mr. gardner: mr. president? the presiding officer: the acting majority leader. mr. gardner: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. gardner: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 163 h.r. 720. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 163, h.r. 720 an act to improve intergovernmental planning for and communication during security incidents and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. gardner: i ask consent the committee reported substitute be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. gardner: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 167 s. 1576. the presiding offic
but there is a potential and we have participated in this way. and there are many online interest in these issues. so should there come a day when we can engage with them more transparently. and i think that the government has done some important things from their symbolic first few days in terms of reopening this investigation and trying to continue this from that. including what others are taking in terms of procurement to try to constrain corruption. we talked about it quite openly and transparently. it s part of the speech in terms of what has to be done in afghanistan. certainly in terms of appointing a rod range of ministers and governors, this is something that there is a common interest in. so we continued to do everything that we can to work with this and others in terms of the importance of their investigation and demonstrating their accountability and we will continue to do so. i m going to make just a quick note on that. and afghanistan is going from a fairly co
stopper sometimes. tough to have a normal interaction with someone after you tell them they are being recorded. i understand the value of it. part of when we talk about some of the impacts of ferguson people want police officers to be accountable. they want transparency. they want to know cops are doing what they are supposed to do. 99.9% of the time, my cops are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. the cameras are going to confirm that for the public and anybody else who is interested. host: do they go on automatically? how do they work? guest: you have to turn them on. we are in a pilot program now. we ve just gone. i ve got about 80 to 100 officers wearing the cameras right now. the officers are allowed to turn them off under certain circumstances. if they are going in to the locker room, going to the bathroom. if you and i are police officers and we are in the back of the station just talking about our kids and baseball and all that, you do not have to have your
funeral? yes, bruce, we re sending the assistant chief, our honor guard, to send an express of condolences to chief brown and the dallas police. how are your men and women doing out there on patrol? you know it takes grit to be a police officer, bruce, and they re doing well. i ve been taking every opportunity to be out there with them on the street. to interact with them, to talk with them and again to encourage them to be the model for progressive and affective policing that they are and continue to be, because that community trusts them and relies on them. i know d.c. police and police in new york, police around the country are doubling up. what about your men and women? bruce, what we did immediately in the wake of the events in dallas was to begin reaching out to the community, talking to all the formal, and informal leaders across prince george s county. we have tremendous relationships th partners, and here i m thinking of kevin perkins with the baltimore fie
headquarters yesterday intent on committing a so-called suicide by police. he brought his two brothers with him. their job apparently to videotape the whole encounter. so as ford opens fire on the hat-trick iii police station the brother district iii police station his brothers are taking video of the shoot-out on their cell phones. mr. ford was shots by police. he dropped. that is recorded on video. but just at the wrong moment officer colson off-duty was arriving at district iii to bring a meal to his girlfriend. he sees a shoot-out underway. he gets out of his car and draws his weapon. and he is then shot. sadly what we learned is the police believe it was a case of friendly fire. that another police officer saw him, perceived a threat an police will come hewitter. we expect to hear from police chief hank stawinski to confirm the terrible detail. three under arrest. michael ford hospitalized from the gunshot wound. he is expected to survive. all three of the suspects we