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ALJAZAM News March 27, 2014

Denounces russias brute force. And gamechanger. The ruling that could revolutionize college sports, players allowed to unionize. We begin with Law Enforcement under scrutiny or the use of deadly force. There has been another Police Shooting in albuquerque, new mexico, it is the 24th Police Shooting there in less than five years. After thousands protested, demanding an independent investigation. Be heidi zhoucastro is live if albuquerque, heidi tell us what happened last night. Sure john. Protesting the second to last Police Shooting. Island remind you that was the Police Shooting of james boyd, the homeless and mentally ill man who was killed as he wield he knives. Just as that protest was wrapping up Police Received a 911 call and went to a case that would end up with yet another Police Shooting. Many in this community are pointing to the irony of that situation. The police chief gordon egan has been on the job for less than a month and in that tenure already, two fatal Police Shootings. Something i asked about him earlier. I think the men and women of albuquerque do a good job. Im doing my best to evaluate the department, including myself, making sure were doing the right thing. Assessing everything from our training to how our officers are being deployed and making sure we have the right people in the right place. Now i also asked chief eden in that press conference whether his officers should hold their heads up high, and he responded that yes, this is just an unfortunate coincidence that two Fatal Shootings should happen so close together. Can you give us information about this latest shooting and the suspect . Absolutely. This was 30yearold alfred redwine. John he had an extensive arrest history of violent arrests, latest one awas aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. This is what happened. They say a neighbor called 911 last night saying that redwine had pointed a gun at her child. Police showed up, they made a barricade around mr. Redwines home and police chief said redwine pointed a gun at officers and discharged it and it was at that point he says the officers returned fire, killing him. Now this altercation was captured by the many witnesses there seeing this. One of them posted a video to youtube, well show it to you now but ill warn you, it is graphic. Now if you see the shots there, you see that the eyewitnesses say that it appears that redwine has dropped his hand and that he wasnt pointing at anyone when the police opened fire. We spoke to redwines sister who explained this as she saw the shooting happen. I heard the shots and i seen his chest and he went like that and he just fell back and i seen his shirt turning red and i knew they used lethal rounds on him, they used light rounds and the lieutenant promised me wouldnt, he promised me would use nonlethal rounds and he lied now its still under dispute whether or not redwine truly had a gun. The witnesses say they didnt see it. The police say they recovered a gun from the scene. The police chief though would not say whether or when or in what direction redwine fired the weapon. He also did show media just moments ago police helmetcam of this shooting. The only video released at this time showed what the officers were doing but do you not see the suspect redwine in the frame at any moment. And john we should remind viewers that the apartment has been under the scrutiny of the department of justice for a year and a half systemically reviewing the rifts that resulted in 24 Police Involved shooting deaths in the last 25 years. Ing heidi zhoucastro thank you so much. The Albuquerque Police department under investigation before these shootings earlier this month. 24 people since 2010. The number of Police Shootings in albuquerque are about four times the average in other major cities in the united states. And some of those Police Shootings are costing the city a small fortunate in payouts. He was shot and killed by police in a parking lot while holding a gun to his own head. A lawsuit is still pending over the death of christopher torrez, police shot him at close range in the back behind his parents home. Already cost albuquerque taxpayers more than 24 million. Justice Department Involvement could lead to federal civil rights charges and sweeping changes to the Albuquerque Police department. But the investigation is expected to last several more months. Albuquerques City Council President ken sanchez joins us tonight. Ken, welcome. Thank you, john. Give me your reaction to this shooting. Thank you for having me. The latest shooting i was troubled, im very disturbed by what took place and im alarmed that the Albuquerque Police chief would react so quickly and make sthaiments this last shooting statements that this last shooting was justified. I think we have problems within the Albuquerque Police department, the Justice Department have been investigating for last ten months. Ill ask that they look at the last shooting and the shooting that just took place in albuquerque. Is this a problem of the culture of the Albuquerque Police department . Ive lived in albuquerque my entire life and what i am seeing i think is horrific. Geeft great men weve got great men and women that work for the Albuquerque Police department. They are making split second decision he but i think its paramount that we invest in more training within the department, i think its vital we do that. The mayor recently sent down his budget. Hes look at 3 million in police cars. I would like that 3 million invested in training for the men and wait a moment of the plarms i think its the men and women of the police department. We read off those numbers and the lawsuits and the payouts. This has been a problem for a while in albuquerque hasnt it . Its been a problem for some time now and again weve got to make some changes and im hoping that the department of justice comes out as quickly as possible with the Consent Decree. Im slur theres going to be a Consent Decree because of this decision that theyve been looking at for the last 18 months. And once that Consent Decree is issued to the city of albuquerque i think its paramount the mayor and the city act immediately to gain confidence with our Albuquerque Police department. When people are telling me they ar frayed to call 911 we have a problem in the city. Who has the responsibility, the mayor, does the Council Share some responsibility . I think as a city we are all responsible. The mayor, aalbuquerque city council and also the Albuquerque Police department. This has been an ongoing problem now for some time. We did call in for the department of justice to come in and overlook and look at some of the issues that were at hand. I made the statement just recently that maybe its time the department of justice comes in and runs the Albuquerque Police department. Again we have to restore confidence in the men and women that work for the Albuquerque Police department. Theyve got a very tough, theyve got a very difficult are police department. Again were at a point when people are afraid to call 911 thats problematic. Mr. Councilman, i was reading the fact that it was going to be i guess several months before we get a response from the feds regarding their investigation. Is there some action other than that, that can be taken soon . I think we need to look at all aspects. I think the training probably is the most vital and most important. And i think that each and every officer should get some additional training, the situation in the foothills, you know im not sure why the swat team was not out there. I believe that that situation could have been deescalated. Ive not looked at the videotape on what happened last night. That is in albuquerques west side in the Council District i represent. We have problems that need to be addressed as quickly as possible. Be albuquerque city councilman ken sanchez. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Two firefighters were injured battling a fire in bostons back bay neighborhood. The flames quickly spread through all four floors. More than 150 firefighters were called to fight had blaze. Now to the mudslide that killed at least 16 people. More bodies have been found and five days on, crews are still searching for 170 people. Allen schauffler joins us night from darington, washington. What are the search teams coming up with today . Well, they got a bit of a break today, john, from the weather. We havent seen the hard rain showers yesterday morning and evening that made the work so difficult, it is a grim place and the grim work there continues. Another day, day 5 for search and rescue crews doing the dirtiest kind ever work. 200 people are at the slide site today. Professional searchers from local and federal agencies helped by volunteers, neighbors who have clamored to be involved. It is very humbling and we are respectfully very dpreafl. The stress of the grusome work clearing showing, release of video showing fouryearold Jacob Spillers being rescued. That flickering image keeps kevin going, coming Cross Country from pennsylvania to help any way he can. Little jacobs father is his cousin, among many people who havent been found. You have to be here, like, theyre missing. That kind of independent initiative troubles Emergency Managers with who say the area is still dangerous. Theyre trying to control access and minimize risk, while handling repeated questions about how this happened and whether the community was ready. It haunts me because thats not we did everything that we could have done, the community did feel safe. And so it does continue out there. We just heard from a couple of firefighters from district 24 right here who have been on that scene since saturday, when the slide hit. They finally have been given a day off. You can tell theyre emotionally fragile. You can tell the work at the site is keeping them going and the search for bodies, the search for answer he, for the people they live with is really whats been driving them. Its very, very difficult john for this community in the north cascades. This will have a huge impact for a long long time. Allen, thank you very much. Joining us to discuss is pat abbott, professor of geology. Welcome back. My pleasure. Give us a sense of, how do you determine whether or not this area might be susceptible to even another mu mudslide . It is certainly susceptible to other ones. It is the biggest not the first. Its almost certain more mass is going to fall off of that. So these weak materials, steep slopes, lots of water around, pull of gravity, im afraid we havent seen the last uf of it. The large river seems to be eating away at the base of the cliff and thats removing lateral support. Some of the buttressing material that tholdz hill in place. That holds the hill in place. As searchers try recover bodies they could be in serious danger if theres another slide. Yes, thats true. But of course the farther away you are, the less danger there is. I dont expect one of the same size to occur again. Really i think biggest danger or problems theyre having now is, that mud, what you were just describing there was a wave of it come out. We talk about the slide but its the flow part, the wave of watersaturated mud thats the most dangerous part. Of course that is still dangerous. You cant really walk on it. You can sink in it really easily. You have to have a rope tied around your waist. I waded out in one of those areas and by the time i was waistdeep i was totally helpless, you couldnt move forward or backward, you have to be pulled out. You have people totally encased in mud, hopefully within a air space waiting to be pulled out. You talk about it as gooey type mud and i expect bringing in heavy equipment wont work at all. Exactly the inlts po. Point. It would simply sink in. A snow shoe that helps you walk on snow, lay out plywood or something to lay on your belly. It is not easy work. We are having more heavy rains. Those rains add more water into that mass. When you get mud, and remember a lot of this is old volcanic ash, some ever it is rock flour, ground into pieces by glaciers moving over it. When it gets hold it really wants to harng onto you. Hang onto you. Places being 15 feet thick, that is still oozing and moving internally. The mud flow doesnt homogenize. You would literal step on it and sink out of sight. House debris wouldnt be as hard to work in but its almost unpredictable when you are walking on that surface exactly what youre going to encounter on these spots. As each day goes buy the hope that goes buy the hope is they can find survivors is just an overwhelming situation. Pat abbott, thanks so much for shedding more light on it. We appreciate it. Coming up incredible lead. Malasian officials encouraged by 122 objects spotted off the australian coast. New recommendation for airport safety and paid in beer. Its one way amsterdam is trying to keep alcoholics out of trouble. Armed are guards at the airport. The Transportation Security Administration says there should be armed guards at ticket counters and, panic alarms and more active shooting programs for its agents. Fatal shooting at l. A. X. Last fall. Its been 18 days since flight 370 disappeared from radar. Tonight searchers are trying to zero in on a potential debris field in the indian ocean, Richelle Carey is here with the story. The most credible lead that we have. A pool of 122 objects captured on the Satellite Photos sunday. Some pieces 3 feet, others nearly 80 feet. Some of the objects appear to be bright. Possibly indicating solid material. Reporter a multinational hunts is focusing on an area 201200 square miles southwest of perth, australia, 11 planes, five ships, crisscrossing 48,000 square miles. So far nothing has been picked up. Officials say bad weather and loss of time, thats to blame. Its been a race to find the planes black boxes. The Battery Powered devices could stop sending signals within about two weeks. And now Court Documents have been filed by a u. S. Law firm on behalf of a relative of a missing passenger. The filing asked a judge to order Malaysia Airlines and the chicagobased boeing company to hand over documents related to the possibility that this is a quote, negligence, john, caused the airliner to crash. Probably just the beginning. Richellrichelle thank you. How many of these 122 pieces may be debris . Its hard to say. In certain parts of the ocean, debris seems to to come together. Depending on currents and lots of other things. So i think this could be somewhat encouraging. I mean, maybe some of the 120 pieces are from the aircraft. Hopefully. But thats, if thats the case, if theres some life preservers there or whatever it would be, its still an enormous task to turn that into finding where the aisaircraft went down. All this time has gone by. The pieces floating have been blown and taken by currents. So is this encouraging, yes, somewhat. Is this bringing us very close to where we ultimately have to be . Marginally i would say. Bob, obviously trying to get the black boxes is a goal here. But if they cant discover where the black boxes are, how much information can they get from that debris and what will it tell them . I would think that if it is debris from the aircraft, its probably not going to tell very much. Now, if there were an explosion in the aircraft, and maybe there would be marks on different pieces that were there, thats possible. Is an explosion on the aircraft probable . I think that its much more likely that the aircraft ran out of fuel. And you wouldnt have that kind of evidence on anything that was floating. And if there were a fire . If there were a fire then youd obviously get indications that there had been a fire. But i dont think a fire a fire isnt really consistency with most of what we do know. After so many days, what could be left floating . There was a discussion today about whether or not the size of these objects could be wings, or the small objects could be as you mentioned flotation devices. I think that the chances that a wing is floating are very remote. Is it possible . I suppose its possible. But most of the aircraft is metallic and its going to go down. I mean, seats are i dont think the seats themselves are going to float. Maybe some of the seat cushion he will float. But theres not cushions will float. Theres not a whole lot of aircraft thats going to be prone to float. As i understand it the black boxes are usually located in the rear of the plane, back tail of the plain so finding the tail might be important . Thats certainly dpm there if you wanted to have, given what we know, the tail would be what you hoped for. Bob fran yo francis, good tou on the program, glad for your insight. Youre welcome. Osama bin ladens soninlaw convicted. A growing number of female veterans struggling osurvive. Welcome back to Al Jazeera America. Im John Siegenthaler in new york. Weve got a lot to cover this half hour including the president and the pope. The two leaders meet tomorrow in italy. Plus, a win for big time College Athletes. A new decision allows northwesterns team to unionize. Its not your typical paycheck, beer and tobacco but keeping alcoholics out of trouble. But first richelle is back with the headlines. Richelle. John, another investigation into officer shooting in new mexico. Officers say they were responding to a 911 call that said a man was holding a child as gunpoint. They say the suspect fire

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