span of about 57 minutes. two fatalities and two that survived there. you ve got to wonder what in the world were these men doing in that white truck. well, we don t know, the interviews, the interrogation, i believe is still ongoing. i know it s been going on since they were arrested. so hopefully we ll get to the bottom of it, and we ll get some information out fairly soon. we do have a press conference called for this afternoon at 3:00 local time. which i believe would be 4:00 your time. so maybe we ll get hopefully a lot more information and be able to answer that question. okay. mayor bartlett, is there any indication that race played a role? well, as a tie can be made, since the five people that were shot, were african-americans, and the two people that had been arrested and are suspected, being involved, are both white men. at least appear to be white men.
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one of them might have a different racial background. but generally i would say he s a white man. we have not had any indication so far, that this was their motive, however, i have not talked with police department members that are, that are involved with the interrogation, so i do know that if it, if it does appear that race was a factor, that this is a hate crime, then we will certainly join and encourage the, the officials for the state or federal to pursue this to the extent, full extent of the law. and pursue it in an appropriate way. we should mention, mayor bartlett, that indeed the fbi and state forces have joined the authorities in tulsa to get to the bottom of it. the terror that this struck in your community there. there were people changing their lifestyles in what they were
so we collectively, the political leadership, the leadership of the naacp, law enforcement leadership, the media as well. we all said, please, communities, stand up, make some phone calls and give us some tips, some ideas on what events that might have occurred that could give us an idea, give us in the police department an idea of where we could go talk to some people and when that whole process completed, we had several tips that eventually did lead to the arrest of two individuals that are still being interviewed and interrogated as we speak. now, mayor bartlett, obviously the shooting of five individuals, regardless of the race of either the victims or the shooter is fundamentally problematic, but undoubtedly, part of why this is making news this morning is this question about whether or not what has just happened in your community is a hate crime. we know that the fbi is
know about this, we don t want to ask about this, it s not a priority, it s not important, we don t care and people on the ground saw this, and i think they really felt slighted and insulted as if their lives just didn t matter to the people who were supposed to be protecting them. and the fact that the u.n. has not gotten rid of that specific base, sent those specific soldiers home is kind of telling. you know the new york times quoted the mayor saying we would have kicked them out ourselves. the scientific evidence seems to point that it was a group of peace keepers from nepal and because of the strains of cholera match exactly. and there was an open sewer. you know. and while important to certainly shed light on this situation, the real injustice is that a u.n. force that introduced something like cholera, it was able to spread across the entire country so quickly and kill 7,000 people, had cholera been introduced in the united states, it never