Chiefs plan, the chief came up with this idea the other day where they said im going send a letter to every officer who is pending retiring and ask if they would be willing to stay on as a reserve officer to participate in the program. It a smooth transition. The benefit of getting them before they retire is move them from an officer to a reserve officer so we dont have to go through that investigative process. So we are working on that letter for the drop off officers and other officers not in the program to build that up to make an easy transition. Thats the chiefs idea he recently spoke about. Qualifications, its the same as any person we are hiring to be a Police Officer in our city. The exception is we want them to come to the department with the training. Im going to talk about our plan to have this training here in our police academy. But 21 years of age, meet existing post standards and pass all background investigations and requirements. In terms of hiring, this is where we ar
This mother picked occupy her daughters belongings today and has no attention of letting her child return to Kiddy Academy because Police Arrested Deborah Gratz on felony child endangerment charges. They say she put sominex in the sippy cup of several children. This mom who asked that we not use her name is frustrated. She said the academy didnt tell her until tuesday. We needed to make sure my daughter is okay because safety is the most important thing and whether or not it was ever ingested. It gives us the right as a parent to make sure that we are protecting our children and because they waited until tuesday to let us know that meant that anything that could have been harmful might have actually gone through already or if there was something harmful taken us longer to get care. Reporter police say they are frustrated the academy didnt alert them friday. We werent notified until monday so we didnt have anything to test. Reporter gratz was released from jail last night. We tried to t
Not been able to watch the full video of her son being gunned down. It was taken four days ago by a bystander and he took it to show the family after what the police said about this shooting was not true. The officer firing shot after shot eight shots in all. Thats what the video shows after fleeing walter scott whose back was turned the entire time. Take a look. That obviously is the pivotal sequence, but there are other moments i just want to highlight for you. I want to show you in this video that are vital to telling the entire story. Take a look at this moment. There is the officer, officer slager running back to pick something up. The question is what was it . Was it the taser that he claimed walter scott ran off with . Then theres the moment when he drops an object he walks back to Walter Scotts lifeless body and then he drops an object next to mr. Scotts body. It appears to be the same object that he picked up closer to where the altercation took place. Was he in fact planting
Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. How about the first lady with the moves there. Great moves. Jimmy fallon who did we thought he looked like . There was discussion in the studio that jimmy fallon was looking a little tina feyesque. Nice to have the first lady in the building for that. Yes. Theres a little of the performance. It looks like they had time to rehearse this. The evolution of the mom dancing. From pulp fiction. Meantime, we have serious news including Oscar Pistorius, the former olympian spending his first full day free bail today. Well look at whats next for him as he prepares to face murder charges in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. And Lance Armstrong facing a new legal challenge this morning, as well. This one comes from the u. S. Government, and it could cost him millions of dollars. Well explain more about that coming up in a few minutes. Plus, if youre a parent, its likely happened to you. Yo
And always in the can. I am here with joanne nosuchunsky. Thats why you have to write your own. And he is blander than a mayo sandwich on white bread. It is tvs andy levy. And if he was wearing boots he would be shaking in them. It is red eye correspondent, joe mackey. Hi, joe. And he is more charming than a soccer moms bracelet. Sitting next to me, spokesman to four, not three, not two, not one, four u. S. Ambassadors to the u. N. Thats like a team. A block. The lead. Thats the first story. A United Airlines flight from newark to denver was diverted after two passengers got into a fight over a gadget that prevents seats from reclining. Thats the subject of tonights tonights the trouble started when the mandy employed a device device the man deployed a device. It was to prevent the woman in front of him from reclining. The f. A. A. Doesnt prohibit the use of the defender. But unfortunately most airlines dont allow it. A Flight Attendant asked the guy to remove it he refused. The woman