ago. the meeting part of hollande s efforts to stitch together a coalition to combat isis. joining me from paris is gabe gutierr gutierrez. gabe, you re there at the plaza de la republique and the chancellor and president hollande stopped by earlier. reporter: that s right, frances. they did so a few minutes before the news conference and in that news conference french president hollande said that he wanted germany to do more against the fight against isis and a signal for germany to go further in iraq and syria. they provide training and weapons to kurds in iraq fighting isis and german chancellor merkel promised to think about what she could do in order to further that cooperation and to fight isis but she gave no detalls of what germany plan to do in syria. however, this morning germany
announced they were sending forces to mali in a show of solidarity to fight islamic forces there and recall mali just was a site of a terrorist attack just a few days ago. in the northern part of that country been a bit of a lawless region. frances, as you mentioned here, just before that news conference, both world leaders showed up to pay respects to the victims of those attacks on november 13th. they laid flowers here and held a moment of silence, a show of solidarity perhaps in a in the face of global terrorism, frances. gabe, tomorrow, certainly will be celebrating thanksgiving and in the global front, a very important day as hollande meets with russian leader vladimir putin so what can we expect from that meeting, especially when it comes to something tangible, something productive, given russia s take on a crisis of syria? reporter: yeah. frances, this s the big question right now. been an extremely busy few days for president hollande, met with
shooting. and there was a 20 to 30-second buffer that allowed us to see some of what happened beforehand. but i know the family attorney had questioned whether the department actually followed policy. but andrea, this is a highly anticipated announcement from the district attorney. and again, local officials there are urging calm following this announcement, andrea. thanks so much, gabe. and our chief legal correspondent, ari melber, joins me now. a ari, let s talk about the legal issues here. first of all, any resource for the family, mr. scott s family, friends, and supporters? i guess a civil case, a civil rights case, if they wanted to, through the justice department, but, do they have anything any resource to produce their issues? yes, andrea. a civil case is possible. that would be for wrongful death or depravation of civil rights under law. those are the kind of federal claims this kind of case obviously had a different standard, a higher standard for
charlotte. days after the shooting, police released portions of body cam and dash cam footage, and a photo of the country that police say scott was holding when he was killed. prosecutors say the officer acted lawfully when he shot and killed scott outside his apartment. nbc s gabe gutierrez has been covering the story from the beginning and joins me now by phone. gabe, this very controversial the prosecutor s information today in sharp contrast to what the family was claiming. yeah, certainly, andrea. and sharp contradiction to what the family was saying, what keith lamont scott s wife had said from the get-go. and also, what witnesses at the scene had initially told reporters and had told police. but as you mentioned, the district attorney today, just a few moments ago, announcing his conclusion that officer brentley vinson acted lawfully in his use of deadly force. and he also had a message for the community, urging calm. again, the charlotte police is on alert following this de
a criminal prosecution than a civil one. so while it doesn t rule it out, it certainly doesn t help. it might make it harder, it puts out information, evidence, and findings that basically back up the police s version of events or what the d.a. called today a lawful use of deadly force. the gun was the key here, because there was, as gabe mentioned, skepticism about that in the community, but the d.a. did present a lot of evidence that the gun existed before. that s why they showed that convenience store footage, basically saying, mr. scott had what appeared to be a holster and was walking around with the gun, that he had it drawn, and then a colt .380 was recovered on the scene. i would say that frankly overwhelming video and physical evidence of the gun. part ii of the question is, well, was the question being drawn, raised, or used in a manner that justifies deadly force? that certainly was a closer call. what s new today is the d.a. saying, they did find that to be the case. those