we believe that the federal government can play a vital role in making sure that local enforcement can be as good as it possibly can be. the whole notion of putting 100,000 police officers on the street is something that this federal government has tried to has tried to foster. there have been a number of high-profile cases involving charges of police misconduct. in los angeles the beating of rodney king by four white police officers captured on videotape. in pittsburgh the case of johnny gammage, a black businessman who died of suffocation after being stopped by five white suburban police officers. in new york city the case of abdur leuima, a haitian immigrant who says he was beaten and brutalized by police a year and a half ago. more recently in new york the case of adam yue diallo, an immigrant from who was killed in a hail of 41 bullets fired by police. civil rights protesters who represent some of mr. clinton s most fervent supporters have
they re dividing by age. that is going on throughout the country. the president understood this when he ran in 2008. i thought the president i thought he spoke very well about it. he hasn t done very much about it to bridge those divides. he gives a great speech. he hasn t done well. that is a simplistic and inaccurate view. it may appeal to krit whoixz want to duck the hard issues while claiming to back some undefined action. let s look at the president s action for a moment, at his policy agenda, because that was the context for friday. and it s a record of leading on civil rights and economic opportunity, precisely the areas where many critics have been m.i..a. the trayvon martin case set off a firestorm because he was another black human being killed at the intersection of profiling and unjust police tactics. there are many names on that list. danroy henry, sean bell, jordan davis, adam yue diallo. and long before today state senator barack obama was taking action to make racia
0 somewhat mixed. i came close to losing it. trayvon martin could have been me. it didn t happen to obama. it s individuals speaking about a subject they know nothing about. white guilt is one of the dominating factors in american politics. it s individuals speaking about a subject they know nothing about. where does the country go from here? it s not just the trayvon martin verdict. the leadership of this republican supermajority, as if. today marks the 12th straight week of moral monday protests. in north carolina it s moral monday. outside north carolina s state capitol in raleigh this photo i.d. is very harsh. the focus will be a harsh new voter i.d. bill. it s one of the harshest photo i.d. bill we ve seen. the moral monday movement is actually more popular. we can t solve this problem in a day or a week. we re going to find them every day we can. it s going to take a very, very long time. first we want to go to london. we continue to fo