Protesters, including members of the Baltimore Jewish community, hand-delivered letters to the office of a Maryland U.S. senator calling for a ceasefire.
and the investigation seems to take forever. whatever happened we know happened in the time he got caught from the time he got out of the van. many people have given the police department the benefit of the doubt on this but i think that has helped fuel the flame of anger and this belief somehow that there might be a cover-up. you know, i want to ask you one thought. i know you were active in congress, as a progressive democrat, and you ve been a great leader of the naacp, and here we are talking about what you and i will be talking about when we re 90 if we re 90 we ll be talking about it again. i don t think the trade issue answers it. where are we going to find manufacturing jobs good old boys jobs young mens jobs where you go work, come back a little dirty, a little sweaty but proud of yourself from a hard day at the plant. my uncle and grandfather grew up in north philly. the neighborhood is african-american, but none of those jobs are there. they were there when i was there. yo
tessa, you re in the naacp, do you believe that cops beat up blacks as a regular practice? are these bad apples? how would you describe the system right now in i think there s a combination. there s a lot of bad apples and a lot of people just see a black male and stop him and do things to him and assume he s done something wrong. he was not doing anything eye contact and he ran because a lot of people are afraid of the police. he was young and ran. but old people sometimes can t run and they get beat up or get jerked around for about an hour. we sued the police department
about seven years ago for almost $1 million where they took one young boy and drive him to the county and took his shoes and left him. he tracked down a baltimore county police and brought him back. with the help of the aclu and the naacp, they got sued. now we have people that don t want money, they want their sons alive. so the community, i m sorry this happened, but the police have to get their act together. you have a police department there that s fairly mixed there, black and white officers. what is the continuing motive for police brutality as a pattern? because, there s certain neighborhoods in baltimore where young men are standing on the corner without jobs, without anywhere to go. just like you were saying, all the jobs are gone.