Police. His brothers named malik and elijah took videotape of the incident. We the show you still frames of the video of michael ford in the middle of the street. His gun raised. Pointing at the Police Officers and firing. Another image shows according to police a brother giving a thumbs up as his brother stands in the street the saddest thing today, officer colson was a victim of friendly fire. In the middle of the shootout, he was hit by one of his fellow officers. You could see the grief and hear it in the words of the police Union Situation he didnt ask for and he reacted. Reacted to protect the fellow prefers and the community. We have individuals videotaping it as if it is a game and something well put on youtube to glorify. Brad tremendous disgust on the police. People over and over saying they stood by as the human beings were shot at by their brother. They stood by as they thought their brother was about to be killed. The police revealing they actually recorded a last will and
Problem of its own. If it allows it to fall down. And if we allow this application period to go by because two jurisdictions couldnt figure it out, shame on us. The park service says if repairs dont begin by 2019 it will need to close the entire bridge by 2021. Rerouting 68,000 vehicles each day on to other area bridges. There is no doubt a number of congressional staffers and the National Park Service Employees will be having an allnighter to get the application in order. Even so, critics say the park service dug itself too deep of a hole to now dig out of. Live in arlington, im kevin lewis. Abc7 news. Leon thanks, kevin. Covering metro tonight, g. M. Paul wiedefeld and chairman jack evans faced hours of tough questioning on capitol hill. The pair met with senators from virginia and m overnight hearing. The Lawmakers Said while much more needs to be done, metro is slowly making progress improving safety. They praise the hiring of the new york veteran Patrick Lavin as the chief safety
It will be busy. If you can get on the road earlier to get to your destination, we suggest you do. Lets talk about the issues right now. We have Road Construction going on on the outer loop of the beltway between richie marb on rof road. Because of the metro being shut down today, hov restrictions along i270 are being waived today which means commuters travelling southbound will be able to hop on hov to work your way into town. That is going to be for the morning as well as for the afternoon rush. A lot going on on marcus lyle where theyll add additional train cars to deal with all of this increased volume theyll see on the trains this morning. Theyll be operating extra trains on train l 870 and 977 for the brunswick line. Brunswick line train will see additional train cars as well. Note, that will help friends from prince county working their way into the station. Bre is running on schedule and we will check in with them to see if they have any additional train cars as well. Lets chec
Headquarters yesterday intent on committing a socalled suicide by police. He brought his two brothers with him. Their job apparently to videotape the whole encounter. So as ford opens fire on the hattrick iii Police Station the brother district iii Police Station his brothers are taking video of the shootout on their cell phones. Mr. Ford was shots by police. He dropped. That is recorded on video. But just at the wrong moment officer colson offduty was arriving at district iii to bring a meal to his girlfriend. He sees a shootout underway. He gets out of his car and draws his weapon. And he is then shot. Sadly what we learned is the Police Believe it was a case of friendly fire. That another Police Officer saw him, perceived a threat an police will come hewitter. We expect to hear from police chief Hank Stawinski to confirm the terrible detail. Three under arrest. Michael ford hospitalized from the gunshot wound. He is expected to survive. All three of the suspects were told by sources
And those, too, the ones that have been replaced, he said they will also be looked at. And this will certainly be a major inconvenience. As you guys talked about. You have to think about the folks going to work, folks going to schools. Really throughout the metro politan area. Wedefeld stressed this is not something that could have waited until the weekend when demand began to dip. It was something that had to be looked at tonight. They did mention that this is unprecedented. Nothing like this, aside from shutting down for weather. Nothing like this in terms of shutting down the entire metro system has ever been done. Guys . Moa, just to be honest, i was only listening to half of the press conference. Because i was listening to tweets on the air. But some said, hey, youre going to shut down metro because they think its not safe. What am i to think if im riding it tonight . Was that addressed . It was a question that was brought up. D the most rational decision he could make was to at l