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With sb-1070 and new york is stop and frisk. no matter what you want to call it, essentially, it's racial profiling, and we know trayvon martin was profiled for something that night on february 26th, 2012, and he had broken no law. he was just walking home. and that's the problem. when you start this racial profiling, it's a slippery slope, and it's so bad for so many in the community. where does it stop? how do we protect our children once you give police or neighborhood watch authority to just profile us? >> sybrina fulton, i want to come back to you. as you are going around the country, you...

You've heard the commissioner of new york say, look, what happened to trayvon martin, even though it was referenced in the judge's ruling, is quite different. that was civilian on civilian. this is about civilians interacting with the police department. do you see that distinction or not? >> i think it's all about laws, and i think you have to give not only civilians, but you have to give the police officers the right direction. you can't give people the authority, police officers the right to stop somebody because of the color of their skin. >> let me get benjamin crump in here as well. how d...

You can't give people the authority, whether it's civilians or police officers, the right to stop somebody just because of the color of their skin. >> let me get benjamin crump in here as well. how do you react to the commissioner saying there's not a distinction when particularly judge sheindlin is raising the specter of trayvon martin, that idea of universal suspicion that charles blow wrote about in saying, this is what's wrong with the policy? >> yes. we're here in phoenix, arizona, and the latino community deals with sb-1070 and new york is stop and frisk. no matter what you want to call ...

Governor brewer? look at who she is. she was an extremely unpopular governor running into -- running for re-election in arizona with no record of any public policy accomplishment who decided to do the old, you know, i'm going to blame someone else. don't look at my failures and finger pointed and scapegoated and criminalized immigration. immigrants in her state all the way to the supreme court where the supreme court rebuffed two-thirds of sb-1070. the other third we know is going to be declared unconstitutional. that's who she is, using this pandering against immigrants to put herself where s...

Latino. who had similar experiences. we had a lot of this conversation around arizona's 1070 laws. >> exactly. sp 1070 that explicitly that you could be pulled over if you were suspected of being undocumented. they eventually tweaked and it. you have to be pulled over for something else and then they could ask you about your documentation status. but the end game is that racial profiling is a very personal issue for latinos. it is something that we saw with 2010 and it spread like wildfire across the country. we saw that if you were a latino, you are being questioned. are you legal? are you no...