'Knockout game' suspect's atty spars with …

Don Lemon discusses the hate crime charges against a man accused of targeting a black man in a ‘knockout game’ attack.

'Knockout game' suspect's atty spars with …
5.171 DISORDER I ASKED HIM IF HE
5.171 THOUGHT THAT DISORDER COULD
5.171 CAUSE RACISM?
5.171 >> NOT AT ALL.
5.171 WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT ONE MUST
5.171 TAKE A LOOK AT THE MINDSET OF
5.171 PEOPLE THAT DO BIZARRE,
5.171 SOMETIMES BRUTAL ACTIONS AND IF
5.171 IN FACT A PERSON HAS BEEN
5.171 DIAGNOSED BEFORE AS HAVING A
5.171 BIPOLAR DISORDER, NOT ON HIS
5.171 MEDICATION AT THE TIME THIS
5.171 OCCURRED, THAT THIS COULD HAVE A
5.171 FACTOR ON HIS MINDSET AT THE
5.171 TIME THIS HAPPENED.
5.171 I'M NOT USING IT AS AN EXCUSE.
5.171 IT IS A FACT.
5.171 AND EVERY PSYCHIATRIST WILL TELL
5.171 YOU THAT THE MIDDLE COMPONENT IS
5.171 VERY IMPORTANT IN MAKING A
5.171 DETERMINATION OF WHAT ACTUALLY
5.171 OCCURRED HERE.
5.171 THIS IS NOT FIGURATIVELY A BLACK
5.171 AND WHITE ISSUE.
5.171 >> BUT YOUR CLIENT WAS A
5.171 FUNCTIONING MEMBER OF SOCIETY.
5.171 HAD THE WHEREWITHAL TO PLAN
5.171 THIS, TO PICK OUT A VICTIM, AN
5.171 ELDERLY MAN WHO COULD NOT DEFEND
5.171 HIMSELF.
5.171 AND THEN NOW SINCE HE HAS BEEN
5.171 CAUGHT DOING IT, IT APPEARS TO
5.171 MOST PEOPLE THAT USING BIPOLAR
5.171 DISORDER AS A DEFENSE IS AN
5.171 EXCUSE FOR RACIST BEHAVIOR.
5.171 >> I THINK THE BIPOLAR DISORDER
5.171 IS A MITIGATION, IF YOU WILL.
5.171 IT CAN BE VIEWED AS SUCH.
5.171 I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS AN
5.171 INSANITY DEFENSE IN THE WORKS IN
5.171 THIS PARTICULAR CASE AND
5.171 CERTAINLY I THINK THAT THE
5.171 FEDERAL DEFINITION OF INSANITY
5.171 PRECLUDES USING THAT PARTICULAR
5.171 TYPE OF DEFENSE IN THIS CASE.
5.171 >> IT SEEMS TO ME THE CRIMINAL
5.171 COMPLAINT THAT IT WAS
5.171 PREMEDITATED.
5.171 HERE'S HOW THAT READS.
5.171 IT SAYS ON THE VIDEO, DESCRIBED
5.171 BY THE OFFICER, THE OFFDUTY
5.171 INVESTIGATOR BARRETT.
5.171 HE SAID THE PLAN IS TO SEE IF I
5.171 WERE TO HIT A BLACK PERSON,
5.171 WOULD THIS BE NATIONALLY
5.171 TELEVISED?
5.171 IN ANOTHER VIDEO BARRETT STATES
5.171 HE IS TRYING TO WORK UP THE
5.171 COURAGE TO PLAY THE KNOCKOUT
5.171 GAME.
5.171 AND HE CAN BE HEARD IN THE VIDEO
5.171 SAYING THAT HE HAS FOUND THE
5.171 PERFECT AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUSPECT
5.171 BURK THEN APPEARS TO CHANGE HIS
5.171 MIND.
5.171 IT SEEMS LIKE HE PLANNED THIS
5.171 OUT EVERY SINGLE DETAIL.
5.171 HE COULD HAVE GONE AND STOLEN A
5.171 CAR.
5.171 HE COULD HAVE GONE AND
5.171 SHOPLIFTED.
5.171 HE COULD HAVE GONE AND DONE A
5.171 NUMBER OF THINGS BUT HE PLANLD
5.171 THIS OUT IN A MANNER THAT USED
5.171 RACE AS THE FOCUS.
5.171 YOU DON'T SEE THAT AS A FEDERAL
5.171 HATE CRIME?
5.171 >> WELL, WHAT HAPPENS, FIRST OF
5.171 ALL, PEOPLE THAT ARE MENTALLY
5.171 ILL MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS ALL
5.171 THE TIME.
5.171 PREMED TATE MATTERS ALL THE
5.171 TIME.
5.171 SECONDLY THIS INDIVIDUAL DID
5.171 SOMETHING VERY BIZARRE.
5.171 AFTER THE ACTION HE BRAGS ABOUT
5.171 IT.
5.171 HE SHOWS THE VIDEO AROUND TO
5.171 INDIVIDUALS SAYING, HEY, LOOK
5.171 WHAT I'VE DONE.
5.171 I HAVE HIT A KNOCKOUT.
5.171 NOT BEING AWARE OF HOW SEVERELY
5.171 INJURED THE INDIVIDUAL WAS THAT
5.171 HE HIT.
5.171 AND AGAIN, THAT ALL HAS TO BE
5.171 PROVEN, I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND
5.171 THAT.
5.171 BUT I'M SAYING THAT YOU'VE GOT
5.171 TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE
5.171 SUPREME COURT HAS SAID, WHETHER
5.171 IT IS A HATE CRIME OR NOT A HATE
5.171 CRIME, THAT YOU TAKE INTO
5.171 CONSIDERATION THE, IN MIT FACE,
5.171 THE MENTAL ASPECTS OF THE
5.171 INDIVIDUAL IN QUESTION.
5.171 THAT'S ALL WE'RE SAYING HERE.
5.171 >> I HAVE TO BE QUITE HONEST
5.171 WITH YOU.
5.171 I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT
5.171 YOUR DEFENSE IS.
5.171 I REALLY DON'T.
5.171 >> WELL, I HOPE, CERTAINLY HOPE
5.171 YOU'RE NOT ON MY JURY.
5.171 >> I HOPE.
5.171 PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO ARE NOT
5.171 EXPERTS IN THE LAW WILL BE ON
5.171 THE JURY.
5.171 AND IF I WORK IN TELEVISION AND
5.171 I'VE DONE A NUMBER OF CASES THAT
5.171 HAVE INVOLVED HATE CRIMES,
5.171 INSANLT.
5.171 IF I'M UNDERSTANDING, WHY DO YOU
5.171 THINK A JURY WILL UNDERSTAND?
5.171 >> WELL, MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS
5.171 THERE NOT TO UNDERSTAND WHEN I
5.171 TELL YOU THAT MITIGATION
5.171 INCLUDES EVIDENCE OF THE MINDSET
5.171 OF THE INDIVIDUAL THAT PERFORMS
5.171 THE ACT.
5.171 THE SUPREME COURT HAS SAID SO.
5.171 WE KNOW THIS PERSON HAS BEEN
5.171 DIAGNOSED AS BEING BIPOLAR.
5.171 THAT IS NOT AN INSANITY DEFENSE
5.171 IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE.
5.171 I DO KNOW OF CASES WHERE BIPOLAR
5.171 CAN DEVELOP INTO A PERSON BEING
5.171 PSYCHOTIC.
5.171 AND THAT WOULD AND COULD QUALIFY
5.171 AS AN INSANITY DEFENSE.
5.171 THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE HERE.
5.171 AS FAR AS I KNOW.
5.171 NOW I'VE NOT TALKED TO HIS
5.171 DOCTORS.
5.171 I'VE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO
5.171 HIS DOCTORS.
5.171 I'VE HAD THIS CASE SINCE 7:30
5.171 YESTERDAY MORNING.
5.171 I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MEDICAL
5.171 RECORDS.
5.171 I AM TOLD BY CREDIBLE
5.171 INDIVIDUALS THAT HE IS AND HAS
5.171 BEEN DIAGNOSED AS BEING BIPOLAR
5.171 AS WELL AS BEING AN