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American society and the american life, that we do have that kind of a conflation. but i think here we need to take a look at the jury system and the fairness of the jury system. these men and women came to this jury and even some of them had their own biases. they were able to put those biases aside. they were able to look at the evidence in this case. not the color so much of the person's skin. but the actual evidence in this case and coming to a decision of finding these three men guilty. >> charles: thanks so much. always appreciate your insight especially on a day like today. the verdict ...

>> yeah, i mean lawyers talk about the csi effect where jurors are accustomed to watching these crime scene shows and expecting like the satellite footage to solve the case for them. i'm wondering now in these -- what would be extremely thorny self-defense cases if they're not going to come to the expectation that we'll have video from 100 angles and slow motion break downs and reproductions. the bottom line here for both cases, we should be acknowledging or celebrating rationale juror behavior. that jurors are coming together, randomly picked people that have to serve, come together and look ...

Comes outs, travis mcmichael with a shotgun. the father, grant mcmichael has his gun. they get in a vehicle and they chase this kid down. and then there was this confrontation that took place where this kid was shot and killed. then you had defense attorneys to try to use the race card. they used it by trying to make it seem that this black kid was a criminal, that he had committed criminal acts in the community before. that these individuals had a right to take the actions that they took because they were making a citizens arrest. that's the unfortunate thing of what we saw here in this case,...

0 men for hate crimes. i don't think it will change the resulting sentence, because the resulting sentence from the state conviction is going to be a very, very, very long time if not life for each of the three men. >> all right, everyone, big, big, day here, so let's reset what we know and where we are at the top of this hour. we're following breaking news in georgia, where a jury just reached a verdict in the case of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. travis mcmichael, who pulled the trigger, was found guilty on all charges, all nine counts, including felony murder, malice murde...

Course. the fact of the matter is the second he went out there with that ar-15, he was positioned to become an icon, a hero or martyr, depending on the outcome of this case because there were folks standing at the ready to make him the kind of exemplary figure they wanted to make him to show other, especially young white men, precisely how to behave in these situations. and it's easy to separate these trials because the circumstances were different, the locations were different, people are different. but whenever we are talking about white supremacy and the culture of violence, we have to look...