new calls for police reform on every level in the wake of tyre nichols s death. is this finally the moment for congress to act? also ahead, extremism in america. feeding of the misinformation machine. from online conspiracies to trump s social media return, what could be done to combat a new wave of political violence? plus, trump is back on the trail on angrier than ever. what to expect from his 2024 campaign. and tonight, look at how communities across this country process the trauma of these moments. this is american voices. here we are again, nearly three years after the death of george floyd, americans once again trying to process yet another police killing caught on camera. this time, in memphis, tennessee. tyre nichols never made it home after memphis officers pulled him over three weeks ago. he was chasing the american dream, working to provide a better life for his son, who dreamed of one day turning his life for photography into a career, and watching launch
calls from police reform on the federal level in the wake of tyre nichols death. is this finally the moment for congress to act? also ahead, extremism in america, the misinformation machine. trump s social media return, what can be done to combat a new wave of political violence. plus, trump is back on the trail and angrier than ever. what to expect from the 2024 campaign. tonight, a look at how communities across the country will process the trauma of these moments. this is american voices. here we are again, three years after the death of george floyd. americans, once again, trying to process another police killing caught on camera. this time in memphis tennessee. tyre nichols never made it home, before officers pulled him over three weeks ago. he was chasing the american dream. working to provide a better life for his son. one day, turning his love for photography into a career. those dreams were cut short. his family, now planning his funeral and were pushing for full acc
conjecture? there is the ones that created these conspiracy theories by withholding all of this information, because they knew that it would create this doubt, and feed the landscape with conspiracies. that would then allow them to come in and take some sort of control. therefore, you shouldn t trust the powers at be. law enforcement, somebody was doing that tried to set us all up. i think that illustrates where we are going here, which is that we can t even agree on something as clear cut and awful as what happened in that video. to pick up where andrew left of, that is the disinformation piece of it. how does it then tie into this extremism that we see across the country? i think consistently, alicia, what we ve seen over the past 5 to 6 years is people that consume information in social media, what you tend to find is that is individuals are demonized, with all of these conspiracy theories, you don t know who the attacker is going
conjecture? they are the people that created and fomented these conspiracy theories by withholding all this information because they knew it would create this out and feed the landscape with conspiracies, which would then allow them to come in and take some kind of control. therefore, you should not trust of the powers that be. law enforcement, somebody was doing that to kind of set us all up. i think that illustrates where we are going here. we can t even agree on something as clear cut and awful as what happened in a black and white video. i want you to pick up where angela left off. that s the disinformation piece of it. how does it tie to the extremism we ve seen across this country? consistently, alicia, what we ve seen over the last 5 to 6 years it is people that consume information on social media what you tend to find is that individuals are demonized on these conspiracy theories. you don t know who the attacker is going to be.
past going back to the 2014 forcible annexation of crimea using cyber as a weapon to help them achieve their goals by shutting down electric grids in 2015-2016, releasing the most damaging software bug the world has ever seen, the computer virus in 2017 aimed at ukraine. we know what they can do in the world of cyber in terms of cyber attacks and causing harm and then the other piece of this which we ve already alluded to in your program, pamela, the disinformation piece. both are concerted and coordinated in reinforcing they each reinforce the other and it s part of an integrated campaign that vladimir putin can be engaged in. the u.s. dgovernment there could be cyber attacks if russia invades ukraine as retaliation for american sanctions. what do you think that could