Frb environmentalists. From environmentalists. Jason rezaian. The me from his family the plea from his family to release him. A defining day for world dissident iweiwei as china finally gives back his passport. We begin with the circumstances surrounding the death much sandra bland and the questions that continue to grow. The racially charged case started with a contentious and controversial traffic stop. Three days later her body was found in her jail cell. The jailers said it was a suicide. Her family said she wouldnt take her own life. Much attention is focusing on that initial encounter with a state trooper on waller county, texas. Tristan atone has more. Get out of the car. I will light you up. Getget out now forced the Texas Department of Public Safety to rerelease the tape as authorities insisted that it was not edited or manipulate ed. Manipulated. The film had been criticized for having gaps and overlaps. Dps said it was a problem when they loaded the video file onto the internet. We will not say it is been tampered with. We dont know if it has not. We simply dont know. Im not a fren sis media examiner. But now i know that we are going to have to get one. Reporter questions involving the dash cax video cam video is just one question surrounding blands death. Sandy was pulled over for failure to indicate a proper lane change and in looking at that as her sister i simply feel like the officer was picking on her point blank period. Blands friends are also speaking out. For me im not so much concerned about that. But what was said what was done and how this all could have been avoided had all of this been held different. While the circumstances of sandras death remain guarded Authorities Say she hung herself in her cell using a garbage can liner. Her family deserves answers and the fbi and the Texas Rangers will continue their work to find out the truth. Meanwhile, blands representatives await the results from an independent autopsy. Her funeral will be held on saturday in chicago. In lyle, illinois, a suburb of chicago. Texas governor grek greg abbott weighed in today and said authorities are investigating. John. Did they piece together the events that led to san Sandra Blands death the dash cam video is being intensely scrutinized. Morgan radford is here with the story. Morgan. Now some are questioning the legality of the officers procedure so we went through video step by step. This dashboard video of an officer stopping san sandra bland gives clues into how bland was sent to jail and was dead days later. What was your first thought when you saw this video . I wanted to see more. I wanted to understand exactly what happened, how the officer interacted with her and then what happened thereafter when she got to prison. Thomas ruskin is a former new York City Police officer. We asked him to analyze the video with us. Lets go into the video edit bay. He seemed irritated. Is that something you would say first off when you stop them . Its possible, but its also normal for someone to say yes im irritated, im in a rush. What happened. Shouldnt have any effect on what the officer goes next. Would you mind putting out your cigarette please . Im in my car. Why do i have to put out my cigarette . You can step out of the car. I dont have to. He says step out. She says i dont have to step out. Is that true . If hes ordering her out of the car he is ordering her out. It is a lawful order. Should he order her out of the scar . I dont know why hes ordering her out. Tactically youre taught shes better off in the car. Tactically you have more control of someone or some people while theyre in the car than i do if people are roaming around or if im removing someone into moving traffic there. The traffic stop then quickly escalates. Get out the car i will light you up, get out. Ruskin then says the officer knows this is a complicated situation. Okay, all right. Lets do this. Yes were going to. It appears to me hes calling for assistance hes asking for backup. He now knows hesen going to hes going to have a confrontation with a driver who hes lawfully able to arrest. Did bland have the right to know what she was being arrested for . Ruskin says she did not. So again shes asking why am i being arrested and no ones telling her. He doesnt have to tell her. Hes told her shes under arrest. Put your hands behind you and turn around. Shes basically heightening the situation up. And for the officers behavior . Knock my head in the ground, i have epilepsy. When she said i have epilepsy, he said good. Was this professional conduct from a Police Officer . A cop sometimes can let his emotions or her emotions get carried away. Should he have said good you have epilepsy, no. Im sure in receipt strow expect he would take that back. Had she gotten out of the car and stopped the lip service she really would have done better. John, questions were raised whether that video was altered. Now a new version of the dash cam video is released that is english freeglitchfree. It is about three minutes shorter. Protocol parties must follow, for proper dissemination of evidence. If this woman had been white how would it have been different in your opinion . First of all she wouldnt have been dead. And i think every single incident right black people, people of color poor people are regularly stopped because they are disrupting or causing a mishap right . So i think what we saw in this video and what we will continue to see is that Police Officers regularly stop communities of color and other type of communities, very differently. Its referred to by driving while black. Right. What does that mean . I mean theres a phrase for everything. Walking while black carrying a wallet while black and a suspicion that black people are criminal. That we are deviant and that we are doing something not out of the ordinary and that we are perceived to be criminal. Driving while black is a ready that black people have to go through of driving in their car and the fear they might get stopped one day and get pressfor something that they may not be necessarily in the beginning of this the focus was on the suicide. Sch uhhuh. The possible suicide. But lets keep that question to the side for a second. Lets just look at the traffic stop. So what does that tell you thats going on in our society . Is this just an isolated incident . That could happen to white americans as well as black americans . Or does it Say Something more considering everything weve seen especially in the last year and a half . Absolutely not. I think that like, also in the consideration of the thoughts that this was suicidal, right there is a clear dehumanization thats happening of a black woman, a mischaracterization. You saw that in the video the Police Officer being violent and aggressive and there was a spaifs dehumanization. Whenever that is happening or you are interacting with a Police Officer there is a bit of dehumanization because there is a power over someone. Did she do anything wrong . No, i think she did everything she was talking back to the cop. Shes also an activist and knows her rights. Dont many in the movement that youve been part of have this talk to their children, dont talk back to cops, you could get in trouble you could lose your life. Yeah but did she violate that no because right now people all across this country black people are standing up for themselves and black people feel empowered to really take over their communities and do something about their lives and living it. In these coming days a thousand black people are going to be convening in Cleveland Ohio in recognition that this has been one year since airveg garner and eric garner and one year since mike brown. I think what you saw with sandra bland is no, enough is enough, i dont want to be in fear again. Dante, good to see you again. Thank you very much. Ferguson, missouri has a new top Police Officer. Andre anderson is the Second Interim police chief since march. Anderson takes control as the force struggles to stay control there. In rules handed down by the u. S. Justice department. Lowrnlings has thelori jane gliha has the story. Lori. Its only a six month interim position but he says eventually he would like to be considered for the full time police job. I believe that i am the right person for this particular job. So lets talk about my first plan of action. And that is simply to build trust, to develop community policing, in this area, theres a lot of work to be done, im ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work and i appreciate this opportunity. And john, he already has a lot of plans. He says he wants to do several points of training that are going to go on here. He wants to do deescalation training, he want to do bias Awareness Training and the way the police get out in the community and community policing. Whats changed since this Justice Department report regarding the Ferguson Police department . Well, there are a lot of things that have changed over the last year. For one theyve implemented body cams. Theyve worked on developing the citizen review board which is almost complete. They haven away with excessive tickets and fees that go with court fines. They have put in a new municipality judge theyve tried to have Municipal Court judge, and they have police more out in the community. If you talk to people here there is still a lot more that needs to be done. Lori jane gliha in ferguson, lori thank you. The man who is accused of killing nine people at an Historic South Carolina church are dylann roof, has been indicted on 33 counts. Mike viqueria has more from washington. Good evening john, attorney general Loretta Lynch unveiled a 33count indictment against dylann roof. Roof was plotting the attack for several months in advance. He be planned the location, mother emanuel for months before hand. To his mind, to roofs mind get revenge for perceived injustices by African Americans against whites use of tors to obstruct be religious beliefs and using a firearm for racially motivated murders. He is eligible for the Death Penalty, up to life or the Death Penalty and no decision whether or not she will seek that and ultimately it will be lynchs decision on whether he is found guilty or put to death on these federal charges. We believe that the evidence will support the allegation that roof chose mother emanuel because it was an old church, Historic Church and that it was historically significant as one of the oldest African American churches not just in South Carolina but in the nation. And john, lynched went on to call the allegation against roof the ultimate charges. Ill talk to a person who left the community about his experience. And donald trump support seemingseemsto be growing. Ir the white house has Given Royal Dutch Shell the final goahead to drill for oil in the alaska coast. Its a project thats drawn anger from environmental groups who see it as a threat to the areas pristine coast. Allen schauffler is in seattle. Allen. Good evening john. Shell now has permission to drill at two sites off the north coast of alaska. We understand preliminary early work at this point they cant actually drill deep into the soil where the oil is. There is a piece of equipment a capping stack that they have to have in place before they begin that deep drilling. The piece of equipment thats used in case theres an accident to cap the well, that piece of equipment is on board the ship and that ship is headed to Portland Oregon for repair to its hull. Activists are planning a reception, they hope, the kayaktivists socalled, that be be protested when it came into seattle earlier this summer. They did not stop the rig from moving into alaskan waters where it is now getting prepped for that drilling. A shell spokesman has repeatedly told us in the past that they have committed resources to safety and cleanup operations if necessary and have a big fleet in place off the alaskan coast in the arctic just in case theres an accident. Weve heard that over and over. Shell has also turned down our request repeatedly to go north with our cameras and document their efforts to keep things safe as they drill. We would certainly like to get up there to show everybody how much work theyre doing for that end. Still no time line, they have to get that ship fixed get that capping stack back up into the arctic ocean have it inspected and have the federal regulatory inspectors very sure its ready to go and then they can begin the deep drilling. John. Allen schauffler, thank you. This week, be peggy player took her own life by jumping from the at which time story rooftop bar. They say mayer was deeply troubled by her past, raised in an ultraorthodox ha Hasidic Community. She felt like an outcast even by her own family. A National Geographic documentary. From the age of 3 i already showed no interest in yiddish or hebrew or anything. Such a young child im not interested in that. A traditional orthodox funeral for feggie may are was held in brooklyn yesterday. According to reports about a third of the mourners were members of the Hasidic Community. Wrote a book about his experience called all who go do not return. Shulam dean is in our studio, nice to have you. Nice to be here. You knew feggie. I did. Youve known her story. I knew her for about five years. She was part of our extended community, folks who have left the Hasidic Community. For those of you who have been through this experience tell us what its like to hear news like this . Its absolutely devastating. People who leave the Hasidic Community, it takes a while to find your place but most importantly you lose your supports, connection to family and community the Hasidic Community shuns and ostracizes and shaims those who leave it. One, to punish those who leave and two, to discourage others from leaving. You paid a price for leaving . Oh yes. What is your punishment . I had no contact with my children. How many . I have five children. I didnt lose them in court i lost them it was the Community Coming together to fight me in court and also, the children being turned against me. They were indoctrinated that i was an evil wicked father not to be associated with. This sounds like cult dk librarylikebehavior. We hear about the moonieless and others. Is it fair to compare this sect with cults . The one i was from, they were a particular small village quasitheocracy led by the spiritual leader. Some places are more open. Places here in brooklyn are maybe not as insular and may not be fair to compare them. But you could make the case that they too are cultish. You lost contact with your family. You lost some friends i would assume. Oh, every one. So whats your life like now and how tough is this . Now its seven years later and i have a Wonderful Community of friends. Im part of an Organization Called footsteps which is a new york city based organization that provides emotional vocational support and we are a very, very Strong Community and this affects us very badly when theres a tragedy like this. Still emotional for you. Oh yeah. Every day . Yeah for sure. Can you express some of those feelings that you go through and how it comes up . Well, my oldest daughter who is now 20, i got married when i was 18 so we had children young five children. My eldest daughter who is 20 got married two years ago. I was very certain that would be the moment she reaches out to me. Or shell call me and reach out to me and invite me to the wedding but she didnt do that. That was a very, very painful thing. One of my other children has tried to reach out to me, sent me a car and i wasnt able to reach out to her and in return i got return to sender mail that i sent to them, so theres no way for me to penetrate sort of the walls around them. You talked about the high suicide rate for those who leave leave. Why do you think that is . Be those whothose who leave are its a really difficult journey. You find yourself for a long time in a lonely place. Ive struggled with depression myself. Ive been hospitalized for it. When things all came to a head in 2009 when i was fighting to maintain contact with my children and realized that there was no way that i could fight the community with their institutional resources that they use that they leveraged against me, i felt completely hopeless. And that is i think thats where it comes from. And i know weve had many incidents and there are many who have better than close. They have been saved because there are the supports that do exist to some degree although i wish there were more. Would you make a different decision if you had to do it over again . If i knew it, if i knew what would happen i probably would not have the courage to do it. I wouldnt be able to make a decision where i would know that i would certainly lose contact with my children. But im glad that i made it. And at this point in my life because i do have a very good life now and im where i want to be. We appreciate you sharing your story with us tonight thank you very much. Thank you. Coming up next, the american prisoner held in iran for ayear newayear new attempts to set free Jason Rezaian. And sheaths the top ranking ranking female in the service. Hi everyone. This is Al Jazeera America im john siegenthaler. Behindjohn siegenthaler. Behind bars. A u. S. Journalist marks one year in an iranian prison. We are working very hard. Could the landmark nuclear deal help set him free . Trumped up. I see rick perry the other day and hes hes doing very poorly in the polls. He put glasses on so people will think hes smart. Leading the republican field stealing the