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Better training about how to use force, including deadly force, and there is no point in having the cameras if the police can turn them off. police not being accountable is the reason why we want body cams in the first place so they ought to be on all the time. all right. thank you, michael and paul. thank you. great to be here. now a developing story. in texas at least eight people have been found dead in the back of an 18-wheeler in san antonio. 30 others were taken to area hospitals. many in critical condition. police say all the victims appear to be undocumented immigrants. stay with msnbc for more updates. up next, what is the state of black america in 2017? we ll ask mark moriale, president of the national urban league. ....
Baharas, civil rights reporter for the texas observer, and msnbc legal analyst paul butler, a former federal prosecutor and author of choke hold, policing black men. let me go to you, paul, first of all. you know i ve been on the forefront of a lot of police cases down through the last several years and i certainly think that it doesn t matter the color of the victim or the policeman, what matters is that we have fair and impartial inquiry into every shooting, particularly when you re dealing with an unarmed person and when you re dealing with now body cameras off. this particular shooting, though, the response was remarkably different than we have seen in other shootings. what does this even say about how we deal with different strokes for different folks, even from the police union not ....
Affiliation, a focus absent from past incidents where the officer was white, the victim was of color, and state mandated body cameras were turned off. then on friday we learned that the city s police chief was resigning at the request of mayor betsy hodges, a move that left some wondering why this particular shooting merited such a response. i want to be clear, justine damond s death is an absolute tragedy, but to those for whom blue lives always trump black ones i hope this tragedy might teach you two things, empathy and consistency under the law. we immediately denounced this and we wanted to see justice here, but we would hope there would be consistency also on the other side. joining me now is michael ....