Their official capacity. It would create a National Misconduct registry so officers fired for misconduct couldnt simply go to another police force and get another police job. It would make lynching a federal crime because if you can believe it, it currently isnt. And it would end the use of no knock warrants in drug cases. That last provision might have saved the life of breonna taylor. The First Responder who was fatally shot by police in louisville, kentucky, during a botched noknock raid. Her boyfriend fired at the intruders and shot an officer in the leg and the police fired back 20 rounds killing her. Andrew cuomo announced save our name which includes making Police Officers disciplinary records more public and classifies false racebased 911 calls as hate crimes. And central parks amy cooper would maybe think twice before she calls the cops on the next black man trying to bird watch in peace. For more, im joined now by new york city public advocate jumaane williams. Good to see yo
Consensus that daesh has to be stopped. Our nation is strongest, always has been when we act together. Theres a great tradition in this country of Foreign Policy having a special place that politics ends at the waters edge and that it will act on behalf of our nation without regard to party ideology. We simply cannot allow this collection of murderers and thugs to achieve in their group their ambition. Lets bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. Barbara, what are the main concerns that lawmakers have right now about the president s authorization for the use of military force, that request, the aumf as its called . Reporter what the senators are talking about is one of their biggest concerns is could a new authorization open the door to the administration being able to send a large number of Ground Combat forces into iraq. What were talking about are those traditional military units, large battalions brigades, formations truly in combat. A lot of concerns if they vote for t
Mission. They train how they would fight, so they would train in this type of environment. Even in very heavy follow . They train as they fight. I want to bring in cnns Victor Blackwell in hammond, louisiana, where that helicopter is based. Victors joining us on the phone, as i know youre still gathering information on the ground. Whats the latest in this search . Reporter anna the reason im not able to be in front of a camera were driving on to Louisiana Army National Guard in hammond. The Major General in charge is holding a News Conference at the top of the next hour and were setting up to bring the comments on the latest in the search live to everyone. But we have a bit of good news here. The only good news this morning after this accident is that the weather in the search area is starting to clear. The fog is starting to lift making this search a little easier for the coast guard. Florida fish and wildlife and the others searching for the 11 missing Service Members and parts of th
But he its not unusual an we i was a very very deep investigation to find out what happened. And of course spider the searchandresidue mission is still under way we understand theres been some debris found this cant be a very big debris field, this was a helicopter. Absolutely. Training down at this part of the panhandle of florida is a routine location for special opes units, so the profile of the mission, the type of mission that was taking place, this is, this is what happens all the time down there. And so a tragedy like this clearly attributable to some factor that might have been weather at this time of year. Clearly we cant jump to any conclusions, but youre correct. The debris field could be spread out a little bit. There would be a narrow search corridor. There was another bird that was used in tandem to this one. So clearly other folks theres a live sighting of where this debris field is. They probably saw this bird go down. This was a uh60 blackhawk helicopter. What do we kn
Roaring tonight, lester holt. Good evening. The st. Louis county police chief is calling last nights shooting of two Police Officers in ferguson missouri, an ambush. Nbc news was there as the shots rang out striking and wounding the officers just hours after the citys Embattled Police chief agreed to resign. It happened near the end of a protest. Tonight, the hunt for the shooter goes on. And ferguson itself which has ridden a wave of anguish, mistrust and change since the Michael Brown killing, faces an unsettling future. Ron allen is back in ferguson for us tonight. Reporter without warning gunfire, at least three shots shattered the calm evening outside Ferguson Police headquarters. Shots fired. Officer down. Reporter a potentially deadly moment. Is he hit . Yeah, in the face. Reporter two officers hit. One took a bullet through the shoulder. The other hit in his face. Rushed from the scene. An nbc news team right in the middle of the chaos. The police said get down, get down and gu