doing. how does the prosecution deal with that in rebuttal, if at all? i think the prosecution will deal with it in outstanding fashion. i think the prosecution all along has made the argument this shouldn t have happened, didn t need to happen, there was no basis in it happening. not just saying that, grounding it in law. why? you talk about citizens arrest law. citizens arrest applies when you re actually seeing a crime or you have immediate knowledge of a crime. the defense has been arguing about things that happened the week before, two weeks before, the month before. no, it s about what happened now. what did the prosecutor say in her initial argument? the rebuttal is this morning. he was killed because he was a black man walking down the street. she ll say, i told you so. the fact of the matter is when she talks about, the prosecutor, the issues of self-defense is not warranted, why? he wasn t engaging, ahmaud ar arbery, in any felony. they were the aggressors. this is part
911 caller called in supposedly is this person was acting sketchy and wearing a ski mask. this is colorado. it s not exactly a shocking thing in colorado to wear a ski mask. the real problem is he was a black man walking down the street. he was doing nothing wrong. there doesn t seem to have been any reason to stop him at all. and then he was set upon by all these officers and then the paramedics shooting him up with ket mean which is a terribly powerful drug. the police have claimed mcclain tried to reach for one of the officer s guns. everything we know about this fellow, whose hobby was playing the violin for cats, suggests that s very unlikely. to the point on the ket mean,
want to change. but if you re the parent of a young boy wearing a hoodie, i mean, is this a moment when we have to, once again have the conversation? oh, yeah. jonathan capehart has talked and written about this too, growing up as a young black man, he was told to act and dress a certain way, because that stereotype i mean, i think it s fairly profound, as joy said, if this trial ends up finding george zimmerman not guilty, that is a tacit acknowledgement that a young black man walking down the street in a hoodie late at night is a threat. and that has profound implications for society. and also for black families and black men and the way they purport themselves. i was raised with that, if you go into a store, keep your hands out of your pockets, don t run if you don t have to. all those sort of things you need to do. when barack obama talks about no drama as a child, no sudden moves, right, we re all taught those sort of things and we all understand, even if your parents don
we re suspect just by virtue of being black. the one thing that he said was if trayvon was his son he would have looked like trayvon. the reality is, even if you re the son of the president of the united states, if you re a black men walking down the street, you re a black man walking down the street. in too many instances you re suspect because you re black. let me pick up on that point, doris. you heard david plouffe this morning. the president seems cautious or uncomfortable with leading this next discussion. about racial attitude, about what we have unearthed here. what we need to be focused on. why do you think? i think as he has said, he knows he has to be responsible for the country as a whole. for northerners, southerners, blacks and whites. and wants to make sure he s not looking out after a special interest, even though it is him. by speaking as emotionally as he did, he gave a humanity to tray that is what we need to go over
people talk about dead black men in their lives whose murders have not been properly followed up on. whether it was at the hands of bad cops or whether it was at the hands of thugs. in reality, there s a sense that black men s lives aren t worth as much. that we re almost born suspects in this country. we re suspect just by virtue of being black. the one thing that he said was if trayvon was his son he would have looked like trayvon. the reality is, even if you re the son of the president of the united states, if you re a black men walking down the street, you re a black man walking down the street. in too many instances you re suspect because you re black. let me pick up on that point, doris. you heard david plouffe this morning. the president seems cautious or uncomfortable with leading this next discussion. about racial attitude, about what we have unearthed here. what we need to be focused on. why do you think? i think as he has said, he knows he has to be responsible for the c