Ralph Poynter: What's Happening 05/05/2015, Black Lives Matter

The subject tonight is "Black Lives Matter," featuring an update about the Baltimore police officers who were charged with the murder of Freddie Gray, and updates about political prisoners Edward Pinkney and Mumia. Other topics include:

• Snake oil salesman and U.S. democracy: Discussion about the reality of the few numbers of police indicted for murder of Black People and the fewer numbers of police convicted and the even fewer numbers who upon sentencing, actually serve time incarcerated.
• We are demanding an investigation of the reality of the statistics of convicted policeman who actually serve time.
• Capitalism and the issue of the draught crisis out West.
• Million Mother's March Against Police Violence-Stolen Lives
• Updates / status of Mumia Abu Jamal
• Status of Rev. Pinkney 
• TPP

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Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has, and it never will - Frederick Douglass