no. come meet me with like a man, shake my hand. i m trying to make it an p even tone. that s what you do. i m trying to figure out what s going on, lavar. why would you push back on the president. you can open your eyes and see what s going on. i m not saying nothing to the president. i m not just saying thank you to anybody for nothing. i m just saying, i had some things done, i talked to some other people that did some things too. who? like i said, people trying to it doesn t matter. sure, it does. it s not big names like you re thinking of. people are saying, i said it wasn t a big deal that my son was shoplifting and nothing like that, i m saying, it wasn t a big deal, because being raised in south central l.a., i ve seen harsher things, i ve seen 16, 17-year-old kids have to go to jail for life that were my friends. doing bad things, making bad
so, at some level, anytime somebody one person commits a murder, there s something that s loose in their head. keith morrison: yeah. there has to be. keith morrison: which ford more than most about the parameters of human nature. he helped raise eight younger siblings while growing up in south central la, worked his own way through law school. and now as a prosecutor, seeks out sound advice from someone who has seen it all his own grandmother. i have dinner every wednesday at my grandmother s house. keith morrison: the first female african american judge appointed in alameda county. i ve never had a case that i haven t spoken to her about. and run ideas by her, in terms of trial presentation and closing arguments things like that. i always run it by her. keith morrison: but this case was special. ford s grandmother was struck by the le s devotion to michelle, by their determination to find answers. but it was clear there were still too many questions to take this case to court. the
about snowfall on fx. it s a show set in 1938. it s in south central los angeles, east l.a. and the west side. and it s about how cocaine changed l.a. he had three things in life. yes. and crack epidemic? transcending from cocaine to the crack epidemic. if we didn t have the cia trying to fight this covert war in central america, we wouldn t have the crack in los angeles. and we show that in the show. i can t wait to see it. all your stuff is amazing. thank you so much. thanks for coming on. good to see you, man. snowfall 10:00 p.m. on fx. don t miss the nineties sunday at 9:00 p.m. right here on cnn. that s it. thanks for watching. we ll see you back here tomorrow. we can invest in the things that matter most: making farmland healthier.
hey, he is not doing anybody harm, you know. can you believe the fascination around this still? it s drama. it s soap opera. it s real soap opera. and it is very fascinating. you think about where he started and what he transformed himself to. and then what happened in the 90s, the tragic deaths of nicole. the thing about the 90s, and listen, you re part of this new series that we have called the nineties. and there was a lot of racial tension around this. rodney king had happened just before this. yes. and then around this o.j. simpson trial. i remember where i was. i remember people screaming. i remember black people and white people in the newsroom where i worked like all looking at each other like what the heck is going on here? it was a powder keg. l.a. was like it was interesting because we re coming off of like two years just riots that happened. right. half of l.a. was willing
his anti-semitic utterances. but the march becomes bigger than louis farrakhan. why do we march? because we re trapped in second class schools and first class jails. we ve been locked up. we ve been brutalized. and this became the first mass expression we can make together that we need to be regarded, respected. and heal this racial breach. we aren t all drug dealers. we re not shooting each other and stuff like that. we can come together and have a positive message. when you stop standing with your mother, when you start mentoring our young, then we can build a new nation of strong people. i had to get out of that time bomb mentality that growing up in south central l.a. gives you. i think that the march gave me a sense of hope that things could get better.