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Partnership with the owners. so for them to go after the players after they made that deal says that this is far from over. in fact it's just ratcheting up. >> when you look at, jamil, that we saw the tape released this last couple of days of the nba player in milwaukee, sterling brown, who was tasered by police for no reason and is now contemplating a lawsuit, i mean athletes themselves are going through what they are protesting with the knee, so it's not like they're sympathizing with somebody somewhere else, this is life that they live, even athletes, and sterling brown is representative of...

Handcuffs and we're going to create an ordeal and dehumanize these people. i think that starbucks is going to have to decide who it's going to be in a public specter, in a public policy realm as we think about the structural conditions impacting black people in this country and poor people in general. so for example right now in seattle there's a city council bill that's moving -- or that has moved and there's a repeal attempt to it to make companies like starbucks pay a little more tax per employee to use that pot of money to help homeless people in the city. well, starbucks et al, they don't...

With chikesia, you don't get free utensils we ash trashly give utensils who we want to give them to. all of this, they are assaulting this young lady's character and we have to look at this waitress's questionable past. waffle house has justified this based on her presentation and we want you to look deeper at that. the last thing i'll say, reverend al, we have young white men who have been confirmed as mass murderers get more consideration and more respect from police officers than this unarmed black woman. as long as i have -- we have to stand up for our unarmed black women. >> i think that'...

Whether that's the case or not, what are we talking about, that you human life, human bodies are -- can be treated in that way over a 50 cent you want to try to rightfully or wrongfully charge over a fork or knife? and this again, i think jamil is right, is an evolution from the day we were considered property. so now we're less than utensils at a waffle house in terms of our bodies being respected? >> exactly, reverend al, this harkens back to the civil rights act of 1964 with title 2 prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations, we thought we have fought that war and won it against ji...

Restaurant that said what the waitress did and the police did was just unacceptable. they threatened her. they assaulted her and they body slammed this unarmed black woman. they choked her. they told her they were going to break her arm. it was a gross violation of her civil and human rights and this we must defend. we have to stand with her. >> no doubt. if that video hadn't been there, they probably would have been saying none of this happened. let's bring in jamil smith, senior writer for "rolling stone" magazine. when we saw this video, i mean, it was an outrage. it's almost an understatem...