investigators say the officer fired after the teen tried to attack him. now police have not released his name but according to our affiliate wkow he s been identified as tony robinson. and that identity came from a woman who says she s his mother. she told wkow her son was fearful of this happening. listen. the things that are happening all over the united states, another black kid shot by the police for no reason this has got to stop. police say the officer was responding to calls that a man was jumping in and out of traffic and that s when this incident began. listen here. once inside the home the subject involved in this incident the same one that had been allegedly out in traffic and had battered someone, this same subject then assaulted my officer and in the context of
by the physical evidence. that s abc s senior legal analyst dan abrams. nobody wins in this. nobody. parents whose son died will never return and a white police officer who shot a black unarmed man who will live for the rest of the fact that he shot and killed someone. as we continue to show you live pictures we get of what s happening, yes, cars on fire, buildings on fire at this hour and to your point, reena, i was watching coverage closely and seems like for the past several hours what we have heard on television is mike brown and mike brown still an 18-year-old kid shot and killed in the streets in his hometown and his parents said this is not the way to honor him by doing some of what you re seeing on television now. this shouldn t be the legacy of mike brown. more should come out of it. well, coming up more coverage from the ferguson decision later in this half hour. the president s plea for calm and look for more live reports in our next half hour. our other major story
nobody wins in this. nobody. parents whose son died will never return and a white police officer who shot a black unarmed man who will live for the rest of the fact that he shot and killed someone. as we continue to show you live pictures we get of what s happening, yes, cars on fire, buildings on fire at this hour and to your point, reena, i was watching coverage closely and seems like for the past several hours what we have heard on television is mike brown and mike brown still an 18-year-old kid shot and killed in the streets in his hometown and his parents said this is not the way to honor him by doing some of what you re seeing on television now. this shouldn t be the legacy of mike brown. more should come out of it. well, coming up more coverage from the ferguson decision later in this half hour. the president s plea for calm and look for more live reports in our next half hour. our other major story this morning, the holiday snowstorm
they don t have the goods, they don t have enough evidence to launch some sort of criminal investigation under the civil rights laws against george zimmerman, how disappointed will you be? well, in some manners i will be, but this is not trayvon is a symbol of a deeper malady. it s trayvon in sanford, it s oscar brent in oakland, it s ste stephon, a kid shot in chicago. do you realize that there are more than a million black men in jail, the most of any place in the world, that private equity firms that make $1.5 billion a year off of prison telephone calls plus prison labor? there s some kids that have been in chicago jail for ten years waiting in pretrial detention. we have this jail safety net and that s why president obama is suggesting we invest in it, not just talk about it. how disappointed would you be, marc morial, if the justice department says there s not going to be any criminal charges filed against george zimmerman under the civil rights laws?
what are running inside for? wait right here, wait right here. you ain t got nothing on you? you re smoking weed right here and then you re going to run? as soon as you see us? what s your name? why are you putting yourself in this predicament to get arrested. smoking marijuana may not be a violent crime, but they re on n.o.b. turf, so they may know something about the murder. last night they had a kid shot in the head, boom. i didn t even know about it until this morning. do you want to be one of them? no. it s real. no coming back.