was tied one a busy schedule. he said, i cannot make a definite promise and added i m supposed to go to russia and israel. so now he s playing hard to get with the white house. maybe he is a smart cookie. he is a smart cookie. good to see you. mira with the asia pacific program at the nonpartisan center of a new american security. good to see you. good to see you, ali. police in san diego are investigating why a man suddenly opened fire at a pool party. that tops our look at stories around the news nation this morning. one woman was killed and seven others injured as the suspect identified as peter selis began to open fire at an apartment complex on up sunday. he appeared to be reloading his gun on sunday when officers opened fire and killed him. authorities are not calling this racially motivated, but nearly all the victims were african-american or latino. the suspect was white. crews in arkansas are searching for two missing children swept away in this
infused with gender. so how do we talk about making distinctions between perceptions of menace that are real and in our face and the kind of collective angst that the culture feels when they re confronted with an erratic person who happens to be african-american or latino. i think that we actually have to honestly confront the fact that implicit bias exists in all human beings including police officers. i think the pushback on that presumption is where we go wrong often in these cases. i think even going back to trayvon martin if you make him anything other than a black young man, i think most of the public would not default to oh well george zimmerman must have been in fear for his life. in so many of these cases, police officers assert that they were in fear for their life and the general public at large says well it was an african-american or a latino gentleman, so that is a justified fear, and so therefore the force was justified.
i didn t ceclor when i was little. you only ceclor when you get older. reporter: nearly all this shoppers in this mall are latin-american or latino. there are only a handful of them in the entire country. hey, buddy. reporter: that s why santa himself has a wish this christmas. the malls next year will have a few ethnic santa clauss in all culture. dreaming of a white christmas and one in many other shades. hi, sweetie. reporter: cnn, los angeles. still to come in the newsroom, whether the so-called war on christmas really starts at home? we ll be right back. hi, i m janis mason coming to you from cuba. i want to beneficiary my husband james mason hope holidays. and i miss him, miss him, miss
going to dislike the people there to protect you against the berries. i want to read a few statistics. i think it s pretty shocking when you look at the results of ston and frisk and how it impacts people in the communities. looking at the nypd stop and frisk policy. we have a stat about the people being stopped. 88% of those stopped were innocent of any crime, according to statistics. 87% were african-american or latino. we don t have evidence that these people are committing any crimes. but instead, 780 guns were taken off the street in 2009 because of stop and frisk. that s 0.19%. we would have a better job if we had random checks. this is a 40-year problem or 50-year problem. this goes back to the war on drugs. we started a war against our own people. it simply did not work.
we want to get to the cover of fortune, but first i want to read from the washington post. this is about the teacher strike. in chicago, 85% of the roughly 400,000 public school students are either african-american or latino. a similar percentage received free or reduce-priced meals, meaning these students live near or at the poverty line $27,214 for a family of three. the average public schoolteacher earned almost triple that amount, $76,000 a year according to the school district. in contract negotiations this year, chicago public schools offered an average total pay increase of 16% over four years. that s actually pretty good. the chicago teachers union, 26,000 strong rejected the offer and went on strike monday throwing chaos among parents and children. no one can say how long this will last, but even if it lasts till tomorrow, it s already hit more minority children upon