Words with the driver and pulled out his metro handgun and said, im the police. You dont want this. Eric, the victim had to stare facefirst at smiths semiautomatic pistol. The 40yearold said he was afraid for his life but managed to copy down smiths license plate number. Montgomery county officers quickly caught up with the offduty cop fleeing in his ford mustang. They determined that smith was a 15year veteran of the Metro Transit Police department and today he pleaded guilty to seconddegree assault and misconduct in office. He also had to resign from the department plus give up his taxpayer funded pension which would have provided him with thousands of dollars of retirement benefits. He pulls up on the side and he has his pistol pointed. He goes, what now . Im the i said, you better be jesus christ if you are pointing a gun at me. He said, what . Im the [bleep] police. With what is going on today you are a white officer pointing a gun at a black guy in his car for no reason. Kevin a
Globe causing safety concerns to talk about tonight. We are talking about pokemon go. The newest fear is distracted driving. This is after Baltimore Police released a body camera footage from monday night here showing a drive slamming into an empty police cruiser. No one was hurt but the driver immediately admitted he was playing the game at the time. Now at 5 00, ryan hughes found that is one of many prompting a push for safety now. Ryan she has been playing pokemon for as long as she remembered. Im a giant fan. That is all i can say. Ryan she cant even describe why except it basically brings all the pokemon that life. Like a dream come true for me. Ryan ever since pokemon go hit the market like many kids, she has been glued to her cell phone. So imagine 12 nonstop hours. Pokethon. That is the Government Center in Fairfax County. We thought it was a great opportunity to have an event, partner with the police, share safety tips. Ryan kids are led on poke walks and they are learning how
Youre headed outside, notice the temperatures much milder, lower 80s across the area now. Much milder than recent days, and thats good news because were going to enjoy this day. Were going to look back saturday and sunday and think, oh, it was so nice on wednesday. Its all changing. The changes comes from the amount of moist sandure heat in the area. At the moment, the true measure of moisture, pretty sweet. 50s and 60s around the middle of july, we dont see that often. But all those values are going to rise the next couple of days. A great day at the pool. Temperatures, 83 to 88. Sunshine, beautiful weather, but everybody is talking about the storms. Theyre all gone. Well have sunshine today, but we had dozens and dozens of storm reports last night. Coming up in a few minutes, some of the pictures and video. Ill give you one report, and thats from the white house. Last night, trees down. It happened just about 11 00, several trees down near the ellipse, and thunderstorm and wind damag
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All options to get the safety and the reliability back where it should be. Coming up at 5 00, what riders think about this being a possibility. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Jonathan you can understand folks jitters especially after shutting the lines down for a full day. What do you think metro should do to make repairs to the system . There are clearly still work that needs to be done. Join the conversation. We have it going on, on our facebook page. Michelle the elevator at the Washington Monument is back up and running. You will recall it malfunctioned yesterday afternoon leaving 19 people stranded halfway up the 555foot monument. They had to walk down a few hundred steps. But everyone was just fine. They just got extra cardio. The National Park service says it is still working to figure out why the elevator stopped working. We will take you inside the monument today at 6 00. Jonathan a man out riding his bike on a popular bike path in alexandria was j him. Police say