reporter: right now they re taking a hands off posture. you can see, you have police over here on the side. obviously they don t want to shut down the freeway because that s really going to disrupt things. i don t know what s going to happen if and when they do try to go on to the freeway itself. it s beginning to be something to watch this. you can see police casually standing off on the side, clearly they don t want to escalate things and this crowd is acting peacefully as you can see. dan, we ll continue to check with you throughout the evening. i want to give you background on the case that that you are protesters about. our randy k report. reporter: you re watching the final moments of a man s life. it s december of 2011, a motorist, anthony smith being chased by a police officer jason stockily and his partner. the officer suspected he d been involved in a drug deal. the officers would later say
morning feeling inspired, tried to hack into anything that was involved putin or tried to hack into the kremlin. it s such a propagandistic thing to say. is this typical vladimir putin on russian television? well, it is actually a familiar story line on his part. let s flash back three years to the ukraine. and all these what they called little green men who suddenly showed up in crimea, you know, facilitating what would ultimately be the annexation by russia. putin saying these aren t my troops. these aren t my people. these may be patriotic russians who happened to be on vacation in crimia. weeks later you essentially had him bragging about the fact that they had this operation he called it that they in fact were russian operatives, russian soldiers who were there doing that. so you see in the past where he sort of keeps a hands off posture, at least, off of
to say. is this typical vladimir putin on russian television? well, it is actually a familiar story line on his part. let s flash back three years to the ukraine. and all these what they called little green men who suddenly showed up in crimea, you know, facilitating what would ultimately be the annexation by russia. putin saying these aren t my troops. these aren t my people. these may be patriotic russians who happened to be on vacation in crimia. weeks later you essentially had him bragging about the fact that they had this operation he called it that they in fact were russian operatives, russian soldiers who were there doing that. so you see in the past where he sort of keeps a hands off posture, at least, off of something that clearly benefits his government. and there is not a lot of people who probably believe there is a