ferguson effect. i want you to talk about that for just a second. we first talk about ferguson, let s make clear, that was a false narrative. hands up don t shoot never happened. obama s justice department said that. they cleared that officer of any wrongdoing. there was no hands up don t shoot, but it has carried on. that was not attacked right from the get go that that was a false narrative and now it s carried so every time there s a police involved shooting or use of force, of course it goes viral and there s journalists out there, and i pause to call them journalist because i m not quite sure they are but what they do is they right-click bait headlines, they don t include all the facts alter paint law enforcement as a bad guy but it s completely ridiculous and it needs to stop. they need to have objectivity when they talk about police officers. before we go, your legislation, what is it and when is it. it criminalizes and makes it a felony to throw any substance on a police
in our society you can t tolerate incivility. when i saw people dumping water on our officers, that means our communitiesaw are less safe. nobody wants that regardless of race, color, creed or origin. reporter: thank you. thank you for starting off the conversation. let s get everybody involved in a show of hands. how many of you in our studio feel the tension today between the police and their communities is at the highest levels in decades? even the guests on set are raising their hands. we need to talk about this. we need to talk about this and i am glad you are all here. it s a word that keeps coming up on social media. i heard you saying it. it s trust. one texas police department is looking to rebuild trust after
have heard you sing it, it is trust. one texas police department is looking to rebuild trust after one of its white police officers shot a black woman inside her own home. this raises questions about training and recruiting top-level talent. first an inspirational story of survival and perseverance. a police officer shot in the head by a burglary suspect. defeating the odds. they ve traveled hear from missouri to tell america their story. as we had to break, prayer and memory. we remember the 33 men and women in blue killed by gunfire so far this year.
his own department s general orders he followed what he was supposed to do. fort worth s own general order say every open door to be treated as a silent alarm in the officer s first job is to search for avenues of escape before he searches the interior of that building. now he goes around the side of what again, he believed is a burglary scene, he s met with somebody inside that home pointing a gun at him. everybody here again that wears a shield would address that threat the same way. before any of the facts came out his chief was in front of a microphone saying that his officer had no right to respond that way. that he would fire him even if he is not arrested. now, if were in a world now where uniformed police officer addressing a gun being pointed at him is a murderer, how is any active police officer supposed to go out and do their job?
ferguson was a false narrative. hands up, don t shoot never happened. obama s justice department said that. theybo cleared the officer of al wrongdoing. there was no hands up, don t shoot. butt it carried on. now it s carried. so every time there is a police involved shooting of course it goes viral and there are journalists out there, and i pause to call them journalists because i m not quite sure they are. but they write click bait headlines to paint law enforcement asy the bad guys. they need to have object test whed they need to have objectivity. it needs to be a felony tore throwing any substance on a police officer. in order to restore civility