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This to my son. you know, as my wife said, my son weighed 150 pounds. each one of these officers was over 200. that's 1,000 pounds beating on my son. using him as a pinata. you know. all this unnecessary force that was really not needed for a kid that wasn't resisting or just trying to get home to his parents. that doesn't make common sense to me. >> i don't think it makes common sense to anyone. making sense of it is probably a waste of all of our time, but thank you for sharing some of your time with us. again, our deepest condolences to you. rodney wells, thank you, sir. thank you very much...

From slave patrols really deputizes citizens who take the oath to wreak havoc in communities. deputizes people to carry out white supremacy on the state's behalf and all of us should be upset that the state and taxpayer dollars can be used to carry out a death sentence on absolutely anybody. >> that is the point, i think that's such an important point, tim alexander. i read, i think it was in a rolling stone piece, but what the person essentially said is you can't say the training is flawed because the training actually works as it's designed to work. it's that you look at uvalde and say wait ...

Blowing a stop sign. what people say they want from police is that when a mass shooter comes in a fourth grade classroom, they run in there with their assault weapons and stop the mass shooter. that does not happen. what ends up happening is, somebody with a taillight out ends up dead in the middle of the street because they happen to be a black guy with a taillight out out. and no matter how police -- look, i have friends who are police. my father was a retired police officer. police are being told that what we want is for them to stop that person who is five miles over the speed limit by any...

It out and do it anyway, as they were telling him to get on the ground, he's like, i'm on the ground. well, lay on your belly because that's not what they wanted him to do initially. they wanted him flat on the ground. they were so hyped up they didn't convey it. i believe it does come back to the training. comes back to training these dysfunctional norms. it comes to training biases that become inplicit biases that these officers have inside of them, why they chased after him in the first place, and it just de-escalates from there or sorry, not deescalates, escalates from there, and it create...

People ask me, why, when you're looking at black officers in a black victim, how does that happen? the implicit bias is trained. they are at a higher level of society. >> it is a hierarchy for their training. >> yes. the person is supposed to listen. they have this by this person is involved in criminal activity or nefarious behavior. they better listen. otherwise this is what they are going to do. i'll point out one last point of this. >> yes. >> when it happened, you can recall from the video, the dispatcher said, well, what is the violation? the officer never responded. nothing came back. t...