Im fredericka whitfield. The u. S. Is standing by its decision to order a Hostage Rescue Mission in yemen. Even though it ended with the deaths of american photojournalist luke somers and pierre korkie, south after can teacher. They were killed by their al qaeda captors as navy seals closed in on the militants compound. It was the United States third attempted rescue mission in recent months, and today during a visit to Afghanistan Defense secretary chuck hagel was asked by a reporter if the pentagon needs to take a sharder look at how it conducts these raids in light of the outcome. Heres what he said. Theres an immense amount of focus and time and review that goes into each of these operations, so i dont think its its a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect . Yes. Is there risk . Yes. But we start with the fact that we have an american thats being held hostage and that americans life is in danger. Th
North korea. Is kim jonguns regime taking revenge online . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news. President obama discussing the ferguson fallout right now over at the white house. Hes meeting today with officials and activists among a wave of new protests across the country. At least 60 separate walkouts today protesting the grand jury decision not to charge the Police Officer who shot and killed Michael Brown. Officer Darren Wilson has now resigned from the Ferguson Police department. Were covering all angles of the story this hour with our correspondents, our guests across the nation, including the lawyer for Michael Browns family, Benjamin Crump. Hes standing by live. But we begin in ferguson right now. Cnns George Howell is there for us. George, whats the latest on these walkouts . Reporter we know that protesters here in ferguson called for a day of walkouts and around the country, we have seen that play out. Here in ferguson, the city its
District attorney and the judges because a judge threw my case out and i have to wait for doj to give me an answer on if theyll take my case. Reporter if you had the commissioner or mayor in front of you and you could ask for one specific change, what would it be . We have to have police accountable. We have to stop telling the parents that its a tragedy. Its not a tragedy that this is happening all over. Every week you turn the tv on, its going on. Retraining these officers is not going to do anything. Body camera, we have everything on video from start to finish and we still cant get an indictment. They could turn them off and on. Who is going to extract these videos . Is it going to be an independent person or the public ageolice a. Reporter i hear other people who say there are valuable, necessary good men and women who protect us. There are good men and women. I cant say all police are bad. That would be impossible. You have some good police. When you have police that are around a
That i that browns stepfather will not be charged with inciting riots. The New York Times did record it. Youve seen the video. Michael browns mother had just broken down learning the officer who shot and killed her son would not be indicted. Her husband since may then embraced her. He has since released a statement. I want to read the entire thing for you. He said something came over me as i watched and listened to my wife, the mother of Michael Brown, jr. , reangt to the gut wrenching news that the cop who killed her son wouldnt be charged with a crime. He goes on. My emotions got the best of me. This is my family. I was so angry and full of raw emotions as so many others were and i screamed out words i shouldnt have screamed in the heat of the moment. It was wrong and i humbly apologize to all of those who read my pain and anger as a true desire for what i want for our community. But to place blame solely on me for the conditions of our community and country after the grand jury deci
Burn this [ bleep ] down let me stress, there are no charges against him at this point in time. But let me bring in hln host and former prosecutor nancy grace. Nancy grace with your legal hat on, can you please, maam, just explain to me that the Legal Definition of inciting a riot and how one would prove it . I absolutely can. And i would like to point out that in all of my years as a lawyer, my whole career devoted to the prosecution of crime, i have never once prosecuted inciting a riot. Number one, its a misdemeanor, which is 12 months or less behind bars. Number two, you want to tell me that a jury would actually allow somebody to burn the American Flag and stomp on it and get away with that, but this guy who says burn this bitch down is going to go to jail . Yeah. Okay, i dont think so. But lets look at the statute. The statute for inciting a riot in that jurisdiction is when six or more people gather together and they reach an agreement, which is a legal term, and that while stil