shooting have been placed on leave and the fbi is investigating. the website hacker group anonymous was behind this weekend s protest. the group posted it s own version of the police shooting video and threatened to shut down the apd s website, which it successfully did just one hour before sunday s march began. protesters say boyd s death is just the latest in a string of police using excessive force. the department of justice has been investigating the albuquerque department since 2012. according to an account by the associated press, of the 37 shootings on record by the albuquerque police since 2010, 23 have been fatal. critics say that number is disproportionate for a city of 554,000 people. tony decople writes about police brutality. you write about the bigger
girls who say they were sexually assaulted and then humiliated by images that were circulating online. so the internet for them was part of the problem and then people who were activists on the internet wanted to also use social media to try to help these girls. give us an example. have they been able to make a difference? they have. there is a case of a girl in nova scotia who very sadly committed suicide after she alleged sexual assault and these compromising photos and the police took a year, investigated, said they weren t going to bring any charges. then, some activists started really picking up a fuss online from the hacker group anonymous and new evidence surfaced in the case and the police and prosecutors changed their mind and eventually brought charges against two boys. so run through i mean, what is interesting is while these groups have gained some
there was a big disagreement between senator mccain and secretary panetta about the u.s. going alone into syria. mccain made a very strong point going back to the 90s saying, look, when the atrocities were happening in bosnia, the united states acted and it s time for us to act here. he had a very pointed question to panetta saying, how many more tens of thousands have to die before you re willing to go in? but panetta countered and said, look, i m not going to send american troops, men and women, into this situation unless i m sure of exactly what we can accomplish there. we heard today some of the real factors that the u.s. is considering, you know, that you ve got 100 different groups as part of the opposition, so not a clear idea of who they are. high density, high population centers, and a syrian air defense force that presents much, much more challenging defenses than libya s did. let me ask you about this. the exchange specifically about the u.s. asking permission
investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. that is what is right and fair. in other words, we re only going to stop funding if there is evidence of some criminal wrongdoing, not simply because a congressman somewhere launches an investigation. planned parenthood is saying it is very grateful to get refunded. komen changed this or reversed this decision mighty fast. i mean the outcry worked. boy, they sure did. quickly but they were email, shep, plus 26 senators and some of komen s affiliates were openly upset. on the other side donations were pouring into planned parenthood. 400,000 plus $250,000 matching gift from billionaire mayor from new york city michael bloomberg. shep? shhh. shepard: greg jarrett in new york s newsroom tonight, thank you. police in boston and in salt lake city among others are reporting that the hacker
good evening. i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett. the iowa caucus is just eight days away. republican presidential candidates have just over a week left to prove to iowans that they re the first to win the nation s contest held on january 3rd. polls show the race there is still very much up for grabs, but there was only one candidate out today with an official campaign event and it wasn t one of those top three. it was rick santorum and he went hunting with an important guest. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins us now with more. who is this special guest that got rick santorum out on a campaign event today? he s congressman steve king, a very prominent republican from the state of iowa whose endorsement is coveted big time. he didn t endorse santorum today and i spoke with him by phone as he was driving in the car, ali, to this hunting event with rick santorum. he told me he d planned to endorse months ago. he wanted to back one of these candidat