And new evidence shows lots of people who went to jail were innocents. After 28 years behind bars for murder, Steven Cheney walks free. Our Justice System is needlessly cruel. Or is it . What is justice . Thats my show tonight. Recently there has been plenty of injustice. In Louisiana Police respond to a call saying a man threatened someone with a gun. When the cops found their suspect the cell phone video shows them subject dog him. Once hes on the ground, one officer takes out his gun and shoots him. We wont show that part here. Then the very next day in minnesota, police pulled over a black man. At the cops request he reached for his license and when he did, the officer shot him. His fiance live streamed what hack the next. We got pulled over for a busts taillight. He killed my boyfriend. Es licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his i. D. And wallet out of his pocket. And he let the officer know that he was he had a firearm an was reaching for his wallet and the officer just s
Dallas transit officer Brent Thompson had just gotten married within the last two weeks. He was 43. His spouse also works for thero transit police. Patrick was married with a 2yearold daughter. He left the military five years ago to joinlsv6 the dallas pol tours in iraq. ec micha Michael Crowell worked in michigan, but left in 2007 to join the Dallas Police department. People of allc races and faith gathered in dallas this afternoon for a prayer vigil, n thanksgiving squa, a landmark for promoting gratitude and peace in times of crisis. The shootings are having an especially hard impact on the Law Enforcement community. Police in and around philadelphia tell nbc 10 they are changing tactics because of last nights violence. Our Team Coverage continues with nbc 10s mitch blocker live at Philadelphia Police tqc itch has more on that part the story for us. Reporter jim, we talked to the secret service, the Philadelphia Police department, we talked to smaller departments throughout the ar
On behalf of nij and our director, Nancy Rodriguez, i welcome you to the most recent iteration of research in the thereal world. For those of you unfamiliar, this is a series that nij runs where we Link Research presentations, sometimes research refunded, sometimes research that others have done, with practitioners to emphasize the importance of applied science, and taking science and translating it into the real world so it is not simply an academic exercise and it really is focused on advancing the work in the field. Today we are obviously speaking on firearm violence and injury prevention. We have some great panelists. I have to read something from which i apologize for, but im told i have to. And then we will get started. In the unlikely event of a situation requiring evacuation, the following procedures should be followed. If you hear an alarm from anywhere in the building you should begin evacuation. If you encounter flashing strobe lights but hear no alarm, this indicates you sh
And new evidence shows lots of people who went to jail were innocents. After 28 years behind bars for murder, Steven Cheney walks free. Our Justice System is needlessly cruel. Or is it . What is justice . Thats my show tonight. Recently there has been plenty of injustice. In Louisiana Police respond to a call saying a man threatened someone with a gun. When the cops found their suspect the cell phone video shows them subject dog him. Once hes on the ground, one officer takes out his gun and shoots him. We wont show that part here. Then the very next day in minnesota, police pulled over a black man. At the cops request he reached for his license and when he did, the officer shot him. His fiance live streamed what hack the next. We got pulled over for a busts taillight. He killed my boyfriend. Es licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his i. D. And wallet out of his pocket. And he let the officer know that he was he had a firearm an was reaching for his wallet and the officer just s
Is it federal or state and local job . It is a job of every local government. City, county, state, federal. When i was in the state legislature i discovered we had passed laws that essentially banned 56 provisions from people who had been incarcerated. One was you wouldnt get a license to barber. Yet in state prison we taught barbering. Then the individual couldnt get a license. So we had to pass legislation to undo that. So when the war on drugs started in the 1980s we passed 2,000 laws of the years. We banned people from working. We need to look at a lot of legislation passed over the years and essentially unwind some of it. But we do have to create supportive services. People need support groups to help them do basic things, get their i. D. S, drivers license, may back child support, get their children back if their children have been entered into foster care. One of the things we dont pay a lot of attention to is the fact that a lot of people have been incarcerat incarcerated. The