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Forced to learn how to cope with his absence, i would never guess the fact that my son would no longer be heard and justice has not been served. >> five years ago, the police shooting death of michael brown jr. set off a chain of events that made ferguson, missouri, a shorthand for racial unrest. the question of whether ferguson police officer darren wilson was justified in killing the unarmed brown after he allegedly resisted arrest was played out in the courts, the media, and in the streets of ferguson. over more than a year of protests. prompting the obama justice department to get involved...

If we sound a like, what many activists and leaders sound alike 15/20 years ago is because we are fighting the same problems. whether it's putting migrant children in cages in texas, whether it's denying people the right to vote, whether it's stacking up state supreme courts with all whites, ignoring police misconduct in staten island, new york or ferguson. maybe to some it's stuff you heard before with but maybe it's because it's stuff we never resolved that some of us sound like we're just copying stuff from the past. no, year trying to deal with and remedy what you never got straight in the...

Your son. and you've turned into an activist. you've run for office. you never stopped one day since then. how do you see ferguson and the issues surrounding your son's killing today, five years later, friday marking the exact five-year mark? >> thank you for having me, rev? how are you? >> i'm good. >> five years later, there isn't much that i could say has been changed. any time you say it's not been much, it means it definitely has not been enough. so we don't see a change. nothing for the lives that have been lost. the people around him, the people that were out there to see children layin...

Police kill when they don't have to, when these people are unarmed, and why are our black and brown children continue to be targeted? i don't see a change in ferguson at all, and we heard congressman clay in a luncheon over the weekend, they have several events, say that that consent decree that came down from eric holder has been sealed and cannot be touched by the trump administration. ferguson has work to do, not only work, they have catch-up work to do. we're waiting and watching and won't stop watching until we see the change that should be made, should have been made five years ago, that...

So critical. what you have in the national dialogue and politics -- look, i understand. i think most people of average intelligence at least understand a lot what's going on on so called media. it's merely entertainment, not news. it's driven by ratings less by fact. office involved shootings have no investigative experience, do not know the facts. it's a shoot off from the mouth before they know what's going on behind the scenes. whether ferguson, missouri or anywhere else, you're having people weigh in because they have a personal bias toward law enforcement. th >> there are sad consequences...