instituted? well, i think it s going to have devastating consequences, especially to cities like st. louis and kansas city, both of which have extraordinarily high murder rates. right now in the city of st. louis, for example, the clearance rate for murder cases is about 30%. if this law becomes or if this bill becomes law, i think you re going to have murder clearance rates in the single digits. just take a simple example. let s say a husband and wife are home alone, and the husband decides he wants to off his wife. he kills her, puts a bat next to the bed, when the police show up, he can say she came at me. what can i do? he s presumptively justified in that scenario. that s absurd, but that s where this thing is headed if this becomes law. really disturbing. tim, thank you. we appreciate it. we ll be watching this as it develops, of course. coming up, everybody, a conversation with the director of the new msnbc featured documentary, love & the constitution. a preview of that a
criminals because victims are being forgotten. harris: such an interesting point and sea important carley, what does the mayor say about black-on-black crime? is she not advocating for those victims? they don t fits a narrative. pete, quickly, take us home. pete: i think carley hit it on the head. this is a philosophy. i ll be interested to see what joe biden says, will he point to the root cause, defunding police or will he talk about things like systemic racism that the victims, perpetrators of crime are victims of a system and we re letting them out and not recognizing it perp petuates the cycle. i will be shocked if he turns into a law-and-order president, he s boxed in on that and that s tragic. harris: when the police show up, they are not looking at that, they are trying to pull you out of the way of the bullet. thank goodness. amen. harris: democratic mayor in
a broom stick handle. police show up, not knowing how to deal with a person with mental illness and fatally shooting them. 150 deaths of mental health. i want to emphasize, the ratio of black men who were unarmed compared to the white men unarmed was significantly more when you look at the population overall. 40% of unarmed deaths were black men, seven times more than white men, black men were being killed, as you found out in your great research. dashcam, body cams, cell phone videos exposed this issue and made it more prominent, exposing the fallacies of police officers where we see police officers getting charged without the age of technology, do you think we
about snowden s abrupt departure. last wednesday, police came to his home to check on his welfare, as he had not reported back to work. they found an empty house cleaned and prepped for sale. last wednesday, you re putting it on the market, police show up. tell me about that. well, they just came to the door and they asked if i knew where the former tenant was and that he was missing from work and he had a medical condition, and that was all. seemed like a missing persons type of a thing. reporter: the following day, thursday, london s guardian newspaper breaks the news of the nsa data mining program, but appears it wasn t until snowden declared himself the source of the documents that anyone knew what he was up to. now, snowden told the guardian, he told his girlfriend he was going away for two weeks and would be back and she accepted that because he had a strange job, which she knew about.
treatment as he suffered from epilepsy. he left hawaii for hong kong on may 20th. it appears no one was the wiser about snowden s abrupt departure. last wednesday, police came to his home to check on his welfare, as he had not reported back to work. they found an empty house cleaned and prepped for sale. last wednesday, putting it on the market, police show up. tell me about that? well, they just came to the door and they asked if i knew where the former tenant was, and that he was missing from work and he had a medical condition, and that was all. it just seemed like a missing persons type of a thing. reporter: the following day thursday, london s guardian newspaper leaks the news, but it wasn t until snowden declared himself the source of the documents that anyone knew what he was up to. now, there is one small inconsistency with what snowden