cnn political commentator marc lamont hill joins us from los angeles now to talk about this. police in baltimore, will apparently wrap up their freddie gray investigation on friday. not releasing details to the public, rather allowing it to, take its course in the courts. but do you think the baltimore demonstrations will still be able to carry momentum into the weekend into next week despite not getting some important answers as to what happened to freddie gray while he was in custody? >> will i certainly think there will be momentum through the weekend irrespective what happens with the police investigation or regardless what type of information they offer. however i think the way the police communicate to the community and the nation will dictate the tone and tenor of the protest. one thing over the weekend people are off work, kids don't have to go to school, weather may heat up. all those things lead to more people in the street and a greater need to impose curfew in the mind of the state. all these things will be important. seems as if they're hiding or being dismissive

i'm joined by marc lamont-hill. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> thanks for coming back. ing to ms. twitty i was thinking to myself seriously? she doesn't understand how that's offensive? marc you want to take that on? >> i was stunned by it. it was funny, not racist funny, ha ha funny. she's able to disconnect her own feelings around black people from her everyday practice. that's a problem that we see with many people. people may say racist things may laugh at racist things may have racist biases and prejudices but they don't see themselves as racists. they're able to separate those things. that's what's dangerous. it's not the foaming at the mouth racist who i'm worried about, it's the person who doesn't think they're racist. it's the liberal that's scary. >> you're right about that sadly. these e-mails were so racist and unpleasant that we can't show them l.z. one of them i'll describe it for our viewers, one of them showed a picture of president reagan holding a little baby monkey and then the caption underneath read president obama in 1962. that's not funny. not even

amy: in their letter urging zuniga's reinstatement, top educators including noam chomsky, marc lamont hill, and kevin kumashiro, dean of the university of san francisco school of education, wrote quote, "it seems to us that we are at a moment in world history where it is important to encourage teachers to help their students develop empathy for others, and to see themselves as people who want to strive to make the world a better place. how we pursue these aims is a legitimate question, but threatening to fire teachers who are trying to engage students' hearts seems to us to be profoundly wrongheaded." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: i am juan gonzalez and welcome to our viewers around the country and around the world. we begin today's show with doug hughes, the u.s. mail man who made headlines when he flew a helicopter known as the gyrocopter onto the u.s. capitol lawn in an active civil disobedience. the letter began with a quote from john kerry farewell speech to the senate. "the unending

right now i want to bring in marc lamont hill and eugene o'donnell, professor at john j. kol college of criminal justice. we have this statement that was released late today. you have to read it and get to paragraph three to see the headline. after they acknowledge and i think it's important to say, the protests have been peaceful, the police officer's union continues to say that the i'm manuals seen on television look and sound like a lynch mob. >> it was stunning. it was offensive, obviously inaccurate and it's dangerous. first of all, lynch mocks don't call for the immediate arrest of people they murder people. the whole point of a lynch mob is extrajudicial violence. it's what happened to this man, what happened in charleston south carolina. let's not use it for anybody right now. let's have an honest transparent process. people are angry this man is dead. there's no lynch mob out there. >> you heard our reporters using words like tense and angry. part of what he's referring to i think what happened live on this program last night. for people that didn't see it let me