congressman byron donald. plus, the gut wrenching words of the a witness who watched as a gas station owner in south carolina chased down a 14-year-old and shot him in the back, quote, everyone s getting trigger happy. the shooter says he thought the teenager was shoplifting. he wasn t. now the gas station owner is facing charges, his store is in ruins after being vandalized by protesters and another community is in mourning. we begin with one of those rare days on capitol hill where high political drama and debate collide with the critical job of governing, in this case trying to keep the u.s. economy from going off the cliff, and no one knows exactly how it s going to play out. not only could tonight s vote seal the fate of the debt limit agreement between president biden and speaker mccarthy, it may also be a defining moment for mccarthy himself. he s been engaged in open warfare with far right republicans of the freedom caucus arguing over whether the legislation is a
85%, 85 of them, 60% were kids of color. how does race play into a prosecution like this one? wasn t a police officer, but do you think that there will be questions of racial profiling brought up here? it s a great question. so i prosecuted just three blocks from where we re sitting at the d.c. u.s. attorney s office where i was chief of homicide, tried lots of murder cases including self-defense cases. the reality of prosecuting cases here in washington, d.c., is race typically permeated cases in lots and lots of ways. however, i think we tried very hard not to make a case about race unless it was a hate crime, and race become directly relevant to a question the jury had to resolve. but the reality is, it sure feels, chris, like people who are carrying guns seem to have two different standards with respect to when they ll pull a
The suspect accused of stabbing a 17-year-old boy to death and injuring four others while they were tubing in a Wisconsin river Saturday appeared in criminal court Monday, charged with