>> guest: in 2012 we witnessed the killing of trayvon martin and george zimmerman who's trying to went to court. we received h received he belied receive jail time but he didn't. in fact, he got to go home. he was not convicted and in that moment he was upset and disturbed, confused. i felt betrayed. i knew i didn't want that to be the end of the story. george zimmerman got to go home so i went to the internet and look to see what people were doing and what i could do and essentially told black folks in particular that we have toto do some and they put a hash tag right underneath that post. >> host: what are you doing at the time? >> guest: i was a little town called susanville here in california visiting a mentor richard edmund who had been convicted of a crime and he was spending ten years from 85% of those ten years inside a prison in california. >> host: what kind of work were you doing? >> i've always been a community organizer since i was 17-years-old, and 34 no i'm 34 i was mentoring young people at the time and i wase also trying to reform the daytime curfew so that young peopl

>> guest: well, we in 2012 witnessed the killing of trayvon martin, and is george zimmerman -- his murderer -- went to trial, and many of us believed, i know i did, that he would receive some sort of jail time, some sort of sentence, but he didn't. in fact, he got to type of deal needed. in fact you got to go home. he was acquitted and i was upset and confused and i felt trade i that i didn't want that to the end of the story that george zimmerman got to go home. so i went to the internet to what i could do and essentially black people were told we have to do something so i put a # in that post. >> what were you doing at the time? >> i was in the little town 11 hours north of here in california visiting one of my mentees m was convicted of a crime serving ten years 85% inside a prison. >>host: what type of work were you doing? i was always a community organizer as i was 17 and 344 now and to mentor young people at the time and also trying to do reform in los angeles again people were not getting tickets while going to school. >>host: tee9 what does the phrase all lives matter mean to you? y

back in the day, george zimmerman kills trayvon martin, people say, oh, george zimmerman was scared,mmerman i would be scared of trayvon martin too. i'm sure those people in starbucks thought those guys were causing trouble. the problem is there was no rational reason for it. somehow when black people have suitcases, they become something else. hoodies, t-shirts, somehow it becomes criminal tools. we have to not just say when you see something, say something. we have to ask on a deeper level, what is it about racism, what is it about white supremacy that makes them see something even when it isn't there. >> i want to ask you guys about this new music video that childish gambino just released, it's about this issue in many ways. it's called "this is america." i want to play a clip. for those at home, watch the background carefully here. ♪ ♪ i'm so pretty, i'm going to get it ♪ >> at the end you hear him, the video pans up to four men filming on a cellphone. cedric, what was your takeaway from this video? >> unfortunately here in pensacola, florida, i can't see it. but let me say this

had george zimmerman or the killer become on future by a body that isn't asking, perhaps he could have responded to will you help me or take care of me as i walk in this unfamiliar space, will you support me as i walk through here, can you see mmy black body and one that matters? then again what happens when the elevators start up again, the white woman returns to the world where white identity continues to be complicit with white norms and others come to live their lives effortlessly and when it comes to being wiped a world in which they continue to find their way and they continue to live their lives and the racism continues. for the most part white people are not in crisis in relationship to their whiteness, they are under constant therapeutic reprieve assured there's nothing problematic about them selves. they believe they are not racist bubut once again to pose the question what is it to be white in america is at impact to be racist? would've to be black is to be a problem, to be on death row? we need a place we get to dwell near in a fundamental turning point and within a space t

. >>> "the orlando sentinel" says george zimmerman has been charged with stalking and threatening a privateestigator. he said he contacted zimmerman in september on behalf of the executive producer behind a documentary series on trayvon martin. the series is being produced by rapper jay-z. court records show the investigator received dozens and dozens of phone calls, texts, voice mails, and emails from zimmerman in december. zimmerman shot and killed martin in 2012. he was acquitted of all charges. >>> the "washington post" reports fair housing advocates plan to sue hud and its secretary, ben carson, today for suspending an obama-era fair housing rule. the rule requires communities to draft plans to address patterns of segregation and discrimination or risk losing federal funds. the lawsuit alleges carson unlawfully suspended the rule by not providing advance public notice or opportunity for comment. >>> "the fort worth star telegram" reports more than 1,700 women signed an open letter denouncing southern baptist leader paige patterson after his comments about abused women. the letter calls

george zimmerman threatened a researcher working on a documentary about the martin case. zimmerman allegedly contacted the investigator 175 times in 9 days and threatened to feed him to an alligator. >>> walmart is taking new action in the fight against opioid abuse. its pharmacies will no longer dispense more than a seven-day supply of prescriptions containing opioids. the new policy goes into over the next two months. a study finds that patients receiving more than a one-week supply have more than twice the chance of becoming addicted. >>> a new on demand self-driving car service heading to texas. a california start-up called drive ai is using eye pilotless program this summer including driverless vans to transport thousands of workers through an office park near dallas. as a safety feature, since drivers can't communicate with the people they have little panels on the side of the car to say things like waiting for you to cross, please go ahead. >>> meanwhile, flying taxis may be coming to the skies near you sooner than you think. uber is holding talks with federal tran

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." >>> george zimmerman, the one-time neighborhood volunteer watch who was acquitted of shooting teenagers in trouble with the law again. he threatened a private investigator who is working on a documentary about the trayvon martin case. the investigator received dozens of phone calls, text messages, voice mails and e-mails from zimmerman. and he threatened to feed the investigator to an alligator. zimmerman will be arraigned on may 30th on charges of misdemeanor stalking. >>> a new biography is shedding light on robin williams' troubled life and final days. it includes revelations about infidelities, rehab from drug and alcohol abuse and his body with louie body disease, a rare brain disorder that caused him to forget his lines and ultimately led to his tragic death. despite his success, the book also reveals his personal insecurities over his personal finances and the rise of rival comic jim carrey. williams took his life in 2014 at just 63 years old. >>> all right. now taking a very sweet turn. you scream, i scream, we all scream for ice cream, especially if it's free. it's going to be

george zimmerman, the one-time neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of teenager trayvon martin back in 2012 is in trouble with the law again. authorities say zimmerman threatened a private investigator working on a documentary about the zimmerman/trayvon martin case. the private investigator received phone calls, text messages, voice mails and e-mails from zimmerman and the records show zimmerman allegedly threatened to feed the investigator to an alligator. zimmerman will be arraigned on may 30th on a charge of misdemeanor stalking. >>> back here in portland as we kick off our week across america. like so many american cities, portland has been deeply impacted by the opioid crisis. nation wide, overdoses have risen 13% in 40 months. addiction has risen and deaths from fentanyl are tripling. the crisis is forcing new thinking here that in some cases has redefined the role of first responders. >> reporter: in portland, a hidden world where on call with paramedics on call to save lives. nationwide the opioid crisis is raging. the overdose death rate now th

the charleston massacre happened in june, george zimmerman was acquitted of killing trayvon martin in july, michael brown was murdered in august, and now that summer the murders of alton sterling and philando castile, i could not have lived with myself if i had report charlie to the police, because who knows what they would have done. they could have tackled him and taken him into custody and done god knows what else. i would subject myself to a brach man's harassment a thousand times over rather than watching his face hit the pavement with a police officer's weight on his back. that's not justice, that is a betrayal. when i think about how harlem's streets are a place of conversation, economy and community, i start to second guess myself. maybe the only goods that charlie was trying to sell were ticket toss a dmx -- tickets to a dmx concert. maybe i misjudged him calling me sweetheart as patronizing when he really just was trying to be nice because he didn't know my name. maybe i cried because i was still getting used to the city environment, not because i thought he was going to hur

trayvon martin, an unarmed black teenager, is shot and killed by george zimmerman.ittal reignited the american debate over race and justice. 17-year-old dylann roof is sucked in. >> i looked his name up, type his name into google, you know what i'm saying? for some reason, it made me type in the words black on white crime, and that was it. >> we know dylann roof, some of his first searches were on topics like black on white crime, a key phrase for someone who might be adopting racist tropes as if this were the root of the problem. >> black on white crime. those four words would unlock a whole world of racially charged false statistics. >> there's so much information out there. it's tough to distinguish what's real, what's fake, what's propaganda, what's parody. and it's confusing for young people who are searching for an answer. >> in february of 2015, roof joins the white supremacist website stormfront.org, interacting with other users and hoping to meet them face-to-face. four months later -- >> breaking news out of south carolina. >> nine people murdered in what

. >> melissa: george zimmerman heading back to court today.s time charged with misdemeanor stalking after allegedly threatening a private investigator. according to reports, zimmerman called the investigator 55 times leaving dozens of voice mails, texts and e-mails in a nine-day span including a threat to feed him to an alligator. the investigator was working with a production company doing a documentary about trayvon martin. zimmerman was acquitted of the shooting in 2013. he will return to court may 30th. >> jon: tough talk from attorney general jeff sessions during a visit to the u.s.-mexican border. he unveiled a zero tolerance policy saying authorities could separate children from parents if their enter the country illegally. the attorney general issuing the warning to anyone that breaks the law. >> if you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. it's that simple. if you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you. if you are smuggling a child, we will prosecute you. that child may be separated fro

made them suspicious to this neighbor is the same thing that made trayvon martin suspicious to george zimmermanhat's wrong, and they cannot to happen in our nation. >> what's your response to those on line? this is, as you know, blowing up on social media. >> right. >> who say that that woman saw someone across the street at a house where she knew the owners, she knew the couple that lived there, did not recognize the people coming out, and she -- even if it's based on some prejudice or some belief about black people, she knowingly did not call about black people specifically. she was calling about i don't know these people coming out, and they're not speaking to me. >> i think -- if i can answer that question -- >> go ahead. >> i think -- i would hope that she would have called her neighbor first. why wouldn't she call the neighbor before she called police? why was her first intention to call police? what did she want to happen? why was the protocol to respond in the manner that they did? is that standard? if it is, that concerns us because how much money was spent within those few moments? ho

let's go all the way back to trayvon martin who had iced tea and skittles but george zimmerman perceived him as a threat. then comes the interaction between black males, law enforcement or wannabe law enforcement and we end up with a young african-american male unarmed african-american male that's now dead. we have to get past that so you can look at the starbucks incident, you can look at the four african-american women playing golf and people called the police on them because they were going too slow. so are the black family that was barbecuin' in a park and they call the its r the police on them. at some point, the police have to make better decisions. then again our white fellow citizens have to stop perceiving african-americans as a threat to them simply because of the color of their skin. >> what's striking me, the congressman is talked about biases people have when they call the cops, how roseanne has said about muslims, palestinians, all sorts of groups even before today, it's just explicit rhetoric of bigotry and there's a real question how much that is the ground for that is sh

. >>> george zimmerman is back in the news charged with aggravated stalking.hborhood watchdog is accused of threatening a private investigator who was researching the 2012 shooting of trayvon martin. zimmerman was acquitted in that case. and now he's accused of making threats to an investigator working on a documentary about trayvon. >>> two new vents have started emitting toxic gas. molten rock is running down a street and consuming a mustang. the lava has destroyed at least 30 homes and other property. and because the suburban division is near an active volcano many do not have homeowner's insurance. >> what's going to happen if we lose our farm? we don't know where we're going to go. you lose your income when you lose your home at the same time. >> authorities are allowing some of the nearly 2,000 evacuees to return to their homes for brief visits. two non-residents were arrested for trying to run through police roadblocks. >>> and a woman in zimbabwe refused to let anything get in the way of her wedding day including a near-death experience. >> here she is

george zimmerman... says he is millions of dollars in debt.ourt documents show the former neighborhood watch captain owes two and a half million dollars and has zero income. because of this -- in florida, a seminole county court appointed a public defender to represent zimmerman in his alleged stalking case. zimmerman is accused of repeatedly threatening and harassing a private investigator... who was hired by a production company... that was working on a documentary about trayvon martin's life. zimmerman was acquitted of murder charges in martin's shooting. ( pam ) coming up... now that it is legal, marijuana is not only showing up in cigarettes and edibles.. but now beer. we'll tell you why .... you might want to get it while it lasts.... (ken) new at 6... u.s. officials are stopping a local brewery from making beer containing cannabis.(pam) the cannabis product being used is cannabidiol, the hemp- derived extract known as c-b-d. black hammer brewing in san francisco is the business that produces the pot - infused beer. but the u.s. alcohol

if iran resumes its nuclear program. ( darya ) george zimmerman - who was acquitted in the trayvon martinr trial - is now facing charges of stalking. he's accused of threatening and harassing private investigator dennis warren in florida. warren was hired by a production company working on a documentary on martin's life. investigators say zimmerman bombarded warren with texts, e-mails, and phone calls over a nine-day period in december. zimmerman's charge is a misdemeanor - and his arraignment in seminole county is set for may 30-th. ( james ) uber says the autonomous s-u-v that fatally hit a woman in tempe in march.. ignored her in the road. the software was working properly but it was tuned not to react to objects in the road. the technology detected the woman as she was crossing the street but failed to react immediately. the system is programmed to treat passing objects on the road such as plastic bags as false positives that are to be ignored. uber and the national transportation safety board continue to investigate the crash. ( james ) coming up... california lawmakers have a new pl

zimmerman's family took her to court. the case was clone out. the most famous controversy is when she performed the national anthem in 1990. president george h.w. bush called it disgraceful. you might remember a few years ago that roseanne created a short-lived series about her life as a farmer in hawaii and she called it "roseanne's nuts." >> shepard: thanks, trace. if you're headed to twitter to condemn one side or the other on what has quickly become a boiling controversy, the bots are there with you. so expect on your twitter timeline or your facebook feed the bots to be at work today. they are all the time. they have been since the meddling in the 2016 election and they want to divide us about ourselves as a society. how could an international company like disney sit around and let it happened? how could there? isn't there anything we can be united on? more ahead on the cancellation of "roseanne." certainly abc knew what they were getting itself into. why did they have to put themselves in a position to deal with this? we'll speak with the media critics on this tuesday afternoon. you totaled your brand new car. nobody's hurt, but ther