This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. This morning officials in texas are investigating a dash cam video that shows the arrest of a woman who later died in police custody. The video shows the confrontation between sandra bland and the officers arresting her, but it has several glitches and jumps and appears to be been edited. The video is only adding fuel to the questions from her family over how bland died. Lets do this. Were going to. Dont touch me. Get out of the car. Dash cam video released late tuesday from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed the moments leading up to her arrest. Get out of the car contrary to early reports, the department of Public Safety trooper does not appear to try to pull bland through her window. He does pull out his taser. A struggle ensues and he takes bland to the ground. Much of the interaction is out of the dash cams view. A bystander is also recording. You slammed me into the ground. Do you not even care about t
Capitol hill to brief congress about the Iran Nuclear Deal. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city im randall pinkston, new questions today about the arrest of a woman in texas and death in Police Custody and dash cam shows confrontation between sandra bland and arresting officers but it has several glitches and jumps. As we report from texas, blands family says it does not resolve the issue of how she died. We are going to. Dont touch me. Get out of the car. Reporter dash cam video released tuesday shows the moments leading up to Sandra Blands arrest. Contrary to early reports the department of Public Safety brian ensierra pulls out his taser and takes her to the ground and much interaction takes place out of the dash cams view and a bystander is also recording. Slam to the ground and do you not care about that . I cant even hear. Reporter at one point the officer addressed the eyewitness filming the incident. You need to leave. Thank you for recording. Reporter she was ar
Hike minimum wage to 15 an hour. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im tony harris. Ferguson missouri, has a new top cop today. Nearly a year after riots erupted after the death of Michael Brown a long time officer from arizona already has goals set for a sixmonth appointment. My goal is Building Trust in this community right now. So everything that i do daytoday will be about this community and the Police Officers here not concentrating on whether or not im going to be the police chief of the future. We were at the News Conference in ferguson, and she said that the chief is not from that region but has connection there. The city is going from one interim police chief to another. They couldnt say how many people were considered for this position but i can tell you that the manager is from glendale arizona and Andre Anderson is now coming from the Glendale Police department. He most recently worked as a commander overseaing 80 directs in the criminal investigation unit.
Outside the exhusbands home, pictures of 2yearold christopher and 6yearold elizabeth with the message, they did not have to die and the claim they both died at the hand of martinez. Police have not released a motive but said a forensic specialist discovered that 2yearold christopher ripleys death was from blunt force trauma. Not an accident. Very limited people knew that that report came out. Reporter the chief did not say whether or not amanda cruz knew, only that investigators do not believe the report played a factor in saturdays incident. In modesto melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Cruz worked with the Health Services agency. Cruzs patients are speaking fondly of her today. Jennifer french had seen cruz for more than 11 years with back pain depression and more. Cruz was in the delivery room when french gave birth to her son who has cerebral palsy. She said dr. Cruz was caring and had a positive impact on her life. She knew everything about him, so she knew how to help me when i had to
Human rights. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. We begin with breaking news this morning. A man opened fire inside a Movie Theater in louisiana killing two people. There is no word on a possible motive. Authorities say the shooter injured nine others before taking his own life. Some of the injuries are described at life threatening. Police are set to give an update in the next few minutes. Well bring that to you live. Jonathan martin is outside the theater in lafayette. Have authorities identified the shooter and what do we know about him . Good morning to you randall. Police do know who the shooter is, have not identified him by name. They say he is a 58yearold white man. There is no talk about a motive. Police have been outside the Movie Theater all night since the shooting happened. You can see officers here. They just finished a briefing with the louisiana governor bobby jindal. A lot to investigate. Theyve talked with witnesses. T