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System is broken. it took four prosecutor offices in order to get us to today, for this case to be prosecuted and heard by a jury. in fact, the first prosecutor, jackie johnson, which is the prosecutor for glenn county, she has now been indicted for misconduct based on abusing her power as a prosecutor, in the sense that she was in contact with greg mcmichael and also advised the police officers not to arrest them. >> and we were just looking at pictures there. most people were shocked by the ra...

Country. >> you know, congresswoman bass, i want to play a piece of sound that is difficult to hear but really shows how the defense seriously tried to dehumanize ahmaud arbery. >> turning ahmaud arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought ahmaud arbery to satilla shores in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long dirty toenails. >> i mean -- go ahead. go ahead, congresswoman. >> i mean, i think that it is just absolutely despicable. j...

Tried to refer to ahmaud arberys toenails and that they were dirty. why that would be relevant in any way, but i know thats one of the things you are referring to. so paul, they asked to re-watch the cell phone video of the attack that william brian had taken. you can see travis mcmichael struggling with ahmaud arbery and i want to play a clip because they asked for this at the end, right, right before. they asked to watch this again. here it is . so, when they said today they want to re-watch t...

Villainizing the presence of black pastors. another lawyer sparking outrage with comments about arberys legs and toenails. were you surprised by those attacks? were you concerned they would work or resonate with the jury? what was your thought about some of those things that were said? >> actually, i didnt know. i was not surprised. i was greatly disappointed that our system and our society and our judicial, not judicial, excuse me, legal people would use defense attorneys this kind of strategy....

Terms in the cases of the long, dirty toenails. and the jury didnt buy it, right? the jury didnt buy it here. so, what kind of hope does that give you going forward? >> i mean, i -- i dont know. i mean, i -- thats a tough question, john. you stumped me on that. you have to text me later why you asked me such a stumping question in front of millions of people. i am -- i want to be hopeful because i have children. and i want to be hopeful because of the fact that i dont believe anything about this...

>> none whatsoever, john. you know, during the course of this trial, we saw those ridiculous, racist mistrial motions, you know, to exclude black pastors. i mean, of course, i know they were trying to be zealous and preserve the record for appeal and obviously the motion also with respect to the prosecutors interpretation of citizens arrest and argument, none of those provide grounds to overturn this conviction on appeal. it really -- it really doesnt, i dont see any grounds for an appeal to be ...

Toenails there were almost talking about him like if he was a runaway slave, and that this lynch mob as a right to run away and run after him and capture him, even if that meant killing him. and the only thing that was left to be answered was this afternoon, was worse the verdict going to be one that -- to the jim crow era. or chris, whether its going to be a verdict that said to america, we must be better than this. we cannot condone this in 2021. >> yes, that was the defense attorney, who of c...

>> yes, the defense attorney who, of course, said that about the disgusting comment about the toenails. ben crump, thank you very much for making some time for us on this very, very big day. thank you. >> thank you, chris hayes. i want to turn now to david henderson, a criminal defense civil rights attorney and former prosecutor and christina greer, professor of political science at fordham university. you know, david, the thing that i just cant get over about this case, and this is a detail t...

Comfort you in the court. we dont want all of these black pastors in here, as if he can inject his will on this black family like they did when they killed him, you need to comply with what we want you to do. and then, i mean the nail in the coffin was this prosecutor talking about him having long legs and dirty toenails, i almost hearkened it back to if he was a runaway slave and this lynch mob had a right to chase him down and capture him by any means necessary, even if that meant killing him....

That is difficult to hear. but it really shows how the defense -- seriously tried to dehumanize ahmed arbery. >> turning ahmaud arbery into a victim. after the choices that he made, does not reflect the reality of what brought ahmaud arbery to satilla shores. in his khaki shorts, with no socks, to cover his long dirty toenails. >> i mean. go ahead. >> i think that it is absolutely despicable. just like the defense lawyer who said that there were scary black people in the courtroom, and scary bla...