motion events that led to ms. taylor s death when other lmpd officers executed had edd had w. reporter: and her boyfriend fired one shot towards them believing that the officers were intruders. police then opened fire, one officer has been charged by federal prosecutors with using excessive force after allegedly shooting ten times into the residence through a window and glass door, both covered by blinds and curtains. cnn has reached out to the attorneys for all four of the officers for comment, two were previously fired by the police department, the agency said thursday that it had started termination proceedings for the other two officers still on the force. josh campbell, cnn. jurorses in the sentencing phase of the trial against the parkland school shooter are deciding whether he should be put to death. nichkolas cruz has already plead guilty to the massacre in florida. on wednesday jurors were given the opportunity to visit the scene of the massacre as leyla
that. that was an outrage. when i was the head prosecutor, he would be going downstairs to my office with i m the i boxes to pack his office because he would be gone. that was completely inappropriate and jeopardized the trial of the families of the love ones that were killed, rittenhouse, the judge, the jurorses and the whole system. and there s certain evidence rules. and the video. on and on we can go about this. made me wonder as a former prosecutor, what is this prosecutor doing? do i have confidence in his judgment to properly assess the case? as colleagues now, prosecutors have a lot of discretion whether or not they charge an individual and how extensively they charge an individual from the beginning of a case. for me, the narrative that the defense attorney said and i m sad to say this as a former
0 rittenhouse has to get on with his life the best he can. the attorney said i don t think he will continue to live in this area saying it s too dangerous. he s had 24/7 security since this all happened. john, great to be covering this breaking news with you. i m sandra smith. john: and i m john roberts taking off next week so have a good thanksgiving. the story with martha starts now. martha: thank you very much, john and sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the story, not guilty verdicts for kyle rittenhouse as we look at the live scene outside of the courthouse in kenosha, wisconsin. a place that we have all become much more familiar with over the course of this trial and over the remembrance last summer of the violence that spilled in to the streets and what we saw take place on that august evening in 2020. so we have just heard from his attorney moments ago. we heard some of what his take-away was in terms of this case and as we just watched
doing little skits. and it makes jurors uncomfortable. and if you don t sell it, if it doesn t work, then it falls flat. but it also goes to this point of, like, you can put on this defense without demonizing trayvon martin. exactly. maybe that s maybe if you do put on that defense without demonizing trayvon martin, without blowing him up in this brutal figure that uses the can concrete to bash his head, you have a every time that would come up in the defense, i d get angry. the self-defense defense works at its best the more threatening trayvon martin seemed. we talked about the key 40 seconds. if you re the defense counsel, you need to make it clear to jurorses that zimmerman reasonably needed to do what he did. the best way to do that is really you re exactly right, but the problem with doing that in this case is that it requires to sort of finger the festering sore of racial profiling and racial injustice in this country. so at the end of the day what s
candidate for the republican nomination for the president, has been kind enough to join us in our studios in washington, d.c., and he s joining us live this morning after what was surely a very stressful and busy day yesterday. i do hope you got some sleep, and thank you for being with us. our viewers do thank you, too. thank you, robin, and it was a busy day but i survived. this is why it was a busy day, and we re going to talk about many issues, but let s start with what s at the top of the news. many people are asking, did you say something early yesterday about sexual allegations against you but something completely different hours later? let s watch as things happened yesterday. if the restaurant association did a settlement, i am i wasn t even aware of it and i hope it wasn t for much because nothing happened. so if there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association, so the answer is absolutely not. i am un