The leader and the founder o the project is a wonderful organization that is left by the optimism and looking at working with the black lives Matter Movement into giving a voice to heterosexual black men as a model for how they can comeinspa together and inspire each other and work towards some of the same by getting together and talking with each other andgniza recognizing disability matters. You dont need to feel like if you spend time for your self towards issues that affect you specifically that you are abandoning anyone or doing a disservice to other groups. You can do both. And its important to focus on your self sometimes. A lot of the things that we are talking about go to display that there may not be a solution that allows you to strike the balance of you want but you cant invest and engage in all kinds of different struggles and work towards making things more equal. If you are already considering how does my voice not get thrown out, how do i work for other people but not w
Where he would willingly consider killing people or in this case blowing up an entire school. No matter how hard i try to understand these factors together and these interlocking circle, that is still a question that is very hard for me to understand and accept. There is no way i can justify this, yes he experienced a toxic culture at the school, yes he had an influential friend, everything will take us a little closer to understanding but i dont think ill ever fully understand how it could happen. Thats why so earnestly wanted to donate funds from the book to research and to support programs and prevention programs. I think we have many answers we need to find. You mentioned your sons friend, eric harris and some believe it was the dynamic between the two of them that contributed to the tragedy, what are your thoughts on that . I believe that it is true, i believe it is highly likely. I had quite a few experts i talked with did support and substantiate that belief. I believe that for
Columbine shooters discusses the junction between violence and Mental Illness in conversation with the ceo of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Host in 1999 cover your son dylan and eric harris took the lives of 12 students and one teacher in high school and then their own and 24 others were wounded. A devastated those families that affected the whole nation. I think one of the questions people have is why did you decide to buy this book now, 17 years later . Guest well, probably because it took me that many years to try to understand it and feel that i was ready to write a book. There was much learning that had to go on the in my part and healing and i think it just took that long. Host it is a very powerful book. It covers such a range of emotions, grief and anger and fear. Can you talk about those emotions it was very progression . It seemed as you learn more, things changed for you. Can you talk about that . Guest theres always a progression after a loss of any kind. The pro
Mourning a 13yearold boy shot and killed by a deputy while carrying a toy rifle. Earlier this week, there were outraged proests and now don knapp reports that things have taken a more somber tone. [ no audio ] reporter flowers candles and cards continue to mount at this memorial for 13yearold andy lopez. Investigators say the boy did not comply tuesday when order to throw down his air soft gun. He was killed here in a hail of bullets from the gun of an experienced Sonoma County deputy sheriff. That is with we get. What we get. Just outrageous. We used to play air soft guns right here when we were little kids you know when we were young. The kid who got hilled. Hes going to miss christmas and halloween. Reporter the deputy fired eight times in ten seconds, seven bullets hit lopez. The number of shots fired is not unusual according to craig guise who trains Police Officers for high stress situations. An average officer without stress will probably shoot two to three rounds without any st
Old, leaves behind a devastated family. We want to know why, why this happened. Reporter hoffman has been hailed a hero, awarded the chief thomas medal of courage in 2010 for rescuing a man from a fire on gillman street. And this year, recognized by wjz, helping to save this 3 yearold boy who had wandered away from home. Friends say the Third Generation firefighter was heroic, even in his 90 final minutes. The night he was killed, he did all he could to protect his girlfriend and her sister, who survived the terrible ordeal. And i think without andys help, that would not have been possible. Reporter wjz was there, as his uncle collected some items from andrews home, needed for funeral arrangements. His father released a written statement, on behalf of his family, saying our hearts are absolutely broken over the loss of our son, brother, grandson and uncle. Its hard to imagine Going Forward without him. But we know andy died a hero. That is the way he lived his wife and we wouldnt life,