New Republic Editor: ‘Black Bodies Are Under Assault’ in America

TEICHNER [v/o]: "According to CBS News/New York Times poll conducted in May during the unrest in Baltimore following the death in police custody of Freddie Gray, 61% of Americans, the highest percentage since 1992, believed race relations in the United States are bad, up from just 38% in February. So does the race factor makes Mother Emmanuel killings different from Adam Lanza’s massacre of school children in Newtown, Connecticut? Should this latest incident instead be seen alongside the police shootings of black men, including Walter Scott in North Charleston a few miles away in April?"
SMITH: "It’s all part of the same threat. Black bodies are under assault and whether it be from 21-year-old “lone wolves” or they be from the police, we need to understand the urgency of that."