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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield March 31, 2018

Eight times by police. His family demanding answers. In the shooting death of alten steriling in louisiana. A graphic disturbing body camera video laced with profanity was just released. It shows an officer threatening to shoot sterlings within seconds of arriving at the scene. His family now begging for a National Conversation on black men dying at the hands of Law Enforcement. And cnn has team coverage. Ryan young, live from sacramento. Caylee hartung live from baton rouge. And well be joined by Charles Ramsey to break all of this down. But up first, lets check in with ryan young from sacramento. Ryan, another day of protests expected. Tell us what its like there. Well, we are preparing for another protest to start here. You look behind me. Theres a stage thats getting ready to be set. This could be the protest over the last few days. Of course protesters making news here in the city because for several times they blocked the entrance to the nba games here. That has stopped over the last few days. Theres a lot larger conversation going on in this community with how protesters can also walk around but not sort of interfere with the businesses that have been happening downtown. We saw last nights protest get started pretty late. By the time they started marching, most of the businesses downtown were shut down. I can say this, they are passionate about the cause here. Especially after the independent autopsy. We are told that Stephon Clark, by the lawyers his family has hired, was probably shot for the first time on his side and then turned his body and was hit six more times in the back. One more time in the leg. That had people in the crowd very upset. We could hear people saying murder, murder, murder. When you think about this father of two, the 22yearold in the back of that house, so many people have wondered if the Police Narrative would stick. Well, the lawyers are saying they dont believe he was charging towards officers when he was shot. If any one of those wounds according to the pathologist would have been a fatal wound. And he sat there for several minutes before he got help. So that conversation now is exploding sometimes on streets with people being very passionate about the fact they want to see things change here. When they talked to the Sacramento Police department in terms of just how their reaction to this independent autopsy, they have said they will not come back point by point just yet until this investigation is over. Ryan. All right, ryan young, live in sacramento, thank you for that report. Now to Alton Sterlings death in 2016. It also sparked similar protests. Lets check in now with kaylee hartung, live in baton rouge. Disturbing new body cam footage from sterlings death was just released. What are you learning . Well, ryan, it was cell phone video shot by bystanders on july 5th, 2016 that became public very quickly after that incident. That helped spark those protests that summer. But what were seeing now, video from both officers body cams as well as Surveillance Video from the Convenience Store that night, its giving us a more complete picture of what happened. I want to remind you again this video is graphic. Graphic and disturbing new video. Im going to shoot your [ bleep ] put your [ bleep ] hands on the car. Reporter showing the controversial shooting death. The baton rouge chief of Police Announcing the officer, blaine salamoni, who shot sterling six times, will be fired over his actions. The violation of command of temper has been sustained. Officer Blane Salamoni has been terminated from the Police Department effective today. Reporter this week, salamoni refused to answer any questions. The chief said. Howie lake, the other officer involved, answered them all. Lake, who the chief said made mistakes, was given an unpaid threeday suspension. One officer did not follow the tactic, training, professionalism and organization of standards. Reporter the police chief making it clear their administrative investigation was separate from the federal criminal charges both officers were already cleared of. The Police Department released four videos from night of the shooting including this Surveillance Footage from the Convenience Store. Thats sterling at the front of the store, sitting at a table where hes selling cds. Minutes into the tape, hes seen conducting a transaction with an unidentified man. Here, he removes what appears to be a gun from his front pocket, followed by money from the same pocket. Within seconds, sterling is seen jokingly making a shooting motion towards the man. That night, police were initially called to the sss Convenience Store responding to a 911 call from a witness who saw a man with a gun. Watch quickly as things escalate quickly. From salamonis perspective, you can see a brief struggle, then his gun is trained on sterlings head. Ill shoot you in your [ bleep ] head, you hear me . Dont you [ bleep ] all right, hold up, youre hurting my arm. Reporter sterling then was pinned to the ground and tased twice. Get on the ground get on the ground pop him again, howie. Reporter before being fatally shot. [ gunshots ] previously released cell phone videos recorded by bystanders show at this point in the encounter salamoni believed sterling was armed. A gun was recovered from sterlings body. But the federal and state investigations determined that the officers actions were reasonable and couldnt prove that sterling wasnt reaching for a gun. Salamonis attorney tells me they will appeal the chiefs decision to fire him as a matter of principle more than anything else. As this new video circulates, sterlings family is trying to keep his five children from seeing it. The familys Attorney Says whats most disrespectful in this video is how you can hear the officers cussing over Alton Sterlings body, calling him names as he laid bleeding and dying, ryan. Kaylee hartung, thank you. Im joined by Law Enforcement analyst, Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsey. Charles, the independent autopsy results for Stephon Clark seem to contradict what police say happened. It says the officer shot clark eight times. Six times in the back. Whats your reaction to those findings . Well, i mean, clearly its troubling. Its going to be important they conclude this investigation as quickly as possible. It will be interesting to see how it matches up with the county medical examiners report. I have no doubt it will match. But you need all pieces of evidence before you can draw any conclusion. This is a case where you have body camera. You have the thermal imaging from the helicopter. Youve got witness statements from the Police Officers. So all these things have to come together. But the forensic evidence needs to match up with the officers statements. You mentioned body cameras and the officers involved actually muted their cameras after the shooting. Thats raising a lot of red flags. Even sacramentos police chief says it builds suspicion. As a former officer, how critical is it, especially early in the investigation, to establish trust with the community . Well, you got to have trust. And muting the camera certainly doesnt move you in that direction. It was just i dont know why they would do Something Like that. But thats also a clue, now, for Police Chiefs across the country to check their policies around body wearing cameras to make sure if youre involved in any use of force, any level use of force, you do not turn off video, you do not turn off odd gr audio at all under any circumstances. That was not a good thing to do at all. Speaking of video, theres new video out in the sterling shooting in baiten rouge. Shows within seconds of confrontation, one officer can be heard threatening sterling. From what youve seen from this video what stands out to you . Listen, first of all, i would have fired him too, so i think the chief did absolutely the right thing. We train and teach officers how to deescalate a situation and now youve got a guy that escalated the situation. You dont point guns at people, threatening to blow their heads off and all that. That is just flatout wrong. He should have been fired. He should never be a Police Officer anywhere else in the United States. Do you think it took too long for the baton rouge Police Department to respond to this . It took two years to discipline Blane Salamoni. The other officer involved, howie lake, has also been suspended three days without pay. Should it have taken so long for this discipline to be handed down . Thats a problem in a large internal investigation. I dont know the particulars around this one but two years is a long time. Two years, especially when you have something as controversial as this. In some departments, when you have a case like that, where theres a potential for charges, you turn it over to states attorney, prosecutor happens to be, you got to wait for them have a decision before you can move forward administratively. That creates a problem. Weve got to be able to deal with these things. The video being released. I mean, bad news does not improve with age. If youve got something controversial, get it out there. And continue your investigation. Thats just a long time. It destroys trust. Hopefully Police Chiefs around the country are paying attention to whats happening in both of these cases. Charles ramsey, we appreciate you being here, thank you. Next, the president relatively quiet on twitter until now. President trump unleashing a tack after attack. But its what hes not tweeting about thats raising some eyebrows. How do you win at business . Stay at laquinta. 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In the last week, some reports have come out about the private conversations the president was having with his friends and advisers in amazon. He complains amazon was cheating the american taxpayer, cheating the Postal Service and not paying state and local taxes. He also worried about the effect the company was having on brick and mortar businesses with its Online Business model. The underlying critique the president made this morning in his tweets were actually about the Washington Post. Which isnt owned by amazon but is owned by jeffbezos who is the ceo of amazon. The president called it the fake Washington Post and accused it of being the lobbying arm of amazon. As you mentioned, lots of factual problems with the president s tweets including that the Postal Service has defended its relationship with amazon, saying it does charge amazon a lower rate like it does with a lot of other large shippers. Because they ship a lot of packages through the Postal Service and that arrangement they have said it mutually beneficial. Amazon pays sales taxes. But for the most part, amazon does pay taxes. So the president here is having some issues with the facts but also is really going after amazon and really the Washington Post, in part for publishing stories he doesnt like. The president , we know, on the golf course right now, but we also sent out another tweet before he headed over there taking shots at californias governor today. What did he say about that . Yes, these issues dont really seem to be all that related but hes talking about jerry brown, the governor of california, who he has been also feuding with for several months over the issue of Illegal Immigrants and sanctuary cities. Jerry brown this week pardoned five Illegal Immigrants who brown said had been convicted of these crimes many, many years ago and had turned their lives around. He gave them clemency from their sentences and the president called that out, accusing him of letting loose bad individuals back into californias society. Badly beating, threatening crime with intent to terrorize, dealing drugs. The president says is this really what the great people of california want. The president was watching clearly some coverage of this on fox news this morning. Who had done a segment about it just before he started tweeting. Obviously this is an issue he talked about for quite some time. Hes willing to go after california. He doesnt want california to get away with defying the federal government by making the state essentially a sanctuary state. President trump also made his weekly address this week. A little bit about the subject of sanctuary cities, ryan. Abby phillip live in palm beach, florida, thank you. Up next, a potential serious conflict of interest and questions over the use of taxpayer money has epa chief Scott Pruitts future in washington in doubt. 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