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There is one holdout here. >> i don't know that that's actually true. last week that appeared to be true. >> on friday. >> yes. but today, what the jurors suggested was that a majority of them could not come to the conclusion. so we don't know anymore whether it was 11-1, whether that was in fact accurate last week, whether they went back and deliberated. it's clear that there were 11 white people on this jury and one african-american man and that's a systemic problem that needs to be dealt with for the retrial. >> which struck me as somewhat odd because i was in north charleston. it's an inte...

Charleston. it's an interesting place. a little like ferguson, actually, a suburb of charleston that has become majority black. i think it's 60 to 40%. it's odd that that's the jury composition. >> it's not odd and the defense actually did strike i think seven of the nine jurors struck by the defense were minorities. five of them were african-american. two were latino. the prosecution did raise a challenge, challenging the striking of the jurors based on race and after hearing the explanations offered by the defense dropped it. so we don't know -- >> just to be clear, that is named for the pla...

>> that empty lot there, there were three houses there. this lot where the driveway is, there was a house there. >> reporter: demolishing crumbling houses keeps squatters away, but that doesn't solve the larger problem. >> there's jobs if you look for them, but a lot of them are just minimum wage jobs. >> reporter: it's part of the challenge for the republican party. president obama won ohio in 2012 in part by turning out thousands of african-american voters. especially in cities like cleveland which is majority black. and the gop can't ignore the incidence of police brutality. >> these are al...

The video that we saw of the mother slapping her kid, everybody cheered that but the question is where are the fathers. that's a question that we have no answer for. the other issue is the terrible schools and the idea that they have been deprived of money is preposterous. there is the second highest per capita spending on kids in the country and if you want to blame it on political ideology it's the ideology of liberals who want to throw money at the problem. we think if we throw more money at education it will work it will not. the public schools are rotten. what the parents need are school ...

Percentage of black students at u.t. and coming from a majority black high school or not majority black environment and coming to u.t. i was very intimidated. and i had to -- i wanted to immerse myself in the community and make friends and be accepted by my peers like everybody would like to be. and when i fist got to u.t. a lot of students were hearing about me or -- >> yep. >> -- you know, hearing in rumors oh, so you're kimarii. i just felt like i had to prove myself and defend myself. and i became a part of every black organization at the university of texas and a really strong community l...