Thank you and welcome everyone. I am very honored to be here. I also want to recognize Fred Hamptons mother who was here tonight. [applause] and also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. I want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in th
This is overheard. audience applauding deray mckesson, welcome. Its good to be here. Thank you very much for being here. So, we sit here today on january the 13th, one week from the Trump Presidency beginning officially. How are you feeling . You know, it is sad in so many ways, and so much of the energy of the next four years will be spent withstanding an administration and trying to maintain the progress that we have made so far. Im hopeful that over the next four years that we dont lose our sense of promise and hope whene think about what resistance looks like. In my profession, the journalism business, the saying that has become commonplace is, give him a chance, but hold him accountable. Are you prepared to give him a chance . I dont know what a chance looks like when he is so openly racist and bigoted and islamophobic. I dont know what giving him a chance looks like. I do know that there are people who are ready to hold him accountable and ready to withstand the administration an
This was as the protest was coming to an end. We know that one of those officers was shot in the face the other shot in the shoulder. Both of those men recovering at home but they have been working to find out who did the shooting. So theres about to be a press conference from st. Louis county police where theyre going to give us more information. Is well have more information coming up. Just being notified via twitter from the st. Louis county Police Department that an arrest has been made and very few details even of that arrest . Reporter right now were waiting to find out more in this press conference anything about who this person might be and how they were able to track him down and get a hold of him. It looks like this arrest happened overnight and theyre going to the give us some details today. I went to bring in legal analyst testimony fuentes tom fuentes. How was this arrest made . We knew from the beginning that they held their information very close as far as what they knew
Police gave us stills. It is not clear in the context of what happened and we feel one doesnt necessary ly justify the other and what subpoena the connection between alleged robbery and the shooting death of Michael Brown. I spoke to a lawyer of the witness who was with Michael Brown when he was shot and with him in a Convenient Store not long before. He said, indeed, Michael Brown did steal a pack of mini cigars but there was no strong arm there. Even though it is limited, what connection is there, if any . Thank you so much. Thank you so much you are doing incredible reporting out there inning for son for us. With the uproar surrounding the Police Shooting and new images of Michael Brown in the Convenient Store one move has helped to calm tensions the appointment of Highway Patrol captain ron johnson who marched with protesters last night. We heard from the captain who grew up in ferguson a short time ago. The first thing i did, before i came up and got a briefing from the officers a
Did pick someone other than Jeff Sessions. Hee conveniently ignored, though, trey gowdys other Statement Last night. President trump himself, in the comey memos said, if anyone connected with my campaign was working with russia, i want you to investigate it. And it sounds to me like that is exactly what the fbi did. A reminder, he has still offered no evidence the fbi spied on his campaign. Donald trump has not. But back to Jeff Sessions. The New York Times has the details of another controversy in the trump versus sessions sa saga. A march 2017 battle over trumps recusal from the trump investigation. Mr. Trump had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inventory berated mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision. Sessions did not. This episode is being eyed by none other than robert mueller. It should not come as a surprise that the president does not want sessions as his ag, after all, he said out loud that he wants an attorney general who will protect him,