Khalil Muhammad: To Stop Police Killings, Transform the Political Culture That Threatens Black Lives

Protests were held from coast to coast on Tuesday in a day of action against police violence and racial profiling. The protests came as the sheriff's reserve deputy, who fatally shot Eric Harris in Oklahoma, turned himself in to authorities. Robert Bates said he thought he was using his Taser instead of his gun when he killed Harris earlier this month. Bates is a wealthy insurance executive and heavy donor to the Tulsa Police Department, who gets to volunteer on the force as a reserve. Meanwhile, the South Carolina police officer charged with murder for fatally shooting Walter Scott will probably not face the death penalty if he is convicted. Prosecutors say Michael Slager would still be eligible for a sentence of life in prison. We are joined by Khalil Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, and director of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.