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reporter: what you see there is a park ranger intervening period police came and spoke to everyone there. they spoke to this woman as well whose name is denise slater. we caught up with her and asked her to explain her side. i am a christian. i wanted to tell them about christ and that what they are believed does believe in is not of god, it is of the devil. free speech is no longer free. i think they would say what about their freedom to practice the religion they choose? they are and they are doing it open in the park. this was totally unacceptable, especially right now in the state the country is an. in. reporter: the woman you saw in the video, clearly unapologetic. she says that she feels as though she is the victim, though she admit that she swung her umbrella at the gentleman. she says she was acting in self- defense and she felt threatened. she also told me she did throw her coffee in his face as well, say that he was close enough that the coffee was ....
there s many different ways of doing things. so we would be out there telling the afghans, this is how you conduct police operations, this is how we do police training, this is how you hold your weapon and engage the enemy, and then several weeks later another force would come in and not that it was necessarily wrong, but it was different. so from the afghan perspective, incredibly frustrating to understand where they are going and what they need to be doing and what is right and what is wrong. so in closing if someone were to ask me from 2010 to where we re at now, is there hope i would say, yes, there is. as we stand down our combat forces and shift to an advisory and a training role i think we re going to be able to take our lessons lerbed learned and ensure that we can continue to build on what we ve done. there were some great success stories. one of the things we worked on a lot was trying to bring women into the policing, something that was unheard of only a fe ....
did we make people realize it s not right to do the kind of things they were doing which was grafting, taking money and being a corrupt society, taking money from people just to move throughout their town. one of the ways we did that was trying to be sure we took people and spent time with the police officers themselves. we probably spent way too much too much emphasis on contractors early on and the problem with that was we would send our contractor force out, they may have been the only people out there doing the training, and what would happen when the threat increase took place, the contractors would remain on the safety of the compound. this could go on for days or weeks. the frustration came from the afghans because they relied on that training on a daily basis. so the person that was with them training them may not be there now for days or weeks at a time. so we kind of changed that around and said we need to take our armed personnel and put them out there and ....
was trying to be sure we took people and spent time with the police officers themselves. we probably spent way too much too much emphasis on contractors early on and the problem with that was we would send our contractor force out, they may have been the only people out there doing the training, and what would happen when the threat increase took place, the contractors would remain on the safety of the compound. this could go on for days or weeks. the frustration came from the afghans because they relied on that training on a daily basis. so the person that was with them training them may not be there now for days or weeks at a time. so we kind of changed that around and said we need to take our armed personnel and put them out there and spend time with these folks day in and day out, not only built trust between us and the afghans but it gave them the ability to prg on a daily basis. so the other frustration was the coalition effort. there was a lot of people with gr ....
medical patients and that also showed a great partnership. this is the health care association for hawaii and this is the part of the agency that helped us coordinate the medical response part of this. they were able to conduct a 50-bed disaster medical assistance team hospital on the island of oahu and this allowed the state of hawaii to be able to exercise their state-wide disaster drill. one of the things that hawaii has never been able to do is to be able to practice together in one live exercise. they have all of their processes, how they re going to respond in a local disaster situation, but they have never been able to really put that to use. and being able to partner with us during the rimpac exercise offered them the opportunity to do that. we also had a lot of civil military interaction by us providing a lot of capability for them to be able to exercise their disaster plan as well. you see some patients here in the moulage. they were able to moulage and fake w ....