and the cost of giving officers that many rounds to practice with is prohibitive from smaller departments. i always favor, and i do favor strongly a proponent of other less than lethal methods. i wish we saw more of them. to require a level of marksman ship that a policy like this might require is going to take a lot of ammunition, a lot of practice, and that s going to be a costly endeavor for a lot of small departments. i hear what you re saying, though it s hard to equate, you know, the cost for small departments and the cost of someone s life that didn t have a gun. we ve seen this time and again, the suspect doesn t have a gun, maybe they have a weapon, maybe they have a screwdriver or something, but they re killed by the police and the public says, why couldn t they just have shot them in the leg to stop them, but bobby, when you say that less lethal methods, what else is there? well, the only less lethal weapon that people know about is a taser, and even that, the
stop with not only headlights but stoplights if there s a lot of movement heck of a lot of movement in that vehicle, you re going to be extremely careful as you approach it. another thing is there someone is else in the vehicle i ve had incidents to approach a consider and to my surprise and shock there would be somebody lying down in backseat of the car . luckily that individual didn t have a gun. so what you always do is light up the car and many times depending on circumstances you ll have the suspect get out of the vehicle with their hands up. so if something that s what i was going to ask something is is not right and say as xeample to hypothetical you see some movement. then you don t actually approach the car yourself. no you ll wait for a backup and difficult for a lot of people to understand unless they were in shoes of police officer. over the period of time of years and experience, police officers get a six sense where your
there are those in the legal community who say this was an appropriate use of fbi protocol to have enough officers on hand to carry out the search warrant and the arrest safely to make certain no one got away and no evidence destroyed. at the same time, advocates and allies if you will, of roger stone are saying this is an older man who didn t have a gun. was this going too far? you have a little unity coming from judiciary chairman lindsey graham who is sending a letter to christopher wray. and he also says and what is notable here, perhaps some hands off when it comes to the ultimate release of a mueller report which through the chain of command would go to the department of justice. it s not intended to be a public document, unless a review determines that. the president saying he would let the department of justice make the ultimate decision on that, hallie. that sort of goes in a different direction where the president is often appearing to sort of send
incident where he had the gun and shooting the chickens. that was concerning to me. i thought oh my god, of all people i wish didn t have a gun. really alarming to hear about those warnings inside that neighborhood. tom llamas with us again tonight outside the jail where nikolas cruz is being held, and you re learning tonight about a possible guilty plea? reporter: david, we just learned this information. the broward public defender has just told abc news that he is willing to have nikolas cruz enter a guilty plea in exchange for the prosecution to take the death penalty off the table. he says this will spare the community a trial, and even more heartache, david. tom llamas leading us off again tonight. tom, thank you. as we mentioned, president trump is in florida at this hour. he had promised to visit that community. he was headed to florida to spend president s day weekend arriving with the first lady, but he also arrives in florida. the families, many who accept his prayers
over 1 million people. we are used to coming together. we ve had other tragedies on campus in the past, whether it was students or faculty or staff. and i think this is certainly very different one but this is something i m quite confident we will be resilient and be fine down the road. reporter: given the nature of the impact, were you surprised there [ inaudible ] i think i ll leave it to the law enforcement folks to talk about that. all i m aware of is what s been discussed in the press. i think certainly thankfully the individual didn t have a gun, i think, is probably the one thing that s a blessing and allowed the sofficer to act before he injured anyone even more severely than he did. also thinking about other venues and things on campus where we have large groups of people, i think this was obviously