even though it will be a somber, a sober and solemn thanksgiving, you can thank god you didn t let your boy down. and that is where we start this hour. joining us now is nbc news correspondent cal perry outside the courthouse in brunswick, georgia, also joining us democratic strategist and director of the public policy program at hunter college. and texas state representative and civil rights attorney jasmine crockett who today announced that she is running for u.s. congress. cal perry, i start with you because you are on the ground there. tell me what you re seeing and what you ve seen? the word that you used relief. relief is the word of the day. this could have gone the other way and the facts of this case and what happened on that day were never in question. three white men armed killed an unarmed black man, 25 years old who had nothing on him, no cell phone, no weapons. he was out jogging. that was never in dispute. the only question was would the jury buy this citizen s arres
helping that weren t helping, that should have stepped in and didn t step in, people who should have been doing their jobs and didn t. and you know, people say that the opposite of love is indifference. i feel like i m looking up at indifference from a pit of hatred that has come has rolled across this country that has always been a part of this country, but to have this happen with video, imagine how much occurs without video. and for us to keep seeing black people being sort of left to die on our street is a gut check for, i think, anybody with even a modicum of morality. that s why as much as this verdict is something to be celebrated because the family gets justice, we still have a long way to go. i want to read the vice president s statement to you representative, crockett, vice president harris said today the
a needle, and that s what s so startling. representative crockett, the rev in the last hour made the point and i think he did so right after the verdict was announced that where this verdict was rendered was important that this was this wasn t in san francisco and i m not saying it couldn t happen anywhere but that this happened in georgia is important. he described georgia as a georgia in transition. do you see it that way? i absolutely see it that way. you know, what s frustrating is that so many of us sit there and we just hold our breath wondering if justice will evade us yet again. we all saw what happened in kenosha, and we saw that there was no justice in that particular situation. and so you started to wonder why people say that black lives matter. but when we see verdicts like what we saw in kenosha and grant it, i understand who the victims were, but the reality is that everyone that was out there was marching for black lives matter,