you know, have not gotten invitations recently, mehdi, to get out to iowa. but i was happy to see the dmz finally make a change, and put south carolina first. i agree we should have a primary calendar that looks more like america, you are very bold at the time to go to iowa and talk about something other than ethanol. appreciate you, appreciate you show, have a great rest of your sunday night. thanks, mehdi. tonight, on the mehdi hasan show, a racing black history from our classrooms. ron desantis is leading the charge, but the effects will be felt across the country. when will liberals fight back? and, what we ever get any real, genuine reform of the police? i ll speak to new york congressman and squad member jamal bowman, who s himself a former victim of police violence. plus, new victims on that suspected chinese surveillance balloon, and this year it is idiocy of the responses from some republicans. good evening, welcome to the show, and congratulations
the country. when the liberals fight back? will we ever get any real genuine reform from the place? i ll speak to new york congressman and sworn member, who is himself a former police violence. and more on that surveillance balloon from china and the sheer it is sea of the response from some republicans. good evening. welcome to the show. congratulations on surviving another week in the life of our public. 70s of craziness, mainly from the republican party. mainly, i mean, no words that more true these days and the right-wing state that has become the lip artery for extremism. america s country within the country, florida, land of sunshine. and the leadership of that tropical autocrat in training, governor ron desantis. perhaps we could start calling florida america s very own mini hungary, authoritarian narcissistic bully. because in only the last seven days, mind you, ron desantis and florida republicans have managed to, on monday, introduce a bill to make it illegal to
released body cam footage of the fatal shootage, the disturbing video shows a car chase, a muzzle nash from walker s car. the foot chase from cars stopped and accidence of shots fired by police which killed walker. cnn s paolo sandeval joins me now. you were at the akron news conference when the video was released. break down this disturbing video for us. . reporter: so what this does, ripe, it essentially shows you the moments leading up to and during the shooting. we will play portions in a few moments. it is extremely upsetting. it is extremely disturbing. but law enforcement we leasing that just five days after that monday shooting, hoping that it would be adding for context to what took place here. before we roll that footage, it s important to roll out what police say initially was perceived to be a threat, which is when they tried to pull over walker, police saying that during that vehicle pursuit, they not only heard what sounded to be like gun fire but also from t
we were told that the families viewed the video or were ginn access to the video and told that it was going to be released publicly. they were so upset about the other video released. so the mayor being aware of that sensitivity wanted to give the families an opportunity to be aware of this. for him this is about trance parns sy and what we see in this body camera footage and we should warn is disturbing. the language and the footage. it really takes you inside those moments inside that school. you have a police sergeant outside the school making decisions and deploying officers unaware of what s going on and that there are children in a classroom and then seeing finally in the other video released we finally get to see chief pete arredondo who s scrutinized over the inactions in this incident. and then we also hear a radio transmission, a police operator telling a police officer late in the incident in the 12:00 hour of this incident saying a student calling 911 inside the c
lied about what happened. they pretended as though there was an officer in front of the car who nial was going to run over. none of that was true, and we can see that with our eyes because a bystander took a cell phone video, as has been often the case in high-profile killings conducted by the police, initiallies and fabrications are then met with the actual images. and really, without those images, it s hard to imagine the circumstances that would have resulted not just in the outrage that s occurred but also specifically an effort to hold this officer accountable. crystal, we know that the french president, emmanuel macron, he s canceled his trip to germany to deal with this crisis at home. he s walking a very fine tightrope. on the one hand offering sympathy, trying to be seen to be punishing the police officer, and yet on the other, there has