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Or for the public. okay. i m just going to put it in street terms here for just a moment. just folks talking on the street. how in the hell could this police officer not know what has happened over the last year in ferguson, missouri with michael brown, with trayvon martin with the gentleman choked to death in new york city, eric garner. and i mean this looked like a normal traffic stop. what elevated this guy, as you see it dr. peterson, to bring it to the point where he would think that he should unload his pistol on an unarmed man running away from him? i mean don t these it would seem to be that every police officer in this country would get the message, don t shoot unarmed people? you would think, ed that that would be the case. but at the top of the case you mentioned a routine stop. just from the ways in which ....
We ve had to cover the cases, it seems more and more routine that law enforcement are engaged in the shootings of unarmed civilians. they have a particular script about scuffles and going for the gun or taser and then fearing for their lives. and this story shows us the limitation of dash cams. this is why i m not a huge fan. the same type of law enforcement who will use deadly force on an unarmeded civilian on the way this officer did is the same kind of officer who might manipulate the cameras or the urn the cameras off. the routine nature that you re talking about, ed i think filters into this entire discussion. law enforcement folk are looking at cases like trayvon martin ta mir rice eric garner and they re siding with law enforcement. they re saying it s tough out there. it s dangerous out there. they have to protect themselves. and this is the narrative that they use every time in these shootings. we were fortunate and this family was blessed to get access so we could have the tr ....
Martin, tap ear rice eric garner, they know i take these personally. i try to push strongly for the truth. when i sat down and read the doj report on the shooting of michael brown, i as a journalist felt compelled to correct the record, whether anyone agreed or not was beside the point. i had to be right myself going forward because we know this is going to happen again, and if i am going to have any credibility when the next time something like this happens, i have to be right with myself and right with the readers. jonathan capehart thanks for being with me. thanks jose. thanks very much. i want to tell you about college students from around the country traveling to ferguson to give back. they re giving up traditional spring break to help the community during the rebuilding process. i spoke to one of the students from howard university. why ferguson. ....