weitchel's calm demeanor and the way he handled children, and he would ensure every single child received something, whether it be as small a thing as a pencil ir bookl or a booklet to write in. >> reporter: everyone could see dennis's own children meant everything for him. >> these are the most important things to me, my kids. it's good to see them on the holidays. >> reporter: dennis weichel was promoted posthumously to sergeant. his children were so glad to see him just a few months ago. hello, everyone. it's the top of the hour. i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. we're going to begin tonight with the rescue of an

international yacht racing team hundreds of miles off the california coast. the crew is competing in the clipper around the world race. it's like the tv show "survivor" except on the high seas. everyday people, cab drivers, teachers, bankers, compete against other teams circling the globe. and they chronicle their journey, as this video shows. now in the final leg of the 4500-mile race, they hit a monster wave and took out the communications equipment and injured three of its group, including these two members. now the coast guard has a cutter close enough to launch a helicopter. they're about 40 miles off the coast of sapphire but tn franci weather is getting in the way here. joining me on the phone is petty officer caleb critchfield. thank you for joining me. has the cutter taken off yet?

>> no, we're still waiting for the weather to clear for safety of the helo. >> any sign that the weather will clear? >> no. we're working very hard to line ou ourselves up with the conditions and get the heroiclo launched s can do something. >> i want you to tell me about the extent of injuries. i understand one of three people hurt. has some serious injuries. >> three people were injured. thanks to some modifying information, we were able to communicate with the boat. we found that two of those people were not as seriously injured as we initially thought, but one of those people is still in serious condition, and our primary concern is to get out there, get a crewman on the boat to assess the situation and get everyone who needs immediate medical assistance off the boat and back to the mainland.

>> petty officer critchfield, how did you all locate them? >> we were contacted by united kingdom rescue center. they contacted the coast guard and asked us to assist with this case. >> when you reach it, what happens from there? >> we received the report, and the coast guard was in the area and we redirected them to start heading toward the yacht. they also had an embarked mh-60 jayhawk helicopter which is fully capable of airlifting all three injured crew members. >> so you don't know how many people were on board for sure? >> according to our last report, 13 people are on board. >> can one helicopter get all those people? >> one helicopter would not be able to airlift all 13. our primary concern are the injured individuals, and we want to get them to safety and get them the medical attention that they need. >> okay.

here's the interesting thing, and this is from australia. who is responsible? who pays for this, or is that not even a concern for you at this point? >> that's not a concern. our primary concern is getting these people to safety. >> all right. petty officer caleb critchfield, thank you very much. on to syria now where the opposition says it can't hold on forever. so the u.s. is promising to nearly double its funding support. at a conference in istanbul, turkey, a conference joined others in saying the syrian people will not be left alone. she says sanctions are starting to work. the government crackdown shows no signs of letting up. >> today the international community sent a clear and unified message that we will increase pressure on the assad regime in syria and the

opposition. nearly a week has gone by since the regime pledged to implement kofi's plan. but since then, they have launched new assaults rather than allowing access for humanitarian aid. they have tightened their siege. and rather than beginning a political transition, the regime has crushed dozens of peaceful protests. >> the protests and the fighting continue across syria. president as sarks d h srksassa accept the peace plan proposed. in beirut, he says talk is cheap. >> this is the impact of the joint nation's peace plan in syria on fighting. since the syrian government accepted the plan last tuesday, little has changed.

the army of bashad and assad continues its crackdown and on the offensive. it calls for armed forces to stop using heavy weapons and begin to pull back military concentrations from urban areas. but this is how the spokesman for the syrian foreign ministry sees it. >> once there is stability and peace in any designated area and the civilians are back, the military will not stay on the ground and we are not waiting for kofi annan to tell us when to pick up and go. >> they experienced that peace and stability after a bruising 28-day siege. its recapture may be a not so subtle hint after the regime promises to crush the uprising, which, he says, is coming to an end. for their part, the regime say

they will stop fighting if and when government forces pull back. without an end to the violence, little else in annan's plan can be implemented. sunday representatives in 24 countries are expected to meet in istanbul. >> so-called friends of syria like saudi arabia seem to believe there is a military option to resolve the crisis in syria. thursday syrian minister said that arming the rebels is, in his words, a duty. ben wedeman, cnn, beirut. a woman who went to prison fighting for democracy is now in myanmar's symbol of freedom. the result is still unofficial. she won the nobel peace prize for her decades-long fight for democracy. her opposition party called today's victory momentous.

myanmar has lived under military rule for 50 years and myanmar still holds the balance of power. vice president joe biden is it hanging with his boss for that microphone moment this week. biden was heard telling russia's president he'll have more flexibility on missiles, quote, after my election. biden defended that quotas saying it should come as a surprise to nobody. >> look -- and by the way, i know a little about unguarded moments with microphones, but look, the idea that in this election year we're going to be able to deal with an agreement with the russians on further reducing our nuclear arsenals and the dividing twwe have in t united states congress is difficult. the president is stating the obvious. the trayvon martin case is shedding light on so much, including those of us who cover

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to talk about it. now it's as if it has moved into saturation. >> it has. >> what do you make of it? >> i was initially critical of all of our colleagues across the spectrum. we didn't chase this story, this story chased us. so sometimes we tend to get a bit myopic in our news rooms and we started heading down the biggest story, but this one was so tragically important we missed initially. so social networks stood up and started to share this across twitter, a kcross facebook, the people like you, me, rowland martin and others started spreading it. now it has hit a stride where it is near saturation, and it seems to me that we have got to be -- and i'm a part of this -- we have got to be extraordinarily careful when we handle issues like this because this is a long overdue conversation that we've

got to have. we've got to have it responsibly and we've got to encourage responsibility to our viewers. >> just by having it, please don't send me any more tweets. >> this is a conversation that we all need to have, so relax. it's so disgusting to see some of the things and the words people use by bringing -- i think it was bill maher who said jokingly, i believe the new racism is in denial of racism. the truth sochb spois often spo jest, right? >> maybe he said it in a comedic way, but that is the automatic response. for some people who don't live day to day with gender or religion or racial minority status or other things, you know, it is a bit easier, i think, not to take as much care about those issues. and so there is a sense that

race gets talked about too much by some, and then there is a sense by others that is not talked about enough. for me it isn't talked about enough in a healthy way. >> it's interesting to hear people talk about race, and if they could see my family and friends, your children -- >> my husband, my family. >> and we have these conversations in mixed families among each other, which we're all family in america together and we should be having these conversations. you know what i find interesting, when we talk about race in these stories, this is the only place where some people -- i saw a story babout journalist who had been profiled, but they shouldn't do that because it takes away credibility. this is the only job where experience doesn't count. >> i'm an writer so i'm not a journalist or reporter. i tend to share my personal

experience, put context around a story, especially those i'm most passionate about. but to say that working journalists don't have the right or platform to speak from their own experiences and put a context around the story, i think that's really an unfortunate indictment to be made. >> one point, i have friends, i go hang out with michael haynes. his experience in those war zones, i sit there and listen to him. oh, my gosh, it's amazing. he comes on cnn and shares those stories, right? ali with the financial, i talk with him about those. christine, dr. sanjay gupta, whatever. but when it comes to race, it's something you should not be sharing. >> there used to be a day in international media when it was a one-way conversation. the man on one side of the camera would deliver the news without emotion, without opinion, without sharing any of himself. i say him because it was always

a he. himself with a viewer. today the equation has changed and it's a two-way conversation. i'm going to have a conversation with you about you, i should be willing to talk a little bit about me. >> stand by. i want to talk to you about the politics of it and also this new -- it's not new -- the cooler heads in the wake of piers morgan. don't answer yet. we're back in a moment. [ donovan ] i hit a wall.

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okay. we're talking about the trayvon martin case with goldie taylor, social critic, and manager of goldietaylorproject.com. can we talk about this? it's disgusting to even look at my twitter feeds sometimes. steve ono says, don lemon, you are a racist. you are fixated on this one issue over and over. we want to hear the news. not your personal agenda. go works for b.e.t. >> that was the nice one. >> that was the nice one. he didn't call me the n word. >> i've been called the n word collectively over the last 72 hours than i have my whole life. it's a mamazing to me what peop will say with the anonymity of a

tweet. >> what did they say? >> i was checking my twitters and someone said, i'll shoot you. and my response was, you better be a quicker draw. >> okay. moving on. it's ridiculous. and when i talked to leonard pitch yesterday, he said, you were here. it didn't create something new, it just sort of uncovered some of the things that were there. we're going to get behind it tonight, like what is sparking so much -- because i have people really close to me who don't understand and who are quite angry over it, who believe that zimmerman may not be guilty, what have you, and it's just really interesting to hear that. okay, politics. politics. it doesn't take long for this to become political, does it? >> almost immediately. almost immediately. you know, and it comes from, i think, some of the lack of response from some of the

republican leaders when they were initially asked about it. but then there took on this brand new stride of people on both sides, some who want to convict george zimmerman before there is a trial, and then there are those who want to acquit him before a jury has heard and tested all of the evidence. so i think that's unfortunate, but then, you know, everyday people, everyday voters, they've begun to take part in that. there are new agendas arising. there is the anti-gun movement, there is the pro-gun movement. there are people who want to put down the stand your ground law, which i don't know where my position is on that, but there are a lot of other agendas in here other than what the issues of the day really are. >> and this particular case, because people bring up -- you know, when you talk about this story. but what about black on black? what about the people who say those are all legitimate stories, but that's a whole other show, as they say, and why

would you bring that up for this inciden incident? we're talking about this incident. we're going to talk about chicago tonight in my 10:00 show. that is indeed an interesting story and one of merit, but it is not this story. so it's a deflexion in some ways that i find going on. why don't you talk about this? why don't you talk about black people? >> to me, and i have talked about this because it's personal to me. my father and brother were murdered in separate incidents. those crimes are unsolved. nobody is looking for the people who murdered them, and likely, we understand from eyewitnesses, they were murdered by black men. so this is a tragedy that has, you know, african-americans have been living with for a very, very long time. and so while the trayvon martin story is a separate story, there is a joining together of how we value the lives of black men, how they value themselves,

absolutely, and then how others see and value them. when you dehumanize someone else, whether they're of the same race or a different one, that almost gives you license to kill them. and that's the most unfortunate part about all of this. >> and finally, here, let's talk about -- you know, you and teret have been going back and forth on twitter, we talked about teret and piers morgan. the coverage of this story and then -- >> it was, it was a legitimate conversation about how we have chosen to cover this case in the interviewing of certain subjects, including the brother, robert zimmerman. but it evolved into something else. i think i said on twitter this morning that when the story becomes about us and a testing of egoegos, we lose every time,d we lose sight of what's really important and that is the delivery of news and opinion to

our audiences. and i think that's what was most lost and i think teret apologized for that over twitter last night and again this morning. >> there were conversations that i don't know were clear on the air -- well, both you and piers morgan were clear saying you didn't think they handled themselves in the best way. my job is not to criticize my peers. it was interesting. i'll let you guys comment on it. in our personal conversation, you defended piers and i don't know if that came across on the air and you also defended teret. so it wasn't like you were choosing sides. >> i didn't choose sides. i thought if you cut through it, you found some valid points from both of them, but that stuff got lost, i think, at first viewing. i think that was what was the most unfortunate part about this, and that we weren't focused on some of the more critical issues involved in this case. racial stereotyping,

african-american men in this country and how they're viewed. >> my initial impetus to do that was we were trying to figure out how to do white privilege, which i had done earlier in the week on cnn, and then the other, black rage, right? and i was like, friday night watching, i was like, there it is. >> here it is. here it is in hd. >> in your living room. >> in your living room. absolutely. >> thank you, goldie. i really appreciate it. we talk forever. >> we do. we expect more of the dead, and we'll tell you how a florida service turned into a tragedy right after the break. first a recent investigation of teachers and principals at public schools uncovered one of the largest scandals in u.s. history, but raising of test scores wasn't limited to just georgia. students have become the real casualties here.

i'm appalled when teachers will cheat their students because that's what they're really doing. what they're saying is i taught your child how to do something they need to do. but i really didn't. so that i could save my own behind. instead of saying, listen, i didn't do what i need to do. i'm going to work harder to get better and i'm going to own the fact that i did not perform. i think that people are cheating because they believed they're going to gain some sort of advantage. you wouldn't cheat if your kids were prepared. people talk about the tests in a very bad way. but the content of most of the state examinations are pretty reasonable, the expectation that a child will be able to read, write and compute on level? that's being an educated person. i don't think we're putting too much emphasis on standardized examinations, though i don't love that most of them occur in one month and you get to suspend education to take them, having a standardized test is an essential part of learning. we need to be able to determine

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miami to take part in a hometown rally for trayvon martin. the unarmed teenager was shot and killed more than a month ago in sanford, florida. trayvon's parents were joined today by civil leaders. >> we just want the public to know that he was a regular teenager, he was respected and well loved by his family and friends. >> captain geor-- people think zimmerman should be arrested. he says he was acting in self-defense. dade was shot and police said he was reaching for his waist band. police later learned the caller had lied about guns to get a faster response. the caller was charged with involuntary manslaughter. nobody knows who shot across

a crowd of mourners at a funeral. it happened at the wake for a young man who jumped to his death after being chased for trying to use a stolen credit card. according to migthe miami heral someone touched his body at the funeral home. gang members at the funeral home considered that a sign of disrespect, leading to that gunfire. next, how the sport of polo took two brothers from the streets of philly and turned them into champions. >> without the program of polo, i think i probably would have dropped out of school. i definitely would be a statistic of philadelphia. all multivitamins give me the basics. they claim to be complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just

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a program is taking at-risk teens off some of the toughest streets in philadelphia and turning them into polo champions at a nearby oasis. in addition to polo, it's leading to scholarships. >> it's been a wild ride for a

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>> our kids really only get to practice when we schedule games. sometimes that's once a week, sometimes that's twice a week, sometimes we may not have a game for a couple weeks. so really for them to be able to home their skills, it's on an ad hoc basis. >> earlier they made history for being one of the first all-black team to compete in one of the most competitive sports. >> for the goal! >> i guess it's great. i don't feel too much right now but it will hit me later on. >> julie smith is one of two girls to play in the tournament. >> i couldn't be more proud for sure. they worked their butts off and played hard. >> for now it's time for "work to ride" to celebrate. >> the team is happy, we had a

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google to date has actually successfully logged 200,000 miles from their self-driving cars. this project you're seeing right here is undeniably the most epic. steve mahan, who is legally blind, was one of the few employees to be in a car that drives itself. you're like, is this legal? totally legal. it was on a designated course, and understand that somebody was in the passenger seat at all times that could actually override the system should anything happen. you see the little thing on top of the car, you're probably wondering, whoa, what kind of technologies are inside and outside the vehicle. the one on top is actually a sensor. it looks around to spot anything 200 feet on each side. there is also a video camera on the dash. it's going to look for traffic, it's going to look for traffic lights, pedestrians, joggers. you punch in the light and it

actually tells you where it's going, and in the front and the back, there's radar sensors. yes, this car is fully equipped when we talk about technologies, but the blind man having the capability not to rely on anybody else -- he went to taco bell, he went to the cleaners -- how cool is it that the future is already here? >> okay, so i know there are cars. i know the lexus can, i don't know how many other cars, can actually parallel park for you, so that technology is available. are there self-driving cars already on the road? >> that's a good question. so most major manufacturers have been working on technology implementations to have somewhat autonomous to autonomous vehicles. gm said by the end of the decade they will probably hit retail. let's take a snapshot of google because they've been working on the self-driving car project since 2010. they actually have a fleet of pri priuses in california, and if you want to spot one of these self-driving cars, note the thing to look for, that sensor on the top of the car, but also

the red license plate san indicator of a self-driving car. before you freak out, you're not going to see not anybody in the vehicle. somebody has to be in the driver's seat at all times just in case of emergency if they need to override it. but don, nevada is the first state to approve self-driving cars. california likely next and a number of other states will likely jump on pretty fast. the whole deal is to make cars more efficient, decrease crashes, and in the instance like this with steve, how awesome would it be if you had a s setback not to have to rely on anybody else. pretty cool technology. >> you know what they say, katie. the future is now. boy, it certainly is. that is amazing. and so are you, katie. thank you. >> thank you. we've been talking about the stories, our lead story tonight at 6:00, discussing it a lot in the media. now we're going to lay out the facts for you. the night trayvon martin died. so much has been said about it since the shooting happened more than a month ago. we're leaving the rhetoric

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everyone, take your seats just for a few minutes and go with me on this. watch this, because this is a story that no one can stop talking about, the shooting of trayvon martin. it seems like every day we learn about a new piece of the puzzle, and every day the outrage only seems to grow, and it can't be healthy for anyone if it boils over. but rather than allow the rhetoric to overshadow the facts of this case, we're going to step back and walk you through the night that trayvon martin was killed minute by minute.

>> reporter: 7:11 p.m. february 26. a rainy night in sanford, florida. george zimmerman called 911 to report a suspicious person in his neighborhood. that call would last four minutes. >> hey, we've had some break-ins in our neighborhood and a real suspicious guy [ bleep ]. the best address i can give you is [ bleep ]. this guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something. it's raining and he's just walking around looking about. >> okay. is this guy white, black or hispanic? >> he looks black. >> did you see what he was wearing? >> yeah, a dark hoodie, like a gray hoodie. and either jeans or sweat pants and white tennis shoes. he's here now. he's just staring. >> 7:12. phone records show trayvon martin is on the phone with his girlfriend. 7:13, zimmerman is giving the dispatcher directions when he says the subject took off.

>> are you following him? >> yeah. >> okay. we don't need you to do that. >> okay. >> reporter: 7:15. zimmerman hangs up with 911. >> okay. no problem. i'll let them know you called. >> 7:15 p.m. trayvon martin's girlfriend tells the news she's still on the phone with him. >> then the man said, what you doing in the area? then somebody pushed trayvon. >> reporter: 7:16, the line goes dead. at about the same time, a neighbor's call to 911 reveals background screaming and then a gunshot. >> do you need police, fire or medical? >> maybe both. i'm not sure. there's screaming outside. >> okay. is it a male or female? >> it sounds like a male. >> you.n don't know why? >> i don't know why.

i think they're yelling help, but i don't know. just send someone quick. >> does he look hurt to you? >> i can't see him. i don't want to go out there. >> so you think he's yelling help? >> yes. >> all right. what is your -- >> there's gunshots. >> you just heard gunshots? >> yes. >> how many? >> just one. >> reporter: 7:17. officer timothy smith the first to arrive. and according to the partial police report, the officer says, i was advised by the dispatch that the report of shots fired. and in the span of two minutes, smith canvasses the scene, spots george zimmerman wearing a red jacket and blue jeans, observes a black male wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt laying face down in the grass. he questions the man in the red jacket who admits to shooting the subject and still being armed. secures a .9-millimeter gun the.

a very tight time window, according to senior law enforcement instructor alex mann. >> you really want to know what happened in those couple of minutes. were they still running? was he looking for trayvon? was trayvon heading out of there? in those two minutes you don't know what exactly happened. >> 7:19. two minutes after smith a second officer arrives who observes zimmerman already in officer smith's custody. sometime between 7:19 and 7:30 he says he tries to get a response from the subject on the ground. a sergeant arrives, checks a pulse. there is none. both officers begin cpr. another sergeant arrives and takes over chest compressions. the fire department arrives. attempts to revive the subject. at 7:30 a paramedic pronounces the subject, trayvon martin, dead. then the police report says zimmerman is placed in the back of officer smith's patrol car

and given first aid. exactly when that happened is a matter of dispute. criminal defense attorney holly hughes. >> we don't even know what time the emts arrived. if it took them five additional minutes to arrive, you're now down to five minutes for them to perform a complete medical examination on him. if he's in that bad of shape, they're not going to do something that takes five minutes. they're going to bandage him if he's got a gushing gash in the back of his head. >> the time stamp on this video shows zimmerman and aumofficers arriving at the station at 7:52. 35 minutes after the first officer arrived at the crime scene. the police station is a 15-minute drive away. i'm joined now be alex manning, senior law enforcement instructor. alex, we've heard from you in that report. after hearing all of that, i'm going to ask you, do you see any discrepancies? what does this reveal to you? >> this reveals there was little, if any, medical attention given to george

zimmerman. if the paramedics were with trayvon martin until 7:30 when they pronounced him dead, according to my calculations i have taking about 14 to 15 minutes for them to get zimmerman from the scene to the police station, i have them only attending to mr. zimmerman between 7:30, 7:38. about eight minutes. >> as a law enforcement person, you are taking a stand and saying you can't believe it's within that amount of time? >> i can't believe it. unless i'm missing something. this is a partial report. if i just look at what i have, eight minutes is the most time they spent treating mr. zimmerman. >> then the police station is 15 minutes away. >> at least 15 minutes. >> any problems with sin kron nisty? you think with the clocks maybe? you ever had that issue? >> two, three minutes, maybe, at the max. usually between the time in your patrol car videos, i'd like to see the time stamps on those,

the cameras going in the back of the station and the reports, maybe a minute or so. we know for a fact 7:52, you to the different routes from the scene to the police station, it's between 12 and 14 minutes to get there no matter how you drive. >> the cad report, explain what the cad report is you're talking about. we saw a partial police report. then there's a cad report that lists what time everybody was dispatched and arrives. >> it's a list. every time the dispatcher relates something to the officer responding to the scene, he or she will log it into a computer aided dispatch machine. it keeps a running log of everything that's happening. any time she sends remarks to the officers, it's in there. >> thank you, alex. we appreciate that. coming up, we're going to talk with our holly hughes about this. much has been said. was he profiled? wasn't he profiled? what does his history tell you about it? holly hughes is here to weigh that and the legal consequences when we come right back.

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far beyond the headlines, we look at the facts here. just the facts. 911 calls made by neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman over the past few years could have give us some valuable information. he had admitted to shooting unarmed florida teen trayvon martin in self-defense. criminal defense attorney holly hughs here. holly, this generated big discussion in our newsroom, among our team. so the question is, there's no proof that there was -- that there was racial profiling. that's what some say. where's the proof? if you were trying to prove racial profiling, what would you

do? how does that work? >> i would do exactly what i do in court as a lawyer. representing either side. i rely on evidence. i went back to 2005, pulled all the 911 calls and reviewed every single one of them that george zimmerman made from 2005. we wanted to be relevant, don. so i just have some statistics for you from 2010 and 2011. one time in 2011 george zimmerman called 911 about a while meaale. one time. that was a female said i had a fight with this guy. call the police for me. there was another call back in 2010 where it's listed as an anonymous male calling. it's being attributed to george zimmerman. if we take that at face value he called one time in 2010 about a white male doing something that he thought was suspicious. that involved an altercation with a female. so both times --

>> 2010 and 2011? >> right. once in 2010. once in 2011. about white males. both times, important to point out, this involved actual something happening. there's a female saying this guy and i got into a fight. again, this guy and i got into a fight. interestingly enough when we turn to the times that he called on black males, that occurs five times between april of 2011 and february 2nd, which is the last call he makes about a black male prior to the shooting of trayvon martin. five different times. in each one of these reports, and let me be very clear, these reports come from the sanford police department. this isn't something we generated here at cnn. these are legitimate c.a.d. reports, event reports that came from the police department. in reading them over and processing the evidence, what i see is one in april of 2011. there is a 7 to 9-year-old black male walking down the street and he's going toward the elementary school. he's on foot. but he's unsupervised.

so he has called on him. >> 7 to 9-year-old. okay. >> 7 to 9-year-old black male. on august 3rd of 2011 we have a black male who is just on foot in the neighborhood. okay? 8-6, again, two black males just on foot in the neighborhood. forward to october 1st. two black males. says they appear to be loitering. >> you have the other ones. real quickly because we're running out of time here, this is an ethnically diverse neighborhood. >> right. >> if it's a mostly white neighborhood, what is a black person doing here. this is not out of the ordinary. >> it's very diverse. what we see is five calls on black males in the year 2000. one on a white male who's seen engaging in a crime. five black male calls, nothing happening but walking in the neighborhood. >> as a prosecutor just the facts, what would you deem from that. >> i would say that's racial profiling. that's based on the police reports from sanford. >> thank you. holly