sorry gwinnett county i used to live in atlanta but you know it had county right and and and she basically said that we are about to be evicted from our home has been a police officer and so occupy atlanta decided well we're going to go occupy their front log and they've gone there in solidarity with this police officer and his family and they are helping them out and so far they have prevented their effects and i think this is very significant because this idea of police officers. and demonstrators being at each other's throats that's an artificial construct since police officers are working class and they own homes and they suffer just as much as everybody else it's very important to see this not as as i think that the one percent of the one percent would like it which is a bunch of disheveled people against law abiding people but the fact that the people who are the initial group that have gone out there represent a much broader and more diverse group that is central to the entire american experience and that's what i love about this situation there in atlanta where they are finally at

voters in gwinnett county, georgia, waited eight to ten hours. >> eight to ten hours. course of the decade, the badness quinntupled. the secretary of state identified the two-hour-long lines as a barrier to democracy. if a two-hour wait is a barrier to democracy, what is a ten-hour wait? we can't say we're surprised about how hard it is to vote in this country or surprised when voters spend hours in line ç trying to vote as they did in the last presidential race. in florida and virginia and north carolina. voting was hard in 2000. voting was hard in 2004. voting was hard in 2008. voting is hard in this country. it is already hard. as we have been reporting on the show for months, since republicans won control of so many state governments in the 2010 elections, they have been engaged in a concerted cross country multistate effort to change voting rules. in ways that make both registering to vote and voting even harder. they have specifically sought to make voting harder by means that disproportionately impact students and minority voters and less well off voters who te