shortly after the shooting the victim s mother spoke to cnn affiliate kmov. they won t tell me nothing. his girlfriend told me that the police was messing with him. he was fitting to get up and run, when he was trying to get up and run, they start shooting him. they won t tell me nothing. they won t even let me see my baby. they just got my baby laying out there. he been out there for about two hours. the shooting has already sparked some tense protests with police officer at one point, demonstrators threw a smoking object toward the officers. some really tense moments there, as you can see. let me bring in cnn s george howell in st. louis. you just landed there, got on the ground. what can you tell us at this hour? reporter: well, randi, we
today or last night, and it was handed off to him during his shift, and because of that, from talking to him briefly, he said that right when it was handed to him, he was doing something at the time, he clipped it somewhere in the car, he didn t put it on and the next thing you know you re here. i think it talks a little bit about sometimes the imperfection of some of the technology that we have, and the fact that we re not used to it all the time. reporter: so that s what we re hearing about the body camera, and again, many officers do have it. in this case it was not in use. what we have, though, is a lot of surveillance video. this happened, you know, under some bright lights at a gas station. you see it very clearly and that s certainly the video that police will use as they investigate what happened. all right, george howell from missouri for us this morning, george, thank you very much. we ll check in with you a little bit later on as well as you get more information. new y
we re still waiting to hear more from the department about what happened. again when you look at the video and what we re hearing from the department basically overnight that an farm teen pointed a weapon at a police officer. the officer, fearing for his life, fired back, killing the victim. and george, just to add a little bit to that, we understand there weren t any shots fired by the suspect s weapon, even though police did say it was loaded. there s also a second security camera as we look at this first one here, another one that is closer that we haven t seen yet. what about body cams, george? we ve made so much, talked so much about that after the killing of michael brown. do we know if this officer, this six-year veteran was wearing a body cam? reporter: this is the one thing about the facts that we re hearing, and you know, it was a big deal, certainly a big deal after the michael brown shooting, and many of the police officers in departments