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Hello everyone and thank you for tuning in to press tv world news and now our top story syria has witnessed a terrorist drone attack a military academy in the western city of holmes on thursday. A funeral is now being held for scores of people including civilians who lost their lives in the attack. Now funeral was held outside a Military Hospital and homes. The syrian. Governments also declared 3 days of national morning, its condem the attack as heinous crime, blaming it on us back terrorist groups trying to destabilize the country. Condemnations are also pouring in from countries including iran, its also offer condolences to the Syrian Government, army and people. Yemens anserla movement says attack reveals scale of brutality by tag fury, terrorist groups who are backed by the us and israel. Lebanons resistance movement, hezbollah said, attack shows. A forain back conspiracy is underway in syria. According to the Syrian Government, 89 people, including five children were killed. A uk
College campuses. I will yield so he can say a word about the tragedy that occurred in texas. I thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of todays hearing on sunday a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in texas. We now know that information concerning his courtmartial for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the instant criminal background check system. Should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss the background check issues. Related to southern springs. And in that briefing be conducted as a formal hearing open to the public. Now tat we have even more information that theres been a break down in the imple
Be you want to share them. If you are a Police Officer and want to give your perspective on the idea of trust, 2027488001. For all others call cspanwj 2027488002. If you want to tweet us our address is cspanwj. Emailwant to send us an. N this topic you can do that the latest copy of Time Magazine talking about this, they have a poll taken about the level of confidence people have in their police. The poll was taken, 52 of respondents said that they had a great deal of confidence in the police. By comparison, those same people said 72 said they had confidence in the military. 31 had confidence in Public Schools and a present of confidence in congress but when it comes to police, the level of confidence expressed, 52 . If you go to the Pew Research Center they put out polls on a lot of topics when it comes to policing, this one dealt with confidence in the police, this is the divide between blacks and whites. This was done in august of 2014, at the time when it was asked about the confid
Retiring, an issue with crime in the community, especially when you are coming from a union environment, sometimes there is a vote of noconfidence and whether there is a situation with the mayor, city council, city manager that was not me. I just came in to replace the retiring chief so im keeping the ship afloat. Host Alfred Durham the chief of the Richmond Police department joining us today. Thank you for your time this morning. Guest thank you. Host we will continue on in our program. Next up, we will be joined by captain harvey powers of the regiment Police Department and in charge of training the cadets that you heard the chief reference. We will talk about that training the cadet goes through to become before becoming an officer. Later on, the mayor of richmond, gleick jones, on his perspective, especially when it comes to Law Enforcement. Both join us later in the program. We did visit the Richmond Police department and spent the day at the training facility. During that time, w