Blacks could not be buried in the white cemetery, whites could not be buried in the white cemetery. Blacks could not be buried christopher putzel in the nations latest flashpoint. The Texas Community where a black woman died in police custody. Is this really the most racist county in the Lone Star State . Thank you for joining us, im joie chen. What began as a routine traffic stop devolved into a flashpoint, reigniting the debate over race and justice in america. Ground zero this time is outside houston, Waller County where an African American woman died. The circumstances are under investigation. A bitter history lies behind the allegation. America tonights christopher putzel looks at both sides of that claim. Reporter Waller County texas, a sleepy rural working class area, a short drive from houston. An area where sandra bland died in police custody. You failed to signal a lane change, do you have your drivers licence. Reporter a texas trooper signalling. An altercation ensued. Get o
This guy has 3,000 alone. He said what are you going to do with all the money . He says were going to las vegas to help my sister. Have some fun. Cash as evidence, even if theres no evidence of crime. Thanks for joining us im joie chen. Innocent until proven guilty, it is the very basis of our system of justice except when things dont work out that way. Consider civil Asset Forfeiture, it allows to seize property, they think could have been the ill gotten gains of illegal activity. It is a powerful tool that can benefit cash strapped communities but it can be abused too. Used even against those who have never even been charged with a crime. America tonights Lisa Fletcher found some calling for aned to it in september. Reporter in september of 2010 Stephen Skinner and his son were driving from chicago to las vegas, nevada. There skinner was going to help a Family Member remodel her home. He and his son also planned to do some gambling. On the way their gps accidentally redirected them t
From fiction. The slow growth of the cuban bloggos fear, and arrest warrants and publication bands, a government Corruption Scandal in malaysia. Journalists taking the fall. The past week, a controversy over migrants trying to get into britain. It dominated the newspapers. Some characterised them as undeserving leaches, a security menace and treat to national values. Its making headlines in greece, italy and germany, dealing with an influx of people making the journey, many of which are cash strapped or war torn. Mainstream news concern straits on the impact. The disproportionate way the stories are discovered. It often says mar about the political agendas doing the reporting than the story and given the climate in europe, the rise across the country. This is a story that needs to be contextualized. Terminology analysed, numbers examined and premises exposed. Our starting point is the french port city of calais. In the interests of disclosure six journalists worked on the preparation o
Impact on the surrounding environment. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im richelle carey. Nerves are rattled in bangkok this morning after another explosion hits the capital. A bomb went off at a train station earlier today. It follows the deadliest attack to the capital in years. Twenty were killed monday at a popular tourist shrine. The hunt is on to find the accused bomber seen in a Surveillance Video. We are live in bangkok. Tell us about thes man in that video and the search to find him. In the past hour or so, we heard from a thai police spokesperson. He said the man seen that in Security Camera footage, the man in the yellow shirt as he is being described is no longer simply a suspect, that he in fact is the bomber, they believe, so that essential going one step further than the comments we heard from the Prime Minister earlier in the day, who acknowledged the existence of the video, said he had seen it, that the man in it appeared to be a suspect in the bombi
Including Manchester United back in the Champion League and look ahead to the club. The worst ever attack on thailand is how the countrys Prime Minister described the blast in bangkok which killed 20 people and they released security footage of the man who could be a bomber and apparently left a scene minutes before mondays explosion and veronica is in bangkok with more. Reporter this is an evening that has capped a day of trying to clear up the mystery of who was behind the attack and indeed clear up the debris. Im about well a few hundred meters away from where the bomb went off on a balcony overlooking downtown bangkok. There is a fraction of the traffic and people that would normally be bustling in the streets on a tuesday night in this city of 12 million people. The mood has been very subdued despite the fact that there appears to have been a breakthrough as you mentioned. The picture of a possible suspect in all of this. The government is trying to play down expectations, trying