uttered a racial slur on the 911 tape. i think he said words that were not comforting to my ear. like these people. and who are these people? he was suspicious because he was young and black with a hoodie. arianna jones was at a rally today. here are some of the protesters and their reactions. we re here to stand in solidarity! folks who have never met each other, folks from all around the country and all around the world are standing up and saying that we want democracy to work for us! that we will not allow the criminal justice system to ignore us. if the races were reversed, you d either have an in-jail black man or a dead one. one or the other. injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. other developments have been rapidly unfolding today. activists gathered outside the regional office of florida s division of licensing to demand the suspension of george zimmerman s gun permit.
arrested so he can be brought to justice, mr. martin was asked if he thought george zimmerman uttered a racial slur on the 911 tape. i think he said words that were not comforting to my ear. like these people. and who are these people? he was suspicious because he was young and black with a hoodie. arianna jones was at a rally today. here are some of the protesters and their reactions. we re here to stand in solidarity! folks who have never met each other, folks from all around the country and all around the world are standing up and saying that we want democracy to work for us! that we will not allow the criminal justice system to ignore us. if the races were reversed, you d either have an in-jail black man or a dead one. one or the other. injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. other developments have been rapidly unfolding today. activists gathered outside the regional office of florida s
the flashlight into your bag to make sure you re not bringing anything in that you re not supposed to be. so they are doing that. and the things that they re looking for are the things that the protesters are not supposed to be bringing into the park. sleeping bags, personal belongings, any type of camping equipment. the things that would allow them to set up an encampment here in the way that they have been for the last two months. nbc s mara schiavocampo. thank you, appreciate it. one of our producers, arianna jones, was in lower manhattan last night, and these are the scenes that she caught on her camera. arianna, good to have you with us. tell bus what you saw down there. what was the mood of the crowd? how intense was it? when i got down there, i couldn t get within a two-block radi radius. they d already formed kind of a police barricade. they were all in riot gear. they were pushing all the people that weren t still defending the actual park itself, they were pushing them ba
just another thing to strengthen it. were you nervous for your safety? yeah, i mean, obviously the crowds were getting a little bit it was very tense, obviously, but i wasn t worried in the areas that i stayed a little bit further away just to avoid that. but there were definitely some confrontations going on, some arrests. arianna jones. great work. thank you. now let s turn to van jones, president and co-founder of rebuildthedream.com. and laura flanders with us. host of free speech tv and author of at the tea party. great to have you both with us. van jones, do these raids strengthen the movement nationwide? i mean, clearly, with the voice of the mayor on that bbc interview really spilling the beans that they ve been in contact with 18 different cities about how to handle this. what s happening here? well, first of all, they re going to coordinate it, they should be coordinating to try to get jobs for young people, they should be coordinating to try to solve the problems
nightclub and they shine the flashlight into your bag to make sure you re not bringing anything in you re not supposed to be. the things they re looking for are the things protesters aren t supposed to be bringing into the park. sleeping bags, personal belongings, camping equipment, things that would allow them to set up an encampment in the way they have been for the last two months. nbc s mara schiavocampo. one of our producers, arianna jones, was in manhattan last night. tell us about what you saw down there, what was the mood of the crowd, how intense was it? when i got down there, i couldn t get within a two-block radius. they already formed a police barricade. they were all in riot gear. they were pushing all the people that weren t still defending the actual park, itself. they were pushing them back basically saying we weren t even allowed on the sidewalks, it was a pedestrian area, you risked being arrested. people were pretty upset. there were people crying. i was actually