she just charge him with second-degree murder. t.j.? kerry, thank you so much. now lisa bloom for nbc news and ovo.com. her new book suspicion nation. also, sheryl anderson in florida, with the florida chapter of moms demand action for gun sense in america. also a friend of the davis family. and in studio with me, karen desoto, former prosecutor and legal analyst and ester arma, contributing writer at alternate.org. let s listen to now the state prosecutor angela cori from last night. as far as we re concerned right now, we intend to retry him, retry michael dunn on first-degree murder. lisa, why? why go this route? the man is going to spend the rest of his life in prison if the verdicts we have stand. but why retry him? why is that necessary and why
stand. jordan davis s mama can say anything she wants. today is her baby s birthday and what she is having to do is bury her child and so it is extraordinary to me the way we constantly require a kind of a reasonability from parents burying their black babies in order for us to be able to think about justice. i think there are specific issue of my heart, every part of me goes out to her and her family. there are a larger issue of justice and race and thinking of trying a case, we think about the evidence before the jury but the evidence consistently ignored when it comes to the issue is the race played a part in the crime and so race matters as much as the weapon that he discharged. this is a man about whom there was actual evidence to deal with his prejudicial beliefs. it was not presented in front of the jury. race was i guess it was there. sheryl, what are we supposed to say? what do we tell our young black
demonstrator s vowing to fight for jordan davis who would have turned 19 years old today. we re live outside the courthouse. also ahead. i m reaching out to some of america s leading foundations and corporations to help more young men of color facing especially tough odds to stay on track and reach their full potential. my brother s keeper. president obama s upcoming plan to help those most affected by poverty and prison. and this welcome to curling, everybody. looks like house work until you try it. more curious about this has to be tougher than it looks. curiosity of curling. 16th century sport is red hot at the olympics. what is this about in how does this exactly work? we ll be talking to the so-called first family of curling. and here s jimmy! tomorrow jimmy fallon brings the tonight show back to new york. we ll go inside the show s lasting legacy. but let s start at the top of the hour here with the trial of michael dunn and the shooting death of flo