Right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. You know, ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we would call a higher learning, colleges, universities, conservatives and traditionalists have been freaked out but just were dangerous ideas were being shared their. I mean, really the whole dangerous ideas coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. This brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard as a governor there, ron desantis calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that would require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty, and staff about the beliefs and few points to support intellectual diversity. Not only that, he is gone on to suggest that budget cuts could take place if schools are found to be, quote, indoctrin
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cunningham, frank figliuzzi, tim alexander. that is tonight s reidout. i m going to turn things over to my pal and colleague. chris hayes. hey, chris. a, joy and at this hour, the country is grappling with the release of some video, with, i guess you would call it an encounter, that resulted in the death of a 29-year-old black man. it s on january 7th. that evening, around 8:30, memphis police officers stopped tyre nichols because, they say an emphasis on they say we still don t know, when where the other. they suspected him of reckless driving. today, the memphis chief of police told nbc news that the department is still unable to find evidence as to why the officers stopped tyre nichols that evening. in an initial statement when this happened, memphis police claim that, quote, a confrontation occurred notice the passive language between officers and nichols and nichols ran away on foot. they said that there was, quote, another confrontation when officers a
lord and kids, and grandchildren. 77 year old, purely young, she was a missionary who loved singing and dancing. she was an alabama native who moved to new york as an adult. after 25 years, she had a food pantry. she enjoyed time in the classroom as a substitute teacher. today, a large crowd gathered outside the grocery store for a prayer vigil and community members are calling for an end to this hate. in the meantime, the fbi is working to confirm the authenticity of a racist manifesto. the details of the manifesto outlined a racist ideology known as the great replacement theory. it s rooted in the belief that white americans are being replaced by nonwhite people through immigration and interracial marriage. the great replacement theory was also cited as a motive in other mass shootings. the targeting of latinos, specifically mexicans and mexican americans, at an el paso walmart shooting at synagogues in pennsylvania and california. christmas placement theory also picked u