momentum, they involve physics and leverage designed not to hurt the suspect or the officer. in this case, they he didn t do anything but put his hand around his throat and swing around his neck until he fell to the ground and held on until the man died. this is absolutely a chokehold. the world has seen it as a chokehold and yet again yet again, we have a situation where a police department is trying to tell the black community and america something that is just not accurate. and we have to admit, to most people that see that video, they do see a chokehold and there are questions about whether they think it is fair or not. and harry, i spoke to a pathologist who said he should have been indicted because when he looked at the autopsy, there was significant pressure applied to the neck and he saw that in the autopsy and whatever you want to call it, that is what a chokehold does and that is a chokehold and he should have been indicted. that isn t a chokehold. that was a takedown
pollock, louisiana, april 5th, 2006. a convicted murderer escapes from a federal penitentiary, and a massive manhunt is on to capture him. the fugitive, richard lee mcnair, is a dangerous criminal, a highly intelligent martial arts expert who s escaped from two other prisons in the past before being recaptured. this time, he hides in a mail truck. he s the first prisoner to escape from a federal maximum security facility in nearly 15 years. hours after mcnair s discovered missing, an officer with the ball police department sees a man running on the railroad tracks and gets out to question him. what it is, we ve got an escapee. oh. where from? a prison. is it the man he s looking for? when i crossed the tracks down there, i saw you running. and i said, well, how lucky can i be? nope, nope, nope, nope.
jury could begin deliberating as soon as today in the so-called still et murder trial in texas. she s accused of killing her boyfriend by attacking him with her stiletto high heeled shoes. her lawyers claim it was self defense and yesterday they had a demonstration with a stiletto. using a martial arts expert to show how the couple may have fought that night. prosecutors counter that the victim was 59 years old, not in the best of health to try to disprove this assertion it was self defense. let s bring in lis wiehl back with us and doug burns. so hopefully we have more video of this. the stiletto tussle. jenna: with the local martial arts expert playing the part of one of the two there. you can see him grabbing the shoe and how she would hit. they re saying self defense. how effective is that? not very effective, really. there s great drama in the courtroom to bring this in and people like to watch the drama and a couple of jurors were
the trial, why he pulled that trigger. matt gutman, pretoria, south africa. closing arguments are likely today in the murder trial of anna trujillo, accused of repeatedly stabbing her boyfriend to death with a five-inch stiletto. her attorneys used a martial arts expert to show how they believe she was attacked and how she had to defend herself at the night of the killing. legal experts say the case boils down to that self-defense argument. that s what this case is about. was she abused? and did she try to defend herself within the bounds of the law? was it overkill on her part? today texas prosecutors are expected to call three rebuttal witnesses to counter the defense s martial arts expert before closing arguments begin. the assault case against singer chris brown is going forward. d.c. judge refused to dismiss the case. brown and his bodyguard are charged with punching a man outside a washington hotel last october. at the time, brown was on probation in california for an
standing up and looking at it. the judge will definitely tell the jurors that is not certainly the lawyers will, prosecutors will, that s not evidence. that s not what happened that night, certainly not the two players. you can t look at it as evidence. you can use it as argument but not evidence. jenna: effective or not? it s like when you use anything like a chart, you know, the judge says, look. that s not evidence. it s a summary. i m not a big fan of demonstrations. i was upset in the trayvon martin case. they were shaking the dummy and it wasn t what happened necessarily. the point, as lis said, we don t know that s what happened. the prosecutor saying this is martial arts expert, not these two. night but we do know that someone died and we do know it s punctured 25 times in the head with a stiletto heel. jenna: forensic pathologist did