back to their habitat, because when you take them out of their habitats, they re kind of creatures of nature, so they need to be out in their habitat. good morning. i think this is a question that everybody has been asking, like, all of these animals disappearing in the cages being tampered with. what the heck is happening at america s zoos. we have two monkeys that went missing in dallas. 12 squirrel monkeys taken in louisiana and an exotic toucan stolen in florida. we re going to have much more on this. and this cnn exclusive, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu making several major headlines in his one on one sit-down with our very sewn jake tapper. was israel behind the mysterious attack on iran s sites and weapons program, and will netanyahu become a mediator between russia and ukraine as this war rages on? also this morning, we have new revelations in the brutal police beating of tyre nichols, as his family and the city of memphis is preparing to mourn today
And i looked at the different candidates that was running, she was the best person for me. Reporter she would be secretary Hillary Clinton who polls show is leading by double digits over senator Bernie Sanders in south care lain. Clinton has repeatedly spoken out about gun violence and police brutality, a message that resonated with sabrina fulton. President clinton was the first to mention anything about bhak lives matter. She was the first to even show she cared. Reporter some of the other women had a similar experience with the secretary including gwen karr whose sonner rick garner died while being restrained by new york police. 11 times he said, i cant breathe. But the disconcerned officers took his life. She endorsed me first. Reporter both candidates are going t of their way to court the black vote nationally and in South Carolina. While the mothers are backing inroads. The mothers plan to take their message and endorsement across the state in the hopes that it will make a differ
nationally. we have looked at putting in legislation and laws within individual states, but this is a national crisis that needs to be addressed if we are to stop this killing. we re tired of just hashtags. we re tired of just justice for this loved one, justice for that loved one. but we are asking or we are demanding that change be made at a national level if we re going to stop this heinous killings and egregious killings of our loved ones. i m so glad both of you are here, because your perspective on this is like no one else s frankly. and i wonder what both of you made about how the city of memphis handled this. how officials handled whow te information came out, what they said later, what we heard from officials. gwen, i ll start with you. what did you think? you know, i just think that the the police department, the city, they did the right thing
of that group, too. her unarmed teenage son gary hopkins jr. was killed by a police officer in maryland in 1999. he was attend ding a dance at a local fire station after losing his father to bone cancer just two weeks earlier. thank you very much. gwen, marion for being with us today. thank you. thank you for having us. thank you for the invitation. and marion, i know you wanted to be in memphis today for the funeral and you couldn t make it because of weather. and gwen, you re there. so let me start with you, gwen, about why you are there. and then marion, why you hope to be there. yes, well, i m here to stand in solidarity with the family. we know that the family needs all the support that they can get at this time. we know that they are over overwhelmed by the death of their son, as i was when it happened to me. and it s so fresh for them, but for me, it just digs into old
training is not enough. they are taught in that blue wall of silence to do exactly what happened. but i m happy to see that they moved swiftly and again, as gwen has said, this needs to happen in every single case across this country. yeah. and so often, we hear the last cry being for their mothers, as it was, marion, for you, you know, 23 years ago. there is nothing like a mother s grief and our hearts are with you today. thank you. thank you. thank you, both. gwen karr, marion, gary hopkins. we really appreciate it. and i think it s important to say thank you for having us. and i just want to say, god bless that family and god bless that mother. we are with them. and god bless you guys as well. important names here, gary hopkins jr. and eric garner. say their names, as they say. thank you. we appreciate it. we ll be right back.