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Now. gideon resnick. what does this tell us about the internet research agency, the russian troll firm, the st. pete pete petersburg based operation we believe was meddling in the election, by posting things on social media? >> it tells us they had specific targets, like individual americans already involved in activist communities. things having to do with black lives matter. things related to deaths by police that activists were already involved in. the internet research agency, through the proxies, a number of the other tumblr accounts they generated, were telling these folks, hey, when you...

Quote, the ideas obtained in campaign zero help our nation and our community and help close the deadly divide. kind words are nice but now we need legislation. what's the strategy to get this sponsored in bills across the country? >> well, we are having a series of calls with people on the ground because we want to equip communities and activists with this tool. and we have been updating campaign zero as our platform, given kind of crowd-source ideas and ideas from other activist communities. but we are really looking to folks saying, what is relevant in your community and how can we support y...

Getting scot-free. he's not walking out of that courtroom. is the idea that both in the trayvon martin -- in what happened to trayvon martin, what happened to jordan davis, some official body of the law has said, when you encounter an apparently unarmed young black man during the night, it's reasonable to fear for your life. that is what is being communicated here. >> so, i mean, chris, the thing that strikes me about this verdict is this. you know, the constant question is, what if he had not fired additional rounds after he killed jordan davis? so had he not done that, under this decision, t...

Is, what if he had not fired additional rounds after he killed jordan davis? so had he not done that, under this decision, this verdict, he would have done nothing wrong. he would have been allowed to just continue as he was and this would have been deemed a justifiable shooting. and so what we've actually done is codify people's prejudices. codify their worst instincts inside the law. i came up in activist communities. i remember the dealu case where we were in new york and talking about specific police, you know, malpractice and their behaviors. and we thought this was an issue that needed t...