We are thrilled to have you all here tonight. We would like to think we are more than a bookstore. We love having author signings and readings and we ask if you dont write anything, please think of us in the future when you need your next great read for for the upcoming holiday season. We will have a q a session in about 15 minutes. If you have a question, make sure you get the microphone from cspan before you asked the question. Mehrsa baradaran appeared Mehrsa Baradaran turned the law faculty in fall 2012. She currently serves as an associate professor. She previously taught regulation, socrates administered a blood Brigham Young university. During her time she was into one professor at the year year by the student bar association. Baradaran how the other half banks has been featured in the new york times, the atlantic, american banker and other national and International News and radio outlets. Previously, baradaran was a fellow at the New York University school of law and practiced
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But nothing is free in this world. Somebody will always say and usually we the people bp the doctors were paid so little by the government that they would not look at you unless you bribe them so you end up paying more. One of my first memories as a child was holding the hand of a dying man. And my grandmother crying saying that nothing more we could do for him. Just help him die. I can still feel his hand getting cold and stiff in my hand. And i remember thinking, how quickly it happened. If rs and the look of death in his eyes is still haunting me. All you needed was a simple surgery, which here in america is an outpatient surgery. There, he wasnt worth saving because he was too old and he in his 60s. The communists also hated excellence. And success. They wanted everyone to be equally poor, because it was easier to control people that way. And what they were doing they are taking away peoples dignity. Because the message was, well, youre not good enough to take care of yourself. I h
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is craig floyd, and i would like to welcome you to to the new series called conversations on Law Enforcement. The series focuses on topical Law Enforcement issues on the minds of many. Tonights conversation is entitled when police shoot a dialogue on the use of force. We are proud to be jointly hosting tonights event with a new and longterm partner, the Memorial Foundation, builders of the magnificent Martin Luther king, jr. Memorial. I want to begin by thanking our event sponsor, the target corporation, which has been one of our top supporters over many, many years. Several of targets officials have traveled from their headquarters in minneapolis to be with us tonight and we are very grateful. They are deeply committed to supporting safe communities across the United States and tonights discussion is intended to help foster their very important goal. For those of you not familiar with our association, the national Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund he