Hello i am ray suarez. In years as a street reporter i spent a lot of time with police. At crime scenes, perp walks, some officers seem to have a knack for avoiding escalation, while some other officers had a tendency to make their authority paramount. More than the maintenance of order or the pursuit of suspects. The unwillingness of a grand jury in new york to indict a Police Officer after a homicide provides a revealing reference point. A minor infraction was suspected, a man who did not want to be arrested, but was not responding with violent resistence. In a matter of seconds, eric garner was on the floor, his head pressed to the pavement, four officers swarming his prone body. Was officer Daniel Pantaleo really given no other choice but to respond to garner as he did . Would another valid response have ended with garner not dieing and the law still enforced on Staten Island . All lives must be valued. All lives. Mr. Garners death is one of several recent incidents across our grea
In years as a street reporter i spent a lot of time with police. At crime scenes, perp walks, some officers seem to have a knack for avoiding escalation, while some other officers had a tendency to make their authority paramount. More than the maintenance of order or the pursuit of suspects. The unwillingness of a grand jury in new york to indict a Police Officer after a homicide provides a revealing reference point. A minor infraction was suspected, a man who did not want to be arrested, but was not responding with violent resistence. In a matter of seconds, eric garner was on the floor, his head pressed to the pavement, four officers swarming his prone body. Was officer Daniel Pantaleo really given no other choice but to respond to garner as he did . Would another valid response have ended with garner not dieing and the law still enforced on Staten Island . All lives must be valued. All lives. Mr. Garners death is one of several recent incidents across our great country that have tes
Conversation. Thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] you are watching American History tv, 40 eight hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information about our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. 200 years ago on august 20 4, 1814, british soldiers routed american troops at the battle of bladensburg festival said washington. Openictory left the y it to British Forces who marched into the city and burned the white house and capitol building. Learn more about the burning of washington during the war of 1812 from author and historian anthony pitch at an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates. It is about one hour and 15 minutes. We are coming up on the 200th anniversary. We wanted to commemorate this anniversary despite the fact it is a less than glorious moment in our nations history. When
Youll also notice this evening there are cspan cameras around. They are here broadcasting. Those watching will also be no stranger to anthony pitch. Many of his programs have been taped for broadcast by them before. We are very lucky to have him tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Anthony pitch. [applause] thank you very much for coming. It is raining outside, so i am very glad to see a lot of people out tonight. I want to tell you a few years ago i escorted somebody into the white house. His name was major ed ross, the same name the general robert ross who burned the white house. He was a descendent. One can see the scorch marks i told him were there. They are under the front door. There is a big stone archway where you can see massive scorch marks from the fires set by the british in 1814. The pastry chef who has his offices close by could not stop giggling. He thought here is a man who has come to finish the job. [laughter] i like to write stories that are epic, true, and sad. People
30 years, may not be from russias strength, but weakness. That, i think, should inform serious policy thinking about russia and our approach to it. We know that the reset of relations, that the Obama Administration attempted to ork state with moscow in the last four years is, well, not as healthy as it could be, i would say today; right . The reset has been a failure. We know now that the white house is at least beginning to think about what comes next. What this is intended to do is to give them a little bit of food for thought about where russia is headed because knowing where russias heading is determinative to figuring out what our policy towards it should be, so, thank you, guys, ill stop there. [applause] well take questions, be kind to wait for the microphone to be passed to you, and state your name and affiliation if you care to as a curtesy to the guest, and im going to take the prerogative of reading one of the questions we received online, and ill change it a little bit. How