seeking to embarrass president obama. i'll see you back tomorrow, 10:erin. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. a shooting on skid row. the l.a.p.d. defends officers who killed a homeless man. the deadly incident captured by multiple cameras. policing the police - a presidential task force calls for changes in how departments deal with the public - why some say the recommendations don't go far enough. [ ♪♪ ] a moral obligation - one day before his speech to congress israel's prime minister defends

his stance iran. president obama says binyamin netanyahu has been wrong before and inside the 1%. a self-made millionaire shares his story of grace and riches good evening, i'm antonio mora, and this is al jazeera america. police in los angeles are coming under criticism for the death of a homeless man. residents shot him in skid road neighbourhood, and police are investigating. jennifer, a lot of people were filming as this happened. >> they sure were. a new video emerged showing that moments before the shooting occurred. first, we begin with a video that went viral as soon as it was posted online. >> reporter: one day after the fatal shooting of a homeless man was caught on camera a small memorial stands in place of a

tent a man called home. >> because a man strikes back or dares to strike a cop is not a death sentence. >> this video taken by a bystander shows the altercation between the officer and a homeless man. it deteriorates into a confusing scene, and then this. [ gun fire ] >> reporter: five gunshots and reaction from the people on skid row. officers were responding to a 911 call when they confronted the man. a struggle broke out. >> when police approached the suspect he refused to comply with officers' commands and fought with them. >> reporter: officers say they used a taser, the man was struggling. l.a.p.d. says he reached for a pistol. in the video you hear someone shouting "drop the gun."

the homeless man, africa died at the scene. one officer was wearing a body camera and police are looking at surveillance video taken from nearby buildings. al jazeera obtained this video taken from the mission center. officers talked to the man for more than 3 minutes before the struggle begone and questions have been raised over how police deal with altercations. witnesses say the man was living on the street after spending time in a mental health facility. >> after the time in hospital they dump them off over here what will they do here? >> reporter: do you think the police are train to deal with them? >> i don't think they are trainedal all to deal with mental health issues. >> and the police chief. >> people that live in homelessness and mental illness with no treatment - we prepare

our officers to deal as best they can with them. >> reporter: police confirmed na two officers were wearing body cams that footage will be analysed and included during the investigation, and l.a.'s police chief did say that several of the officers involved had undergone what the department describes as extensive training to deal with homeless people suffering from mental illness. thank you jennifer london. in the wake of a number of police-involved shootings, president obama initiated a task force to help. john terrett joins us. a lot of recommendations have been discussed before that we have heard b. >> yes it's worth bearing in mind that the big stuff that people want to see are big recommendations, they are not there. they tend to go for the smaller stuff. the task force is not saying the

departments need to make dramatic changes, but they need to spend more time working with communities, and keeping a better track of how they are reacting with them on a day-to-day basis. >> reporter: as last summer passed into fall controversial killings mounted. unarmed black man ashraf ghani is -- eric garner is wrestled to the ground by a chokehold and later died. ferguson, missouri michael brown shot dead in the streets near his home. . weeks of rioting sparked debate between police and minor tie communities, especially african-americans. cleveland police shoot 12-year-old tamir rice amid reports a boy was brandishing a gun. he was, it was a pellet gun. lawyers blamed the boy the

mayor had to apologise. >> we are apologising today, as a city to the family of tamir rice and to the citizens of the city of cleveland for our poor use of words and insensitivity in the use of those words. >> reporter: today at the white house president obama received recommendations from a task force on how to stop all of this. critics said the panel overlooked other ideas. including the linking of funds to racial bias to officers and the wearing of body cameras on all police officers engaging with the public. the president saying body camera is not the be all and end all when it comes to correcting bias in police. >> we have a great opportunity coming from conflict and tragedy, to really transform how we think this community law enforcement relations, so that

everybody feels safer. >> reporter: the 11 person task force chaired by charles ramsay on policing was is place to suggest more ideas, and a call for independent prosecutors to investigate whenever an officer killed a civilian whilst on duty. civil rights groups calls for changes, like reducing the use of military of-tile weapons, and ending broken window style policing neither of which the report addresses specifically. >> now, the protest pictures relate to the eric garner death and ferguson. tonight there is late word that the justice department may be close to releasing a report on police tactics in ferguson, missouri. investigators have been looking into that more month, as you know over allegations of racial profiling. >> for more we are going to go

to the executive director of the washington state criminal justice training commission. she was part of the president's task force, and joins us from washington d.c. good to have you with us. in read ght the recommendations -- reading the recommendations, many focus on improving the relationship between police - building trust, transparency, building relationships. practically, how do you make it happen? >> it's demonstrate going to be easy or happen overnight. we focussed heavily on police culture. we have to get the culture right before we can change the before. >> let's look at the other issues. much of the debate after ferguson focussed on calling for body cams on police officers. some officers had body cams the video ha not been released. you are a former sheriff, why

not call for body cams? >> right. i think everyone would like to have body cameras. we have to berealistic about what happens behind the seconds. when we put body cameras on everyone, there's a deal of infrastructure that has to be in pleas. all the digital footage has to be stored and managed. body cameras are valuable. everyone felt they were valuable. they have to be used properly else they can be damaging to people's privacy rights and those questions have to be managed. >> you think that is something that needs more time to be discussed and figured sought? >> i don't think it needs more time. the president has a task force specifically looking at that. the infrastructure that's necessary to support body cameras is expensive. there's a lot of legal questions that have to be dealt with. body cameras is an important

part of reform to the criminal justice system. if we look at them as a panay south korea of -- panacea of fixing everything we miss the point. that is the policy of policing. >> how hard is it to change the culture. it seems like something easier said than done. >> you're absolutely right. changing a culture is very difficult. and the culture as it is today in most agencies has been building over several decades. we have to remember the impact that 9/11 had. not just on policing but the entire nation. level of fear rose dramatically and that was on the heels of a huge crime epidemic and gang violence, and the terminology of superpredator was thrown around. we started a lot of momentum for aggressive crime control tactics, followed by 9/11 and

homeland security. we have to stop for a minute and see is it time to reset the priorities. crime control, the way that it's been done over the last couple of decades has had some unintended consequences. >> and one of those is the militarization of police over the past couple of decades. and that is much of the debate after ferguson. why was that not addressed? >> we had many discussions about the use of military equipment, and the terminology of militarizing the police. that is a temp that we have to be careful about how we use it. some people look at the equipment that's being used. but we have to look at the reason the equipment is being used. there are some situations where that equipment is valuable for rescuing hostages and dealing with the type of situations. clearly what we have seen in the last six months to a year is not

how that equipment was intended to be used. we need to get a grip on that and we do have recommendations related to the use of that equipment. >> quick final question. one thing you call for a transparency and one thing we learnt is there's no clear numbers on police shootings, it's hard to know how serious a problem is it. will it change? >> that's a strong recommendation. we need a method to obtain data. law enforce. is a local function, and the federal government has to look at different ways to compel local jurisdictions to provide that statistical information. the information has to be consistent. so that we know what we are comparing from one city to another, from one state to another. >> it's an important discussion.

executive director of washington state criminal justice - good to have you with us. >> a new report says hillary clinton used her personal email account to conduct official business as secretary of state. the "new york times" says client never had a statement department account and no effort made to reserve her emails violating federal rules. israel's prime minister says a nuclear deal with iran could affect his country's survival and binyamin netanyahu plans to talk about that during a speak on capitol hill. he laid out part of his argument before a friendly audience in washington. >> reporter: he says he means to disrespect to president obama, but this that will not stop israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu going ahead as planned, despite the white house objection. >> the purpose of my address to congress tomorrow is to speak up about a potential deal with iran that could threaten the survival

of the israel. reporter: speaking monday in washington to the gathering of apec, a pro-israel lobby. they framed the dispute in dark terms. >> american leaders worried about the future of the country, israeli leaders worried about the survival to the country. you know. [ clapping ]. >>. >> i think that encapsulates the difference. addressing the concerns in a television interview. president obama downplayed relations to israel. >> i don't think it's permanently disruptive. i think that it is a distraction from what should be the focus, and the focus should be how do we stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. as the drama unfolds, in geneva negotiations entered a crucial stage with secretary of state

john kerry meeting an a counterpart. earlier he issued a warning, do not reveal secrets in ongoing talks when speaking to congress. >> we are concerned that selective details of negotiations will be discussed publicly in the coming days. >> reporter: back at attack samantha -- a.p.a. c said america with defend binyamin netanyahu to the public arena. injecting politics into a place it shouldn't be. >> among partners is more than use: it is a necessary part of arriving at informed decisions. politicizing that process is not. the stakes are too high for that a large scale offensive is under way in iraq. government forces shia militia and tribesmen are trying to take

back the city of tikrit from i.s.i.l. the u.s. is not playing a role. jamie mcintyre explains why. >> iraq's prime minister announced the offensive and offered i.s.i.l. fighters what he called one last chance to lay down arms or face the punishment they deserve because they stood with terrorism. tikrit is a sunni city, 80 miles north of the baghdad as they fell to fighters as they marched across last summer. several attempts to retake the city last summer fail. this time the iraqi army has the help of tens of thousands of irani backed shia militia men, improving the odds of success much the u.s. fears the assault could ipp flame tensions with -- inflame tensions with the sunni

minority especially if it destroys part of the city. one told al jazeera we can't have a kobane referring to the city taken in january, but only after leaving the the city in ruin. the coalition strikes targets, the pentagon made a point of saying it did not provide cover to the tikrit offensive. while the u.s. supports operations to push i.s.i.l. out of iraq it's not supporting this operation, playing that iraq is not that country. it is been said that it is an iranian backed operation and not allied with iran tore syria. >> we are not communicating directly with tehran r, not indirectly or trying to facilitate or encourage indirect communication either.

>> reporter: the pentagon is watching because tikrit not only has symbolic value, but strategic value. it calls part of the highway. taking tikrit could pave the way for the mosul offensive this spring or summer next - controversy at a christian college. >> i do not want to be here. they have to hide who i am. >> the school was trying to ban gay students and what the administration of the challenge is saying

georgia has put on hold its execution of a woman - kelly disendaner was slated to be put to death. the execution was delayed because of problems with a leethal injection drug. she was convicted of murder in 1997 for stabbing her boyfriend to death. she would have been the first woman in 70 years to beexecuted in gormia prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a man, craig hicks, who killed three muslims in chapel hill. investigating are investigators are still looking to see if it was a hate crime nebraska's attorney-general

immediately appealed. if it stands nebraska would be the 38th state to allow same-sex marriages. >> in south carolina there's a controversy over religion and gay rights. erskine college issued a statement on sexuality. as robert ray learnt some see it as an attempt to ban gay students from a christian school. >> reporter: science of faith surround the town dew west of south carolina home to erskine college. the 175-year-old christian college is at the center of a controversy after two members of the volleyball team came out as gay. junior is one of them. >> when i came on the visit everyone was accept of course welcoming. i felt a familiar environment that i wanted to be in. >> last year the college, which is aligned with the associate reformed presbyterian tradition released a statement many termed

to be a behave yoral ban. it stated: they released in a rush. why would you release a statement without knowing how to enforce it. >> gay marriage is legal. you have a gay population. it's an expensive anniversary, why put it out knowing that it will make some humiliated and want to leave. which will be bad for business. >> let me answer that by saying part of the problem is a misunderstanding of what the purpose of a christian liberal arts challenge would be in the

first place much one of the things that is different is that our - our theeingo logical commitments, our biblical framework sets the context. and it's not an expectation that everyone agree with that. >> somehow you give an advised statement not quoting scripture. >> i do understand that there are students and alumini and staff and faculty concerned about the statement. i think we will look at how the community deals with the topic. >> you should do it soap. >> yes, we are in the process of doing it now. >> like tonight. >> certainly no laughing matter for many at the campus. >> i'm considering my transferring options. depending how they react and what the consequences will be they have to hide away

al jazeera is looking at race in america. we meet a man that beats the odds to start a successful business and joins pt ranks of the 1%. and a rescue after a skydiver suffers a seizure and loses con shesness more than a mile above

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basketball icon michael jordan is one of 300 new members of the forbes billionaire list. he owns an n.b.a. team and earns $100 million from nicky. bill gates topped the list advertising executive thomas barell is an african-american in the so-called top 1%. adele walters reports, he made his mark on american culture, working against the odds in an

industry run by white men. >> for thomas barell the distance from mean street in chicago to easy street is not measured in miles. [ singing ] >> reporter: instead, the distance is measured in the lyrics of jingles defining a generation - commercials like this mcdonald's ad. would you say you influenced america more with commercials than television. >> it's arguable. >> he is among the 1% of wealthiest americans. at 75 he takes the bus. it is his way of remembering his roots. looking back to move forward. >> i grew up on the block where only black people lived. but the demographics inside the

graphics of that block were thoroughly thoroughly layered with wealthy people poor people professional people. >> reporter: and there's a lady in the front row saying "and you don't live will any more." >> right. because there is not there any more. because what happened to there is that the powers came in to our area and said "look, we are progressing. you folks with the most education, you folks with the most money, you know what you can do you can leave. >> reporter: which is exactly what he did. to be certain, life has been good for tom. his name is on the door of the advertising firm he founded, and it is still one of the largest african-american ad agencies in the country. critics say it was built on the

back of black misery with clients like big tobacco. >> if i had known now what i knew then i would not have represented tobacco for one hot minute, even though it was one of hours first pieces of business giving us an entree into the business. >> reporter: do you think wealthy african-americans have a responsibility to give back to the community? >> yes, i do. i think what we all should do is practice one of the most important things in life. >> reporter: the bus rides reminds him of the shoulders in which he stands a movement including other buses, a movement that took him from bus passenger to the penthouse suite finally, quick thinking saved a sky diver's life in australia. chris jones suffered a seizure after jumping from a plane. the instructor noticed jones was

in trouble and not only caught him, but pulled his cord. jones regained consciousness and landed safely. i'm antonio mora for news any time head over to aljazeera.com. "inside story" is up next. have a good night. pass hello, i'm ray suarez when the fund that pays social security disabledy insurance runs short. the gap is filled with an infusion of cash from the old age community funds. tucked away in the new business for congress was a quiet tie bomb. congressional forces cut the