Or even day care, rev. not everybody has a relative to take care of that child. that child was not abandoned. she was in a park with a bathroom facility, with access to food, activities during the day, and this woman did nothing wrong but try to survive. carmen, do you agree or disagree with seema? i m going to give you the different perspective, coming from the perspective of a child advocate here, let s think about this. this is a 9-year-old that s left alone without food, without drink. susceptible to kidnappers, susceptible to people who would abuse her. we can t rely on the other people at the park to protect this child. and this was not a one-time act. this was behavior over three days. i mean, i m a parent. i would never in a million years leave my child anywhere out of my sight, we have been covering this all week with the harris case, about leaving your kid in a car. this is a woman who went to have a full work day, and i
And if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. if you re still just managing your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. it s time now for the justice files. the big criminal justice stories making headlines today. joining me now, former prosecutor seema ira, and carmen st. george. thank you both for being here. thanks, rev. thank you. we start in los angeles where we re learning more about the moments leading up to this police beating caught on camera. [ bleep ]. oh, [ bleep ]. he s beating her up. my gosh, why?
Understand the conflicts of parenting. in fact, single parents, it s very difficult. i also understand the societal problem of financially not being able to afford any other outcome, but it s problematic to me to believe that you can rely on strangers to protect your child. but this kid was nine years old. okay, this was not a baby. and rev, back when you and i were young, we could walk around and go to the park when we were 9. i think this is just overreaching big time. well, this is a tough one. very tough one. and we re going to continue to watch it. seema and carmen, thank you both for your time tonight. thank you. thanks. coming up, a disturbing poll from mississippi about how the old confederacy, what it says about the politics and division of today. also, new questions about that botched police sting that left four people dead. could the police possibly still
The woman is down on the ground. she s selfless, defenseless. she s putting her arms up above her head. she s clearly not flailing her arms or kicking and resisting, so i think the officer is going to have a hard time coming out from under on this one. but carmen and i, we have both seen this in court where mentally ill people have almost superhuman strength. so you may see a woman as tiny as carmen is being held down by nine, ten corrections officers or court officers because, rev, that is what happens when you are mentally ill. so maybe we missed that part. seriously, nine or ten people? yes, rev, all the time. i see it all the time. you have a videotape here that doesn t look as though she was doing anything but getting hit. that s why she s, you know, considering filing an action. you ve got a federal action, 1983 case, a tort action in state court that can go forward on this because they re going to lock into the officer s background, but more importantly, the training in this particular department is
the police officer caught on camera continues to work for the california highway patrol on administrative duty. seema, the 911 calls indicate marlene was clearly impaired. how would that affect the investigation, how will it factor into it? well, they ll corroborate her mental illness and rev, i have a case exactly like this, a young man walking on the freeway backwards, against traffic, bare foot, and yes, he was found to be mentally ill. so that corroborates her illness, but it also goes to the reasonableness of the officer s actions, which of course, the police department is going to argue. carmen, do you think this will factor in a way that helps or harms the policeman? i think it would harm the policeman because i think we re getting a long enough clip to be able to see that there s a number of blows.