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Children when our cameras aren't on the incident. >> ebony, you were saying absolutely. >> absolutely, yes. i want their badges taken away. if they'll do it now, i'm sure they've done it before -- what will they do in the future? if you do something, you can do it again. >> kye -- >> it might be worse. >> kye, you're going to be okay? >> yes. >> ben, before we go, you also represent wander cooper-jones, ahmaud arbery's mother. i want your reaction to the testimony in the federal hate crimes trial and whether it shows a racial motive. >> i believe, as wanda and marcus, ahmaud's parents have sai...

Understanding it's a high bar they always tell us. but race was the motivating -- for killing unjustly, we need to have it documented and have two bites of the apple. one in the state level and another on the federal level. and so i think this was historic for wanda and marcus. it was historic for georgia. but most important, it was historic for america and our children. >> it's interesting because people, you know, like to hide their racism. they try to pretend it doesn't exist. ben, the jury was asked to ignore all of the text messages, right, all of the whatever the social media and everyth...

In that trial? it's a blind spot in our legal system because it's so hard to prove a hate crime. >> back in georgia, back then the state did not have a hate crime. we were one of eight states that does not have hate crime protections or to be prosecuted. even while the racists said what happened was racist, there was no recourse for that district attorney to charge them with the hate crime, which is why it's so important for the federal government to look into this under the hate crimes act to make sure that these people are brought to justice, because otherwise communities within here in the ...

Where these defendants were already convicted, serving life in prison now, because they were convicted of killing ahmaud arbery. this is about the why. so that's why this case is so important. marcus arbery, the father of ahmad came out today and said there's going to be new evidence. they will present social media posts, text messages that show the defendants using racial slurs and likening black people to monkeys and less than human. they believe that that is why, and they killed ahmaud arbery. and the father of ahmaud arbery, marcus, says that new evidence is so important. take a listen. >>...

We would not be standing here today without each and every one of you. i want to address -- i now want to address the members of the doj. i'm very thankful that you guys brought these charges of hate crime, but back on january the 31st you guys entered a plea deal with these three murderers who took my son's life. marcus and two of ahmad's aunties stood before the court and begged the judge not to -- to take a plea deal that the doj -- that the doj went before the judge and asked them to take a plea deal with these guys. attorney ben crump just called