the time when the officers were shot. we are also learning more from the police in their investigation into brinsley s social media profile. he had 119 photos on instagram, many of them anti-police and anti-government. he also had 1,000 photos on his phone. one was a video of a demonstration that he shot on december 1st in union square here in new york city. the police released a video that showed him in the brooklyn mall hours before the shooting. that was about 12:00. between 12:00 and 2:30, they lost track of him and are asking for the public s help in finding out if anyone saw him and he made calls. they are looking for the public s help and officer ramos we learned yesterday will be buried on saturday. police have been tracing the help s final steps. what have they learned in what they uncovered so far? well, as i mentioned, they had that video from the brooklyn mall. it shows him there at about
software will make people safer because the app can search criminal databaseses. in his words, give us a far better understanding of the people around us. not sure i want to know. mercedes is here. i was just thinking about the concept. i m walking down the sidewalk in new york city, or sitting on the out bus in oxford, mississippi, and i just take your picture, and from that it will match up anything you-under posted so i could find your home address. and sometimes phone numbers. it is so incredibly scary. now everyone is watching. if you have some social media profile, they can access that information. so your picture, address, who you re friendses with, and frankly, criminals can track criminals? they re not going to be posting their profiles on social media. they re going to keep it on the d.l. so who are they going to be really victimizing? people that don t want everyone
of dots that needed to be connected that weren t. i m going to hold off because we re going to wait until we get some official reports in regards to what was actually done with the social media profile, that has been presented that said he had made some statements that were worthy of law enforcement interests. now, in this country we have first amendment protections. and online you have people, especially in the video, the violent video game kind of culture that we live in that say some crazy things. things about the president, or make statements hastily or impulsively. and that s all got to be sorted out. what happens is the fbi dispatches people to do what we call a knock and talk, which you would hope would happen in this instance, to basically make an assessment. again, investigators are fallible human beings and sometimes those judgments have to be done when people say crazy things, and that happens every day, thousands and thousands times online, sorting through it and figuring o
general flynn that his son was helping ask scheduling, jake. no, but you put in for security clearance for him. helping his dad arrange for meetings and provide meetings, but that s no longer the case. were you aware that the transition had put in for security clearance for michael flynn jr.? i worked very closely with general flynn. i ve worked on many occasions. i ve never seen his son present for any of those meetings. but you re head of the transition team. you know who was given security clearances. this is a young man who was helping his father. he had a social media profile that had all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories and had links with white supremacists. were you aware that the transition team put in for a security clearance for him? what i can tell you in talking to general flynn today he made me aware that his son was saiing him. and that you put in for a security clearance? well, whatever the appropriate paperwork was to assist him. we re bringing tog
hundreds of new yorkers from all over the city come here to the memorial to mourn and to grieve. hundreds of police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers. now, as you mentioned, in about 40 minutes, the mayor called for a moment of silence citywide to remember these two officers. we re also learning more about the police investigation and brinsley s social media profile. they found 119 photos on his instagram account, including one video he took at a rally, an anti-police rally on december 1st in union square park in new york. they also found 1,000 photos on his telephone. one of them anti-police and a lot of it invst vective and anti-police, anti-government. they also found a video of him in a brooklyn mall. between noon and 2:30 they lost track of him and they re looking for any help the public may be able to provide, any more information into those hours leading up to this shooting.