Protesters are not destructive or violent. But a little more than an hour ago despite that relative peace police fired tear gas where ali was reporting in minneapolis, an action he said was unprovoked by protesters. Nobody was doing anything. They opened fire, theyre aiming their fire now, theyre working towards us. Get back, get back, youre hit, hes hit. Step back. Watch it, guys. We got gas here. All right, back up, back up, back up. Theyre now moving toward us. Theyre now moving toward us. Yeah, theyre shooting, guys. Put your helmets on. Miguel, stay with me. We got gas. Highly dramatic situation as you can see and tensions have flared in other cities from pennsylvania and pittsburgh and columbia and freeways were blocked, windows shattered and authorities deployed tear gas and even rubber bullets. Nine states, georgia, kentucky, wisconsin, colorado, ohio, utah, washington, texas and tennessee are all joining minnesota in calling their National Guard forces to respond to those prot
well. and then officer called on scene to actually have the student removed from that location. the student refused and the officer acted that you see on the videos. the department of justice opened a civil rights investigation into the incident. spring valley high school is cooperating with that investigation and the school district also released this statement saying in part, quote, students safety is and always will be the district s priority. the district will not tolerate any actions that jeopardize the safety of students. hillary clinton tweeted this, there is no excuse for violence inside our school. the schools should be safe places. joining me now from columbia, south carolina, the city s mayor, steve benjamin and then mark plaxton and a former nypd officer. good to have you with me. mr. mayor, again, we re having technical difficulties with the truck and got you on the phone
been issues with the record, there s been accolades for fields. mark i he was given a culture of excellence. he worked at an elementary school in 2014. as a resource officer for them. but, mark, when we hear that the sheriff s office talked about what led up to this incident, we don t know exactly what happened. only what we see in this snapshot of the video. but based on what you have seen sure. what is your opinion? did he go over the line? yes, sir. all right. i think quite clearly that the mayor s comments were really on point and what we did see is what occurred. we can t ignore the videotape which is very definitive and clear about what exactly occurred. and the level of force used by this particular deputy. i mean, these things are obviously before our faces and we can t just in the interest of quote/unquote, the interest of justice, ignore them or act as if they didn t occur and not on videotape. what occurred there quite