Birmingham police investigating double shooting at Ensley convenience store
Birmingham police are investigating a double shooting on 24th Street Southwest.
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Birmingham police are investigating a double shooting on 24th Street Southwest.
Conducting a transaction with an unidentified man. here he removes what appears to be a gun from his pocket followed by money from the same pocket. within seconds, sterling is seen jokingly making a shooting motion toward the man. that night police were initially called to the triple-s convenience store responding to a 911 call from a witness who saw a man with a gun. watch closely as things escalate quickly. from salamoni's perspective, you can see a brief struggle, then his gun is trained on sterling's head. >> don't you [ bleep ]. i'll shoot you in your [ bleep ] head, you hear me? don't yo...
The two officers involved in the shooting. it was just a couple minutes ago, brianna, that the family of alton sterling spoke to the media saying they would get justice, but their justice is going to come, quote, from a higher power. i spoke to sandra sterling as well about the frustration among the family and the sterling supporters that three pieces of video, including individual joe surveillance from the triple s convenience store where that altercation happened, and the body cameras on the police. we understand the mayor has had that footage for the last several days. i asked alton sterlin...
Year. >> the family still hoping for justice from state prosecutors so why did the government pass on the sterling case and what comes next? we get more now from ed. >> nearly ten months after alton sterling was shot and killed outside the triple s convenience store here in baton rouge, louisiana, they determined those two officers will not face federal criminal charges for civil rights violations in this case. prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to show these two officers acted willfully. at the federal level the bar for bringing these kinds of civil rights violation charges is very...
Followed by money from the same pocket. within seconds, sterling is seen jokingly making a shooting motion toward the man. that night police were initially called to the triple-s convenience store responding to a 911 call from a witness who saw a man with a gun. watch closely as things escalate quickly. from salimony's perspective, you can see a brief struggle, then his gun is trained on sterling's head. >> i'm going to shoot you in your [ bleep ] head. you hear me? don't you [ bleep ] move. >> all right. hold up. hold up. you're hurting my arm. >> narrator: sterling was pinned to the ground a...