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Bracing their hands up in objection of the protests that began in ferguson, missouri after the shooting of michael brown. they are showing their determination to promote the movement against police brutality. lets bring in our community activist john gaskin as our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin. and john, this large group of congressional staffers stood on the steps of the u.s. capitol and they are serving they say as the voice of the voiceless. there we...

But like him or hate him, wayne la pierre does good work for the nra. >> have we determined whether hes got a citizenship yet or not? >> one thing about the new york city police department, the majority of the new york city police department are people of color. they are -- whites are a minority in the police department, 52% are african-american, hispanic or as kran. >> the majority of people that the department helped in these neighborhoods are minority. the police department saves the lives of...

Montgomery bus boycott is moving in a quicker direction because of social media and because of the role that the media is playing. i believe the protests and the direct actions will continue to pick up, especially as we go into the weekend. >> and so as we see in the coming weeks and days, i believe they will pick up and become more significant and theyll obviously continue to receive more attention via social media. this movement, you know, started in ferguson. many people viewed it as just a m...

Think, finally have the conversation thats been a long time coming. part of what i think is so heartbreaking and frustrating for a lot of folks when they watch this is the recognition simply by virtue of color youve got less margin for error. thats particularly true for black boys. young men, teenage boys sometimes theyre going to do stupid stuff. thats true whether theyre white, black, hispanic. it doesnt matter. we want them to be -- >> you heard he thinks theres a difference if you are a youn...

Problems. >> mike really had a compelling article, willie, yesterday, on the new york police department. >> yeah. mike was out with some of the protesters last week. he talked about it on the show last week and wrote in the daily beast the wildly peaceful human almost boring ultimately great new york city protests for eric garner. mike wrote the crowd was as diverse as youll find, old, young, white, black, hispanic, asian, loud, proud, peaceful and oddly inviting. a company of police officers su...

>> yes, of course. >> it has happened unfortunately where young white kids and young hispanic kids and kids of all colors have been shot because police officers final themselves in these difficult positions. sometime theres nothing a police officer can do. sometimes there is. in this situation in cleveland, the tragedy could have been pre vented and i agree. we need to teach police officers how to be more tactically sound and to create distance when they have opportunities to do so. >> thanks to...

Sometimes theyre going to do stupid stuff. thats true whether theyre white, black, hispanic. it doesnt matter. we want them to be -- >> you heard he thinks theres a difference if you are a young teen of color. our chief white house correspondent ed henry just filed this report. >> megyn, significant because these were the presidents most extensive comments yet on that videotape in the eric garner case the president clearly trying at least to calm the situation saying eric holder, the attorney ge...

But like him or hate him, wayne la pierre does good work for the nra. >> have we determined whether hes got a citizenship yet or not? >> one thing about the new york city police department, the majority of the new york city police department are people of color. they are -- whites are a minority in the police department, 52% are african-american, hispanic or as kran. >> the majority of people that the department helped in these neighborhoods are minority. the police department saves the lives of...

Nonthreatening their eyes nonjudgmental. it was a remarkable week last week. >> willy you were out there too on the upper west side. it was striking. it really was. the contrast between the cops in uniforms, protesters, all of them peaceful. all of them in an odd way inviting. you saw them and you wanted to participate. the cops were just the same. there was actually some humor going on between the protesters and cops. it was a nice moment and valuable moment for people to observe. this was not,...

Its a major problem. the anger you see in the streets right now is in no small part due to the fact that you do have officers that bring that racism to the job and the power to act on it. i dont want to leave you with the impression that its only white officers that abuse their authorities. it is not. you have some black officers, asian officers, hispanic officers that do it. the issue is the abuse of the authority and where it take place which consistently is in black and brown communities. her...