of that was hearing from the police chief saying, he was planning today to fire this police officer, had the officer not tendered his own recognition, and he would be facing criminal charges. and civil rights violations as well. what do you want to say about this? what we heard from the police department is a different tool than we re used toe hearing the police appear to be aggressive in terms of how they re dealing with this, i want to make something clear. one of the reasons they re being so aggressive, the conduct in this case, was extremely egregious, in terms of being out of line with respect to what you do in that situation as an officer. looking at this case as a prosecutor, and comparing it to a similar circumstance we just had with respect to a.m. better geiger. another person shot in their home, minding their business, doing nothing wrong. who, by the way, amber guyger is now going away for murder for ten years. right. this situation is extremely
investigation by an outside agency. you ve been trained. you know better. this man murdered someone. she should be here right now. let s go to casey stegall who is reporting live from fort worth. what do we know about the police officer who resigned? he has now been identified, his name is aaron dean hired by the department according to police chief in august of 2017 and then graduated and became an officer in april of the following year. this is him pictured on the right has graduation. today, fort worth s police chief saying, and i m quoting, this will not be an opportunity to make excuses. he went on promising a full and transparent investigation both internally, even though he is no longer a city employee and externally the city s mayor
investigators say that killer was wearing a mask and body armor when he opened fire with a modified rifle. one capable of holding magazines with hundreds of rounds. the police chief saying, if officers hadn t taken out the shooter before he got to that bar, the bar to which those crowds were running, the chief says it would have been catastrophic. hundreds of people in there. little comfort perhaps to those that today woke up without their loved ones. the latest victims of a mass murder in america. mike tobin reporting live. mike? shepard, this is where it all went down. it was just after 1:00 on a warm summer night. people were floating back and forth between the night spots here. with the video, some of it has sound. others you see people freeze for a second. wonder if it s real and then they panic and run. the gunman appears in his body armor carrying 250 rounds
both apologized for this. they were disturbed by the language used and the actions. the police chief saying, this is not the way our officers are supposed to act in a case like this. i want to bring something else up, don. we have gotten in surveillance video that was released by the police of inside of the store and what it seems to show, you see the lady there with the black dress on holding that cute toddler, you see her daughter up next to her and kind of walking behind her. there is a woman standing there holding what appears to be tinfoil or aluminum foil and as you watch this video, this is inside of the family dollar store, according to the police, when this incident happened may 27th. you see there the child holding that doll, because they did accuse the family of stealing a doll. the mother said she didn t realize that the child had the doll and so what it looks like there, she s speaking to the woman who is holding the tinfoil
across social media, but it s been condemned by both the police chief in phoenix there and the mayor. both apologized for this. they were disturbed by the language used and the actions. the police chief saying, this is not the way our officers are supposed to act in a case like this. i want to bring something else up, don. we have gotten in surveillance video that was released by the police of inside of the store and what it seems to show, you see the lady there with the black dress on holding that cute toddler, you see her daughter up next to her and kind of walking behind her. there is a woman standing there holding what appears to be tinfoil or aluminum foil and as you watch this video, this is inside of the family dollar store, according to the police, when this incident happened may 27th. you see there the child holding that doll, because they did