his front door. he does have a handgun and in one of these videos after this entire incident, one of the officers is heard saying that he specifically heard a gun that was wracked. so that seems to be that officer s explanation as to why these shots are fired. the chief of police essentially saying, you do have to slow down this video to see what happens here is how he is describing the incident. when you show the slowdown version you see him opening the door, um, with his left hand and his right hand is the gun and as he pushes the door open, then he comes together and both hands appeared to grip the weapon, and they re pointed at one of the officers and dotson s wife also opens fire at the officers. she is not injured. it was also difficult to hear the 911 call because it is their teenage daughter who calls dispatch and it s talking to this dispatch operator.
think there is potentially some movement here, at least more movement, more discussions with republicans than there have been at any point since that sandy hook shooting nearly a decade ago. pam? all right, jeremy diamond, thank you. joining me now is a former secret service agent and also with us, cnn national security analyst julia kaym, a former assistant secretary for the department of homeland secretary. good to see you both. julia, let s start with you. let s start with the new dispatch audio obtained by abc news. in it you can hear someone information officers on the scene that a child is calling 911 from inside the classroom where the victims were. yeah. what is your reaction to hearing, that confirmation that the dispatch operator was relaying those calls on scene? aware. this is what the review is going to determine is at what stage did that call come in? what did the dispatcher do actually and did that information get to the people on the ground, but it also i thin
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Dennis Scarborough has been named Marshall Municipal Utilities “Employee of the Quarter” for the quarter ending December 31, 2020.
In nominating Scarborough, Electric Production Director Carl Crawford highlighted Scarborough’s work as a Dispatch Operator in Electric Production.
“Dennis does a great job on a day-to-day basis as a Dispatch Operator from midnight to 8:00 a.m. The ‘backshift’ is a somewhat thankless job due to the fact it isn’t normally seen and is easily forgotten.” Crawford continued, “He is a very reliable and dependable employee who has definitely seen his share of overtime during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
high school in 1999. for the next several years, he stayed in tuscaloosa, employed a to the university of alabama, first as a parking monitor and later as a mail delivery clerk. and then in 2006, he found work with the tuscaloosa police department as a dispatch operator. it would be the same year he married his wife, leana, who also grew up in the area. he would stay in tuscaloosa until 2012 to earn a bachelor of science degree at the university he once worked. and then it was off to atlanta, georgia, for a new job as a web developer for home depot, a move that would change his life. back in his hometown of tuscaloosa, his family and friends have been instructed by a lawyer not to talk to the media. all of them waiting to find out if little cooper s death was a tragic mistake or something else. nick valencia joining us live now from tuscaloosa. so, nick, we know police have seized computers from the
today is day two of the testimony in a trial against him. and one of his neighbors, christie daniels is on the stand right now. you never know what a jury is going to season. so every detail is critical. nancy grace joins us right now. she s been covering the kag. yesterday, when we checked in with you, we were at the beginning. and it was the state shocking us with details that we haven t heard before. then you always know the defense comes right after. there was a lot they did to poke holes. what s happening in what the defense said yesterday? zblrtd well, the state is putting on a very good case. i was a little disturbed that one of their main witnesses so far, that is, we re only a few days into the trial, the 911 dispatcher, all along it had been presented that martin macneill gave the wrong address to 911. he didn t. the 911 dispatch operator was