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thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ee you at the end of tomorrow >> thanks john for joining us this evening. tomorrow morning, the family of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old who was fatally beaten by police on january 7th, played nichols to rest at the mississippi boulevard christian church. vice president kamala harris plans to attend, along with current biden administration officials and former mayors keisha lance bottoms and mitch atlantic. reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy. tomorrow night, we will speak with reverend sharpton about how the ...

Low level traffic enforcement. but the reason they are doing it in those neighborhoods is they know -- they will get enough people with enough stuff in the car, they can charge them. the mayor can be proud of the numbers. the community can feel safe. it is a pr vicious cycle. until we start actually asking questions about what the safety means. and exactly as folks in oakland have been saying and folks in chicago and philly have been saying. we need to use police for less. for the things that we could possibly train them for. and by the way, get them out of the things that they themselves have...

Left in this country, black folks we're only saying we want tougher punishment for these folks who are taking over the streets, they were also saying, and we would love if you would invest in the community so we don't have to call out in crisis in the first place. we mostly don't tell that history. that message was mostly lost on politicians who are scared of talking about it. and we are now at a point where we say, well, there must be a generational divide. there is an experience of disinvestment. younger generations grew up in this disinvestment. and older generations have watched it unfold....

Can actually help, who can actually protect and serve, not harass, not ultimately, in the most egregious instances, kill. >> to that end, this unit was supposed to be dealing with homicides. this was supposed to be a violent crime unit. the two anecdotes that i have heard from specifically the scorpion unit in memphis. one man was sitting with a friend getting a pizza. the other man was in his car, displaying no outward probable cause, for the police to not only come at him, but you ultimately kill him, to beat him, to do what they did that we saw well-documented on body cam footage. so, what ...

We often have casual encounters that can impact our lives in surprising ways years later. Such is the case in meeting Film Producer/Director Robert Schnitzer when he traveled to Mississippi