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This nations criminal justice system. heres just a sample from the first episode on racial profiling. >> consider new yorks stop and frisk program. last year, the nypd conducted 532,000 searches. the targets were far from random. about 85% were racial minorities. almost double their share of the citys population. hundreds of thousands of black and latino new yorkers were presumed suspicious, stopped, questioned and searched. the vast majority at the time that presumption was wrong. 9% were innoc...

>> everybody is doing okay. my mom is in great spirits. you saw she has a motorized chair and has a van. theres a new sense much independence and she gets out now. she goes to church and, you know, it is -- one person described it for me this way. to imagine sitting in a chair being duct taped from head to toe and your spirit is there. he enjoys our company. you see -- they love to be with her there. when im having a bad day she tells me -- dont be a wimp. >> thats right. yeah. after 73 years, l...

Guys job, thats obama. if i dont finish in the top three for the next nobel peace prize, somethings seriously wrong. there you have it. dennis rodman seriously considering dennis rodman for the nobel peace prize. it doesnt get moran come to than that. talk about random. the roads can be a dangerous place, especially if its dating season in russia. >> i dont think they were getting it fully on. that video was posted on monday. it looks like the cow may not have been badly hurt judging by the fa...

What were your findings? >> the swab gave a possible finding of the presence of blood. it was a partial dna profile. these two samples i tested 15 areas. that partial dna profile did match trayvon martin. the probability of finding that dna profile at random would be 1 in 100 quadrillion caucasians, 1 in 160 trillion african-americans, and 1 in 18 quadrillion hispanics. >> i want to move now to the swab from the flashlight recovered at the scene. if you could, what were your findings? >> the swa...

Being all female? does it represent enough of the population of that area? >> i mean, i think what people need to know is the -- panel thats -- selected, pool, that was selected, hundreds come in every day, from that group, a panel is selected and sent down, that may not be an exact representation of the community. it is done at random. from that panel jurors are selected after they are excluded because of their knowledge of the case or -- prejudices or things like that. it doesnt turn out to be...

This time it came from texas congressman michael burgess. >> we should be setting this at 15 weeks, 16 weeks. watch a sonogram at a 15-week baby and they have movements that are purposeful. they stroke their face. if theyre a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. they feel pleasure. why is it so hard to think they could feel pain? >> it is one thing to be a random texas congressman, michael burgess saying that we should set laws for everybody in the whole country based on when ...

Folks, goes to a college, kills more people and has to be instituteeralized at the hands of the police, i would say thats premeditated. >> but why? police say in 2006, they were called to this house the gunman set on fire where they believe he killed two of his relatives. at the time, the juvenile was a juvenile, police dont know why he chose santa monica college, but they reveal he was a student at the college in 2010, likely familiar with the library, where police say students hid in a safe ro...

The police, id say thats premeditated. >> reporter: but why? police say in 2006 they were called to this house the gunman set on fire, where he killed two of his relatives. at the time, the gunman was a juvenile, so police would not elaborate. right now police dont know why he chose to shoot his way through santa monica college. he was a student at the college at the 2010, familiar with the library, where students hid in a safe room. officers say he probably didnt know any of the victims outside...

Plan go into something much more random. he doesnt have a structured plan to get away. hes trying to hijack, carjack vehicles as he goes. hes shooting people at random. so it is very suggestive of things that we have seen before in these types of incidents where the person comes with what they call the murder kit. everything he needs to commit the act. they kill their intended victims. and then they set about killing victims at random and do things that will draw the police response where -- and...

Stretching over a swath of territory in santa monica, in california, and it -- it seems at this point that while the shootings between the house and the college were random, perhaps and the police are saying it seems -- again, this is early in the investigation -- the death inside the house were not random. >> no, anderson. i think if you look at how this unfold, you see an individual who came prepared, dressed in the black clothing, possibly wearing body armor. not carrying a handgun but a long...