garrick burdette s killing, there was nothing. which means one of two things, either it ended up being an accident, which we would not have had or they never found the person that did it. reporter: what blacks in this rural mississippi county believe is that law enforcement treat crimes and investigations differently, depending on the color of the victim s skin. last summer in rural panola county, johnny lee butts, a 61-year-old black man, walking far off the shoulder of this road, was deliberately run over and killed by a car carrying three white teens. the driver told police he thought he hit a deer. his two passengers both say the 18-year-old driver steered straight for him. the driver s charged with murder. the d.a. though says there s no evidence to suggest a racial motive. johnny butts brother says the white local law enforcement simply don t want to know the truth. do you believe that the sheriff and the district attorney don t
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garrick burdette s killing, there was nothing. which means one of two things, either it ended up being an accident, which we would not have had or they never found the person that did it. reporter: what blacks in this rural mississippi county believe is that law enforcement treat crimes and investigations differently, depending on the color of the victim s skin. last summer in rural panola county, johnny lee butts, a 61-year-old black man, walking far off the shoulder of this road, was deliberately run over and killed by a car carrying three white teens. the driver told police he thought he hit a deer. his two passengers both say the 18-year-old driver steered straight for him. the driver s charged with murder. the d.a. though says there s no evidence to suggest a rainal motive. johnny butts brother says the white local law enforcement simply don t want to know the truth. do you believe that the sheriff and the district attorney don t
a couple of reasons. one is because of the subject matter, sort of a midwesterner, midwestern conservative with those sensibilities, don t talk about stuff that is personal. he wanted to do right by his son, that was very clear. but also, he was very much against gay marriage and voted that way on a slew of issues but he never talked about it. i couldn t find one quote from him talking about how you have to keep marriage between a man and a woman, like many other conservatives did he just it is not his thing it is more of economics economic issues. so it was a new thing for him to even talk about something this, never mind talk about it so personally. i want to play another clip from your interview. and what do you sty a gay constituent in ohio who says i m so glad that he has changed his position. but why did it take him learning that he has a gay son? why didn t he, as my representative, care about my rights before before that? well, i would say that you know, i ve had a
have had or they never found the person that did it. reporter: what blacks in this rural mississippi county believe is that law enforcement treat crimes and investigations differently, depending on the color of the victim s skin. last summer in rural panola county, johnny lee butts, a 61-year-old black man, walking far off the shoulder of this road, was deliberately run over and killed by a car carrying three white teens. the driver told police he thought he hit a deer. his two passengers both say the 18-year-old driver steered straight for him. the driver s charged with murder. the d.a. though says there s no evidence to suggest a racial motive. johnny butts brother says the white local law enforcement simply don t want to know the truth. do you believe that the sheriff and the district attorney don t want to or are afraid to know the truth? i think they don t want to.