a & m uni after vowing to s the the university president has now abruptly resig james ammons resignation came on the same day the parents of an apparent hazing victim sued the school. robert champion died after being beaten by fellow band members. his parents say the university simply did not do enough to stop that hazing. also from florida, an explosive story inh a was tasered by officers afte kin tasered by officers afte you were curious about he tory look at this, happened near orlando. the suspect and his friend, two was recording this incident, they are african-american. the officers, white. the man accused of improperly crossing the street, he refused to produce an id which is illegal. their confrontation escalated until the cops tasered the man, not once, not twice. but three times. give me your i.d. it s not a lawful command. put your hand behind your back. quit walking away! [ screaming ] now, after he was cuffed the police found a gun on the suspect. but he had a
and new documents in the case of the man charged with killing trayvon martin. could shed some light on whether or not race played a role. want to get right to it. u.s. military judge held a hearing at ft. hood, texas, today a few weeks before the court-martial begins for major nadal hassan. hassan, he is the army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage in back in 2009. he is accused of killing 13 people, all but one of them fellow soldiers. he also wounded 29 others. now attorneys today discussed the makeup of his military jury which has not yet been convened. hassan s murder trial is set to begin august 20th. florida a&m university now looking for a new president. the school s board of directors going to hold a meeting today on rather monday. president james eamons announced his resignation yesterday. he stepped down more than seven months after a student was beaten to death. robert champion. he was a drum major. he died during an apparent hazing incident on a bus
i am going to eliminate every non-essential program i can find, that includes obama care, and i will work to reform and save romney is getting hammered in the wake of that by the naacp. jim acosta is live in houston this morning. good morning. how did it go? well, soledad, whenever you get booed for 15 seconds it is not exactly going well. the romney campaign did send out some of their folk who is do outreach for the campaign with the african-american community to talk to reporters. i was there. they said that they were pleased overall with what he got in terms of applause. he did sort of get a standing ovation at the end of the speech. about half the crowd stood up and plauded. it wasn t all boos for the former governor. soledad, what is sort of interesting is what romney has said after that speech. he went to a fundraiser in montana last night and basically said that he was okay with the reaction that he got. he said in an interview right after the speech on another
speaking out for the first time since the indictments were unsealed on monday, charging five people in the shootout that resulted in the death of agent terry. the shootout, which happened in december of 2010. now, two guns were found at the scene of terry s murder. guns that months earlier, the u.s. government allegedly knew and allowed to be bought by known criminals. four of the five men charged in agent terry s murder are still at large, presumably in mexico. we have pictures of three of them. federal authorities are offering up to $1 million for information leading up to their arrest. brian terry s mother and cousin joining us exclusively in just a moment. but first, keeping them honest. there s question about why the justice department waited eight months to go public with the charges. i applaud what they re doing, but i condemn the timing. it s very clear the timing has everything to do with the house of representatives holding eric holder in contempt. congressman i
zz h zoraida sambolin has the day off. that is awesome. it s caught on camera. i m ashleigh banfield. it s nice to have you with us every morning. it s 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. let s get started with this. go vote for someone else. how about that for a campaign pitch. fighting words for mitt romney after a pretty rough reception at the naacp convention. it was a tough sell to begin with though anyway. governor romney s really trying to convince african-americans that they d be better served with him in the white house than with president obama. president obama has about 95ish percent support among african-americans. he misstepped when he referred to the president s health carrey forms as obama care. i m going to eliminate every non-essential expensive program i can find, that includes obama care, and i m going to work to reform and save yeah, those are the sound of boos. you might say ouch or maybe not. romney is getting beat up by naacp. listen to the president o