family, officer slager was fired and charged with murder. the justice department and state authorities on working on the case. yesterday an overflow crowd of mourners gathered at a south carolina church to pay their final respects at walter scott s funeral. now, as we await the outcome of the investigation and the movement to end police violence adds another name to the list of the fallen. the discrepancies between the police narrative and the video of scott s death open up this question, not only about the value of black lives but also about how we are to value the police account of how those lives ended. joining me is khalil mohammed director of the shom brook center for research. neera tanden and msnbc contributor robert traynham. khalil, this officer lied, not
latest tweet is still from april 8th about the death of walter scott in south carolina. probably any second today may be the day for the big news. come on. this is something we ve all been expecting for months, even years. former first lady, former secretary of state hillary clinton is expected to make a big announcement on twitter any minute now. unless you re about to drop her secret new album with a secret track by jay z, nobody will be caught off guard by what she has to say. secretary clinton has clearly been mounting a campaign for the presidency of the united states for some time now. the 2016 campaign feels like it s been in the works since the day after president obama s re-election in november 2012. sharp political observers could not miss the beginning stages of the campaign structure this past february as counselor to the president john pa des that and communications director jen pab airy left their jobs in the white house to work presumably for the technically no
melissa. do you have a sense if there is we re looking at folks behind you. it looks obviously, funerals are somber, but do you have a sense of tension at this point or is it really just about gathering and mourning at this point? mostly mourning. the mayor just arrived. the police commissioner arrived before him. just a lot of hugs a lot of emotion, a lot of tears. melissa. thank you to adam reiss. i want to bring in here in new york my panel. khalil mohammed director of the shaun brg center. amy goodman, host of democracy now. mayor in pennsylvania and blair kelley. also joining us from columbia south carolina is marcus claxton, director of the black law enforcement alliance and a retired nypd detective. i want to start with you, officer claxton, because obviously, all funerals are intensely personal and there s
conversations about what s going on in white america and its position towards authorities and government in particular. i want to see think pieces on like what is the message behind country music that these men who will go and, you know it s one of those things where it s so sad what happened to these cops. and i m glad that there is an outrage over it but i m heart heartbroken that the outrage pales in comparison to what happened to eric gardner or it s okay for the police to protest de blasio but it s not okay for people to protest for temere rice. khalil is going to be back the rest of the panel is sticking around. mourners are gathering for the funeral of detective wenjian liu. we ll have a live report later in the show. up next the artist as activist nicky meknowledge and macklemore on the cost of speaking out and the lesson of kanye west.
american immigrant and a newlywed. liu joined the nypd seven years ago after serving for years as an auxiliary police officer. liu s father said his son had dedicated himself to becoming an officer right after the 9/11 terrorist attacks which took the lives of 22 members of the nypd. he will be laid to rest today. all funerals are emotional, but police funerals are especially so. the sea of officers in dress uniform standing there in their own vulnerability expressing solidarity with someone most of them have never even met. it can be raw and deeply sad. of course we know that this particular police funeral is happening in the context of an ongoing national conversation and frankly, a critique about the practices of local police forces throughout the country, including the nypd. as part of that conversation, i thought it might be worth talking about the history of policing in america. because it didn t always look as it does today. law and order was kept by part-time constabl