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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 23:47:00

it is just chilling that today is the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. this water shed moment that was for the fight for equal rights and also the fifth anniversary to the date of a mass shooting that happened in jacksonville. today, we re seeing and hearing from a black sheriff, sheriff t.k. waters, describing these manifestos that were found per the shooter that has not been identify. several manifestos intended to go to his parents, to the media and the sheriff s agency. can sheriff said it included the n word multiple times. he said the writing made it very clear it was racially motivated. plus the victims, three of them, were all black. he calls the shooter a maniac, that he targeted a certain group of people, black people. no surprise that the fbi has opened a hate crime investigation, and is investigating this as a hate

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 23:53:00

Thing that keeps coming up every time we talk about this. there s a way to make this work so that we don t see what we re seeing right now. 450-plus multiple shootings this year. it just should be unacceptable, and people have buried their head in the ground. i cannot understand it. and steve moore, is there a federal law enforcement answer to this? we know that the fbi has talked about white supremacist violence like what we saw take place in jacksonville being one of if not the most pressing national security threat in this country. and we just don t seem to be putting a dent in the problem. well, you may not put a dent in the problem any more than effective murder investigations are going to stop murder. i can tell you that from 1984 on my primary role in the at

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 23:00:15

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 23:03:00

Sheriff that the shooter offered several manifestos intended to his parents, to the media, to federal agencies. they included the n word. whatever was in these. it was obviously it was racially motivated beyond the use of the n word. he hated black people, quoting the sheriff, that he was a maniac and targeted a certain group of people. black people. the fbi is pursuing this as a hate crime and has opened a federal civil rights investigation. i also want to mention what has happened to this community on the same day, august 26th, back in 2018. they had a mass shooting at jacksonville landing that was a venue that has been demolished. where a shooter went into a video game tournament and just opened fire, killing two people, injuring ten. that venue has been demolished. here s what the mayor, the mayor of jacksonville, donna deegan

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 23:27:00

I m emotional right now. america should be tired of this. this is madness. we don t have to live this way. to see three precious black lives taken in a state where you have an asinine governor attacking black history and you have people saying it s not a gun issue when he had an ar-15? other nations have hate. but we re the only ones that keep having mass shootings because of policy decisions. whether it is a school in nashville, or a dollar store in jacksonville, this is a policy choice being made to appease extremists in the gun lobby and we need to call it out for what it is and change this nation so we can live free of this anxiety and terror and trauma. and i spoke to the sheriff. he said it was around power hatred of black people. and apparently this was laid out