Afternoon to go against conventional etiquette. I want you to take out your phones yes, really do. Put them on vibrate. I want you to tweet, facebook, post, take instagram photos, share this speech with your social network. My daughter tells me this is called live tweeting. [laughter] social change, revolutions have been brought on by tweets or facebook posts. As agents of change i want you to inspire your network of friends. When you feel inspired and moved by anything that happened today. I want to thank the organization ethnic fairness in the courts, for the 25th anniversary. This is work thats going on for a long while. Four years ago i was invited as a vip guest to sit on the steps of the capitol. As many of you did here to witness the first swearing in of president obama. Any of you who are not from washington, i have seen so many old friends, we could possibly have a lunch at a time in the supermarket where we lived, and be able to stay close to one another. Day, four years ago,
And share this speech with your social network. My daughter tells me this is something called live tweeting. [laughter] i know social change and revolutions have been brought on by tweets or facebook posts. As agents of change, i want you to inspire your network of friends. And when you feel inspired and moved by anything that happened today. I want to thank the organization ethnic fairness in the courts for the 25th anniversary. This is work that has been going on for a long while. Four years ago, i was invited as a brp guest four years ago i was invited as a be i. P. To sit on the steps of the capitol and witness the first swearing in of president obama. Any of you who are not from washington, i have seen so many old friends, we could possibly have the next lunch in the supermarket and be able to stay close to one another. On that day four years ago, my mind drifted back to a hot august afternoon in i, as a 1963. Recent College Graduate from michigan state, was here with thousands of
And killed the other in a shootout before being killed himself. These mens are hero. They served this county. They served this county faithfully. Honorably. They their lives doing what they love. Jonathan david evans had two outstanding warrants for an arrest and one was assaulting a Police Officer in florida. Flags are flying at half staff across maryland in honor of the deputies. As we hear, they served in the Sheriff Department for more than a decade. Outside the southern precinct, the flags are at half staff. Black flag is draped across the entrance. Tribute for the officers who were killed. Nonstop line of strangers to deliver tribute. Mark logsdon. I met with the family yesterday with the sheriff. Reporter the cap hayne looks at what chaplain looks at what is left outside the police car. He knew both officers. Sorry for your loss. Reporter dailey had been with the department 30 years. Logsdon for 16. We lost two good men. The families lost two good men. Some deliver the tributes
May be to step back, the starting point of the conversation is to recognize that our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse and violence which we all suffer its evident in the financial crash of cost the country 22 million in the blowup in the oil spill in the environmental disaster in the nations history nations history arguably and numerous food safety crises and disasters that kill dozens routinely in the new england compound scandal in Workplace Safety and Health Issues that rise on a dalia basis and much more. We have to step back and say we dont do a very good job of dealing with these problems and one marker of that is if they persist over a long period of time we have an issue about how we set the rules for what is permissible for corporations to do when we say no you cant compare all human life and know no you cant threaten the environment. We have to make sure the rules are being followed, supervisors look at the think tank sure they are following the rule and it t
Is simply part of the landscape. And i suppose i want to spend a few moments talking about why we must resist this. Not only because we have the Fair Housing Act and the wonderful affh rule and because we all believe in integration and because we have devoted our lives, most of us, to fighting against discrimination. But because as a democracy imperati imperative. If this country is to make it, if you and i are to make it, unified, we have to get our hands around this problem of segregation. This past spring when baltimore erupted in days of unrest in the wake of the death of freddie gray in police custody,ier did a lot of media. Some of you may have seen some of it. And when i did that media, i was asked a lot of questions about baltimore. After all, i lived in Baltimore City for 20 years. I now live in Baltimore County for five years. Ive taught at university of Maryland Law School for 22 years. Im a native new yorker, i really transplanted to baltimore and took it on as my home and