Satisfaction and anger. Adam torres turned himself into authorities last night and he remains here in the Fairfax County jail. The family members saying it shouldnt have take then long. The chief prosecutor is expressing regret. We spoke today with john geers father who said, its ridiculous that it took this long to get to this point. They indicted him on seconddegree murder charges. This happened in a standoff with police at geers springfield town hill. Torres was not named for 17 months following the shooter and the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney said the county attorney and the police chief rosslere withheld information from the case moving forward. They have heard from friends and family to determine adam torres should be tried for the murder. Another stand more release that justice is being served. That the system does work. It has to move forecaster. I feel badly for the family. Torres torres will have his First Court Appearance tomorrow. We reached out to the tern but we d
The gun found in the vehicle. Reporter and other robbery the previous month had crash into a police cruiser. We do not know whether it was deliberate or accidental and two other officers fired shots. Reporter this after devon robbed a cvs store and was like. He was also carrying and airsoft gun. Bill patman tells me they should have been prevented. So you do not say is that plastic . You respond. Reporter he issued a bill to ban the gun after the death of 12yearold tamir rice who was carrying a bb gun at the time. The bill has been stuck in committee since march 2015. Is up for a final push before on until they do something. Reporter megan hickey, news 5. We wondered how many states banned airsoft guns. According to the airsoft magazine, 12 states as well as washington dc have some form of restriction on airsoft guns and many on the age of ownership. They say they look like real ones. Federal law requires airsoft guns have orange tips, or be transparent. We are keeping a close eye on d
Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough than
It was activism in doing something, rather than just complaining about things. Did that Conspiracy Theory about eisenhower gain traction . Prof. Mulloy not really. Disavow thelater thing that it was a liberals, other republicans, conservatives, and the media jumped upon. You cant be serious about this, right . You are really claiming that eisenhower is a communist agent . It was the thing that discredited than the most while they were trying to gain traction. Did their efforts have any influence politically . Prof. Mulloy sure. Is in recentiety times forgotten, but they were a significant part of the 1960s political landscape. They generated questions in the house, questions in the senate, president ial statements. Say they played a much more significant role in the development of conservatism during the period then they usually get credit for. The tendency is to dismiss them as a lunatic fringe, but it helped them up bridge 1950s that of the to 1970s and 1980s. They trained to a gener
And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough thank you, dr. Coles. Thank you all for being here and for inviting me. So extend the last speaker eloquent comment about the end of the war being a time of beginainty, id like to with that. That