kitchen at the same time. she is suspected she will be okay. she is expected to be okay and survive. but here s where it gets more sinister. ten days ago, just a little bit further north, about 10 or 11 miles further north, a 39-year-old african-american man also saw a package on the front porch of his house. he picked it up, opened it. it exploded. he survived the initial impact, but he died within the hour. now, today not long after the police were telling us about these incidents and telling that they believed they were related, there was a third attack on the street behind me. a 75-year-old hispanic woman picked up a package on her porch. it also exploded. she is in stable but critical condition right now. have police said anything about who they think is behind this? reporter: well, they stress this is very, very early in the investigation. but because those first two
right now. you know, one of the thing that struck me in the aftermath of this is that it was really the record turnout among african-american and latino voters that really changed the electorate, elected a democratic president, and you know, in essence, when you hear progressives talk about the environment or lgbt rights. you name it. that agenda would be very different, frankly, if, and we wouldn t have a president obama and congress would look very differently without the black and latino vote. i just wonder, does democratic party realize that as well. we focus politically a lot on republicans but this is a moment for democrats and other parts of the progressive moment. this is not just a black/white issue anymore. no. this has always been an issue at the core of our democracy itself. this voting rights act was really put in place to help us get closer to making, being one nation under god with liberty and justice for all, our
we can see what happens when presumably good people, at least they think themselves to be good, have guns. what we are seeing is that people are being killed every day right and left. and you know, i am not one to endorse this argument that these teenagers are making. they are making the argument and it is exactly the nra argument. wayne lapierre argument is, people will be afraid if they think that other peel in the neighborhood might have guns and therefore, they won t do such and such a thing. but the streets in new orleans are chock full of weapons, and every day, if not multiple times a day we hear somebody getting shot and killed. clearly we can see from experience that that is not working. you know, susan, as you pointed out. there are a multitude of factors that contribute to what s going on. here you have kids in both cities that have a similar attitude for the need to have a gun to feel safe. we also pointed out we know that african-american unemployment nationally is much
what he said was there was a young woman who had been burglarized in the neighborhood by a young african-american male. it was reasonable for george zimmerman to think that perhaps trayvon martin was suspicious as a result. what a missed opportunity for the prosecution to come back and say, you mean to tell me that just because somebody else of this young man s race had committed a burglary, this is a criminal? that is racial profiling. and add to that, the number of prior incidents where george zimmerman had called the police about suspicious in the neighborhood. 100% of whom were african-american. the prosecution fought hard to get that into evidence. it came in. and they were silent about it in closing argument. i want to get your reaction. my feeling about it, i think lisa is right on the question that they could have talked more about racial profiling. i would submit that many people on that jury would not know what that is. we can say it. we know what it is. but you have to s
advantage? i think we have already had a suggestion of that. he put out there the prior burglary, home invasion in the neighborhood that started the whole neighborhood watch and got george zimmerman concerned about crime was committed by a young african-american male who was, by the way, arrested and presumably the concern would have diminished at that point but we haven t heard that from the prosecution either. i think mark o mara is carefully and subtly putting the idea out there that, look. trayvon martin matched that description. he too was a young african male. he is putting it out there saying this isn t a racial issue, he just happens to have looked like the other one and therefore was suspicious. he just put it out there a little bit. just to get that in the jurors minds. as i said, i hope the prosecution will respond in rebuttal because there are so many good responses to that. there is also a question about the story that george zimmerman tells and the