Format familiar to doctor smith by, we like a lot of audience participation. As you listen to the presentation here for a few minutes we will invite you at the end to come to the microphone, ask any questions you might have so that will help you understand, we would like to do that. He will speak in a few minutes about his book, give you a broad summary of the things he has done which means it is impactful, different aspects and have a question and answer session. I would like to introduce doctor carter smith who teaches criminal Justice Administration at middleton state university. He was in the u. S. Army cid for 22 years, 15 of that he served in Fort Campbell, kentucky where he identified a growing gang problem in the early 90s and later started the first gang and extremist investigation team, carter his interviewed gangs by several news sources, has appeared twice on the Popular History channel game land theories and has authored and coauthored three books and many other articles a
Visit ncicap. Org] now, abc 7 news at 11 00. Leon a tragedy in tennessee. A gunman opens fire at two military sites and four marines are dead. The shooter, Muhammad Youssef abdulazeez, is also dead. Chris papst spoke with a relative of the government who lives in our region. We will start with tom roussey who has the latest on the investigation. Tom cole that shooter abdulazeez, was from hixson, tennessee. Authorities want to know why he did this. Brutally and brazenly attack numbers of our armed services. Tom everything started this morning in chattanooga. He lifted up a gun and, there was one shot, then it was just and less shots. Tom you can see the bullet holes all over the recruiting center. An Army Recruiter who was inside estimates 3050 shots were fired. Within a half hour, Authorities Say abdulazeez had driven to a navy and Marine Center more than seven miles away and opened fire again. In all four marines were killed. At least three others were wounded, including a police offi
Nothing. When you realize theyre dead, what do you do . I just kind of said a prayer over each one of them. I grew up out on the farm, rode horses as much as i could. And worked with cattle. My mom had a book that what your career would be what you wanted to grow up to be. Mine was always a police officer, firefighter or a soldier. It was december of 1982 i wanted to be in the infantry because thats where you get to do the fun stuff. When i got out of the military i started working as a police officer. And after that i picked up a job as chief of police in a small town. And then moved onto contract. When i got to benghazi, i was going to be there for 60 days. It was my first time into libya. I remember walking through our university and there was an Army Recruiter and he picked me out of the crowd and he said, hey, what are you going to do after college . I said that looks pretty tough. Pretty tough to get in. A lot of people cant do it. I want to do that. In 2003 i was medically disch
Nothing. When you realize theyre dead, what do you do . I just kind of said a prayer over each one of them. I grew up out on the farm, rode horses as much as i could. And worked with cattle. My mom had a book that what your career would be what you wanted to grow up to be. Mine was always a police officer, firefighter or a soldier. It was december of 1982 i wanted to be in the infantry because thats where you get to do the fun stuff. When i got out of the military i started working as a police officer. And after that i picked up a job as chief of police in a small town. And then moved onto contract. When i got to benghazi, i was going to be there for 60 days. It was my first time into libya. I remember walking through our university and there was an Army Recruiter and he picked me out of the crowd and he said, hey, what are you going to do after college . I said that looks pretty tough. Pretty tough to get in. A lot of people cant do it. I want to do that. In 2003 i was medically disch
Great recession. Think about what happened nationally, the proportion of jobs the disappeared in the manufacturing sector, that was true, a lot of the jobs that were lost paid pretty well but had not required Higher Education to get. More men than women lost jobs in this recession. I thought that this was a community that had a number of qualities in lost jobs that other people around the country would understand and identify with. I also had the sense jamesville might fit into the sweep of history. I remember the first time i found the Youtube Video for speech barack obama gave at the Assembly Plant in february 2008. I dont know if you remember him coming. I remember the first time i listened to the video saying the promise of jamesville is in the part of the domestic war effort in world war ii and the plant stopped making vehicles and started turning out artillery shells. It have its own big moments. I just like that part of history. And before i knew anything about this community or