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Occupying a federal building, refusing to leave even after the two ranchers who inspired the protest turned themselves in on monday. law enforcement has yet to take any action. a former south carolina police officer charged in the videotaped shooting of an unarmed black man has been released from jail. michael slager was granted bail on monday. last april, slager pulled walter scott over, reportedly for a broken brake light. scott ran away from the scene and was shot in the back by slager. the teen whose lawyer used an afluenza defense over a deadly drunken driving defense will remain in m...

What do we mean to be achieving with these drug laws. >> karen, that's a good point. you can't avoid the racial component. blacks, 20 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to life without parole for nonviolent crime. 2001 to 2008 white applicants more than four times likely to receive presidential pardons. this is one of those cases where the president is wading into this issue squarely about race. >> when we talk about sentencing there's one word, afluenza. yes, can you be president if you're a black man who goes to harvard and does these other things. we're talking about a lot of the...

A psychologist and gets a diagnosis that the kid is not playing with a full deck. >> will it send a message to other kids that you can't call in bomb hoaxes and shut down harvard even after the boston bombing. >> you can't hit the fire alafrm when you don't want to take your calculus exam. >> i thought you had to be smart to get into harvard. >> there is my defense. he had a lapse. it has been diagnosed high doctor karls son who said that he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. >> afluenza. >> she is the best lawyer i've

>> the family speaking out about ethan couch. his lawyer said he suffered from afluenza growing up entitled and spoiled and never facing consequences. the judge ruling he is a defendant in need of long-term treatment now because of his up bringing. eric boil the husband and the father of two of those victims was speaking out talking about what he thought about the sentencing. >> we knew the maximum sentence was a 20-year sentence which in the juvenile system meant that ethan would be eligible for parole in two years. while recognizing that that is kind of the circumstances we were dealing with...

Guilty of murder in the second degree. a teenager who got behind the wheel drunk and killed four people, found guilty. guess how much time he will spend in prison? his defense team argues he is a rich kid and as a result, he did not know better. i'm not even kidding. they called it, afluenza. affluenza. is next.