their opinions and feelings about this verdict in a civil and peaceful manner. there you go, you have another official here obviously urging peace and calm and so far, that s exactly what we re seeing out here. but these two lawyers, the defense attorney, mark richards, also we should say another of kyle rittenhouse s attorneys, who did one of the probably most important cross-examinations at this trial was against one of the shooting victims, grosskreutz, gaige grosskreutz when he got him to admit he point add gun at kyle rittenhouse and rittenhouse fired. the prosecutors and the defense, they really went at it for much of the case, especially during the closing arguments, and you heard mark richards there when he was talking, the defense attorney saying how this case, for the prosecutors he felt was
and he swore, no didn t. and i asked walter alexander, for the cell phone, and he kind of threw the cell phone to me. but well, i wasn t aware until, until i was in the car driving back to our hotel that this guy had actually point add gun at him. now, earlier in the day when he had when he was talking to me trying to get me to let him come, i didn t hire him. he said it was for free and all of that, he did show me i didn t know this guy. you know? i knew the alexander guy but not this guy. he showed me hit his license, his ccr. i assume a guy gives him a ccr and stuff, they vetted him. i should have vetted him. i didn t need him. i knew these guys weren t dangerous. you know, your version of the offense is different, a little bit, about the official records, mr. simpson, but moving forward
former prison escapee david sweat returned to court this morning. that tops our look at stories around the news nation. sweat was arraigned on three felony counts relating to his big escape from an upstate new york prison back in june. he ll return to court next month. sweat was captured by law enforcement after 22 days on the run. just this hour, danny became the first hurricane of the atlantic season. the category 1 storm has winds of 75 miles per hour and is expected to get stronger in the next couple of days. we ll keep an eye on it. forecasters say it is too early to tell if danny will reach the continental u.s. nine people arrested in st. louis last night following the deadly police shooting of an 18-year-old man. police say he was shot when he point add gun at officers. nearly 150 protesters gathered near that scene shortly after the shooting with some throwing glass bottles and bricks, according to officers. police deployed teargas to break up the protest.
legislator is putting immense pressure on this alcohol enforcement agency. they re not appropriately trained, they don t have the proper protocols and don t implement they appropriately and here s another example of them being overzealous in their enforcement. reporter: saying it s time to consider taking weapons and the power to arrest away from abc agents. contacted by cnn, abc officials would not comment. but this isn t the first time abc agents have been accused of excessive force. in april of 2013 a young university of virginia student was swarmed by abc agents outside this area in charlottesville. they surrounded her car. at least one pup add gun. they thought she was buying alcohol underaged. turns out all she had was sparkling water and cookie dough. on the 911 call from inside the student s car, fear and confusion. does somebody have a gun or something? oh my god.
victims of gun violence. either by their own hand or others, and we need to remember that our community is ill if the withe filled with the people like the parents of javier martinez, we continue to grieve those 26 great educators and young children in sandy hook, every win of us will be touched by this problem, and we need to continue this effort. even if it doesn t eliminate every death. in focusing on the case in california, because this is the latest event. right? the shooter, rodger, he used a knife, too. he use add knife to kill three people and then he use add gun to kill three more. some argue, if a deranged person wants to kill, they will find a way. it s the argument that gun control advocates cannot seem to win with those who passionately believe in gun rights. so how do you compromise? there are compromises that will save lives. that s very simply the undeniable truth. keeping guns out of the hands of