voting to change the system, to occupy the voting booth. you ve been such an incredible advocate of it. what do you say to a young man who picks up your comic book and says i see myself now in this comic book. it speaks to me,
shooting while white. if kyle had been a black or latino kid, he wouldn t have lived long enough to make it to a trial. in a country where they shoot black kids for playing with toy guns and latin kids for putting their hands up? he s an emmy and tony-award winner. his latest project focuses on this issue. he s the creator and author of a new comic book of a latino superhero. it revolves around structural racism in the criminal justice system. joining me now is long-time actor, award winner, friend, john, how are you doing this evening? hello. thank you for having me. it it seems right now you re trying to shed light on the criminal justice system, how it s sometimes stacked against
tonight. coming up, the house finally passed biden s social spending bill but not before kevin mccarthy tried to have the last word. plus i ll be joined by actor and comedian, john leguizamo. we ll discuss his comic book and presentation on the screen. but first, richard lui is here with the headlines. operations are returning to normal at the hartsfield international airport. a gun accidentally going off in a security screening area earlier this afternoon. and that was the security line at the country s busiest airport after a prohibited item was found going through a tsa checkpoint x-ray. they told the passenger with the bag to not touch anything during the search and then the passenger lunged at the bag and grabbed the gun, which then went off. the passenger then ran out of the airport. here s an eyewitness. absolute disbelief. i mean, you hear about it and you read about it but just being in the middle of it is something i thought i d never experience in my lifetime.
that s how i created it, and max gomez, unfortunately because he s a person of color, is wrongfully profiled and incarcerated. in the comic book, the main character, i quote, at first i thought the system was broken and now i think it s working fine, to keep people like me down. tell me more about that. there s an incredible documentary called crime and punishment about new york city and the unspoken quota that some policeman were arresting latin and black kids to fill unspoken quotas and ruin people s lives. this happens in america. it happens in latin communities, obviously, it happens in black communities. and i want to bring attention to it because we need to fix this broken system. and we have talked often times about the importance of