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And avery mentioned the one big one, the court said the judge basically directed certain attorneys to file the case so it would come before her, because she s been outspoken on this issue and felt that the law was disproportionately applied to blacks and hispanics, made her ruling. i don t know how it s going to pan out. i think the election s going to determine it. it was a brave ruling from her. and i have to tell you, fred, she is a wonderful, very, very bright judge. i ve been before her many times. so it s just astounding that they would make this type of finding with which suggests we agree it will be affirmed. we agree that it will be affirmed. it s unconstitutional. okay. we ll talk again about this, because we know the case is not over. just totally unrelated, also, richard, unrelated to this case, but topical, nonetheless, you were caught up in the mayhem at l.a.x. at the time of the shooting in terminal 3. where exactly were you yesterday, and what did you experience? ....
That the others haven t. victor blackwell, thank you so much. we ll talk about this with our own legal guys, avery freeman, civil rights attorney, law professor in cleveland, and richard herman, new york attorney, joining us from las vegas. good to see you, gentlemen. wow, it s an extraordinary case. i know you agree on that. georgia authorities at one time concluding that no foul play, case closed, and then, now, a federal investigation. so, richard, what s the impetus in your view for this new investigation, new evidence, evidence collected, not treated properly? what s your view? you know, fred, the perseverance of the family to continue to pressure the authorities to look into this, it s a hard pill to swallow when they say your teenage son is found rolled up in a mat dead. a seemingly healthy young man. you look into this investigat n investigation, and there are so many issues of contaminated crime scene, the fact that when the second autopsy was done, there were no organs in ....
There s a lot of problems with this case, fred. it will take an overwhelming set of facts and evidence to overturn the initial finding of the accidental death. unless they find a cover-up there, the feds have no jurisdiction. they have no why is that in your view, avery? i don t agree with that. problems with the case leading up to what happened, the crime, you know, if there was indeed a crime. right. in and after itself, because you have the coroner s report that said suffocation, he did this to himself. and now you have the investigation of, you know, foul play. and then you ve got the treatment of the body, the treatment of the evidence after the fact. so, avery, where does the federal investigation begin? well, the federal investigation is different than the local investigation. i have to say, when you have 1,900 hours of videotape before the incident, and you close an investigation in 24 hours, ....
Those people who were hurt at the finish line last april. fred? all right, fantastic. many people really kind of finding that this is symbolic of the city. it is a comeback for everyone. thank you so much, alexandra field, appreciate that in boston. congrats, everybody, there. all right. let s go back out to the west coast momentarily. the shooting at l.a.x. has left a whole lot of question, and the one is, what might have triggered him to open fire? an fbi profiler joins us next to help us sort it all out. max and penny kept our bookstore exciting and would always come to my rescue. but as time passed, i started to notice max just wasn t himself. and i knew he d feel better if he lost a little weight. so i switched to purina cat chow healthy weight formula. i just fed the recommended amount. and they both loved the taste. after a few months max s special powers returned. ....
Hartsfield-jackson in atlanta, so are things getting back to normal across the board? reporter: relatively speaking, fred, they are back to normal. yesterday, in fact, we were here just in the hours after that shooting and airport police were quickly ushering those that were dropping family and friends off at the ticketing and check-in. this morn, things are seemingly back to normal. airport officials do tell us, though, that there is an up tick in security, especially those plane clothes officers who, even if we re not able to see it, they are here, and i ll let the cameraman here pan a little bit. it s sort of a slower than average day. passengers we ve spoken to around the airport, some are more concerned than others. i ve never put off by isolated random acts of violence, so i m not worried in the slighter. i m not nervous. airport security, as far as i m concerned, is top drawer. all the checks you go through every time you get on a plane these days make it pretty difficult to ....