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No justice no peace. No justice no peace. No justice no peace. In the cold, rainy day nations capital, this Martin Luther king day Holiday Weekend kicking off with a civil rights march and rally in west potomac park. This event organized and sponsored by reverend al the National Action network of the naacp. To open the phones now and get your thoughts on what you saw and heard today in the last couple of hours from west potomac park. The numbers are on your screen. Tweet us, of course, cspan, and also leave a comment on cspans facebook page. Want to go to your calls. Lexington, massachusetts, is up first. Mark joins us on the republican line. Hi, mark. Mark hey, how you doing . I wanted to comment on this rally. Way, but ing in a also thought that in a way, it is inspiring people to do the wrong thing. No justice, no pe ....
King and not really try and bring about what dr. Kings policies were all about. When i look over the last 18 months from eric gardner and ferguson to some of our leaders, i wanted some of the young people that were not about headlines but about working and sacrifice to be with us and they are my special guests this morning. Brandi and shanae, stand up, from ferguson, missouri. Reverend compton lee, stand up. And many of our Board Members, Lamel Mcmorris and others that are here, reverend michael walron, the pastor, first corinthian baptist church, the largest growing church in the country, certainly in new york, hes with us. The dean of the Civil Rights Movement, they call it civil rights establishment. Somebody said to me the other day i was in the civil rights establishment. I said ive been fighting getting the c ....
Now, see, reverend al sometimes turns this pulpit over to me. Now i can tell you one thing, im like reverend al, im gonna take that offering, yall. [ laughter ] good morning. This is truly an honor, and i would like to give praise to one from whom all blessings flow, and that is my heavenly father, who is first and foremost in my life. I thank you, reverend al and the National Action network for gracing me with the unprecedented opportunity for me to receive this Martin Luther king able leader weiaward. Its a humbling experience having this award bestowed upon me, in front of my daughter, this will forever be a hallmark in my life. You all give it up for my baby. [ applause ] its even more special to have my niece here as well. She and my daughter traveled here together. And now theyre at the same college together. They are the first in my family to ever go to college. Coming ....
Now, see, reverend al sometimes turns this pulpit over to me. Now i can tell you one thing, im like reverend al, im gonna take that offering, yall. [ laughter ] good morning. This is truly an honor, and i would like to give praise to one from whom all blessings flow, and that is my heavenly father, who is first and foremost in my life. I thank you, reverend al and the National Action network for gracing me with the unprecedented opportunity for me to receive this Martin Luther king able leader weiaward. Its a humbling experience having this award bestowed upon me, in front of my daughter, this will forever be a hallmark in my life. You all give it up for my baby. [ applause ] its even more special to have my niece here as well. She and my daughter traveled here together. And now theyre at the same college together. They are the first in my family to ever go to college. Coming ....
And what we need now is to get the assistance of the community. If they see his car, if they see this individual they do not want them to approach this person. We want them to call 911 and allow us and our partners to address this situation. [ inaudible question ] we have no reason to believe hes not in the charleston area. He could be outside and were disseminating in information broadly across all of our Law Enforcement partners not only on the charleston region but also on the east coast. Any motive . Well as i said earlier, we believe there is a hate crime. Thats how were investigating it. [ inaudible question ] thats part of the investigation and well talk about it. Where is your search happening right now . Can you tell us . Well we have investigators in various locations. Well talk more about that at 7 00. Can you tell how he escaped . Well talk more about that at 7 00. Anything about the suspect or the suspect vehicle . O ....