Msnbcs tremaine lee is live in ferguson. It is raining where you are. Whats going on today and what are protesters believing they accomplished over the weekend . Reporter as you mentioned, you see behind me the winds are whipping up, rain is coming down and appropriately demonstrators in the water a few minutes ago. They expect this event to anchor a full day of civil disobedience across the city. Folks are, you know, still steadfast. Clergy are asking folks to stay out for at least four hours, the time Michael Browns body laid out in the street. Are the protesters articulating a set of distinct demandses . We know people have been calling for the arrest of Darren Wilson. There is this grand jury process taking place. Are there specific demands beyond that protesters are making . Reporter their demands encapsulate just that. Justice for supporters of Michael Browns family and Michael Browns family itself would be an arrest of Darren Wilson. Now, i spoke with Michael Browns father yeste
Change before, but now how best to bridge. Lets dig into this with malika and at the table in new york, were lucky to have dr. Maria haberfeld, law forever at jon jay college. Welcome to both you. Thank you. I want to started with you, malik, on something the president decided not to do, which is make major changes to the program where local Police Departments are supplied with military style equipment. I wondered if you could make the case for why local Police Departments might need that type of weaponry. Has there been a specific situation where its been used and been required . What i can tell you, day in and day out, Police Departments use Armored Vehicles in barricade person situation or very hazardous situations in order to protect the lives of those officers who are answering those calls. I use a very specific example. Around 1997 there was a shootout in los angeles and the police didnt even have weaponry. It said, why dont police have the right type of weapons . Lets arm them w
Around a mans neck until he dies. So folks are clearly incensed. There will be more around the death of eric garner. Gerngs a lot of focus will also be around some of the local policy issues. Remember, this began with Police Officers stopping eric garner for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. So, again, in talking with folks who have been following this case, who care about this case, this is the beginning of something much bigger. Trymaine lee, thank you. Were joined by New York Times writer clay, also the author of the bill of the century. You look at this case, and weve been following it for a while and people got a refresher in the ferguson grand jury. This was not about whether the officer was guilty or not. We havent even gotten near that question. The question before the grand jury, the question was, is there evidence here to say there was probably maybe a crime committed that would merit a full trial. The video alone combined with the homicide report for the medical examiner lo
Officials were talking to say this is a tragedy, the death of the two hostages that was apparently unavoidable. After all, the al qaeda there in yemen had threatened in a videotape to kill the american luke somers by the end of the day saturday, so, there was a there was a real urgency to try to rescue him. And they tell us also, they were unaware that the South African Pierre Korkie was there as well. They knew there was another hostage there, but they didnt know it was korkie. This leads to the tragedy. Because korkies caregive organization out of south africa had actually negotiated his relief by paying a 200,000 ransom that was to occur the very next morning. But they were sworn to secrecy. They could not tell the u. S. Military that korkie was there and that that swap had been arranged. And the u. S. Military couldnt inform anybody of their operations for fear that it would be compromised. So, it was, you know, unfortunately once things got rolling, it appeared to be tragic and so
The National Lead new autopsy findings just released in the death of sandra bland. They are consistent with suicide, as the jail under investigation for her death says she tried to kill herself before. But now another inmate is talking to cnn about what happened. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Were going to take a listen to dont trump speaking live at the texas mexico border. Go ahead. [ inaudible ] yeah. Born in the United States voting age right. What you say that no no no were talking about illegal immigration, and everybody understands that. You know what . Wait thats a typical case of the press with misinterpretation. They take a [ applause ] they take a half a sentence by the way, they take half a sent a quarter of a sentence and put it all together. Its a typical thing, and telemundo should be ashamed. I tell you something, whats really going to be fun . Im right now suing univision for 500 million. Were going to win a lot of money because of what they did. I wan