dna was on the gun, what the judge said, saying he would be in anomaly that a heroin dealer would not have a gun. what do you make of those circumstances? well, it was the second time that i ve heard someone on your show tonight applaud the st. louis police department at being good at handling riots and they re better at their jobs when it comes to handling protestors in the streets and riots. my advice to the police department and many others is to stop killing black people and you won t have instances like this. what we saw was a miscarriage of justice. what we saw was a tragedy. and i think dr. martin luther king, jr. said it best. you can condemn the riots but you have to condemn the underlying conditions that led to them. i know mark s on the show with us tonight and we can go tit for tat about what the judge said and didn t say. what we know is that the only
really means is black. urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly. you have to read between the lines. essentially the judge is saying a black man in a car that allegedly just engaged in a drug deal must have a gun. mark, does it surprise you we are still at this point and why when it comes to the headlines when you hear these names and it doesn t have the same kind of familiarity as the others, to some? one, i think it is very clear at this point that there has been no substantive movement towards improving or correcting that which is wrong. and until the voices of the people, those people who are actually impacted directly by bad policing, bad criminal justice, bad prosecutions, until those voices are respected and listened to, and given the opportunity to have some input on changing the system, this will continue to happen time and time again. and regardless of the efforts that have been made and
grab me so i wouldn t do anything. thanks for cleaning up when we were talking to you. good luck tonight. be safe. there is one opinion. a lot of people, of course, who were out here feel justice wasn t served. if you look through the judge s order he believes there was not an indication that the gun was planted in thinksca. he believes justified use of force. reasonable assumption of this police officer when dealing with urban heroin dealer to assume that he would be armed at the time. all in the judges order. and that s a big part now you are stepping forward. do you want to talk. do you feel there was justice. first things first no, i don t. first things first, let s just get this out of the way. you mean to tell me that it s a complete video, a video of the dude shooting him. not only shooting him, not even with a police issued weapon? the question is not whether he shot him. the question is whether it s justified. it s not justified. why. it s premeditated. it s pr
is mind numbingly repetitious to suggest that black people simply can t get justice in the courts of america. that prosecutors will hardly bring a case. and when they do, the charges hardly stick. whether it s a jury, as in many cases, or an individual judge. look at some of the troubling language that that judge used. an urban heroin dealer. likely to have had a gun. all of the bias and bigotry and the stereotypes and collective beliefs about black people coming to a head and that judge s decision and then this policeman getting off scott free. it repeats a pattern. what we have to do is continue to underscore the fact that in ferguson in missouri in st. louis, more particularly, is manifest all the problems of this culture and as they continue to confront them, the rest of us as a nation not only look on but trying to wage war with them against some of the incense taste against black life and to protect black life when it comes to the court system of
thanks for cleaning up when we were talking to you. good luck tonight. be safe. there is one opinion. a lot of people, of course, who were out here feel justice wasn t served. if you look through the judge s order, he believes there was not an indication that the gun was planted in this case. he believes justified use of force. reasonable assumption of this police officer when dealing with urban heroin dealer to assume that he would be armed at the time. all in the judges order. and that s a big part now you are stepping forward. do you want to talk? do you feel there was justice? first things first no, i don t. first things first, let s just get this out of the way. you mean to tell me that it s a complete video, a video of the dude shooting him. not only shooting him, not even with a police issued weapon? the question is not whether he shot him. the question is whether it s justified. it s not justified. why. it s premeditated. it s premeditated. you came after him