Interrupted the mayor at a city council meeting. Today the mayor caused reporters in and showed us video of what happened on Christmas Day. The video shows what happened the moments before javon hall was kill and the mayor released transcript of the 911 calls that hall was beating his girlfriend. My sister is locked in the house. Her boyfriend is crazy. He got a knife. He turned on the gas. Im locked out. When police arrive, the scene was chaotic but the girlfriend coming out, sitting on the step. The boyfriend in the doorway with a knife. [gunshot ] no, no, no. Move, move. Sam an officer retrieved the knife and r another ran to get first aid. Mayor bowser met with reporters who viewed the video afterwards. Its our decision that this is in the interest of Public Safety to make any and all information we have available. The regulars today does it make you feel you made the right decision in insisting all Police Officers have those cameras . Absolutely. Sam afterward the officers are hea
Online at wjla. Com. Social media and the stormwatch7 app. You can get alert and School Closings sent to your phone. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Jonathan now to breaking news we are following this everything. D. C. Police released body cam video showing the moment that an officer shot and killed javon hall on christmas day. We should warn you, the video is graphic. No, no, no. No. The moment the shots were fired is difficult to see what is going on. When you slow the video down you plainly see that hall is holding a large knife. He appears to lung moments before being shot. The family members said that the video didnt know any knife at all but bowser said this is released in the interest of transparency. Maureen now to the showdown on capitol hill. President obama squaring mike pence. They have not met face to face. But the battle they are waging in the halls of congress will effect every american. Q mccray is following the controversy centered on whether to repeal what is known a
Portion of this video tonight. Its actually seven minutes long. But its very disturbing. Were only going to show a few seconds of it. About 30 seconds of the initial encounter as the officers arrived at the scene. Here it is. video playing put the knife down. Put the knife down. Get out, get out. Get out. Reporter according to a source, the mother was shown a portion of that, or she may have seen the entire thing. What we understand is that against protocol, the mother was shown tha may not have been able to see the knife in real time. Thats why the Mayors Office released these still photos showing the knife in the mans hand. When you watch the video in real time, you may be able to see it. When she said he didnt have a weapon, didnt have a weapon at all, it basically told the community that he may not have been armed, and so i asked the mayor about that today. I said had this video been released earlier or these still shots been released a little bit earlier then it would have calmed
A case is in the public interest. This has proven to be in the public interest. There have been protests and halls family has spoken out saying they did not believe he was armed. The Mayors Office released not just the two seven minute body camera videos of the two responding officers but also the 911 call transcripts that sent those officers back to that home on christmas day. The Mayors Office trying to paint as complete a picture as possible of what led to that split second decision on christmas day. Went inside the house. The video shows a fast moving, chaotic scene as a pair of mpd officers return to a house in northeast washington for the second time in an hour. Reports of some kind of domestic incident. As they approach the home a woman warns the man inside has a knife. One officer gets up the back staircase and orders a neighbor out of the way. Through the open door we and the responding officer see javon hall ar inch knife. The officer orders hall to drop the knife three times
Worried it was going to be snow snow at all. Maybe she brought it down from philadelphia. Clouds are moving in this morning. Might get a sliver or two of sunshine early. Temperatures just barely above freezing during the afternoon. It could start out as a flurry or a sprinkle. By tonight, light snow very, very likely. Might get as much as an inch. Planning it out today, temperatures below freezing this morning. Staying cold and cloudy. Any sliver the sunshine will be early on in the day, but temperatures will be back below freezing by this evening. Exactly how much snow . Lets find out from sheena. Were looking at not much. But the problem here is going to be the timing of it allege. So as we go through the hours early tomorrow morning, we are looking at the snow falling right around the overnight hours. So before the morning rush, temperatures will be at or below freezing. That will be the Biggest Issue here. Take a look at the snowfall totals north of the off to the west. B less than