Improve what we are doing, this is good. Joining me live from outside the Justice Department is nbc justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, just to be clear, this is separate from the investigation that the doj was already doing into the shooting of Michael Brown itself, correct . Reporter yes. Its completely independent of that. That is a civil rights investigation but its only about that one incident. This is a comprehensive look at the practices of the Ferguson Police Department Going back several years. And what are the potential remedies . This has happened before, obviously. The Justice Department has more than one of these, they have several of these open at the same time. What are we looking at in terms of the procedure and possible outcome of these kinds of probes . Reporter youre right to say they have a lot of these going. There are probably three dozen of them at one stage or another. The Justice Department has brought these since 1994 these kinds of cases when Congress
He drove to work instead leaving the 22monthold in the back seat for seven hours. Authorities say hed been sex dls ting several women the day his son died wanting a, quote, childfree life. Police say hed also researched hot car deaths an the internet along with his wife who hasnt been charged at this point. And investigators looking into the botched execution earlier this year in oklahoma have just released their findings this morning. In april it took Clayton Lockett 43 minutes to die after being injected with a threedrug cocktail. He clenched his teeth, writhed and suffered an evident distress before finally dying. Condemned inmates are usually rendered unconscious minutes after injection. The report found an improperly monitored i. V. Line was the major issue and likely caused his prolonged death. Executions had been postponed for six months. They are expected to resume in november. And fast food workers in 150 cities nationwide walked off the job this morning to protest low wages.
Suddenly taking on a surprising role in her familys ironfisted regime. Im brianna keilar. Youre watching cnn newsroom. Thats a chaotic scene nearly disrupting one of the holiday traditions. Dozens of people protesting the grand jury decision in ferguson, new jersey. They were chanting no justice, no peace, and justice for mike brown. Cnns Miguel Marquez is in new york. Tell us about this. This was a promise after two days. They made good on it around 37th and broadway. Just where the front of that parade was getting to the 2 1 2 mile parade route of the macys thanksgiving day parade, protesters rushed the barricades and threw bottles at stores. Very, very heavy crowds were here to watch the parade. They tried to get on to the parade route in order to disrupt the very beginning of the parade. Police were at the ready, though. They knew protesters had been talking about this on seeocial media for several days. This is becoming more about economic justice, occupy wall street sort of conce
She congratulated us. Its about us. On our victory. And i congratulated her and her family on a very, very hardfought campaign. Hillary has worked very long and very hard. Over a long period of time. And we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country. I mean that very sincerely. It is type for ime for us to co together as one united people. I pledge to every citizen of our land that i will be president for all americans. And this is so important to me. I want to tell the World Community that while we will always put americas interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, not hostility. Partnership, not conflict. Its been what they call an historic event. But to be really historic, we have to do a great job. And i promise you that i will not let you down. We will do a great job. We will do a great job. President elect trump got a call early this morning were told from the current occupant of the white house, president obama, who invi
Examined by a doctor and a memo released by democrats is an uncorroborated laundry list, including drinking on the job and crashing a government vehicle after a party and overseeing a hostile work environment. The white house says it has documents exonerating jackson from some allegations, and the president weighed in this morning on twitter saying, quote, allegations made by senator jon tester against admiral dr. Ron jackson are proving false. The secret service is unable to confirm, in fact they deny, any of the phony democratic charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful jackson family. Tester should resign. The great people of montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking of a great human being. Admiral jackson is the kind of man that those in montana would respect and admire. And now, for no reason whatsoever, his reputation has been shattered. Not fair, tester Cnns Abby Phillip joins us now from the white house. Give us some background on these documents