transgender women and girl from playing sports on the tea is consistent with their gende identity a big reminder that the cultur wars we are seeing around th country, and especially in places like florida or the playbook, not a distraction. and america s reeling from a recent string of shootings teenagers or young adults shot and even killed for making a simple mistake we are talking to a safety advocate in and a shooting survivor of the gunman epidemi here in america. you are watching symone, and w have got a lot to get to we begin with that consequential decision from th united states supreme court. on friday evening the cour preserved full access to mifepristone, the most commo abortion about method in the united states. at least for now the ruling revolves around a lower court decision on th abortion pill, earlier thi month u.s. district judg matthew kacsmaryk invalidate the food and dru administration s longtim approval of the drug the order reversed years of f
and it is happening. the shootings of 16-year-old ralph yarl in missouri 20-year-old caitlin gilles i new york, and to high school cheerleaders in texas, they ar just a glimpse of how gu violence is overtaking communities across the nation. incidents in north carolina, alabama, and michigan are also under scrutiny where young victims were shot when the were believing they were in safe space a teenager in michigan was jus asking for directions in north carolina, a six-year-old, six-year-old was shot trying t retrieve a ball from a neighbor s yard. those three states have some o the country s most relaxed gun laws and it begs the question, when is it time for america to ge serious about gun violence is it now? when is it joining me now is executiv director of community justic action fund and gun violence survivor gregory jackson gregory, it is great to have you. you know, give me a sense, tal to me about the impact tha
community is feeling about thi also, his fixation on disney because of the lgbtq community where he won t let this go he keeps moving forward and he keeps igniting this fire wit disney what it really means is that even if you are a corporat entity, if you are a business, if you are a person and you ar not following his way of morality, he will attack you and he won t stop attacking you, he will fixate on you until yo yield to his ways. and this is exactly what dictators do at this point we need to loo and labeled him for what he is he is a dictator who believe there is only one way of life, one way of morality, and everybody must objec themselves to that well we have a sense wh florida is at the epicenter. congresswoman sheila x fearless mccormick, thank yo so much, appreciated if you learn anything in the u.s. and the pass weeks, you can be shot by simply ring the wrong doorbell like ralph yarl in missouri. or pulling into the wron driveway like caitlin gilles in new york or getting
everyone gets nervous when you do that. but it isn t enjoying thread amongst a lot of those conversations. the shooting of ralph yarl is good example where this is a case where that gun culture an ray sort of came together. can you speak to what happen when you had guns into the mix of racism and prejudice? yeah, i mean, personally am a survivor of gun violence. i was shot ten years ago actually as of yesterday exactly. and i was shot as an innocen bystander. one of the first things experienced was when i went to the hospital i wasn t met with nurses and practitioners, i wa met with investigators tha question to me about why i was a bystander and what i was doing on the scene really looked at me as a criminal first and a victims second unfortunately that is what w are seeing across the country. this is a public health crisis but in black and brown communities this is seen as crime control only crisis. and what is happening is the legislation is encouraging harsher incarceration, hars
but then we are also seein this big surge in thes stand-your-ground are what w like to consider shoot first laws that encourage people t take legal action before evading. those that type of situation costas ralph yarl, that is exactly what cost us the lives of people like ahmaud arbery and every day there are so man black and brown folks across the country that are losin their lives to this crisis and this type of reaction. and just because it is not filmed and just because it i not all on cnn or msnbc does not mean it is not important i mean, gun violence is now th number one cause of prematur death for all youth, for black youth it has been the number one cause since 2006 and this is also the number on cause of premature death for black men, number two fo latino and number two for black women so this crisis is not just something that is a fringe issue. something we see when there is a headline no, this is something that black and brown communities ar suffering from every day and we a