blifer has been shot. most recently i was in philadelphia friday night after the police officer was shot. a lot of members of law enforcement feel that there is a target on their backs. do you feel that way? i did when this first happened i don t feel so much that way now with the changes that are made. training, tactics that were developed since my incident. for example, theo$ the philadelphia officer that was shot recently this past week, he showed exemplary training tactics and, you know, he was shot, from what i understood three times in the arm. and exited his vehicle and continued firing back at the suspect which is amazing. in your instance, you were shot and you drag yourself into the barracks; is that right? i did. because you couldn t use your legs? yes. at the time both my legs
information that we have about freddy gray s case that there is a need for body worn cameras to document interactions between police and civilians. but we also realize that those body worn camera programs have to come with some limitations, and we believe we have called for federal agencies and for federal legislation that would require any police department that received funding for body worn cameras to have certain protocols, and protocols that would protect the privacy of the victims and the use of force, and the stop and question and frisk data as well as protocols are requiring officers to undergo use of force training and de-escalation training tactics, but that training
as a result of an encounter we now have him in an instance where he s, you know, his spine is severed and now he s dead. how did it happen? when did it happen? why did it have to happen? in their inquiry and in the investigation they re going to have to. that is the police reconcile the police reports with regard to what they said wolf with regard to how this happened when it happened why it happened and the actual facts of how it actually did happen. and so i m anxious like everyone else to see how this person ended up dead and what, if any, justification there could be. the department of justice, the federal government have already long before gray s death, the suspect s death in this particular case working with the baltimore police on training tactics. who do you trust? the local, the police or does
absolutely. there s so much on the national security a a agency and sites. they talk about it, know about it. they read the newspapers. they watch cnn. they know about all these leaks. and they are smart guys are accounting for it and they re going off grid. do you see a connection, peter, between these two released videos both pretty high-tech, they re high definition resolution. one of them al qaeda in the arab y arabian peninsula video, they show faces. the other, al shabaab, they don t show faces. do you see a connection between these two videos? they can be coincidental. they ve cooperated in the past. they changed training tactics, had personnel come here. these groups are kind of embedded with each other now. they both identify both self-identified as al qaeda.