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What the historymaking attorney is now claiming, accusations her critics are fiercely denying here is abcs steve osunsami. Reporter essentially, you are accusing the city government, city police, and in particular the police union of a conspiracy of racism, directed to stop you dead in your tracks. I had no choice but to act for the will of the people because they want me to fight for whats right. Reporter kim gardner, the first black prosecutor ever elected in st. Louis, just dropped a bombshell. An explosive lawsuit accusing the city and the police union of a racist conspiracy aimed at stopping her from doing her job. This is not about kim gardner. This is about implementing the reforms thats needed in our community. Reporter shes brought reforms to her office that have made her enemies all across the state. But in this room, theyre calling her a hero. City and stat her. Gardner and her sister prosecutors are part of a new wave whove pledged to make the Justice System more fair to people of color. Every prosecutor here has had similar experiences to kim reporter her complaint says that local authorities have broken a federal law that dates back to the late 1800s and was meant to fight the ku klux klan. The lawsuit paints a pattern of racist conduct by some of the officers on the St Louis Police force. We have to make sure that the powerful few are not able to manipulate the system. Reporter in 2016, she won in a landslide. From the start, she says her progressive approach to criminal justice put her immediately at odds with some on the police force and in the community. I was stopped for having my lights off on Christmas Eve while i was delivering christmas cards to the post office right down the street from my office. I was stopped and held for over 15 min. Just because someone could. And you knew what it was about. We all know what its about. I dont have to say what its abt. Ple haveenhein the mail. The naked racism is too much to read here. And some even threaten her life. For example, time to go away forever. If you dont leave something will be done about you. Even if its me. They leave their addresses on the mail to make sure that i know who they are. Reporter gardners lawsuit names her employer, the city of icofficers association saying that the defendants worked against her to thwart and impede her efforts to establish equal treatment under law for all st. Louis citizens at every turn. To remove her from the position to which she was duly elected and perhaps to show her successor what happens to circuit attorneys who dare to stand up for the equal rights of racial minorities in st. Louis. The Police Officers association of saint louis is not taking any of this lightly. Make no mistake, this is the last act of a desperate woman who is simply trying to silence her critics. We will not be silenced. Reporter the cries for criminal Justice Reform in this country are now loud and have grown more impatient since the 2014 Police Shooting death of Michael Brown in ferguson. The case, just 10 miles from stn deba ovethpocing of wre gunz started ferguson, that has the conversation of the Reform Efforts that you hear and see around this country. Reporter after ferguson, gardener says that inequities of the legal and justice are just no longer acceptable. What are some of the disparities, that unfairness youre talking about that you came to office specifically to tackle . One in three africanamrican men are more likely to go into the criminal Justice System. 91 of African Americans are stopped more than any other group. More than 80 of cases and arrests are on afam men and women; people of color. So why is it that we are represented more than any other group in the criminal Justice System . Reporter as soon as she took office, she dismissed some 30 thousand cases that she said were unprosecutable, which didnt go over well with police. And the relationship wasnt helped with her handling of several officer misconduct cases. In september of 2017 when a white Police Officer was acquitted in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar smith. That officer is free. Anthony lamar smith is dead. H. Reporter st. Louis erupted into protests, and gardner tookg r an independent investigation into police misconduct. We believe that the Police Department cannot investigate th it is changing the minds of individuals who have held on to the status quo. Reporter during the unrest that followed smiths death, four st. Louis Police Officers allegedly attacked and beat a black Police Officer who was working undercover in the middle of the protesters, the officers seen here in this usa today video, were indicted on criminal charges. One of the officers has since pled guilty. Her lawsuit also points to the findings of the plainview project, a report by the nonprofit injustice watch which investigated public facebook posts from Police Officers across the country. Several of the posts by st. Louis officers suggested they looked forward to harming protesters. One read black lives splatter, another depicted a soldier dragging a civilian with the caption how to handle protesters. And many posts were racist in nature. One, written by an officer who was later fired over his social media use referred to muslims as turd goat humpers. While another suggested that march is stop blaming white people month. Several of thers involved were reprimanded or fired. Two officers were fired two were suspended for 16 days or more and four received written reprimands its not like this went uninvestigated, its not like it was ignored. Reporter gardner didnt stop there. She put many of the officers on an exclusion list, barring them from bringing cases to her office. We decided that that affected their credibility that affected our job. Reporter of all her moves, one of her most controversial was her decision to investigate former missouri governor eric greitens. Missouris governor, and a bombshell report alleging he had an extramarital affair and that he threatened the woman into silence. Reporter greitens resigned, and the charges against him were dismissed. But an investigator she hired for the case is now charged with perjury and evidence tampering and thats led to the appointment of a special prosecutor whos now investigating her office. Its all just a grand distraction is to distract from the trouble shes in and the trouble is coming. Reporter jeffrey roorda, named in gardners suit, underlined today how a judge dismissed a case that gardner brought against two Police Officers, citing several hundred instances of prosecutorial misconduct. Roorda also shares that she has to give a deposition tomorrow in that special prosecutors investigation. Gardner doesnt want to answer for her conduct. Thats what this lawsuit is about. You can believe that there are real problems with Saint Louis Police on race related issues at the same time that you can believe this is a lawsuit that should be dismissed immediately. What do you say to the prosecutors who came down to support to them today . What do you say to those prosecutors who are all black women . I say go home. Your your own cities are a disaster because youre conducting yourselves the way kim gardner is. Go home. We dont need kim gardner, we dont need you, reporter gardners supporters strongly disagree. Including boston District AttorneyRachael Rollins who joined her today. Do you relate to what shes going through at all . Absolutely. Nobody questioned the discretion of years we were speeding towards mass incarceration. Now that people that are actually from the communities that are overpoliced and overprosecuted are taking these leadership roles and are elected to do so, miraculously people have problems with our prosecutorial discretion. Reporter this is a fight they say is worth having. And we have good people on the Police Department but theyre stopped by a divisive racial undertone, undercurrent that has taken place in our city, in our Police Department, the people are tired, want change and are not backing down. Reporter our thanks to steve for that report. Up next, a new way to age with suzanne somers, because the best is yet to come. Just between us, you know whats better than mopping . Anything at the end of a long day, its the last thing i want to do. Well i switched to swiffer wet jet and its awesome. Its an allinone so its ready to go when i am. The cleaning solution actually breaks down dirt and grime. And the pad absorbs it deep inside. 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Reporter somers turned that starmaking role as chrissy snow decades go into a woman empire, becoming an infomercial queen, vegas headliner, and selfproclaimed expert on alternative medicine. She has written dozens of books on Healthy Living and aging. Her latest, a new way to age, is about getting older and feeling better than ever. When i first started writing these books, i could only find 30 doctors in the entire country who were open to and versed in. Now, there are millions. Do you feel do you feel that other people, or anybody, can achieve a high quality life as they get older . And i think we get a better version of us. No longer do we have to be the old grandma that they shove us in the corner. Reporter somers, known for her short skirts and high heels, posted this topless picture on instagram to mark her birthday. I want women to know its not over. And when you think its over, i just want them to know there are more chapters. I always say, its the little homey touches that make a home homier. Reporter somers was virtually unknown when she landed her character on threes company. And i was always really proud of that character because she had a moral code. She wouldnt take your husband or boyfriend. Shed never lie to you. Reporter the abc show became a smash hit. She spoke to Barbara Walters in 1979. Do you think of yourself sexy . Yes, my husband tells me all the time and i believe him. Reporter but somers left the show on bad terms after five seasons. She says she demanded to be paid the same as costar john ritter and was rebuffed. I was the first female who asked to be paid parity with men and i got shot down. So who Woulda Thought that chrissy snow would. Shes been be the feminist. Reporter somers was written off the show. I felt sorry for myself maybe for the first time in my life for a year. And then one day i heard a voice. I hear voices. And it said, why are you focused on what you dont have . Why dont you focus on what you do have . And then my voice in my head said, you have enormous visibility. Everybody in this country knows your name. And i thought, god, we can do something with that. Reporter so somers took her talents to las vegas. And proudly used her famous face and signature sexy looks to become a savvy marketer. I used to do aerobics till i dropped and then i found thigh master. Reporter most famously for the thigh master. The woman who once played a dumb blonde became informercial royalty. It became a phenomena. And we ended up selling over 10 million thigh masters do you think that being cast a ditzy blonde helped or hurt your career . Ha helped. Helped. She was lovable. Everybody could understand her. Men loved her. Women loved her. Reporter somers has used that playful persona to make millions. I like having a youthful hairdo. I i was you know. I was born with this hairdo. Reporter she insists her vitality, at her age, comes from a nontraditional approach to health and wellness. I was looking at one point at the present paradigm of aging. Decrepit, frail. Cancer, alzheimers, heart disease. And i thought, theres theres gotta be a better way. Reporter as she approached menopause, somers noticed she wasnt feeling like herself. When i reached that age as a woman, when i couldnt sleep, i i i itched. I didnt feel like having sex. I was, you know, in my middle 40s, and i was feeling terrible. Reporter so she turned to bioidentical hormone replacement creams, which have not been shown to be safer or more effective than more traditional synthetic hormones. Both of which have positive benefits and risks. My hair got shiny again. My nails got stronger. My skin felt like it was less wrinkled. And thats when i started really getting passionate about looking at other options. Reporter she says they keep her balanced and boost her sex drive with husband of more than 40 years alan hamel. He is also her manager. Let tk about sex. I dont know how else politely to say two times a day, is that for real . Often. You know, you wake up in the morning its not always its not always two times a day. A lotta my friends say, eh, im over that. And im thinking, and yeah, if youre in love, and and its su reporter some of what somers advocates in her books is not backed up by the mainstream medical community. Most controversially, somers decided to forgo chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with only for a lumpectomy, radiation, and a drug made from a mistletoe extract. Didnt the safe choice seem like chemotherapy at the time if you . Yes. And it shouldve probably but it didnt to me. It never felt safe. It still doesnt feel safe. Reporter chemotherapy can be a lifesaving treatment for millions of people with cancer. Chemotherapy works by killing the cancer, but it also does damage to the entire organism. Thats a fact in the world of oncology. But those have to be balanced against each other. Reporter while somers says she is now cancer free, experts warn that the course of treatment for every patient is different. There are various different types of Breast Cancer and they all behave differently. And they can behave somewhat differently in each individual person. Peri bieves she kns whathe is talking when it comes to womens bodies. You have so many loyal fans and followers. They say, if it worked for you, its gotta work for me. Do you fear that sometimes they dont do their own research . I do a lot for them. But everybody is different. Yeah. Everybodys different. All i can do is put it out there. I feel that by example, others will want what i have. I think we need to caution that being informed and being well read does not equal formal education. Reporter that is not stopping millions from buying her books. After a lifetime of highs and lows, somers insists she has a lot more living and learning to do. The message is be grateful for the highs and be grateful for the lows cause its in the lows where you learn. When youre down here and you got the blues and nothings goin your way