The fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. last summer sparked a series of protests, which quickly spread throughout the country. As the situation came to light, so too did a fierce debate about the increasing militarization of the U.S. police force. Thomas Morton goes to Ferguson at the height of the protests to get an in-depth look at the situation on the ground. He then goes to Urban Shield in Oakland, Cal. and talks to expert Radley Balko to learn how U.S. SWAT teams and police are being trained and how they are getting military-grade equipment to police their communities.
Over the last two years, there has been an influx of thousands of Central Americans immigrating to the United States, many of whom are fleeing rampant gang violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Suroosh Alvi visits El Salvador to see the conditions that are motivating this mass migration north, and then travels from El Salvador through Mexico to see the perilous journey on top of a network of trains, called "The Beast", that many of these immigrants must take to get to the United States.
s03e01 - Our Rising Oceans
s03e02 - To Serve and Protect & Coming to America
s03e03 - We The People & Countdown to Extinction
s03e04 - Lines in the Sand & Outsourcing Embryos
s03e05 - Synthetic Drug Revolution & Transsexuals of Iran
s03e06 - The Post-antibiotic World & Indonesia's Palm Bomb
s03e07 - Sweet Home Alabama & Haitian Money Pit
s03e08 - Egyptian Tomb Raiders & Rent a White Guy
s03e09 - Savior Seeds & India's Water Crisis
s03e10 - A Prayer for Uganda & Kidneyville
s03e11 - Evolution of a Plague & Campus Coverup
s03e12 - Enemies at the Gates & Global Jihad
s03e13 - Afghanistan After Us & La Haine
s03e14 - Cold War 2.0
HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.
The HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child sleeping bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.