attempting to do, she wasn t dealing with any scientific factor some other kind of theory. she was just trying to snatch i think what you re saying is not so much that you re devaluing the role of motherhood but, rather, there are other factors at play here and that s not just get caught up on what mom was doing. exactly. see, here s the thing. you can t fight violence with more violence. you can t fight oppression with more oppression. you know, i hear a lot of talk about how this mother s actions were about keeping him safe. but the irony is all week long we ve been hearing calls from, you know, the president, from city officials, from activists, from clergy saying stop the violence, stop the violence. but then we see this clip of a mother wailing on her son and we applaud it. and the violence is the hitting a child is not going to save them from being beaten by the police or killed or even from jail. the statistics and the names of the dead bear this out. what would you sa
you know, one of the things that i found very striking in the film were the number of families, and it sounds like additional children, who had no idea of their rights and didn t have lawyers. we have a little sound i want to play and talk about that a little bit. sure. a woman slid a paper, a form, but it was blank. she said, do you have an attorney? i said, no. she said, sign here. okay. so i sign here. we were briskly brought into the courtroom. the judge leaned across the table and yelled, what makes you think you can do this kind of crap? i had my hand on hillary s shoulder, so i could feel her backing up. i just whispered in her ear, it s okay. things went very quick in the courtroom. about 60 seconds. while i was being handcuffed, i could hear my mother wailing right next to me. the woman who was cuffing me goes, look what you did to your mother. i was just, like i was