Hosted by the American Academy of political and social science. She is the recipient of the academies 2019 Daniel Patrick moynihan prize. Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay, everybody . Im tom kecskemethy, executive director the American Academy of political and social science. It my pleasure to welcome all of you to our seventh annual Daniel Patrick moynihan lecture on social science and Public Policy. Very briefly before you move into todays proceedings, i know we all want to hear from ambassador power, were pleased to such if the last as always, happy to be joined by folks who work with senator moynihan and to be joined by members of the family who have been so supportive of this enterprise from the start. I havent seen morena yet but she may be. She will be with us at some point today. Maura is his daughter and shes been a tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I also would like to thank Sage Publications your sage in the publishing world
She is patricks daughter and tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I would like to thank sage publications. Sage in the publishing world is present eminent Publishing House and publish the title we run out of my organization. And they are the principal cosponsor of this lecture, having given just generous funding. So thank you to them. And thank you to the willard staff and to my staff at the American Academy. They have been terrific in getting all this started. We are going to have a brief time for question and answer after ambassador talk. It is going to be brief. There will only have time for several questions. And i would ask you to keep your questions to the point, do your level best not to make mini lecture of your own or position statements. Please wait for a microphone to come to you. We are very pleased to know that cspan is covering this today and we have our inhouse tech staff so wait to be able to be heard before you speak. I welco
Hi, good evening. Dr. Graham, coowner of politics prose along with my wife, Alyssa Muscatine on behalf of the entire staff, thank you so much for coming. I normally dont do this, but these are not normal times. Id like to call out somebody in the audience who has just joined us so youre not spending the whole rest of the session whispering, it really just a just as sao tome or were just a lookalike . [applause] thank you, justice for keeping hope and justice alive. A few quick administrative note, now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go be able to get to the q a session, we encourage you to come to this part of the microphone and questions you might have noticed we do have cspan here this evening and we are also videoing for own youtube channel. So in order to pick up your question on the tape, it is important that you get to the microphone. At the end, our staff would appreciate if you fold up the chairs you are sitting in and leaned them a
They owe the family this information. If this had been released within 24 hours it would have stemmed a lot of angst. When you make peaceful protest impossible, youll make rowdy protest predictable. For first time in five nights, police were not involved in heated clashes with demonstrators. We have an unarmed young man killed. Scratched an old woman. Are we perfect . No, were not. It takes someone to die in order for us to have this national discourse. This is our opportunity to show you that you can trust us. Dramatic developments out of ferguson, missouri in the last hour. Earlier today, Police Announce that Michael Brown was the primary suspect in and alleged robbery. In a press conference moments ago, Thomas Jackson said there was no connection between that alleged robbery and the confrontation that led to browns death at the hands of the law. The initial contact between the officer and mr. Brown was not related to the robbery. First, these images, Security Camera video that Polic
Illegal chokehold, the fact that there was that it was the cause of death and the medical examiner says, therefore, homicide. That, in and of itself, is probable cause for an arrest. [ applause ] the District Attorney needs to even say im going to move forward and arrest or im going to defer to the federal government, but you cannot have the facts and not address the facts. Thats where we are. Then you go on if the federal government takes it or the prosecutor does to a grand jury. But all we are interested in is justice. Dont do us no favors, but dont do us any way different than anyone else that probable cause has been established. [ applause ] now there are two issues here. I want to be real clear. Theres the criminal justice issue, justice for eric garner. Justice for eric garners family, friends, loved ones, and then theres the issue of policing to make sure this doesnt happen again. What the media is trying to do is run one past the other. I want to be real clear. We had a meetin