oh, haha. there s so much that we need to share so send a smile and show that you care i ll give a little bit of my love to you a family in troy, alabama, is demanding answers after their son was allegedly beat een up ba police officer. police say they used reasonable and necessary force after 17-year-old ulysses wilkinson resisted arrest and reached for his waistband. morgan son s parents say he was so badly disfurg ured they could barely recognize him. now they want to see body cam footage. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is in troy with more. reporter: yes, boris, i m actually here at a peaceful
so badly disfigured they barely recognized him. now they want to see the police body cam and dash cam footage of the arrest. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is in troy with more. what are you learning this hour? have you been able to talk to the family? yeah, christi, i did speak with the family. you know, obviously, their first concern is making sure he heals from this, gets better. he s home from the hospital, he ll likely have surgery next week on his eye. but then they have a lot of questions here. there isn t much information from the very beginning. they don t really know why police stopped him in the first place the night of december 23rd. all that s been said is that he was walking, came out from behind a closed building in downtown troy, and when police attempted to stop him, he ran. but they don t really know why they were trying to stop him or talk to him. they don t know much about the charges. the 17-year-old boy is facing
there is body cam video, according to the district attorney, but he has not viewed it yet, and we don t know when we ll get a chance to see it. in about an hour and a half where i m standing people in the community are going to gather for a peaceful protest to let the police department know they want some answers in this particular case. they want to know what happened, and they would like the video released. christi, victor? diane gallagher, we appreciate it so much. thank you. a new study shows that more and more pregnant women are using marijuana in california. on monday it will be even more readily available there because it becomes legal to use and sell pot recreationally. we re going to talk to a doctor about what that means for pregnant women when we come back. better than a manual. and my hygienist says it does but they re not all the same. who knew? i had no idea. so she said, look for one that s shaped like a dental tool with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b. oral
life, memory and service of lieutenant jay cullen. diane gallagher for us in chesterfield. thank you so much. we re following some developments in boston right now. we ve got live pictures for you here. this is where protesters are gathering right now. they say to march against hate. and bigotry. we will of course show you more of this, it s scheduled to start in about two hours. but as we saw last week, the crowds gather obviously hours before. there was one scuffle this morning. nothing serious, though. and hundreds of police officers we should point out, they are on hand to try to keep things peaceful. we have a live report for you coming up at the top of the hour in a couple of minutes, do stay close. isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he s added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless.
a close eye on the crowd as you can imagine, fred, so will law enforcement. all right, we ll check back with you from boston. today a public memorial service being held for virginia state trooper jay cullen. he along with trooper burke bates were killed last saturday when their helicopter crashed during last weekend s deadly rally in charlottesville. the funeral for bates was yesterday, governor terry mcauliffe was among those who attended the service, cnn correspondent diane gallagher is in chesterfield with more on the service. diane? yeah, fred, you know obviously a very somber occasion here. you mentioned governor terry mcauliffe. in a bit of a unique situation, he had a very personal relationship with lieutenant hj cullen and trooper burke and bates, they were part of the aviation unit. lieutenant cullen actually commanded that unit. so he dealt with him quite frequently. they flew him around the state. he had a very personal