grappling and try to understand what has happened here. let me paint you a picture of when the shooting happened on saturday, the 60th anniversary of the commemoration of the march on washington, the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting in jacksonville, also something known as ax saturday where in the 1960s a white mob beat black demonstrators. the timing certainly doesn t help, adding to the outrage of this community that an outsider, a white man would come to this predominantly black community and carry out this act of violence. so we just learned on cnn from sheriff t.k. waters, a black man, that for some reason this shooter was, quote, very focused on this dollar general and he carried out his rampage for 11 minutes donning a tactical vest, a mask, an ar-15-style rifle, a handgun with swastikas, fired
jacksonville, florida. priscilla alvarez is at the white house with more on what the president had to say. reporter: he also noted this was a date of commemoration of the march on washington, the 60th anniversary and that day yesterday was marked again by americans wounded by gun violence. and he went on to say in the statement, quote, even as we continue searching for answers, we must say clearly and fo forcefully that white supremacy has in america, we must refuse to live in a country where black families going to the store or black students going to school live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin, we must not remain silent and said that law enforcement has opened a federal civil rights investigation and that this will continue to be investigated. president biden has spoken extensive on gun violence. he slide legislation and has
you were here in washington yesterday participating in the 60th anniversary of the commemoration of the march on washington and this violence down in jacksonville, to my understanding, broke out as you were marching. can you talk about that? yes. that is absolutely correct. we assembled a huge, huge coalition including the adl, including greenblatt, including religious leaders, including leaders and including the lgbtqia community and the latino, hispanic community and the islamic community and the n native-american community. the higher point is we are talking about ridding our society of hate and hostility and while we re talking about this, 60 years after dad delivered his vision for our nation that kind of violent,
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occasion of this man s great address and what he stood for and basically hijack it for president barack obama. if i were president obama, i would be a little embarrassed i can t stand on my own. victoria, this is ugly stuff. we re talking about the commemoration wednesday with three presidents. we re not talking about the big march last saturday, raising social issues. for them to talk in that language, and to snub that is some really, really terrible inferences you can draw from that. it s surprising, because if you think back historically to 1964, who was there? republicans were there. republicans actually voted to approve the civil rights act at greater proportions than democrats did. in 1964 later that year, they did start to turn their backs on african-americans with barry goldwater and others of the ilk. but where have they been for the