emotional connection to the distress and the pain that resolved itself in guilt in them. you know why that is. it s because i ll tell you a story. you remember alton sterling, this was in batten rouge, july 2016, got into a scuffle with police, ended up dying. and everyone was like he had a gun, it was this, it was that, okay? so you know my family is from there. so my nieces call me and they said oh, that was mr. alton. he is always standing out in front of the convenience store and he sells the cds. we know him, we see him. so to them because it was near where they grew up, he was a human being. he was not threatening. uncle don, sometimes we would see him and we wouldn t want to buy cds from him because we have our own music and whatever but we would go mr. sterling here s some money, whatever, not threatening to them. human being, they saw his humanity, as a person who was their neighbor. oftentimes when you don t have a relationship with people like that, you don t k
xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. i want to thank you for watching. cnn tonight, with the big star, d lemon, starts right now. it was an amazing opportunity, for the majority, today. in watching the trial of george floyd s murder. and very often, white people come to a conclusion that, you know what? i don t really understand this. i don t live it. i don t feel it. but often, it ends there, because it s hard to get that different perspective. it is an abundance, right now, in what we are seeing. i think it s really instructive, for me, and for a lot of white people. people in the majority. to see how many people of color, who were standing by, watching this happen, and having an emotional connection to the distress and the pain that resolved itself, in guilt, in them. you know you know why that is? it s because i ll tell you a story. it you remember alton sterling? this was in baton rouge, 2016. ju
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is. this is an emergency christmas day warning to president trump. you are either completely ignorant about the so-called vaccine gene therapy that you helped ram through with operation warp speed, or you are one of the most evil men who has ever lived. that violent voice mail messages left for a u.s. congress woman, obscene slogans, how the behavior of the modern republican has sunk so low. desmond tutu, remembering a true man of peace this holiday season. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. i hope you had a good holiday weekend. as we are about to enter the third calendar year of the once in a century pandemic a lot is clear and a few things remain unclear. right now this is what both sides of the covid story look like in america, 21 months into this. this is a chart showing the weekly rate of cases, just cases of covid in new york city, by vaccination status. omicron is making itself known in the last two weeks. the purple line at