The officer being comforted at the emergency room at Baylor Medical Center in dallas. This is in the midst of a mass shooting of colleagues at the being calleders, the deadliest day for Law Enforcement in this country since 9 11. We want to get your reaction this morning to the shootings in dallas and the issues that have and ining on this week recent weeks and months around the country. Emocrats call 2027488000 republicans, your number 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. If not by phone this morning, we welcome your comments on social media. This started about 9 00 last night in dallas. The morning news has equipped to that has morning news has a quick synopsis. Six officers and one civilian wounded. One suspect was dead in a garage after antro College Shootout with police. Four Dallas Police officers and t officer killed. Six other officers wounded. They are calling it a. Oordinated attack a man who exchanged gunfire with police in the el centro garage was reported that just before 3 00 a. M. The deadliest day for Law Enforcement since 9 11 when 72 officers died. SaiDallas Police chief snipers with rifles shot 11 bystanders from elevated positions. President obama reacted to the situation in dallas from poland. [video clip] i spoke with the mayor of dallas. I told him that the federal government will provide whatever as itance dallas may need deals with this tremendous threat. We still dont know the facts. What we do know is there has been a vicious, calculated attack on Law Enforcement. Police in dallas were on duty doing their jobs, keeping people safe during a peaceful protest. These Law Enforcement officers and nearly a dozen officers were shot. Five were killed. Others were wounded. We are praying for the recovery. Rawlings, i tell every american that we are horrified by these events and we stand united with the people in the Police Department in dallas. According to police, there are multiple suspects. Monday on themore come about their twisted motivations. There is no possible justification for any violence against Law Enforcement. The fbi is already in touch with the Dallas Police and anyone se senselessthe murders will be held accountable. Justice will be done. I will have more to say about this as the facts become more clear. For now, let me just say that even yesterday, i spoke about concerned as all americans about Racial Disparities in the canal Justice System. Ourso said yesterday that Police Avenue store nearly difficult job. In the criminal Justice System. I also said yesterday that our do an extraordinarily difficult job. Protecting us and protecting our communities. Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices they make for us. People know that when are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately, it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic. Ahead, we will have to consider those realities as well. Isthe meantime, today focus on the victims and their families. They are heartbroken. The entire city of dallas is grieving. Feel thisoss america loss to their core. I would ask all americans to say a prayer for these officers and their families, keep them in and as a nation, ours remember to express profound gratitude to our men and women in blue every day. One more tweet from the Dallas Morning News. Tyrone in north carolina. Democratic line. Caller it is a shame what happened. For this to go on is wrong. Fox news is already playing politics with it. It is just bad. We need to stop laying politics with peoples lives. Said it was a terrorist attack and theyre are blaming president obama for what he said this morning. We need to pull together as people regardless. We need to stop this mess. We are human beings, we are people and we need to pull together and put politics aside. Host you are watching video of the moments when this first started in dallas, texas. It was around 9 00 last night. N in moran, ohio. Independent. Good morning. Im here. I dont know why everyone is surprised. We just saw video on facebook of a fouryearold comforting her mother because she saw her boyfriend get shot by the cops. This is insane. The system needs to be torn down and rebuilt. We have a system of White Supremacy in this country and it shows every single day. People need to stop talking around the issue and get for real. When you talk about rebuilding the system, what do you mean, exactly . Caller tear it down, take these Police Departments apart. We cannot have this anymore. You cannot be policing areas where you dont know who the people are. You dont know who tyrone is. You cannot go up to tyrone and arrest him and think he is selling drugs because he doesnt look like you. We live in a racist society and it shows every single day. Im sorry for those Police Officers who got killed. What can we do when we live in a gotem where black people can writing around and get shot riding around and get shot . We have to start telling the truth and being honest. Why supremacy rules the day in the United States. Tim in tuscaloosa, alabama on the democrat line. Caller good morning. Night andned last what happened the previous days with the killing of two black men by Police Officers. I understand the anger some people feel toward the police. But, i dont agree with going out, shooting and attacking and killing police. Police now are going to be more peopleive towards black because of that. Thing, i would like to say that a lot of police, i feel some of them are kkk members. Killcan go and harass and and do things to buy people. Host how do you know that . Caller i dont know that. I said that is the way i feel. Host i see. Caller one more thing about whats going on since obamas been president , i cant think of any time that theres been more black people shot and killed by Police Officers. I would like all young viewers watching this program to pull up the name natasha mckenna. She died in fairfax, virginia. She was a black woman in the jail and six white Police Officers pulled her out of that naked todcuffed her the concrete floor and taste her until she died. I would like all your viewers to pull that up and look at that and then you know why people feel the way they do. Host we will do this for the entire two hour washington journal today. Your reactions to the shootings in dallas. We will talk with an activist in baltimore with the black lives matter organization. Plenty of time for this this morning. Dallas morning news has this editorial. Dallas must wait from this wakemare united must. Om this nightmare united we have jeff on the line from pennsylvania. Publican. Republican. Caller hello. To be about what people feel and not statistics. The tally in 2015, 1001 people were killed by the police in america. 215 where black. When hundred 63 were hispanic. Ere black. R 163 were hispanic. Were white. Once again, it is what you feel, not the statistics. The media is culpable in this. They helped create this hate because they get off on it. Violenceterracial every year is black on white. Whites do not go into the streets in protest. White lights dont matter. Dont matter. Untold white people understand they are the victims, they will be in serious trouble. Respond to how you say the media created this. How so . Joe. i watch morning every day, they sit on their high horse and health and pop about racism in america. Spend days talking about an egregious hate crime committed against whites by blacks. They will not talk about that , the woman killed by an illegal alien until you start caring about your own people and a sense ofning to brotherhood, we will continue to be the victims. We are the victims. There are more white people in this country, so of course, that is the reason. Host candy on the line from ke in iowa. In idiot. Jeff is an media is inciting racism. Im afraid to say hello to my black neighbor. I dont know what he or she is going to do. I been told since i was small that they are dangerous. The third problem is men. You ever noticed that men want to take away our guns why is the first reaction to hit or heard something . I see color. I love our differences. It is hard to engage you when i dont know how to say hello from fear of offending you because white,ia says, ok, i am i cannot change that, im also a woman, i cant and wont change that in the media is telling me im wrong. Im not allowed to engage you on a human level for fear that you might hit or hurt me. Or, i might say the wrong thing. Im comes to killing using a flyswatter, not a hammer or gun. Host chris writes on twitter front page of the New York Post this friday morning. Five killed in antipolice protest. Says the people who did this are not only in human, but also very stupid. Unless their intent is to incite , no goodwill,e will come ofod this. We will read more facebook postings and tweets later. Mark has been waiting on the line patiently in california. Thank you for getting up early. Up to find out what had happened last night. , it has beens coming. Have beensides dividing us for 4. 5 decades. Vet. Vietnam i never got paid for my time in service. Awayhad the aclu turned me if i try and go through the they are soce, programmed and conditioned to work through policy and procedures that i cant get justice because of bigotry. The only real problem i see today is a lack of integrity in because bothp sides have sold out to the corporate entities that are the basis of our economy and the militaryindustrial complex. Host what is the role of our leaders now . Caller this has created so much distrust, especially from veterans. Last year or early this year, 50 million tove honor us veterans. Shouldnt they do that out of arer own pocket if they truly honored to have us . I have one more point. 40 of our Homeless Population are veterans. How does that honor any of them . People wholl the appreciate whats going on, but into leadership begins to spin that 50 million on the individual whos already given everything hes got to spend his lifetime on the street and the homeless we are asking our leadership to lead. Dont vote for either one of these two parties. Host tom is on the line from atlanta. Good morning to you. Is, first ofaction all, i feel like the ku klux klan infiltrated the Police Department. The way they are slaughtering these black guys, it is ridiculous. Most of the guys getting slaughtered dont even have weapons on them. White supremacy has been going on for 400 years. Every time a terrorist come out and a black person get killed, the first thing they want to say is terrorist, terrorist come a trump dont donald say anything about what hes going to do to stop this its just not right, the way they are killing these black people. , the focus was on the black and thew the focus sympathy is going towards the cops. Its just going back and forth. Do, they need to needed to break down these Police Departments and get the cops out of these cars all they do is right around ride around. The need to get out and walk these beats. They need to break down the Police Departments and find out whats going on and get to know their neighborhoods, find out what type of neighborhoods they are dealing with and go from there. Host you think that could work, thomas . Caller yes. , someighborhood im in poor, some middleclass, most of the black neighborhoods, all you ee is two white cops riding in a black neighborhood. All they have to do is get out of the cars and change the protocol. Host john from cottage built ville, west virginia. Caller first of all, i want to say my thoughts and prayers to everybody in dallas and around our country with all the episodes that have been going on. Yes,e need to realize, in the shootings with the black males, people need to take the uniform off. Beings. Human men,are white men, black black and white women in these uniforms. You need to focus on the people in these uniforms. Department needs to dealup their ability to with their Police Officers. They have a lot of stress issues, have a lot of angry conflicts and things like that. I dont think they have the right system to deal with this. They just dont have the system. If they get any shooting, ok, yes, they have somebody there to calm them down and talk to them, but an everyday situation, it can be somebody saying something wrong to them that would trigger a bit of anger and and they take that anger and you have these incidents with these other men that werent doing anything if they look at them wrong or something, that is triggering what happened the other day. The Police Department needs to set up a system to interview these guys to make sure that they are on the right page for all the citizens in their cities world. Tes around the this is a big problem. Whether they are white, black, hispanic, it dont matter. Everyone one of them has an issue that needs to be addressed. Police officers are getting the person. Age because of a on the dallas thing, i am a veteran and i have talked to other friends of mine that are hunter. I am an active i have rifles, but i dont understand why we have to sell assault rifles. Host john, thank you for calling. We will watch the president to see if you has any further statements. The house of representatives convenes in an hour and a half. One of the items is an opioid drug bill. Right at 9 00, we will hear members talk about this and gun issues in general. There have been doing that all week. They have been doing that all week. We will watch out to see what the president ial candidates have decided that have to say today. Hillary clinton and joe biden in pennsylvania at noon today. Is the Dallas Morning News. John from liverpool, new york is up now. Democratic line. Caller this is what it comes down to. Blue lives matter more than white lives, black lives, brown lives you start killing police, youve got problems with a lot of people. That is the bottom line. Blue lights are more important. They protect us all. Im disgusted with these black people calling up saying that the police is all kkk. Theres no more racist people on this earth than black people. Host kj in north florida. Republican. Caller good morning. I just wanted to talk about i agree with that lady calling earlier about the supremacy and everything. Caller talking about statistics about People Killed that is an incomplete statistics because we want to know how many of those people were armed when they were shot by police. All, when dylann roof didt up that black church, th the media come out and call it a terrorist act . No, they did not. In california, when they shot up , did theycap place call it a terrorist attack . It only seems when it fits a particular agenda whether it is white or gay that it becomes a a terroristoup, attack. When the victims are black, it is never a terrorist, it is always something else. Are these people who shot at the police in dallas going to get the same treatment when the cops shoot black people . Are we going to look into the backgrounds of the cops . See how many false arrests, how force lets look at the backgrounds of the officers. Saye officers are able to i feared for my life. The black i was reaching, so i shot. Can a black person say, i feared for my life . Im going to shirt first shoot first. Host eric calling now from middletown, new york. Independent caller. Caller clearly, a lot of people are indicating, saying it builds to a real head. We are in a manner of excuse making or justification people are drawing lines, clear good guys and bad guys. Im more interested in the thing that would bring a pragmatic result. Host interesting you bring that up. Let me read this tweet is there a political solution . Caller i would not say political. There is a procedural solution to it. There are two things that could be immediately brought to bear my father was a cop. Cops lookede when like her father. Beer bellied guys with cheesy mustaches. Not these green rejects looking hopped up these marine rejects on roys looking onkick somebodys rejects roids looking to kick somebodys butt. We can institute this across the we see in a lot of european nations, police, Law Enforcement professionals are just that, professionals. They are licensed and they have to carry things like Liability Insurance and be individually accountable to where they will directly and individually feel the consequences of their own actions. If that comes down to where they have to consider their own ,onduct affecting their family roid the road rage rage aspect will go away and the other has will prevail. The cooler heads will prevail. He is totally amped up and there is no way he isnt going to overreact. Host austan from frederick, maryland. Thank you for waiting. Your reaction to dallas and the week in general. Caller thank you for cspan. My response is mainly to the gentleman who called a few minutes ago about statistics based off a guardian poll or Something Like that. A lot of people feel like this or reverseoblem racism almost where itnamericans are more seems so prevalent now because of technology, really. Undocumentedthe unlawful arrests and shootings that have happened in the past. Up until now, they had not been documented. Iphone to an livestream it for the masses to see. As far as how to address this, i dont know how you would fix that. Saying,nie sanders was you need to bring in Police Officers from that community. It sounds like a lot of these Police Officers are coming from who knows where, they dont know who or what they are working with and they are just afraid to be working in their communities, so the first reaction they have is to pull out the gun. Eight week from ted cruz. From ted cruz. Here is one of the photos in thed this morning Washington Post this morning. According to the post which has a new report, several have as about statistics the use of deadly force by police again roils the nation, the number of fatal shootings by officers increased from 465 in the First Six Months of last year to 491 for the same period this year. Lynn is calling from richmond, indiana now. Good morning. Caller it is unfortunate this chain of events the two young comend the five officers and 11 officers and bystanders and witnesses to this, including seen the i have practices and experienced them firsthand here in indiana. It is hard to recruit officers. Their standards on hiring, especially the iq level. They need to offer training. It is going to be forced reform due to this snake eating its own tail because as more and more of this mentality i understand it would be hard to deal with society in general. Grandmotherbiding and i have actually been treated very badly in the last five years. That did not happen back in the 1970s and 1980s. Host why do you think it is hard to recruit Police Officers . How do you reconcile that with your idea of raising standards for them . Caller i watch and im involved in my community. In the police chief comes to speak at the city council meetings, he talks about the hard time they have recruiting. The lower iq standards are publicized, actually. In order to gain more recruits because their pool wasnt very standardslowered the a few years back. Come out whenke they did that, someone might not they got ato, but bunch of people that followed the leader instead of thinking on their own. Type perilous ,sian, if you paralyzation if you will. The two young men everyone witnessed on social media, i think everybody is just in a fear. Of because it is not safe. The people that are supposed to be peace officers, they do not feel safe around them. My grandsons are small. They were involved in a fight and they were attacked while the Police Officers patted them down. They patted down my grandsons and told me to step back. Im not used to that sort of policing. It seemed to me the mentality was not what it used to be. Host mike writes on Facebook Mari kay writes a couple of minutes of video that was posted on the Dallas Morning News website and elsewhere. It is from someone with a camera, a narrating of what is happening at the time of the shootings. We will take a look at that now. [video clip] [sirens] holy [beep] beep][ [sirens] [gunshots] holy [beep] holy [beep] [sirens] [gunshots] they are shooting right now. An officer down. It is coming from the right, over in those buildings. Main street and lamarr. There is an officer down. Somebody. Oving in on i think they might have got somebody. [sirens] dont worry, im behind a tree. Downnk another officer is around the corner over here. They have swat over here. I cant get any closer. Im safe over here. Dont worry about it. Some of the dramatic video out there this morning. Pamela is waiting in upper marlboro, maryland. Caller my heart goes out to the families of the two murdered men , especially the fouryearold baby who saw her father murdered. Withve got to start reviewing the Police Department across this nation. We cannot continue to have stayed back and county back to murder. State backed and county backed murder. As Police Policy and put call to kill an individual when they follow your instructions . Then that policy and protocol needs to change. If it is not protocol, the Police Officer that violates that should be fired, not get a pension and health for manslaughter. When the police union tries to circle and protect such Police Officers, that police union ought to be exposed and examined very closely. We are all taxpayers and residents in the United States of america. Host craig is calling from florida. Thoughts and prayers to the Police Officers in dallas. Up the way to bring the media sways the opinion. I heard this is a very wounded bear. Not sure if they are black, white, latino. Louisiana, i felt bad for him being shot, but nobody keeps bringing up the the officers were called there because the man supposedly pulled a gun on a homeless man begging for change. When they came out, they are already on a call that the man had a gun pulled on somebody and that will get them hyped up. Theres a lot of background on these things that dont get put in. You see things on social media and people are just showing what they want to show and nobodys getting the whole picture on things, sometimes. Ost that was craig monica is in nashville. You are a retired Police Officer, correct . Caller im. Yes, sir. Host what is your reaction to dallas . Caller i want to tell all the people listening, i understand both sides. But youve got to be trained, youve got to follow procedure. You have to do what they ask you to do. You cannot just take it upon secondf they have one before they have to shoot take the thing come investigate the thing. They are no less, no better than any other human on the planet and that is what should be done here. Host there are some tweets and callers who suggest things like police feel they are above the law or they are kkk. What do you make of those comments . Caller no. They are investigated relentlessly. At least in nashville, they are. Sure, there is a bad apple here and never. There is a bad dentist and a bad doctor here and there. This is brought to the forefront. They are prosecuted, they are under extreme Looking Glass all the time. Youve got to remember that they have children, too. They have homes, too. They dont want to be shot, they dont want to be killed. They are just trying to protect everybody and themselves as well. Shaya on the line from selma, alabama. Go ahead, please. Callers, i other found there, its very ignorant. Ir comments very ignorant. I was going to talk about the man who was killed in atlanta by passed thethey just blue line bill. Youre not going to talk about the whole system itself that is corrupt. The whole system, including the police force. Sat downsupreme court and gave leeway to the police toicers around the country stop and frisk people without question. I would like to meet them. Thent believe anything media has to say because it is not just a few bad apples. The whole Police System and the whole system for that matter is corrupt. Every last one of them. All of them. About thetalk prisoner who got beat by the police. They called her a fat gorilla, and black one. I we going to Start Talking about that are we going to Start Talking about that . We are in a state of emergency. Want to hear about Police Officers when they get humanized and the victims get dehumanized in the media. I will not tolerate it. Host chris in alabama writes on twitter here is Donald J TrumpWashington Post had this photo. A protest outside the white house against police shootings. Journal has at photo from dallas here. Police responding after shots were fired last night. Another look at the Dallas Morning News. Dead ers shot, four actually five officers dead at this point. Atofficer being comforted the baylor emergency room there after one of his colleagues and several officers were shot. To the New York Times this morning. A series of photos from what happened the other night in minnesota. Video after Philando Castile was shot with her daughter in the car. The story says in 10 terrible minutes, the story of race, police and death. Philando castile slumped in the driver seat, blood soaking his white tshirt. Ms. Reynolds fouryearold ackghter sit in the blac seat. The woman talks us through her nightmare and tries to talk herself and her daughter out of it alive. In 10 minutes, the story of race and Law Enforcement in america and death a life interaction between a black woman and an armed police a little girls heartbreaking education. Donovan from the bronx, new york. Democrat. Good morning. Im calling regarding not just the police shooting, but what is happening in this country since this inception during the colonial days, Police Officers post reconstruction have been used to hunt down black people the way dople from brazil africanamericans. You just read a tweet from donald trump. The gentleman in louisiana got killed and the gentleman in minnesota, their worst there were no statements. When africanamericans get anything,u dont hear but when Police Officers get killed, their voices are heard. Obama,rds to president that the recently worst mistake of his presidency was not having a backup plan for libya. I believe the worst mistake you the case with the gay Police Officer that we backed we were able to back him down. Over 100 africanamericans have been killed this year. It has been going on for centuries. Let me turn to colonial times colonists rose up against the british, they felt they were not being treated properly. The british call them terrorists and they were forced back. I dont know what transpired in dallas, but africanamericans are tired of being killed. If you hit someone, they will eventually hit you back. 2014, they had the war in israel. Congress stood up in solidarity and support of israel. When it comes to the killings of africanamericans, there is never that solidarity in this country. You look at the politicians, look at the media even cspan , your channel, yes you come on and say africanamericans committed crimes in their Community People commit crimes in their community. Many european americans feel their lives are so great. That is not so. Cspan as well as other media, whether it is cnn, fox, president obama, the politicians this is a war thats going on. You cannot have american citizens been killed by police when we go around telling other countries how their system is messed up. Taken to Thee International criminal court. Standingeeds to be trial for weight for the way africanamericans are being killed in this country. I want to ask you a question. Do you have kids . Host why do you ask . Whether you have kids or if you arenephew pulled over by a Police Officer, d you keep your hand on the Steering Wheel that should do you keep your hands on the Steering Wheel do you keep your hands on the steering will . Thats how i feel. Where you a country fear the Police Officers. That is not good. We go around telling other people. This culture has been bred in this country to hunt down africanamericans. The media continues to force host thank you for calling. I want to get some other voices in. Twitter, jack fink jack five officers overall died. That is just in the last couple of minutes here. George on the line from fullerton, california. George is a republican. Thank you for waiting. Caller thank you very much. Ive been watching the news here with those Police Officers being shot in dallas. What is reallyd going on around the nation with this stuff. The two shootings in louisiana and the other place make you pause and wonder what happened. , some Police Officers make mistakes and do some stupid here but the 1. I see , thene point i see here individuals getting shot are committing crimes before they get shot, but nobody wants to focus in on that. Everybody shares a personal responsibility for their behavior. You put yourself in a situation where you get a confrontation with the police the one caller mentioned they got a phone call from somebody that said a man pulled a gun on a homeless man at the convenience store. X you wonder. It is sad that all over the nation, there is a general lawlessness, a general disrespect towards law. The president showed that in the way he treats the constitution and tries to go around it. It is really just sad. One of the things that really bothers me more than anything is the fact that the United States of america was founded on judeochristian principles. Since 1962 or 1963 when they itk god out of the schools, seems to be a problem, we are not teaching ethics or morals. Its the idea that all these guys are the same that is definitely not true that people would take the time to go study and find out these things. We dont have the 10 commandments in our schools. One is now shalt not kill. Shalt not kill. Is black lives Movement Something i find very disturbing in one sense. Martin luther king made a that we are 10 of the population but committing 58 of the crimes. How bad is it today . There are so many variables in all this. Black lives matter only seem to matter when a white cop kills a black man. They do not care what happens in the country. Orange county is right next to l. A. County, where there are thousands of black and hispanic street things killing each other left and right, and in chicago the president s own hometown, s lastwere record killing month and last year. When a white cop kills a black kid, they stay silent. We have matthew, who writes, every community should have its own citizens review filled by community leaders. Hold cops to account. Independent color charles, good morning. Where is texas city . Caller i would say 20 minutes south of houston, 30 minutes. Host what else are you hearing down there in the local news or the texas news about what happened in dallas . Caller i have been looking at a couple of things on television. Basically being on facebook and watching a lot of posts. A couple of things about dallas bother me. Real quick, i want to address that last caller in california. Black lives matter is about black lives, so that is what they are focused on. That, he isto talking about how we never talk about black people killing each other. There are plenty of individuals out here who are working tirelessly and who, whether they talk about it on television or on youtube, they are explaining or trying to, influencing individuals, to walk away from that kind of lifestyle, black people doing this to black people. What kind of bothers me about it is, they started off with a story about snipers. Ow, i was born in camp lejeune 20 years, i was in the navy. Snipers do not normally reveal their position. If they are a sniper from the top, they are not going to jump down and attack people in the crowd. They shot like 50 shots but only one civilian got hit . That is kind of funny to me. I do not see blood. What is bothering me about all of this is that when we talk about racism, what bothers me is this. Not all caucasians are racist, i know that. Just like every brother aint a brother. That is true, too. The tuskegee experiment is an example. It is all about a mentality. Is, is going on around here what i am seeing is individuals who do not want to take accountability. That irritates me personally. , do not have a biological son but i have been helping to take care of the unmanned. To think anything like that him, happened to like what happened with them are rice the idea that you should just support all police how can all lives matter, if an individual goes out acting not like a cop, shoots young kids . The guy in california said these people are committing crimes. Was, the guy in minnesota doing exactly what the cop told him. From what i understand, he asked , show that hed could have a concealed weapon, and he got shot in front of his child. This is where the anger is coming from from us. Because you expect us to do what you asked us to do. Here is the thing about White Supremacy. It is an oxymoron. First of all, it is not White Supremacy. It is just the fact that other races, for some reason, we are allowing some of this stuff to happen. It is not about looking at caucasian people as a whole and saying they are all devils because that is impossible. They cannot all be. It is not about that. What it is about is when you try to insult my intelligence and you try to tell me that i do not recognize a murder when i see one. Trayvon got murdered. That was just unfortunate. That was something that even to this day, George Zimmerman is Walking Around free, and he should not be. This is what is inciting us, the unfairness, and treating us like we do not understand what is going on as black people, we are so criminal. The charles, we do get point. We want to go to diane, a democratic caller. Diane, your reaction to dallas and Everything Else out there . Caller this is a concern about Young Children having access to guns. May i use it . Host sure. Caller ok. I would like to see programs where elementary, middle school, have seminarsls where the community was invited, the parents were invited, the faculty, and the students were required to attend, where policeman came in and talked to their students about this is what you do. When you go to your friends house and they say my daddy has a gun, do you want to see it . We need to get these kids some tools. If we find it is not hard to find stellar policeman who can go and talk to these kids, and if we invite them into our schools in this way, the kids need tools. Also, i wanted to mention Peter Peter Peter ya yaros operation respect. Host thank you. Our condolences are with the families of the officers who lost their lives, and my thoughts continue to be with the injured and those in the dows area affected by this unspeakable tragedy. Our Law Enforcement officers put themselves in harms way every day. It is shocking and referenceable. David from crab orchard, west virginia, good morning. It is tragic what happened in texas there. Everybody is going to talk about it as being a race issue and the gun issue. Virginia, a west population of 18,000. Just a couple of days ago we had assault afficer person driving an allterrain vehicle. He was attempting to pull it over. It just happened it was a black driver on that allterrain vehicle. Directly at that cop, hit that cop, broken bones, and they caught him and he is under charges for attempted murder. It is the atmosphere that our leaders, congress, both parties, the white house, a culture of tearing down our laws and not enforcing our laws, that are creating the mentality for all these people, regardless of race , who commit these laws, and the fairness of our laws. Host who is responsible for that culture that you speak of, david . Caller that culture is our attorneys, who enforce these laws, the white house, the people who enforce these laws they pick and shoes who enforce these laws. To read thed choose atmosphere of a culture is that you are pulled over with a Traffic Violation and you are ugly and you are insulting to the cop, you are going to get a ticket. If you are pretty and polite to the cop, there will probably be a different outcome. Host thanks, david. Paul is calling from minneapolis, democrats line. Caller good morning. We are experiencing a common problem. It has gotten totally out of that isd the only thing going to solve this common problem is common sense. We all need to get on Common Ground. President down through the congress, through the entities in certain counties and parishes and Police Departments. Even the news channels. Promoting common sense everywhere. Because right now host how do you do that, paul . Get people on Common Ground . Caller getting people on Common Ground is a unique thing of sending out the right messages. It is not about i am an african american, 53 years old. I tell people every day, it is not about black lives matter, about corrupt Police Officers. Know, theabout, you republicans going against barack obama because he is black, and the disparities that we experience throughout the world. We are the greatest country ever, and we have immigrants coming into our Country Living better and excelling in life more than certain cultures. All these things and we areng, constantly declining in areas that we need to be Police Officers need to be upholding. Host i can hear the child in the background. What do you tell those around you, families, younger children, younger folks about all of this . Theyr i tell them that really need to focus on education. Everything with me begins with education. Understanding things in school, understanding that your life begins there. That we begin our lives as human beings, to be productive human beings in a productive society, through education. Deterred by kids. You may see one straying off. It may not be that you can help that person straying, but if you see that one person straying off, step away because you will have people straying off. Crime is just something that goes with america, something that goes with human beings. Host paul, thank you for calling and weighing in. Wayne is calling in from florida. Your reaction . Caller my reaction is absolute sorrow. I am sorry for our country. I was listening to the gentleman speaking before me. Remarkable. He is very calm. You can hear the children in the background. It is our children we need to think about. Back when it was a very small race. Ity i am a mixed the general population here was white,ly black or not any of the race. It was a different experience in this area. I do not think most people understand that we have been at years. We have a tremendous amount of military veterans who come home who are used to a structured environment. They come home, they are trained, a lot of them, to go into Law Enforcement. Law enforcement across our ofntry, it is part equalizing the training so they know how to work with each other. These officers are trained to respond militarily. It is a militarization of police force, because we are at war and these situations happen at our homeland, and we are seeing it. We need to teach our children how to respond to Police Officers. They have families, children, and they are trained to respond instantly. And their lives depend on them responding. Other children need to be trained in schools, this is how you respond to Police Officers. Think anybody believes what happened in minnesota, that that Police Officer is not going to be prosecuted. That is a tragedy. Attacking Police Officers in the street is a tragedy. We need to like the gentleman said before me, come together, think, teach our children. And our country needs to Pay Attention to our veterans and the war that we are involved in. They are ignoring it. I just want to pray for the families and for our country. Host thanks for calling, duane. Eric is on the line outside d. C. , in fairfax, virginia, a republican caller. Caller how are you . Host doing fine. How are you . Caller i am doing well. I am saddened for the families in minnesota. The country is obviously at war. I do not think at this point there is anything we can do to solve the problem. We need to look at how totraining people we need look at some better, nonlethal ways to restrain people. Just because someone is committing a crime does not mean they should die. Officers have a splitsecond decision on whether or not to pull the trigger. We will never know what happened and now two situations, those families do not have their loved ones and it is indefensible. Violence will beget more violence. Host thank you for calling. The Washington Times wrote before all this about the tragedy in baton rouge. They write it this way host it must be punished quickly and severely, they write in the Washington Times. Jody is on the line from houston, texas. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. How are you today . Host doing ok. How are you . Caller i am doing all right. I am humbled, i am praying, and i believe america feels our pain. We have been crying out for years about the Police Brutality against blacks, and now that we down, america speaks, america listens. Everybody is saddened by what is happening in dallas. Do not get me wrong, all lives matter. But the only time black lives matter is when we are at nba basketball games or we are at nfl football games. Or we are winning for your states we are cities or entertaining your people our lives matter. But when we come off the stage or the court or the field, lives do not matter. I am a mother of two young black men. What do i tell my sons . I have taught them, if you ever be stopped by the police, respectful yes, sir, yes, maam. Keep your hands visible so they can see you have no cruel intent. Even in doing everything that your mom taught you to do, your life can still be in danger. Wake up. T, america this is real, and we are mad. Black lives Matter Movement is not just something we are saying to have something to say. We are saying this because our lives do matter, and it is time for america to recognize that are just like those Police Officers lives matter, just like those Police Officers families are grieving i pray for the grieving families. But just less than three days ago, this was not a big media frenzy when it was Philando Castile and when it was alton. Lets get it together. When we took prayer out of the schools, we created this monster. When we had open carry, we created this monster. Instead of voting just to be against obama, lets come together and cleanup america. If we put trump in there, we are going to have more crime in america. For taking thank you part. Finish your comments. I did not mean to cut you off. Caller if we put trump in office, we will see more of this because he is the orchestrator of trouble. Free interrorist america, and now he wants to get into the white house to do what . All he ever has to say is, i am going to make America Great again. Host jody, thank you for calling. Edwin christian writes, i sit here listening to all of this hate in our country. Whatever happened to our values . It is time to put the hate behind us. Ronald from philadelphia, good morning to you. Independent color. Caller first of all, the hate was always here. They just brought it more out after this president got elected. Never one, if you have a Police Department that has never fired a policeman, period, something is wrong. A District Attorney who has never charged a policeman, something is wrong. Policenot have a department for years and never have one bad cop. You have a lady in buffalo, new york, who stopped her partner from choking a man while in handcuffs. No news about that. She got punched by him, gets fired, loses her pension, and that she stopped doing it, got in another case, got indicted, did not get convicted, so he gets to retire and get a pension herein something has got and got a pension. Something has got to be done about this. I have a younger brother who was a policeman in washington, d. C. Of the academy say he wanted to save the world. Then he realized he needed to save his own butt. Any group of people, you have some problems with. They need to look at the Police Department and find out the bad good cops toet the testify against the bad apples. Host one last call for this part of the program. Christina, your thoughts. Caller my thoughts is that i am outraged. Most of all, i am worried for the future of our kids. In our society, we have such a separation. 2016, we are supposed to be coming together as a society and strengthening our country. Instead, we are tearing it apart. Lives,es matter black white lies. Blue lives black lives, white lives. Blue lives matter. Everyone is bringing this to these issues. Before we could not live stream them, and now it is here. We need to deal with it. I look at the situation that happened yesterday in dallas, and it saddens me. I cannot help but wonder, what would have happened if moore had been done about if moore had been done about the Police Officers shooting people . What are we teaching our children these days . We are teaching, do what you are told. Follow the law, respect the officers. But at the end of the day you might still be killed, just because the officer we need to come together and do something. This is unreal. Host thank you for all of your calls. We will get to more calls in a couple of minutes after a short break. We will have a guest coming up in a moment for the rest of the program. This program goes until not a clock eastern time, so another 35 minutes. It will be Deray Mckesson, joining us from baltimore, and activist with the black lives Matter Movement. We will talk with him about the recent shootings of black men around the country, and the reaction in dallas, of course. Congressman al green of texas, we will hear from. Yesterday morning, before dallas happened, but after the other recent shootings this week in louisiana and minnesota, and he called on congress to stop the killings and investigate. Here is a look at commerce and al green of texas. Green mr. Speaker, the message i delivered today has been mr. Speaker, the message i deliver today has been 68 years in the making. The message i deliver today had its genesis with my mother, who cautioned me that i must behave a certain way in the presence of the constabulary, the police. A mother who was concerned for her son, who always made it very clear to me that i had to say, yes sir, notes or, and that i always had to accept whatever the police said to me. This message is 68plus years in the making, mr. Speaker. In part based upon what my uncle, who was a deputy sheriff, shared with me about my behavior in the presence of the police. , always yieldways to the police, submit to the police. Never challenge the police. 68 years in the making, mr. Speaker. Speaker, my heart is heavy after what has happened over the last two days. Black men in the United States of america, my heart is heavy. I had the unfortunate circumstance of seeing what happened to that man in baton rouge, louisiana, on the ground flailing, blood pouring from his chest. I heard the young lady this pleading to god, jesus, god, dont let him be dead. Bute not her exact words, pretty much what she said. Dont let this happen. Mr. Speaker, we have to do something about the killing of black men at the hands of the constabulary in this country. Announcer washingon journal continues. From our guest, joining us baltimore, is Deray Mckesson, a black lives matter activist. Welcome to the program. Guest it is good to be back. Host where to start . Dallas, esota, louisiana not have toould protest. People should not be in the streets to be heard. Resort. St as a last it was not until we were in the street in ferguson in 2014 that forced a conversation at the National Level about the terror that was happening in communities. What we see in louisiana and minnesota are two black men who should be alive today. But they are not alive because an officer chose to kill them. When we think about the lack of convictions across the country that have happened at least in the last two years, the courts are not saying that the officers are not involved in the deaths of these people. The courts are saying that their involvement is not criminal. That reminds us we need to make sure that the laws and practices hold police accountable. The police have incredible power to take peoples lives, but they also operate with impunity and they are not just held accountable. Isse cases remind us that it not ok. My heart goes out to the victims of all violence, when we think about what has happened over the past 48 hours. Host our guest will be with us for the rest of the hour. The rest of the program. A little bit of confusion, mr. Mckesson, overnight about what protest this was. A lot of people were calling it a black lives matter protest. Others were saying it was not, that they do not have a branch in dallas. Does that matter . And can you clarify any of that for us . Guest the movement is bigger than any one organization, so what is confusing is that there is an organization that has a name, the same thing as how we call the movement. When people think about this moment, they talk about a movement, which is bigger than any person or organization. There is an organization that call that is called black lives matter. The organization did not start the protest, but there are so many incredible activists and organizers pushing to make the world more equitable and just. When we think about the protests in dallas, minneapolis, baton aree, at its root, people coming together saying the world can be better and here is how, and let me find other people who believe it with me. Host let me get right to the phones. David is calling from swings bureau, georgia. With deraythe phone mckesson. Caller good morning. How are you doing you i want to throw some history at you. You all are listening to and talking like politicians. These quit it. As american please quit it. As americans, we need to speak like americans. What is going on in our country is fascism, plain and simple. They call the people over there in the persian world radical muslims. Sir, it was started at the end of world war ii when a fascist state was set up in and it hashas moved up into the middle east. Until like what you all are in black lives matter point out that it is fascism and that the good people of our world have to say enough and crush it and quit teaching it to our children, this is going to continue. Deray, i hope you can do something to change what is going on, and i wish you all the luck in the world. Host lets hear from our guest. Caller i appreciate it. You can call it fascism, things. Ship, a host of the outcomes are the same, no matter what we call it. Black people are being disproportionately killed by the police. The Police Killed nearly three people every day in 2016. There is a crisis. I am open to what we call it. Host what are your expectations . You want the police to be held accountable. Moving forward, what actions do you expect to come from this . What is realistic, in your view . Caller guest the culture of policing is broken. There is a culture that says officers can do what they want and will not be held accountable. That is not ok. You think about in louisiana, the bill of rights says officers do not have to give a statement for administrative hearings for 30 days. There is no other Public Servant that gets 30 days before they police topear before be interrogated. Even with freddie gray, when freddy got killed, the police appear for 10o days. That is an unfair protection that the police have. And then body cameras, independent investigators and prosecutors with the website , at thisignzero. Org or i point what i hope for coming forward from the Obama Administration is a call for the national use of force, a standard that both explicitly calls for the preservation of life and that also makes deadly force a use of last resort. Host natalie, calling from pompano beach, florida. Caller good morning, good morning. Host you are on the air. Caller i am very, very upset at what is going on. But the problem is, we as brown hebrew, israelites, not black we need to learn who we are. Law at the red sea, and the law is the 10 commandments. Stop trying to do with these people. Ok, is caucasian people, because they will not do right by us. Been00 years they have trying to kill us, and that is what they have been doing. We need to turn back to god and the lord will protect us. We are the chosen people. Do not be mad about it, and stop killing our men. Host that was natalie. Deray mckesson . Caller we are people who made a way out of no way. We exist in a legacy of struggle because this country has not been kind to black people since its beginning. We have always been people who have had to push and press because of racism and systemic injustice. That is real. We also need to be true that this is our country, too, that we have the power to change laws , that forced the systems and structures to respond to our lives to firmly. When we have seen is a different type of mobilizing, a different type of building of coalitions to say this world can be a better place. It is important that we continue to know that at the root of all this is White Privilege, White Supremacy, and racism, and we have to be able to talk about the way racism forms so many things in our country because it is so dramatic and it has real outcomes. Host what about yourself and your group, Deray Mckesson . Know,on twitter wants to how was he chosen to speak for the people in ferguson . Can you explain it to us . People leadingere are at the local, state, and National Level, and that is really important. I am one of many people doing work in the space to make sure that we have an equitable and just society. People, was also in the streets of ferguson and using social media, our bodies, to push back on dominant culture narratives. What is important about this moment is that you continue to see so many people now part of the conversation and are speaking out and having their voices heard in ways they have not before. Host here is a Washington Post story you have probably seen it. With Police Killing back in the remaines, americans uncertain about black lives matter. At the center of it all will be the black lives Matter Movement. But americans are still trying to figure out how they feel about it or it over the course of their existence, black lives matter is a polarizing and often contentious political movement. Opponents accuse it of fomenting violence. How would you describe yourself, mr. Mckesson . The movement is young. This is an old fight, but people organizing, especially young people, saying that we can do something about it. But this is a relatively young space. There are misconceptions about the movement. I know there are incredible people across the country who do really good work. But the changes that will result in the police being held accountable our local. This is about cities and states passing legislation, policies, and changing practices, in ways that will make communities safer. It is all about having a different mind shift about what safety means. If i asked you where you felt the most safe, you will probably not tell me in a room full of police. You will probably tell me with people who love you, in a shelter. This is slow work. Issues of race have always been a thing in this country. People still look back on slavery and other injustices and do not do a full accounting of the trauma they have inflicted on communities. So it is no surprise that people in this moment are afraid and uncomfortable. We must talk about race. Host have you met with president ial candidates this year . , i met with president obama in february, but also with hillary and bernie. Bernie has come a long way in his understanding of racial injustice. He had already had a deep understanding of economic injustice. Hillary has devoted her time for a long time as a politician. I think that her platform has been is brought in a way. I am hopeful that her platform and the Democratic Convention for arm will Call National use of force standard, and the other that hillary said is that she believed in communities having oversight of the functions in communities. That does not come across in her platform or the Democratic Convention platform, which worries me. Host calls. Lauren in elk grove village. Lawrence caller in elk grove village. I was listening caller i was listening to the earlier segment. Concerning the Police Officers, the five who were killed and the 12 who were shot total do we know the race of those people . I did not see all the reports, so i do not know. The four people that were i guess the terrorists, or the murderers i know one was killed himself, and the other 3, 1 being a woman do we know the race of those people . Did i miss something . I am just serious. I have a comment after that. Host i have not seen that in the early reporting. I am not sure our guest knows. I am not sure why you are asking. Make a comment. Guest caller a few of the callers earlier had facts. Seem veryhy many wealthy because they seem to be clairvoyant about issues they do not know about. Even the shooting about the man in minnesota in his car i am confused about that issue, too, because the only video we had is from the girlfriend of the man who was shot, after the man was shot. So i am curious why no questions have been asked about what happened before that. Apparently, he was stopped i believe for a taillight being out. I do not even understand how any of this happened, until we know what happened. Host lets get back to our guest. Anything to respond to there, Deray Mckesson . Guest what we know to be true he was killed and he was not posing a threat to the officer. Alton. And also to Philando Castile, the officer was still pointing a gun at him when he was immobilized, was still considered to be a grave threat when he could not move. In the mindset of the officer, it seems like bodies are threatening even when they are immobilized, because he shot him at pointblank range. We have questions outstanding, but again both of these men should be alive, and we can all agree on that. Host Deray Mckesson spoke about social media its strength and power these days. , your taker reaction on the role of social media . Broughton is out to media in general because we did have a caller earlier today who said a lot of this is created by the media, fueled by the media, and that is part of the problem. What do you think . Alwaysblack people have faced these issues of erasure. In these moments, we become the on erased. Twitter and facebook has allowed people to tell their own stories unfiltered by any other source, so in both of these cases, one being a cell phone video and one being facebook live, we can expose these to audiences that otherwise they would not be able to if we did not have these tools. That is incredibly powerful. It has been powerful to us in ferguson, in minneapolis, in cities across the country. What we see now is the media actually asking the Police Questions and pushing on the police in ways we have not seen before. Criticalmuch more perspective, Holding Police accountable, and i think that has changed how people understand the role of the police. There was a point where the police could do no wrong in any capacity. If the police said it, it must be true. Marion on the line for republicans. You are on the air. Marion . Go ahead. Caller i wanted to say i am so glad that this young man is on talking about this, and i want to say that i hope that they keep it going white people, black people, everybody. Police shooting at a car, where a mother is fleeing with her five kids, it makes me angry. When i see Police Beating up black women, little girls, 14 years old, and i see the Police Appoint the police put a gun in a car with a man who is already shot, he should not be a policeman. There is something very wrong, and i hope he keeps up straightening everything out in this country. Host thanks for calling. Mr. Mckesson, any reaction . Guest what is also real is that these officers are choosing to inflict harm. One of the incident she talk about that she talked about was in mckinney, one of the incidents that she talk about, the officer who had his knee in a girls back in mckinney, the officer chose to do that. , andmake these choices when they murder, they will pay protected at all costs. We have a real problem in this society and we have to work on it. Host steve, a call for Deray Mckesson. Good morning, steve. Caller i had one comment, but since i have been listening to your guest, i have several more. He said the Police Wanted to kill freddie gray. Every policeman that has been put on trial so far has been found not guilty, or insufficient evidence, or whatever. So that is an incorrect statement. The second thing i would to say is that people need to be taught how to deal with the police. I am a middleaged white man, and i feel insulted when the police approached me with their hands on their puzzles with their pistols. But i say, sir, i will reach glove compartment to get my drivers license. If Michael Brown had followed their instructions, he would not have been killed the police. Also, i want to dress White Privilege. About do not talk to me White Privilege. I grew up in southeast maryland in southeast washington. I get up every morning to go to work at 4 15. I work 12 hours a day, five days a week. Thank god i am off today. Sunday tourday and have what i have. Nobody has given me anything. I have black men and white men who own businesses who are just like me we work. That is not due to any privilege on my part. Host lets get a reaction. When i say that the officers made a choice, i stand by that. The officers chose to ignore any medical call for help that he gave. That was a choice. What we know to be true is that when freddie. Into the band, when freddie got into the van, his spine was ok. Officers chose to do actions that led to his death, and that is real. Mike brown, which you brought up i do not believed people should die for jaywalking. Michael at best was jaywalking. We live in a country where officers have incredible power and can do with a want, and that is deemed ok. That happened with mike around and with a lot of other cases. When you say that the officers were not convicted, it is not a not that the officers were guilty, it was a sign that the officers can do whatever they want to do. Means that the wrongdoing we have a shadow Justice System for the police. And then when we think about White Privilege, it disappoints me that you have such a deep misunderstanding of the history of race and racism in this country. Your white skin afford you a set of privileges and benefits, more than any other person in this country. There is a legacy of racism that is so deeply embedded the set of benefits extend to you regardless of gender and income, because of your whiteness. When we think about Little Things like bandaids, what skin tone looks like on products like that is white, that is normative. And then in the larger sense, we treat whiteness as the defining attribute of what it means to be normal in this country. Way meansg hard in no that White Privilege does not exist. It in no way means that if two people apply for the same job that they will not be treated different light. It is not because black people did not work hard. People have worked hard for centuries and were not compensated for their labor. But again, because of the way whiteness functions in this society, there is an immense privilege afforded to white people. Host just about 10 minutes left or our guest, a Community Office r and a black lives matter activist. Frank, from houston, texas. Caller i want to give my heart out to the families of the officers that were killed in dallas. I would like to say the last caller was spoton. Black lives Matter Movement grew out of the frustrations that was fanned by the media to get convictions on men, officers that were doing what they should withdone not so much zimmerman, but the rest of them, there were no convictions. They were tried by a jury of their peers, they were leaned on by the department of justice. They were leaned on by the president of the United States. Black lives Matter Movement is a frustrated fascist movement. They go around disrupting demonstrations. You, being a community organizer, should know that when you let the media fan the flames, you say you know the man was shot and killed in louisiana. But you do not have any evidence of that. You are doing you are going by what the woman said. Let the facts come in, let the trial be held at then do your protests. Thank you. Began by calling your group a frustrated fascist movement. What is your reaction . It is always interesting. What he said is that because the officers were not convicted, essentially they must have been in the right. I think back on the history and the history of racism in this country, and there were very few convictions on lynching. They were not right to lynch people, though. It highlights that the laws are racist and protect a set of people in ways that are unfair. When i think about the police, it is a similar circumstance. The laws are saying no judge has said the police were not involved in any capacity in these peoples deaths. Says the polices involvement was not criminal because we have a system that protects the police at all cost, and that is not ok. The acquittals do not push me to think that the officers had no culpability. It is about a broken system and we need to fix the system. In terms of him suggesting that we jump in to conclusions i will not accept that might brown should be dead that mike brown should be dead or that freddie gray should be dead. Toe and time again, we have have officers who do not kill black people. But when we see a 12yearold boy in cleveland get killed, standing still with a toy gun, offices are choosing this time and time again. To ignore the racist element and this is to live in a wonderland. The severald about dozen laws that are out there these days, to address police violence. Is there one piece of legislation you can point to out there that you think might make a significant difference moving forward . Guest president obama could signing executive order, or congress could put legislation forward. The National Level, that could have a demonstrative impact, if we had a standard that highlighted the preservation of life. You think about places like baltimore, it was until recently, like the last few choke hold people. It was not against the rules. That is true in cities across the country, and that is ok. That is not ok. There is negative discipline, and that does not make sense. It is not a system designed to make officers accountable. It would be around a use of force standard that was really robust. Using deadly force as a last result. From sean is calling inglewood, ohio, a democratic caller. Caller first off, sir, you are nothing but a racist or that his pointblank simple. Host let me jump in and ask you why you are saying that. Caller i have worked in the urban setting for the last 20 years of my life. I am disabled now. These police have a splitsecond over 10,000think things of what they are going to do in that splitsecond decision. Sir, have you ever been placed in that situation, where you have a splitsecond decision to think of over 10,000 things that you are going to do, and have you ever been put in a situation where you have to make that decision whether you are going to take somebodys life . Host let me jump in and get a response from our guest. Guest i would ask you have you ever been a doctor . I worked in the medical field for 17 years. Guest have you been a dr. . Doctor . Are you a guest have you been a doctor, sean . I am asking you. You know your argument is faulty. You know you have not been a doctor before, but when you go to the doctors office, you have a set of expectations of how your doctor functions. Same thing i am not a Police Officer, but i have an expectation about how officers behave in society. It is disappointing that you offer a set of opinions, and you are unwilling to be challenged on them. I would push you to think deeper about the thoughts that you put out into the world, and that you reflect on your arguments. Host sean, anything else . . Re you still there you caller yes, i am still here. I challenge you, sir, to go take a police exam and work those streets. Guest again, you are deflecting. You are deflecting. I do not have anything else to say. And argument fell apart, you are trying to put it back together. I appreciate your call, and i hope you reflect on the way that you construct arguments and put them in public. Host from nbc in chicago, here is a tweet. Suspect in dallas stated he wanted to kill white people before being killed by a detonated bomb, police chief says. Guest i have more questions than answers. Most of the answers that come out in the immediate aftermath is just incorrect. I am holding off. It is important to note that the protest in dallas is over, and the media is reporting that this happened during the protest. I spoke last night to the people who put together the protest in dallas, and i know what is true and what is not about when these shootings happened. Host we go to carl in dallas. Caller i would just like to say that when the shootings happened in minnesota and down in know,ana, i would like to where were the republican senators, congressmen . They did not make any statement of any kind. As soon as the tragedy happened over in dallas, now they are all tweeting, making statements. So it kind of goes to show that there is a we versus them or us versus the police and tally. Police us versus the mentality. We all know that donald trump likes to run his mouth. As soon as the one happened in dallas yesterday morning, he comes out and makes a statement. And the laws really need to be changed because that is a very high bar. Any time a police is involved in a shooting, the First Defense they are going to offer is, i felt threatened, i felt for my life. In all these shootings, that is the First Defense of the officer. I felt threatened, or i felt for my safety or my life. Those laws need to be changed. Lets get a final answer from our guest. Guest these situations highlight i also agree with you that when we see lawmakers selectively choosing to speak out about these things, they have seen at least the videos from 2014. We have not seen trump or republicans acknowledge that this is happening. The lack of acknowledgment goes with peoples deep discomfort with talking about race, and also withholding Police Officers accountable. For so long, the police have been a group of Public Servants who have just been able to do whatever they want to do. We are saying and the public is saying that is not ok, and we will not accept that any longer. Host Deray Mckesson, we understand that the house session, which is supposed to start at nine, is being delayed a little bit. We are not quite sure what is going on over there bank. We can try on over there. Mike from laguna guest one more and i have to go. Host mike, please. Caller i am a libertarian. I am very encouraged by black lives matter. Host mike, thanks for calling. I have to jump in and thank Deray Mckesson. The house is coming in right now. Thank you for your time from baltimore. Guest talk to you later. Thank you. Host we are going to the house now. They have an opioid bill. We expect some comments on dallas and the other shootings around the country during the oneminute period. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org]