they re getting ready to blank you, can you understand why they were acquitted? the reason they were acquitted is they re protected by the peace officer bill of rights that allowed well, it did not allow damming evidence against them to be admitted. you know why are they no longer police officers? because they were terminated. we can all figure that out. but we as citizens can t know that. only four states in our nation has a amended or abolished the peace officer bill of rights. we need do the same thing in california because we all have the absolute right to know when an officer has been disciplined, reprimanded, terminated we have that right to know that. but under the peace officer bill of rights it s against the law for us to know these kind of things. ron, as a fellow parent i want to ask you, when you think about your son kelly, what comes to mind? i m horrified. it tears me apart. i just have the flashbacks of all our memories of doing things
charges dropped against a third officer and the incident sparked a national debate on the treatment by police of the homeless and mentally ill. joining me ron thomas kelly s it father, also a former orange county sheriff s deputy. ron, with a welcome to you on this broadcast and discussion, i know we ve seen the video in recent weeks of several police involved shootings and beatings some with deadly results, why do you think we re seeing so much of this? i think now we re seeing so much of it only because people are filming more of it. i believe it s existed all along, certainly starting with rodney king but then what a horrific video with audio that came out and be was about my son, so now people everywhere are filming the police. i think that s the reason that we see so much of it now. so you talk about the video being part of this, but you re from a law enforcement family. did incidents like this occur when you were on the job?
police pull this minivan over because of what s in the container on top of the roof. what they found. the responses are heartbreaking. i ll tuck to the teacher who asked her students to tell her what she wished they knew about their lives. hey there, everyone. it s past high noon in the east welcome to weekends with alex witt . one of the largest gathering of potential gop contenders ever the first in the nation republican leadership summit. it s in new hampshire. that s where senator kelly ayotte is addressing the crowd right now. and any minute now former hewlett-packard ceo carley fiorina will be taking the stage, one of the 21 declared and potential candidates at the inaugural event. earlier republican candidate rand rand paul spoke to the crowd and had this to say about the gop. i actually got tired of looking up and seeing people in my party get in charge and not doing what they promised to do. some in our party say, well let s just dilute the message, become democ
sovereign state of palestine. israel, of course, objects and the u.s. can and will use its veto. here s mr. obama s reasoning. i know that many are frustrated by the lack of progress. i assure you, so am i. but the question isn t the goal that we seek. the question is, how do we reach that goal? and i am convinced that there is no shortcut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. peace is hard work. peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations. if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now. ultimately, it is the israelis and the palestinians who must live side by side. immediately after that speech, the president met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who called the american position a, quote, badge of honor. the president meets this evening with president abbas. that brings me to my colleague, wolf blitzer, reporting today from new york. hi there, wolf. let s talk about this a little bit. assuming t