thank you. despite calls from the mayor and also from the city s borough presidents to hold off on the protests, there are social media reports of a gathering later tonight here in new york city. alisyn? alexandra field thank you for the background now to milwaukee where a white police officer will not be charged for gunning down a mentally ill black man. in just-released dash cam video, officers raced to the scene as you hear officer christopher manney radio in, he s panicked as he describes the confrontation that led to him shooting dontre hamilton more than a dozen times. manney has been fired, despite the fact that the d.a. ruled he was justified in his actions. in terms of self-defense. this as the feds open an investigation into this case. george howell joins us live from milwaukee with all of the latest. what do we know, george? alisyn, good morning, it is important to talk about timing. this decision basically playing out days after the two officers lost their lives in ne
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well it s a little unclear. one thing we know from the autopsy records, we know dontre hamilton had blunt force injuries to his head and face, he had contusions and abrasions, that s indiacative of being struck by fists or by this officer. it s unclear if the officer was striking him first, unreasonable force and then very well doesn t re hamilton may have had the opportunity to resist that. and they disencourage, the officer separated and there was no gunshot residue on dontre and he fired the 14 shots. is it excessive? why did he need to fire 14 shots, half of them in a downward direction, one in his back. isn t the answer from a policeman s perspective and eventually the d.a., mr. dontre got control of the baton, and started beating the officer with it. made him fear for his life and he shot him? couldn t that be the outcome?
what s an improper pat-down. what s thement proper pat-down? in this case, there was absolutely no reason to believe that dontre hamilton had to be, was going to do, or had committed any type of crime. even the district attorney in meetings we had with him early on indicated that. and is it true that the officer knew or should have known that dontre hamilton had some mental health issues? he didn t know. they had not had any interaction before. i m not sure yet where the mental health issues relate to had. what was known is that he did suffer some paranoid schizophrenia. whether that was the reason he interacted the way he did. he had already been checked by two officers already shortly before. they let him alone. now here we have another officer comes again, starts to question him. makes him stand up and now does this pat-down search. while he s doing the pat-down search, mr. hamilton doesn t like it at some point or they get into an altercation at some point. what s your un