there s an awareness, but it s painful. look at the freedom summer when they were looking for the bodies of mickey schwerner, james cheney and andrew goodman over the 44 days the civil rights workers who were killed. they dug up so many black bodies on the way to finding their bodies dug into this earthen dam, what does that say? but the headline the thing that brings us is because of that sense of the value of the white bodies. i was thinking about that in relation to what you were saying before break, and i m glad amy brought up occupy in the earlier segment because i think about that a lot. sometimes white people being there, it s important for a sad reason. and for the reasons you guys were just talking ability, where, like i remember when my white journalist friends were getting arrested. there were a lot of people white people out who were being brutalize in occupy who were like, is this what happens to
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
missed something. but your dad did it all his life. wasn t he a lawyer from there? yeah, he was good, too. but he was much broader than just new richmond, wisconsin. he was a leader in the wisconsin bar association. he was a counsel for a major company in minneapolis. he was a hell of a good trial lawyer. exceptional. so, you re 39 years old, and you came to washington, served the six months with the eisenhower administration. who asked you to stay on and continue as first assistant to the civil rights division assistant attorney general? well, brian, nobody asked me. i just worked hard, and i tried to let people know that i liked the job. i didn t talk to newspaper people. i didn t talk to statesmen, elected officials. and robert kennedy i became a good professional friend of robert kennedy s. he was always doing very nice things for me. i understand at one time ethel kennedy invited you to go out to the house and go swimming, and you turned it down. you didn t w