top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another vehicle and they were taken at gunpoint. authorities believe that they were not the intended targets. the u.s. ambassador to mexico said an innocent mexican citizen was also killed. cnn rosa flores is following this for us. rosa, what are you learning and make of the mexican president and authorities saying these were not the intended targets? reporter: you know, the president of mexico saying these four americans were actually in mat morore mexico to purchase medicine, which is something peo
this happened los angeles to boston. they got a warning in the cockpit one of the doors from outside had been unlocked essentially and when flight attendants went to look at it, the handle had been pulled about a quarter of the way and the warning mechanism had been somehow turned off there basically and they started asking around and saying we only saw this one guy up by the door for awhile. according to this report from the feds, they went and talked to the guy. he started saying do you have cameras? can you prove it? something like that. then in a little bit, he got up from his seat according to this federal paper here this is the arrest information here and as he approached them. he made some sort of stabbing motion at one of them with a spoon that he was carrying in some fashion and then other people tackled him. all of this happening 45 minutes before the plane was supposed to land. so startling thing if you re a passenger on that plane for sure. yeah, you mentioned a lot of
trusts immigrations and customs enforcement to have access to realtime arrest information because they believe i.c.e. is using the data to deport innocent people. the decision comes after days of protests from abolished i.c.e. demonstrates who camped outside of philadelphia city hall, at one point storming city hall to force a one-on-one meeting with the mayor. the organizers got the meetings demanding they end the contract with i.c.e. that granted the agency access to the preliminary arraignment reporting system or pars. mayor jim kinney said after thorough review i.c.e. is misusing the information in the pars database to target homes and workplaces of people who list foreign countries of origin and arresting people in the country illegally but have not commitd any other crimes. we re not going to provide them additional information so they can go out and round up people. if i could abolish i.c.e., i would, but we can abop bollish
lipped about the investigation until yesterday and now they are saying it was tips from the public that led to this arrest information both activists and police are praising. now, williams, like you said has allegedly acknowledged that he fired the shot. authorities say they have recovered a gun that matches the shell casings found here at the scene. what is still being questioned is whether williams was actually firing at officers. he has said some things that authorities are looking at that he may have been involved in a dispute earlier in the evening and may have been aiming at somebody involved in that altercation. meanwhile, u.s. attorney general eric holder releasing a statement that reads in part, quote, the arrest sends a clear message that acts of violence against our law enforcement personnel will never be tolerated. the swiftness of this action is the credit to the significant cooperation between federal authorities and the st. louis county police department. now, immediatel
to happen. it s one thing to post the arrest information on the police department s web site, okay, it s public information. but to put it out on social media brings it to a whole other level and let s everybody inner idiot out in the comment section. what s going wrong in our society? are we not educating our young folks, the young women to say, listen, there is nothing alluring or interesting or sexy or good about somebody who spent a lot of time in jail and prison life. i don t know if is he guilty of this crime that he is charged now. but he has got a history that will drive you nuts. absolutely. i don t know here with teaching women, but this is not healthy. even if he he is no longer a member of the crypts. one of the most notorious vicious gangs of the country. not fair to the victims to make this guy look like the second coming of justin timberlake. not fair to the victims. we got to stop doing that. makes young men aspire to be that way.