chest and ralph and yet there are these precious young people who didn t survive, and they were, you know, cheerleaders and people with dreams and aspirations. and just so, fred, what do you say to the parents of those kids well, you know, listen, there was another shooting in the past week also in alabama at a party. where people did die and i actually have been messaging with one of those fathers. and i tell him to hang on. that each day, second by second, minute by minute, you will go forward. and you will be forever changed, but you will go forward and you will find a path but for now, most immediately, be around those who you love and who love you and focus on
like i said before, officers are allowed to use force. that being said, if an individual is committing certain actions and officers are using proportionate force to subdue them, they have to continuously reevaluate what type of force is reasonable in that situation. officers are allowed to use the minimal amount of force necessary to affect or gain compliance. so that could be something they would have to re-evaluate minute by minute and some scenarios, second by second. also i want to say because the individual was in handcuffs or shackles i have experienced many individuals who displayed combative, aggressive behavior in handcuffs and shackles, in a few instances that even rose to a level which it was seriously dangerous to me and other officers and to the suspects themselves.
anything over the past month, it s not to make too many predictions about this trial. thank you, dianne. wagner with me now criminal defense attorney joy jackson. today was wild to watch what was going on in the stand. paul, the prosecution and dianne laid it out really well in this but drilling into the time line and going after murdaugh again and again almost minute by minute, almost ten seconds by ten seconds on those last minutes that he was with his family, his wife and his son the night they died, trying to highlight how his story was changing, the details were changing. he knew the details. he didn t know the details. do you think the prosecutor was effective today? i think the prosecutor was definitely effective. listen, he pinned him to the wall minute by minute, second by second, and made the story sound totally implausible of this random person who just shows up at a finite time to take out his family. the prosecution was very good at
murdoch s movements and why he lied to investigators where he was. diane gallagher is joining us now. tell us more about this dramatic testimony that we heard today. brianna, for the first time the prosecution really got a chance to drill aleck murdoch minute by minute, second by second. they are painting him as a privileged man that lies until he cannot deny and he comes up with a new lie to explain that away. none of which aleck murdoch actually denies but what he does deny is he killed his family and he did that repeatedly on the stand today. so you, like you ve done so many times over the course of your life, had to back up and make a new story that kind of fit with the facts. reporter: alex murdaugh under cross-examination for a second day getting heated. you re dang right i m consistent about that because a very short time before that,
in his own voice, explaining what happened the night of the murders and then what happened later on and the bizarre roadside shooting. they ve heard hours of testimony from alex himself effectively. do you agree with me that witness 61 with the triangulation with the phone records and the on-star data from general motors was probably the most compelling of the prosecution? maybe that s why they saved it for last? i thought i tend to agree with you, it was very effective testimony. just to walk us through minute-by-minute, second-by-second, every moment of his whereabouts that night and maggie s and paul s. it was revealing, because we know that our phone knows everything, our every move. that was what was so compelling. he s definitely a liar. doesn t make him a murderer. i still am questioning whether all of the evidence of the financial crimes should have