don t get injured. for the police, still a very dangerous situation. it is not under control. and i want to point out to our viewers, this is video that we got earlier. and it represents, we re told, no ongoing threat. we re showing to it our viewers. you can see the drama unfolding. so many police officers have gathered at this scene. what we re showing our viewers is the tip of the iceberg. you can see officers hiding behind, wearing tactical gear. hiding behind ballistic shields. a few minutes ago we could see that there were shots still coming from inside that home.
what disturbed me was noticing how this group decided to conduct their their you know, their parade. they were wearing ballistic shields. they had on kevlar. some were dressed like military folks. i was in afghanistan in 2002. they were dressed like folks over there in afghanistan, folks that are the real snake eithers, the folks out there working on behalf of the united states government. i thought it was shameful. that makes it a little disconcerting because you have an area like virginia where you can have a weapon in public, that you can carry a weapon legally if it is exposed in public like that. when you get people like that clashing with the counterprotesters, if this is indicative of where we re going, if there are going to be more of these i see bad things coming. that is our time. i m amara walker, fatnatalie al will be back after the break with more of our continuing coverage in virginia. stay with us.
stand against intolerance and hatred. you re someone who worked for the federal government. again, you wouldn t make a political statement, but i suppose calling these crimes hateful and shameful should be political. i mean, john, you have to look at it from this perspective. calling it white nagsism nationalism is a benign euphemism. this group s origins are in hate. we start with that. what disturbed me was noticing how this group decided to conduct their you know, their parade. they were wearing ballistic shields. think had on kevlar. some of them were dressed like military folks. i was in afghanistan in 2002. they were dressed like folks that were over there in afghanistan, folks that are the real snake eaters folks out there working on behalf of the united states government. i thought it was shameful. that makes it is disconcerting. you ve got an area like virginia
because of the danger. how many doctors were with you? only one. unfortunately, this is the one in 1,000 because of the regulation and timing required, lack of budget. most of my equipment comes from my own funding, most i my training comes from my own fund. some of the equipment is thanks to the police department who donated to me to protect me in the field like ballistic shields. some of the medical equipment is for me, some believe it or not some county, some from the fire department, but the budget is very slim for this kind of issue. so it s difficult for physician to work and pay his bill and do volunteer work like this and take off from the work, too. so what i m trying to do here is pretty much bring the attention to the need because this won t be the end of this story. so we are trying to bring something positive to end it
break left, one will break right. he has to focus on one person. if he fires, ideally they have shields up front. when he starts firing, the ballistic shields will take the impact of that round and the other team immediately takes him out. thanks, grant. i was interested if they had any kind of like robot cams in the building. that were, that were getting information out to the people outside. my sources haven t told me that normally if you put that into a hostage rescue. if you see something like that. they may start shooting people. they will use a small fiber optics and we had those that we will use inside the rooms. and the human eye picks up that movement. and people would see that. so that often wasn t an option, either. grant, thank you. stay with us for the latest,