sentencing laws coming from this. chuck grassly recently said he is open to changing federal minimum sentencing requirement. these policies get dubbed racist because they affect black and hispanic men much more and contributed to the disproportion of the high prison population. at the national press club this week he said he would be in fact open to changing the policies. so we are watching the violence destruction and ugliness in maryland it is important to remember there is room for reform and serious conversations going on. let s hope the police and national guard can get a handle on things. betsy and michael, thank you.
and obviously more has to be done. i think you have to have one standing. first of all, the police that brought in freddie gray did not know his arrest record. they didn t even have a charge on him. there is he should have been arrested. but we live in new york where you had the mob. we ve never seen mobsters who were supposed to run organized crime treated in the way we ve seen civilians treated. so at some level police are dealing with high crime area but another level, they deal with criminals another way. you have to have one standard for every. reality is you have a disproportion nat amount of crime in communities of color. therefore you have more police in those areas and more police contacts. that s where problems a rise. and i think we have to also address that disproportion
number of blows delivered, manner and degree of the force, the nature of the weapon the fact that a handgun was used the disproportion between means to cause death and those employed and this refers to whether means were excessive or out of proportion to kill a person. that s a strange concept. any combination of those things rises to the level of extreme cruelty or atrocity and even without an eyewitness this jury found that this murder falls into that category. i was just thinking about the family giving witness impact statements. i think there is i would have the sense that i would speak for odin lloyd and look at aaron hernandez and tell him how he s affected not only odin lloyd s family but how could you do that? i mean there has to be different jurisdictions are different. in some jurisdictions you can talk straight to this convicted murderer of what they did to your loved one and in other jurisdictions you have to speak directly to the court, to the
if black people are dying in the street and white people aren t, it s a race issue. there s not a disproportion dying in the streets. yes, there are. this goes beyond just, we re talking about police brutality, you mentioned, tafis was on last night. he said, blatant disrespect for black life on obama s watch. what will it take for him to step into this moment. he and i had a heated debate last night. it was very heated. listen to it. the president goes on b.e.t. to once again to some extent lecture black folks. i frankly don t fancy that. i m just saying, step into your moment and provide the kind of moral leadership, not a one off here and there on b.e.t. or colbert. provide the kind of conversation, the kind of
disproportion at to somebody pleading guilty to bullying. this strikes me as rather minor. reporter: the company who owned the articles asked federal prosecutors to dro p the charges but the prosecutor wanted to send aaron to prison. on january 11th, 2013, aaron schwartz took his own life. he was 26 years old. the revolution was a struggle for the creation of america. the civil war was a struggle for the preservation of america. world war ii was a struggle for the protection of america. our struggle is for the restoration of america. president reagan once said ours is the only national anthem that