let s talk about this. joining me, michael daly, jumaane williams, gil alba and michael. you were there. what was it like? i m afraid it sounds like we re losing michael s signal. so we will go back to him as soon as we get that reestablished just to get his insights. jumaane, let me ask you this. we already talked about the divide that was clearly evident between the mayor and the police department before the shootings. now you ve had the shootings. has it gotten even worse? or is this an opportunity to call a truce? i think this is an opportunity to say let s sit down and discuss, but i i keep hearing each statement of rhetoric going higher and higher as opposed to going lower and lower, and that s something that s also frustrating to me. to say the mayor has blood on his hands, to say he s anti-cop,
apply to officers, and if the allegations are proven accurate, appropriate action will be taken. what rights on behalf of this woman or any woman who maybe is the subject or the target of a raid, what rights does that individual really have? the rights as far as what, how she can act? how she can act, what she can say. when you first see a video and you look at it from that standpoint, you don t know what preceded that, what were they doing in there. they came in there and they raided had a lot of officers come in there. when you have a lot of officers, there s a reason why they came in here. was there a one-time thing, a one-time act where somebody propositioned one of the police officers. you had to have more than one act. maybe she knew what was going on at the time with the raid and became hysterical. but as a police officer, of course, you should know how to handle a situation like that. gil alba, thank you.
to the capitol. more gunfire when she stopped. and she was hit several times and killed. when police looked inside the car, they found no weapons, but they did find the woman s 1-year-old daughter in the back-seat. the child, fortunately, is okay. but the way police handled the situation raising multiple questions here. joining me now in new york, former nypd detective gil alba, here to hel me sort through all this. no gun, no bomb, a child, people are wondering did police act properly in this case. all these police departments are trained and work within each other especially around the white house. they re trained for this, for terrorism, for anything like this. so all this, what they did with her, and they didn t know it was a female in the car, of course, all this that they did, you know, was acting properly as far as trying to stop her from doing something which means that she could have bombs in the car, anything, to try to get into the white house, and nobody is going to stop
by the way, don, i know you guys were talking about that the police were totally in their right to just shoot her in the head, but i don t know. i ve been watching a lot of cop shows. can t they just shoot the tires? doesn t that make the car stop? i agree with you. we can maybe get the detective back in. if i m a police officer and you don t know what is behind who knows? what do you say to that? first, there was no stopping this person. you know, her mental illness or not, she went on her own. what was her mission? i don t know, and she had the baby in the back. and she ran out of the car. she was out, you know, her mission was, i think, to destroy herself. and this is one way of destroying herself. wendy, i listen what you re saying, and no one wants this woman to have been shot and killed. but if you look at that video, she s going after those officers with that car, which is a deadly weapon. and yes, we all have empathy, but if i was a police officer, i would do whatever i
establishment is providing a 10% discount to all federal workers who are on furlough. plus a cookie. and that, i think, is an indication of how ordinary americans look out for each other. and aren t obsessed with the politics and aren t trying to extract concessions out of each other. they just try to make sure that everybody is doing their job and that we re doing what s best for the country. there s no winning when families don t have certainty about whether or not they re going to get paid or not. i have staff in the white house. there is staff all across the country, in rural areas who are working for the agricultural department department, for veterans affairs, who are on their job, despite the fact they re not been paid or have been sent home and want to be on the job because they re looking after their fellow citizens on a whole range of services. and as long as they re off the job, nobody s winning. interesting. so these impromptu comments from the president just a