authorities are only saying officer deen initiated the traffic stop called for back-up and officer tate responded to the call. deen was a seasoned officer who won officer of the year in 2012 for his department. the other, a rookie who joined the force in june of last year. this is my baby. this is my baby. and that s all i see is my baby. reporter: in an emotional interview with cnn,tate s father ronled says his son loved everyone and had a passion for policing. he was a guy that was willing to put his life on that risk. he really knew the risk. but he thought i think my son thought, you know people are generally good and that s just the way he was. he thought people are generally good people. so let s treat them all with dignitary.
the crowd. he talked to the young people a coupleday times, saying it is up to you the young people to fix it this time chris. sarah, thank you very much. we want to bring in d.c. chief kathy lanier. it s good to have you with us. when we think of police and violence often what grabs the headlines is when officers take somebody else life. we have been hearing more and more about officers being taken down in the line of duty. obviously, we are dealing with what happened in mississippi. they say since 30 years since an officer has been killed in hattiesburg. do you believe that officers are being targeted more or are we paying more attention to what is the reality? well i think the reality is that everything is getting much more attention now t. numbers don t suggest right now there is an increase. we are right now so far this year right around the same number of officers killed in the line of duty last year. so i don t think that there is anything to suggest there is an
helping them afterwards. one victim officer benjamin deen 34 years old and the father of two children. he was a decorated veteran of the police department. the other slain officer had less than a year on the job. liquori tate was living his lifelong dream, though. last june he wrote on facebook quote, i graduated the police academy today. i am now a police officer. i would like to thank god, the police academy, the police department my family friends and loved ones. just last hour we heard from tate s mother on cnn s new day. he always wanted to be a police officer since he was young. playing with police cars and having xbox games, and just having a protective spirit. that has always been one of his dreams. let s go to hattiesburg now and cnn s alana machado. good morning. good morning, carol. you know heartbreak is a good
weekend. two people were killed after storms there. in iowa it ripped the roof off a school. 34-year-old benjamin deen and 25-year-oldly liquori tate were sought during a traffic stop saturday night. four suspects are in custody. two facing capital murder charges a. third is charged with accessory, a fourth with obstruction of justice all due in court today. seymour hirsch accusing the obama relationship about high level lying. he says the else is that pakistan was holding bin ladin prisoner. the u.s. was tipped off by a former pakistani intelligence officer on his whereabouts in exchange for $25 million. hirsch says his source is an unnamed, retired, senior u.s. intelligence official. we will have hirsch on the show to talk about his claims coming up in a little bit.
pittsburgh experienced a police officer being killed in the line of duty. that city instead will be holding a vigil for two, officer benjamin dean named officer of the year in 2012, officer liquori tate, a rookie on the force for less than a year. i want to bring in my cnn colleague alina machado. loretta lynch, head of the d.o.j. weighing in and before we get to what she had to say, i m still waiting on details of what happened in this calamity where two officers are dead, four in custody, a police cruiser stolen, what transpired at the actual scene? ashleigh, the short answer is we don t know because authorities have not released those kinds of details just yet. i mean, there s nothing routine if you talk to a police officer about a traffic stop, right. they always say, we always have to be careful because these kinds of things could quickly happen and escalate. what we know is that one of the officers initiated the stop. he called for backup and that s