Police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. As i understand you have a copy of the pact police distributed. What can you tell us about that . Police distributed a packet of information that the News Organization asked for. In here we have a copy of a robbery incident report that is saying that someone who was 644 and a black male had stolen cigars from a Convenience Store. The call went out around 11 50 p. M. They wepursuing this. There was no direct correlation made to Michael Brown. The person was wearing a white tshirt and khaki shorts. Police are saying it seems as though police were pursuing the person, the suspect, in a robbery when they came upon Michael Brown and the Fatal Shooting occurred. Im confused. If theres no correlation, why mention it . Well, they didnt make a direct correlation. Theres obviously a correlation in the fact it happened and soon after Michael Brown was they found Michael Brown and shot him. I think there is while not being able to make a direct correl
General eric holder meets with all sides and gets a firsthand look by a city shattered by violence and protests. Wolf blitzer is off. Im brianna keilar. You are in the situation room. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com were following two breaking stories this hour. Americas top Law Enforcement official is now in ferguson, missouri. Attorney general eric holder has meetings with police and the family of slain teen Michael Brown and hes getting a briefing on the federal investigation into the Fatal Shooting and president obama vowing to seek justice for an american brutally beheaded by isis terrorists as the u. S. Carries a fresh round of air strikes and insurgent targets in iraq and risk sending in more troops. Our guests are standing by with full coverage and we begin with cnn pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. Give us the latest. Brianna, a fresh round of u. S. Airstrikes against isis positions in iraq. The state department asking for 300 more military troops on the ground in baghd
Lets begin with National Correspondent jason carrol in ferguson, missouri, of course. Jason, lets get the very latest from jason. Reporter the new Security Camera video released by the Ferguson Police department shows a confrontation with a store clerk inside a Convenience Store at 11 52 00 a. M. Last saturday. According to police, Michael Brown was inside the Convenience Store with his friend Dorian Johnson, committing a socaused strong armed robbery. Police say brown aggressively pulls the clerk in close 0 to him and immediately pushes him back into a display rack. Police said he stole a box of 49 cigars. There were norp weapons used. But Ferguson Police chief Thomas Jackson said the robbery was not related to the shooting incident that killed Michael Brown. This robbery does not relate to the initial contact between the officer and Michael Brown. Police say they released the video of the Convenience Store robbery today because the press asked for it. Earlier, chief jackson described
Ferguson and former fbi profiler Clint Van Zandt to help us sort out this video. The report lays outer furst really detailed timeline of these events. What did we learn . What we learned is that there have been an earlier call of someone in distress that the officer responded to. And then a dispatch some of strongarmed robbery at a local Convenience Store. And the release still is part of this report that seemed to show someone they purport to be Michael Brown, a large man, in a confrontation with someone who may or may not be a store employee. So we dont have the full context of whats going on. But apparently, Michael Brown was trymaine, we are looking at the video right now. Its lacking in detail. Its choppy, but we have that video right now. It apipears to confirm exactly what you just described. Thats a critical point. As part of the release you have four images that dont tell but a slice of the story. I spoke with the witness attorney. The witness within feet of Michael Brown when
News special forces on the ground in iraq. Scouting options for a massive rescue mission on the ground. This is the tiers time american troops have been on the mountain where thousands of people from the religious Minority Group the yazidi are surrounded by isis. American forces struck isis targets again on the ground in iraq today. Ill get straight to our jim sciutto with the breaking news. What exactly are these special forces doing . Reporter well, this is a team of about a dozen, just over a dozen special forces. Thats the normal size of a team they operate in. And theyre there to assess the terrain, the size of the crowd, the need, but more importantly, more broadly, the feasibility of an air or a ground evacuation of some ten to 20,000 people to get them off that mountain and to safety. These are not combat troops, but they are troops in danger. Thats why those people are on the top of the mountain seeking shelter, seeking safety from isis fighters and this is something that when