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FILE--In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, Christopher Odle, 26, a legal clerk from Crown Heights in the Brooklyn borough of New York, wipes away tears moments after hearing the news that O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. (AP Photo/Clark Jones, file)
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FILE--In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, Robert Graham holds the latest edition of the Pasadena, Calif., Star-News announcing O.J. Simpson being found not guilty of two murders, outside the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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*FILE--In this Feb. 4, 1997 file photo, Fred Goldman, center, is hugged by his attorney Daniel Petrocelli, left, and daughter Kim, as his wife Patti, right, looks on, following the verdict in the wrongful death civil suit against O.J. Simpson in Santa Monica, Calif. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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FILE--In this Oct. 4, 1995 file photo, Michelle Sabol, of Los Angeles holds, a candle during a vigil outside O.J. Simpson's Rockingham estate in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles during a demonstration. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. (AP Photo/Chris Martinez, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, Justin Barker, left, and his colleague Juan Borrego react as they hear the verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial from a Hooters restaurant in Miami. Barker was jubilant while Borrego had believed he was guilty beyond reasonable doubt. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, file)
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FILE--In this Oct. 2, 1996 file photo, Morris Griffin of Los Angeles, holds a sign protesting against former Los Angles Police detective Mark Fuhrman outside a Los Angeles courthouse. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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FILE--In this June 20, 1994 file photo, mall shoppers in Tampa, Fla., watch banks of televisions in an electronics store as the arraignment of O.J. Simpson is televised from Los Angeles. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
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FILE--In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles. For an earlier generation, OJ Simpson was a symbol of racial tension and uneven justice. While the issues around race and policing remain today, Simpson's racial symbolism is largely seen as a relic. At left is defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and at right is defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. Defense attorney Robert Shapiro is in profile behind them. (AP Photo/Daily News, Myung J. Chun, Pool, File)
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FILE - In this June 21, 2013, file photo, the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. A House committee unveiled a disputed plan July 21, 2017, to allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to shift $2 billion from other programs to cover a sudden budget shortfall that could threaten medical care for thousands of patients in the coming weeks.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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This July 17, 2017, Dr. Ernest Marshall, owner of the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, is pictured at the door of the clinic in Louisville, KY. The clinic is the last in Kentucky offering abortion procedures and is facing a legal challenge from state officials and a major protest from a national anti-abortion group that wants it shut down. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez walks through a secure gate to access a new receiving center operated by social workers with the state Children, Youth and Families Department during a tour in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, July 21, 2017. As a former prosecutor, the two-term Republican governor said children who are taken into state protective custody following trouble within their homes need a safe place where they can feel comfortable while social workers and other authorities sort out their cases or work to find foster families. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Secretary Monique Jacobson checks out one of the many backpacks available for children in protective custody at a new receiving center operated by the agency's social workers in Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday, July 21, 2017. State officials say children need a safe place where they can feel comfortable while social workers and other authorities sort out their cases or work to find foster families. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez holds up one of the many blankets made by a volunteer for children who will be coming through a new receiving center operated by social workers, during a tour with the state Children, Youth and Families Department in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, July 21, 2017. As a former prosecutor, the two-term Republican governor said children who are taken into state protective custody following trouble within their homes need a safe place where they can feel comfortable while social workers and other authorities sort out their cases or work to find foster families. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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In this Nov. 20, 2004, photo, death-row inmate Erick Vela, one of three men sentenced to death for killing five people at a U.S. Bank branch in Norfolk, Neb., on Sept. 26, 2002, speaks during an interview at the Lincoln Correctional Center awaiting sentencing. The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday, July 21, 2017, rejected a postconviction appeal by Vela. (Eric Gregory/The Journal-Star via AP)
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In this Wednesday, July 19, 2017 photo, Norwalk resident Nury Chavarria straightens out her nine-year-old daughter Hayley Chavarria's pigtails as her oldest son, Elvin Martinez, 21 gets in on the fun before a press conference in New Haven, Conn. U.S. immigration officials said Friday, July 21, 2017, they consider Chavarria, who is trying to avoid deportation by seeking sanctuary in a Connecticut church, to be a fugitive, but acknowledge they have a policy that restricts them from entering a house of worship except in extraordinary circumstances. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, said the attempt to deport the housekeeper and mother of four shows President Donald Trump's administration is not being truthful when it says its immigration policies are focused on "the bad guys." (Catherine Avalone/New Haven Register via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 20, 2017 photo, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy walks with nine-year-old Hayley Chavarria before speaking at a press conference at Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Church in New Haven where her mother Nury Chavarria, who was supposed to be deported Thursday to Guatemala, has taken sanctuary. Malloy, said the attempt to deport the housekeeper and mother of four shows President Donald Trump's administration is not being truthful when it says its immigration policies are focused on "the bad guys." (Catherine Avalone/New Haven Register via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2015, file photo, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer rallies his players before the NCAA college football playoff championship game against Oregon in Arlington, Texas. The AP reported on July 21, 2017, that a story claiming Meyer had resigned from Ohio State is a hoax. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this Sept. 20, 2015, file photo, creator-showrunners David Benioff, left, and D.B. Weiss accept the award for outstanding writing for a drama series for "Game Of Thrones" at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. HBO’s announcement, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, that Benioff and Weiss will follow "Game of Thrones" with an HBO series in which slavery remains legal in the modern-day South drew fire on social media from those who fear that a pair of white producers are unfit to tell that story and that telling it will glorify racism. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE- In this file photo taken Thursday, May 5, 2016 Joaquin Carcaño is shown at his home in Carrboro, N.C. Carcano says that anxiety and uncertainty remain for transgender people even months after a law was passed in March to replace the state's so-called bathroom bill.(AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
