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To you. these are stories we've heard. i had a fascinating conversation with a "wall street journal" reporter gary fields earlier this week. this is what we shared with me. >> i grew up in the '70s and the '60s, kind of had a different indoctrination. we were raised and told constantly how to behave because we were coming from an era when we knew that authorities could actually take your life if necessary and the cause would be taken care of. we would find reasoning and justification for it. so i kind of grew up understanding that the rights that everybody else has you don't get to say the sam...

>> what a perspective, as you say, covering criminal justice for three decades. gary fields, you wrote what it feels like to be a suspicious black teenager. thank you for sharing your perspective with me today. i appreciate it. >> thank you, brooke. just ahead, a source tells cnn a woman close to the leader of isis has been captured. but in the middle of a war, who will question her? plus, breaking today, president obama chooses a new defense secretary to lead the battle against isis. we will tell you about ash carter. and the woman in charge at the university of virginia responds to cri...

Ferguson, missouri, sparking not only calls for future action, but memories of past encounters. reporter gary fields recounts his experience as a teenager walking home in louisiana in this "wall street journal" essay. fields says an officer searching for a 5'6" tall black suspect stopped him, even though fields is 6'3", this is what he wrote here in this "wall street journal" piece in part. he wrote, i knew a few things instinctively. don't run, don't move, don't argue, and above all, don't ask why i've been stopped. stay calm to live, i thought. the cop had the gun, but it was my responsibili...