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Body diversity in america. >> you heard reference to the gruder case. this was the supreme court's earlier decision in which the court once again said that colleges can take race into account in order to achieve academic diversity. just one other point here. this is supposed to be a legal argument, not a public policy argument before the supreme court. the court has said that when a government institution like a university makes distinctions based on race, that it can only do so when there's a compelling government need and the program that does it is narrowly tailored to achieve that end. the...

He was just convicted of sexual assault, battery, first degree rape, among other things. so race was not a legal element. but the prosecutors, based on the facts they had and the case they wanted to win, they brought race into it, even though in this diverse community, the jury happened to be all white, the prosecutors pressed ahead with a dramatic theory of the case. they said this was an officer who systematically picked these women because they were black, because they were potentially of a lower class in the officer's view and because their types of criminal records or history with drugs o...

Lady to stop that night. >> yes. >> nbc's charles hadlock is in oklahoma city with more on this. charles, it was the oldest victim who went to police went as i understand it. how did the case then build? >> reporter: yeah, craig. she was the key witness in this, the star witness, if you will. let's back up and explain what the case was against this officer. officer daniel holtsclaw patrolled the northeast part of oklahoma city. that's mostly poor, mostly black and he preyed on women in that area who may have had a criminal background. but he picked on the wrong person. profiled the wrong perso...

Wrongfully yvonconvicted of a c. no one's talking about deconstructing that list and much better in this case to be safe now than to be sorry later on. >> all right. senator chris murphy of connecticut, senator, thank you. >> thank you. tomorrow in texas, gun rights support earls plan to hold a mock mass shooting on a college campus. we go to austin for reaction to that planned demonstration. this is brad.

Represent quite a different view than the priorities and values that president obama has been -- has spent his career talking about. >> in terms of how the broader issue here of considering race as part of the college admissions process, how that plays out with public opinion, it's been remarkably stable and remarkably one-sided in this country when it comes to this specific question. we can show you the last time this issue reared its head in the supreme court a couple years ago. gallop poll asked americans should admissions be based solely on merit or should race be a consideration. 67% said...