Thom Hartmann: The Idea of Protect & Serve has been Lost

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Hilary Shelton, Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy & Policy-NAACP joins Thom Hartmann. With the nation still trying to figure out what happened in Sanford, Florida that led to the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin back in February - and why George Zimmerman is still walking around as a free man - a new - and just as disturbing case is coming to light out of New York. It was there - that a 68-year-old African American man was gunned down in his own home by police officers who were responding to a false alarm. Ken Chamberlain, Sr. - a former Marine who suffered from a heart condition - had a medical alert system pendant - that when pressed would call for emergency medical help.

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1. We need a police force to police the cops.

They truly are out of control on many forces. The unaccountability of abuse, spying, corruption and even murder happens daily. And those who are considered good cops but do not reign in the psychopaths...well, they're not good cops, obviously. Police get their power because the citizens gave it to them. It's time to take that power away from those who abuse it. And for the worst, like these cops, it time to put them in prison where they belong.


And are these cops in jail yet? If not, why not?