Wayne, the Contra Costa County District Attorneys Office has filed felony assault charges. Against fired Richmond Police officer eric smith junior. The das office says the former officer has been charged with assault with a Deadly Weapon causing Great Bodily Injury for striking a suspect dozens of times with a taser. Richmond police held a News Conference about the incident earlier today and showed video of what happened. We warn you, the video is graphic found fours dan kerman has the story. He was in the Early Morning hours of april 9th when Richmond Police officer eric smith junior. Confronted a drunk driving suspect. But Richmond Police say his actions violated the departments Excessive Force policy. My goal today is to be transparent about what happened so that we can begin the process of rebuilding community trust. Richmond police chief piece of french played Surveillance Video and officer bodycam video of the incident during a News Conference wednesday the video shows the office
What a big deal it is. Reddit doesnt seem much like first glance. If anything the website is like the oldtime Bulletin Boards you see in the days of compuserve or usenet. But in fact, reddit is so big, president obama is a reddit user. The site, part of the conde naft publishing empire. One posting a down on his luck musician, holding an appeal for help inspired reddit users to take action. Theyre raising funds to help blues man Lester Chambers who said he was cheated by the Record Companies go back into the studio to record a new album. The driving force behind that effort is reddit cofounder alexis ohanian. An outspoken critic. Business insider called him one of the superheroes of the internet. All of a sudden, i see reddit everywhere. The growth kev must be tremendous four. It has been pretty significant. But it hasnt been that sort of hockey stick growth. Its been really steady. It grows every week. Its not brandnew. A lot of people think it is. That was a big day for us. You notic
Im jim sciutto in for jake tapper. We begin with the president s golf weekend outside new york laying the groundwork for a very important week ahead, including his first facetoface meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. Today he was working the phones, talking with World Leaders from italy, france and germany while also taking the time to keep up attacks on the media. Maki making backlash over a particular tweet where he slams the media in a professional wrestling match. Ryan, white house officials backing off from defending the president s social media rant . No, theyre not, jim. In fact, theyre arguing its the media focusing on the wrong things, and despite the president s controversial tweets, hes still getting the job done. President trump tonight is dialing up his no holds barred attacks on the media. Punctuated with a video showing the president attacking a person whose face shows the local media. They tried to stop us from going to the white house. But im president and t
Is a clear and sharp military escalation. The north korean regime openly states that its missiles are intended to deliver Nuclear Weapons to strike cities in the United States, south korea, and japan. Now, he has greater capacity to do so. In truth, it is not only the United States and our allies that are threatened. The United States is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies. One of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces. We will use them if we must, but we prefer not to have to go in that direction. Jeanine joining us with h the reaction is Deputy Assistant to the president , dr. Sebastian gorka. Doctor, thank you for being with us. You just heard nikki haley, military action, we will use it if we must. What is the Administration Plan to do . The administration will use whatever tools and instruments the president deems necessary based on the advice of his principles and general mcmaster, because the ambassador is ab
Make no mistake. North koreas launch of an icbm is a clear and sharp military escalation. The north korean regime openly states that its missiles are intended to deliver Nuclear Weapons to strike cities in the United States, south korea, and japan. Now, he has greater capacity to do so. In truth, it is not only the United States and our allies that are threatened. The United States is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies. One of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces. We will use them if we must, but we prefer not to have to go in that direction. Jeanine joining us with the reaction is Deputy Assistant to the president , dr. Sebastian gorka. Doctor, thank you for being with us. You just heard nikki haley, military action, we will use it if we must. What is the Administration Plan to do . The administration will use whatever tools and instruments the president deems necessary based on the advice of his principles and