thank you, jim. its been a relatively quiet night in ferguson as hundreds of national guard troops patrol the streets. demonstrators called for change. abc s reporter reports. reporter: all of this in the name of michael brown, a growing protest nationwide against police profiling. we need more people. reporter: in st. louis, they stormed city hall. get up. this is an unlawful awesome bli, you are being ordered to disperse on the areas. reporter: the ords of darren wilson haven t kaunled the debate calmed the debate one bit. in this exclusive interview with george, the one person everyone wanted to hear from in this case on what he would say to brown s family. you know, i m sorry that their son lost their life. it wasn t the intention of that day. it s what occurred that day.
mayor bloomberg s veto of the law adding protections against police profiling. not a surprise that the so-called bill de blasio surged to lead over christine quinn and bill thompson leading up to tuesday s democratic primary. joining us are allentown mayor ed pawlowski, bob franken and farai. i m the only mayor at the table. you re seeking higher office, seeking to be governor. in both cases, being a mayor of a diverse state, how do you governor for all the people? i think it s a very good question. you know, allentown i think is pretty much a melting pot like a lot of other cities are. 50% minority population, 40% latino, 12% african-american, large syrian population, turkish, indian population,
least you ll listen to george bush. right. one of the things i want to think about here is the extent to which this has come back into our conversation around the zimmerman case. but i feel like, for example, when the president stood and talked about his experiences of personal profiling that maybe we started to lose the conversation has typically been about structural, institutional, and police profiling. right, right. i mean, human rights watch back in 2000 was talking about this. they looked at seven states across the country that actually had these 80% to 90% numbers. decade before that, we had studies in new york, they were looking at it and showing how rikers island and prisons across new york, it was the same seven neighborhoods. so yeah, we need to think about systemic and structural issues because it s not something band-aids on cancer can fix. we need to look at how to look at this and correct the last 30 to 40 years of tough on crime and drug war rhetoric and policy th
congressman conyers reintroducing the end racial profiling act for the 12th year. 12 years. nothing. joining us now is activist brion bain. he was wrongfully arrested, nypd in 1989, while studying at harvard law school. today he s dedicated to helping reform the so-called prison industrial complex. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. so first of all, george w. bush with that statement who else do you need, right? you know? you going to listen to me, at least you ll listen to george bush. right. one of the things i want to think about here is the extent to which this has come back into our conversation around the zimmerman case. but i feel like, for example, when the president stood and talked about his experiences of personal profiling that maybe we started to lose the conversation has typically been about structural, institutional, and police profiling.
we saw a lot of it in the tea party, the president being called a liar in the well of the house of representatives. and look, lawrence, the truth is in the ugly history of this country it used to be that any civilian, any white civilian could police the presence of any black person out on the street, young, old, child, old man. they could ask him what are you doing here, make you cross the street, find out what you re doing? in the case of emmett till, drag you off and lynch you just for looking at a white person wrong. black people have been policed by civilian whites for a very long time. we thought that was behind us. and the primary concern that reverend sharpton and others have been looking at has been police profiling and saying, well, now police can look at you as suspect and can even in some cases shoot you because oh, it looked like he went for his wallet, it looked like he was going for his waistband, i thought maybe he had a gun. so we sort of trained ourselves to think that