Politics and thank you for attending todays program. Discussion groups are made possible by the new mens own foundation and would like toe thank the family fun for sponsoring. Todays program will be live streamed and available on our youtube channel. We arer also excited that cspan is recording this session. You canth also access all past Dole Institute program by visiting our youtube channel. After the program well have time for audience questions. If you have a question please racial your hand and a student worker will come to you. For virtual viewers please send your questions to dole questions at ku. Edu. Ask one brief question. The Dole Institutes mission is to foster civil and respectful discussion around important and difficult topics. Please raise your questions with this in mind and ask one brief question. Before we begin i i would liko remind you to please turn off your cell phones. And now please join and welcoming our fall fellow jerry seib. [applause] so im thinking, did i
Whats true is we see visuals of racial tensions, violence, and so forth, because of smartphones and the media. What weve seen is surfacing, a lot of the problems that have been there a long time. Tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable support has recently surfaced on facebook. I take these things very seriously. President obama, that was him late today. So charges against the four people in this sickening crime. What more do we know . They are facing a number of different charges including aggravated kidnapping, battery with a deadly weapon, and hate crime charges. The hate crime charge stems from the racial epithets we can hear in the video. And police say the victim has a mental disability and they believe that played a role in the assault. Weve learned three of the suspects are 18 years old. Two are africanamerican men work the africanamerican women. The victim is white. And were learning more about exactly what unfolded. Police say the victim was han
And welcome back. We begin the hour with breaking news. Chicago Police Announcing hate crime and kidnapping charges against four africanamericans accused of tying up a white special needs teenager and torturing him while broadcasting it on Facebook Live. The video youre about to watch is disturbing to say the least and is hard to watch. Grabbing that gee. Damn. The victim is 18 years old. A young man with special needs. President obama calls an the video despicable while talking to a chicago cnn affiliate about that specifically and racial tensions in general. Heres how i think about it. I dont think its actually to say Race Relations have gone the worse. I came to chicago in 85. You were there during the wars. I promise you, Race Relations havent gotten worse. But what is true is that in part because we see visuals of racial tensions, violence, and so forth because of smartphones and the internet and the media, what weve seen is surfacing i think a lot of the problems that have been t
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