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The House investigation into the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th is now underway, and Marq Claxton, the director of the Black Law Enforcement Alliance, joins MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to recount testimony from Capitol Police officers, the trauma they faced on January 6th and the GOP’s hypocrisy for blowing off the probe while claiming to back “the blue.” Claxton asserts the people who are promoters of everything blue are often the same people that deny complete and total justice. July 27, 2021
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Throughout the Chauvin trial, prosecutors called eight witnesses from the Minneapolis Police Department and Chauvin’s boss to testify against him. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber and retired NYPD detective Marq Claxton discuss how this rare move might affect the outcomes of similar cases and why police culture makes the so-called blue wall of silence so dangerous.
Veterans of color push for voting rights, demilitarizing police departments
EXCLUSIVE: Black members of the veteran group, Common Defense, are speaking out in support of progressive values as it relates to key issues like voting and policing
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Veterans of color are pushing for elected officials to move on voting rights and demilitarizing police departments across the country.
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Since June 2020, the country’s law enforcement practices and voting protections have been under the microscope. At the intersection of both issues is
Common Defense, a coalition of veterans who support progressive values. The organization’s Black members want the country to recognize that the face and political positions of veterans across the country are evolving to largely include BIPOC former service members.
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As Joy notes the difficulty in getting a conviction in previous trials involving police killings, Former NYPD Detective Marq Claxton says There is no simple or straightforward police killing case when it involves Black people. And it really is a matter of race and the perceptions of race, the bias implicit in law enforcement, the toxic police culture itself, and the perceptions of those people who serve as the jurors.”April 6, 2021
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This week at the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek
Chauvin, numerous members of the Minneapolis Police Department have
taken the stand and testified that Chauvin violated policy by kneeling
on Floyd’s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes, and the emergency room
doctor who tried to save Floyd’s life said his chances of living would
have been higher if CPR had been administered
sooner. The trial is putting a spotlight on “the disproportionate
killing of Black people by police” in the United States, says Marq
Claxton, a retired New York Police Department detective who is now
director of the Black Law Enforcement Alliance. He argues that until