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Your son. and jason pollock, thank you so much. i appreciate both of you very much. >> thank you. >> youre welcome. >> so in the last 15 minutes, hearing two sides of a story. i have david klinger with me, author of the book "into the kill zone: a cops eye view of deadly force." david, its nice to see you again. we talked so much about this. you were in the weeds of this story in ferguson. you heard first, there was the first we all heard from the top cop in st. louis county, now youve heard fro...

Although in the past ive consulted, for example, on the rose parade in pasadena. we were quite concerned about the type of attack we saw on the 14th of july in nice, where an individual took a truck and drove it through a crowd and killed 87 people. you know, when you have an inauguration route that is going to be used when the president is sworn in, you have got to do more to protect the side streets approaching. i mean, physical barriers. this is going to be something, and dwoent have to worry...

Nations official. >> the aleppo offensive by syrian and russian military forces has been the most sustained and intensive aerial bombardment campaign witnessed since the beginning of the conflict more than half a decade ago. the results in human terms have been horrific. aleppo has essentially become a kill zone. >> reporter: the fact is there are flow angels in this awful grinding five-year war. in the last few days, independent observers have accused both the syrian regime and the rebels of ca...

Situation in the region of aleppo has seriously deterior e deteriorated. the cease-fire is broken by the opposition. the united states and their allies in the region were unwilling or unable to maintain the cease-fire. >> reporter: the syrian government bombed the sieged aleppo four months killing at least 400 people there in october alone according to a top united nations official. >> the aleppo official by syrian and russian forces were the most sustained campaign witnesses the beginning of th...

Wheeler. the driver in truck eight is shot. >> eight, going down -- >> i knew it was going bad then. >> we gotta get out of the kill zone. >> wheelers camera captures the growing panic. >> jesus christ, help us all, lord. i got six and seven behind me. theyre screaming at me to go, go, go, go. you know, everybodys on the radios hollering, wanting to get out of there. and im scared to death, just like everybody else is. [ gunfire ] >> the drivers try to keep moving and get out of harms way, but s...

And what the french authorities and authorities across europe is going to be doing, theyre going to be wanting to find that bomb making facility. youre seeing the video of the raid. where are these bombs being made? and this shows operational security, this shows that theres the ability to make these powerful vests, which are probably most available there. it shows operational security. keeping the plans secret. bringing these to the right time and right place. were finding out looks as though t...

A private investigator video analy analyst. if you have an officer trying to de-escalate a situation and the individual was resisting arrest and the individual also had a knife on him, you have a gun, why shoot and kill in. >> well, there are reasons to shoot and kill and there are reasons to hold fire, and here are what the general rules of thumb are. if an individual is holding a knife and they are outside of your general kill zone, which is normally three to six feet, you know, if they are th...

Ive got it on video, by god! >> only three trucks behind wheeler. the driver in truck eight is shot. >> eight, going down -- >> i knew it was going bad then. >> we gotta get out of the kill zone. >> wheelers camera captures the growing panic. >> jesus christ, help us all, lord. i got six and seven behind me. theyre screaming at me to go, go, go, go. you know, everybodys on the radios hollering, wanting to get out of there. and im scared to death, just like everybody else is. [ gunfire ] >> the d...

Trained and that is embedded in his head and his psyche, he then believes under all circumstances, that 21 foot is an actual kill zone. i think the report is encouraging a more wholistic and comprehensive police training and tactics, even as it relates to the continuum of forceful. >> what stands out to you? >> they dont mince words. cops dont get enough hands-on training. this is well known. what else stands out is that good ideas, thing like not shooting at cars, as marq indicates, slowing thi...

Police officers, mark claxton, the director of black law enforcement alliance, and eugene odonald, professor at john jay college for criminal justice. thank you both for being here. >> thanks. >> i mentioned how the report says slow things down. mark, what does that look like in a real life situation? >> i think the points of the report are they refer to things such as tactical disengage sxmt de-escalation as to what commonly occurs or what has been during more recently. full involvement, head o...