we went to our city council, the legislature, asked for that one point $7 million over this year to deepen our ability to outreach, to do investigations. we have staffed more lawyers on hate crime prosecutions, and our hate crime prosecutions themselves are up. it s something that, and in addition to the guns, you mentioned gun violence, hate crimes is really in particular you mentioned the specific cases. i can t go into those. the issue of hate crimes is very front and center, weather is the api community, antisemitism across the board. in that regard, let me ask you the mayor of new york has just announced that he s going to have people with mental health problems, obvious problems, that are obvious, removed from the streets and brought out of the population where they are placed somewhere else. the concern is policing involved. what s your position on that
pleading. there s a lot of litigation risk in these sorts of hate crime prosecutions. joyce, thank you so much for that. again, any minute now we expect to see and hear from president biden at this event for the national governor s association. this is a live look at the white house. that s governor phil murphy speaking now, governor of new jersey. live pictures coming in from the white house. when the president starts, we will take you there live for this roundtable conversation. you can see the president flanked by this vice president, kamala harris as well. also ahead, quote, the mother of all sanctions. could the threat of massive economic punishment convince russia to back off its threats against ukraine? we ll get to the latest on that.
that said quote, white irish slaves were treated worse than any other race in the u.s.. when it comes to mr. bryan, prosecutors presented several text messages saying his distress over his daughter s new boyfriend who was black. he will quote, she has her and word now. prosecution pointed out that the men many of those words just days or months before they murdered arbery, s been one of the post specifically mention arbery. prosecutors arranged for plea deals that would include emissions from travis and mcmichael that the crime was mostly motivated, but the arbery family rejected the terms of those deals so the judge threw them out. while the reaches racial and misses hate crime prosecutions are notorious and hard to prosecute, requiring greater expertise in another criminal cases. the justice department announced that u.s. attorneys declined to prosecute 82% of suspected hate crime cases between 2005 and 2019.
expletive, those monkeys. there are several more posts like that from travis mcmichael and similar writings from the other two defendants. his father shared a meme saying white areurb slaves were treated worse than any other race in the u.s. when it comes to bryan, he made comments about his car s boyfriend who is black. many of those were written days before the death of arbery. the family objected to the terms of the deals so the judge threw them out. former prosecutors say federal hate crime prosecutions are hard
specifically mention arbery. prosecutors arranged for plea deals that would include emissions from travis and mcmichael that the crime was mostly motivated, but the arbery family rejected the terms of those deals so the judge threw them out. while the reaches racial and misses hate crime prosecutions are notorious and hard to prosecute, requiring greater expertise in another criminal cases. the justice department announced that u.s. attorneys declined to prosecute 82% of suspected hate crime cases between 2005 and 2019. but now the world can see what these men were saying behind closed doors, the question remains, what will it mean for the jury? can the prosecution prove the statement that they made in their opening argument quote, if armada arbery had been white, he would have went out on iran, check out a cool house under construction and been home in time for sunday dinner. instead, he was running for his life for no reason other than the color of his skin. joining us now is cou