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"new york" magazine reports, if america permissive self-defense and abundant guns open a zone of killing, the precise borders of the rotator are shaped by white supremacy. in a 2013 study of u.s. homicides, the urban institute found that killings involving a white perpetrator and a black victim are 281% more likely to be ruled justified than kwasz a white perpetrator and white victim. joining us now, judy brown, former mayor of stockton, california, michael tubs, and civil rights attorney kristi...

Out a statement that said this in part today. quote, we should not forget these killings took place amid protests in kenosha. the history of protest is integral to the fight for racial justice in this country and there remains a concerted attack to encroach on this right. armed militias and vigilantes are acting to silence protesters. and tonight we have seen protesters back on the streets in brooklyn in the largest numbers but also some in chicago and also some in kenosha in response to the ver...

The two men rittenhouse killed, justice -- they reacted to the verdict with cheers. her fiancée said i feel like in this case, the victims lives dont matter. as i mention mr. rittenhouse shot the people during the protests last summer the police shooting of jacob blake, today jacob blakes uncle spoke to reporters outside the courtroom he said he was disappointed in the verdict, but also that he was not surprised by it. he said in his view, the judge put his hand on the scale from day one in fav...

The word near, right, is so crucial. well, jill, thank you so much. i really appreciate your time and talking with me. i cant wait to watch this. i hope everybody does. the hunt for planet b tomorrow night, saturday night, at 9:00 right here on cnn. thanks so much for joining us. its time now for anderson. good evening. tonight, the impact of the not-guilty verdict in killings that never should have happened. there is no debate about that. and tried under local and national pressures that ampl...

Committee, sean patrick maloney of washington released this statement "its disgusting and disturbing someone is able to carry a loaded assault rifle into a protest against the unjust killings of jacob blake, an unarmed black man." savor that for a minute. thats from the head of the democratic partys congressional campaign arm. everything about it is wrong, not just a lie but factually wrong. jacob blake wasnt killed. he also wasnt unarmed. he was carrying a knife because he said he was carrying ...

People, young people, might pose a larger threat. two officers were caught pushing a 75-year-old man to the ground. other brutality incidents occurred as well, separate from protests. jacob blake shooting sparked the protest against this kind of violence. that is the recent historical contest. when there are protests, people exercising constitutional rights, theyre met with violence like these two in kenosha, killed. todays acquittal would appear to co-sign that violence. two people dead from ri...

Onus on one piece of evidence. the judge being very clear, that may apply to witness statements, but that should not apply to video that shows the action that they are deciding. it shows the very moments of these killings, and so the jury did so. they did take a look at the video again, and their decision was that he was not guilty on all five counts. and that decision is final. the prosecution coming out and being very clear that while they are disappointed with the jurys decision, they respect...

Navtej johal our correspondent in nottingham —— whos been following the case —— told us more about the background to todays decision. when he was given a licence for raping and murdering the 215 euros and thats a don ashworth where his victims and he was arrested after an extensive inquiry involving the dna testing of testing of thousands of men from the area where the killings took place. at the time he committed his first crime, pitchfork was a 22—year—old married father of two. an...

Kyle rittenhouse, the teenager who shot two men in protest last year, has been acquitted of all charges. nomia joins us from outside the courthouse. a highly charged situation the night of these killings. it�*s been a highly controversial tri—rail. killings. its been a highly controversial tri-rail. killings. its been a highly controversialtri-rail. a, ., ~ controversial tri-rail. more than 26 hours of deliberations, _ controversial tri-rail. more than 26 hours of deliberations, they - contr...

Establishes the fact that rosenbaum was being aggressive at night and i should know because i saw him being aggressive with other people at the gas station to my left ear. that is a key, important fact to have established, because of that initial attack that then led to the chain of events for the second half of the shooting, which i was present for. >> will: so julio, the rittenhouse team has asserted the affirmative defense of self-defense. they say the killings were done in the act of self-de...