The Daily Show - Are All Cops Racist?
To determine whether cops are racist, Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. enlist a police bias training program.
To determine whether cops are racist, Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. enlist a police bias training program.
Unedited video obtained by KSAT 12 News shows the fatal shooting of a man with his arms raised by two Bexar County, Texas, sheriff deputies.
The Portsmouth police department, whose officers have killed two black men this year, act out an operation akin to an army raid to lure new sign-ups. The force has acquired a strong military streak by targeting troops leaving a large navy base in neighboring Norfolk.
When the then 28-year-old Bryan Stevenson was threatened with a gun by a police officer, he knew better than to run away. But, he argues, young black men are still presumed guilty and dangerous by many Americans. Now executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and part of President Barack Obama’s policing task force, he says only transitional justice can begin to heal America’s racial wounds.
Alex Landau, an African American, was raised by adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night, he lost his belief in a color-blind world. Alex tells what happened that night.
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