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Boy walking near a playground. hes 12-year-old tamir rice and hes playing with a toy. from a distance, it can look like a real gun. a bystander calls 911. >> theres a guy with a pistol pointing it at everybody. >> reporter: less than two seconds after police drive up, the 12-year-old, again carrying a toy, is shot and killed at close range. the 26-year-old police officer who shot him, timothy loman, had only recently been hired by the cleveland police. at his previous job, the officers personnel...

I do not believe time or training can correct the deficiencies. loehmann was distracted and weepy and incommunicative on the gun range. due to his inability to manage personal stress i do not believe he shows the maturity needed to work in our employment. officer loehmann was recommended for dismissal from the independence police force after just six months, but he was allowed to just resign. when the cleveland police department hired mr. loehmann, they did so without having seen that personnel ...

Officer? what i do know is given his behavior at the police pistol range and a deputy chiefs assessment of that behavior, that guy should not have been a police officer. you need to have a strong emotional constitution, personal maturity, self-discipline, kind of confidence thats necessary to protect, not only yourself but the people youve been hired to serve. and where we see evidence of the lack of those qualities on the part of a recruit police officer undergoing his academy training, it is t...

Everybody can understand basic safety, personal officer safety, but we need to understand that when police officers put on that badge and swear to uphold the constitution and provide public safety services, they are inevitably taking on a certain risk. and i think theyve in many cases blown well out of proportion the risks to their own safety. >> yeah. and just to put together a couple of things youve said. i think a lot of people would very much agree with you. but also the fact that police hav...

Now shes one of the shooting worlds youngest rising female stars with her own facebook fan page and youtube channel. >> were on our way to georgia for my big match. >> reporter: we followed her to georgia. the first national womens competition of its kind. 200 women shooters from around the country have come to compete for the two-day event. cheyenne is the youngest, but not the only girl there. like cheyenne, this woman started competing at just 8 years old and says thats not too young at all. ...

Being constructed to get attention. but there are folks there who are working really hard. i think theres a maturity of the conversation right now that can lead us to actually getting some concrete results. and in the two years i have remaining as president, im going to make sure that we follow through, not to solve every problem, not to tear down every barrier of mistrust that may exist. but to make things better. and thats how progress is always made in this great country of ours. thank you ve...

People who arent be constructive that get attention but there are folks there who are working really hard. i think theres a maturity to the conversation right now that can lead us to actually getting some concrete results. and in the two years i have remaining as president, im going to make sure that we follow through. not to solve every problem, not to tear down every barrier of mistrust that may exist, but to make things better. and thats how progress is always made in this country country of ...

Shift? >> i found it fascinating. when i came out and said donald rumsfeld has to resign, the iraq war is failing, oh, hes a grumpy old man. if i say the president has to replace his national security team. excuse me. when i say donald rumsfeld -- theres the brave maverick standing up against his own party. when i say the national security team is not serving this president well, hes a grumpy old man. >> and everyone is on twitter ten seconds later saying mccain said this or taking shots at you....

Shift? >> i found it fascinating. when i came out and said donald rumsfeld has to resign, the iraq war is failing, oh, hes a grumpy old man. if i say the president has to replace his national security team. excuse me. when i say donald rumsfeld -- theres the brave maverick standing up against his own party. when i say the national security team is not serving this president well, hes a grumpy old man. >> and everyone is on twitter ten seconds later saying mccain said this or taking shots at you....

Astronaut was -- meaning he was the guy communicating with armstrong and aldrin. >> the specialness, if you will of the 45th anniversary of apollo 11 is that we have indeed achieved a maturity in the space program, we built, operated, very successfully the entire space shuttle program. we now have an international space station with multinational participation in orbit operating. >> neil armstrong died about two years ago, but both buzz aldrin as well as michael collins who commanded the surface...