nation, but let the case proceed. all of these things are still evidence that there is systemic racism that the system does not always work for african americans.t and we need to get to the heart of it in order to be able to of have a justice system that really works for everyone. gwen keyes fleming, thank you for your time.ke thank you for joining us tonight. joining us now is derrick johnson, the president and ceo of the naacp. a thank you for joining us. when ahmaud arbery was killed, the mcmichaels and roddie bryan gave their story to police. greg mcmichael called the local prosecutor, who allegedly advised him on what to do. police took their statements. they admitted they hadn t seen ahmaud arbery commit any crime and allowed them to go home. the video had to be leaked.cadlt the video of the killing had to be leaked for there to become a system that looked like it ended in justice today. you know, it speaks to the
citizen if they could claim that a person committed a crime. it was made the law of the state in 1863, it s no coincidence that that law was put into place that year. 1863 was, just after president lincoln signed thesident lincoln signed the law was codified just afte president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation and enslaved people in georgia started fleeing their captors. and it remained the state s law during jim crow when it was used to justify the lynchings of four black people in january of 1912. it was used again to justify the killing of two black couples in july of 1946. black couples who were dragged from their cars and shot dozens of times by white men.ir the naacp has documented more than 530 acts of lynching in georgia alone between 1882 and 1968.
outside like they might be racially motivated crimes. the naacp before my father, 112 years ago, it was the backdrop of a lynching happening once a day. we recognized that local communities and law enforcement were participating in these lynchings and were not being held accountable. so we were advocating for the federal government to go into local jurisdictions to investigate, prosecute, and convict those causing harm to citizens. so, yes, this is the proper role for the federal government to play. it is the role that naacp advocated for from our founding, and it s important that when mob violence, when vigilante justice is held illegally, we must, we must have a system to hold people accountable and not be persuaded by local politics or state partisanship. derek, good to see you again. thank you for spending time wito us.fo
who marched, those who pray, most of all, the ones who prayed. yes, lord. thank you, god. thank you. i don t want to see no daddy watch their kid get shot down like that. so it s all our problem. so hey, let s keep fighting and making this a better place for all human beings. i tell you all, we we we, together, did this. we all together, black, white, activists, faith members, lawyers, prosecutors, we did this together! we said, america, we will make us better than what we saw in that video.me we did this together. the naacp released a statement today noting the generations of black people in this country, dating back to its founding, back to emancipation, back to the first citizen s arrest law,
derek johnson is the president and ceo of the naacp. we ve got a lot more ahead here tonight, including some william news for democrats this thanksgiving eve. we ve got a big show. stay with us. eve we ve got a big show stay with us