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Body diversity in america. >> you heard reference to the gruder case. this was the supreme courts earlier decision in which the court once again said that colleges can take race into account in order to achieve academic diversity. just one other point here. this is supposed to be a legal argument, not a public policy argument before the supreme court. the court has said that when a government institution like a university makes distinctions based on race, that it can only do so when theres a com...

He was just convicted of sexual assault, battery, first degree rape, among other things. so race was not a legal element. but the prosecutors, based on the facts they had and the case they wanted to win, they brought race into it, even though in this diverse community, the jury happened to be all white, the prosecutors pressed ahead with a dramatic theory of the case. they said this was an officer who systematically picked these women because they were black, because they were potentially of a l...

Lady to stop that night. >> yes. >> nbcs charles hadlock is in oklahoma city with more on this. charles, it was the oldest victim who went to police went as i understand it. how did the case then build? >> reporter: yeah, craig. she was the key witness in this, the star witness, if you will. lets back up and explain what the case was against this officer. officer daniel holtsclaw patrolled the northeast part of oklahoma city. thats mostly poor, mostly black and he preyed on women in that area wh...

Wrongfully yvonconvicted of a c. no ones talking about deconstructing that list and much better in this case to be safe now than to be sorry later on. >> all right. senator chris murphy of connecticut, senator, thank you. >> thank you. tomorrow in texas, gun rights support earls plan to hold a mock mass shooting on a college campus. we go to austin for reaction to that planned demonstration. this is brad.

Represent quite a different view than the priorities and values that president obama has been -- has spent his career talking about. >> in terms of how the broader issue here of considering race as part of the college admissions process, how that plays out with public opinion, its been remarkably stable and remarkably one-sided in this country when it comes to this specific question. we can show you the last time this issue reared its head in the supreme court a couple years ago. gallop poll ask...

By the fact that the university of texas may have fewer, maybe it ought to have fewer, and maybe, you know, when you take more the number of blacks, really competent blacks admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less and i dont think it stands to reason that its a good thing for the university of texas to admit as many blacks as possible. i just done think -- >> this court heard and rejected that argument with respect, justice scalia, in the gruder case. a case our opponents asked this cour...

Police immediately began an investigation, and found 12 other victims telling similar stories. thats when holtzclaws case fell apart and police began to move forward with the prosecution against him. they came up with a 36-count indictment. he was convicted of 18 counts of sexual assault against those 13 women. last night, just as the officer was being led away in handcuffs, the crowd was cheering, crying and also singing "happy birthday," mocking the officer. yesterday was his 29th birthday, th...

Officer, who would i call. that was the nub of the issue in this particular case. we played some of that dramatic remarks in the press conference last hour. he listened to more of it that didnt make air. one of the other points pressed by the victims and advocates was look, initially people didnt take them seriously. everyone in the country has been spellbound by this case as we learned all the details. they were saying initially local leaders, local press and i want to be clear, they called out...

Prosecutions case in this. it was a case against officer daniel holtzclaw, a patrol officer in the northeast sector of oklahoma city. he worked the night shift. he targeted women in his patrol car, specifically black women with a criminal background. his thinking was according to prosecutors that he could perform sexual acts on them and vice versa and they wouldnt complain because he had them over a barrel. he knew that they wouldnt complain because they had a criminal record against them and it...