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>> what's her name? how do i explain to my three-year-old what his death has done to me? how do i spline to my three-year-old another black man w wa s killed by police? ♪ [music] summer of 2020. america's reckoning. let's be clear, this is not our first reckoning on policing. this is far from the first time we seen police battling u.s. citizens in the streets. like a spider man movie, this is just another reboot. it's just that more of us are paying attention this time. ♪ >> and it's also not the first time we tried to figure out what exactly is wrong with policing in america. in 1976, judlyndon johnson's administration formed the kerner commission to find out why this was keeps happening. the mostly white and mostly male commission's conclusion was frightingly simple, racism and white supremacy were the blame. now what did we, the u.s. do with this revelation, well, what we always seem to do, we doubled down. more police, more guns, more training, more dead black, brown, and indigenous folks. and more this. as you can already see, parts of this show will be graphic and hard to watch. but, i really feel like with this episode it's important to show what's going on out here. and we've tried to do that with respect to the victims and their families. so, welcome to oakland, california. the town, by adopted home that i hope adopts me back. where the conversation around america's need for fundamental structural change is always in full swing. a part of what's locally known as town business. and while it may be new to many of you, around here, there's long been a call to, wait for it, defund the police. >> the fight that we had here set the tone and tenor for the next 10 years. >> my friend cat brooks is a poet, tour defours and hopefully the next mayor of oakland and the co--founder of the anti-police terror project. not anti-police, but the anti-police terre yore. it scared me at first time i heard it name too. i mean, i think that the thing thaw that's important to remember about oak land is that it's the birth place of black panther party. and something that i think people outside of oak land even some people inside of oakland don't realize is that the panther party was formed to fight police violence and that lays, i think the foundation for every single movement that we've seen in oakland since. i think that we've gotten to a place where where people agree that police terrorism is wrong. i think that most people who will actually admit that it's happening are clear that unarmed men, children, women, and people should not be shot in the back. >> oscar grant was one of those unarmed people. his killing by a bay area transit cop kick-started a whole new generation of activism. a human rights organizers and a cart naturer for a.p.t.p. to find ways to communicate across that gap. and we chose the path of defund because the economics support our position overwhelmingly. >> okay. let's tick into defund the police. pay attention. first thing, defund does not mean an immediate end to police. second thing and there's a spectrum here, on the one end, there's reform, way on the other end, there's abolition. and even proponents of abolition recognizes there's no immediate end to police. >> we're not going to go from okay, today, we have 600 officers at the oakland police department, to zero. i believe in radical reform on abolition. like, what are the reform that is we could make that chip away at the current system. here in the city of oakland, the oakland police department gets almost half of your general fund. and when you look oakland in particular, we remain a top deadliest city in the country year after year. so, oakland, what are we paying for? we're saying defund, but we're really talking about refunding our communities. >> americans are the most funding defunders of funds stuff. hell, we closed hospitals during the pandemic. defunders say, cops do too many jobs and some wish they don't do it well or safely. one basic theory of defund and there are more than a few says wait a minute, why don't we take some of that money back and give it to people, who, you know, are qualified to deal with these issues. and at the same time why don't we put money back into the system to have long-term sustainability and build an economy for the people. that's defund, 101. >> we're giving 50% of our budget to one department failing across the board and killing people as they did so, we would defund them immediately. defund the police means we're taking money away from a system that's failing and investing in other system that is we think will succeed. it strips that away and says look at the numbers. >> i just think of my dad, he's a numbers guy. anti-racist accounts will save us. >> i know to many of you, defund is foreign, confusing or even offensive. to others, it's an idea whose time has come. that's because we live in two separate realities in america. why? because racism. and in policing, racism is not a bug, it's a feature. from the very beginning, policing was designed specifically to keep black people in check. not black criminals, black people. don't believe me? i brought back up. most people just kind of think police have always been here, it's just the way society works. >> when he we talk about that, we go back to the founding documents of policing. professor people still site it's emphasis on the relationship between policing and the public. and, what the folks don't understand is at the time that the principals were published, the public did not include black people. so, the policing that black people and enslaved black people was subject to, that was d dictated by the other document, published in 1661, and that was the document that was basically copies and pasted into the c colonies and. >> at what point does america start to look at policing and go, whoops? >> so, you see this in the early part of the 20th century, and you see this certainly with the concerner report. >> in 1968, kerner was a political atom bomb and a best seller it exposed the police as the tip of america's racist spear. but pointed at racism was the point of that spear. >> white people are complicit in the structural conditions that people were rebelling dense against. >> so, the kerner report comes out and they dismantle policing and it's great after that. >> don't get me started. these are not black radicals, so what comes next must have been a revolution and transformation. that's not what happened, but, you did see a fundamental transformation over the next 50 years of policing. >> but, not the way they thought, right? >> we saw the militarization of the police. we saw the rise of the warrior cop and that is happening as the decades march on. we get to the war on drugs. we get to the war on violence. we get to the war on terror, and policing is adapting each moment. so, what we have now is the most professional, most well-armed, most well-trained police department that we've had in our nation's history. and yet, the fundamental problems have not gone away. >> that's, yes, whatever policing is in america, it has put a bunch of us in a state of like, permanent ptsd. >> it's not whether this is a good cop or a bad apple but it's about the institution of policing that some people think of it as a way of distributes safety, and others see it as a mechanicism which distributes violence. and innovative ways to make your e-tron your own. violence. all the exhilaration, none of the compromise. the audi e-tron family. progress that moves you. every day, more dog people are deciding it's time for a fresh approach to pet food. developed with vets. made from real meat and veggies. portioned for your dog. and delivered right to your door. it's smarter, healthier pet food. we're carvana the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100 percent online now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car whether it's a year old, or a few years old we want to buy your car so go to carvana enter your license plate answer a few questions and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds when you're ready we'll come to you pay you on the spot and pick up your car that's it so ditch the old way of selling your car and say hello to the new way at carvana the pepperoni on panera's new toasted baguette. is sliced a little thicker. to hold more flavor. so when fresh mozzarella melts over it... that detail... will be big. try the new toasted baguettes from panera. one dollar delivery fee on our app. >> while it's all well and good to talk about prisolicing, actim and defunding here, the story is way different. the city of vaellejo is built around the docks, just like oakland. but, unlike oakland, that industry abandoned vellejo in the '90s, leaving the city with broken economy and dubious distinction of having the deadliest police force in northern california and in case your just joining us, that's saying a lot. >> i came to vellejo because i felt that people weren't being heard. >> otis taylor is a journalist who has spent his last three years documenting police violence in vellejo, california. >> it was 2017, there was a viral video of police violence against black man. the officer unholstered his gun and pointed it at bystanders. why is this acceptable behavior for a person filming police violence to be threatened by an officer with a gun. that brought me up here. and once i got up here, i just started hearing all of these stories. >> police in this city have killed 19 people since 2010. giving vellejo one of the highests rates of police-involved killings of any department in the u.s., including willie mccoy, a 20-year-old who was approached by police on well fair check while asleep in car with gun in his lap. gun gun. call it out. what? >> there's a gun in his lap. what are you thinking. >> if he reaches for it? >> yep. >> it's locked. vellejo is like a distillation of the problems that a lot of places, i think are facing. >> jeff king is a lawyer and teacher at uc berkeley. he is also the founder and ceo of open vellejo, an information and advocacy website focussing on transparency here in his hometown. >> our first scoop was that vellejo cops have been bending the tips of their badges, one for each person that they killed. >> we've seen this before in police departments, specifically in los angeles, with click names like the grim reapers, vikings, and lately, the cometon's executioners who allegedly threw inking parties to tattoo new members. in vellejo, allegations positivity to a group of officers known in the media as the fatal fourteen, who are under investigation for allegedly throwing badge bending parties to allegedly bending badges for kills, allegedly. >> there's a an officer with five shootings, an officer with four fatal shooting, and there was a 2016 research survey by pew research of, it was something like 7800 law enforcement personnel all over the country. they fount that 73% of the law enforcement officers have never fired their weapon ever. 40% of the vellejo police department had been in at least one shooting and about a third of those had been in two or more. there have been 63 shootings by the vellejo police department since 2000, 30 of them fatal over the past 20 years. based on our data, it looks like vellejo police have been responsible for about 10% of all the home sides in the city. it took a man almost 2,000 miles away from many city officials to act like police brutality was a problem. >> sorry, mr. george floyd, vellejo is tired and i'm tired of everybody's killing us. it's not just like black, white, whatever, they're just killing us for no reason. angel ramos was killed in 2016 by vellejo p.d. shot on his own back porch after a neighbor called 911 about a fight. >> what was your life like before this? i was just a regular mom, at home with my kids. that's it. >> so what is your life like now that you are an activist? >> eye find myself a lot more sad. a lot more angry. >> when angel was killed, the media did what the media does. they cut and paste the police narrative into the "nightly news" leaving the family in tiers. angel's sister, alicia focuses on breaking that narrative. >> so, when otis came, it was like, if you mess up -- >> you know, by the time i left there, i was like, there's no way this happened the way the police said it happened. they were saying angel was on top of someone, about to stab him. when the police officer, to save someone's life shot him. where does that knife go? medical examiners and investigators, no knife was found on the porch. they found a knife in the kitchen and the initial press reports are vellejo police say, angel ramos was threatening a 16-year-old minor with a knife. even the minor told me there was no knife. we were fighting. we have seen this dynamic play over and over as victim's families cry for justice, first the police narrative. >> the police describe a may lay happening at this behind me. >> or, more likely, not pressing charges at all. >> our investigation indicate that is he acted properly. >> the whole system creates a structure that means that even in this show, with my name on it, i can't say that someone was murdered, when clearly that person was, i have to say, killed. in october 2020, vellejo declared a state of emergency to get the situation and the department under control. vellejo police chief, shawn any williams said, quote, the vellejo police department takes all allegations of misconduct not consistent with our core values very seriously. we want our community to know that we are committed to creating a call turf actability, transparency and discipline that drives us all closer together rather than apart. end quote. and look, we are years away from knowing if these moves will actually change the department. hopefully so, but, understandably, after all of this death, many in the community remain sceptical. >> what happened to the officer who shot your brother? >> he trains the new cops, that's his position right now. >> in vallejo? >> that is why the culture pervades. and you wonder why there are systemic issues in policing. that's what we are dealing with in vallejo, that's what we're dealing with in america. bacon and garlic aioli. i've tasted greatness. great garlic though - tastes way better. can't argue with that analysis. try subway's tastiest menu upgrade yet. i was born on the south side of chicago. it has been a long road, but now i'm working for schwab. i love to help people understand the world through their lens and invest accordingly. you can call us christmas eve at four o'clock in the morning. we're gonna always make sure that you have all of the financial tools and support to secure your financial future. that means a lot for my community and for every community. >> in okayed oakland, art is activism and activism is art, and claiming that space, as oakland is getting hyphy and ghost riding is whipin' the sides show. man, i'm old. >> just get it all the way across. >> all the way across? >> yeah, all the way across. >> okay. >> so that's 1 # 7 plus 66. >> 263. >> is that oakland public school education? is it was that what it was? >> yeah, that's right. >> fabian rodriguez, you've met fabian on the show before. she's an oakland naturesive and artist who believes in the power of art to change the world. so, that is the wheat paste just dip it right in. >> okay. >> and then spread it out. >> her house matte, ori original, is like me, a non-native who lives here and has been transformed by the town. he's the creator and curator of justice for our lives an uncopwritten campaign of remembrance for those killed by police. >> usually, this is not stuff that you ask permission for, so, you want to be as quick as possible. >> get it up there and keep it moving. >> yeah, pretty much. i started this project in 2014 it was coming back from the an newly vigil that they have at the fruitville parch station for oscar grant. >> when you just started with oscar grant, did you know, i'm going to keep making these? >> it was just evolved into that were i saw people would take it off my facebook page and print it out themselves and then little by little, i set it the website. >> part of what we have to do is like mourn and grieve and johns people create installations. >> and i think that the thing that it also does is that, you know, don't know all the stories you sort of get reminded that like, it's not just the ones you know. >> wow, look at this. is that a child? >> yes. he was one of the children that died when there was like, in custody. >> claudia pat trashia gomez gonzalez was also one of the young women who died. >> it's heartbreaking to see anyone killed at the hands of those entrusted to protect us. but, it's unthinkable when it's kids. and yet, it's all too often the case that black children, especially our boys, grow up with targets on their backs from day one. you remember the tamir rice? >> you know, i went to oakland public schools. and when you grow up in a place that is overwhelmingly majority students of color, there's just a different way that the system views kids' behavior. the education system and system that is supposed to be sort of a great equalizer is actually often complicit in mass. oakland unified school cop. >> a lot of folks did amazing work to get justice for raham and for his family. and we decided to take a different path and look at what was happening sort of widely with the school system. interaction with law enforcement even if it doesn't lead to arrest can lead to hi hi higher. >> do something wrong. >> that's right, kids, i think their innocence gets stolen. we spend, i think, $16,000 per student in our school system. but, last year, right here, in this county we spent $490,000 a year per youth to keep a kid in detention. so, basically, half a million dollar. so, you see school officials get up in the news and they say, we're going to right size the system, we're going to close schools. but, if you look at the juvenile justice system, we have 358, right now there's 41 kids in there. and no one is telling those people to right size the system. >> right. i mean, we want our children to go to safe schools. we're not just fighting against something, we're fighting for something. >> in 2011, jackie and the black organizing project started the bettering our schools system or boss campaign. because, you got to have an acronym. and in 2020, acronym accomplished and walked the police right out of the oakland public schools. >> we have dismantled an entire police department. >> and panthers would be proud. >> oh, these oakland activists militants, always saying crazy things like feed the kids breakfast. >> that's the legacy of it, you have to be the one that says the crazy thing in the room like we need free breakfast programs and we need police out of schools. >> this is the legacy of countless oakland activists. we have to do for ourselves because no one else is coming to help us. it is on us but, luckily, we are enough. and this art has taken over much of the streets on walls, on boarded up buildings, is about doing for ourselves too. these are our streets. this is our town. we can make sure that it reflects our spirit, our beliefs, our power, our heros and may be most importantly, our god[bleep] youth. stand up oakland! >> yeah. it looks beautiful. >> i have to say that i do have a level of pride knowing that i helped a little bit with this. like, in my oakland card, this is a punch. >> it's all love, and it's oakland that brought this out of me. thank you for helping me. >> no problem, brother. thank you. >> much love. >> with the green piece on your back and on your beard. >> is it on my beard, too? >> i didn't used to be this gray when i met you, three kidsnd a a pandemic put it on a negro. kids nd a a pandemic put it on a negro. a a pandemic put it on a negro. d a pandemic put it on a negro. a pandemic put it on a . negro. i'm a performing artist. so a healthy diet is one of the most important things. i also feel the same way about my dog. we got her the farmer's dog sent in the mail. it was all fresh. i want my dog to have a healthy and long life. the farmer's dog helps that out. see the benefits of fresh food at betterforthem.com . >> in 1878, congress passed the posse comitatus act. it says what should be obvious, soldiers are for war, and police are for, well, policing. but, since swat was developed in los angeles in 1965, it has become harder and harder to tell the difference between cops and commandos, and each time we declare another war on social i wills, like the war on crime or drug, the police become more militarized. that was the case after 9/11 when the government had established sweeping powers to fight the war on terror. now, many black and brown communities regularly look like an occupied territory. >> people often think that the policies put into place after 9/11 really impacted only arab and muslim community or people who are perceived to be arab or muslim, but that's actually not true. 9/11 was an opportunity to further justify the existing criminalization of black and brown communities that's why aroc, my organization, got involved with the stop urban shield campaign. laura, kaswani is a palestinian-american born raised in san francisco she's the executive director of the arab resource and organizing center and an unapologetic abolitionist. >> urban shield was, and i love to say this, because we were able to put an end to it as of last year. it was the largest militarized police training in the world it was taking place on the weekend of 9/11 each year, right? and it was training cops, it was training fire-fighters, it was training nurses to respond to disasters as if they were at war with their community. it also brought the state of israel to come train and exchange tactics and trainings with local law enforcement and emergency responders. >> standard action movie scene with the hero starts with a gun, enters a room and straps down with all the military weapons they could carry. police have to pay the cost of shipping and they could get the tank of their dreams and our nightmares and it's not just the tanks, but it's the tactics and training and mentality. remember officer friendly? i don't. we loved the movies, but, i don't want cobra or commando showing up at my house. >> with urban shield our goal from the beginning was the redistribution of priorities and money. we needed to show them what could be funded as an alternative. there is another way possible which is why this year is extraordinary. >> even people who, right-wing people who hate defund the police have to talk about it. >> exactly. they have to respond to it. >> so, when we have the opposition using words of abolition and defunding police to respond to it, that's a win. how many rooms are in there? 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sometimes i ask the question, do i fit in? i'm a black man when i put on the uniform and one when i take it off. >> and one when you take it off. >> that was my followup. >> see, some people see me as a person in blue that don't think i identify with those who are protesting. >> i was reading about your work and it struck me that some of the work that you are doing is teaching police officers how to -- >> treat people like human beings. >> yeah, it was a deep thing. >> and i was like, isn't this something they covered in the academy, like, to me, doesn't that define it's broken. >> it's the culture in policing. so, culture eats policy for breakfast. >> i would say it's more complex than that, right, and the reason i say that it because part of what we teach in the class is also the impact of policing in an environment where everyday you are responding to people's emergencies, right? and the reality is studies have shown is that it's going to have an affect on you, right. so, these are mental health things that need to be addressed to too. >> look, i know parts of this show feel harsh on the police, i also know the current policing system doesn't work for cops either. the grinned of so many social ills along with actual crimes leaves cops jade the, exhausted and frustrated. >> some of the calls that i've had, the greatest threats to my life have been calls that i thought were low-level calls. the one that i almost died on was one that i thought was a simple just go talk to a guy. when i approached him to say, hey, the owner doesn't want you on his property, he immediately started to pull out a gun from his pocket. i was unprepared. i came into the profession because i care about the community and i had a brother killed in the community. there are officers everyday making the ultimate sacrifice and i think that should be commended. >> i respect the dignity of the public safety agent. >> yes. >> but, can you imagine if the size of the police department was the size of the fire department? is and just like, fire-fighters only show up to put out a fire, police officers only show up to address armed violent crimes. >> fire-fighters used to be called out to get cats out the trees. >> yeah, yeah. >> then they hired pet control people because they understood that was not a thing fire-fighters so work. >> you could see the violence we consistently see is the fallout of a broken system and the 50 years since kerner show the failings of every intensified law and order, we got to imagine new systems while we reconcile those truths with the people's actual needs. sometimes you may need an actual police officer, but, honesty, how often? >> everyday in the city of oakland, a city that's 435,000 people there are 2,000 calls a day from people who actually have emergencies, right? and would like somebody to respond and provide them service. >> but, also isn't it a problem that they have one number to call for that general emergency? >> that's the progression, right, what other number is available? 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