quickly reunited him with his parents. turned to talk to question him. thank you so much for joining us tonight. i ll be back here tomorrow night. cnn tonight with alison camerata starts now. hey alison. adorable story, pam. yes, it is. we ll cover it a little bit, too. thanks so much. thank you. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . what does it mean when it s black 16 year old cannot ring the wrong door bell. without getting shot or a white 20 year old cannot make a wrong turn into someone s driveway without getting shot. or our second amendment rights, outweighing many of our other rights are panel has an interesting take on that. plus fox has to cough up $787 million for their outrageous lies about dominion voting systems. but you know who will never know about this fox viewers because the settlement does not include an on air apology or correction. the network put out a statement saying they quote acknowledge the court s findings. about ce
kid that i ve come across. he s a 16 year old musician. he is not known for his physical prowess. the truth is when mr lester looked out and saw a black child he decided like this common in america that his his skin alone was a weapon. that blackness was the threat and that s that s the reason we re having racial conversation. racial violence conversations that s the reason that we re treating this case as a case of racial violence. um do you have a satisfactory answer of why it took so long to arrest? uh, the suspect here after he was talked to by police for 2 to 3 hours on the night of the shooting. i don t have a satisfactory answer this prosecutor and law enforcement has given this family being same answer that they had given the general public, which is misinformation . first they said that they didn t have a statement from ralph in time. well, we know now that they received a statement from ralph a full recorded statement with two officers
there are certain times when people see the color of your skin and nothing else. that young man was £100 dripping with. you know, you go back down to florida, where you end up with a boy with a pack of skittles in this package. you also was about £100 dripping wet . it wasn t the hoodie that made him a threat to george zimmerman . it was the color of his skin, and at some point we should just be able to have that conversation, frankly and openly without us diving down these political rabbit holes that divide us at a time. we should all be able to get behind something that s quite clear and historical and continues to bring so much pain to so many people. alison i don t think the guy who shot ralph funeral deserves the benefit of the doubt here, and maybe we ll find out more information than coming days about. you know what his views are on race it is, it is really difficult for me to imagine, for the reasons already stated that that ralph could could pose reasonable reasonably to any
cognizant of the fact that when you re in an elevator and someone comes in, and you re by yourself, you know why you re coaching. you know why you re shifting. you know you may not want to talk about you may not want to admit it, but it s hard for me at this point continue to characterize it as an unknown. it s just even to that point. i mean, right here in new york city. how soon we forget i was talking to a producer. i mean, we had a black, harvard educated man who had the police called an infinite high crime and misdemeanor of trying to watch birds. there was nothing abnormal about people watching birds in central park was abnormal was the color of his skin being the individual who was watching the birds in central park, so i think you shouldn t have to have gone to harvard or look like an honor student in the way that ralph is which, frankly, has, i think from a narrative perspective been to his benefit, but like you could just look like a regular person, and it shouldn t be that t
character is truly a miracle, and he has a prognosis of a full recovery, minus scarring and the long term, maybe cte and post traumatic brain injury symptoms he is his prognosis is very, very positive is a miracle it is . it s astonishing how quickly he was able to be released from the hospital. so as you know, the suspect said that he shot ralph because he was quote scared to death because ralph was so big. we were showing pictures there of ralf. we see him with his clarinet. he looks in the still photos. he looks like, you know, a young teenager . can you just help set the record straight? how tall is ralph? yeah. what andrew lester was referring to in terms of the size and how, uh, fearful he was of ralph is a euphemism about blackness. ralph is 58. ralph is £140. he is the least imposing