simpson said he was not surprised to hear simpson s name connected to the texas attack. he had express eded to me admiration specifically for osama bin laden. he used the word hero which surprised me at the time but now i understand his thinking better actually not that surprising. reporter: we are also learning more about simpson s accomplice nadir soofi. according to the wall street journal he bought an ak-47 on craigslist. soofi s mother says her son had dvds of the prechgs of the former leader of al qaeda in yes, ma am yemen. and we learned today from the fbi direct james comey that fbi agents saw simpson s social media activity talking about the texas event, and that is what prompted that warning. but he said the fbi had no idea simpson was driving from his home here in phoenix with his accomplice to launch that attack in in texas. wolf? all right, pamela thank you. let s get more now on the fbi warning to the texas police
they asked the eded you to seek justice. it s a very important distinction. this is is a very unusual family. please, respect that in return for their desire to seek peace in this city and simply justice for freddie that they be left undisturbed. i m sure that there will be a time. i don t know how long it will be from now when they can emerge from an unimaginable grief to come out into the light of day so that they can be themselves again. but that that has not yet occurred, and i think you all know that. so, please, respect their peace and please let them grieve in the privacy of their own homes and their own lives. last question. when did you and the family find out [ inaudible ]. same time you found out. we were in shock.
moves forward and he kind of gets slammed back the injuries according to the information that we have the injuries are wards the left side of the head, as if the head hit first and snapped the neck. so you can imagine, if you can t hold yourself and if you don t have anything to hold on to and you re not belted in you re kind of helpless in the van. you are at the mercy of the movement of the van. and that s what this all centers on. is, is had they belted him in we wouldn t be talking about this. well, one last question. if baltimore s got this renowned shock trauma unit in fact my wife, years ago, reported on this almost 40 years ago when it was first established. i remember it was a big deal. you guys had the first in the country, shock trauma. and the whole idea of a shock trauma unit i went back and looked eded it up the golden hour. you got to get that person there as soon as possible. you don t take them to some other hospital you take them there. is there a question as to whe
ed? okay, that is great information. there s been quite a conversation that has broken out over the word thug. within the last hour mayor blake talked about that. here it is. too many people have spent generations building up this city. for it to be destrieed eded eded destroyed by thugs. what about that tremaine? do you hear a lot of conversation on the street about that? well certainly that s part of the broader discussion. the idea that people are described as thugs for breaking property, but that was precipitated by a police officer, or officer being perhaps involved in the death of a black man. a black man died while in custody of the police. so the idea of the characterization of these young people as thugs involved in this uprising on a day-to-day basis
fires on that first night during the martin luther king riots. since then the four-block community in baltimore certainly has remained very poor. the area that we re in, it s certainly a very rough area that we re in. there s a lot of folks vary angry about that. you say it s not a rough area? i was born and raised around here. reporter: what s going on? this is rough. reporter: this is rough what s happening. what s happening. the police constantly beat on us all the time. it s a good arrest and bad arrest. it s too many bad arrests. i, myself got arrested because i did things. good officers arrested me the proper way. reporter: just don t yell. calm down a little. eded me the right way. bad officers beat me take me to the back of the police station. central booking. at the police station. in the back, beat up. reporter: seeing the folks who are so angry they get beat up too. reporter: so but