Shannon residents marching through the streets demanding Police Reform and gathering outside the local precinct. Violence erupting throughout the night as protesters looting, throwing bricks and rocks at officers, sitting a cruiser on fire and running a cop over. Reporter hit a car he hit a cop he hit a cop shannon a black pickup truck plowing through an intersection, the injured officer was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition with a broken leg, the driver of that car was reportedly arrested. The unrest starting when Police Responded to a call about a man with a knife. The man later identified as 27yearold Walter Wallace junior reportedly approached two offices with the weapon as they ordered him to drop it. The woman believed to be wallaces mother baking office is not to shoot. Wallace made a second approach, the officers fired several shots. One of the officers drags wallace to the hospital where he later died. Tensions growing. The police chief tried to calm the crowd.
Live in atlanta. The big news, Rafael Warnock declared the winner of his Senate Runoff in the election against Kelly Leffler. Warnock becomes the first africanamerican senator in georgia who will serve in washington. We heard from him a few hours ago and he sounded pretty confident about his chances in this race. Take a listen. We were told we couldnt when this election but tonight we proved that with hope, hard work and the people at our side, anything is possible. We will fight for this president so i am asking for every single georgian, every single american stay in the fight with us. Reporter senator leffler has not officially conceded but with democrats presumably picking up one seat in georgia republicans are Still Holding onto a slight majority with 51 seats but that could all change if john ossoff follows up with the same success as warnock. His race against david purdue remains too close to call. Campaign manager released a statement overnight saying when all the votes are cou
Medical examiner ruling his death a homicide. District attorney now says the officer who fired those fatal shots could face murder charges. Jonathan serrie all over this city as the citys mayor sounds off on the unrest. Jonathan . Good morning to you. The shooting went down in the parking lot of this wendys. Now burned down wendys across the street from where im standing. The medical examiner has indeed ruled this case a homicide. Cause of death was the shooting. The gunshots. Autopsy revealed 27yearold rayshard books had two gunshots to the back organ failure due to gunshot. Brooks grabbed an officers taser and pointed it at the officer during a brief foot chase that ensued and thats when the officer shot him. Officer Garrett Rolfe has been terminated terminated immediately and fellow officer Devin Bronson placed on administrative duty. The district Attorney Says he expects to make a decision midweek on whether to pursue charges against the police. At a recent town hall forum, atlanta
And a very good morning. You are watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. If your select democrat will be briefed that russia placed bounties on american soldiers. This is donald trump double down claims he was never informed of the threat. Russia responds. A lot to unpack. But spokesman is the emily denying the allegation of bounties on american soldiers, a group of democrats aided and demanding more answers, a spokeswoman, Kaylee Mcinerney is blasting the story. Theres no consensus in the Intelligence Community on these allegations and in fact are dissenting opinions from some in the Intelligence Community with regard to the veracity of what is being reported in the veracity of the underlying allegations continue to be evaluated. One of the republicans briefed at the white house representative jim banks accusing the times of malfeasance in the real scandal we will likely never know the truth because the New York Times used unconfirmed sources in a targeted killing of americ
Law and order. [cheering] pete welcome to the sunday he had dills of fox friends. President trump returning to the campaign trail rallying thousands of supporters in tulsa, oklahoma. Griff he is out to stop the partys radical left. Jedediah the president incident john there he slammed destruction of Historical Monuments across the u. S. And denounced socalled anarchists causing unrest in seattle. Welcome, everyone, fox friends. Want to wish everyone a happys fathers day to you both, griff and pete and to my husband and my dad. Well do some fathers day stuff today. Well talk about the rally last night. I actually had a little buddy watching that with me. Do we have a photo of my little buddy we can pull up and show everyone . I have a partner in crime. We dont have it yet . Yes. Hartley has serious commentary to provide. In the future he has some thoughts. Griff wonder if hartley felt the way i did, it is my time to go to bed. He spoke for two hours last night. Pete had my kids with me