Susays its it killed more than 100 soldiers in the. Trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement with war rhetoric has continually been trying to derail that peace process. By launching such a largescale offensive, it only creates a more than 10ouos situation with loss of innocent lives and casualties on both sides. The latest news we have is is that they have called for an immediate ceasefire. Efforts with the ocs mens group, i think its time for the world to pay greater attention to the situation here because, as i said, it will have a large influence on the greater region if this issue is not resolved peacefully. United nations has released th thet disturbing figures showing iraqis killed by violence in march. The u. N. Mission to iraq says 1,119 people were killed last moh compared to the 670 killed in february. Thats a spike of a massive 67 . Well, its due in part to a change from tackics. Iraqi forces backed by u. S. Led airstrikes have advanced in recent months. Its responded by ra
Very common in louisiana. Donna weidenhaft is a public defender in new orleans. Are the penalties severe here for Marijuana Possession . Absolutely. You can get anywhere up to 20 years if you are caught with marijuana 3 times. And in some cases, you can even get life. Bernard noble, one of weidenhafts clients, was sentenced to 13 years in jail last year after he was stopped with 2. 8 grams of pot about 3 marijuana cigarettes. When bernard was riding his bike the New Orleans Police Department saw him and they thought that he had swerved his bike onto the sidewalk to avoid them, almost hitting a car so they stopped bernard at that point and thats pretty much where bernards nightmare began. Noble was riding to a sweet shop. In the past he had been arrested for possessing small amounts of pot and cocaine. His most recent arrest was nine and a half years before. Is Bernard Noble a drug dealer . Bernard noble is not a drug dealer, no. Was Bernard Noble ever arrested for violent offenses . Be
Police. The community and the nation pleading for the bloodshed to stop, including Hillary Clinton not long ago at the naacp conventio convention. This madness has to stop. [ applause ]. Watching the news from baton rouge yesterday, my heart broke. Not just for those officers and their grieving families but for all of us. The slain officers were husbands and fathers, 41yearold marine corps veteran matthew gerald, 45yearold brad garafola, and Montrel Jackson had a baby boy just four months old. With me to discuss now is an associate professor of the law center. Ill start with drew griffin. Give us the information. It seems as though it was an ambush killing. What they want to know now is was he involved with anything else . We know that he claimed to be a black separatist. He was involved with many hate groups online. Did any of those people have relations with him . And once he was in baton rouge, how long was he here . Did he have any contact with any people here. The chief has said y
Gun fight investigators say and there maybe other suspects at large. In fact they believe there are. Chilling video. The carnage in baton rouge on sunday morning. Witnesses woke and were shocked to see what they saw on the streets. He was in all black, he was in black shorts, black shirt and he had a mask on and the gun in his hand. The way he was moving you would know that this was a pedestrian running with a rifle in his hand more than someone with trained skills to move in that way with a rifle. So the same. On the street acting out. Will carr is on the ground in baton rouge. Will . It is about an hour we are expecting a press conference where we hope to get more details. This continues to be a fluid situation. Were in the department of Public Safety here in baton rouge. Coming in here, there was a Massive Police presence. They had the road blocked. Officers with long gun bulletproof vests. Theres a sense of the fear of the unknown with this potentially one to two suspects still on
[ gunfire ] our polo sandoval, you just returned from baton rouge. There have been nights and nights of protest after the policeinvolved shooting and killing of alton sterling. You were there covering that. This also comes after the killing of Philando Castile and after the ambush and attack of 12 Police Officers in dallas. Five were killed, seven injured there. Talk to me about the state of the community in baton rouge right now as this happens. Well, you take all of those incidents and it equals to a very tense community and that is what we saw firsthand as we were there in baton rouge, louisiana. There was a large demonstration that took place where some officers were seriously injured but eventually were able to recover. Yes, there were arrests made and, yes, we saw an increase of Police Presence. Not because of the violence that broke out during the demonstrations but also because there were two threats that investigators were following up on. At the same time, were seeing several