potentially connected to that of the newly freed formerly enslaved african-americans. and in those moments what we see is what i suspect will happen here which is to say that there are strategic partnerships, but we probably should not expect enduring long-term coalitional change. i saw that, right? one of the people we spoke to, that methodist minister, he also said i m conservative, like i don t like obamacare, i don t think we should have medicaid expansion. i m telling you, i like doe this hospital, we should keep this hospital. reverend barber talks about a constitutional movement, talking about the north carolina constitution. for a long time i was like, why are you so into the north carolina constitution? it s a document that was written in reconstruction. why traditionally, why do these coalitions fall apart? what are the obstacles to them historically and, you know, today? one of the things that divides these coalitions is the deliberate exploitation of racial tension by
surveillance tape. they never visited the victim s mother in the hospital. the case was just allowed to die on the vine and it remained an unsolved homicide for seven years. and what role did dennis walsh play in all this? well, dennis walsh has a couple of roles in the case. back in, ten years ago when the case happened, he was a lieutenant working the police district where the crime occurred that evening. we re not quite sure whether he was on duty or not. the police have never said that. but then when the case was re-investigated following our investigation three years ago, mr. walsh had become lieutenant overseeing all the detectives on the north side of the city. he is involved in several missing files in this case that disappear and reappear, and finally it turned out that he had taken some of those files to his house.
care for that would have been covered under this program but the expansion of medicaid would not have altered this decision. it s hard to overstate how important the hospital is to the town of bellhaven. it serves a county and a half and is the largest employer in the town. if it closes, o neal says residents would have to drive to the nearest emergency room. chris noble, methodist minister in town says he s alive today because of pungo. what happened? january 12th, sunday morning, 2:00 a.m. i had a heart attack in the parsonage down here. i coded. they air flighted me to greenfield. if it hadn t been for this emergency room, you wouldn t be interviewing me right now. right now hospital is scheduled to close july 1st. despite vidant s statements, mayor o neal blames his fellow republicans in the capitol. if the legislature isn t going to accept medicaid expansion, they need to come up with their own program to help these rural hospitals.