Patrols are increased at popular shopping centers. Team in Fairfax County focuses here at the reston town center, springfield town center, fair oaks, and tysons corner. Monday, they were needed. Its easier for criminals to get away with things because of the larger crowds, so they focus on nighttime and evening hours. Chris late monday night, the Police Arrested four men from new york to try to use 241 credit cards to purchase 19,000 of iphones at the apple store. Were atime, cat teams the mall. When the suspects tried to flee, all four were apprehended. The extra Police Presence definitely helped. There a lot of crowds and a lot of people, so the police are there. You feel safer. The four men who were arrested now face a slew of charges. They are currently sitting in jail without bail. Live from tysons corner, chris papst, abc 7 news. Alison chris, thank you. From Fairfax County black friday shopping season off to a rough start for a woman who was arrested after trying to cut the line
Today chief cathy lanier said the witness account debunk jason goolsbys account on what went down the october day. We feel that the actions given the entirety of the circumstances were appropriate. He ran through traffic with the officers responding to suspicious behavior and that he refused to remove his hand from a back pack and ignored demands. Im sure there is anxiety when he sees a person run with a backpack and reaches in and refuses to take his hand out of the backpack. There was a news conference. If the young men were white none of this would happen. The woman who called 911 because they were in a high robbery neighborhood, the chief says she did the right thing. People think you cant call the police if you feel like there is something suspicious or you will be criticized for it. That is what we need the society to do. Stephen reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Developing now, a second night of protest in chicago following dash cam video showing aftero
Temperatures in the mid to upper 30s in the suburbs to about 40 downtown in bayside. Planning out your day today. What a winter we have. Full sunshine start to finish. A few clouds around by later this afternoon. Temperatures today will be up into the low to mid60s. Beautiful weather tofrmd of course, tomorrow already thinking about big friday shopping plans. Starting off, temperatures tomorrow morning will be in the mid to upper 40s by 6 00 a. M. Nice and mild for sure. Tomorrows afternoon temperatures, how about mid to upper 60s tomorrow if youre traveling down to places like richmond. It might be near 70 degrees. Good weather for there. Coming up in a couple more minutes, well talk about the return of rain chances which unfortunately are coming back just in time for the second half of the weekend and just ten minutes from now, amelia segal with the frachorecast. Well see you in a few more minutes. Reporter molette green at the live desk. Protesters pulled lights off a Christmas Tree
Live in bethesda, police are cracking down against drunk driving and tell us this is one of the busiest nights of the year. Im tracking the next chance for rain. Ill tell you when it arrivearr we start tonight at the live desk with new video from the Chicago Police shooting and protesters promising to shut down the citys main shopping district on friday. Take a look. Here are live pictures. A few dozen protesters marching down Michigan Avenue and some shouting justice for laquan and 16 shots. And some calling to shutdown the magnificent mile the busiest shopping day of the year and the board of trade. Already shot 15 times and motionless on the ground, the video shows no officers even trying to give him firstaid. Another angle shows a nearby burger king, whose district manager tells nbc Chicago Police deleted nearly 90 minutes of security footage from the surveillance camera. Officials deny this but cant explain what happened on that video. President obama posted on facebook he was dee