the defense said, he was just a man trying to help the authorities, any way he could. on the exterior, he appears to be calm. but he s talking about how frightened he is, internally. he is trying to explain, to the police, what happened. he is trying to help them solve what occurred. but would the defense be able to convince the jury that byron smith s own account of the shootings, how he gave haile a self-described, finishing shot was really justified? i did a good, clean, finishing shot. from a human standpoint, it just sounds so cold blooded. it does, and i had to deal with the way it sounded. but it s not evidence of what he is thinking. it s evidence of emotion. it s not evidence of murder. he thought his strongest evidence to justify the shootings was the fact that nick brady had broken into byron smith s house, before.
and the matter-of-fact way, in which he described the killings? i just pulled out the. 22 and shot her. the defense said, he was just a man trying to help the authorities, any way he could. on the exterior, he appears to be calm. but he s talking about how frightened he is, internally. he is trying to explain, to the police, what happened. he is trying to help them solve what occurred. but would the defense be able to convince the jury that byron smith s own account of the shootings, how he gave haile a self-described, finishing shot was really justified? i did a good, clean, finishing shot. from a human standpoint, it just sounds so cold blooded. it does, and i had to deal with the way it sounded. but it s not evidence of what he is thinking. it s evidence of emotion. it s not evidence of murder. he thought his strongest
among african-americans, financial equity, is a big day. it s a big day. it s very important, the acknowledgment you mentioned how it s been buried by history. i recall after 9/11 a lot of people talking about how terrible this terrorist attack was on u.s. soil and a lot of black people saying there was another terrible terrorist attack on american soil that nobody mentioned. have the president go there and acknowledge it in this way is very significant. the acknowledgment is important. you bring up the issue of economics and the economic cost to this community. not just to those who were living at the time, but to their desce descendants. this has a generational impact. why are there no black rockefellers or dupont families. it s because it takes generations to amass that kind of wealth. that s what was robbed from those families in tulsa. we should note not only the insurance claims they filed were paid out. that s how egregious of a violation this was just from economic standpoint
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democratic strategist basil michael and chief correspondent for the new york times magazine mark leibovich. what do you think? that was tough to watch, but it made its point. i m not sure if it reaches the ears that it needs to reach, and that s the saddest part about it i appreciate my senators chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand that she may have a unique ability to convince folks on the other side of the aisle that this is the right way to go, this is the right thing to do. sadly, i just don t see that congress is going to make the change that they need to but the one glimmer of hope is that we ve seen a lot of activity in states maybe this convinces state legislatures and governors to act where the president doesn t. i mean, yeah. i mean it s all true the question is what is the political end game here? i mean does this move the needle at all it s obviously from a human standpoint extremely hard to