parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, she did. i want you to listen to the story. i was arrested in 1955, march the 2nd, for refusing to give my seat to a white lady. most people think that because r rosa parks sit down on this bus seat and she refused to get up that that ended segregation. well, she now wants her record to be expunged there in alabama. i did a story with a group of activists who in the 50s refused to get up from a lunch counter and their records were expunged. even though history is on their side, and it s been so morany years, charles, it s ka that aric cathartic that this happen. when you have a conversation about justice, and trying to reconcile some of america s racial discord that has been
such an important stain and an important part of america s dna for far too long. these are the types of things that need to be done in the interest of justice. these are the types of wrongs that need to be corrected so that people can move on, and that there actually can be some semblance of just reconciliation, and correctiveness, not because of what law says, not because of what the book says but because we knew then, and we know now, and we re going to reaffirm now that it s simply the right thing to do. claudette is an american hero, and needs to be celebrated as such, and one of the first things in making that happen is make sure her record is expunged. she may never be a household name like rosa parks but that s the least that history could do for her. charles, thank you. absolutely. thank you. gop lawmakers are relentlessly slamming attorney general merrick garland over a doj memo that outline s the
through hundreds of hours of video footage, and following up with leads, but of course the family says it s not happening fast enough. victor, alisyn. omar jimenez, thank you. civil rights attorney, charles cullman joins us now. jelani day s mother, they believe there s something very highly suspect about how he ended up in that river. who could investigate this, since the coroner and the local officials have not given them very speedy answers thus far into jelani s death, who could do that for them. you heard when omar was talking about what has within the discussion and the correspondence between fbi and the police, there has been an inkling of connection between the fbi offering resources, however, alisyn, what we have not seen so far is a full blown investigation from the fbi and quite frankly at this point when you hear from reverend jackson, ms. day, when you hear from