mr. mayor. how do you respond to that? well, we re very fortunate we have a terrific police department. we have some very high standards. we require a college degree or similar before an individual will be considered to be a tulsa police officer. the gentleman that s having the problem, the deputy reserve, he was a tulsa police officer, but i believe only for about one year and that was 30 or 40 years ago, and i believe it was before those standards were raised. so do you think it would be worth re-examining the use because i know not every city in this country uses reserve officers reserve deputies at sheriff s departments. should that be reconsidered? well we do use reserve officers but we do not use them in the way that the sheriff s department has done in this particular instance. we use them mainly for crowd control, for parking situations working concerts traffic
that has stepped up not only with his time, but his benevolence. there s nothing sinister about that. clark brewster i appreciate it very much. we ll follow through what happens to your client charged with second-degree manslaughter. meantime violent encounters with lrs are being caught on camera again and again across this country. now the unwelcome spotlight this time around is falling on tulsa. joining me now, mayor dewey bartlett. mr. mayor, good evening. good evening, how are you? i m doing okay. my question would be how are you doing? let s talk about tulsa and and let s talk specifically about, i m curious if you ve had a chance to meet with eric harris s family yet. no i have not. and i would like to clarify one thing just to make certain, of course this whole situation unfortunately unfolded with the tulsa county sheriff s department. i m mayor of the city of tulsa. we have a city police department and they re not associated in
plenty of reasons why holiday shopper s attention and their wallets should be shifted away from big chain stores and towards mom and pop shops in their area. joining me now is the mayor of tulsa, oklahoma, mayor dewey bartlett. what is tulsa doing to get ready for small business saturday? what we re doing is having a lot of local promotions, from our claim ber as well as from our city government. what we are trying to do is very specifically. in our downtown area, we are opening up buildings that have specialized shops inside the building in larger areas where they have an opportunity, because of one bit of advertising that brings people in the door. they can see a variety of shops in one building. it s sort of like having a mall in the downtown area. mayor, for a lot of people that want to support small business but they want to do one-stop shopping at a big box store, it is a little bit cheaper at a big box store.
revitalizing the economy. american express open is here to help. that s why we are proud to present your business on msnbc. hi, there, everyone. i m j.j. ramberg. welcome to a very special edition of your business. it comes in between black friday and cybermonday. this year, small business saturday is november 24th. it is a day people are urged to shop local and is support their communities. we are coming from maplewood, new jersey. a storm-battered state where small businesses need customers more than ever. across the country in burbank, california, the shop local movement has taken off in a big way. in the magnolia park section of that city, local retailers have banded together to revitalize not only sales but also their neighborhood. it is the last friday of the month in the magnolia park section of burbank, california. normally, the stores would be closing and streets would be quiet but the creative small business owners here have figured out a low cost way of bri
and blank. it s hard not to go off between that and sharon, i ve gone in the red, rip dad and sharon, i love and miss you. i think about both of you every second of the day. sharon was a reference to england s 24-year-old fiance, sharon hart wild, who had recently committed suicide in front of him, leaving behind their 6-month-old daughter. we re joined by tulsa mayor dewey bartlett and tulsa police chief chuck jordan. chief i want to ask you first what do we know about a motive? we have the facebook postings which certainly are leading investigators in the direction of a hate crime but what do we know about motive here? well that s not something we can really discuss at this time. obviously we re going to give all that information to the prosecuting authority, our district attorney, and hopefully our reports will be complete and we ll have complete motive for him to work with. can you tell us, chief, a little bit about the relationship or association between england and