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as well. they seem to be very well organized on social media and pop up quickly and they are off. very well organized, indeed. very peaceful for now. loud noisy, peaceful. keyword, peaceful. cornell, you are the president, ceo of naacp. you listened to the mayor, larry hogan awhile ago. you want to react in what you heard? do you have confidence in the governor what he s doing? what i have confidence in is there seems to be we hope to be an equal emphasis on security and free expression allowing people to express the need for fundamental reform. that s encouraging. we need to be clear. this is more than one evening s rest or one night of peace. the fact of the matter is, we
the opposite. he is chapter president of naacp in memphis. they died protecting african-americans. two new york city police officers put in front of a housing development because there was too much crime against african-americans in that housing development. those men died to protect. he says the police don t protect his community. police officers brought down crime in this city and murder by 80% or 85% in the african-american community. so who are they protecting? it s a dangerous statement from an official. it s a very dangerous statement because you never know who you are effecting. now he is telling people to have guns and consider police officers terrorists? he is in a leadership position. he should not be in that leadership position. somebody from the naacp should fire him and make it clear the overwhelming majority of police
teeth, images of a ku klux klan hood. these are things that the police department there says that they are trying to fix. the fbi and justice department are monitoring the case. they are very interested to see whether this is a wider problem in the police department. one issue for the broward county state attorney s office they talked to us today, they are looking at 11 misdemeanor cases where defendants have pled guilty. now they are reviewing whether they can drop charges, whether a judge would allow them to withdraw charges. i should add that these are cases involving african-americans. this is in ft. lauderdale. correct. shocking development over there as well. thank you. let s get back to breaking news the south carolina police shooting case. we re joined by the president and ceo of naacp. thanks for joining us. i will talk to you later about what evan reported.
welcome back. still no rest today in the search for the possible person responsible for shooting two ferguson police officers this week and that incident came after the police of chief resigned because after recent justice department report that found a pattern of racial bias among the police and some civil officials. in total, six ferguson officials have resigned or been fired since that report was issued. the shooting of those officers thursday has left many wondering if the issues raised by that doj report will be lost in the headlines of that moment. let s bring in ben gelus, the former president of naacp and now a partner at capture capital and msnbc political analyst and former rnc chairman michael steele. gentlemen, good to see you both. you too. michael, the justice department scathing report detailed the bias in many of ferguson s municipal institutions. yet what was reported on this one little notice finding of the justice department report. here it is. in ferguson, a cit