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Run-ins with police have asked for justice. bottom is now suing the north carolina police department and sheriffs department involved in her stop for things like excessive force and for racial profiling. we did reach out to the police and the officers who have been sued, they didnt want to comment because of pending litigation, however the sheriffs department said we do stand by the actions of our deputies. when you talk to some police officers, they will say, look, if you are speeding and youre...

Watch. however, the police side of this is she was speeding, she didnt heed the sirens, she didnt heed the blue heights and oftentimes, when officers see that kind of reaction, they think that they are up to something, that theres something nefarious going on, that there is something potentially dangerous going on. and so, you saw this heightened response from them. but stephanie bottom says once they discovered who she was, and what -- didnt ever ask her what she was doing. she just felt like s...

Often than their counterparts, john. >> what do the numbers tell you in this particular location about profiling? >> reporter: yeah, we talked to researchers, several of them, and they looked at millions of traffic stops, black drivers, they found, were twice as likely to be stopped, and four times, about four times as likely to be searched. what accounts for that, we took a look at the numbers. we talked to police, we talked to police unions, we talked to politicians, we talked to drivers thems...

But stephanie bottom says once they discovered who she was, and what -- didnt ever ask her what she was doing. she just felt like she got yanked out of the car. she didnt understand. she was confused. she says the treatment of herself and -- and many other folks, she believes, had something to do with her skin color, not just some of the things that she did wrong, don. >> well, lets talk about that because, look, i mean, still, you should treat people with dignity or, you know, at least as human...

Just -- so horrible. >> reporter: yeah. really hard to watch, and a lot of things going on also and the police office, you might imagine, for her part stephanie bottom is suing the police and sheriff department involved in racial profiling an accusing them of excessive force as well. the police departments had nothing to say because there is pending litigation. we hear that. a natural response. police officers say no comment. the sheriffs department said it stood by its deputies and actions of i...

You know, biden believes in this what the white house calls a holistic approach, which is being tough on crime, but also doing steps that are far more progressive criminal justice steps, which is funding community violence intervention programs. i was with him in new york when he was vigilant it. but we spoke to al sharpton ahead of the visit, and he said, look, tough on crime, if its getting guns off the streets, im all for that. tough on crime if youre racially profiling, no, im not okay with ...

>> so i am always excited to see you, but dont be mad. >> oh, god. what did -- what -- i am excited to see you but dont be mad. i have my guard up. what, don? >> there is another talented, beautiful woman in my life this evening. >> oh. >> erin jackson, who won olympic gold -- the speed skater. >> the speed skater? oh, my gosh. >> she is joining me on this program in just a few minutes. >> ah, she was phenomenal. i am so glad that you are profiling and featuring her because she didnt get enough ...

Presume we are going to be policed. but this sounds so blatantly discriminatory. i cannot understand how possibly this police department can try to explain it. can you think of any reason why the older teen was not detained? >> joy, i cannot. the reason why the video i believe has went viral, people are outraged, especially parents of children of color, because they understand theres things like this, this profiling and stereotyping of our children that leads to a trayvon martin, it leads to ahm...

Own internal systems, or through intercepting their communications, theyve got the plans. but of course, as you say, the possibility exists that somebody in putins entourage is working for the west. the russians will fear that theres someone there, and what youre likely to be seeing now is a spy hunt within moscow. will be desperately trying to find out, is there a mole at a high level? is there someone providing the battle plans? are our communications leaky? how do the west know about it? and ...

Surprising things that he has been saying. he busily said that he would negotiate with ukraine leadership comes leadership would have to agree to completely disarm and d, this phrase that he has been using he happens to be a jewish president of ukraine. and also talked about how the countries under the hold of drug addicts. >> if you look at the words of vladimir putin from recent days and weeks, those who have dealt with him, foreign leaders whether its president of france, they say that he has...