She died on the effects of alcoholism. At 21 . At 21. And hear the story of the star spangled banner and the song it inspired on the 200th anniversary of the american flag, long may it wave. And good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. What would you do if you discovered a stranger trying to break into your home with no time to call for help . Would you grap a weapon . Grab a weapon . Would you take the security of your family into your own hands . Droit citizens and the police chief say theyre within their rights. To think twice and shoot first. Where is the safety . This is the safeties. Hadnt touched her familys semi automatic rifle in years. But the 27yearold mother knew exactly how to pull the trigger when a group of teens tried to blake into her detroit home. This is the first hole you shot . Thats the warning shot. Shots. This is right here out the door. So you fired from here . I fired from here. Surveillance video shows the boys had been casing the house in the february snow for a half hour before they finally made a daring move to force open her back door. Mitchell was ready for them. Right now [ gunshot ] were you prepared to kill someone if that was the end result . Killing was far from my thought. I didnt think i was going to kill anyone. I didnt want to kill anyone just scare one. Five of those intruders were killed. Mitchell didnt hit anyone but she says she knew her gun would provide more protection than the police. Did you think about calling 911 before you called the police . No. Why . They not around the corner. They could have broke in took my stuff hurt me hurt the kids, been long gone and the police still arent here. Michigans 2006 selfdefense law protects homeowners who defend themselves with deadly force whether they honestly believe their life is in danger in hai their home. Detroit ranked the most dangerous big city. Yvonne mcgee bought a gun two years ago. Until a pitch black morning this year. Did you see him or you actually heard him first . I was right here. This close to the window . I was here. She says she was on the phone with 911 when a man with a crowbar broke through her back window. I said to him if you come in im going to shoot him. My son was saying, shoot him mama, shoot him. I said, no, he needs to come in. When he saw me, i discharged my weapon. He yelled so loud. What was that moment like, when you realized, i could have killed that guy. I felt bad had he died but at that moment i felt anger how dare you come in my house i was so angry at that moment until i felt good, i svelte great. You i felt great. Police officers will not be on every corner in front of every house every minute of the day. James craig joined the city, a little over a year ago. When i came here, its fair to say many know who live in detroit had no confidence in this police department. You know, Response Time set roughly about 58 minutes to l 911 calls to service. Just as an example. During craigs short tenure, there has been some successes. Violent crimes down 200 in 2014, compared to the same period last year. And craig says, the Response Time to 911 emergencies is now below 11 minutes. But these days craig is getting the most attention to encourage law abiding citizens to defend themselves with guns. Hes repeated his message in Television Appearance after Television Appearance. A wellarmed good citizen can be the biggest deterrent to violent crime. We look at our Good Community members that have concealed weapons. Theres a greater likelihood in the sthif city of detroit that city of detroit that they shoot. I dont support vigilantism. What i have continually stated is this is about self defense. This is a person confronted with imminent threat. What is your answer to those who break into someones house will they get what they deserve, if they are shot and killed . Thats a terrible statement, they get what they deserve. The better message is, make a decision, dont do it. Devana webb, her 15yearold son Demonte Moore accompanied his friend to a house. The man inside shot them both. I could see the big street from my door. I said my son aint gone, my son is going to turn that corner in a minute, walking. He never turned it. The initial Police Report says webbs son was trying to break into the home. A claim webb questions. The autopsy says he suffered multiple gunshot wounds. He collapsed on the sidewalk outside this home. Whats it like for you to come to this spot . I just wish he could have lived. The Police Report says trying the break in. That means that they didnt step a foot in that house, they didnt break in. Instead of it being a case of self defense, webb wonders if her son was simply caught in the middle of a quarrel between the homeowner and the girl he was with. If he was breaking in the house and he got shot, okay. But now that im investigating in the story more, now i have a problem. He didnt know my son. He knew the girl. The man who shot moore hasnt responded to our requests for an interview. And an investigation is ongoing. I said once the chief was acting like the old west. Ron scott is with the Detroit Coalition against police brutality. He worries the chief has made it too easy for shooters to claim selfdefense. So you think hes encouraging the gun . I think so. Chief is not highlighting options that people have taken as opposed to shooting someone. I think you can retreat to an area in the home which is a little safer than the other places. I think you can use other weapons if you have to use them that are less than lethal. Do you think that the police are doing a good job when it comes to helping assess these are less than homicides . Not when they come out when the shooting is fresh and say thats what you get for breaking into someones home. My comments isnt to incite. This is about self defense. People are sick and tired of homes broken into in detroit. Thats the case. Same situation in the future each would pull the trigger again in a heartbeat. America tonights Lori Jane Gliha joins us here. Is the chief suggesting the situation in detroit is really Something Different than anywhere else in the country or does he think this sort of thinking would apply elsewhere . Detroit is a unique situation in the way that crime happens there. To put it in perspective, theres already been more than 5,000 violent crimes, there is sort of a feeling in the culture there, and especially after years of slow Response Times, that people do feel like they need to do Something Differently than just depend on 911. That said, theres been in recent years a strong push for people to mention, remind themselves that they have a right to bear arms. The chiefs way of practice, coming from los angeles where he was a police officer, talked about conceal carry law was unheard of. Then he went to new england, and the people said we carry guns there and thats why the crime is down. He changed his opinion. Whether this is happening on nationwide, detroit is a unique crime. If the police chief is saying all right, there are instance he where this is justified as self defense, it is not up to him, it goes to prosecutors and judges. Thats true. Some are saying hes encouraging this or encouraging justified homicides. He doesnt have anything to do with the siting personally whether it is justified, it goes to the prosecutors office. Police do influence what the prosecutor is looking at but its up to the prosecutor to call it a justified homicide or not. America tonights Lori Jane Gliha, thanks very much. After the break, on america tonight, return to baghdad . As a Violent Group gets closer to baghdad, president obama warns, it could be a threat to the u. S. As well. Also on our show, bowe bergdahl, prisoners find it tough but you can go home again. I find it immoral to destroy Something Like this an epic fight to preserve a way of life. We ask for strength as we take on one of the most powerful forces on the globe a battle for the very soul of this state, but is time running out . Its a wholesale effort to buy government. Fault lines Al Jazeera Americas ground breaking. We have to get out of here. Award winning investigative documentary series wisconsins mining standoff on Al Jazeera America guns. There are two to three million guns in a population of only 8 million people. And gun laws. After those laws came in, there have been no more mass shootings. How Different Countries decide. Their father had a gun. Their grandfather had a gun. Who has the right to bear arms . 5 days guns around the world a primetime news special series all next week only on Al Jazeera America now as the violence in iraq, a small brut vicious group moves closer to baghdad, sunni rebels are now said to be just 40 miles from baghdad, theyve already taken over large parts of Northern Iraq. Theyre part of the i. S. I. L, a group that was once rejected by al qaeda, a growing power so threatening that thousands of Iraqi Military cut and run, rather than face them on the battle field. In response, irans president hasan rouhani, has pledged hes support to iraq his support to iraqs prime minister. They will have to act fast. After sweeping rapidly through Northern Iraq and leading little resistance, the i. S. I. L. Fighters gain ground, making ground in diala province. In an unauthenticated recording, raising the pressure on the shiite government to be prepared to fight back. I call on iraqis who are capable of carrying arms, in defense of their people, their country and their holy shrines should volunteer to achieve this sacred goal. A quick response. We have volunteered to defeat the criminal i. S. I. L. Fighters. Well go to mosul and god willing we will fight them. The promise of attack and response also raises the risk of iraqi civilians. Hundreds already fleeing the now rebel held cities and fleeing to the relative security of the northern kurdish region acknowledge fearing the sunni i. S. I. L. Forces against others. The situation is terrible. Our normal life has been destroyed. The exist are tension. We are all turkmen. Thats why we left our homes and came here. Many have no money, nowhere to go. The deteriorating situation has forced the prime minister, nouri almaliki. To ask for help from the United States government. The president says military operations are once again on the table although not including boots on the ground. The solution he says must be with the iraqi government. The United States will do our part but understand that ultimately its up to the iraqis as a sovereign nation to solve their problems. What happens next in iraq will depend on the army which by some estimates lost more than 30,000 men when they deserted their bases in mosul. Al jazeera asked them why they fled. We fought for five days and ran pout of ammunition. We asked for support and nothing arrived. We asked for ammunition, nothing arrived. How can i continue fighting . The big commanders ran away. They left us with nothing. They took a lot of equipment. We were based at the mosul hold. They took the hostages and took them, they seized tanks, armored vehicles. Its a catastrophe. U. S. Army bowe bergdahl, there was no heros welcome for Sergeant Bergdahl when he arrived on friday. Greeted only by political wrangling and unanswered questions. His flight from germany returned him just as he had vanished, under cover of darkness. At the Brook Army Medical Center in san antonio, bergdahl will face the last phase of his treatment until he greets his family and is reintegrated into life after captivity. Means he is ready to do more interacting with debriefers and also with the medical team. So slowly but surely it is improving. His physical health is improving but the emotional and psychological strain is continuing. His family has not joined him in san antonio and he has not asked to see them. How he became a prisoner and whether he had deserted his post . The daily beast posted two letters reportedly written by a captive bergdahl to his parents over the last two years. One reads if this letter makes it to the u. S. A. Tell those involved in the investigation that there are more sides to the situation. And the writer asks washington to wait until all evidence to come in. Before passing judgment on him. Words echoed by defense secretary chuck hagel this week on the prisoner swap that led to his release. Part of the controversy doctors have worked on to keep him from learning as he comes more. Yes, at some point in time he will be exposed to the Media Inquiries to him whats going on in the world. But in the past he has had no exposure. We want to titrate that to expose it to him. The difficult road that lies ahead for him. Malcolm nance, a specialist in the military program known as s ser, survival, evasion and recovery. He falls into that nebulous gray area between prisoner of war because he was a combatant, and according to the geneva conventions there was a declared combat. And a hostage to the hakani network. Another stage in the treatment, what is happening in this reintegration process . Well, this is a critically important process thats going on with him. There is he is at the brook army hospital, melt processing, now hes going through more extensive treatment and his psychological reintegration into the United States and into the u. S. Army. So thats very important step. Because for the last five years he has been living in the environment where a he wasnt trained and b hes been under intense stress, intense psychological stress. So he needs to are brought back and reintegrated into our society and the force he came from. And by the stress you refer to, this would be different, after all we heard about vietnam and the prisoners of war in that venue nap but in this case were talking about a force that might have been treating him how . Well, there would be almost no difference between how certain people in viet flam were treated and sometimes how terrorist hostages are treated. Theyre kept in a confined space, often theyre kept in close confinement where theyre trapped in cages and tied down. He says there are indications that he had that occur to him. But being the fact that he had no liberties, everything that happened to him was dictated to someone else, trying to keep your sanity is what brings about those stressors. He has not reached out to his them. Can you give is some understanding of what must happen in a psychological state . Wouldnt you want to go immediately to your family . Well, that depends. We in the survival resistance escape community understand that throughout the entire history of captives in the u. S. Armed forces and other nations that every person behaves differently. Some people feel the shame of having been taken captive in the first place and have great difficulty understanding the emotions that will come when greeting your system to the point where theyre just i incapacitated. One thing can judge him on this. This is a personal relationship between his father and his mother. No one can say how a prisoner of war should behave when they comes home. Malcolm nance, thanks for being with us. Its my pleasure. Coming up after the break. Giving a lift to life on the reza. Rest. Rez. Everybody has a right to get ahead. Everybody. Indian country, the challenges facing another generation. What kept you from getting addicted . Losing my family members. One by one . It opened my eyes to where i needed to sober up because i was a heavy drinker. On techknow. Were heading to cutting edge cal tech campus heres a look at just a few of the students shaping the future of science see the latest research, discoveries and breakthroughs inside some of the worlds most advanced labs. How do you scale somethig you learned from a jelly fish . Techknow every saturday go where science meets humanity. This is some of the best driving ive ever done, even though i cant see. Techknow. Were here in the vortex. Only on Al Jazeera America. Theres more to finical news than the ups and downs of the dow. For instance, can fracking change what you pay for water each month . Have you thought about how Climate Change can effect your grocery bill . Could Rare Minerals in china effect your cell phone bill . Or, how a hospital in texas could drive up your health care premium. Ill make the connections from the news to your money real. Now, a snapshot of stories make headlines on america tonight. General motors has once again issued a recall linked to faulty ignition switches. Recalling 500,000 cam eros, led to 50 crashes and 13 deaths. A new report, reveals air Traffic Controllers still working shifts that leave them little sleep. Faa report dozens of incidents finding air Traffic Controllers sleeng on thsleeping on the job. Sa San Francisco looks headed in the footsteps of seattle of putting a 15 an hour minimum wage, matching seattles recent move. President obama traveling to Indian Country, fourth sitting u. S. President to visit a reservation, first in years to hit commitment to improving life on the Standing Rock reservation and others. The pow woul pow wow is about keeping sacred traditions alive for the next generation. Lets keep our traditions together to put more Economic Opportunity in indian community. Because every american including every native american, deserves the right to get ahead. The last time he visited was the 2008 campaign. Since then, extending rights and resources in Indian Country. But like Standing Rock, staggering unemployment. One of caifnt obamas promises to Indian Country was to improve health care. Among the toughest issues th