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Unarmed black man that happened nearly a year ago. >> they are often forced to make split second decisions, tense, rapid evolving circumstances. rachel: the da says stefan clark was in a shooting position and holding a cell phone mistaken with a gun. the decision was met with many protests. >> no peace for the killers, police. rachel: clarks family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. the desperate search for two young sisters is intensifying after they disappeared near their california home. 8-yea...

Scenario training where you are in a real life scenario with paid actors like a situation you might experience on the border. i thought this was so important. this is new this year at the academy. because they were realizing they really werent training agents properly to enter the field. and what this scenario training does is allow them to learn how to make split second decisions, whether or not to draw the firearm or use a less lethal method. and the academy is hoping that theyll be able to re...

Which is giving guns to teachers, and, of course, thats his way of not dealing with the assault weapons ban, he wants to change the subject. >> exactly. >> lets listen to what one of your teachers, greg pitman had to say about this. >> as teachers were used to making split second decisions, i dont want to have to take a split second decision to decide are you a threat to my class, as a student, do i need to shoot you? what if i make a mistake and shoot and kill a student by accident? act on what...

With them to come to some sort of compromise where we ensure that nobody who is mentally unstable, has a history of domestic violence, or a criminal record is able to get these weapons. we have to deal with that as it is now, because the republicans, supported by the nra are in control until midterms, hopefully. because theyre in control, we have to work with them for now. but im sure if they dont work with us, its all right because they wont be around for much longer. >> david, i also want to a...

Officer. i get your pointed, yes. >> its a critically important point, because at the end of the day, the universe that makes possible this expansive shooting of unarmed people or suspected people is held up by supreme court decisions, tennessee versus garner in 1985 and graham versus connor in 1989 both born in the midst of the war on drugs. if we want to see what makes it possible for police to shoot fleeing suspects or if we want to use the standard of objective reasonableness, that in those ...

Do you understand? >> yes. >> standby. >> hey sh, hey. back up, back up. back up! put your hands up. put your hands up. drop the knife right now. drop it. >> reporter: while the volunteers make split second decisions, brain waves and hard rates checked part of an ambitious research project at washington state university partly funded by the defense department with the goal of improving justice in america. professor brian viola is the man in charge. >> we dont know yet still 100 some years since ...

Put your hands up. drop the knife. drop it. >> reporter: while the volunteers make split second decisions, brain waves and hard rates checked part of an ambitious research project at washington state university partly funded by the defense department with the goal of improving justice in america. >> we dont know yet still 100 some years since teddy roosevelt had the first police firearms training in new york, we still dont know whether theres a connection between the training we give police offi...

There is something called the internet that still exists in the world. these clips are so available, statements live online, and it basically is a flip flop. the other thing is on a foreign policy level, look, republicans and democrats, you know, there has been bipartisan support for humanitarian intervention in the past. to make this a wedge issue i dont think plays well for either side. >> chris, lets list tone what haley barbour said about gays serving in the military. i think we will hear mo...

College student skipping down the road? >> these are split second decisions. these officers live or die by those split second decisions. megyn: i get that. i mean i feel for the police. they have one of the most dangerous jobs in this country. however, he was skipping down the road. not touching anybody. lets show it. we slowed it down. watch this kid. here he is. now he gets closer to the cop on the horse. this is where they say he attacked the the cops. do you see an attack? is he attacking? >...