a similar event ended in gunfire in texas just last month. sara sidner reports on this new event in phoenix. reporter: they are calling it free cdom of speech rally round. because they held one before. they are planning on doing what is a prophet muhammad cartoon drawing contest similar to the one we saw three weeks ago in garland, texas. with you remember what happened there and they say this is in response to what happened in garland. two men that attended the mosque went to gun police down and ended up dying themselves by an officer. police believing they were trying to get into that drawing contest there in garland. as far as this one goes, they say it will be peaceful. they are holding it here to send a message. but they also put something on their facebook that they hadn t had in the past.
to bring their guns to this protest. arizona s governor and the phoenix police chief spoke out as to how the city is bracing for this potential powder keg. there s a lot of things in the works. the size of the crowd, the intelligence, as far as relating to the crowd is changing all the time. we re working hard with our federal partners and other city departments to make sure we have enough officers and road closures and those types of things. i think it s going to be a traffic nightmare amongst other things. of course i m a believer in free speech and the first amendment and i m a believer in good judgment and common sense. well, to that, the organizer of this drawing contest is a former marine and his name is jon ritzheimer and he went on tv last night with our own anderson cooper. take a look. i think the whole thing is the cartoon contest especially i
breaking news. isis is taking responsibility for the attack on a prophet muhammad cartoon drawing contest in texas. elton simpson, one of the gunmen who was shot and killed trying to ambush that event had just sent a tweet showing allegiance to isis. he was convicted in 2011 for making false statements to the fbi. the second gunman meanwhile, nadir soofi, spent time in pakistan when he was younger. an nyu student detained in north korea admits he entered the country illegally, why? to heal tensions with the south. won-moon joo says he wanted to be arrested. he says he s being treated well not in danger and ready to accept any punishment the north levies against him. well there s lots of buzz and lots of twitter snark over what the stars wore at last
wilders, and the winner of the drawing contest who was a former muslim. it was an art exhibit showing the pictures of muhammad all throughout the past 1,400 years. do you believe that there was another way to go about expressing freedom of speech and your rights that would not have been considered to be offensive? by muslims? yeah. inoffensive speech needs no protection. offensive speech needs protection. so are we to believe if something offends you, if something insults you, that we should go out and kill people and that way we can get our way. because that s really the implication here. i m not responsible for the violence conducted by others. it s outrageous that this would be the morally inverted view of the media. that somehow because we drew a
our primary care was adult with substance abuse problems. but having a director that s so passionate when i came in and implicated we need something for the youth, he was all for it. we understand like i said there s no recreation centers around here. just sitting here and looking around you have all these different row houses right. i see a grocery over there. i ve seen liquor stores. i ve seen churches. that s it. that s it. thank you both so much for your time with me last week in baltimore. again, as soon as we see the president take to that podium in the bronx, we ll bring it to you live. meantime there s so much more coming out of this story out of texas. this accused isis sympathizer and his accomplice shot and killed outside this event featuring a drawing contest, cartoons of the prophet muhammad. also next the sudden rise of