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Know how long. they didn't know how long it would be when they boycotted it in the 50s. it is not about a timetable. it is about we cannot continue to live under these double standards, and under these conditions. >> those references to the bus boycott against segregation, which proceeded the 1964 civil rights act, along discrimination and public space, that is reference to hard-line civil rights victories. they were meant to solve systemic problems in the american social fabric. those are ones that specifically disenfranchised black people. reverend sharpton, nichols family, and the attorneys...

Gathered at mississippi boulevard christian church, just a few miles from the historic bishop charles nation base and temple, where king delivered that final speech. the room, again, it was packed. the city was again in mourning. this time, over the death of 29 year old tyre nichols, a black man whose family calls him a beautiful soul, who died last month from injuries three days after five black memphis police officers brutally beat him. nichols family and friends, mothers of other black people slain by police, government officials across the country, even vice president kamala harris. they w...

Our history is that all connected to the experiences that we are having. let's remember, what is historic today is not that tyre nichols is dead. that is common. what is historic is that anybody is paying any price for it. that is what is historic. it was historic when officers went down for a murder for george floyd's killing. that was historic. being killed by police for driving while black, that is not. >> i understand where you are coming from, and i understand how memphis is being held up, and that this should be a template, this alacrity which which systems move, to charge these officers...

Politician fighting for democracy and for every single resident of this country. >> i just hope that in 55 years, people of memphis do not continue to eulogize another black person with signs saying, i am a man. reverend al sharpton, maya wylie, thank you both very much for being here tonight. i am deeply appreciative of your words of wisdom, and the fight the fight for all. when we come, back house republicans have put jim jordan in control of the subcommittee to investigate what they are calling the weaponization of the federal government. now democrats are seeing who will be going toe to to...

That is what is historic. it was historic when officers went down for a murder for george floyd's killing. that was historic. being killed by police for driving while black, that is not. >> i understand where you are coming from, and i understand how memphis is being held up, and that this should be a template, this alacrity which which systems move, to charge these officers, to fire these officers, to release the videotape, that should be a model for the nation, for the next time that a black person is killed by police. it's the next time but the expectation that oh yes, there will be another...