Killing of unarmed African American teens, we look at a film premiering at sundance called 3 1 2 minutes. It tells the story of how on november 23, 2012, four teenagers pulled into a jacksonville gas station to buy gum and cigarettes. They were soon confronted by michael dunn, a middleaged white man who pulled in next to them in the parking lot. Dunn demanded the boys turn down the music they were playing, and became angry when they refused. He pulled his gun from his glove box and shot at their car 10 times, even as they tried to drive away from the danger. The shots rang out 3 and a half minutes after dunn had arrived. One of boys, 17yearold jordan davis, was killed. Today we will spend the hour with his parents, lucia mcbath and ron davis. Trayvon martins father text me, i want to welcome you to a club none of us want to be in. It is time to pick up where dr. King left off. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy g
Michael dunn is crying as protests grow over the killing of unarmed African American teens, we look at a film premiering at sundance called 3 1 2 minutes. It tells the story of how on november 23, 2012, four teenagers pulled into a jacksonville gas station to buy gum and cigarettes. They were soon confronted by michael dunn, a middleaged white man who pulled in next to them in the parking lot. Dunn demanded the boys turn down the music they were playing, and became angry when they refused. He pulled his gun from his glove box and shot at their car 10 times, even as they tried to drive away from the danger. The shots rang out 3 and a half minutes after dunn had arrived. One of boys, 17yearold jordan davis, was killed. Today we will spend the hour with his parents, lucia mcbath and ron davis. Trayvon martins father text me, i want to welcome you to a club none of us want to be in. It is time to pick up where dr. King left off. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , demo
Revolution that brought down dictator hosni mubarak. We will speak with Sharif Abdel Kouddous from cairo, a protest march interfere and speak with egyptian filmmaker Jehane Noujaim. It was four years ago this month when oscar grant, the 22year old bay area resident, was shot to death by a bart Police Officer on new years day in 2009. A new dramatic film portrays the last day of oscars life. To you have plans for the night . Nothing major. Head out to the city. Train dont you take the out there . That way you guys can drink and hang out and not have to worry about anything. Getting over there and getting back . No traffic, either. You know it is going to be crazy going and coming back. We might take it. We will speak with firsttime filmmaker, 26yearold ryan coogler who worked as a social worker to juvenile Detention Center in San Francisco. Then, who is Dayani Cristal . A new film featuring the mexican actor gael Garcia Bernal examines the story of a migrant who died in the arizona dese
For putting it out, and this goes back to my home, the bay area. [applause] where oscar grant lived, breathed, slept, loved, fought, had fun and survived for 22 years. A dramatic film called, fruitvale, about the 2009 Police Killing of oscar grant in oakland takes top honors at the sundance film festival. Rick rowley and Jeremy Scahills found, 30 juarez wins best cinematography. The First American they had seen since americans killed half their family. They invited us in and share the most difficult time of their life with us because we promised we would do everything we could to make their story heard in america. I have to think sundance for letting us keep that promise. Todays exclusive, extended broadcast interview about running from crazy about Mariel Hemingway. I think for me who has been running from crazy my whole life to realize that is not a choice for me, even though i have had suicidal thoughts in the past, it was so clear it is not acceptable in my life. Which was a wonderf