joining me is president of the global grind and political director for russell simmons and lisa bloom, legal analyst for nbc news and author. lisa, was this use of force excessive? absolutely. we ve got it right there on the videotape. i mean, think about it. eric garner accused of illegally single cigarettes. not anything that s a threat to anyone. physically. when you see the officers approach him, he has some verbal engagement with them. he puts his hands up and not akousing anyone or hitting anyone and take him down clearly in a choke hold and yelling out i can t breathe, clearly a sign of distress. if the review commission does not see that, we need new home independent unbiassed people reviewing this incident. we asked the nypd. another issue is officer in question apparently he s been sued several times over allegedly unlawful, racial
global grind, is on there as one of these precipitory network sites that said, no, we re not going to let this story get old, even though traditional media would say, hey, there s nothing more to say here. we put a space for a conversation that needed to be had in this country, and two years later, tomorrow the president will announce a major initiative, talk about political politics and what s happened, there s a lot of good that s come out of the last two years. the president will announce a initiative to lift young men of color. i wear this rose called sons and brothers, a new campaign putting up $50 million to create programs to uplift and educate young men of color to build better and healthier communities. that s what s come out of the legacy of trayvon and will continue to fight for him and jordan and all young men of color, because nobody deserves to be killed in the way they were killed. right. i know that s why you re working on this, why you ve been reporting on this. th
recent mistrial of michael dunn on the trial of first-degree murder in the case of the shooting of jordan davis, also in florida, fatally shot. that was just months after trayvon martin. we re going to turn here to our guests, editor and chief of global grind, michael, and yamiche. how do you do? doing all right. i want to start, yamiche, with your interview of sabrina mcbath and put up something she said to you, the mother of jordan davis. it s an established mindset that young black males in this country are dangerous and they are people to be feared. that s her view coming, obviously, from a very serious place. i also want to put up on the screen some research that really undergirds how shelves. in a nationally representative sample of white americans, more than 40% said many or almost all black men were violent. less than 20% said that of either black women or white men. talk to us about her feelings
for any team to bring home a trophy. last time was this 1979 with the supersonics. it is sighting being but the season is over. no, we don t. everybody does the parade thing. congratulations. i have to keep it real. i want to turn to politics. we have the largest overall of federal drug sentencing in 30 years and it s ready for a vote. the bill was introduced by dick durbin and republican mike lee. what does it do? it would redwuce plan todayer t minimums and equalize jail terms for people incarcerated under older laws that have now been changed. editor and chief of global grind
stop and frisk policy, i m joined by a cnn contributor. and the editor of global grind. i m going to give you a chance first. do you think the entire policy should be scrapped? when you look at 2011, 700,000 people were stopped, questioned and frisked. and a lot of people thought that was extreme. over the next two year, the number of people who were frisked dropped. the number was about 3,000. if you look at that 700,000 number, about half of those guys were then actually searched. i think a lot of people agreed that was a problem. and then there have been big moves made to reform it. so now, when the new mayor comes in and says we re going to change this, well, look, you ve already reduced it to 1/20th of what it was.