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barry white music. ♪ jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> if you survive that thank you so much for joining us. set your dvr to record "out front" so you can watch us any time. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening, thanks for watching. tonight, two convicted killers are on the loose right now, david switt and richard matt swett killed a sheriff's deputy the victim's sister joins us separately. matt kidnapped and tormented and killed his boss and dumped his body parts in the river. if you see them call 11 and police say be very very careful because matt already has experienced fleeing the country they could be almost anywhere tonight and also may have had help doing what they did. they broke out of the one of the biggest, toughest and most maximum security prisons in the state of new york. how they cut and crawled their
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way out of the facility is something straight out of the movies. we following this all night. >> reporter: they were supposed to be in their beds and adjoining cells but before dawn saturday a routine check turned up something else. >> they weren't actual dummies but they had clothing on and it looked like people were sleeping in the bunks with a sweatshirt hoodie on. >> reporter: one of a handful of clever moves by this crime duo, richard matt and david swett, both convicted dillers. they were last seen around 10:30 friday night in their cells during a standing count. their bunks were also checked every two hours during the night, but it wasn't until 5:30 a.m. saturday morning that a guard sounded the alarm. >> the search revealed that there was a hole cut out of the back of the cell for which these inmates escaped. >> reporter: a hole in the cell
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the men cut their way right through a steel wall using power tools that still no one knows how they got. the escapees then somehow followed a catwalk that's six stories high eventually snaking their way through an elaborate maze of pipes before shimmying through tunnels. the prisoners got their first taste of freedom in years when they popped out of that manhole right there at that yellow tape. is the closest we're allowed to get to it and it was a pretty bold exit plan because right over there is a health club and it's surrounded by homes in this quiet neighborhood. so anyone who might have been outside and might have seen them could have quickly called police. the manhole is just a block and a half from the prison where new york governor andrew comeau retraced the men's steps. these are dangerous men. swett was serving life without parole for killing a sheriff's
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deputy in 2002. matt was behind bars for 25 years to life after murdering and dismembering a man back in 1997. the convicts are the first to escape from maximum security at clinton correctional facility since it opened in 1865 leaving behind this note dripping with sarcasm, it reads "have a nice day." so many unanswered questions for authorities, how this prison break go unnoticed with regular bed checks, how could the guards not have heard the sounds of the power tools and perhaps the biggest question of all, where did those power tools come from? >> we're looking to see if possibly one, a civilian employee or a contractor was assisting this escape. >> reporter: meanwhile, despite more than 150 tips a $50,000 reward for each man and intense search efforts involving more than 250 law enforcement, helicopters and bloodhounds, there is no sign of the
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escapees. so there are these checkpoints all over town trying to find these guys. hello. sure hold on one second you open the trunk so they can get a look inside. should be open now. they're going through our luggage back there, making sure there's nothing underneath it. all set, good to go? thank you. you can see why with checkpoints all over town the community is on edge but these guys are determined to find the two inmates. the prison 25 miles south of the canadian border authorities are concerned warning those to the north there are killers on the loose. >> randi joins us. what do we know about the female prison employee investigators questioned today?
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>> reporter: -- she apparently knew these two guys pretty well she worked with them tailoring clothing inside the prison. she was questioned. she wasn't charged, she wasn't arrested. we learn more information about whether or not these two guys might have been caught on surveillance tape. state police say there is limited surveillance tape from inside the facility and it hasn't proven to be very fruitful. we wanted to know about cameras at the street corner where they came up through the manhole. there aren't any cameras on that corner either. authorities have little to go on, don't know if they left on foot or someone met them at that manhole and picked them up in a vehicle. >> this note that they left a smiley face does anyone have any explanation for what that means? >> reporter: no it's certainly one of the most bizarre items that they left behind. they are not sure what it means. they're wondering, some have suggested that maybe it means they were digging to china, also wondering if there's some type of asian racist message in there
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as well but certainly a big you know what to the prison crew here certainly a nasty message left behind by the guys seems like nobody here can figure it out. >> randi, appreciate the update. consider this according to local chamber of commerce it's the second largest employer in the entire county and a major job source for the people of dannemora including mayor michael bennet joins us now. thank you for being with us. beyond being mayor you worked in this prison for 18 years. do you know the woman randi reported on are you familiar with the people who do the tail tailoring or how any of that works? >> no i never worked with that woman. she's at a different part of the facility. >> in terms of the situation in the town right now i know because you're an employee of the prison you can't speak about what happened or the details of it how is the town reacting to
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this? >> well initially, there was shock, you know obviously this has never happened before. there was fear, you know amongst a lot of people but being a prison town a lot of the people within the village work for the department of corrections, and i'm really amazed at how well the people are handling it and i think a lot of that has to do with the high number of law personnel that are in our village right now. >> we saw randi kaye our reporter get in her vehicle, searched as she went through a checkpoint. what kind of police presence are you seeing? you said you're seeing large numbers. are there a lot of checkpoints up? >> there's a checkpoint on just about every corner within the village. the department of correction is doing most of the checking in the village and the state police are on the outskirts of the village. >> what advice do you have for residents, people coming up to you or from surrounding areas
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about these two, while they're still at large? >> well my main thing would be make sure you keep your properties secured and be aware of your surroundings at all times and if you happen to see something, make sure you call the state police. >> have you ever heard of anything like this out of this prison in particular? >> no this is the first time this has ever happened to my knowledge. >> are there a lot of cabins, places where people could hide out in the surrounding areas? >> yes, there's numerous areas different hunting karpz, there's numerous areas they could be hiding. >> and in terms of getting to canada if that was a destination, how complicated is
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that? >> it's a walk but it could be done. we're not that far from the canadian border but i would have to bet the troopers and other law enforcements are keeping a close watch at that area. >> mayor bennett, i appreciate your time. thank you. lot more to come including the specifics on what these two were doing time for, victim's sister joins us and we'll talk to a pair of former top u.s. marshals about the patterns fugitives follow and why some manage to stay on the loose longer than others. and later someone who did 24 years in dannemora for a kim crime he did not commit.
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breaking news tonight the search for the killers who broke out of a new york prison it could be almost anywhere. lot more information we have been gathering over the last 12 hours or so and even into this night, take a look david sweat on the left richard matt on the right, one a cop killer the other matt quite literally a butcher and someone with prior experience on the run. first the bloody resumes,
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deborah fayfeyerick has more. >> reporter: vicious, cunning violent how detective describes 49-year-old richard matt convicted in 2008 of kidnapping his ex-boss william pickerson sr., who owned a food delivery business. at the trial an accomplice testified the man he called rick matt tortured the elderly businessman, tossing him in a car trunk for 27 hours before snapping his neck and it didn't stop there. matt then dismembered pickerson's body. the accomplice testifying "he cut up the torso and he said that he threw the legs in the niagara river." before he could stand trial for that murder he escaped to mexico where he soon killed another american in a bar. he was thrown in a mexican prison and extradited to new york to stand trial for the pickerson homicide. years earlier, in upstate new
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york matt escaped a different prison facility while serving time for burglary. >> he's a really dangerous, desperate man. they are literally killers. >> reporter: the second fugitive is 35-year-old david sweat serving life without parole for the 2002 murder of brum county sheriff's deputy kevin tarsia. sweat and an accomplice robbed a gun store when they were confronted by the deputy shooting him at least 12 times. at its maximum security prison from which the men escaped matt and sweat had adjoining cells worked in the tailor shop with a female employee not suspected of helping the two men break out. deborah feyerick cnn, new york. >> you can imagine this is deeply personal sharon tarsia, the late deputy's sister joins us by phone. what went through your mind? >> i said oh my god, no way. i couldn't believe i got to read
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it twice to make sure and sure enough it was my brother, i just couldn't believe it. >> what kind of guy is this david sweat? >> i think he's very evil and the things he did to my brother i don't know how he could do what he did to my brother. and then he gets ran over and shot and it's just i just -- i can't even stand the thought of it. >> do you believe the prison is at fault here maybe they should have been able to keep a better eye on these guys she should be able to keep them behind bars? >> i think they should because i don't know how anybody could drill a hole through a wall and not hear a drill. it seems suspicious. >> is this guy somebody you have thought of in the time that he's been incarcerated or after the trial after he was convicted of killing your brother, is it
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somebody you kind of put out of your mind? >> i never put him out of my mind because i always think about what he did and how awful this guy is and you cannot stop thinking about it, what he did. it just will never go out of my mind. >> tell us about your brother. what kind of guy was he? >> he was very supportive like he always gave me advice like if i ever needed advice he was right there. he always helped me out, he would help anybody. he was a good cop and even if he pulled somebody over he'd try to give them a chance. >> sharon i'm sorry for what you're going through, what your family is going through right now. let's hope they catch this guy quickly, thank you. >> i, do too. joining us is lenny depaul former commander of the u.s.
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marshal service regional task force for new york and new jersey and robert fernandez who runs a similar task force covering the washington, d.c., area. your division of the marshal service is helping run down leads right now. how concerned are you about these two fugitives? how much of a danger do you believe they pose? >> we're very concerned. guys like this they just have nothing to lose with the sentences they were serving on the run. my fear is for the patrol officer, the uniformed patrol officer might pull them over unknowingly for some traffic violation. >> lenny, i understand you believe these guys might be on the run together because of what your sources have told but their relationship in prison. what do you know about them? >> it's a good possibility, anderson. i'm not completely sure and can't confirm or deny that but they were very close in prison. as they said earlier they didn't share a cell they were next to each other. they were always seen together in the yard they ate together
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for the past several years so you know they are friends. are they together? we don't know. >> if they stay together does that make it easier from a law enforcement standpoint because you essentially don't have supraseparate manhunts going on? >> exactly. you got one manhunt at that point but if they do split up several leads are going to come in from a variety of different areas and whatnot that need to be vetted and certainly our folks and our task force working with the new york state troopers are not going to leave any stones unturned. so they're doing a full court press and i know we made both of these guys one of our top, two of our top 15 fugitives wanted fugitives in the u.s. marshal service, so we'll dedicate all our resources and equipment and manpower and money to get these two apprehended as quick as possible. >> robert how difficult is it to track down fugitives in a situation like this? we're talking about a remote area there aren't a lot of surveillance cameras. i talked to the mayor, there's a lot of hunting cabins around
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that may be unoccupied that somebody could use, close to the canadian border. >> it's very difficult. i have great faith in the new york state police department and task force up there. they have the cooperation of our entire agency but more than that what we need is the public to help and that's why i don't want to speculate whether they're together or apart. lenny knows we've seen it happened they are arrested together they split up when they get help but i don't want a hotel clerk who may have seen one of them not call because they think they may be together. we think anything is a possibility. we need the public to call in especially with some of the specifics like the tattoo on the guy's fingers, the "ifb" is something a cabbie or convenience store clerk or someone might remember and just don't hesitate to call. we have that number it's up on the screen or you can put it up on the screen and we will we have people answering that phone
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24 hours a day, ready to follow up on leads anywhere across the country. >> we have the tip line up right now and will throughout the hour. in your experience lenny, is there a pattern, do fugitives tend to stay close, try to wait it out, try to get as far away as possible as quickly as possible or impossible to say every case is different? >> every case is different. there's no telling these guys get help from the inside all sorts of speculation going on. the investigators that are down range doing the investigation, the lead investigators i'm sure have interviewed the right people prison guards to workers. there was a lot of renovation being done inside the prison and there was a lot of equipment that could have been used and apparently was used for their breakout. what was their plan b once they got out, if there was help on the inside, were there phone calls made, was there money brought into the prison, meetings done on the outside from folks on the inside. questions of course i don't have the answers to but i'm sure
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they're crossing their ts and dotting their is in the command post. >> certainly, robert part of what law enforcement does is check who has been to the prison and phone calls that were made and past associations that they had prior to getting to that prison. >> absolutely we leave no stone unturned. we are going to check past acquaintances, family members, we're doing interviews surveillance we're doing everything to help the new york state police department and even if people have knew these guys before don't hesitate to call. call us and let us know if you know friends that they had, girlfriends girlfriends, family members, any of that can help us in our investigation. >> when people say we're going to close the canadian border afraid of them crossing over to canada does that matter in terms of the manhunt? relations with canada are very good canadian authorities have already been notified. >> yes, it's a very good possibility, becauser this see close but we have a canadian
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liaison program, monthly meetings with canadian law enforcement authorities, wither athey contact with them and we can chase them there if we have to. >> robert fernandez i appreciate your expertise, lenny deball thank you. just ahead the maximum security prison the two convicted killers broke out of is known as little siberia. the video many hoped would set the record straight was the fatal shooting of boston terror suspect justified? we're walking you through the blurry images and take you through the deadly takedune. we got the new tempur-flex and it's got the spring and bounce of a traditional mattress. you sink into it but you can still move around. now that i have a tempur-flex, i can finally get a good night's sleep. (vo) change your sleep. change your life. change to tempur-pedic.
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tonight's breaking news the intense manhunt for two escaped killers is growing. david sweat and richard matt were serving lengthy murder sentences in a maximum security prison in the farthest regions of upstate new york. as we've said over the weekend they broke out of their cells into the bowels of the prison and eventually surfaced through a manhole. how they were able to do this and who may have helped them still a big mystery. tom foreman has more on the prison itself and the surrounding areas. >> in a phrase anderson in the middle of nowhere, in the north country of new york, very
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sparsely populated, only about 25 miles from the canadian border and full of a lot of roads woods and a few scattered homes and hunting cabins. it's so far north and so cold so much of the time many of the inmates refer to this prison as little siberia. it's separated from the outside world by a 60 foot wall and the world inside can be a very harsh place, starts with the inmates. look at the numbers on all of this about 2,000 inmates inside the main prison there. 90% of them are in for vie letolent crimes the biggest prison in the stage. the median age matters here 39 and the median minimum sentence 14 years, all of this is a formula for a very potential violence in this area. beyond that, there is more. the racial makeup really counts here the vast majority of these inmates are black or latino three-quarters of them and yet with more than 900 corrections
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officers here only a very tiny sliver are anything other than white officers five in one recent survey were latino. everybody else is white. again, possibly a cause for tension when you look at the whole situation and they have had tension here before. three-quarters of the inmates in a recent survey by an inmates advocacy group say they have subjected to racial harassment beyond that, they say that fights are common and the suicide rate is quite higher one of the highest in the state, high among a loft prisons. anderson that leads up to a difficult place for any inmate to live. >> tom basically much of the economy, the region relies on this prison right? >> yes, because this has been here since the 1800s and this whole town relies on the jobs connected to this prison and there are other towns up in new york that have a very similar equation so every time they talk about maybe taking it down or moving it or changing it in some
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substantial way, local politicians say there's a lot of jobs lost here and that makes meaningful change very difficult despite a troubled history. anderson? >> tom foreman, thanks very much. jonathan fleming knows how tough it is inside the clinton correction facility. he served nearly 25 years there after he was wrongfully convicted of murder. it's a story in and of itself. he was finally exonerated cleared in the killing and free and jonathan fleming joins me now. thank you for being with us. >> thanks. >> when you heard the two guys were able to escape did it surprise you? >> it surprised me very much because of the security there very tight. i was surprised to hear they escaped. >> when you're serving time do you know do you have a sense of the layout of the prison? it seemed these guys knew the bowels of the prison the structure, where to go? >> we don't know the layout of the prison. we where the yard is at and the programs is at the mess hall
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but we don't know the layout of the prison. >> how do you think they could have found that out? >> well my opinion, i really think for some reason some way they had a map, i believe it was an inside job. >> also the fact they had access to equipment, drills and things like that, you were saying if you got, there's drills in the shop in the prison shop but you have to check those out and you have to return them and if they're missing that's a big deal. >> yes, that's always. if you go to a program and you and your shop and take out a hacksaw blade or hammer or whatever you take out in the shop you have to return it and you have to give them your i.d. card to get these tools, even if you were an electrician or plumber they give you a toolbox, when you leave the shop you have to come back with that stuff. so if anything ever comes up missing they'll shut everybody down who was in that program. and they'll look for that tool. >> they were in an area where they got special privileges because of good behavior. what kind of privileges would they get? is it sort of just extra time
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watching television, to youdo you know? >> they have stoves because you know in regular population they don't have stoves so they have stoves they have refrigerators, their cells stay open all day except during the count time so all of the privileges they get and they get recreation every night, because in clinton one half of the jail gets rec one night and one the other. they get to go out with both sides of the prison. >> cnn has been reporting there's a woman who has been interviewed who apparently worked with them in the tailoring shop inside the prison. i didn't realize, are you familiar with the tailoring shop? is it making clothes? >> yes. i'm familiar with it. they make all the facility clothes, they make all the prison clothes for the whole new york state, they make the pants, the shirts, that's what they do. >> she would be from outside the prison comes in and works there? >> she would be a civilian that
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comes inside and works every day. they have a few of them that run the tailor shop. >> how tough was this facility compared to others you were in? was this different in some way than others? >> clinton is about the same as all the other maximum facilities. they're about all the same. basically they are all brutal. it's a brutal existence with no hope when you're in prison. >> no hope. >> that's right, no hope. >> this isn't about this breakout. i have to ask you after 25 years what is it like to have been exonerated? i think i would be furious. >> i don't have no anger. i'm just blessed that i'm out here, you know and i'm just happy living life. it happened. there's nothing i can do about it but just live the rest of my life. >> how has the adjustment been? >> the adjustment is good. i actually just got my right hand in fellowship sunday i just got my right hand in fellowship yesterday i'm in church i go to a church called first baptist church in east
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elmhurst new york pastor young is my pastor so it's a great experience for me. i'm at the church every day, i help out, i volunteer at the church every day. >> i appreciate you coming in to tell us what you know about the facility and it's really an honor too meet you. >> thank you very much and thanks for having me. >> jonathan fleming. quick reminder the tip line is up at the bottom of your screen the number to call if you have any information that might lead to the capture of these two fugitives just ahead. we'll walk through through the newly released video showing the fatal shooting of the boston terror suspect. does it clear up questions about the deadly takedown? plus this. a pool party erupts in chaos. police officer throwing a 14-year-old girl to the ground waving his gun at other teenagers, the fallout ahead. sales department-this is nate.
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today authorities released a video so many were waiting to see, shows the fatal shooting of usama raheem who was wielding a knife police officers say. he had been under 24-hour
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surveillance. authorities learned that he was planning to attack police officers. the video made public today does answer some questions, doesn't exactly shed any light on some others the images are blurry. alexandra field walks us through them. >> reporter: shots fired by an fbi agent and a boston police officer, terror supt usama rahim falls to the ground. the takedown captured by a surveillance camera 50 yards from the shooting. moments earlier the man the fbi has been watching around the clock heads toward a bus stop three officers approach two more follow. authorities say the suspect is armed with a military style knife. the video shows the officers backing up, then two of them firing deadly shots. watch it again slowed down you can sleerl see the suspect moving forward and the officers retreating. >> we approached this individual just to question him. no one could have foreseen what unraveled at that point. i don't think at this point he
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was going to go down very ez easy. there were mull tipping, multiple requests for him to put down that weapon. he was given every chance. >> reporter: in a statement, rahim's family says the video does not show him to cessing, holding or brandishing a weapon of any sort much less a knife. the video does not show mr. rahim plotting or scheming or planning an attack on law enforcement officers. it depicts mr. rahim walking toward a bus stop on the way to work. the video does not show mr. rahim as the initial aggressor. on the morning of the shooting police intercepted a phone call indicating rahim was ready to attack telling his father a find good-bye. court documents revealed he had purchased three knives and that days earlier he told an associate "i'm just going to go after him, those boys in blue." a facebook post written under an alias shows rahim believed he was on the fbi's radar as early
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as 2012. "damn fbi calling my phone. he says sir we have allegations regarding you. i came by your house a few times but kept missing you." the fbi isn't coming on the facebook post but after years of surveillance officers stepped in on tuesday, trying to stop rahim from boarding a bus. the surveillance camera also catches a school bus passing by. officials say one officer noticed the bus and waited for it to pass before opening fire. >> the video, does it change things in the investigation much? >> reporter: well you know anderson as you point out the images are blurry but it gives perspective on what happened out here. it will be considered by the district attorney as he works to determine whether charges should be brought here or if the officers were justified in their actions. typically a video like this wouldn't be released until the end of the investigation but
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given the controversy the district attorney felt it was appropriate to release this to the public and anderson just to allow the video to speak for itself at this point. we have a "360" bulletin. >> a grand jury indicted michael slager former north charlestown, south carolina police officer on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of walter scott in april. he was shot in the back after he fled during a traffic stop. if convicted, slager could face life in prison. another scathing report on the transportation security administration an inspector general says the agency failed to flag 73 airport workers with links to terrorism during its vetting process and that's because the tsa did not have access to the terror watchlist information it needs to make the judgments. changes are being made so that information can be accessed. and a "360" fomup, st. mary's medical center in west palm beach, florida, stopped
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doing elective open heart surgeries on babies days after elizabeth cohen reported the hospital's death rate for the surgeries was more than triple the national average. an expert said if surgeons did not have enough experience to do the operations safely. also a federal investigation of the hospital is under way. and take a look at this photo that has surfaced showing a lion poised to attack in south africa just moments before a new york woman inside the suv was mauled by the animal and then killed. just terrifying. >> incredible. thanks very much. up next a pool party chaos caught on camera. one pulling his gun throwing an unarmed girl in a bathing suit to the ground.
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breaking news protesters turning out right now in the wake of that chaotic confrontation between teenagers and police outside a pool party in a dallas suburb. the incident was caught on video. take a look. at one point an officer throwing an unarmed girl in a bathing suit on the ground and pulling out his gun pointing at a teenage boy as officers try to
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gain control of the crowd. the officer is on administrative leave. some in the community say it's tied to race others who live there are coming to the officer's defense. nick valencia is where the protest is happening joins us now. nick? >> reporter: they decided to march against excessive force, they decided around 6:30 local time making their way from local elementary school and marching to the site of friday's incident. as you mentioned, while some people believe this is a case of teenagers getting out of control, other people think that this would have been entirely different had these teenagers not been black. >> get on the ground. i told you stay. bullet your [ bleep ] down on the ground. >> panic at a pool party. smartphone captures the tense moments after police arrive at a subdivision in mckinney, texas. >> on your face. >> reporter: the seven and a half minute video posted to
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youtube over the weekend goes viral. the officer seen wrestling a 14-year-old girl in a swimsuit pulls his gun toward the crowd. on sunday he was placed on administrative leave. >> we did see the video. at this time i'm not prepared to talk about anything in particular but we want it in watching the video we did want to conduct a full investigation into it. >> the father of the girl in the video posts on facebook alleges his daughter was targeted because of her race and the officer "should be fired immediately after dragging my daughter and other teen girl for being black." not everyone is outraged. >> i think he deserves a medal. >> reporter: this resident was a witness. she says she's afraid to go on camera but wants people to know the truth about what happened. >> i completely support him, drawing his weapon or a taser or whatever it was that he did pull because he was being attacked from behind. >> reporter: benet embry was at
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the pool party. >> this was a teenage party gone out of control. >> reporter: he says there's a lot we didn't see before the video starts. >> what you missed before the fights that were happening, you missed the security guard trying to escort the people who were jumping over the fence in the pool trying to escort them out. what you also missed is the police officer telling people to go home go home go home. not every cause is a just cause for us to be up in arms about. is there certain things that need to be addressed and focused on absolutely but this is not one of them. >> reporter: man i cured lawns and crisp brick homes surround the community pool a perfect place for a party, a side hangs at the site of friday's incident. for now the pool is closed for treatment. >> we heard about it a little earlier from in a gentleman but do we know exactly what happened at the pool party and the reason the police were called?
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there were fights? >> reporter: initially abderson that's right, a fight was reported here neighbors that i've spoken to said they called because they saw a fight happening, teenagers getting out of control. some of the teenagers we talked to believe they were targeted there has been reports racial slurs were thrown in some of the teenagers i talked to one resident who witnessed it before the cell phone video started recording, he didn't hear that but others have. as i mentioned the community here is very divided by and large the residents that we've spoken to here are vocally supporting the officer, defending his actions, others calling for his recession nation within the last hour we heard from the police union in mckinney and they say this was not racially motivated and no way anyone in the police department has racial bias or beliefs. >> we bring in retired nypd detective, regardless of what happened at the pool prior to the video rolling which is an
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important part in all of this just watching what we see in the video the officer clearly not deescalating the situation, if he's trying to do that, doesn't seem to be doing it by how do you see him handling this 14-year-old girl? >> well i don't think he handled that 1-year-old girl correctly at all. she's sitting there before he grabs her, so she's already pretty much down on the ground. i think this officer is out of control the way he's acting. he's not trying to deescalate that. he's escalating business his voice and he's the only officer running around like crazy. there's several officers there. >> after he pulled some other teenagers come over after he sort of is being aggressive manhandled and pushed down this young girl you see the other teenagers there and then he pulls out a gun and clearly the officer seemed to intercede kind of putting their arm on this officer saying like calm down. >> that's whey think, too, by watching it. when you slow the video down i
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went home and slowed this down a couple of times and watched it. when the young man in blue that comes around to that officer, that officer might be able to say he perceived a threat at that time because he was coming around from his perspective. from my perspective watching it here it doesn't appear to me to be a threat and in fact when they run away he still keeps the gun out and chases after the couple of kids instead of hollistering his weapon and looks like the officer is trying to say put that thing away you don't need that. >> this is a 14-year-old girl in a bikini bathing suit. >> of course there's fights and they need to find out what gaeg on. >> we'll see what happened. appreciate it we're minutes away from cnn's newest quiz show, we'll look behind the scenes next. >>i know i have a 786 fico score, thanks to all the tools and help on experian.com. so how are we going to sweeten this deal? floor mats... clear coats... >>you're getting warmer... leather seats...
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