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You know, you can take a look at the situation, and you can say, wow, 3:15 in the morning, and you have an officer on edge pulling up, and you have somebody in the car who is african-american who has a gun in the car, and we dont know whether it is legal or not, and im going to assume that it is for the sake of this particular story, but the one thing that was said tonight that i this think that we need to focus on was said by mark, and that is what are the forensics, because -- >> no dash cam, ...

Youre going to have, i dont mean to be unnecessarily sensitive, but the shell casings will land in a certain pattern, the victims body will land in a certain pattern. you have to make sure that statement is consistent with the facts as you know that. canvass. maybe somebody saw something, driving by and saw something. in the end, if nothing else happens, you have the victims statement and the forensics that you can glean from the investigation. >> we were talking here on the commercial. in new y...

Whenever you have that level of testosterone or adrenaline or whatever it is, you will have more mistakes. the forensics are going to be very important, and how far away was he when the gun was shot, and certainly whether or not r cory jones gun was discharge and this is a complete game-changer whether or not the officerss action was justified. >> mel, i nknow that you have a loft questions a about the gun. and this is a statement from the palm beach gardens police department. as the officer exi...

Was, and we all look at it and make it look in the light most favorable to our position, and not going to say that it is a lie, but it is only his int interpretation, and that is why every cop car that a cop is in and the urine form that they wear have to have a camera on it, because these questions will not be answered to nubs satisfaction once it is just the opinion. >> but the forensics, mark, on the crime scene itself will tell a story, and they will check to see if that matches the officers...

As he walked down these stairs the police did attempt to tell him to stop. they -- he at that point the individual dressed in camouflage did not heed those calls, continued to run maybe about 50 or so yards right into the center there of that main amphitheater, if you will, that leads ultimately into the damascus gate into the old city. it was by the time that he got there he had already been shot several times. you can see now municipality workers cleaning the scene of where that shooting took ...

Gate. we couldnt see very clearly whether he was holding anything or whether there was anything on him. now, i can tell you just by the sheer fact that the israeli security forces are able to get that close to the body, they certainly feel a certain degree of comfort that he doesnt have anything at least of any harm to them from where they are right now. as you can see, the scene here remains very chaotic. the police have closed off one of these main roads in east jerusalem. you can continue to ...

Ukrainians say that that was fired either by russian separatists or by russian forces themselves. the russians deny that. they say absolutely not, it was fired by ukrainian forces who also have access to the same type of missile. so today youve got this very compelling piece of forensics investigative body of work thats now been concluded by the dutch. they have not yet said who fired the missile but they say the evidence is very clear what brought down malaysia flight 17, 298 people from a doze...

And just dropping it. you know, and then we moved on to the next one. >> by 8:00 p.m., the police had already killed dozens of thompsons animals, with many large cats and bears still on the loose, detectives approached thompsons body to do their forensics. >> the sheriff told me to take charge of the investigation of the body.

>> the question is, did he follow through with it? >> never once did i say, "yeah, i will solidly do this for you." never once did i tell him "yes, i will do this." >> the district attorneys office wasnt buying johns story, and were betting the jury wouldnt either. >> the prosecutions story was pretty clear. that john rams had been hired to do this job and todd reine had hired him to do it. >> but the forensics told a very different story. >> there was no fiber, fingerprint, dna, trace, ballisti...

Bring that to you, but the sheriff so angry yesterday and giving the news briefing of what happened here and why he would not dare utter the killers name. >> no, i dont. i dont want to glorify the shooter. i want dont want to glorify his name or his cause. in order to prevent is that im refusing to state his name. the oregon state medical examiners office will put out a notice identifying who the shooter is, but again, thats the only information that will come out. you wont hear his name from me...