Page 7 - A Split Second Decision News Today

Their names and recognize these children. i will be praying for this family, if your life, as joe said, forever change. >> tomi: i echo what everybody on this panel has said, its a reminder hearing stories like this, a split-second decision, you have a moment of road rage, can really impact your life and impact your family in a way you never thought was imaginable. its a reminder for all of us to keep our cool, to have a little more understanding, not to be so quick to react because they can hav...

Dead, shes going to go limp. you dont know if somebodys holding a remote control somewhere off-site or if, in fact, the second he goes limp that belt explodes. in that moment, where is the thought process? how do you make a decision at that point? or do you shoot to kill and take your chances? >> you shoot to kill and take your chances. you just dont have time to analyze. theres just not enough time. its a split-second decision. you have to make it. they reacted, and i think appropriately in thi...

Hemisphere, thank you for helping shut down the smugglers, traffickers, and coyotes. who would have thought in this encounter. just a little recap of that modern age, human traffickers? tragic day, we are sitting in you think of it as an ancient our chabad house of prayer, we crime. its more prevalent today because of the internet. were attacked. you understand that well. at that moment i made a than ever before, all over the split-second decision. i was off duty, i was on annual world. as my ad...

A split-second decision would be justified in using deadly force." murietta-goldings brother eventually pleaded guilty to that homicide. but murrietta-goldings family has filed a lawsuit. >> this young man was trying to run away. and you can be as critical as you want about how you shouldnt do that, but that doesnt give the police the right to use lethal force. >> reporter: and david, that independent review did have ten policy recommendations, including putting body-worn cameras on more officer...

Office to have a chat, ken reaches in his pocket and pulls out a knife. >> clark had to make a split-second decision does he shoot barnes to save his partner. >> i will never forget i pulled my fun out and put it to the back of the seat and i was very close to squeezing off a round right through the seat. >> instead he got barnes to hand over the knife. with everyone taking a deep breath barnes got out of the car still insisting he knew nothing about the pizza bombing case, but there was someone...

>> and because of the rally. and it doesnt matter to me whose side theyre on, innocent people shouldnt die. >> this might come across -- i think if we were separated we wouldnt have these issues. just throwing everyone together and blending them together and then saying, hey, get along. obviously thats not working. the people who want to be living together in harmony and unity and whatever should be allowed to do that, but the people who dont should be allowed to do something else. >> what would...

His not suiciding because he really wanted to tell law enforcement and the fbi why he did what he did. theres a lot of grandiosity there in the el paso shooter. >> in that manifesto he says he expects to die that day. >> he did say that. >> and he gave up right away. >> he gave up. and oftentimes we know its a split-second decision. suicide, suicide by cop or to surrender. but i think in this case there may have been a last-minute decision for him to say, you know what, i want to tell everybody ...

Or not pantaleo has to go and my prediction is exactly the opposite of what richard is saying. hes got to go and he will be gone. >> so listen to what the new york police union president had to say about the judges recommendation. >> this say that we had a fair process when we listened to the drum beat of the criminal advocates who have been chanting every time anyone on the other side tries to get the truth out, that is not justice. im sorry to say that we have to tell our police officers take ...

>> i have moved my whole life over and that in itself had been quite a surprise. >> reporter: at trial, prosecutors argued noor violently gunned damond down through the open drivers side window, when she appeared on the side of the squad car. they claimed he abused his authority to use deadly force. but defense attorneys claimed damond startled the officers by banging on the door as she approached, and when she raised her arm, noor made a split-second decision to protect his partner. damond died...

Dykes sentence will be. he was found guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery for each of the 16 shots that he fired at mcdonalds. he faces up to life in prison. provides a pathway for about an 18 year sentence. the defense attorney called it classy and professional. he has a wife and her two daughters. in a letter to the judge, wrote in part "there was no malice, no ill intent, no hatred as he was faced with a split-second decision. he believed he was making the right choice that night." obvio...