john: reversal from the manhattan district attorney s office, good tuesday afternoon to you and you as well. gillian: nice to see you on this happy tuesday. i m gillian turner, who is out on assignment. new york city bodega worker charged with murder is now off the hook after fending him off in his store. hi, alexis. the nation has been closely watching and waiting for the decision. manhattan d.a. office says after reviewing the surveillance video and interviewing witnesses and the people who called 911 they will not present the case to a grand jury. in the motion filed here, the manhattan d.a. office says the people have determined we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly physical force. this case, we had an innocent, hard working new yorker that was doing his job and someone was extremely aggressive towards him and i believe after the d.a. review, made the right decision. that was mayor eric adams commen
political violence going forward. absolutely. you know, i just want to echo, this is an extremely agree just, and horrifying attack, but it also speaks to the level of that we are seeing, this is really reflective of an overall highly unstable, volatile political environment. and it tracks very much the in this violence that we are seeing on the ground, every day people, people who sit on school boards, people who want to serve on the epa s, people who want to serve as poll workers are also really experiencing these elevated threats of violence. and this is going, it is being reflect about the top of our democracy. i will ask you a question, congressman cortez, and you cannot answer it because sometimes security questions
of himself. reporter: according to the indictment, stark posted on craigslist the day before the january 6 attack on the capitol in washington, georgia patriots, it s time for us to take back our state from these lawless treasonus traitors. and we need to put a bullet in here behind the ears. they re under more threat nationwide, including those who sit on school boards, now regularly threatened over masking policies. this was a parent last night in virginia: me mask mandates. my child, my children will not come to school on monday with a mask on. all right. that s not happening. and i will bring every single gun loaded and ready to i will call every i ll see you all on monday. reporter: today, attorney general merrick garland issued a warning: there is no first amendment right to unlawfully threaten to