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Phone call, but when i look at the reasons they gave, it definitely points to race. when you hear things like oh, i was afraid or they didn't wave at me. plenty of white people don't wave. plenty of white people walk into coffee houses and don't pay. these are normal things for most americans. for black people they suddenly stand out and create a red flag that produces an anxiety that makes them call law enforcement. so race to me is at the center of these incidents. >> cedric, the video showed the young man being choked by an officer at a waffle house. have you ever taken down a suspect like ...

Self and ask yourself some serious questions. >> that's where it gets really tricky, because of course the person who calls at starbucks or sees someone leaving an airbnb will say, it wasn't race, it was suspicious behavior, they looked angry, they looked untrustworthy, they looked like they were going to steal something. the problem is those other factors are often a proxy for race. what we end up doing is normalizing irrational white fears of black bodies. back in the day, george zimmerman kills trayvon martin, people say, oh, george zimmerman was scared, and people say, if i were george zim...

From this video? >> unfortunately here in pensacola, florida, i can't see it. but let me say this very quickly, ana, one thing that has to happen, i certainly do agree with marc on a lot that he said there, but one thing that's going to have to happen, we've got a bigger societal problem around race. as long as we do, we're going to continue to be confronted with these types of calls to police. and what i will say to police officers and departments out there across the country is that when you approach these situations very cautiously, we want to make sure that law enforcement is not being use...

That now with this growing awareness, as we're discussing, that some of our suspicions, perhaps if you give these people calling the police the benefit of the doubt, their suspicion may be the result of implicit bias and perhaps unwarranted? >> great question. i will answer it the same way we've been asking police officers to respond in making sure when they stop someone, it's not solely based on race. we ask our police officers to go out there and patrol our communities, and if you have to stop one, stopping them basically solely on race is unconstitutional. what we have to teach our american...