On the boat dog. Why the whole country seems to be talking about what happened when a black cocaptain standing on that dog, pre faced an unprovoked attack by a mob of white folks for asking them to move their pontoon boat, please say. As the cocaptain approached the dock and attempted to peacefully move the boat over, just so that they could park, the owners of the boat confront them in a hostile manner. There were words exchanged and then it turned into the combat that you have all seen. So the cocaptain was doing his job. Now we have an interview with the Montgomery Police chief in a bit and we will will more charges becoming, or talk about it ahead. But lets begin with our Breaking News this hour. Cnn projects that voters in ohio have rejected a measure that is seen as a proxy in the battle over Abortion Rights. They voted down in effort to make it harder to amend the state constitution. The head of November Referendum On Whether to constitutionally guaranteed Abortion Rights in tha
Johnson will meet with Columbia University jewish students tomorrow. Hell also take questions from reporters at Columbia University where protests have forced the school to shift to virtual classes. This comes as police on or near College Campuses in several cities are preparing for another night of possible confrontation with antiisrael demonstrators, Protester Encampments are growing in many places across the country. And many people there are resisting Police Orders to leave New York University students have been participating in the demonstrations in recent days. Correspondent Steve Harrigan is on the scene there tonight. Good evening, steve. Steve good evening, bret. They have been going at it already for about five hours here at its peak 1500 people. And they dont seem to be going anywhere soon. [chanting free, free palestine. From coast to coast. [chanting we will not, weve not rest] ivy leagues, large universities and colleges and even high schools propalestinian protests are s
police chief daryl albert. thank you, sir, for being here. thank you very much sir, thanks for having me. chief, you have rolled out crimes or rioting charges, but hate crimes in particular you have ruled those out. why is that? well, i tell you, we looked at it internally. we looked at the entire case in it s totality and we looked at the merits of the case and we not only talked about these internally, but we have reached out to a local state and federal partners to say that we are heading down the right path, that we are a prying appropriate charges and based on the matrix for hate crimes, it just did not meet that threshold. i will say that this investigation is ongoing. i know you heard that, and the community has heard that over and over again, but it is ongoing. as new developments come forward we will and then charges as necessary, or as needed. so we continue to ask the public to provide those pieces
follows another criminal d.c. in a different federal jurisdiction for the other four members of the same group. the other four were arrested earlier this month, october 2nd, and they were arrested on rioting charges, conspiracy to riot. all of the charges against these guys in both these criminal cases that have resulted now already in seven arrests, and one guy still being hunted by police, all of the arrest, the criminal complaint about these guys it s all about these guys participating in an organized conspiracy, basically to beat people up at the right wing events. like the unite the right rally in charlottesville, virginia, in which of course a counterprotester was killed by a neo-nazi. also protests like these ones at the campus of the university of california at berkeley. also protests at san bernardino, california. but they re also specifically cited for beating people up and for conspiring together to travel to events to beat people