following a controversial police shooting there. 1,000 people blocked the street near the state capital protesting the shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old boy, by a white police officer. a separate rally, memorial, showed support for the city s police. to the fallout from the racist fraternity video at university of oklahoma. small group of protesters made their way through the exclusive dallas neighborhood where the family of one of the young men seen chanting in the video lives. it s believed parker rice and his family were not there. we are hearing from rice and others about the scandal for the first time. abc s ryan owens reports. reporter: until now we have heard parker rice leading the racist chant. the 19-year-old is singing a very different tune. i am deeply store for what i did saturday night. it was wrong, reckless he says in a written statement. also on that tape, his frat brother, levi petite, identified by his parents who posted apology online. it may be difficult for t
who know levi from the video, we know his heart he is not a racist. we raised him to be loving and inclusive, how did the two end up at the center of a racial storm. both group in ritzy dallas neighborhood, went to elite schools, dorm mate says rice went out of his way to help people. unfortunately he compromised his morality for the tradition and for the pursuit of the favor of fraternity members. parker rice eluded to the tradition in his statement. saying yes the song was taught to us. but that too doesn t work as an explanation. we received our first statement from the local chapter of sae here on campus. they say cryptically that three to four years ago their frat was invaded by a horrible cancer that they never stopped. ryan owens, abc news, norman, oklahoma. new worries this morning about release of a bioterror bacteria. federal official says a worker at the tulane national primate