critics say it is taking away necessary equipment that can jeopardize safety. one of those critics is law enforcement analyst and retired nypd detective harry houck. also joining us cnn political commentator and host of huff post live marc la mont hill. you are not the military you are not the police. you do not need military type equipment. it sends an intimidating message and starts our trouble. you don t need it. let s take it away. where does it start trouble? i ve never seen that. a talking point just pulled out of the air saying if police officers have military equipment that it starts some trouble. i think the president s more worry about hurting somebody s feelings than the lives of police officers. i ve never seen cops with bayonets or grenade launchers. i ve made some phone calls. nobody knows anybody with grenade launchers or any bayonets. the one thing i m worried about in this whole comment here was basically that no riot equipment will be transferred to police.
and we re showing these cops pictures here. look at the picture we re showing. what do you think was going on in that picture? you think they re out trying to do a drug bust? no they re worried about having to do tear gas, guys throwing things at them probably having weapons. we saw what played out there. this is a little unfair. this isn t how they patrol the streets. this is what happens when there s a riot going on. exactly. this was for riot situations. you don t see them on patrol with an apc no matter how bad it gets. i agree. that would be a problem. i would hear you on that. the police need to be protected. police in baltimore were not without helmets. right. because probably some politicians said i don t want to hurt anybody s feelings meanwhile cops are getting rocks thrown at them lead pipes i don t disagree. i tell you, i actually think, all right, that the left does not give a darn about police officers lives at all the way we talk. now we just went off
not as often. what i m saying if they re in some meeting with the president, the president s going to get whatever he wants. i can t see a police chief say, no i do not want an apc. my bigger point here is i don t think we re disagreeing that much. we re both saying the police need stuff to protect them. we agree. there are certain things we both think are excessive. you re saying they re not asking for it. i m saying we don t know if they re asking for it because this bill allows it to be obscure. remember some of the this stuff isn t stuff police can t have needs to be more controlled tightly released. this is an unnecessary distraction. the money for community policing s been cut, having police officers come out of those communities has been cut. it s not a priority. those are the things they should be emphasizing. i don t think it s an unnecessary distraction at all. i ve been ongoing town to town literally talking to people about militaristic police practices. prac
only the beginning and they report hundreds of bikers are there. more are on the way, they re armed to the teeth and all this after that deadly shootout in waco. we have what this war is about. and it ain t about parking spots as first reported. that s for sure. sunday s gun battle at a waco restaurant left nine bikers dead and appears four may have been taken out by police. we begin our coverage with cnn s nick valencia in waco texas. nick. reporter: good morning. police have seen an increase in the city but so far all police officers are safe. meanwhile this morning police continue to gather evidence from the scene as more motorcycles are taken in. i m still at 170 individuals that we have arrested and charged. reporter: in custody this morning 170 suspected biker gang members, their bond totalling $170 million after a dispute in a restaurant bathroom on monday led to nine people dead and 18
a text from savvas telling her not to come the next day because his wife is sick. sometimes you never understand or this thing happen i am lucky that i m still here. reporter: police say no evidence was found of forced entry into this home. but was anything taken? was it ransacked? because of the fire damage authorities say they don t know. so what is going on here? were the voicemail and text sent out under duress? and why are police not saying which three suffered blunt force trauma and which one did not. the d.c. police have released this video of what they call a person of interest. it is literally and figuratively a shadow y image of somebody walking behind the building after supposedly taking the family s porsche. the car found ditched in a maryland church parking lot where it was torched. sifting through the trash is meticulous. the odor of the smoke still