this a stand your ground case. we wanted to make sure our detectives wanted to make sure that when he is brought to trial that he is convicted and justice is served. from our investigation, we re working with the state attorney s office, it was not a stand your ground case. in terms of these two shootings, we said at the start of the the show, 245 people in america are hit by gun fire every day, of which at least 8 0rks 90 lose their lives. the school shooting i just talked about is the 30th school shooting in america since newtown. a quite extraordinary statistic. as a sheriff on the ground trying to deal with this gun violence epidemic, what do you make of it? people commit violent crimes. whether it be a knife or a gun, the issue is that somebody decides to take somebody s life. and you know what? a gun didn t kill him. it was the trigger of the person that was arrested that pulled the gun and killed that person. so i could tell you from a law enforcement perspective, we re
there you are back in florida. you know when we talk about florida, this happened there, is there any talk of stand your ground? reporter: yeahia, well that was the first thing that came up in a lot of people s minds. curtis reeves, the suspect who is in custody is claiming that there was an unknown object that was thrown into his face that came from chad oulson, he says. now the witnesses there say the only thing that was thrown after this heated argument was a bag of popcorn. that was it. there were no punches thrown. but the defense attorney was implying it could have been something else. so immediately the sheriff s office began investigating on the grounds of could it be a stand your ground case. the detectives have come back and the sheriff says there is no way they could use stand your ground in this case and do not see it as a legitimate defense. reeves was part of a similar incident before prosecutors say. what are you hearing? this is weird. this came out both at the
is there a camera in that room? you ve been listening to the pasco county sheriff in florida talk about charges against a former policeman, curtis reeves, who killed a man after they got into a squabble because the man was texting during previews of the film. i want to bring in legal analyst jeffrey toobin who is in florida. it s a shocking case. reeves told police he was, quote, in fear of being attacked. he says that the victim threw a bag of popcorn on him. now, the police didn t directly answer whether this could be i think the police said they don t think it will be a stand your ground case. i m not sure whether they ve ruled that out. what are your thoughts? actually, this just happened and the city and state attorney are going to have to investigate it thoroughly. there s a lot to know, even though this seems like a very brief series of events. undoubtedly there are other events in the theater.
early on. we have a tight working relationship with him. we thank him for that relationship. he was there from the beginning. we were working with our detectives. we huddled up and that was the conversation that was brought up and one of the questions that we pass around, because we listen to our detectives, we listen to the boots on the ground, the ones doing the job. we asked everyone, point blank, what s your belief? everyone said, this is not a stand your ground case. can we heard from your detective about what he said to you about him defending himself? well, i would first just like to pretext that by saying it is an active, ongoing investigation. and so don t be surprised if that answers that you get to the majority of the questions that you ve been listening to. has he denied that he took a gun out and shot the gentleman who died? no. can you give me your name? detective timothy harris. what did he say about the shooting? active investigation. did at any time o
remember, this was a stand your ground case. the court upheld the lower court s decision on stand your ground because they said there was not a preponderance of the evidence here that she in fact needed to fire that shot. it was a warning shot. it was in the air. of course, the other side of that is she actually just missed him and the shot seemed to go into the air. so they re deferring to the trial court on that. so it s a win for angela corey s district. remember, this is angela corey s district, the district that was responsible for the prosecution of george zimmerman, but definitely, they will have to go back and retry this case again if they so choose. jean casarez, thank you. he was a governor and a president. she, a senator and secretary of state. bill and hillary clinton have a long history of civil service. so has to be a daughter chelsea s blood, right? i m deeply grateful for my life now. chelsea clinton and both her parents scheduled to speak in