tonight, israel intensifying strikes on gaza, warning civilians to move south amid what it calls massive attacks. the israeli military says it has cut gaza in two, its forces reaching the sea completely surrounding gaza city ahead of an expected assault there. ian pannell, one of the few journalists to get inside with a close-up look at the devastation and the forces on the ground. protests from washington to europe in support of palestinians. secretary of state antony blinken with an urgent diplomatic push to prevent the war from spreading. matt rivers standing by in tel aviv. also developing, a hit and run at stanford university now being investigated as a hate crime. students on edge on college campuses nationwide with increasing reports of anti-semitism and islamophobia. a california police officer off the job after allegedly sending racist text messages to a colleague. the police chief calling the messages disgusting. the big reveal in iowa. that state s governor e
needless to say jason aldean rejects all of the accusations coming his way from critics. chloe melas and it is not just the lyrics causing controversy. some took issue with the video. jake, there sea a lot of outrage over the music video. some viewers are noticing that scenes in this music video, part of which we just saw were filmed in front of the mari county courthouse and this is in columbia, tennessee and this courthouse is the site of where an infamous lynching took place in 1927 of a black man named henry choate and it served as the backdrop for the columbia race riot in 1946. as we saw the video shows police brutality protests and shots from surveillance camera showing robberies and many people are also pointing out that, jake, remember in 2017 jason aldean of all people to be promoting gun violence, performed at a concert
around? when these two klansmen were identified as killers, the old man, bennie jack hays, he hired a klansman to burn his house down so he could hire a prominent attorney to defend his son in the state trial. he did burn the house. he got an insurance settlement. he used that to pay the lawyer for his son, henry hays. bennie jack hays raised enough money to hire one of the best criminal lawyers, m.a. bubba marsal. the defense was to attempt to discredit tiger, because mr. marsal argued that tiger had cut his deal to save his life and therefore would say anything that he was told to say.
i couldn t live here no more. and i started staying at the salvation army in pritchard. i honestly believed that they would have killed my mom and daddy. 29-year-old henry hays looked chipper as his capital murder trial got under way. security is very tight at the trial where in his opening argument, acting district attorney tom harrison charged that hays and 20-year-old james tiger knowles went out looking for a black man and found michael donald. i put tiger knowles on the stand, and we went through, you know, who he is, did he know henry hays, and how did he know him. just asking what happened that night. soon as he leaned over into the car to give us directions, i put a pistol in his face and made him get in the car. then he started begging for his life. you ve changed. so have we. that s why new dove body wash now has 24-hour renewing micro moisture for continuous care.
person. the most critical factor was to create faith in the black community that local law enforcement had both the will and the skill to prosecute a white man for murdering a black man. if we were successful, it would demonstrate that the life of a black person mattered as much as the life of a white person. so this is black lives matter in 1983. when you look at michael donald and the fact that his mother, beulah mae donald, had to essentially say, michael donald s life mattered. he was black and his life mattered. justice for trayvon!