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>> unfortunately we have to treat them as if they were. >> get on the ground. knock it off. o. >> reporter: officers confronted him and he ran. the multi-had warned officers that he was afraid of police. >> he sees the badge and automatically thinks you're going kill him or he has to defend himself. >> reporter: two of the officers expressed concern about approaching him. >> i'm not about to get in a shooting because he's upset. >> get on the ground! get on the ground! >> reporter: police released the body cam footage monday. >> he's a small child. why don't you tackle him? you are big police officers are massive amount of resource. come ochblt give me a break. >> reporter: what was it like to watch that video? >> the worst thing in my life. >> he tried to do all the stuff
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i did and he's grown up to be an awesome young man. it's going to be tough for him. >> reporter: the officer that fired the shots had been placed on administrative leave. that's standard protocol. police officers are required to go through a 40-hour course of instruction. at the press conference earlier this week chief brown did not explain why the officer felt the need to
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the college football season shifts into high gear this weekend. when the s.e.c. begins play four weeks late due to covid-19. the reigning national champions, the lsu tigers kick you off their season at home against mississippi state. there will be limited seating and no tailgating. the head coach brought home the title last season. he's also a local hero in baton rouge. john wertheim reports for "60 minutes." >> you might call 2019 the year of yes for louisiana state. they won the national championship. their quarterback joe burrow won the heisman trophy. that's jamar chase. in april, nfl teams drafted 124 players from lsu, tying a modern record for one school fwoumplt all the talent coursing through baton rouge -- ♪ ♪ there is a house in new
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orleans ♪ the sun rises and sits with coach onchts he didn't get much of a victory lap unless you count 5:00 a.m. rides to work radio blaring. covid hits and he was coming to work alone. we were invited inside lsu football for a few days in august when louisiana had one of the highest covid rates in the country. players were back in the gym but they weren't training in a bubble. everyone here goes home at night. the team tracks players' temperatures, administers regular covid tests, isolates those who test positive, and quarantines anyone who comes in contact with the virus. >> all over the place. >> really? >> reporter: lsu hasn't disclosed dpigs but he said this week most of his players have had covid. how much of your day to day is devoted to this virus? >> we have a protocol and i
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foilt. whatever it is they tell me to do and i coach. my tv hasn't been on for six weeks now. >> why is that? >> there's a lot of stuff going on there. up understand. for right now my job is to coach this football team. >> you've been outspoken. want football in the fall. >> yeah, yes. i think it's good for everybody. last couple of days, they get their 10-day quarantine, but they had a little cough, so i think the young players when they do get sick get over it quick. >> have you come to grips that there might not be football this fall? >> i don't think about it. >> don't think able to it? >> yeah. we prepared these guys to play. we didn't blink. we're ready. stay, stay. there you go, be patient! >>. >> reporter: the coach insisted on intensity even in the first practices. >> do it right! >> reporter: we watched things
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get a little heated out there. >> hands on. nice job. >> reporter: i notice you used the word energy a lot. >> yes. jiets important to you. >> yes. >> reporter: why? >> if it's quiet, it ain't no good to the me. >> reporter: afternoon a 14-hour day we trailed him to a local boxing jichlt he conforms to every dlaich about a football coach and at the same time smash the mold. for staerts, there's his voice. he sounds like a man who gargles craw fish shells and garnishes that rasp with a cajun accents. we put the obvious question to tyler shelled oen, the offensive lineman. the voice, you always understand what he's saying? >> yes. i can understand what he's saying. i'm from louisiana. >> anybody imitate him? >> almost everybody.
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>> can we hear it? >> big t. >> big t. >> you always had that distinct voice? >> a lot of times it gets wore out. i think that is something i use as a tool. it's loud. it's demanding. take control. inside! hut! >> reporter: his accent was born here in lafourche parish, about 75 miles down the bayou from baton rouge. the family is cajun, descended from french canadians in the 1700s and have proudly resisted assimilation ever since. when we stopped by, his mother coco insisted we eat before we talk. and really, whoomp we to resist sea fwood gumbo. this is absolutely wonderful.
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joog thank you, i appreciate that. >> ed would coach kids on the field across from their house. >> that was the play ground of the whole neighborhood. the ditch was the line and the sideline was a hedge and every once in a while you'd go up the sideline you were in the hedges. >> reporter: her son stood 6'2" and 270 pounds by the time he was 15. this south lafourche tarpins were did louisiana state champions with you saturdays were all about college football. what did lsu football mean to this family? >> it was a big part of our family, but it wasn't something we could go -- and go to the game. >> reporter: why not? >> we could not afford these -- that was an outing. it was ex pens -- you couldn't get a tickets, even. >> reporter: when his son asked for tickets, ed senior delivered the ultimate pep talk. >> he said son, we can't afford that but let me tell you
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something. if you keep on working, you won't need a ticket to get into tiger stadium. >> reporter: he did get in. lsu gave him a college scholarship but overwhelmed and home sick, he high stald it back to the bayou. >> he woke me up, said let's go. i was digging dichls. people were passing on the side of the road, you quitter. you couldn't take it. it was the worst day of my life. my father looked at me and said -- >> he dug his way back to baton rouge of course but it took him 35 years to go those 75 miles. first he went to northwestern state. then after graduation took a volunteer coaching job while moonlighting in the hull of a shrimp boat. >> from 5:00 in the morning to soc o 10:00 at night. i had a shovel in my hand and
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the phone rang. they have a coach job. do you want the job? i took the shrimp shovel and threw it in the bayou and said hell, yeah. you gobt here by monday. i said where in the hell's arkansas, man? >> reporter: he spent the next quarter century pin ball around the landscape, resigning from miami while he struggled with alcoholism. sore for 20 years he's still been dealt his share of blows by the profession. in 2013 despite his success as an interim coach fourvegs sc he was denied the full-time job. >> you want to o hear the story i heard? >> what's it? >> people loved you. the high ups said we need a guy golf clubs in his trunk. >> absolutely. i'm not a country club type guy. you think your arc sent affected that decision? >> absolutely.
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>> what's the feelings about cajun population? >> dumb. not worthy, not worldly. >> reporter: now back home in louisiana he's not just understood, he's appreciated. he was hired as assistant in 2015 and promoted to head coach the following year. now with a $7 million salary. he cemented his status when the tigers beat rival alabama for the first time until eight years, delighting fans, one in particular. what do you remember about lsu beating alabama last year? >> you know, i love their stadium. i don't care for the word the people say. they're kind of loud and boisterous, but when we won, i enjoyed a did living hell out of it. >> reporter: i'm getting a sense of what it must be like to sit on the couch and watch a game.
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>> come on down. >> you can see the full report on our website cbsnews.com. and catch the game right here on cbs saturday starting we are at war with a virus. and healthcare troops and first responders are on the front line fighting it every day. let's join the fight, by staying home. staying home is not a retreat, it's the most brave and aggressive weapon we have against this enemy. because when we do stay at home, we help prevent overwhelming our hospitals, while buying time for scientists to find the vaccine... and that's how we beat it....
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defight all of the loss, the pandemic has brought out kindness in strangers. phil hartman found this touching fish tale. >> in baltimore we found a first rate fish story. last week, someone posted a picture of this bizarre chair on a facebook page called weird secondhand finds that just need to be shared. when syracuse auto mechanic emily saw that chair, she about had a cow because of what's on her calf. and here's the truly amazing pamplt emily never tonight chair. she just saw it once years ago and felt strangely compelled to have it tattooed.
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>> that's the thing about it. i saw that chair and twaefrgz for me. >> you make it seem almost mystical. >> it almost is. >> almost like had to get the tattoo but weren't sure why. >> absolutely. >> after she posted a picture on the facebook page. >> oh, my god. >> hundreds of women called to action. >> it looked like her. it's kizmet, serendipity. >> even though they'd never met, they started a gofundme, raised $600 to buy the chair for this total stranger and deviesed a plan to personally deliver it. perfect fit. first, jan gerard picked it up in baltimore, drove it to meredith, who drove it to mary ann and so on up interstate 8 is more than 300 miles.
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sarah edwards carried the precious cargo on its last leg. >> it's similar to driving my kids home from the hospital the first day they were borchlt nervousness, excitement. i can't comprehend why anybody would want to do something like this for me. >> reporter: it's a legitimate question. >> it wasn't about a chair anymore. it gave me significant needed and i didn't know i needed. >> reporter: i think a lot of people look r oing for ways to connect. if it's a fish chair, it's a fish chair. >> that's right. >> sorry. >> clearly, kindness can take many forms. >> we're a fellowship of the fish here >> reporter: butter: but the be of kindness is always that random act. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: that somehow makes people believe again. >> i did not need the chair but i need to be reminded that kindness lurks in even the weirdest little places. >> reporter: all we need to do is fish for it.
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>> there. you did great. >> reporter: steve hartman on the road in syracuse, new york. and that's the overnig news or this it's thursday, september 24th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." unrest in louisville. two police officers are shot during demonstrations over a grand jury's decision in the breonna taylor case. tribute to a trailblazer. the nation mourns ruth bader ginsburg as the president defends his decision to quickly fill her seat. and capitol clash. a heated exchange between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul during a coronavirus paul during a coronavirus hearing. captioning funded by cbs good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the
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