From the House Oversight committee, this is about two hours. The chair will come to order. Welcome to the oversight subcommittee on civil rights entitled White Supremacists in blue, the infiltration of local Police Departments. Good morning to the chair of the committee, miss maloney, good morning to our Ranking Member, mr. Roy, who is with us, and good morning to the vice chair of the committee, ms ms. Ocasiocortez and our wonderful members. I want to express a special welcome to Rashida Tlaib of michigan. This is our first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her join us. Welcome. Before we begin today, i want to play a video that will set the stage for the discussion that were about to have. Clerkings, please go ahead and play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of the institution. Tracks hate and extremist groups, whomever is engaged in those groups, wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections t
Violence. This is about an hour and a half. Good evening. I am abraham foxman. Im currently director of the center for the semitism and from time to time i have an opportunity to welcome some of our guests particularly in the area of prejudice and engage with them with conversation. After our guests speaks and makes his presentation i will begin with some questions and make the floor available to you to ask him, argue with him whatever makes you happy. Microphone. I will. We are delighted to welcome to, memoirs of an american skinhead with its author who lived through those experiences, Christian Picciolini. Christian is here to shed light on his unlike the path as the sun up to hardworking immigrants and becoming the leader of the chicago area skinheads when he was still a teenager. After leaving the Violent Movement he was part of during his youth he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. In the year 2009 he cofounded an Organization Called life after hate, a Nonprofit
Violence. This is about an hour and a half. Good evening. I am abraham foxman. Im currently director of the center for the semitism and from time to time i have an opportunity to welcome some of our guests particularly in the area of prejudice and engage with them with conversation. After our guests speaks and makes his presentation i will begin with some questions and make the floor available to you to ask him, argue with him whatever makes you happy. Microphone. I will. We are delighted to welcome to, memoirs of an american skinhead with its author who lived through those experiences, Christian Picciolini. Christian is here to shed light on his unlike the path as the sun up to hardworking immigrants and becoming the leader of the chicago area skinheads when he was still a teenager. After leaving the Violent Movement he was part of during his youth he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. In the year 2009 he cofounded an Organization Called life after hate, a Nonprofit
Violence. This is about an hour and a half. Good evening. I am abraham foxman. Im currently director of the center for the semitism and from time to time i have an opportunity to welcome some of our guests particularly in the area of prejudice and engage with them with conversation. After our guests speaks and makes his presentation i will begin with some questions and make the floor available to you to ask him, argue with him whatever makes you happy. Microphone. I will. We are delighted to welcome to, memoirs of an american skinhead with its author who lived through those experiences, Christian Picciolini. Christian is here to shed light on his unlike the path as the sun up to hardworking immigrants and becoming the leader of the chicago area skinheads when he was still a teenager. After leaving the Violent Movement he was part of during his youth he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. In the year 2009 he cofounded an Organization Called life after hate, a Nonprofit
Fascinating book, black skin had a really happy to be here with you and chatting today. Brandy, thank you. Thanks for having me. Of course. Well, so we got plenty of time. I want to dive into the book, but i figured just a table set a little bit hit. Tell me in the viewers little bit more about who you are, your background and how you get to the point that working on this book. Yeah so i come from an advocacy background actually a lawyer by trade and it started chicago doing policy around people with criminal records and trying like remove barriers to employment and. One of the things that that became clear me was that it didnt kind of matter if you shift the policies. If you dont the culture. And so i became really interested, kind of like not just like narrative work, but in general. Like what are the different of media ownership . What are the ways in which people are able to like communicate and plead their own cause . And so that took me into the field thats called media justice,