75 and he made a documentary about doing things on her bucket list with her. so all of that and more is coming up on cross connection and obviously, we ll be getting into the rittenhouse verdict as well as ahmad arbery case. these two cases have gotten a lot of attention, ali and there s also the unite the right trial happening in charlottesville which is a civil case and a criminal case and there s a lot of outrage happening in the country and we ll be reflecting some of that outrage back to the audience this morning. you have a packed show as always, myself friend. thank you. good to see you. stay tuned to the cross connection after velshi at 10:00 a.m. eastern. a judge is looking at southlake, texas, after msnbc exposed the public school system there. e stage and do my money dance i throw some money up
give us a little bit more on the specific claims of discrimination against the carroll independent school district and what the reaction to it has been? these are three separate investigations, civil rights investigations from the department of education and they deal with issues of race, gender and sexuality and nation of origin, and these investigations are pretty significant. from the experts that we ve spoken to, when these complaints are made only about 5% to 10% of complaints that go to this office actually become full-fledged investigations and so the understanding from experts in this case who i ve brought this story to is that this indicates that the department of education senses there could be serious title 9 violations at the carroll school district in southlake. in terms of the reaction it s been all over the place. we have folks who we ve spoken to in the podcast who have come forward and said this is a sad, but necessary step that they feel the school district was
all of the defendants have said racist things on social media, but the prosecution didn t offer this evidence within its case. i think it was a strategic decision based on this virtually all-white jury. they didn t want to look like they were injecting race in the case, but i also think it was a mistake because it helps explain what we all know that the defendants singled out mr. arbery because he was black. a white jogger would still be alive. let s just talk about the white jogger situation. the defense is claiming that ahmaud arbery, had he just stopped and submitted to the request by the defendants to stop, everything would be okay. the prosecutor made a clear case that the constitution protects people from not stopping and talking to people who they don t want to stop and talk to, at which point the defense makes this argument which i want you to put your lawyer hat on and tell me how much sense this makes. the defense attorney said arbery had a, quote, last chance to
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desperate lawyer who can t fight his case based on the merit. i can t imagine he s got to get a better jury in a county that is one-quarter african-american 11 out of 12 jurors are white. let me ask you about the racial context in this trial. the defense attorneys are working very hard to illustrate the idea that race should have nothing to do with this, that ahmaud arbery was a guy, snooping around stealing things from a home under construction. no one had any evidence of that whatsoever. the 911 calls and all of it seems to suggest we have an intruder in the neighborhood who doesn t feel that he belongs here and we re going to do something about it. you know, it s actually the prosecution that has compelling evidence that all three of these men are racist. according to one defendant, mr. bryan, after travis mcmichael pumped those three bullets into mr. arbery he called him the n word.