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Instead of being proactive, people sit around and complain about it. that really bothers me. >> im going to share an excerpt about the confederate flag debate. you say im offended people care more about taking down the flag but dont get riled up when their american flag is being burned in the street. why did you write that? >> i understand peoples passion and everything, however, i feel like people should be more offended by a flag that actually represents them and represents our country as a wh...

Good girl. check that bunk. >> bensha alerted on two bunks. deputies did not find any drugs in the unit, but that doesnt mean that benshas nose failed her. >> its not that shes looking to find drugs, its more catching the odor, and that way we know that there was drugs there at one time. >> just because they havent found anything doesnt mean it wasnt there two days ago? >> exactly. exactly. its like a cherry pie. if you bake a cherry pie in the morning and eat it that morning before you go to wo...

. >> what are police telling you? >> reporter: police are saying they have opened up an internal investigation now that theyre aware of this police body camvideo. "it is parent that ms. cooks actively resists arrest and the police department continue said to be proactive in training its officers. this incident is in no way racially motivated," certainly, she disagrees. >> and also with us the civil rights attorney what do you make of this? the officers said to the blond laidae it doesnt look lik...

So we can again create those real strong jobs. there is a lot of other things. vocational education, a lot of other things. >> i want to move to foreign policy and ask what would you do right now in the fight against isis that is not being done specifically what strategy do you think is key in winning the war against isis. >> number one, we have to better arm the kurds. thats a very important part of it. we have to help the jordanians. theyre being swamped by refugee refugees refugees. egyptians...

Ukraine, but if things started to escalate once again, would you arm the ukranians? >> id probably consult a little bit more on whether i would actually arm the ukranians. my general inclination is yes, id be more supportive. we have a pact signed under president clinton that we would support and defend ukraine. we have not lived up to that. we have sent all the wrong significant that wills in in s ins in eastern europe starting with withdrawing our support for the czechs and polls. so weve give...

Work that reduced crime in baltimore the last 15 years. >> joining me now with reaction. sir, welcome back to the program. >> good evening, sean. >> i have spoken with many officers including the one we interviewed last night. they are afraid to do their job. they feel if they do it theyre not going to get the support that they would need and the backup they would need to do their jobs. thus the surge in violence. what are you hearing? >> the baltimore city police department the officers particu...

Are not moving aggressively just the opposite, calling it a coordinated slow down not patrolling not being proactive. the commissioner has warned them to end the slowdown or lose their jobs. the street cops dont believe the commissioner supports them saying hes a politician before a police officer. and because they dont have faith in their command protecting them the cops are protecting each other, taking an us against them attitude saying they want to make it through ten hours and go home. resi...

Officer speaking anonymously to miguel marquez as if there is some sort of deliberate slowdown by baltimore police. >> i think when commissioner betts tells you when one officer responding to a call is surrounding by 30 members of the community preventing them from doing their job thats obstruction by the community, the community that needs the officers to save their young men from getting gunned down on the street every day of the week. so this is a crisis that is being manufactured i think by ...

Protesters in baltimore blocked traffic voicing frustrations about policing and state funding. they are upset about the report that indicates maryland will find a $30 million -- fund a $30 million juvenile jail while cutting $11 million from baltimore city schools. the demonstration is capping off a violent and bloody memorial day weekend there. numbers for -- 28 people shot across the city. seven died. and that ends what is likely to be the most deadly month in baltimore in almost eight years. ...

Next one charged with excessive force? >> absolutely. its escalating policing. the police have taken on regrettably in large measure a hands-off approach. as a consequence, its left itself open to this kind of crime and criminal element. were right in the community, really believing that were going to have to start policing ourselves, but were also going to have to bridge the enmity between the police and the community. we dont believe that all police are negative. we think theres some great pol...