Joe earl we are in year the national urban league released the 41st edition of its annual state of black america report and to crib the report s own language if full equality in 2017 was a pie then black and hispanic americans would only get about three slices and even that is newly threatened in the trump era. it s against this backdrop that the national urban league will host it s 2017 conference in st. louis this week. joining me now is marc morial, president of the national urban league and former mayor of new orleans. marc, looking forward to joining you at the conference and it is where we were just three years ago dealing there with the
Ourselves will continue to adapt to new threats, understanding that our basic core principle is to the territorial ambition, it s not aggression towards others, but it is simply to defend prosperity and liberty and the sovereignty of countries as we have done for a very long time now, as we have done together for a very long time. chris jansing. thank you, mr. president. as you know, the national guard is now on the streets of baltimore. the latest aftermath if a series of what have been high-profile confrontations between black men and police officers and there seems to be growing frustration among african-american leaders that not enough is being done quickly enough, mark moriale of the urban league says the u.s. is in a state of emergency of tremendous proportions, the president of the naacp legal
Law enforcement who is deceased and looks like it didn t have to be that way. tom fuentes, should a reserve deputy, a volunteer, if you will be involved in a sting operation of this nature? no. i don t think so wolf. and i think that s why probably the department is being so defensive because this is a management decision that they put somebody out there. now, they may have serious budgetary constraints like other law enforcement agencies and want to use reserves but in this actual situation, with a potentially dangerous arrest of a subject selling guns no, i don t think it should be anybody but a full time police officer and i think the fact that the department put that person in the position is why they re defending themselves now? what do you think marc morial. one thing interesting he s the sheriff s sugar daddy and is provided free trips and all sorts of eethings to the sheriff and that s the reason why he has this special status as a reserve
South carolina s law enforcement division its agents got to the scene less than an hour after the shooting and referred them to his attorney before that agency could even interview slager the attorney at the time david aylor issued a statement claiming they wrestled for control of slager s stun gun. the law enforcement division interviewed slager the very next day then they charged him with murder and slager s attorney quit the case. he s now got another lawyer who is not commenting on any of this. all right, brian, thanks very much. with us now in the situation room, philip banks, the former chief of department for the new york city police force. also joining us the national urban league president mark moriale and tom quentis. the passenger from walter scott s car says he doesn t know why scott ran out of that vehicle. we ve all seen the video by now but he also says scott certainly didn t deserve to die. what s your reaction first of all to the shooting. well basically, wolf what i
I m not sure. what do you think, mark? did race play a part in this? i d say this wolf. in the case of this officer, all three people walter scott and the other two incidents even if he were clear, involved the use of force, questions about the use of force and were all african-american men so that suggests a racial dimension but whether race is a factor or not in my view is that it is it was wrong, wrong and wrong no matter who the perpetrator or the victim was in this case. it was a wrong-headed heinous criminal act. let me ask tom to talk about him. the ex-police officer now charged with murder. he refused to speak to investigators on the day that of the shooting saying he was being represented by an attorney. was arrested only after being interviewed a few days later