kind in georgia, outside the trial of three men accused of killing an unarmed black man. the defense attorney kept saying their presence was intimidating, black pastors specifically who were intimidating. just the black ones. in response more than 100 black pastors showed up outside the courthouse to establish themselves as a peaceful, powerful, prayerful presence at the trial and to pray with mr. arbery s family. if you are looking for one indellable image from this year to quantify or to nail down one of the currents in the news this
collective shudder across the country, when politico.com was the first to report, that at the time, the comparable, pipe bomb was found just outside democratic party headquarters last year. vice president elect, kamala harris, was inside the building. they found the bomb there. that is something that the we did not know before today. and ways, good and bad, and uplifting, and somber, and prayerful, and angry, and scared. all these ways today, there was kind of a unified earth one response. you know, boy what happened a year ago today was terrible, how do we make sure we don t do that again? but then, also today, there is hills ill county michigan, where today, the hills dill county republican party, is hosting a fund-raiser. calling it the insurrection
and better retirement options. that s what they were asking for. here was yet action of yet another kind and yet another place. this was glenn county, georgia, today outside the trial of three white men who are accused of killing an unarmed black man who was jogging in his neighborhood, a man named ahmaud arbery.gh for days now, the defense attorney for one of the men who s accused of killing mr. arbery has attempted to have prominent african-american pastors removed from the site of the trial, removed from the courtroom because he says they n were intimidating.m he says it s black pastors specifically that are intimidating, and he wants the black pastors removed, just the black ones. and so today more than 100 black pastors showed up outside the courthouse to establish themselves there as a peaceful, powerful, prayerful presence and to pray with mr. arbery s family. after court was adjourned for the day, they marched in glenn county. this was yesterday outside the
specifically that are intimidating, and he wants the black pastors removed. the just black ones. and so today more than 100 black pastors showed up outside the courthouse to establish themselves there as a peaceful, powerful, prayerful presence and to pray with mr. arbery s family. after court was adjourned for the day, they marched in glenn county. this was yesterday outside the u.s. capitol in washington, d.c. this was a group of 50 activists. at this point in the day, they stood in a circle. they read stories about their loved ones who had died of covid. and these folks were there to urge congress to pass a bill that soon could be up for consideration. it s a bill for global access to vaccines and a bill that would help us better prepare for the next pandemic. about a half dozen of those activists walked to the front steps of one of the senate office buildings. one of them traveled from as far as texas to be there yesterday.