there is somebody who is now in line to get that because it was the sheriff who got a call directly on his cell phone from somebody in the community saying, i think i know where this guy is holed up. i think i know where your suspect is, and so that person gave the tip to the sheriff, and it was the sheriff who then organized with the police department here to bring the s.w.a.t. teams in and surround the house. the authorities at this point, as you know, have a whole other sadness on their hand. that is one officer who has died from the americus police department and then another officer who is at the hospital in macon, about an hour from here, who is in critical condition. the authorities from the georgia southwestern university, which is where officer smith, who was shot and is in critical condition, where he worked, they say that they don t even know whether he has been told that his best friend these two officers were best friends was shot and killed. he s in critical condition
thursday. joy reid you re on the scene there. you ve talked with two members of the family i believe. what are the people in the community saying, particularly in the part in the tape where the officer puts something on the ground? what are people saying about that? rev, i watched the press conference that you showed a small clip of after interviewing the older and younger brother of mr. scott and being in the family home, we walked it from there. i think you can barely describe the mood as disbelief. you showed where senator kimpson was praised for the body camera initiative. but the conference became chaotic because there were a couple of very important questions that they were not willing to answer. one of the questions is does the department know what the object was that the officer
to authorities and to the community saying what his plans were, and the last message he uploaded to the internet was beginning of february saying it was kind of a good-bye he was saying that he wanted to hide from the authorities. he knew they were on his back. finally now we know they caught him without, according to mexican authorities, without opening fire when he was captured. other big news out of mexico government shakeup. yes, a huge thing that s happening in the attorney general s office. the head of the office has moved to another office. he stepped down. and this is after five months when students disappeared, and many organizations, even united nations have been questioning his investigations, the way he has handled the situation. finally he has stepped down. his place will be taken by a
and appreciating individuality. and respecting the ideas and beliefs of each other. you cannot dismiss the concerns of entire communities for pro longed periods of time. and i do want to point out that these issues, many of these racially involved issues are not new. they have a historical presence, and that oftentimes has caused friction between the police and the community. they re not new, lou, and yet the cell phone technology and the social media has led to a reconsideration where you have some people in the community saying, yeah, i knew about this, this is the whole problem. we don t get a fair shake in the grand jury, but other folks are able to hook at these videos themselves. i think there s a big difference in ferguson and staten island. and the video is a big reason. which people say i didn t see a
we should be most worried about. let s bring in msnbc jim cavanaugh, atf retired special agent. let s talk about this notion eugene was just mentioning about the feeling of police officers. we have a lot of demoralized police officers in new york right now, perhaps throughout the nation, and just their basic everyday notion of officers being killed every single day. can t imagine what that what that s like, that being part of your line of work. talk about what it is like to be a man or woman on the beat and fearing death and having the community saying whatever they re saying about you and, perhaps, not even feeling supported by your mayor as well in new york. right. i mean, these things run deep. you know, when you re in a radio car, and i wore the uniform, everything you do, people know who you are, they know they look at everything they do, they watch you, you re on display in the community. but eugene makes a good point about the morale of the police. i think it s so import