Darren wilson, no longer a Police Officer in ferguson, missouri. Why his resignation is now sparking controversy. A mother reunited with her son after four years. Police say he was found behind a false wall in his fathers home. Details on the charges that the boys dad now faces. Then its the hug that has so many talking. We talked to the Police Officer at the center of that moving moment. Hello again, everyone. Im fredericka whitfield. Those stories, the tom ix of our news this hour. The mayor of ferguson, missouri, Just Announced the city has severed all ties with officer Darren Wilson effective immediately. That comes a a after wilson resigned from the Ferguson Police department. Wilson turned in his Resignation Letter yesterday saying it is my hope that my resignation will allow the community to heal. This comes after a grand jury decided not to indict wilson in the killing of teenager Michael Brown. Ed is in ferguson today. The citys mayor, james noelz, held a press conference earl
Police have been cracking down on prodemocracy demonstrators in the city a admiralty district. It is now calm but just a few hours ago police with riot shields removed barricades before withdrawing. Our Senior International correspondent ivan watson was there when first first moved in on protesters overnight. Just a couple meters from where were standing right now, the police appear to have pushed in to this highway now and theyre clearing the demonstrators out. Either scuffling thats going on and at this point we can see the demonstrators being pushed out. This is moments, moments after one of the main student protest leaders announced, vowed that the protesters would continue to encircle the government headquarters to force the government as he put it to give in to the demonstrators demands. And as you can see that was several hours ago. Ivan is back with us again. He still is on the streets of hong kong. He joins us now live with the latest ivan, what is the situation . Obviously be
into the ocean there. it s very tough to do. about a dozen people have been combing the area along the rough rocky coast there. devante came to national attention when he was 12 years old at that protest in portland, oregon. the police officer, the portland police officer, sergeant brett barnum, spoke about that moment that went viral. as i sat there with a colleague of mine, we noticed devante 10 or 15 feet away from us. he would turn periodically toward us. i noticed he was crying and looked at my colleague, brian, and said is that kid crying? we kind of went from there and i said i m going to call him over and do what i do, as not a police officer, but just a human being. and what was his reaction, devante s reaction when you called him over? he was hesitant at first. he mustard up the courage and energy to come over and talk with me. at that point, it kind of broke the ice a little bit. we talked about life.
back to you. hmm. i thought they dressed from j. crew and the gap. anyway, a photo taken at a u.s. protest has gone viral and it is being called warmly the hug shared round the world. it was taken tuesday in portland, oregon at a ferguson solidarity rally. a 12-year-old american boy sharing a hug with a white police officer and that s a good hug right there. he was holding hi sign offering free hugs before this picture was taken. sergeant brett barnum says he told him he was upset over police brutality against black children and then barnum, the officer asked if he could have one of his hugs. it solidifies what most all of us do this work for, just create goodwill and to help mankind. help our fellow citizens in the community and that s what police