0 billion, the 1 billion internet enabled smart phone was sold. the world web wide is amazing and powerful and fits into the palm of your hand. happy internot day everybody. ac 360 starts now. tonight, one man s murder, was he killed for thrills, gang initiation or the color on his skin? late breaking facts. the parents of trayvon martin weigh in on claims as the victim should be seen as the white version of their soon and proof that life sometimes sucks. first up tonight, breaking news in the killing of an australian exchange student that sparked controversies on two continue innocents. in australia the focus is the gun culture and here at home the focus is on race. breaking news on that and late word from one local official who does not, repeat does not, believe race played a factor. whether it settled the question, though, remains to be seen. the killing is just mainly tragic. christopher lane died in a ditch, shot in the back while jogging. the only saving grace, he did not d
whites are nasty, and he hates them. but it is your host, rush limbaugh, who injected race into this story. i can tell you what one of them have said, the one that is talking said, we were bored. we wanted something to do. we wanted to kill somebody. we saw in social media allegedly linked to one of these suspects where he s saying, come get me. i don t care. i m not afraid to die. james edward jr. the 15-year-old months ago on what is believed to be his twitter account. he posted this. the message was 90% of white people are nasty. #hatethem. why does the left protect racism? they re doing so here in the killing of this australian college student. i m going to do everything they can to ensure that we see these three thugs pay for what they did to christopher lane. prosecutors planning to do next, stephens county district attorney jason hicks joins us. good evening, sir. good evening, greta. two of the men in this charged with first degree murder and the oth
whites are nasty, and he hates them. but it is your host, rush limbaugh, who injected race into this story. i can tell you what one of them have said, the one that is talking said, we were bored. we wanted something to do. we wanted to kill somebody. we saw in social media allegedly linked to one of these suspects where he s saying, come get me. i don t care. i m not afraid to die. james edward jr. the 15-year-old months ago on what is believed to be his twitter account. he posted this. the message was 90% of white people are nasty. #hatethem. why does the left protect racism? they re doing so here in the killing of this australian college student. i m going to do everything they can to ensure that we see these three thugs pay for what they did to christopher lane. prosecutors planning to do next, stephens county district attorney jason hicks joins us. good evening, sir. good evening, greta. two of the men in this charged with first degree murder and the oth
0 any resistance to being arrested when the police pulled up on them? no. there was no resistance to an arrest. have you had people don t realize that one of the toughest parts about being a prosecutor is that you often at some point you talk to the victim s family. that s tough. that s hard. and i realize that they live in australia. but have you had any contact so far with them? it s a very difficult conversation to have with the victim s family. i have visited with the girlfriend with the harper family inside duncan. i have not visited with the lane family in australia. but we ll be doing that within the next i ll say week to two weeks. what do you say to them? i don t know that there s anything they can say to them. i certainly can t do anything to bring their child back. he was sent over here to do nothing more than to seek an education and to better himself. all i can do is apologize for their loss, apologize to the australian community for such a tragic accident. b
0 good evening, sir. good evening, greta. two of the men in this charged with first degree murder and the other one, the driver, is an accessory after the fact in another related charge. can you tell me why the driver has a lesser offense when he was in the car? and i assume that the passengers charged as an aider and abetter to the triggerman. why isn t the driver? i can t get into a lot of detail with respect to why the driver is only using those words only charged with a lesser crime except to say what has been presented to us the charges are appropriate for this particular situation. and as i talked in open court tuesday and pointed out to the judge in my request to deny bond for edwards and well, to deny for the two charged with murder in the first degree, what we ended up with there was a situation where i told the court that those two absolutely had nothing to do with law enforcement. they didn t want to talk, they didn t want to cooperate. they had nothing to do. and at