Speech from texas across the florida up to Southern Maryland, we couldnt use a public toilet, we couldnt room in holiday inn, we couldnt buy ice cream at howard johnsons. They said our money was counterfeited. Against those odds, marion volunteered to be an unarmed soldier in the army for justice. He was not killed, but there are the wounds every soldier is a wounded soldier. When the war was over, the unarmed soldier had won the war. Today the falcons can play the panthers. He helped to make the south investment worthy and attractive. [inaudible] state legislators and the congress. No southern governor or senator has his or her name on that new south, marion was one of the architects of the new south and the new america. The little rock nine led by ernie green, the greensboro four [inaudible] led by martin king. Ralph abernathy, fred shuttles worth, Julius Hobson, hilda mason [inaudible] stokely carmichael, barr nerd Lafayette Bernard lafayette, walter [inaudible] wyatt t. Walker, sut
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is craig floyd, and i would like to welcome you to to the new series called conversations on Law Enforcement. The series focuses on topical Law Enforcement issues on the minds of many. Tonights conversation is entitled when police shoot a dialogue on the use of force. We are proud to be jointly hosting tonights event with a new and longterm partner, the Memorial Foundation, builders of the magnificent Martin Luther king, jr. Memorial. I want to begin by thanking our event sponsor, the target corporation, which has been one of our top supporters over many, many years. Several of targets officials have traveled from their headquarters in minneapolis to be with us tonight and we are very grateful. They are deeply committed to supporting safe communities across the United States and tonights discussion is intended to help foster their very important goal. For those of you not familiar with our association, the national Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund he
He had a great clip in promoting the president s participation in the show on monday. He said he was traveling to washington and he was hoping to book his favorite 1990s alternative band, the president s of the United States of america. Been aid there had mistake and he booked the actual president of the United States of america. It was for a clever. Very clever. [inaudible] i dont know. [inaudible] why the change of heart . Change you can believe in, right . [laughter] on tuesday the president will deliver an event for the Senior Executive service at the washington hilton. The Senior Executive service is comprised of federal workers. , urginge, Tennessee Congress to pass a comprehensive bill to get the job done. Wednesday, the president will host a white house summit on early education. The summit will convene prominent business leaders, philanthropists, elected officials and members of the public committed to the expansion of highquality Early Childhood Education Opportunities for ch
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Solution. If we do, we continue to talk about them as opposed to continuing to talk with them. Apt so i hope that we take that as one of the solutions. Thank you, gentlemen, so much for your insight. [applause] and id like to say thank you to both of the organizes that been involved to come together to pake this panel a reality the Memorial Foundation as well as the Law Enforcement museum Law Enforcement museum it is foundation. I didnt want to put foundation because i was going to say yall need to give them money. I thought you would agree with that. But these organizations do need to be supported and i appreciate the fact that they have come together because there are many people that want to have this discussion but dont want to bring people together that arent normally involved in the discussion, and so we should continue to support that. Hopefully we can make this digital goal on the road and be involved in part of the discussion that has the exclusions all solutions all over the