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Unarmed black man that happened nearly a year ago. >> they are often forced to make split second decisions, tense, rapid evolving circumstances. rachel: the da says stefan clark was in a shooting position and holding a cell phone mistaken with a gun. the decision was met with many protests. >> no peace for the killers, police. rachel: clark's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. the desperate search for two young sisters is intensifying after they disappeared near their california home. 8-year-old leah karika and her 5-year-old sister carolyn after they disappeared on friday. they asked th...

Scenario training where you are in a real life scenario with paid actors like a situation you might experience on the border. i thought this was so important. this is new this year at the academy. because they were realizing they really weren't training agents properly to enter the field. and what this scenario training does is allow them to learn how to make split second decisions, whether or not to draw the firearm or use a less lethal method. and the academy is hoping that they'll be able to retain their agents longer by better preparing them in the field. >> eye opening. thank you so much ...

Which is giving guns to teachers, and, of course, that's his way of not dealing with the assault weapons ban, he wants to change the subject. >> exactly. >> let's listen to what one of your teachers, greg pitman had to say about this. >> as teachers we're used to making split second decisions, i don't want to have to take a split second decision to decide are you a threat to my class, as a student, do i need to shoot you? what if i make a mistake and shoot and kill a student by accident? act on what i think is correct, and it's incorrect. i'm not trained to be the s.w.a.t., trained to be the p...

With them to come to some sort of compromise where we ensure that nobody who is mentally unstable, has a history of domestic violence, or a criminal record is able to get these weapons. we have to deal with that as it is now, because the republicans, supported by the nra are in control until midterms, hopefully. because they're in control, we have to work with them for now. but i'm sure if they don't work with us, it's all right because they won't be around for much longer. >> david, i also want to ask you about this issue that the president is now advancing, which is giving guns to teachers, ...

Officer. i get your pointed, yes. >> it's a critically important point, because at the end of the day, the universe that makes possible this expansive shooting of unarmed people or suspected people is held up by supreme court decisions, tennessee versus garner in 1985 and graham versus connor in 1989 both born in the midst of the war on drugs. if we want to see what makes it possible for police to shoot fleeing suspects or if we want to use the standard of objective reasonableness, that in those split second decisions, had to shoot this person that's the supreme court juris prudence that under...