand the word says that what does the lord require of you but to do justly and love mercy and walk humbley with your god. We have got to call this nation not just to talk justice but to do justice, not just to act justice but to do justice, not just to fake justice but to do justice. And if it wont do justice, well shut this sucker down. Is there anybody here who says this nation will do justice so we cannot stop until justice rules. No justice . No peace no justice . No peace all right. Were rolling on, ladies and gentlemen. Please, now, welcome the head of the National Urban league, my main man, mark morial. No justice . No peace. No justice . No peace. I want to thank reverend sharpton and the entire team of the National Action network but also thank the labor organizations, civil rights organizations, the young people, a big round of applause, the young people who stood up. This day has been a day when some will ask why do we march . We march because of Trayvon Martin, eric garner, Michael Brown, tamir rice, John Crawford, lavar jones, and marlene pinak. We also march today for the many people not named today who have been victims of pleas violence across the nation. We march today because it is our right as americans. We march today because we are united, black and white and brown and asian. We are united, young and old. We are united to say, it is time for change. We want justice and we want it now. A generation ago, or many generations ago, the death of emmitt till, the bombing of the four girls in birmingham in the 16th street baptist church, the death of schwerner, goodman, and cheney, young people down in mississippi gone to help people register to vote, awakened the conscience of a nation. That awakening spurred a Peoples Movement of unprecedented proportions, and that Peoples Movement knocked down the walls of segregation, passed a Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights act of 1965. I am outraged by the grand jury decisions in ferguson and Staten Island but im even more outraged by the and that is why that is why this movement cannot be a Movement Without objectives. So i want to just share with you 10 action steps for Police Reform and Police Accountability that each of you must bring back to your local community and we will advocate for in all 50 states of the nation. Number one, we want widespread use of body cameras and dash board cameras in every Police Department in this nation. We want an end to broken windows, police strategies, and the implementation of 21st Century Community policing strategies. We want a uniform, deadly force policy thats transparent and understood by all Police Departments across the nation. We want all Police Officers to be comprehensively retrained to learn how Community Policing should work to develop relationships between police and the communities they serve. We want, where appropriate, special prosecutors to be appointed to investigate Police Misconduct, because the relationship between local police and local prosecutors is too close for them to always be fair and impartial. We want the f. B. I. To create a clear and transparent reporting system for Lethal Force Incidents involving all Law Enforcement anywhere in the nation. And we want a National Data base of citizens complaints against the police. We also want a National Police accreditation system, which for those departments that dont meet this accreditation, they are ineligible to receive federal dollars. We want we want this congress this congress that meets behind us to pass a national antiracial profiling law. No one based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, or gender or gender orientation should be profiled by the police. So weve come today to rally, weve come today to stand with these families. Brothers and sisters, weve come because today is a beginning, a new beginning for justice in this nation. No justice . No peace. No justice . No peace. The next speaker is the new president of the naacp. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. , we leftle while ago stones on a plaza marching towards polished the polished marble of the u. S. Capitol. Over a mile,little we marched together. Jew and gentile, black and white, catholic and protestant, gay and straight, latino and asian. When we march together, we the people marched together. The distance between these two points is a measure of determination. It is a measure of our commitment. It is a measure of our resolve because we believe all lives matter. Every child matters. Every citizen matters. All of our children matter [applause] we have been asked a question. Why march . Why us . March because when we see our children go out day in and day we march because when you have one out of every men africanamerican young being mistreated at the hands of the police at any given month, we march. We march when africanamerican men are 21 more times likely to lose their lives at the hands of police. Inmarch because we believe our children. We care for our children. Yes, we will protect our children. You asked, why march . From Michael Browns hometown to the hometown of governor jay nixon, 134 miles across missouri, we marched. We marched because all of our children matter. We marched, and we will yet march again. When you ask, why do we march . I answer in the words of the civil rights leader from the said, we willho march until hell freezes over. We will march on the ice. [applause] why us . It is not your children being profiled. Its not your children born suspect. You that if to youve ever held a child in your arms, if youve ever held a baby in your arms, you know that that childs name is not democrat or republican. Called by theot name of the urban league or naacp. That childs name is known by god, and every child matters. We march together because we care about our children. When i came to the naacp, my youngest son was the same age as emmett till when he was killed, 14 years of age, and my older thewas 17 years of age, same age as Trayvon Martin when he was killed. I march because of my children. We march because of our children. We stand together because of our children. Afternoon, you this as we march, let us be mindful of that great hymn of freedom. Lift every voice and sang. Ring with the harmonies of liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the lifting sky. Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song. Sing a song full of the hope that the president has brought us. Let us march on. Let us march on. Let us march on. On till victory is won. One for every child. One for every member of this republic. Let us march for our children. [applause] upi am going to now bring the legal arm of this demonstration. Three of the baddest folks that ever worked to the bar. Ladies and gentlemen, first, you know him as the judge, judge greg mathis. [applause] reverend sharpton, the family of our fallen boys who are changing this world, and you all here today, very quickly, i want to comment on what justice looks like or what it should look like. Justice should look like federal intervention with federal and state legislation amending the laws on secret grand jurys. We want grand juries to be open and transparent. Justice should look like using the police data that we gather around the country, the same police oversight. Theant justice to look like police and our community touching us and loving us. To love us is to be a part of us. We want justice to look like choosing employment and education for our black youth rather than last incarceration mass incarceration. We want justice to look like the stopping of guns and drugs being dumped in our communities for our young people to kill themselves with. Finally, we want justice to look likeyou, like me, like he, she, like they. We want justice to look like all of us so that we can get equal protection under the law. God bless. Stay strong. We love you. Reverend sharpton once said, i wish Johnny Cochran was alive. Hes not. Attorney crump is the attorney of our generation. Darren park is the attorney of our generation. Mike brown, Trayvon Martin, and tamir rice ladies and gentlemen, the attorneys of our generation. When Trayvon Martins killer profiled, pursued, and shot him in the heart, we said that was bad. Was when oure criminal Justice System profiled Trayvon Martin while he was laying on the ground. [indiscernible] didnt they profile us all . For thele who came out killer of an unarmed teenager theyg dead on the ground, called them supporters, and when all of you cannot for the black teenager laying dead on the ground, they called us protesters. When the people came out for the police officer, they got police protection. When we came up on Michael Brown junior, we got police enforcement. Thers and sisters, [indiscernible] you know, they demonize our children. They profiled trayvon, and they demonized trayvon, 17 years old. Michael brown, 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 dont 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 Nations 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 africanamerican lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite . Reverend al sharpton, families of america, i came to let you know that the lawyers of the areonal Bar Association social engineers. We are not parasites. We should ensure that not another black brother or sister is laying dead in the streets. Them, when we have lawyers and when we have Police Officers that escalate force in communities in White Communities like they do it in the black communities, we will stop speaking out. When another brother in a fights with a police officer, tries to take his gun three times, but hes white and he lives, i say, give me the police officer. When they apprehend a brother like they did the white boy that walked into a theater and shot 14 people [indiscernible] when they apprehend a brother similar to the man that went in for people and a , they didnt shoot him down. They called him down. When they start doing that in the black community, we will start stop telling them our system is broken. Association,al bar we are going to tell you as legal scholars the system is broken. Some of yall say, take it back to the grand jury. As a great scholar, im going to tell you, i dont go back to something that is broken. I fixed that which is broken. Implement state laws that say, health much must be care infrastructure. When an officer sees a demon in somebody, there is something wrong with that brother. There must be diversity training not at the start, but in the middle, the middle, and at the end. Most of yall were surprised that there was [indiscernible] black lawyers, we were not. We understood that in 1982, the if the court said opposite or felt his life is in jeopardy he could elevate force to the level that he deems reasonable. We call that the law of capricious standards. , put someing definition to excessive force. Put some definition to what it means to elevate force, and then train your officers did the escalate force and of escalating force in black communities. You get a little sensitive when we paint you with a brush that says, all caps are bad. I challenge you to stop painting us with a brush that says all black people are bad. We want you to make it a felony [indiscernible] crime if i go in a store with a brother, and i know nothing about him. You call that felony murder. I say, you should go to jail with him. [applause] [indiscernible] we are social engineers. Warmed this crowd up. We were supposed to have a performance. Becausetime factor cspan and other networks are going to close out, and we just want to say thank you for coming out. Stacy francis of the x factor, thank you so much for being here. Give her a round of applause. She is here, folks. That is the most important thing. Hold on a second. Bring the president of voters latino, maria teresa kumar. [applause] shot because he was holding a toy gun. No questions asked. His community organized. They marched to city hall, asking for justice. With policeved snipers on their rooftop. This is my hometown of santa rosa, california. This is what it feels like. This is an epidemic in our country that knows no color, latino or brown or asian. Its an epidemic that they are too afraid to address. What gives me pleasure and what gives me excitement is to know when you look around the room night right now in the halls we are out here, all colors and creed. [indiscernible] i asked today for our latino brothers and sisters who are afraid to come out and voice their pain. Two out of three latinos are afraid of police harassment. Two out of three. They are embarrassed to come out. Theked them today to take strength of the mothers of Trayvon Martin, the strength of mother, the strength of eric garners mother, the strength of Michael Browns mother, to come forth and unify with the Africanamerican Community so we can be strung together. Strong together [applause] not one more. Come together. We are bigger together. We are unified together. No justice, no peace no peace new york congressional representative congresswoman carolyn maloney, United States congress of new york. Thank you. Thank you all for coming up, activists, union leaders, civil rights. Not far from where we stand is the Supreme Court building, and engraved in stone above the entrance is one of the greatest promises ever made. Equal justice under the law. We make that promise of equal justice to everyone, not some, not most, but all. Lets be clear. This march today is not against the police. Its against unfair Police Brutality. It is not against enforcing the law. Its for preserving that great promise, equal justice, impartial justice, for all. Weare here today because have ample and heartbreaking reason to believe that some do not have equal justice. Eric garner died because he was suspected of selling cigarettes on the street. Guilty,he was found there is no jail time. It is just a fine. Yet eric garner was arrested. Eric garner was restrained. Eric garner was wrestled to the ground, and eric garner is dead. Dead, and he was not even charged with a crime. Wrong withmething so that. To red and blue, democrat and republican, libertarian and liberal alike, to tell us all that there has come to be a terrible disconnect between what is just and what has become just business as usual. The corrosive effect of applied and justice denied. Its a problem that is too big, too widespread, and too dangerous to ignore. It has shaken many citizens beliefs in our judicial system. A recent report by the new York Attorney general looked at the result of the 2. 4 million stops that were made during the stop and frisk year. Only 16 of those stops resulted in arrests, and about half of those arrests did not result in convictions. Peopleans over 2,300,000 , mostly black young men, were stopped for nothing. Justiceise of equal engraved above the Supreme Court is fulfilled as long as men like eric garner can die for selling cigarettes. As long as children like tamir rice can die in a playground, as long as innocents like a tiny ,irl he can die on a stairway and as long as men like Michael Brown can die on street. Accountable. D this has got to change. If we could now come together , to give at i learned in sunday school that a benediction. S not the end it is when you stand up and turn hold on a out second. One change. Our councilman from new york city one more, and then we will get to the benediction. How are you doing . Ive only got 60 seconds. Everybody keeps asking me, what kind of protest is it going to be . That is the wrong question. It should be, why are they protesting . If you ask that first and you fix that, you no longer have to ask, why are they protesting . The last thing i want to say, we are spending a lot of time on Police Reform, which we absolutely should, but i dont want it to get lost. They say the police are there because the Community Asks for them. That is true. But those very same communities ask for better housing. Those same communities ask for better jobs. Those very same communities ask for a Better School system just for the building not to be crumbling. Those same communities ask for clean streets. The very same communities ask for economic justice. Why can we only hear one cry but not hear the cry of all of it . This is about generational, institutional oppression of communities in this country. We arent going to talk about all of this. Talk about all institutions. Im happy to see everybody out there, black, white, brown, jews, muslims. Keep marching for justice. Keep marching for equality. They marched before us, and we are now. Keep on. Keep strong. Peace. From adelaide to ohio, from ferguson to Staten Island, they are going to hear us. We are marching on righteousness and correctness. Power to the people. Man,e missing a young lynwood jones. You are missing. We are looking for you. Please meet us at the corner left of the stage, my left, youre right. Meet us right here at the corner to the right of the stage. We are looking for you. Thank you. We are going to close out with stacy. Do you mind . Is everybody happy . Ladies and gentlemen, please finalistthe x factor stacy francis. Say, we allnt to have to go back to who we know, and that is christ. Anytime we have a problem, we go back to god. I just want to sing a Little Something for you to be reminded of who lifts us up, who keeps a strong, and who can keep us going no matter what. Lift rd i will my eyes to the hills is comingmy help from you the peace you give me storm mes of the hands my lift your hands out here, yall. We have to lift our hands for the right reasons. You ray to amen amen, thank you. Peace. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, if we for thenow benediction, it is not the end. You turn and go out to do the work that needs to be done. Headw turn us around and us out on the right direction, the outstanding reverend jamaal bryant. Nobodys said the road was going to be easy. I dont believe he has brought us this far to leave us now. Would you take your neighbor by the hand . Everybody, make sure somebodys hand is in your hand. We come as a family. We are leaving as a family. How in the world are we going to get victory . You dont have the money or the Koch Brothers . We dont have the backing of the Republican Party . How are we going to find triumphant victory while it is we are working but congress is on vacation . How in the world are we going to get justice when families are crying . It looks like the senate is just laughing. We believe we are going to prevail. God has never failed us. He has never forsaken us. You want to know whether god still works . On brock friday when we boycotted, and they saw a hit 11 1 been percent because we kept our black dollars in our black pocket. They want to know whether god still works. Ferguson. We are in oakland. We are giving a major shot out to those in new york right now. Would you shout to them . [cheering] this is not the end. It is the beginning. Tomorrow is black solidarity sunday. Every black denomination is church of godus, and christ, the progressive baptist, global united fellowship, all of them, black you, black catholics. Tomorrow, go to Church Wearing black. I dont want to to just go to Church Wearing black. When you leave church, still be black. Jesus is black. I need you to please make sure that tomorrow we stand shoulder to shoulder and arm to arm. Would you bow your head . God of our silent tears, the one who has brought us thus far, we thank you because you know what its like. You remember when jesus was born. They tried to kill black boys. You had one so there would be a leader. Theyemember in exit this tried to kill black boys, but you had one so a leader could come forth. We thank you because sons are being burped right now who are going to lead our generation to the next level. Dispatch angels right now of protection around our sons from psychopathic, sociopathic Police Officers. I pray right now you will convict prosecutors who have given up the law for popularity. We pray that you will disrobe judges who are elected but have not been appointed by your glory. We thank you right now for new registered voters who are going to march in 2016 until we have righteous congresspeople, righteous senators, and a righteous president. We dont want just black elected officials. We want a black agenda. We want to make sure that our lives matter is not a slogan but a lifestyle. Let us march on. For every person who opposes justice, who opposes righteousness, we came to remind them, we know when they are sleeping, we know when they are awake, we know when theyve been good or bad, and because theyve please send black jesus for goodness sake. Amen, and god bless you. [applause] next, the Farewell Speech of michigan congressman mike rogers. See another chance to reverend al sharpton and Family Members of eric garner, Michael Brown, and tamir rice in washington, d. C. After that, house members pay tribute to retiring congressman ralph hall. On the next washington journal, American University law professor Stephen Vladeck and steven groves of the Heritage Foundation discussed the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the cias interrogation techniques. Pennsylvanian congressman tim murphy who cochairs the Mental Health caucus talks about Mental Health care access two years after the New Town School shootings. Jonathan loew of the brady center to prevent gun violence reviews efforts to tighten gun laws. We will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook or twitter. This week on q a, manu raju bresnahan share stories about being on the trail with mitch mcconnell. He planned for four years this campaign. He started in 2010 after what he saw happened for rand paul, the Kentucky Republican senator. Rand paul beat mcconnells handpicked guy. At that point, mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about primary politics in my home state. He started to make changes. He hired key staff. He started to build this sophisticated infrastructure knowing that this would be the most difficult race. They knew they were going to spend a lot of money on technology. They watch the Obama Campaign in 2008 and 2012. They watched harry reids election in 2010. He was going to have the latest technology. We did an interview with him in 2013, and he said he was going to build the most thorough campaign ever. In American History he probably got there. At 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a, and to mark 10 years of q a, we are erring one program from each year at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Among the house members who are retiring at the end of this session is michigan congressman mike rogers, chair of the House Select Committee on intelligence. Heer 14 years in the house, plans to become the host of a talk radio show in january. Here is his Farewell Speech. Its about 40 minutes. Mr. Rogers thank you, mr. Speaker. Im honored to be here. I dont often come to the well of the house for two or three minutes, let alone 60 minutes. But today is special. Certainly for me. I think for my family, for my extended family and staff who are here today. This is my chance to really say thank you and had a heck of a good ride serving the people of the eighth district back home. I have some thank yous up front to my wife, christie, who is here, who is both my best friend and the love of my life. Thank you for being here. This is going to be harder than maybe i imagined. To my family, erin and john, thanks for weathering the storm , for a member of congress who is more often gone at times they should be home. As a matter of fact, i remember i nye i was getting in trouble when my daughter who was going into the fifth grade and because i would fly out to washington from michigan every week, i had scheduled mondays as lunch day at her local school for years. And so i got the lecture going into her fifth grade year that i would have to stay within a zone of her when i came to lunch. I was no longer able to sit next to her at the lunching tables because that after all would be god awful, to have your father at lunch with you in the fifth grade. So i did get to sit across from her for about one who are year and going into the sixth grade by the way, that was pretty much done. To everybody who had the great privilege to walk these halls, putting the visitors and including the visitors and folks at home, i hope you still have that rev rabs for this building reverence for this building, for this institution. For what it means not just to america but to the world. I know i did every single day that i walked these halls. This morning when i came in, still got that little tingle about what it meant to be a member of congress, in this great institution. And i know i felt that with the members of my staff throughout the years. Every chief of staff, every legislative director, every staff director and every other staff member that ive ever had. Fellows and interns stepped up to the plate and certainly i know helped me become a better representative to the people of the eighth district. All the things that we were able to accomplish, all of them happened because we had people who cared a little bit more about something bigger than themselves. They cared enough to sacrifice probably better careers with higher pay and shorter hours in the private sector. They chose to come to washington, d. C. , or work in the District Offices to plow through and represent really average americans to a big federal bureaucracy that sometimes seems so intimidating, they had nowhere else to go. They were the friends on the other side of those phone calls. Many of these folks have graciously showed up today. Ris cox and matt andy, andrew, ilen phillip, diane, kyle. Thanks, kyle, for not killing me on the highway, on the way to meet the turkish newly elected prime minister. I appreciate that a lot. Michael, darren. I think of my first crew that was right in the District Office fighting it out, tony and penny and katie and stewart, all of those folks who were so committed again to getting it right on behalf of the people that they represented. To my Campaign Team. By the way, there were so many more people. I could take the whole 60 minutes and thank them all. My Campaign Team who fought it all and beat every odd and beat every pundits prediction that i would never stand and walk these halls as a member of congress. Terry and val, r. J. , john, catherine, joe, mike. I want to thank someone who was special in all of that to me, somebody whos been with me 22 years. From the very high points, to. He very low points anne, couldnt have done it without you. Thanks for being here today. Wow. Aid i wasnt going to do this. I think of all the things that as a staff that you are able to accomplish. From cancer care legislation to protect rural patients, he medical devices for children, biodefenses, we even figured out a way to make serving farms more efficient. Without mandates. That was clever. To all the constituents that picked up the phone and found a friend at the other end, i think of the time we all gathered up to help keep a soup kitchen operating through the holidays by getting private donors to step up to people theyd never met or organizations they had never heard of, to help those folks get fed through the church kitchen. All the time we huddled all the staff in because we had one of those great successful, horribly painful i. R. S. Issues, where after years of trying to get this thing straightened out and certainly the anxiety and problems that are faced when dealing with a bureaucracy like the i. R. S. , we got to make that phone call and not only were they not going to have to owe money, the i. R. S. Had made a significant mistake and they were going to get a pretty good sizeble check back and ill tell you, there wasnt a dry eye in the room when we made that call as a staff together. From all the folks we helped with social security, the folks that got the medals they earned by serving this country. To see the room filled with individuals who teared up because its the first time they heard their loved one tell the story of how they earned those medals fighting for the defense of the United States of america. You know, its pretty fantastic thing that i got to be here system of the work that i did on the intelligence committee, i have to tell you, was some of the biggest and best privilege i have had the opportunity to participate in. Somebody asked me at the time, why did you go from being an f. B. I. Agent to wanting to serb and go through that political process that we all do . And i recall the story, as a fairly young agent, we were working a case, trying to locate a young girl who had gone missing from a western state, had come to chicago, i was on the organized crime squad. We had a tip that would hopefully lead to this girls return to her parents and they were very concerned. She was young at the time, 15. When she left home. The long city story, the fast forward of that story, we were able to find this young lady, operating in a house of ill repute that was run and really protected by the local police, run by chicago organized crime. And the proprietors of this particular establishment kept all of the ladies completely hooked on heroin. Gather them up at the end of the night, take home to a building that they owned and they would really lock them up, feed them heroin, get them back the next day for their nights work. When we took this young lady out, she was probably 17 by the time we found, located, started to disrupt these type of activities. Ill never forget we got her into the car, we had arranged counseling, there was a great agent, a senior tonight me, richard davis, always very valuable to me. She was coming out, she didnt have a coat. So he expropriated the money i had in my wallet to find an opportunity to get her a coat, which we did. And in the back of the car she was immensely quiet. She didnt say a word. Again, our goal was to get her to some counseling and try to get her life back on track any way we could. And out of the blue, it was very quiet in the car so it was very cutting when she talked. She turned her head and the only words she spoke she dade, do you know why i didnt kill myself . Because i knew somebody cared enough to come find me. That certainly mode a profound impact on me, both as a young f. B. I. Agent and the work i was doing there, but what i had tried to accomplish here as a member of congress. To know that somebody is empowered to ask the hard questions, to go to the tough laces. I believed and the people around me believed it was porn for the security of the country, or keeping Cancer Patients from driving hours and hours, or maybe we came up with that bill, and did if the protection of biodefense in the United States. One of my greatest privileges is having that ability to stand with the men and women as chairman of the house intelligence committee, with these folks who served all over the world in the Intelligence Community, the defense community. I never forgot that story of that young lady and what it meant. And i always pledged to myself that if i was ever in position to be in authority, to make that little bit of a difference, maybe ask that other question, push or probe a little bit more or push a bill, that i would do that. And i think together, the staff, family, and friends, we have accomplished that. So congratulations to you and all the work that youve done as well. As i had that opportunity to stand around the world with some really brave and courageous individuals, both in our military and intelligence communities, i just have two people that i need to point out. I want them to know of what the profound impact they had on me, as a member of the house select and tee on intelligence, certainly their country, and the work that i hope i took in to the role of chairman. The the rock star of c. I. A. , thank you. For standing up for your country in the shadows. For your leadership. For doing, i think, the countrys hardest work. Youve never complained, you sought no recognition, but in those shadows you stood up at the right time to push the right policy that i believe has fundamentally made america safe. They never get to know your name but ill know it. To karzais favorite, thanks for having the courage to take me where you werent supposed to. Thanks for showing me up close and personal the very real challenges that the men and women of the c. I. A. Faced in very dangerous places around the world. Those particular early on visits and counseling sessions, i think set the pace for my understanding of what my role could be, not only be tough on the agency when it needed it, but to be supportive when the men and women of the agency needed it as well. For that, i want to just say thank you and thank you again for having the courage to stand p at the right time. For any success ive had as chairman, i have to thank a good friend of mine, dutch ruppersberger. I know in this town that saying you have a friend thats a democrat as a republican could get you thrown out oh, thats right, im leaving. Thanks, dutch, for really sitting down, putting our differences aside, working through pretty tough and difficult issues to make that Intelligence Community work and work for the United States. Really a it should happen more around here. Should happen every day around here. Sometimes it does and get get noticed. I want to thank you for that. Weve had our donnybrooks, we have fought, there may have been some finger pointing in the chest moments, but at the end of the day we always came to the conclusion that we mutually agreed it was in the best interest of the United States of america and not only the citizens here at home but the well being of those who serve. So dutch, thank you for that. In all the travels i have had the benefit to do and all the things i just reminisce about, that was hopefully the hardest part of my remarks today, something always struck me. That america is the light of the world, still today. People still hold in reverence Something Special that happens here. It was reinforced to me when i was asked to go to the 60th anniversary of the battle of the bulk. It was a few years ago, i thought, im not sure. Do i want to go to belgium and go through all this . Wasnt quite sure. But they hustled me out and say, lets do this. Well represent america. This is going to be a great event. So i went to the battle of the bulge, got thoifers battlefield, that was wonderful. But the day of the parade, the mayor of a town of about 10,000, maybe more now but 10,000 in the war. The 101st occupied that town surrounded by the germans a pretty difficult it was pretty difficult, tough fighting. The mayor of gaston brought back all the soldiers with who could still walk make the parade and en those who wanted to but couldnt, there were vehicles for them. You think wonder how would they remember you wonder how would they remember this 60 years later . These men who had never been out of their towns and communities, who traveled all that way to fight for something bigger than themselves. The town was packed. Must have been 100,000 people there. As the gentlemen many marched up that proud, the marched up that parade. They tried to stand straight, for those that could. Even carried the american flag. People were screaming and hollering and clapping, held signs up that said thank you for saving my grandparents from a concentration camp. And that evening, that was a powerful moment, but that vening, there were children of that town during the surrounding of that town by the germans who came up to offer some words at the microphone to these folks who were getting a medal from the mayor. Think about it. These would have been very young gals, they had grown up now. And they were telling stories about these big, giant men who would come down into the basement and offer them their coats and their scarves and what little bit of food they had left, some candy, blankets. They would take off their boots and give them their socks because they had known. These were the civilians trapped in this town in the ravages of war. And they talked about the reverence of a country that would come that far away to stand with them at a time that they thought their lives mattered very little in the gears of war. You think about the fact that about 15 billion in the United States has been spent to save a million lives in africa. Through our aids program. Started a few years ago actually, under george bush. One million lives saved. 60 of food aid that goes out, that goes to people who need Food Security they cant eat, let alone have a program to take care of them, comes from the United States of america. The farms of the United States of america. The next highest contributor is less than half of that, and thats the e. U. Combined. For world hunger. The Marshall Plan right after world war ii, many maligned, but we invested a certain amount of money so that we could provide stability across europe. Back then, i think it was 12 billion, which was a tremendous amount of money, money we probably didnt have. And because of that, and we made the investment to keep soldiers there, not to occupy. We wanted nothing. We took nothing. Took no soil. We were invited to stay. Brought peace and stability across europe in a way that we have never seen before. Think of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of small and large conflicts across europe from the 12th century on. Including the 19th century. We brought them peace and prosperity in a way that europe never believed it could do on its own. We did it through commerce, stability, and commitment to stay. At the end of this day of the day, no other nation in this world could have done that. And we pushed back at the ravages of a cold war. And if you think about today you see those events and you come back to the United States and you turn on the tv and listen to political dialogue today, you wouldnt think too awful much of the United States of america. You would think we have become a country who didnt think that we provided much value in the world, were going the wrong way, dont have much to offer. A nation in decline. In fact, i had the occasion to have a meeting with a russian general officer some time back about Missile Defense and other things who, when the meeting was done this very large general, maybe the largest human being ive ever had a personal meeting with, his hat looked funny on his head, didnt quite hit right. He put his arm around me, his hand hit my chest, about the size of a dinner plate, asked me togo into the library, wanted to Say Something to me. As we were walking into the library, i thought, ive seen this movie. I dont think it works out all that well for me. We got in the room and he said something that startled me, and it shouldnt have, i suppose. But he said, its great to finally see that america is admitting shes a nation in decline. Weve been through it, well give you all the advice and council and counsel you can take. He didnt come to that conclusion on his own. America, maybe our political rhetoric, maybe our own actions, maybe our own sense of isolationism is the answer for us, helped him come to that conclusion. A few years after that, seing the world the way it was, putin owns 20 of the country of georgia, no intention of leaving, annexed crimea, certainly playing games in eastern ukraine. The world notices when we stop believing in ourselves. I cant think of a better example of that to me in recent times. For all the debate about afghanistan, should we or shouldnt we, should we stay, should we not . I have certainly my own efinite positions on that. In 2001 the average age, the average life span of an afghan citizen was 43 years. 43 years. Last year it was 64 years. 9 when we got there. 9 had ac a sess to any form of health care had access to any form of health care. Today, 60 . We asked women to come out of the back of their homes and participate in society. Because we knew as a country you cannot isolate half of your population and be great at anything. You cant even be good at anything. We asked them and said, we would well be here, because we knew that was a longterm investment for the stability and security of afghanistan. We got there, there were no girls in school. Or almost no girls in school. Today nine million afghan girls go to school five days a week. 37 of the labor force today are women in afghanistan. About 0 when we got there. 1 4 of their parliament is women. We have these discussions about how hard it is and how difficult it is and maybe we should change directions, maybe were not the america we used to be. And now we talk about just pulling up stakes and going home. Because its easier. What a stain on our National Character if we walk away from the women we asked to come out and engage oppression and brutality and ignorance, because we just didnt think that we believed enough in freedom, democracy and stability the way we used to. I had a woman doctor i met there on the very first occasion i went who was trained in america. She had been sentenced to the back of her house in pakistan. She was an orthopedic surgeon. Hadnt been out of her house in six years. When the u. S. Forces first got there and she heard the sounds of the guns she said she took off her burkea, she walked about nine, 10 miles to the Childrens Hospital and volunteered. I happened to meet her at the Childrens Hospital. Pretty tough place. They didnt have clean sheets, they didnt have ant septic the way they needed, remember, this is really early in the process. And i asked her if it bothered her to hear the sounds of the guns in the distance. Ill never forget it, she grabbed my jacket that i was waring and said, last night in this particular bed, and by the way there were two and three children per bed, they didnt have enough beds, because they had chased all their nurses away mothers would come in with their children and would have to stay in the hospital rooms. So think of small room, two and three children per bed, plus the mothers who provided some minimal care, without the greatest of cleanliness conditions, you can imagine how tough this is. She grabbed the phone and said, last night in that bed i had to amputate the arm and a leg of a 9yearold boy. I didnt have the right medical devices, i didnt have the right medicine but if it werent for the United States, he would have no chance at all. And none of the children here would have a chance at all. So we have to ask ourselves, are we going to let our politics become so small, weve let our politics become the thing that if i can make you believe you hate someone else, i can get that someone elses vote. Is that the mesh were going to give to the next generations of americans . Were going to find the one thing that divides us or even if it doesnt well make it up and let you believe it does. Were going to decide that if youre of this race or of this color you cant be for that party or this idea. I cant think of anything more small and more petty than that. I think of the challenges of the world that lie before us. Not only just here at home, but we have some big problems here at home. 18 trillion in debt. 70 of our budget now goes to entitlement programs and its growing. We have a tax code that is so convoluted, so ugly, so brutal American Companies are leaving or worse yet theyre not even starting. Social security is in financial trouble. Medicare, financial trouble. China is now pushing out, very aggressive in the south china sea. Its invested 13 per year since 1989. 13 into the defense and modernization of its military. Russia, you saw what theyre doing. Isis, youve seen what theyre doing. Theyre now holding land the size of indiana. And so Many Americans just dont want to be bothered with the world the way they see it. They think if we just leave it alone and deal with some of the small and petty things that not only get debated here but get debated in state capitols and county conventions, that the world will be all right. Well be fine. Well make our politics so entertaining it doesnt matter if we accomplish anything noteworthy. And i worry about that. Are we going to be that generation that walks away from the notion of individual freedom and personal responsibility . Are we going to be that first generation that says, you know, we rejected they the of a Big Government because a Big Government, big enough to give you everything that you need, is a government big enough to take everything that you have . This is really the only place in the world where you can start sweeping the floor, maybe not even speaking english, become the supervisor, go to school, learn a trade, become a manager, maybe own the place through your own hard work and you dont have to have a title, you dont have to know someone. You just have to be willing to try. Are we really going to be the first generation that says, that all was just too hard . Our engagement in the world was just too hard, the Marshall Plan, seconding our young men and women to fight for something bigger than themselves, to push back nazi germany, fascism or imperialism in the east, just too hard. Theres a great story about a little town called north flat, nebraska, that when they had the opportunity, and remember they were under government rationing so they were rationing eggs and rusher and tires, by the way weve been in conflict for 10 years and nobodys been rationed one thing. You still get your tires and yourings and your cheese. You get everything you want. No shows been interrupted. But there during world war ii, trains would go back and forth taking soldiers to the eastern conflict and to europe. And that little town came together, of farmers from that whole region, donated all the materials that they had, eggs and cheese and flower and their time, they met every single troop train that came through north flat, nebraska. They on their own sent six million meals to young soldiers and marines and airmen, sailors who theyd never met. But they believed that was their contribution and something bigger than themselves to keep america who we were. By the way, there was no government program, nobody told them to do it. Government made it a little harder than it should have been or them to do it on their own. This is a funny place, america. You can start out without title, without privilege, you can be the house intelligence chairman if you care enough to get involved, work hard enough. You can start out as a traveler all over the world and do different things, become president of the United States without the title privilege. You can start an idea in a garage, work your heart out, be smarter than the guy next to you, become one of the richest men in the country. Maybe not the world maybe the world. You can still start a chain. You can work two jobs. You can get an education if you want to get an education. If you turn on the tv today, would you know we are still the last best hope in america in the world . Im not sure i would. I certainly see all the things that separate us, all the things that divide us, all the problems that we want to make. Sometimes even though theyre intimately personal and real, bigger than they are. And when we do that, the world watches. And the world is starting to believe that we dont believe. I had an occasion to meet an intelligence official from a foreign country who id befriended and again after one of those long kind of meetings that we had overseas, we were walking out to the car and he said, congressman, do me a favor, tell your countrymen, dont give up on themselves. Who will help such a small country like us and take nothing for it . The russians, the chinese . It can only be you. He United States of america. We have so much to be thankful for in this country. But you wouldnt know it by listening to the quality of the ideas, by the size of by the confidence in our future. Theres a study recently that japanese excuse me, chinese citizens believe that corporations and business lead to success and are a part of the answer at an 84 rate. In the United States it was 39 . We have a whole generation of americans just turn their back on the one driver that has led the one nation to take care of more people and do so much good and ask for nothing in return, because we spend far too much time talking about how bad we are and not how good we are. Or how good we can become. You think the debates not only in this Chamber Debates not only in this chamber but the chamber aft, when they were talking about a country that was ripping it self apart in a civil war. 500,000 americans gave their lives for something bigger than themselves. And you know at the end of the day we were better for it. We became a better country. And every time we reach one of those points in our history where we struggle, we get through it because we believe in something bigger than ourselves and we believe that tomorrow is going to be better than today. And, yes, we believe that our best days are still ahead of us. I hope we dont decide that these problems are just too big to handle anymore. And i dont care if it is our domestic problem at home or our call to stand up for that last beacon of human dignity. And invest in our military not because we fight but because we want to avoid a fight. And sometimes by showing up, you can help your neighbor and your friend by just standing there. Ive never met a diplomat yet that really likes the military engagement and ive never met a diplomat yet that doesnt want the 101st airborne over one shoulder and the seventh fleet over the other. Its always the quicker way to yes. We have been given a gift. And as we debate and this chamber will debate in the months and years ahead, they will talk about what role we should play, about what big problems that we should solve, about what encouragement we should provide to average americans to stand up for both their right and their responsibility as citizens of the United States. Will we take it . Will we be the ones that clicked the light and let it go dark for that last shining city on the hill . I dont believe we will. I believe, as Winston Churchill noted, that america will always o the right thing. After trying everything else. We are in that process of trying everything else. But when youve had the great privilege like i have to meet these people all over the world, the people that work here. It may be peggy who keeps this place running or doris and pat who keep the cloakroom functioning or our Capitol Police or our clerks or the people who process things or our staff who answer the phone calls. They still believe. And you can go home and see people struggling to keep their businesses open, they still believe. And you can look at the eyes of any fourth grader, fifth grader or sixth grader, not necessarily seventh grader, because they think they have all the answers by that point, and know that they believe theres Something Special waiting for them. And that Something Special they may not be able to quantify. But we all know it, its the United States of america. The last greatest force for good. And i know it by visiting those men and women in the intelligence business who are working their hearts out and by the way deserve our full devotion of support for the very difficult work that they do. Or the young men and women in our military or those young folks when i had the great privilege to travel down range and when i was going to show up someone asked me if i would mind promoting one of the soldiers who happened to be there, a sergeant. In a very remote place in the world. They had to culturally dress in the garb of the locals, werent waring their uniforms wearing their uniforms. So when i got there, one of the sergeants was going through this, decided he wanted to be promoted in uniform. So he had to go to a small room, tucked away, put his uniform on, windows were darkened out, a lot of folks small gear, some of the folks pretty big, we had one little 3 1 2 by five flag. Two of the gentlemen were fighting to see who got to hold it behind him as i posted the order for promotion. These were pretty big dudes. Wasnt going to get in the middle of that. They finally worked it out and decided that one would hold one corner and the other would hold the other corner, stand behind him. So i cracked the kem light to read the orders. When i finished, there were probably eight of us jammed in this room. It was darkened, doing everything in hushed tones, somebody began to whisper the star spangled banner. Im pretty sure we were off key. Pretty sure we missed a verse. I can tell you it was the most beautiful thing i have ever heard in my life. That these fine americans, who had been away from their families, for about 15 months, still believed in something bigger than themselves. They knew their mission was as important as being home with their child at a baseball game, not because thats not where they wanted to be, but this is where their country needed them to be. Theyre still there. We ought to be there with them. We ought to find that opportunity to stand and in hushed tones show the courage, commitment to the United States. We ought to snap this trend of small and petty politics and stand up for one of the greatest nations on the face of the earth. We ought to have big ideas to solve big problems and not let the small ideas check out. Let us find the better part of our angels in us to do something Pretty Amazing and incredible as we move forward. I believe in this chamber and this institution, i know it will happen. I know the people i have had the privilege to serve with know it will happen. And i know that there are many ways for all of us to contribute. I plan to certainly be one of those. I hope you all decide that youll be one of those too. Because i walk out that door in a few months, no longer a member of congress, i will have an even more revered title in the world. Citizen of the greatest nation on the face of the earth, the United States of america. God bless you. Thanks. Appreciate it. Critics reverend al sharpton and Family Members of eric garner, Michael Brown, and tamir rice are leading the march and rally in washington dc. House members pay tribute to ralph hall. Couldnt a house hearing on the Embassy Attack in benghazi. Then a house hearing on the Embassy Attack in benghazi. Mary right ont, the ethics raised by Internet Companies and academic research. Question, a great question, for all of us as someone who uses a computer certainy, we have expectations of what we fire up our computers who see what we are doing, who were sharing information with. Me, theoment, excuse expectations i have our shifted because i realize there may be another party who sees what i am up andif a message pops asks if i would like help making a purchase, there are certain lines that we do not know we crossed until it is too late. That is true for companies. There isnt a clear sense. Its so specific. One person talking loudly on their cell phone has no problem with someone listening to the conversation. At the same time, you can have someone trying to have a private conversation and they go to Great Lengths to be somewhere that is secluded. Were not just dealing with cultural context but individual, different purposes around privacy. Monday night on the communicators on cspan 2. The reverend al sharpton and his group National Action network lead a protest and rally in washington, d. C. They are addressing racial violence and protest. Taking part are Family Members of Michael Brown, eric garner and tamir rice who were killed inar