it is counterintuitive. you say we want our communities safe but not allow the police to do the job. julie: you have to hold the community responsible for dysrespecting their police. if you expect respect in the community, if you see disrespect in the community you need to hold them accountable and that s what law enforcement is for. it is. sad we have to legislate civility. we re seeing it s words that are empty and baseless. what i m trying to push forward is where our police can hold people accountable for what they do. julie: the officers felt like they had no choice. they had to walk away. had they arrested these people for throwing water on them, perhaps it would have prevented copycat attacks. it has happened several times. had they arrested them would they have gotten in trouble? who knows? you saw that in the queens race where nobody wanted to prosecute crimes. what message are we sending to
something where you have to look at it from every direction to hit it, then you ll never cure it. this is a mental health epidemic we have to really dig into. and it s not going to be just one way. it s going to be multiple disciplines coming from different directions. you re saying it s not any one factor. it s all of them together. still, no solution. in the director of the fbi ordered a new nationwide threat assessment in effort to prevent more deadly mass attacks like this. how will that stop future attacks including copy cat attacks? which is what we appear to be seeing. the problem is i know i have been not to his office but in charge of that kind of thing in the field offices and there s really not a lot of potential to solve all of these.
rifle legally it s quite possible he didn t break any laws in the state of texas until he actually pulled the trigger. so what changes now? people talk about security, they spread a word between el paso a and juarez maybe el paso isn t as safe as it used to be. as we continue to worry about copycat attacks, the people really going to pay the price for that and fear those attacks were the very vulnerable communities that were vulnerable before this attack. immigrant communities across america, many people undocumented and already living in fear are now all the more living in a state of fear in america, ali. cal perry, thank you for your reporting. i want to remind our viewers three of the people who lost their lives in el paso was mexican national,s, six of the people part of the 26 people who remain skbrered and getting treatment were mexican nationals
suspected in being involved in that incident. meanwhile, a prime suspect now being questioned about why he opened fire on this spot earlier today. david? ian pannell with us tonight. ian, thank you. and of course, all of this playing out as new zealand deals with the horror of its worst terrorist attack ever, the attack in christchurch. vigils held for the 50 people killed by that gunman at two mosques, just three miles apart. well, what that suspect did in court. and tonight now, the new fear, the joint intelligence bulletin right here in the u.s., warning that al qaeda and isis are calling on muslims to retaliate around the world by launching their own attacks. abc s will carr, again tonight from new zealand. reporter: tonight, authorities worried about copycat attacks, while raw emotion continues to pump through the heart of new zealand. the alleged gunman, accused of killing 50 people, a self-proclaimed racist, his face blurred per local law, seen flashing a hand sign linked
this man any notice or attention after the attack in the sense that his video must not be streamed by social media. people should not watch it. because we cannot save the people that have died, but by preventing others from seeing it, it prevents this individual from getting his ideology out. and unfortunately, we ve now seen one of the most grievous attacks by the far right which could create further social tensions. and that is important, to prevent this man s agenda from being carried through. you worry certainly about copycats the more that this video is distributed and then there is the 87 page manifesto that is circulating online as well. what are your thoughts about his manifesto? from what i understand about the manifesto is that it is effectively designed to encourage and incite others from carrying out copycat attacks, that effectively it is trying to incite a race war, trying to pit