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Prepared them for the worst, because i've sat in courtrooms from the case in new york in '99, i mean, for decades. sean bell case, i could name the cases. trayvon martin we lived through. and saw a jury come back with unbelievable verdicts. being that i had been involved even before there was a video, nash and i got involved in the case and through attorney ben crump i did not want them to not be prepared for the worst, and as i sat there and they said, we have a verdict, and they asked the jury to come in. the jury came in and asked the defendants to stand. wanda, the mother of ahmaud, took m...

The force. the fourth returned to the nypd, but worked without a gun for more than a decade. >> central -- shots fired. >> there's the 2006 sean bell case. bell and who friends were shot by plain clothed detectives outside a queens nightclub during bell's bachelor party. officers fired 50 rounds in a few seconds. killing bell and wounding his friends. >> from this day forward, you shall have justice. >> one officer was fired, three others were forced to resign with pension. >> the city in those cases rightfully is saying to itself, we don't need these kind of officers in our service. >> report...

Zimmerman's personal psychology and personal choice that is explained what happened in that moment? sure. but fact is that trayvon martin is not the only case of this. we talked on my show about the sean bell case which included police officers, some police officers of whom were police officers of color, right? so part of what we've wanted to talk about, sit discriminatory opinions about who young black men are, the aassumptions that young black men are criminals, violent or potentially dangerous, they don't reside just in the bodies of one or two non-black people, that people who are also afr...

Running over a black man who was middle aged, 47 or 48 years old, deliberately with their pick-up truck. and they would go into jackson, mississippi, specifically to find african-americans to attack. i mean, there is tremendous racism in the society. and we just continue to tolerate it, even in new york with the police -- melissa was talking about the sean bell case. but you have 600,000 instances a year of the police stopping people on the streets, in many cases, frisking them, humiliating them in public. 90% have done nothing at all and the vast majority are african-american or hispanic. >> ...

Alleged of sanitation workers or is it all just the city as far as the law is concerned? >> what's going to happen here, and it's their obligation, of the plaintiffs' lawyers, it's going to shotgun everybody and say you, you, you, let's get into that room and let's figure this out and ultimately figure out who is responsible for what. mig and you can bet that lawsuit is coming from the mother of the baby who died. >> and reuben stein who brings these cases successfully, brought the sean bell case and was able to prevail and get an -- >> if i'm the city's lawyer, i'm feeling nervous. if there w...