The hiring process for those patrols went like this question one are you white good question 2 are you not very bright and therefore dont have an important job like scientist or doctor that might get in the way of your beating black people time good 3rd and final question do you have a gun good youre now an officer of the peace. So basically the hiring process has not changed except now the gun is provided to you but dont worry its not just racial anymore nowadays all of the working class are the oppressed professor alex vitale the author of the end of policing writes the reality is that the police exists primarily as a system for managing and even producing inequality by suppressing social movement and tightly managing the behaviors of poor and non white People Factor number 2 our Police Killed roughly a 1000 americans a year which is roughly of 1000 more people than some other countries kill per year in 26. 00 say in the guardian found that American Police murdered 1093. 00 people to
The people who i see who have not traditionally en invested in African American equality who are now invested, i think thats an important indicator to people who are in powerful places. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supporting social entrepreneurs and thr solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the drive to reform policing is accelerating tonight in the United States congress.
Minutes to add to it. Senator feinstein, senator booker, senator harris, if you would like to make Opening Statements. Is that ok . We have some people who will do some introducing to the panel. I have a short video that is tough to watch and i talked to senator booker about it the first couple minutes, but it ends up on a very positive note and we will see if we can go from really hard to watch to something that is a little bit more acceptable to the country. If you could roll the video. Is it working . Can we consider it an act of god and not air it . Could be. Well . What do we expect to see . You are expecting to see a video, but you are not. So i will just talk. E his very painful death, its about the gentleman who was jogging in georgia and got shot. And it was about the recent atlanta case. It was about two episodes of a cop pulling a woman out of a burning car and a Police Officer administering cpr to a very young, monthold infant. And it winds up with the cops and protesters t
Supreme court going to shut him down this week tomorrow they are going to say, were also making it illegal to wear suits that look like trash bags sorry, my man. President trump tweeted today about former National Security adviser john boltons new book and said, quote, wacko john boltons exceedingly tedious New York Times book is made up of lies and fake stories, said all good about me in print until the day i fired him. A disgruntled, boring fool who only wanted to go to war and never had a clue, was ostracized and happily dumped what a dope. Okay, but everyone already knew that, and then you hired him trumps like a mcdonalds manager who puts a golden retriever on the register and then gets mad about the long line it was never going to work in the new interview, former National Security adviser john bolton said, he believes that putin thinks he can play president trump, quote, like a fiddle i dont know fiddles are notoriously hard to play if anything, putin is playing trump like a dru
To war with the American People for just over a sheds now. Were more than you thought you could to us and they have been brought under the loser. Right now im to go through 16 facts about american policing that will change everything you think you know and 80 percent of the stuff you never thought you knew that others shows number one the American Police system originated from slave patrols in the early days of this country the slave patrols turned the streets of towns into surveillance routes for what was a croissant military force so from its earliest days the american model was not some wonderful holier than thou system it was a racist tactic to protect the higher class from the downtrodden and oppressed the hiring process for those patrols went like this question one are you white good question 2 are you not very bright and therefore dont have an important job like scientist or doctor that might get in the way of your beating black people time good 3rd and final question do you hav