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Its a giant question. part of it is the loss of fatherhood in the home. black americans overwhelmingly in this country do not have fathers in the home. its a huge problem ever since the great society of lyndon bainesjohnson, a democratic president. so, to sit there and to instantly say, well, theyre not equally equitable among all groups, asian—americans make up 5% of the population or 4% of the population, but they make up less than i% of all criminality. so, is our legal system, is ourjudici...

Arbery was running and then running for his life in fear and then according to prosecutors was in that so-called three on one murdered. >> he finally tried to runaround their truck after running from them for five minutes. he was trying to get away from these strangers who were yelling at him, yelling at him, threatening to kill him. and then they killed him. >> and then they killed him and that is a fact of the case because its on tape and not in dispute. the jury is asked to decide something e...

Stone. neil koch al joins us on that. ill bring you all that with legal expertise from neil and others. we begin with our top story. thats the vigilante justice and the hate on trial across america. conservative leaders have been celebrating the jury acquittal of the teenager who killed two. theres these other trials that are continuing regarding where the jury is deliberating -- who are accused and indicted for killing an unarmed jogger. these killers all white and the jogger, ahmaud arbery is ...

Legal authority and their training. this defense lawyer that i just showed you is now pushing a theory that random people can just claim those same powers out of the air by declaring themselves in the process of a secret citizens arrest. if this sounds extreme, thats because it is. i can tell you theres not a lot of law supporting this. if it sounds concerning in an environment where theres a lot of people with guns in america and these other racial tensions, it is. something the prosecution, i ...

Officers. they are not in a marked patrol car. they are not with badges in their arms, theyre not in any uniform. without legal authority. once again, did not see him commit any crime. not a citizens arrest. >> not a citizens arrest. this is going to be tested. this jury is going to make a decision. as a legal matter, this case, the arbery trial of basically the people who killed him has no formal link to the acquittal of kyle rittenhouse. if you listen, some of the arguments overlap. a white pe...

Catherine. she enjoyed life a lot law >> thats all for this edition for "dateline", im craig melvin, thank you for watching. >> first up on msnbc, one day closer to a verdict in the trial of ahmaud arberys accused killers. looking ahead to tomorrows closing arguments. and why some domestic terror absolutes are sounding the alarm about the kyle parting house acquittal. [noise] >> gun shots sending people running at the countrys busiest airport.

Two men, henry lee lucas and otis tool. they were drifters. arrested and jailed in the early 80s. and began telling law enforcement something astonishing. how they had killed more than 200 women and a dizzying spree across the country. >> crime analysts there had painstakingly reported hundreds of details of dress, mode of travel and method of killing in the lucas, tool murder cases. >> thats dennis murphy reporting on it for nbc nightly news. >> theyre known as serial killers and according to l...

Investigators wanted more from the witness. >> investigators but that person under hypnosis and use a sketch artists to draw a rendition of the person that she saw standing next to a car on daniels park road, which would have been 100 yards or so from where the body was found. >> that works. putting somebody under hypnosis? >> heres the thing, ive been in this business for 40 years and i heard where it worked and theyve heard where it didnt work. >> the result was this sketch. was it the killer?...

Killing ahmaud arbery. the case involving call rittenhouse. different sets of facts. was the biggest difference to you when people start thinking about the rittenhouse verdict as we prepare for a verdict in the trial of ahmaud arberys accused killers? accused ki>> no two criminal cae exactly like, just as you pointed out. in fact, these two cases are very different. in that case of arberys killers, you have a situation where theres plenty of evidence that the defendants took themselves to the en...

Arbery was an individual black man who went for a run. he was hunted down, shot in cold blood, and the idea that a jury would let his killers off while at the same time kyle rittenhouse, who illegally obtained the gun, the ar-15 that he used, could kill people, in cold blood, and use self-defense is deeply troubling. >> okay, but that illegal gun part, four days before kyle rittenhouse was acquitted, the judge threw out the illegal gun possession charge. what did you make of that decision? >> i ...