reporter: the university is upping security for the foreseeable future. until the killer is found, police are advising vigilance, traveling in pairs and awareness. maybe we should as a community have always been doing that. this took our innocence. reporter: a loss of innocence, safety and four young lives. joining me, retired seattle police chief car men bestin. thank you for being here today. i want to play something else officials had to say at the press conference yesterday when they were asked why they aren t releasing more information. take a listen. there s always a balance between what you are willing to release versus what you are trying to gather. we have told the public very clearly from the beginning that we are looking for a knife. we have told the public very clearly from the beginning that we believe it was a targeted attack. i mean, to be honest, you are going to have to trust us.
information. reporter: the university is upping security for the foreseeable future. until the killer is found, police are advising vigilance, traveling in pairs and general awareness. in some ways, this took our innocence. reporter: a loss of innocence, safety and four young lives. as the community continues to mourn and grieve, there s a candlelight vigil next wednesday. back to you. thank you so much. we are also following developing news in china. home to roughly 10 million people has been put into lockdown and with that regime there, lockdown means literally locked down. as the country reported a record number of infections, 131,000 in a single day. but the concerns are being
always been doing that. in some ways this took our innocence. reporter: a loss of innocence, safety, and four young lives. as the community continues to mourn and grooefr, there will be a candlelight vigil to honor the victims next wednesday. such a difficult start to the holiday season by all of those touched by this tragedy. back to you. gadi schwartz, thank you. the suspect accused of killing five people at a colorado lgbt club last saturday has made their first court appearance. the 22-year-old was barely able to speak after being beaten and pistol-whipped by club-goers who fought to disarm him, including a veteran. the suspect appeared on video from jail and was ordered to be held without bond. they face possible murder and hate crime charges and are expected to be formally charged at court hearing next month. well, one more to go. the 2022 midterms are almost over with late-night calls in alaska. now it s just the runoff in georgia that s left and the
young white girl as she grapples with the realities of racism. also delving into the roles of gender, the loss of innocence, and the law. to look at to kill a mockingbird from a plot perspective, to void of its contacts, being banned so frequently by so many decorations, is to miss it significance entirely. motivated parents and emboldened school boards have been called to be removed from library and bookshelves since its publication in the 1960s. many have called for the book removal for the use of racial slurs, one word in particular, the n-word, appearing 40 times. arguing that racism is not condemned harshly enough in the novel. atticus singe embodies a toxic white savior role in the book. others take issue with the frank to pick shun of rape and nexus violence. is the book right with so many painful elements and arguably
people what they want. one viewer who describes himself as neither black nor white writes in part, it is a terrible imposition to black schoolchildren to be told that they should be grateful to read huck finn and mocking bird. a teacher wrote in part, it was always an option in my classes to read some other title, but few ever chose to. it always led to some conversation about race, bigotry, loss of innocence, parental influence, racial injustice, but the significance of the time period always directed understanding from a historical perspective, end quote. there is an important and nuanced debate to be had surrounding this particular banned book and we are going to have it. tune in tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. eastern and continue to email your thoughts on this week s