is. we re learning more by the hour about a car that drove into a crowd at a holiday parade in wisconsin. waukesha police are expected to hold another press conference in just a few minutes. joining me now is cedric alexander. he is a former police chief of dekalb county, georgia. he s also an msnbc law enforcement analyst. mr. alexander, thank you very much for coming pack. what are you expecting to hear from police at that next press conference? i believe, certainly, they ll give us a lot of update as to what information that they have gained over the last hour, particularly around the multiple deaths that appear to have resulted in this tragic event. so i think anything that is going to be of value to the public knowing, as long as it does not impede their investigation, we re going to hear more from this.
came into the parade. just to remind our viewers you told us that you were marching in the parade and i m wondering, did you see the suv and if you were able to were you able to see the driver? if at all? no. i had already finished the parade route. i was coming back. i looped around to watch the rest of the parade. it happened very quickly. as soon as i i was maybe a half block, block away. as soon as i saw the vehicle i heard the bang and the screams and the cries. it was truly frightening. we didn t know if there was an accident or if it was intentional. a lot of uncertainty and really making sure my family and
they have to identify the deceased. they have to identify the hospital information, who are those victims, there will be investigators talking to them. there is going to be a lot of information that is going to be gathered over the next few hours. here again, we don t know where they are in this investigation or whether they have someone identified or they are still looking for a person of interest. there are a lot of moving parts going on as we re talking at this very moment. i want to thank you very much for coming on this evening and lending your expertise to this tragic situation as we continue to await a press conference by police officials in waukesha, wisconsin. let s go now to someone who was on the ground when this occurred. thank you very much for being
this is a small, idyllic town. this is 70,000, 75,000. the parade was on main street, about a mile long parade. not extensive. he walked down with his wife. he is 40 years old. he brought his son. they were sitting there with family, about eight people on the corner. the big intersection called five points where five roads come together, this tells you a lot about this city and this parade. then this red suv, which is really hard to watch, but we have to in one way because to understand why did this happen and what might be the motive, drives through the very video itself and you can see at the end of the video the marchers looking back going, did i just see this vehicle drive by me and almost at highway speed? scott gregor said his wife said she heard loud bangs that could
power motive of mass murder for theater and to infliction fear but someone may be trying to flee something. and was able to get by a lot of people but couldn t get by the band so plowed right over them. very cold blooded. then he goes past a fire truck in front of the band or a float. it is hard to tell from the video and speeds along side and keeps going like he is looking for the open street. kind of like he went by the twirlers. he could have ran over the twirlers as we look at the b roll going on. he could have ran over the twirlers but he doesn t. he speeds right past them. he could have swerved and hit a child playing in the street or a citizen. he could have hit a lot of people he didn t hit. in fact, we just showed the clip again of the suv going by the twirlers and if you, when you look at it and i ve noticed