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the. i am ari melber. i will be joining you now for the next two hours of a special holiday edition of the bee tonight on this friday december 29th. donald trumps criminal trial -- several looming in 24. thats where we begin tonight, and well do it a little different tonight here for the holidays. i have former federal prosecutor joyce vance, already with me to start the show. we are looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with the, joyce, but first show you and e...

good evening. happy holidays. welcome to "the beat." i am ari melber. ill be joining you the next two hours for a special holiday edition of "the beat." donald trump has a criminal trial problem. he has several trials looming in 2024. thats where we begin tonight. well do it a little different for the holidays. former federal prosecutor joyce vance with me to start the show. were looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with you, joyce, but first show you and viewe...

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The residents set up tents on Monday, saying that they would only leave when police begin their jobs.

Because we started talking about no knock warrants in early 2020, i would assume that a lot of police departments were looking at this. at the time, minneapolis was involved in the aftermath of george floyd, it had a police union leader who was, you know, we have different words to describe him, but he was not really in sync with even the police chief. minneapolis has a lot of policing problems. >> correct. lets go back to that no knock warrant policy, and november of 2020, the minneapolis polic...

Years about excessive fines and fees imposed by law enforcement, amounting to ultimately half of the towns budget. >> the policing problems have only gotten worse in recent years, putting the town under some new scrutiny here and cnns nick valencia went to take a look. >> reporter: less than 30 minutes north of birmingham sits the small town of brookside, alabama. its a former mining town with no stoplights, no retail stores other than the dollar general and no major crimes. a stretch of interst...

The departments policy, end quote. joining us now is brandt williams, he is an editor with minnesota public radio covering race, class, and communities. thank you for making time to be here tonight. i want to be clear on this, because we started talking about no knock warrants in early 2020, i would assume that a lot of police departments were looking at this. at the time, minneapolis was involved in the aftermath of george floyd, it had a police union leader who was, you know, we have different...

Places that we have been. brian: charles you say america is race crazy. we should be american and then whatever your race or heritage is. >> when you are so focused on race, you are not going to solve any problems. there are policing problems and education and income gaps. but you are not going to solve them by saying its all systemic racism. its not all. i am not saying what the percentage is. is it 2? is it 0? -- is it 20? i know its not 100. when you talk about getting back to it, we need to ...

Places that we have been. brian: charles you say america is race crazy. we should be american and then whatever your race or heritage is. >> when you are so focused on race, you are not going to solve any problems. there are policing problems and education and income gaps. but you are not going to solve them by saying its all systemic racism. its not all. i am not saying what the percentage is. is it 2? is it 0? -- is it 20? i know its not 100. when you talk about getting back to it, we need to ...