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Like cory booker, senator peters, mike bennett from colorado, all democrats. theyre willing to take a second look. there is the senate finance committee. i was able to share with friends on left why this is such a powerful tool to irrad indicate poverty. we should attack poverty and not poor people. >> exactly. that deserves a round of applause. i agree with that. something i want to get to that is coming to ground, criminal justice reform, police reform, prison reform. you gave a speech one tim...

To increasing evidence that more people are becoming more and more alarmed by the difference in skin color. help me understand whats going on here. >> i think what were seeing, in the 90s, we saw racial profiling. driving while black. then there were studies where certain highways, certainly in the northeast, i-95, blacks were being disproportionately stopped. now were seeing living while black. it doesnt matter whether youre in yale in a dormitory or in a waffle house in mobile, alabama, or nor...

Location in northern high school. on monday the forum will be held at drake university which will live broadcast it on the cable channel fusion. but 2016 is not 1984, and according to the demographic researchers, white americans are on the way to becoming a racial minority in this country. and in this election cycle, brown and black activists have barely needed to wait on a special forum to make their demands known. so more than 30 years after it was established, do we still need a brown and bla...

And part of their responsibility to ensure that their equipment is in good working order. and i think police have to be held accountable when those cameras are just miraculous broken in cases where someone gets injured or killed. >> thats going to be it. ladies and gentlemen, you just saw whats going to happen in the courtroom. i feel like i just took you there with these two. appreciate your expertise. up next driving while black. across the country, complaints grow about people being pulled ...

Department stats say. they say, driving while black is real. more black drivers or is panghispanic drivers were pulled over. police say, theyre 31% more likely to be pulled over than a white driver. 23% more likely to be pulled over than a hispanic driver. it speaks for itself. its real. >> and heres your problem that the last person in the piece was kind of getting at, is that it doesnt actually -- theres the issue of diminishing returns. it doesnt actually make neighborhoods safer. >> it makes...

Those interactions might go. >> reporter: how big is the problem? federal stats show that african-american drivers are about 31% more likely to get pulled over than white drivers. theyre also more likely to be searched and ticketed. >> when a neighborhood feels that the only kind of law enforcement help they get is the targeting of innocent people you know that really creates a wall between the community and the police. >> a wall that many like pastor actry want to see taken down one traffic sto...

Theres even a term for it. dwb, driving while black. in a series of not-so-funny tweets comedian chris rock documented three separate traffic stops in the span of just seven weeks. rock says, stopped by the cops again. wish me luck. none of this is shocking to cnn contributor elsie granderson. >> i was pulled over in ferguson while covering ferguson. >> reporter: granderson believes more training is needed for officers and talks about the anxiety of being pulled over often by police who seem to ...

Theyre concerned about their loved ones and grab their cell phones. whats the instinct there? >> we call them jump-out boys in west baltimore. >> whos the they? >> the police officers are called jump-out boys. >> why do you call them that? >> they call them that because frequently police officers jump out of their cars without probable cause, as was the case we contend in this case and they do stop and frisk, racial profiling, driving while black happens in west baltimore every single day. often...

Driving while black. that is such an offensive statement to make against police officers. i was a cop six years at the height of being called pigs and disrespect. i didnt know one officer that did that. i certainly didnt. i didnt know of any instance of someone driving while black was the reason they were stopped. >> it may not be the reason they were stopped, but on a note that having been in a car pulled over, i will tell you that there are times when youre in a city, tom, that you know the hi...

Cetera. and you dont see anyone doing anything about them. and the historical context of how the african-american community is different. and i think thats what mayor de blasio was talking about when he says we have to have new training on how to police in minority communities. it has to be a different way. >> but can you see why there is such a gap? why it comes down with a racial divide between african-american perceptions and white american perceptions? >> well, when you look at the numbers o...