meanwhile organizers of a peace rally held today are speaking out against this antipolice message. eyewitness news reporter steve matter son patterson is live in olde city with the story. reporter: it is the tale of two different messages one of them hours later remains scrawled right here on this olde city alley. it means cops lives don t matter in big red letters. it was far from the most impactful message we saw this day. reporter: it was the sound of sunday. reporter: no show of anger, no cries of outrage no call for justice just peace. i believe peace is the only way love is the own wail way. reporter: pastor desmond bird led members in a demonstration calling for prayerful solutions to the problems plaguing inner city america. many people are acting out because they don t have anyone who cares. we re here for them. reporter: but at the same time this was happening, so was this. investigators trying to determine who would scrawl something they
a tangled mess of tree limbs and power lines. they just say the roads were going to be closed all day. reporter: columbia pike at south frederick in arlington shut down. like around 3:30 a.m. i heard a big pop. reporter: bringing down power lines and a transformer. the pole snapped. live electrical wires crisscrossed the road. police closed columbia pike rerouting traffic was slow. getting home right by the mess not easy. can t go home. i have to find somewhere legal to park my car and walk home. reporter: the gas station has lost power. also the apartment complexes that you see nearby. doe minutian virginia power says they expect to have repairs done around 1:00. developing in texas, we re learning more about the two men who shot a security guard at a controversial art exhibit. police killed both men after they opened fire in the dallas suburb of garland. the art exhibit was a contest to see who could draw the best cartoon of the prophet mohammed investigators
moore. he died this afternoon after being taken off life support. two days after being shot in the head while sitting in an unmarked patrol car in queens. his alleged killer was locked up 90 minutes a of the shooting on saturday. nbc news is reporting that a gun just found in a yard in the suspect s neighborhood. investigators are checking to see if that s the murder weapon. he was 25 and came from a family of police officers. first at 4:00 today, a prince georges county police officer found guilty of assaulting a student inside a high school. news 4 bureau chief tracey morgan is live where the verdict was read today. reporter: the chief says nobody is above the law including police officers and if they do something wrong, he ll contact the state s attorney s office and seek prosecution. this case has been prosecuted and found guilty. the state s attorney said it was the video that made all the difference in this case. let s show you that video. in the video, the high s
the trayvon martin/george zimmerman trial. and george zimmerman was acquitted in that case. and a lot of people it raised a lot of emotions. and i think because it fell on a saturday night at 10:00 it was probably one of those that the eyes of the nation weren t all focused because people on weekends tend to do what they are doing in their lives. they aren t sitting by the television waiting for the most part. lots been talked about. we don t want to talk it to death. but one of the things interesting were the celebs who were tweeting kind of when they were angry the minute they heard the verdict. and i don t think sometimes celebs don t realize when they tweet something, they aren t just voicing their own opinion, which is fine, but they have 1.8 million followers who could be on the verge of being inflamed. who knows. they could incite violence by whatever they say. one of the tweets. new york giants victor cruz who is a great guy, by the way. i ve seen at m
mates remember the troubled star today, monday, july 15th, 2013. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning everyone. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m willie geist with tamron hall. look who is here? al roker in all his glory. we ll be stripping this down as we go along. there you go. enjoy your cheerios. a sticky day. great to have you back. thank you. meanwhile, the demonstrations over the george zimmerman verdict have been mainly peaceful but some groups did throw rocks and batteries at police in los angeles overnight. for the latest, we want to get right to kerry sanders who has been covering the trial in sanford, florida. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, savannah. the trial is over, the not guilty verdict is in and the protests are growing. the city of sanford is preparing for what could be a massive protest this week. late