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While the aclu plaintiffs' stories weren't violent, those men stood up because they know that those same situations can end up in violence. take the story of maria hamilton's son dontre. >> and i feel his spirit in here. i very seldom go to the cemetery because dontre's blood and life is in this park. >> in 2014 the manager of this starbucks called police on 31-year-old dontre who was waiting for his brother on a park bench. >> the police were actually called on three occasions. the first time they went and spoke with him, they came to the conclusion that he wasn't doing anything wrong, he was...

Their past. it would like make us take a step back and think about where we're -- >> i like that one. >> yeah, no, that's good. >> so admit it. you knew it was only a matter of time before we talked about the criminal justice system. and milwaukee has black folks so caught up in the system that it has the most incarcerated zip code in the country, with 62% of the black men there imprisoned by 34 years old. 62%. and in milwaukee county as a whole more than half of all black men in the 30s and 40s have at some point been behind bars. this pipeline to prison can partly be traced to the milwaukee ...

Midwest specifically with wisconsin that black people don't live here. is that -- have you heard that? >> i hear it everywhere i went. i went to new york and when i told people i was from wisconsin they literally had their eyes wide open. >> what part of wisconsin? do you guys really have cows? i'm like ain't no cows in milwaukee, bro. >> this black people meeting is kind of an inside job. see, i'm the aclu celebrity ambassador for racial justice. and i had the same reaction you just had. i'm a celebrity? >> so talk about why the aclu gets involved in this and specifically around including sto...