Antioch. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at 8. Im ken wayne and im catherine heenan. 10 officers have been charged between the antioch and the Pittsburgh Police departments. The u. S. Attorney and fbi announced those charges this afternoon. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson was there. She joins us now with what weve learned so far. Sarah. Well, inside one of the 4 indictments released today are disturbing and racist Text Messages. Those charges took fbi agents to multiple states, an effort to arrest 10 officers. After 2 years of investigating officers in the antioch and Pittsburgh Police departments, the u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of california announced indictments thursday afternoon. 10 officers have been charged. 9 of them are sworn officers and one is a community officer. 6 with Antioch Police and 4 with Pittsburgh Police. It took 100 fbi agents to successfully arrest officers in different states, including california, texas and hawaii. These are the 4 indictments announced
Original bell. To establish the organized Retail Crime Task force is back in 2018. The president of the california retailers association, Rachel Michelin applause, governor gavin newsom and state legislators for getting behind the retail task force. She says the next step for lawmakers is to adjust the felony threshold for serial shoplifters. And the fact that in california we still dont have the ability to go after repeat offenders and we we are not allowed to aggregate up to that 950 mark. And so part of i think what were seeing as well is people who took advantage of that and they just continue to push the envelope. He says he believes that without that component to help the chp retail task force, a key incentive to deter this kind of brazen lawlessness likely continue. And thats why were seeing some of these smash and grabs across the state of california to retailers is important that our employees are safe. Customers are safe. Has it made kron . 4 news . San mateo Police Seized mo
Other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next, mike pompeo reflects on his time serving as cia director and secretary of state under the Trump Administration. Following his remarks, mr. Pompeo took questions from the audience including how to debate conservative points of view on college campuses. This is from a conference hosted by the Young America foundation. Good evening. Its good to see all your great faces out there. Did you have a good day . Yeah. I will give a brief introduction before mime voice gives out. The word to think about with this introduction is leadership. On the screen behind me you see a plaque. About four years ago not too long after we dedicated the us embassy for the first time in jerusalem the capital of the state of israel. [applause] now, why thats important is because politicians for years if not decades said theyre going to move the embassy from the United States from tel aviv to jerusalem, thats the capital where the Prime Min
Most critical for brick and mortar stores. With the last minute push to buy gifts, many will be heading out to the malls or local shops for fear that packages wont be delivered on time. In fact tomorrow is super saturday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. And it falls at the tail end of the Holiday Season in which most retailers earn a sizable chunk of their holiday sales. Courtney reagan caught up with last minute shoppers at the Queens Center mall in. Reporter if you havent chd off your christmas list yet, you are far from alone. I just started, because i work all the time, so today is my first day of shopping, im not even close to being done. Im stressed. None of its done. Were just Getting Started and i have two days to finish it. Reporter half of u. S. Consumers are expected to hit the stores in the final hours before christmas. Last year consumers took advantage of deals starting early in november. My Holiday Shopping has been pretty okay, except for those few hard la
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The