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Chicago Police Officer Charged With Murder After Video Shows Him Shooting Laquan McDonald 16 Times
For the first time in three decades, a Chicago police officer faces charges of first-degree murder for an on-duty shooting. White police officer Jason Van Dyke was arrested on Tuesday and is being held without bail for the killing of African-American 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. It was more than a year ago, on October 20, 2014, when officer Van Dyke shot the teenager 16 times, including multiple times in the back. Police claimed McDonald lunged at the officer with a small knife. But newly released dashcam footage showed the teenager walking away from the police officers’ cars when another police car pulls up to the scene. The video, which has no sound, then appears to show Officer Jason Van Dyke jumping out of the car, pointing his gun at McDonald and opening fire. The teenager’s body spins as he is hit with the barrage of bullets and then falls to the pavement, where he continues to be struck by bullets. Officer Van Dyke remained on paid desk duty after the shooting until he was taken into custody on Tuesday. In addition to the fatal shooting last October, Officer Van Dyke had at least 18 civilian complaints against him, which included excessive use of force, illegal arrest and use of racial slurs. None of these complaints led to any disciplinary action. This week Chicago police announced they will also move to fire officer Dante Servin, who killed 22-year-old African-American woman Rekia Boyd in 2012. We discuss the developments in Chicago with Barbara Ransby, professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We begin today in Chicago where for the first time in three decades a police officer faces charges for a first degree murder for an on-duty shooting. White police officer Jason Van Dyke was arrested on Tuesday and is being held without bail for the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was African-American. It was more than a year ago, on October 20, 2014, when officer Van Dyke shot the teenager 16 times, including multiple times in the back. Police claimed McDonald lunged at the officer with a small knife. But newly released dashcam footage showed the teenager walking away from the police officers’ cars when another police car pulls up to the scene. The video, which has no sound, then appears to show Officer Jason Van Dyke jumping out of the car, pointing his gun at McDonald, and opening fire. The teenager’s body spins as it is hit with the barrage of bullets, and then falls to the pavement where he continues to be struck by bullets. This is Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez talking after the indictment about what happened at the scene.
ANITA ALVAREZ: Our investigation has determined that officer Van Dyke was on the scene for less than 30 seconds before he started shooting. In addition to the fact that all evidence indicates that he began shooting approximately six seconds after getting out of his vehicle.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Officer Van Dyke remained on paid desk duty after the shooting until he was taken into custody on Tuesday. In addition to the fatal shooting last October, Officer Van Dyke had at least 20 civilian complaints against him, which included excessive use of force, illegal arrest and use of racial slurs. None of those complaints have led to any disciplinary action.
AMY GOODMAN: This week Chicago Police Superintendent Jerry McCarthy also announced that he would move to fire officer Dante Servin, who killed 22-year-old an African American woman Rekia Boyd in 2012. Officer Servin was off-duty when he fired several shots over his shoulder into a group of people Boyd was standing with near his home, striking her in the back of her head. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter, marking the first time in more than a decade that a Chicago police officer was charged for a fatal shooting. But last spring in a dramatic dismissal, a judge acquitted detective Servin on a legal technicality.
Well, for more on the deaths of Laquan McDonald and Rekia Boyd, we’re joined in Chicago by Barbara Ransby, professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. We welcome you to Democracy Now!, professor. Sixteen shots, 30 seconds, 400 days to indict the police officer for first-degree murder; all of those days he was paid. The number of officers at the scene, it’s not clear exactly from the video, it’s believed about seven in addition to Van Dyke. The number who came to Laquan McDonald’s aid? None. Can you talk about the indictment yesterday just before the court ordered video of the killing was released?
PROF. BARBARA RANSBY: Yes, well, thank you for having me, Amy, and for covering this issue. Yesterday, it was really after vigils and protests and lobbying and all kinds of pressure — young people marching in the street — that the city was forced to release the videotape. And as you may have reported before, there was a tape and a local — a videotape in the local Burger King that’s still gone missing. So we got the dashcam video. But the time that it has taken for the city to come forward with this is really pretty outrageous, and that’s what activists in the city have been saying, that’s what led to thousands of people protesting in the streets of Chicago last night. Still, a young man is in custody for those protests and we are very concerned about him; Malcolm London, who is a young poet and activist here.
But, I was so disturbed by that videotape, not that we haven’t seen other disturbing videotapes, but the amount of callous disregard for this young man laying in the street. The police shot him so quickly, so many times, and the other police, as you just pointed out, did not do anything to see if you he was even still alive, kicking the knife out of his hand. And, you know, thing that strikes me, WBEZ, our Chicago public radio, just reported the other day because of the budget cuts in Illinois and other priorities, Chicago Police Department only has less than 20 of its officers have received crisis intervention training.
Now it seems like that ought to be a priority for the de-escalating this kind of situation. It seems that the police have a lot of training in how to contain protesters, but very little training and something that would be quite common, which is to de-escalate a situation where someone is intoxicated, mentally ill, or otherwise behaving irrationally. We needed a nonlethal intervention there, clearly, but it seemed to be almost too much trouble to do anything other than to shoot this child. And that’s why activists are so angry.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Professor Ransby, I wanted to talk to you about the role of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel because clearly, the mayor had said that he had not previously seen the video, yet he must have approved the $5 million settlement that was given to the family earlier this year, even before the family had filed a lawsuit.
PROF. BARBARA RANSBY: Well, absolutely. I mean, whether the mayor saw the video personally or not, someone in the Mayor’s office must have seen the video. They must have known the likelihood that this officer would be found culpable of murdering this child. Otherwise, that size of a settlement for a cash-strapped city, as we are often told, would not have been approved. Of course, we would expect a conscientious Mayor to want to see such a video of this kind of killing. And given the attention that police violence has gotten across the country and given the legitimate anger of many in the African-American community, the question would be, why didn’t the mayor see the video sooner? And that, I think, is a legitimate question.
AMY GOODMAN: At a news conference on Tuesday, the Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who was also President Obama’s chief of staff before that, said police officer Jason Van Dyke violated basic moral standards.
MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL: Obviously, in this case, Jason Van Dyke violated both the standards of professionalism that comes with being a police officer, but also basic moral standards that bind our community together. Jason Van Dyke will be judged in a court of law. That’s exactly how it should be. As of today, he is no longer being paid by the city of Chicago, as the superintendent just noted, and he was stripped of his police powers 10 months ago. Obviously, anyone who sees this video will also make their own judgments.
AMY GOODMAN: So, Barbara Ransby, if you could explain the chronology here. I mean, we are about a killing that happened over 400 days ago. The city fights to suppress the video. They give $5 million to the family, though the family did not even sue. The court, based on FOIA request by an independent journalist, orders the video to be released. They said today was the deadline for that release. And so yesterday, after 400 days, the entire leadership of Chicago gathers, the superintendent and the mayor, and they announce that Van Dyke, the officer, will be indicted for first-degree murder for his reprehensible actions. He had been on the payroll all of that time. And then, as they left the stage, they released the videotape. How does Mayor Rahm Emanuel justify not having indicted — having this officer indicted before?
PROF. BARBARA RANSBY: Well, that’s an excellent question. And of course, I can’t answer that, but that would be my question as well. That was the question of the many, many activists who took to the streets in Chicago last night. And when the Mayor and the State’s Attorney, Anita Alvarez tell us that they were saddened, outraged, disturbed when they saw the video, I mean, it is really very little very late.
Dr. King and others have referred to the long arc of justice and, you know, that long arc of justice bending slowly. This is a very, very slow arrival at a remotely just outcome. I mean the real just outcome would be to have a police department that was in fact accountable, to have swift investigations and transparency, to make data available to people without having the kind of protest and lawsuits and pressures that have been necessary heretofore.
So I think it really behooves the mayor to rethink the approach. It is very legitimate that people are calling into question the leadership of Garry McCarthy, the Police Chief in the city. So, you know, we understand the anxiousness. We understand the anger of young people in the streets. I mean, this incident should not have happened. And if it should have happened, our leadership should have had a swift and clear response and that response should have been transparent. And in this case, by all indicators, it simply was not.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And Professor, could you put this in context of the ongoing and historical problems that citizens of Chicago and the black community, especially, have encountered with the police? I think there was a report by Truthout earlier this year the Chicago police were appear to be officially undercounting the number of people killed by the police. Talk about this historical problem in the city.
PROF. BARBARA RANSBY: Right, well there’s the specific issue of undercounting and making data available, which has been an ongoing problem. But of course, Chicago is the place where John Birch, former police supervisor, carried out systematic torture of young black men in the police district, including electroshocking genitals and putting plastic bags over the heads of people that they were trying to coerce into confessions. All of this has now been documented. Many of his victims have been exonerated. But the fact that this could go on for over a decade in Chicago suggests some very, very deep-seated issues of racism and corruption in the police department. And that has to be taken very, very seriously. That is part of a legacy that we are confronted with right now.
Of course, even going back to the assassination of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther party leader and NAACP leader in 1969 where the Chicago Police Department was implicated in his murder. There is a question of confidence, of accountability, of cover-up. But unfortunately, it’s not just Chicago. African-American communities around the country have been at odds with police departments that have been insensitive to black communities, have engaged in racial profiling, and that have been all too quick to use lethal force against young black bodies, black and Latino people in general, but black people in particular. And I think that is why we have seen the Black Lives Matter movement garner so much support. That’s why we have seen young people in The Black Youth Project 100 be so vigilant in exposing the kind of police abuse that we have seen here in Chicago and elsewhere.
So it is coming out of a historical context, but it also transcends Chicago.
AMY GOODMAN: The head of the police has called for the firing of Dante Servin. In May, we spoke to the Martinez Sutton, the brother of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd who was killed in 2012 by off-duty Chicago police detective Dante Servin. Cook County Judge, Dennis Porter, acquitted the officer saying he shouldn’t have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. I asked Rekia Boyd’s brother, Martinez, if he should have been charged with murder.
MARTINEZ SUTTON: The judge said, it should have been murder charges put on the officer instead of involuntary manslaughter, and also said that you can’t be intentional and reckless at the same time. And we had second-degree murder charges on him at first, before they announced it. But at the last minute, once they found out I talked to the officer, they changed it to involuntary manslaughter to further protect him.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, once you talked to the officer?
MARTINEZ SUTTON: Well, I was doing a documentary for my school. And as we were shooting the documentary, he pulled up in the same car that he killed my sister in. And he gets out of the car and said, who are you people? And they said, this is Martinez Sutton, Rekia Boyd’s brother. And he looked surprised and he was like, you’re Rekia’s brother? Said yes I am. And he said, can I get a hug? So, I stared at him for a sec and I embraced him. And he started with, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to kill your sister, I’m so sorry. Your sister was innocent, but I tried to kill that mf-er. Ooh, I wish it was him that I shot in the head instead of your sister. Ooh, I wish it was him that was dead. Then he went back to, I’m so sorry, now my heart is clear. I pray to the three Mary’s across the street every day, every time I leave this alley. How can you wish somebody was dead? How can you wish somebody else life was taken? Why do you want to take somebody life off this earth?
AMY GOODMAN: The brother of Rekia Boyd, now the Chicago police superintendent is saying he’ll move to fire Dante Servin, the off-duty officer for the death of Rekia Boyd. We only have a few more minutes, Professor Ransby. Describe why this case is so significant, today. You have a 17-year-old teenager, Laquan McDonald, who was gunned down 400 days ago and then you still have this case of Rekia Boyd from 2012 that continually, as people march in the streets, they raise her name as well.
PROF. BARBARA RANSBY: Yes, I mean, I’m glad you mentioned Rekia Boyd, because it is her murder that really has galvanized enormous outrage and energy for those fighting for justice in Chicago. It was another outrageous, you know, seemingly clear-cut case of reckless and brutal behavior, this time on the part of an off-duty police officer who has just only recently been fired. Again, very late in the game. In some ways, the activists here have done the job of the city leadership by bringing this issue to the fore by keeping it in the forefront of public consciousness and demanding justice when those in leadership have been very reluctant to deliver it.
So, I think we will continue to see protest in Chicago, we’ll continue to see the very passionate demand for justice for young black people, and sadly, Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald are not the only ones. Damo Franklin was another young man who was tased by Chicago police and later died, which inspired young people to go to the United Nations to protest the consistent abuse of young black people by Chicago police department.
AMY GOODMAN: We want to —
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I just want to ask you quickly, the impact of these numerous, now we’ve had dozens of, literally, videos showing these kinds of assaults by the police on African-Americans, and sometimes Latinos as well, the impact of these videos nationwide in the national consciousness?
PROF. BARBARA RANSBY: I mean, it’s had enormous impact, of course. I think one impact is trauma. Those of us who have seen these videos over and over really are reminded of the days of lynching. The We Charge Genocide group here in Chicago says that, in the Jim Crow era, the rope was a symbol of lynching and today it is a police bullet. So there has been trauma, but I also think it has galvanized people who want to not only confront issues of police violence, but the larger conditions of justice that these communities suffer that need to change in order for us to really have both peace and justice.
AMY GOODMAN: Barbara Ransby, we want to thank you for being with us, Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois. Among her books, "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement." This is Democracy Now!. We go directly to Minneapolis. One thousand Black Lives Matter protesters marched last night. The night before alleged white supremacists opened fire on the protesters, shooting five of them. We’ll speak to an eyewitness as well as Minneapolis Congressmember Keith Ellison. Stay with us.
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Eyewitness Recounts Shooting by Alleged White Supremacists at Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protest
Nearly a thousand Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota Tuesday after alleged white supremacists opened fire on a demonstration the night before, injuring five people. Police have now arrested three people in connection with the mass shooting, which took place at a protest outside a police precinct. At least one of the gunmen was reportedly wearing a mask. All three suspects are white. Authorities may treat the shooting as a hate crime. Witnesses of the shooting say police took an unusually long time to respond to the attack, and then proceeded to use mace on the protesters. At the time of Monday’s attack, the Black Lives Matter protesters were gathered at an encampment outside a police precinct to protest the police killing of unarmed 24-year-old African-American Jamar Clark, which the Justice Department is now investigating. Authorities say Clark was shot in the head Sunday after a scuffle with officers who responded to a report of an assault. But multiple witnesses say Clark was shot while handcuffed. We speak with eyewitness to Monday evening’s shooting Leslie Redmond, who is a student at The University of St. Thomas School of Law and president of the Black Law Student Association.
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AMY GOODMAN: "American Skin (41 Shots)" by Bruce Springsteen. Written in honor of Amadou Dialo, an African immigrant in New York who was gunned down by New York police, the street crimes unit on February 4, 1999. He died in a hail of 41 police bullets. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where nearly 1000 Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets last night after alleged white supremacists opened fire on a demonstration the night before, injuring five people. Police have now arrested three men in connection with the mass shooting, which took place at a protest outside a police precinct. At least one of the gunmen was reportedly wearing a mask. All three suspects are white. Authorities may treat the shooting as a hate crime. Witnesses of the shooting say police took an unusually long time to respond to the attack, and then proceeded to use mace on the protesters. When activists reclaimed the streets, Tuesday, they vowed not to be silenced by what some call an act of domestic terrorism. This is organizer Miski Noor.
MISKI NOOR: Despite earlier statements from police about the impending threat from white supremacists, the police instead maced citizen journalists and peaceful protesters. They made disparaging comments to those at the protest instead of taking the threat seriously. We reiterate that we have zero faith in this police department’s desire to keep our communities safe. We reiterate that we have zero faith in this Police Department’s desire to keep our community safe.
AMY GOODMAN: At the time of Monday evening’s attack, the Black Lives Matter protesters were gathered at an encampment outside a police precinct to protest the police killing of unarmed 24-year-old African-American Jamar Clark. The Justice Department is now investigating. Protesters were calling for the release of the video of that police killing. Authorities said Clark was shot in the head Sunday after a scuffle with officers who responded to a report of an assault. But multiple witnesses say Clark was shot while handcuffed. Minneapolis police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze have been placed on administrative leave during the investigation.
Protesters have been camped outside the 4th Precinct since last week, despite a police raid last Wednesday in which multiple people said the police beat them with batons, sprayed them with mace, and hit them with marker rounds. Well, for more we are going to Minneapolis, to speak with an eyewitness to Monday evening’s shooting. And then we will be speaking with Congressmember Ellison. Leslie Redmond is a student at University of St. Thomas School of Law and President of the Black Law Student Association. We welcome you to Democracy Now! Can you start off by saying what happened two nights ago?
LESLIE REDMOND: Yes, thank you for having me. Basically, two nights ago I came out, everything was fine, people were socializing, eating, just communing as normal. And then a police officer comes and pokes his head over the precinct walls. This was a night unlike any other night. I have been out since Sunday every night consistently. This officer had on a ski mask very similar to the gunmen. He poked his head around, he, like, looked at the scene, saw what was going on. Less than 30 minutes after this officer with this ski mask that was poking his head over the precinct, these gunmen show up who at the time, you know, we didn’t know who they were. They had on ski masks. They came up. We don’t allow people to have on ski masks anymore because of the threats that we have been getting, numerous Black Lives Matter representatives, NAACP had have received death threats. So we have just been taking precautions when it comes to who is coming to the precinct.
A number of African-American males went over to the guys and basically asked them, what are you here for? If you’re going to be here, you have to take off your mask. The gunmen were not cooperative and so the African-American males proceeded to walk them away. Mind you, these are our heroes because there was a child that was three years old, another child that was eight years old, right beside me. We were less than 25 feet away from the gunman. Who would have known what they would have done if they could have opened up fire on all of us? And these heroes — I call them heroes, the gentlemen that got shot, the people that got maced, the people that walked them away down the street. But it almost seemed like it was a plot, or they were luring them down the street away so then the police officers could say they didn’t see anything, when in actuality, they heard the shots just like I heard the shots.
There were over 10 shots fired. The police officers didn’t do anything. It seemed like they could of been in cahoots. They didn’t do anything when they came over the precinct. They just locked. I told someone to move the three-year-old and the eight-year-old child back towards the wall. And then I was on the phone with Jason Sole who’s the head of the NAACP Criminal Justice Committee, and I was telling him what happened, and he wanted me to confirm. You know, did someone actually get shot? And so, I really wanted to confirm myself but I was extremely nervous because I didn’t know if the gunman was still there shooting.
Nevertheless, I was courageous and I went and I saw one person wounded, shot in their leg. Another person wounded on the ground with a gun wound to the stomach. Everyone was going crazy trying to figure out what was going on. At the time I didn’t realize there was three other people had been wounded, but, they had transportation coming to get them. Because, like I said, at this point, it’s like 15 minutes that’s passed. No police officers have come out, no ambulances come, no anything. Mind you, we’re right down the street from the precinct. I’ve seen the police officers. They were just peeking their head over the precinct doors with ski a mask on so we could not see their face.
So then I went back, moved the kids towards the precinct building. And then I told them to take them to the car because the police officers are just standing there doing nothing. I felt like we were really in danger, as if there was a war going on in our own backyard. So they took the kids to the car. I heard one of the police officers oversay, they taken their kids to the car. They know what is going on and they have no intention to help us, stop it, do anything.
So some police cars started to come up. I was looking. Like 20 police officers with their guns went running into the crowd. You would think they would run and actually help the witnesses, but instead, they started to Mace the witnesses, they started to push them back. They did not ask for any witness, any eye testimonies, no anything until long after, maybe an hour after everything had transpired. The way they have treated the peaceful protesters and the way that they didn’t come and help — even yesterday I was at the hospital with one of the guys that got shot, Cameron Clark, all night, and he said they just left him there, basically, for dead. Like, they were just waiting to leave. And it hurts you, you know? When you stood up for what you believe in and stood up for justice and also tried to protect people, and the thanks that you get is the police, basically tell you, this is what you ax for?
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I wanted to ask you, Leslie Redmond, when you say the gunman, and you had a group of people try to escort them out, were they brandishing the guns or did you later find out when the shooting started that they were armed?
LESLIE REDMOND: Oh, correct. So, I later found out that they were gunmen. At the time, all we knew is that they had on ski masks. They had like a bag in their hand. They had a couple of signs in their hands. I don’t know what they had in the bag. Again, we have no idea what they had planned. If those individuals, those heroes didn’t walk them away from the scene.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to a video where masked men are seen driving to the Jamar Clark protest site and brandishing a pistol while making racist comments. The men in the video identify themselves by the aliases SaigaMarine and BlackPowderRanger. It’s still unclear if they were connected to Monday evening’s shooting. This is an excerpt from the video.
SAIGAMARINE: And, yes, we are locked and loaded.
BLACKPOWDERRANGER: You have a gun?
SAIGAMARINE: Why do you hate freedom?
BLACKPOWDERRANGER: Because. I don’t know.
SAIGAMARINE: Alright, check it out you guys, we’re gonna be driving down there. It’s gonna take us about 10 minutes to get down there. We’re gonna take a little while and shut the camera off in a little bit. We just wanted to give everyone a heads up on poll. We’re on our way. We’re going to knock this [bleep] out and we’re gonna go see what these dindus are dinduing about. You know, because, apparently fighting police and fighting paramedics is good enough to let you off with a slap on the wrist, especially when you go for an officer’s weapon. So, yeah, a little reverse cultural enriching. We’re going to make the fire rise.
AMY GOODMAN: Now these men are wearing masks. They are spotted later at the justice for Jamar Clark protest, Thursday. In an activist-shot video, the men seem to respond sarcastically to questions regarding police brutality. This is an excerpt, beginning with the activists asking BlackPowderRanger a question.
ACTIVIST: The situation of Jamar Clark is the impetus of why you’re here, what does it look like for you, for the community? What do think it means to find justice for Jamar Clark?
BLACKPOWDERRANGER: Well, what I think it means is that all these folks here should get the justice and peace that they deserve. What we really need to do is reach out to our communities, especially our melanin-enriched communities.
AMY GOODMAN: And now I want to turn to the Communications Chair of the Mineapolis NAACP, Reisha Williams, speaking to CNN host Brooke Baldwin. Williams suggests members of law-enforcement were behind the Monday night shooting of the Black Lives Matter protesters.
REISHA WILLIAMS: We know that the Police Department is behind this. This is our personal belief after receiving witnesses accounts, me personally being on the ground, Bob Crow, Minneapolis Department union head, has thrown [indiscernable] out there —
BROOKE BALDWIN: Wait, wait, wait, wait. I have to interrupt you, I know there is a delay here in Paris, but you said you believe the Police Department is behind what?
REISHA WILLIAMS: We believe the Police Department is facilitating the injustice at, uh, bullying to the protesters, and we also believe that they are involved in this shooting. We know from blackboards and chat rooms and also videos that we have posted on our website that police, um, that are from different counties, police from different districts have come down to entice the protesters, have come down to bully the protesters—
BROOKE BALDWIN: I understand you are in Minneapolis and you know much more about this, but those are serious allegations you are just laying down on national television.
REISHA WILLIAMS: And we are standing behind it. We do not back down from these allegations.
AMY GOODMAN: That is Reisha Williams of the NAACP in Mineapolis. Leslie Redmond, do you share her view? Now, three people have been arrested, three of these men.
LESLIE REDMOND: Right, well, you know, the police came swarming from the same areas that the gunman fled into. Like I said, they took their precious time. So, I do agree with her, and I’d also like to say, you know, I didn’t grow up in household that was scared of police. I know that there is a lot of African-Americans in America lifestyle and basically their experience, but I grew up in Washington, D.C. I had uncles that were police officers cousins that were police officers. I really looked at these people to protect and serve. But what I’ve been seeing over the past week, I wouldn’t put anything past the police officers.
I was out there when they were macing us, when they were shooting us with rubber bullets, when they were throwing tear gas at us for no reason; literally, we were peaceful. Do not believe what the media feeds you. No one was doing anything to those officers. And then when I was actually on the ground and I saw those police officers come over the precinct for the first time with the ski masks on, that looked exactly like the people that ended up being the gunman. It’s like, how do you not make the correlation? And then they didn’t come to help these men, it seemed like they were in cahoots.
I cannot say for sure I know that they did it, but the belief is definitely there and the people who were there we definitely feel like the police could have definitely had something to do with it. In addition, the gentlemen who all got shot were the same ones who were, like, in the front lines of the protest out there every day fussing with the police officers, telling them they that they were doing injustice. So, I just don’t think that those are all coincidences.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, Leslie Redmond, one last question.
LESLIE REDMOND: Sure.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: You visited one of the people in the hospital. How are the people who are wounded doing? And one of them was the cousin of Jamar Clark, the man whom you — whose death you were protesting?
LESLIE REDMOND: Yes. So, Cameron Clark, he is the cousin — I actually went to the hospital about 2:00 a.m. and I stayed until probably 5:30 p.m. until he was released because we did not want to leave him there by himself just because of all of the shady things that have been going on. Cameron is in really good spirits. He was shot twice, one in the leg and one in the foot. He actually went to the protest yesterday evening against my better judgment. I told him that he should go get some rest. But, he really is passionate about this. He really didn’t want to leave his brothers and sisters out there. And he didn’t want these gunmen and the police to think that they won, because we think that this was a plot to try to get us to go away. But, we want them to know that we are only coming out stronger because we are standing on the side of justice, we are standing on the right side of history. And these people that were shot are heroes of society. The other individuals that got shot, they had to go into surgery, and they’re still hospitalized, from my understanding. But, Cameron was released. I was there when he was released. I stayed with him the entire time.
AMY GOODMAN: Leslie Redmond, we want to thank you so much for being with us, eyewitness to Monday evening’s shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Black Lives Matter protester, student at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and President of the Black Law Student Association. We’re going to go to break and we’ll come right back to speak with Minneapolis Congressmember Keith Ellison. His son was at the protests of the killing of Jamar Clark by police. And now a picture has gone viral of police with a gun directly pointed at Jeremiah. Stay with us.
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First Muslim Member of U.S. Congress: Restrictions on Syrian Refugees Driven by Fear, Xenophobia
In our extended interview with Congressmember Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim member of Congress, he dismisses legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week to restrict Iraqi and Syrian refugees from resettling in the United States after the attacks in France. The Republican-backed measures would require top federal officials to sign off on every person from Iraq and Syria seeking refugee status. “We’ve had 750,000 refugees come into this country since the year 2001. None of them – not one – has been engaged in terrorism,” Ellison says. “Why then are we going to revamp our whole refugee resettlement program simply because of intimidation by Daesh?”
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AMY GOODMAN: Congressmember Ellison, you’re the first Muslim Congress member in the U.S. House of Representatives.
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Yes I am.
AMY GOODMAN: Last week, the House passed legislation that was introduced by Republican lawmakers to, at the moment, stop Iraqi and Syrian refugees from resettling here in the United States.
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, there was a piece of legislation motivated by fear, motivated by xenophobia, motivated by irrationality. Look, we’ve had 750,000 refugees come into this country since the year 2001. None of them — not one —- has been engaged in terrorism at all. Some people will say, what about the Tsarnaev brothers? Their parents were asylees, they were not -— they got radicalized in another way. The refugees themselves have not posed any threat to this country. Why, then, are we going to revamp our whole refugee resettlement program, which is incredibly rigorous in terms of the vetting process, simply because of intimidation from Daesh? This is a bad thing to do. Daesh operates on the assumption that—
AMY GOODMAN: Daesh meaning?
REP. KEITH ELLISON: What people sometimes refer to as Isis, the Islamic State. I maintain they are neither Islamic nor a state. So I call them Daesh. But the point is, that they operate under a philosophical underpinning that the West is at war with Islam and Islam is at war with the West in a defensive posture. This is a completely false narrative. But when our country is saying, we’ll take refugees but only if they’re Christian, we don’t want any Iraqis and Syrians, aren’t those people Muslim and couldn’t terrorists be among them?
What we’re doing is helping Daesh argue to people around the world that we are not there, that we don’t believe in the values that we profess, and that they can make us change our system based on threats. And this is feeding their overall narrative. Look, if Muslims — if Daesh is providing some sort of Islamic state, why are Muslims running from it? Oh, I don’t know, what about the rapes and the beheadings and everything else they do. These are totalitarians. They crave power, and that is what they crave. And, you know, sadly, the Iraq War, which was a fatal mistake of the Bush administration, unleashed some of these ugly forces that now are incredibly difficult to deal with.
What we should do is continue to live up to our values. We should maintain law and order. And what I mean by that, is not just shifting the law to address people from a minority religion, but to just maintain our posture as a country that is a haven to refugees. We shouldn’t adjust that simply because of fear. And candidates like Donald Trump are not helping promote safety and national security when they say things like, we should ID all the Muslims. When they say things like, Muslims or Arab Americans were cheering 9/11 — an absolute lie. And people like Ben Carson calling the refugees rabid dogs. These things are incredibly helpful to Daesh and they are detrimental to refugees and Americans. So, I think we’ve gotta all calm down, We’ve gotta have some courage. We’ve gotta face this threat in unity and based on values of inclusion, equality under the law, and basic democracy. Democracy now, how about that?
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Congressmember Keith Ellison, thank you so much for being with us. Again, the first Muslim congress member in the U.S. House of Representatives. And that does it for the show. Tomorrow we’ll be playing Juan González’s speech on the Puerto Rican debt crisis and on Friday it’s Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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US Rep. Keith Ellison Demands Transparent, Aggressive Investigation of Police Killing of Jamar Clark
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison has joined the chorus of people demanding transparency and the release of the video of the police killing of 24-year-old African-American Jamar Clark ten days ago. Authorities say police shot Clark in the head after a scuffle with officers who responded to a report of an assault. But multiple witnesses say Clark was shot while handcuffed. Minneapolis police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze have been placed on administrative leave during the investigation. Ellison has also called for a Department of Justice investigation into Clark’s death, which has now begun. During a police raid last Wednesday, a police officer dressed in fatigues and carrying what appeared to be a gas-launching gun pointed his weapon at Ellison’s own son, Jeremiah. “It is a violation of decency,” Ellison says. “Shouldering a weapon against nonviolent protesters is aggressive… and it did not help de-escalate the situation at all.”
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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Still with us in Minneapolis is Congressmember Keith Ellison who’s joined the chorus of people demanding the release of the video of the police killing of 24-year-old African-American Jamar Clark, 10 days ago. Authorities say Clark was shot in the head after a scuffle with officers who responded to a report of an assault. But multiple witnesses say Jamar Clark was shot while handcuffed. Minneapolis police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze have been placed on administrative leave during the investigation. Well, during a police raid last Wednesday, an officer dressed in fatigues and carrying what appeared to be a gas launching gun pointed his weapon at Congressman Ellison’s own son Jeremiah. The next day, Congressman Ellison and other elected officials demanded the release of the footage of Jamar Clark’s death.
Welcome back to Democracy Now!, Congressmember Ellison. Talk about, first, Jamar Clark, what we understand happened, what the release of this video would mean and also what happened to your son, not to mention the shooting of these Black Lives Matter protesters.
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, my first reaction when I saw the picture of Jeremiah was, um — was horror. I would gladly face whatever dangers were necessary, but to have my son have to face it is another thing. He is a 24-year-old guy. He is, uh, has a strong passion for justice. He’s a professional artist. And he doesn’t think he needs his dad worrying about him like that, but I can’t help it. I remember when he was just a little boy and now he’s a grown man. And I, actually, am a little proud that he feels this burning desire to stand up for what’s right and to make a better society. But yet that picture was very, very disturbing. And we’re not going to let it sit there. I mean, to shoulder a weapon like that at nonviolent protesters is outrageous. It’s a violation of decency, and we’re going to find out whether it’s a violation of law.
AMY GOODMAN: Who is the officer and why was he doing it?
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, that’s a good question. I think he was doing it to intimidate people. But, I think that shouldering a weapon against nonviolent protesters is an aggressive act, it’s certainly insight and provoke people. And it did not help de-escalate the situation at all. And so this is an issue we’re going to continue to press. But Jeremiah is fine. And Jamar Clark is not fine. He’s gonna be — has his funeral set for today.
The five young men who were shot by these gunmen, these suspicious gunmen, who for some unknown and bizarre reason thought that they were going to leave where they were, come down to a nonviolent protest and provoke people and then shoot at people when people raised questions about their intentions is just a series of provocations. And it is symptomatic of the issue of racism, injustice, discrimination, and I think that all they’re doing is provoking people to stand up firmer and stronger.
And as I said, as many times before, you have people standing up for a 15 and a union, you have people standing up for criminal justice reform, you have people standing up, nowadays, for climate action, you have people standing up for immigration reform. There is a surge going on across this country among diverse populations craving justice, demanding fair treatment. They’re might be motivated by different issues, but it is all sort of the same general thrust. We have to have a more just society.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And Congressman Ellison, I want — you’ve called for the release of the Jamar Clark video. We have just — in the situation in Chicago where officials held on to it, refused to release a key video for 400 days. The importance of the video in this case in Minneapolis?
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, let me just say this, the cases are a little different. Here is why. The first demand that I made was a demand for an independent investigation by the Department of Justice, and we got that. The head of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice agreed to take the case. There have been Justice Department lawyers out here already. This is somewhat unique because usually, the state case has to resolve before the feds will look into violations of federal or criminal civil rights or criminal law.
And so the first demand was met early. Other demands that have been met have been release of the names of the officers, grief counseling for the victims, the families, and then we’ve had meetings with the governor. There have been meetings with the mayor, all talking about redress of not just these direct issues, but the systemic issues that lead to the tragedies like Jamar Clark’s shooting death at the hands of Minneapolis Police officer. So, the tape demand was really a demand for transparency. We know that in the case of Eric Garner, in the case of Walter Scott, in a whole host of cases, the on the scene video was the very illuminating in terms of what actually happened.
At this point, my main concern is the independent investigation. My main concern is that we raise issues about the decision to take the case on a state level to the grand jury. I do not think this is the proper course of action, I’m concerned about because we’ve never seen a grand jury return a true bill of indictment. Usually, they just go there to get a no bill. And you’ll — and it would be a good thing to explore this issue because there are a number of cases where — suspicious cases of an officer involved shooting where the case goes to a grand jury, which is secret, and ends up just being — the case ends up dying there, and then allows public officials to not take responsibility for chargings, decisions.
But the issue of the tape, again — it’s a call for transparency. But I will tell you this, if an independent, thorough investigation requires that the tape be released after witnesses are all interviewed and if the investigation is not impeded, I think the family and even I could live with that. Again, I practiced law for 20 years. I’ve done many investigations myself. And some people in the federal investigation have indicated that if the tape were immediately released, it would allow certain witnesses, including law enforcement witnesses, to try to conform their testimony to the tape. That, I think, would not be a good outcome. But as long as we know that this is going to be a transparent, aggressive, independent investigation and the tape will be released immediately, I could live with that.
Again, this is very different from the Chicago situation where the tape was literally delayed and there had to be a Freedom of Information Act to release the tape. The case had already been resolved on the civil level with a $5 million settlement. And the only reason for not releasing the tape is that it was so incredibly provocative. The reason to not immediately release the tape in this situation is to maintain investigative integrity. And we know that this tape will be released. So, that particular demand, in my opinion, is important, critical, and essential, but I think must be subsumed to the larger demand of an independent investigation. We know we’re going to get that tape. We’ve been assured of it, and I don’t think it’s going to take long. But I think the priority is an independent investigation.
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Authorities in Chicago, Illinois have released police dashboard camera video showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. It was more than a year ago when Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the teenager 16 times. But it was only yesterday that Van Dyke was indicted for murder, one day before the city faced a court-ordered deadline to release the shooting video. Police had claimed Laquan McDonald lunged at Van Dyke with a small knife. But the newly released footage appears to show Van Dyke jumping out of a police car, pointing his gun at McDonald and opening fire when McDonald is many feet away. The video shows police bullets continually hitting McDonald’s body, even after he falls to the ground. We’ll go to Chicago for more on the case after headlines.
- Minneapolis: 3 Arrested in Shooting of Black Lives Matter Protesters
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly a thousand Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets Tuesday night after alleged white supremacists opened fire on demonstrators the night before, injuring five people. Police have now arrested three people in connection with the mass shooting, which took place outside a police precinct, as activists protested the earlier police shooting of unarmed African-American Jamar Clark. Black Lives Matter organizer Miski Noor denounced the attack by alleged white supremacists as an act of terrorism and said police had responded by macing the protesters.
bq. Miski Noor: "Despite earlier statements from police about the impending threat from white supremacists, the police instead maced citizen journalists and peaceful protesters. They made disparaging comments to those at the protest, instead of taking the threat seriously. We reiterate that we have zero faith in this police department’s desire to keep our community safe. We reiterate that we have zero faith in this police department’s desire to keep our community safe."
We’ll go to Minneapolis for more on the shooting with eyewitness Leslie Redmond and Minnesota Congressmember Keith Ellison later in the broadcast.
- Classes Cancelled over Racist Threats at Western Washington U.
In Washington State, Western Washington University suspended all classes Tuesday after racist threats targeting students of color were posted on social media. The threats mentioned individual female students who say they were rebuffed in their initial attempts to seek aid from campus law enforcement.
- Tunisia Declares State of Emergency After Bombing Kills 12
Tunisia has declared a 30-day state of emergency after at least 12 people were killed by an explosion on a bus carrying members of the presidential guard. The capital Tunis is under a 9 pm curfew. The attacks come amid security crackdowns in Belgium and France following the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on November 13. Schools and metro stations reopened today in Brussels after being shut down for four days.
- Obama, Hollande Vow to Increase Airstrikes Against ISIS
President Obama and French President Francois Hollande have agreed to ramp up airstrikes against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria following the Paris attacks. As Hollande visited Washington, D.C. for talks with Obama, French warplanes bombed ISIS targets near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Hollande: Climate Talks a "Beautiful Symbol" after Paris Attacks
Emerging from the meeting with Obama, Hollande pledged to press ahead with United Nations climate talks opening Monday in Paris, saying they are a "beautiful symbol" after the Paris attacks.
bq. Francois Hollande: "No one has asked us to suspend, delay it (climate talks) because in fact it is the most beautiful symbol we can imagine after the tragedy in Paris and Saint-Denis. This meeting is where the world decides for itself in favor of life — always life — the lives of our children, the small children of the planet."
- French Activists Vow to Protest During Paris Climate Talks
In the wake of the Paris attacks, French authorities canceled a mass march against climate change scheduled for this Sunday; 200,000 people were expected to take to the streets to call for a global deal to avert climate catastrophe. On Tuesday night, in Paris, hundreds gathered at an emergency meeting to oppose France’s state of emergency, which prohibits demonstrations for three months. The attendees vowed to protest during the U.N. climate talks — known as the Conference of the Parties, or COP. One of the organizers, Christine Poupin, spoke to Democracy Now!.
bq. Christine Poupin: "My name is Christine Poupin and I am spokesperson for the New Anticapitalist Party. The reason for this meeting tonight was to give a first response to the state of emergency, in particular to assert our capacity to resist and reflect, a response to the heavy weight imposed both by terrorism and the state of emergency. Talking about COP, this COP will have no positive outcome on the climate because it will make no positive decision to limit the use of fossil fuels, but worse, it will also promote false solutions that will heavily burden the people. So yes, there is nothing more urgent than to mobilize during COP, and even more to construct an international movement of climate justice."
Tune in Monday as Democracy Now! begins our two weeks of live coverage from the Paris climate talks.
- Russia Condemns Turkish Downing of Warplane
Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, saying it was "like a stab in the back delivered by the accomplices of terrorists." Turkey said it shot down the plane after warning the Russian pilots they were in Turkish airspace. But Russia says the plane did not stray from Syrian airspace. The incident marks one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia in half a century.
- Liberia: Teen Dies of Ebola, Marking 1st Fatality in Months
In Liberia, a 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola, months after the country was declared Ebola free. The news comes after a panel of global health experts condemned the World Health Organization for its sluggish response to the Ebola outbreak last year, saying "thousands" of deaths could have been prevented if not for the agency’s failures and delays.
- Missouri Supreme Court Overturns Conviction of Reggie Clemons
The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of death row prisoner Reggie Clemons, whose supporters say he is innocent. Clemons was one of three African-American men convicted for the rape and murder of two white sisters on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge in 1991. On Tuesday, the court vacated his convictions, saying the state suppressed evidence Clemons was beaten by police and coerced into confessing. Missouri now has 60 days to decide whether to pursue a retrial.
- Human Rights Activists Launch Encampment, Fast at Guantánamo
A group of 14 human rights activists from Witness Against Torture are setting up a protest encampment outside the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, the activists plan to fast in solidarity with Guantánamo prisoners. They are demanding the Obama administration deliver on its promise to finally close the prison.
- U.S. Military Report Concludes Hospital Bombing Resulted from Errors
The U.S. military is set to announce today that a series of errors led to the U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital that killed at least 30 people in Afghanistan last month. On October 3, a U.S. gunship passed five times over the hospital, bombing it repeatedly over more than an hour, and continuing to bomb despite multiple frantic calls by staff to U.S. officials telling them they were hitting a hospital. Doctors Without Borders has said the attack was an apparent war crime "conducted with a purpose to kill and destroy." The group had repeatedly told the U.S. military the hospital’s exact coordinates. But a military investigation has reportedly concluded the gunship crew intended to target another compound and hit the hospital by mistake, after relying on verbal descriptions from U.S. and Afghan forces on the ground. It remains unclear why those forces didn’t tell the gunship crew they were mistakenly bombing a hospital. Doctors Without Borders has demanded an independent investigation.
- Media Activist Wally Bowen Dies at 63
Media activist and community internet pioneer Wally Bowen has died at the age of 63. Bowen was the founder of Mountain Area Information Network, a non-profit community internet service provider. He also founded WPVM, "The Progressive Voice in the Mountains," a low-power FM community radio station in Asheville. Bowen challenged the broadcast license of Sinclair Media, the corporation that controlled Asheville’s only over-the-air television station, which Bowen and others accused of partisan political programming during the 2004 election season. Here is Wally Bowen speaking on Democracy Now! in 2009.
bq. Wally Bowen: "My background is journalism, so I always — you know, I was wanting to bridge the digital divide but also create sustaining revenue for journalism. And so, that’s what we’ve been moving toward all these years. And five years ago, we launched WPVM, a low-power FM radio station, and brought Democracy Now! for the first time to Asheville public access TV. So we’ve been concentrating our efforts on creating media infrastructure that is grounded in our community and beholden to our community and not beholden to Wall Street."
Wally Bowen died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, last Tuesday in Asheville, North Carolina.
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"This Thanksgiving, No Place for Refugees at the American Table" b
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In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, there has been a crushing backlash against refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. A cartoon has been circulating on social media showing a Native American man greeting a Pilgrim, saying, “Sorry, but we’re not accepting refugees.” As Americans prepare for one of the most popular national holidays, Thanksgiving, which commemorates the support and nourishment provided by the indigenous people to English refugees seeking a better life free from religious persecution, a wave of xenophobia is sweeping the country.
In the U.S. Congress, no less than six separate bills have been put forward to block any federal funding to resettle refugees from Syria or Iraq, and to empower states to deny entry into their “territory.” Imagine if all of a sudden we had 50 “statelets” creating their own border checkpoints, stopping all travelers, looking for anyone suspicious, i.e., any and all Syrians. So far, 31 state governors have essentially demanded this. Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback issued an executive order forbidding any agency of state government from cooperating in any way with Syrian refugee support efforts. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have called for a pause in the Syrian refugee program, with the support of Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer.
In Europe, similar policies are being proposed, with an announcement from Poland that it would pull back from the Europe-wide commitment to take in Syrian refugees. Far-right-wing parties in France and Holland have gained traction with their anti-immigrant rhetoric as well.
“It’s both morally reprehensible and factually wrong to equate these people with terrorists,” Peter Bouckaert told us on the “Democracy Now!” news hour. Bouckaert is the emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, and has spent the past few months in the Balkans and Greece, closely monitoring the refugee crisis firsthand. “They’re actually fleeing from the terrorists, and they’ve faced horrors of war in Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan. Many of them are coming with their families, trying to bring them to safety and a better future in Europe. And they should be welcomed. They will contribute to our society, and they have a right to asylum,” he said.
While the cartoon of the indigenous man and the pilgrim may be humorous, the crisis is not, and the imagery from the wars and the flight of the refugees is numbing. Bouckaert was one of the first people to share the photo of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi after he drowned, lying face down on the sand in the Turkish beach town of Bodrum. Last September, the Kurdi family was trying to reach Greece, just a dozen miles across the Aegean Sea. They bought passage on a smuggler’s small boat, which capsized. Aylan, his brother and mother drowned, along with at least two others. The photos of Aylan’s corpse, first in the sand, then being carried by a Turkish soldier, shocked the conscience of the world. “That is still the reality on the beaches of Europe, two Aylan Kurdis are still drowning every day,” Bouckaert said.
A core argument by those who would deny entry to Syrian refugees was a passport found at the scene of one of the suicide bombers in Paris last week. It was a Syrian passport, and contributes to the belief that violent jihadists can enter Europe posing as refugees. “That’s exactly why they left a fake Syrian passport at the scene of their attacks, because they would love it if we shut the door on the people who are fleeing their so-called Islamic caliphate,” Bouckaert explained. “Our most powerful tool in the war against Islamic extremism, are our values. It’s not our military planes and our bombs. The only way we can fight against this brutality, this barbarism, is with our values. And if we’re going to shut the door on these refugees, we’re giving a propaganda victory to ISIS.”
And yet, the U.S., French and Russian response to terror is to pummel the city of Raqqa, considered the capital of the so-called Islamic State, but also home to hundreds of thousands of civilians who will now become terrorized refugees themselves. They will follow the millions who have already fled, only to find they have no place to go. Add to that the refugees from countries like Iraq and Afghanistan: people fleeing for their lives from the wars being waged by the United States.
It has been almost 400 years since that first, fateful Thanksgiving feast in Massachusetts. Xenophobic policies like those threatening to shut out refugees from these wars, if allowed to stand, should serve as a shameful centerpiece at every Thanksgiving table this year.
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