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wednesday when johnson was already on the ground. she recognized him from an orientation session he'd led this year. >> very outgoing and nice and bright and cheerful. >> reporter: virginia's governor ordered an investigation into whether excessive force was used, concerned over these images of johnson's head bloodied. for young african-americans who protested on the streets of charlottesville, this reopens the wounds of ferguson, madison, staten island. >> we're pissed. we're angry. we want answers. we want people to be punished for, you know, the mistreatment they had on martese. we need people to be held accountable. >> reporter: uva's black student alliance calls the treatment brutal and animalistic. johnson,p johnson, johnson, himself,brutal and animalistic. johnson,p johnson, johnson, himself addresses the

ralt ralral ly in ar ral ly in aral ly in a drawn toner ral ly in aral ly in a drawn tone. >> we need to respect each other in times like this. >> reporter: but even wednesday night's protest, police got one woman in a headlock. the officers who arrested johnson are from a state agency known as abc. an official of that agency would not respond to the allegations of excessive force. in charging documents, johnson is described as being intoxicated, agitated, and belligerent. just got turned away from a bar on st. patrick's day. it's not clear how he sustained these wounds or what happened in the scene before this was videotaped. as you come back to the scene, still see his blood here, how do you feel? >> now seeing it all in the daylight, it's all surreal. i can't believe i saw it firsthand. >> this is not the first time the agents have been accused of excessive force, right? >> reporter: that's right,

anderson. in april 2013, these virginia abc agents arrested 20-year-old elizabeth bailey. she was a university of virginia student. they swarmed her car outside of harris teether supermarket here. they thought she was purchasing beer underage. they swarmed the car. they arrested her. it turns out she was carrying bottled water and some cookie dough. they changed policy. a very embarrassing episode for this agency in virginia. >> brian todd, appreciate that. dr. marcus martin, chief officer for diversity and equity. joining us now, dr. martin, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> i understand you spoke to martese johnson. what did he tell you about the incident? >> that's correct. anderson, let me preface this by saying i'm a professor of emergency medicine at the university of virginia, but i was not in the emergency department when martese came in and so i don't have access to his medical records and i don't have access to the police records, but i spoke with him along with several other

students in the office of dr. maurice, the dean of office of african-american affairs. i've known for three years, member of the honor committee, orientation leader, a mentor in the office for african-american affairs. he's an upstanding citizen and contributed a lot to the university and the community. he told me when i saw him that he was on the corner and that's the area across from the university with other students. he was talking to the person at the front door of the particular pub, i guess the bouncer. and suddenly, he was asked to come over to speak with an abc officer. the officer asked him for his id. he presented the id. and there was some confusion about whether the id was fake or not and the id was not fake. i saw his id. he has id from the state of illinois. his birthday is listed correctly on the id.

i think that the abc officer asked him his zip code and he gave the zip code for his current home, his mother just bought a new home recently, but the i.d. from the state of illinois which is valid through june when he becomes 21 has a different zip code. so there was some confusion i think for the abc officer. and then he was asked to go over and speak to another abc officer and he was asked about his id again. and i think he showed his id. and then there was some words exchanged when he was accused of having a fake id. and then things escalated. and then he told me he was pushed, the back of his neck down to the hard pavement, which is a brick pavement in front of the pub. >> so what do you -- >> and that's when he sustained his injuries. >> what do you make of this incident? as in the position you're in. >> right, right. as an emergency physician, i see all sorts of injuries, gunshot wounds, stabbings, i mean, i've even intubated young people.

and you know breathing four times a minute due to alcohol, and taken care of people with ankle sprains and various other thing, and also taken care of individuals who are intoxicated. he was apparently not intoxicated by way of the breathalyzer test. >> so a breathalyzer test was done? >> a breathalyzer test was done. he told me, i don't have the results of that, but the breathalyzer test was done at the police station. and it did not indicate he was intoxicated. the bystanders, credible witnesses i spoke with indicated that he did not resist arrest, but however, he was charged on obstructing justice, to my knowledge, as well as being drunk in public. neither seems to have occurred. even so, no one should have been treated this way that brutally, pushed down on the hard walk

pavement and sustained trauma like he did. he had a vertical laceration forehead into the scalp, which i saw and where the stitches were placed. bruising, redness, abrasions about his face that should not have happened. this should have been de-escalated and the officers should have taken him to the side, i believe, and just said okay well let's have a conversation rather than just push ing pushing him down to the pavement. >> dr. martin, i want you to stay with us because i want to bring in new york times volume charles blow and secret service agent dan bongino. charles, do you believe excessive force was used here? we don't see the incident that precipitated. >> it's really hard to know from watching a video.

it's very gory, very unsettling. we don't know what happened before that. we only have kind of statements from the young man who was pushed to the ground statements. from authorities. i guess the bigger question for me though is not necessarily about the case itself as much as it is about the why discretion that authorities have. so people can exercise a little bit of force, they can exercise tremendous amount of force, and it can all fall within policies, procedures, and training. so that you can have a situation where somebody could e de-- de-escalate. you don't have to push it all of the way to the top. and they choose to do that because it's in their discretion to do it. it's disturbing because you can see how someone would have been detained without excessive use of force or massive use of force in this case. you could see how people could be still alive and not dead and take it into custody, but we see these cases happen over and over again where people know they can make the choice within the policy. >> dan, how do you see this?

look, anytime alcohol is involved and the doctor was saying he believes the breathalyzer was taken and that alcohol wasn't found and police certainly seemed to have indicated that they believed he was drunk at the time or under the influence. how do you see this? >> well, i think there are two important issues here. anderson, the first being, we're overcriminalized as a society. being a former law enforcement officer and honestly being a young kid who tried to sneak into bars, i can say on your television show, i've seen it from both sides. is it necessary and granted, i have not seen what happened before the incident, but i think we could all agree trying to sneak into the bar is probably not worthy of 10 stitches in the head or an incident like this. we saw in the garner case in staten island as well. you had a case of loose cigarettes where a man leaves in a box dead. as a society, are we willing to use force to enforce laws like this which could be easily

handled with some type of a court summons or some lesser fine? >> dr. martin, what do you want to see happen now? obviously, investigations are going to be going on. >> yes. now, in this case, the young man was charged with, i think, using profancy and/or being drunk in public as well as obstructing jus justice. i would like to see those charges eliminated from his record. president of the university, teresa sullivan, has already worked with the governor's office and asked for an independent evaluation of the investigation of this incident. and hopefully, the investigation will show that he's not guilty of these charges. as i said, the breathalyzer test showed that he was not intoxicated. you can have numbers on a breathalyzer test but he was not

intoxicated. the other thing too, we need healing here in this community. the university of virginia has been under quite a bit of duress for the past year or so. our students held a rally last night under about 1,500 or so students here, from neighboring institutions like virginia tech to go support the students. students have an event tomorrow. they'll have a discussion with local police tomorrow to get a better understanding about what's going on here and aspects of safety. we want a safe environment. we work very hard to be a welcoming environment and inclusive environment and when we have incidents like this, it takes it down a notch. and it drains us all. the emotions are running high with the students, with staff, with the commune the ti and we all all need to heal.

>> charles, again, we haven't seen the actual incident. so it's very easy to, you know, project what you think happened on to this. but at the very least, there seems like with this agency, presentations of training the prior incident in 2013 where the gun was drawn on somebody who was a woman thought to have alcohol in her car. turned out to be sparkling water. as you said, police have a lot of discretion. >> right. what we have to figure out is, are the authorities in each of these cases equally applying that to every -- i think a lot of the protests and backlashes is whether or not people feel like it's an equal application of this. if we can step back to see patterns that are inequitable, we have to address those as society, not just one officer. >> should point out, the prior incident, the woman was caucasian, if that matters to people. interesting discussion. charles martin thank you, and dan bongino as well and thank you dr. martin as well. charles is going to stick around.

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breaking news tonight out of mississippi with troubling overtone. the discovery of an african-american man's body hanging from a tree in the woods. now it's important to say right at the top neither we nor investigators have all the facts. we don't know if it's suicide. we don't know if it's something else. we know the fbi and the justice department's civil rights division considered serious enough to get involved. law enforcement official say the man is believed to be a 54-year-old man named otis byrd. convicted killer paroled and missing since erlarlier this month. body found in the woods not far from the home he had been living in mississippi's claiborne county, southwest of the capital, jackson. shortly before air time. county sheriffs spoke to reporters and described the scene. >> got down and we seen a man that had, the first time i ever witnessed anything like that in clayton county. >> there's sheriff lucas, would not identify the body nor

comment on the type of injuries pending an autopsy. he did deny the victim's hands had been tied behind his back. cnn's evan perez working the story. joining us with more. it seems obviously a lot of caution should be done on reporting the story. frankly, this very well could be a suicide. what else have you learned from law enforcement? >> that's right, anderson. this, otis byrd went missing on march 2nd according to authorities. his family reported him missing on march 8th. and they started looking for him. they went to search this area. this area where this body was found today was searched before. however, they hadn't searched this exact area. about 500 yards behind where it was a wooded area. it was 10:00 this morning. the local authorities called in the fbi immediately and the justice department for obvious reasons. the circumstances in which the body was found. >> also, evan, the sheriff said they'd been raining in the area, so that is why they haven't

searched this part of the woods. that would, if there were any traces of footprints, that would make it more difficult for law enforcement to figure out what had happened. >> right. it would complicate what they're trying to do. that's one, also, decomposed body. that's one reason why they're having perhaps, taking a look before they publicly announce who they found there, anderson. and we know that the authorities there were immediately concerned simply because the lynching history in mississippi is something that, you know, immediately has brought reminders of that and so the justice department wanted to make sure they were also involved very quickly. >> does his criminal record or have authorities said how his criminal record may play into something or not? i think the sheriff said he didn't know of any enemies this guy had. >> they don't know yet but because he was convicted of killing someone, that is immediately what i was told by authorities was that immediately

part of the investigation to see if someone who had a beef with him, someone who wanted to get even with him even after these many years was possibly involved in this, anderson. >> all right, evan. i appreciate the update. bring in cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi director tom fuentes and cnn new york columnist charles blow. tom, obviously the fbi involvement, is that just out of, given the history, the fbi would automatically be called in on something like this? >> that's true. a black man hanging from a tree. it conjures up practically century old domestic terrorism committed against blacks in the south by white supremacist groups such as the ku klux klan and also the aryan brotherhood groups. they go to start the investigation right now. they don't know if it's suicide

or if somebody else had another reason to kill him. he made enemies in prison, en enemies since out of prison -- you know, all of those facts will have to be investigated bu but the appearance of it is enough to get the fbi involved in it right away. >> tom, the fact his hands were not tied behind his back, he had a skull cap on his head. obviously, law enforcement would look for some signs of a struggle. any indications of depression or any indications that he wanted to take his life or also indications of how the rope was tied, i suppose, and how he ended up in that tree and anything around that area? >> right. they'll need the full results of the autopsy once that's finished and again, interview all of the family members and everybody else that knew him to see if there's some other indications of trouble in his life that may have caused him to want to take his own life or may have caused somebody else to want to take it for him. >> charles, we should point out

a bed sheet was used and whether or not it was his bed sheet may be another factor for the law enforcement. >> yeah, this whole story makes me want to tread very lightly because we just know so little. i understand the history, the legacy, but we don't know anything. we don't know how far up the ground he was, was he able to do it himself, which we've helped to indicate maybe it was a suicide or -- >> the thing about suicide is it's so, in some ways, it's something people don't talk about much. it's something that's so still inexplicable to many people. even to family members, so even possible for family members to say, that this person would not commit suicide, and yet we have seen time the and time the again that it actually happens. >> anderson, could i ask one more thing? the sheriff asked for the fbi to come in. so you can have the fbi involvement based just on the request for assistance by a local sheriff who may feel he doesn't have the expertise, even in a standard homicide where they don't suspect a more sinister motive for killing him.

the fact that the fbi is there, yes, the civil rights division is there too, but calling in the fbi is a possibility. happens all the time in small jurisdictions. >> i will say, when i first saw this headline online, it obviously draws one's attention but as you look at the details and the reason we talk about it tonight, i think it's important to tread very carefully to point out all the things we don't know and what authorities don't know and still need to be investigated. tom fuentes, thank you. charles blow as well. ahead, break news out of tunisia and just ahead, how much worse the attack in tunis could have been and responsibilities claimed from isis. benjamin netanyahu wants a two-state solution. the reverse swift reaction from the white house. we operate just like a city and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal generating electricity on-site and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we're very focused on reducing our environmental impact.

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now learning from tunisian authorities they had explosives as well. arwa damon is there in tunis joining us. the claim by isis, what do authorities there make of it? do they believe it? >> reporter: well, it seems like they're taking it very seriously at this stage and they most certainly are taking the threats that are being made in that threat more seriously given what has transpired but one has to remember these individuals carried out these attacks may not only have been isis members and just inspired be by the group. that is perhaps what is most disturbing is that people do not need to necessarily be isis remembers. isis does not need to issue orders. its supporters out there are proving themselves to be fully capable of carrying out these kinds of attacks.

still a very murky situation with these other groups tied to al qaeda also claiming responsibility at this stage, anderson. >> nine people have already been arrested in connection with the attack. do we know much about the suspects? >> reporter: not a lot right now. we do know that four of the nine were, according to the government here, directly linked to the attack. we don't know if the three gunmen still believed to be at large were among those who were detained. we do know however from the president, the two gunmen who were killed were carrying explosives on them. the president praising the quick response of the tunisian security forces saying they prevented even more bloodshed from taking place but this is still a nation very much really trying to cope with what happened and also the potential for even more violence. remember, this is a country that has upwards of 3,000 foreign fighters in the battlefields alongside isis in both iraq and syria. hundreds of them believed to have returned back to this country. what took place at the museum behind us is something that the

people fear is something that could happen again if measures aret not put into place. >> do they believe the gunmen on the loose are terrorists? >> reporter: at this stage, at least three of the gunmen are believed to be on the loose and we don't know if the chains are the gunmen's affiliate. we don't know if it's a cell part of a broader isis network here or just a group of individuals who were perhaps inspired by isis. and then wanted to carry out this attack. the government is saying that in the last four weeks, they detained 400 individuals on terrorism charges, but again, nothing substantial. so the population is really tense because they don't know how large the threat is that exists out there. >> arwa, appreciate it. stay safe. some late news on the rocky israel/u.s. relationship. president obama offered congratulations to netanyahu's win and commitment to the state

solution. something mr. netanyahu disavowed late in the campaign and recommitted to earlier today. in light of that, president obama had warning. for more now on what it was and why it could be serious, we are joined by jim acosta at the white house. the fact this congratulatory phone call happened a day and a half. >> reporter: the white house didn't like he went about it. the white house official confirms president told netanyahu in a phone call that the administration will need to reassess its options after the prime minister's comments after the two-state solution with the palestinians. this congratulations comes with consequences. >> just to be clear, netanyahu is the man who less than a week ago disavowed a two-state solution and now says he is for it? >> reporter: yeah. the white house is not buying what netanyahu is selling today, anderson. administration officials much more focused on what netanyahu

said when he rejected palestinian state hood. the white house sees that comment as a key reversal that could damage prospects for middle east peace. the white house is also outraged over the other remark from netanyahu that the voters head to the poll in drones officials blast blasting racially tinged and undemocratic. josh earnest called that a cynical election day tactic aimed to marginalize voters. he tried to walk back, flip-flopping on his flip-flop but on the palestinian issue, he said he supports a two-state solution but judging by the president's phone call, that's not enough, anderson. >> president obama said the u.s. needs to reassess aspects of the relationship. that doesn't sound like rosy times ahead. >> it does not and officials are threatening to allow votes at the united nations in favor of palestinian state. that may not sound like a whole lot to people out there but

that's a measure that the u.s. has blocked time and time again. republicans who invited netanyahu to speak before congress before this went down, had talks with iran. republicans say get over it, but anderson, all indications are here at the white house the president is not over it. he will not be over it for some time. >> jim acosta, thank you very much. ahead, did the v.a. do enough to save this veteran's life? richard miles struggled with ptsd for years before finally killing himself. he reached out to the v.a. days before his body found frozen in the woods. new details tonight that left one person dead after a string of shootings in arizona. listen, td ameritrade has former floor traders to help walk you through that complex trade. so you'll be confident enough to do what you want. i'll pull up their number. blammo. let's get those guys on the horn. oooo looks like it is time to upgrade your phone, douglass. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this.

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frozen in the elements. those who loved richard miles wanted to know whether the v.a. did enough for him that february night. >> that was his cry for help. and it was not taken seriously or received the way it should have been received. >> reporter: richard miles was one of the premiere presenters at the science center of iowa, beloved and quite literally a picture perfect employee. >> he was passionate and knowledgeable about science himself and he went beyond that. his passion extended to sharing that knowledge with others. and as excited as he would get about viewing stars in his own, he was tenfold more excited when he could share that with others. >> reporter: what this popular iraq war veteran did not share with most is that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> he knew the date and where he was when he had shot and killed people. >> reporter: katie hopper is miles' ex-girlfriend and mother to their daughter, emylin. she said he left iraq but it never left him.

>> he was very, very aware of what he was doing when defending people's lives, even if it was for the greater good. >> reporter: and it stayed with him? >> absolutely it did. >> reporter: medical records obtained by cnn stated years after miles' return from iraq in 2004, he quote, began to experience depression with suicidal attempts. he recalled seeing dead bodies and often had graphic violent dreams. friends and family saw miles struggle with his ptsd but say he was doing generally okay. until january when he disappeared. v.a. records show friends called the iowa v.a. to look for miles and told the v.a. they were filing a missing persons report with local law enforcement. miles finally responded days later to his friend, harry oler, who reached out by a text. >> he wrote back, i didn't mean to get people worried. i just need to spend some time at the hospital to figure things out. >> reporter: thankfully, miles returned and chose to stay with katie hopper but after only a few days, he became restless. >> i said, do you feel like you

need to get out of the house, do you want to go for a drive, for a walk? he said, no, i'm going to the v.a. >> i said, right now? he said, yeah, i'm going right now. >> reporter: where he must have been to take these steps? >> the thought of that would lead him to want to get help. because he would be letting down his daughter, his son, his friends, and that was not an option for him. >> reporter: on february 15, miles left several belongings with hopper and went to the hospital. it was a familiar place to the veteran whose medical records show a long history of suicidal acts and thoughts. from 2008 to 2009, miles was hospitalized four times for ptsd, made two attempts to hang himself, and brought a gun into a separate hospital ward with the plan to kill himself. on february 15th, miles told the hospital attendant he needed

help but doctor's note say he denied feeling suicidal when asked. >> he came home three hours later. >> were you surprised? >> yes. and i was like, what are you doing here? he says, i'm done. i said, what do you mean you're done? i thought you would be days or weeks even. he said me too but they gave me medication and said my psychiatrist would follow up with me this week and set up an appointment. >> reporter: miles did not make it that long. he went into these woods where he and hopper used to go and never came back. after taking the toxic dose of sleeping pills, miles found frozen to death in this clearing wearing no jacket, no shoes and most infuriating, no clear reason why his life had to end like this. >> the v.a. failed him. i feel like they failed him. >> reporter: the v.a. tells cnn that the emergency room staff,

quote, followed proper mental health screening procedures and that miles had given medication he indicated helped him in the past. they refused to answer any more of our questions citing federal privacy laws. the friends and family of richard miles want the virginia to learn from their tragedy. they want the v.a. to figure out what they could have done differently with miles so the next veteran is admitted and helped. >> what do you not have now that this happened? >> i dont't have a friend. my daughter doesn't have her father. people -- he has touched so many people. he was so great. >> reporter: the iowa v.a., however, seems more focused on defending itself than on learning from any mistakes. >> i really do feel as though the v.a. failed him. ultimately, i feel like it's kind of on them. >> so jake, if proper procedures were followed in this case, i mean, it's got to be asked, is the v.a. dealing with suicidal veterans adequately enough? >> reporter: that's a great question. although there are plenty of

suicidal veterans who do get into the v.a. system and access it, this is hardly the first instance like this, this richard miles story, a cry for help not heard. i've spoken to many experts and they say it's difficult to tell that a veteran is suicidal if he says he is not, though looking back at the richard miles case with all the red flags, the missing persons report, the previous suicidal attempts, experts say richard miles should have been admitted. now we also spoke, anderson, with a whistleblower at the phoenix v.a. and said this is a systemic problem. the v.a. is not aggressive enough when it comes to at-risk veterans. >> tragic. jake, appreciate it. again, that american legion town hall meeting at the top of the hour, we'll be there. spring starts tomorrow but does not mean winter is over. snowstorm is scheduled to hit the east coast dumping several inches of snow with places that have seen enough. we've got the forecast.

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the calendar says that spring starts tomorrow but apparently nobody inform eded the calendar. some areas could see 3 to 6 inches of snowfall. many seems like the worst winter ever. jennifer gray looks at how bad it really was. >> reporter: for much of the country, spring can't come soon enough. layers of winter close to snow shovels to all the snow days, people are over it. if buffalo was any indication of how this winter would shape up, we would have considered ourselves warned. in november, a narrow band of lake-effect snow dumped 7 feet of snow in just four day ss.

that was before winter even began. >> it's too much. it's just really a lot of snow here and we're closed in here. it's not an open area. can just fling the snow area. >> reporter: an army of front loaders work around the clock. three days later, temperatures were in the mid 60s. it wasn't just northern cities to face winter's wrath. the deep south suffered as well from dallas to nashville to lexington. the south was in the deep freeze. earlier this month, south of louisville, kentucky, i-65 turned into a block of ice. causing trucks to jackknife and backing up traffic for miles. motorists were stranded in their cars for up to 20 hours. >> we have now been sitting in this same spot for over four hours. >> reporter: but the big winter this season is clearly boston. people shovelled through the snowiest season on record with 108.6 inches of snow so far. february was their snowiest month on record. and to add to the misery, it didn't get above freezing for 15 straight days that month. they aren't finished yet. more snow is in the forecast on the first day of spring.

with all of the focus on the east, winter has nearly forgotten about the west. california has had one of their warmest winters on record and one ski resort in the tahoe area had to close earlier in the month after receiving only 10% of its normal snowfall. but they're not alone. globally, this was the warmest winter on record. >> jennifer gray joins me now. tomorrow is the official start of spring. i mean, it sounds like a lot of people are still stuck in winter. >> reporter: yeah, 6:45 p.m. eastern time. that's the official start of spring and a lot of people are going to experience rain, clouds, and yes, even snow. we have this spring storm that is brewing. it is going to start as rain across the carolinas into virginia. d.c. could see a mix in snow for places in pennsylvania, including philadelphia, new york city. it is going to be a fast mover. if there's good news in all of this, it isn't going to last long. it will be out of here by saturday morning but we could pick up several inches of snow. 4 to 6 inches across portions of

pennsylvania, philadelphia could see about the same. for new york we are looking at 2 to 4 inches e local amounts, and even higher. and not only the snow, but we are looking at very cold air. boston may not get the snow with this but they are going to get them temperatures. highs in the 30s for tomorrow. however, most of the city of new england will be back in the 40s, anderson, by saturday. >> i'll be in boston saturday night. no snow but just cold. >> yes. >> they've had enough snow. jennifer, thank you very much. the latest on the other stories we're following. amara has a 360 bulletin. amara? >> we learn more about the suspects in the shootings in mesa, arizona, that left one person dead and five others injured. ryan elliott giroux has been in priz prizson twice before including aggravated assault, and police are looking for a motive in the shooting. and secret service director joe clancy said that two

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