violence with a maniac. he goes to the subway and tries to get away. he's cornered by the other patrol officers who get there and then he takes his own life. . the senselessness and brutality of it. we stare at it. >> all right, jim. stand by here as we update you here at the top of the hour on msnbc. i'm frances rivera. the breaking news we follow out of new york city. two new york city police officers killed in an ambush style attack in brooklyn. the two officers, rafael ramos and wenjian liu sitting in the patrol car in the bedford-stuyvesant area of brooklyn with open fire on them. the gunman is ishmael brinsley, who is the man who held the gun, pulled the trigger on these two. police say he ran and shot himself in the head, killed himself there.

of course, this attack comes amid tensions between police and protests and his extreme. and police were investigating him in baltimore maryland after they believed he shot and seriously injured his girlfriend and then proceeded to post on instagram that photo and believe he used the words and messages of hate against police officers and then traveled to brooklyn. he had ties to east flat bush there in brooklyn. local authorities in baltimore, maryland, were able to alert authorities in new york city by faxing a wanted flyer there. but the police commissioner said as the warnings were coming in, these killings, these attacks may have been taking place as well. so certainly the tough scenario for them. you're looking live at that neighborhood in brooklyn.

piece together with the law enforcement there for that and also a live look here at woodhull hospital where two officers were taken and they were declared dead and that at any moment now, those bodies will be taken away and you can see here the line and the stream of police officers, law enforcement officers. jim, i want to bring you in now. what is the protocol there? i'm sure there is, you know, these heavy hearts for these police officers and the respect they want to pay these two firefighters. fill us in on what may be happening. >> they'll bring the fallen officers bodies out to move to a funeral home or move from the hospital. it could be that and the families are coming out. and it's just, the officers are just going to pay their

respects. just get in a line and will pay their respects to the families or could be to the bodies of the officers. so that's usually what happens. it's real respectful. it's just the way the family of law enforcement normally operates. quiet and dignified. >> we'll take a moment to pause as the bodies of the law enforcement officers are taken away. when that happens, we'll pause when that happens but in the meantime, jim, as we watch this here, a tough situation for many members of the department in new york city and i can imagine at any police department, anybody in law enforcement as you mentioned when one officer taken down but a partner in broad daylight, in their marked

vehicle as well with somebody who comes up in their gun and we understand, not necessarily any words exchanged but just to simply fire multiple shots in the head execution style killing them. >> right. it's just going to affect everybody in the nypd. it's going to affect all of their former nypd officers legioned across the country. it's going to affect, certainly, the families most of all, but the members of the a 4 precinct they were assigned. their police academy class. everybody they worked with and the larger department and of course, law enforcement as a whole. so it has so many echoes in it because to see these young lives gone for no reason, just affects everybody. i think the thing we always take away, frances, the police continue right? tonight, police patrol new york city and every other city and county in america.

so they don't stop because these things happen. they keep doing their job. they're out there because, they feel the pain, still doing the job. that's something we should all remember. they have to carry on, kind of like the military. that's part of the public safety profession. fire, police and of course the military as well. you have to keep on with the mission, keep on doing what you're supposed to do and you're going to see that everyday. the police car goes down the street and answer the calls for service. but you can see the pain in the faces of the officers and just going to be deeply affected by losing two comrades like that. what procedures will change? we'll see. around the country whether procedures will tighten up a little bit, i would think that they'll be like chiefs and sheriffs and commanders looking at threats they know of and

some, working to tighten that up and maybe some places where they'll have to use two officer cars for a while or make sure they're extra vigilant. it sure seems like it's a one off guy. seems to be related to anybody, the way he shot the girlfriend and posted the instagram message and then shot these two officers and then just ran to the subway. so no, it doesn't look like any kind of a plan other than just vulgar violence. it just looks like a maniac. if that holds, then maybe this is just an isolated tragedy for nypd. >> sure, police believe he acted alone and it was not related to terrorism at all. so again as we watch this live look here, video coming in as all the other members of law enforcement and nypd and police officers forming that line as

any moment, the bodies of officer rafael ramos and wenjian liu will be taken out of woodhull hospital and driven to where they obviously now for the family will have to plan their burial in five days before christmas. got to be so difficult. you're talking about the capacity of them as members of law enforcement, but we also have to keep in mind that these men were husbands. officer ramos with a wife and leaves behind a 13-year-old son who the mayor and police commissioner just said couldn't even begin to understand the loss of his father, who had just turned 40. celebrated his 40th birthday earlier in december and then also, officer liu, who recently got married and now his wife is a newlywed and now a widow. >> yeah, just absolutely heartbreaking. a young family, that they have to deal with this and yeah, it's

just going to be real hard on them to be embraced not only by their own loved ones but the police force as well to try to help them get through it. they're going to be taken care of and praised. the organizations will help them get through it. unfortunately, law enforcement has a lot of experience, you know, dealing with these tragedies and they know what to do even though the pain remains, but they will get them through it. they will get the family through it. >> commissioner, i can imagine, and the police commissioner spoke to that saying that in his 44 years, he's been through this before, unfortunately. it doesn't get any easier each time he does it and speaks to the family and has to speak about loss of members of the department too. and what comes to mind, especially with the nypd, the last time they lost an officer was in december of 2011.

and that was a high profile case there, that was a 22 year veteran, peter forgoski responding to a break-in there at the apartment and shot in the face and killed by one of the suspects there too. so almost three years to the day that that killing happening and then you have this one. >> i was thinking about that. the nypd officers, it shows they've been able to keep officers safe all that time. 3 years, 35,000 police officers. so you know, you hope to never have another one but to have two killed on the same moment on the same street, it's just harkins back to pain of the old days when the officers were subject to those kind of attacks and we

haven't seen as many. but new york city hasn't seen that. they did see that in the past in the '70s and '60s. but to have that happen today, it's just so heartbreaking. >> we are getting word that after statements of the release from new york governor and cuomo, and attorney general eric holder that the white house has been informed that this situation, they are aware the president is aware and we haven't had official statement from the -- this is the president vacationing, his holiday vacation in hawaii. but once that statement becomes available if at all, we'll share it with you. a live look here from woodhull hospital. the line of police officers there. any moment now, the officers of rafael ramos and wenjian liu will be taken out of the hospital where they were pronounced dead after this horrific shooting execution style of these two officers as

they were on duty in their police vehicle in bedford-stuyvesant in brooklyn by a gunman, 28-year-old ishmael brinsley who traveled from baltimore, maryland, after police believe he shot and injured his girlfriend. traveled to brooklyn to carry out these attacks on these police officers where he shot them in the head in their cruisers and then proceeded to flee to a nearby subway station where he shot and killed himself too. and the strong words here on that instagram post is really sickening to hear, jim. you know, when he says, "i'm going to be shooting two pigs," referring to policemen, "putting wings on pigs. they take two of ours, and i'll ta , one of ours, i'll take one of

the two of theirs." the began that's believed to be used in the shooting and take a picture of his leg and they have a selfie, if you will, on the instagram post. and sickening from it overall. >> it is, frances. to hear the words, go back to the police, we heard that all the '70s. we couldn't go anywhere. uniformed officer, couldn't go anywhere. people would call you a name and it was a time in the country when the military veterans consulted as well and the police bore a lot of the growth as well with the attacks like that. and actual violence and verbal attacks. so we haven't heard those words as much lately. society's improved much. look at the way the military is treated now. but, you know, issues always linger and they have to endure and stay on, keep it safe.

but for this guy to post that kind of a vulgarities, and commit the absolutely heinous act against the nypd, it shows what a despicable coward he was and i don't think the attorney general has offered all the services of the federal government and certainly the nypd, the story bureau. they're some of the best detectives in the world. so every facet of whatever happens for baltimore to brooklyn is going to be found out about this guy, and the association. but unfortunately, i don't think it will be an unfulfilling mess like what's inside his head. you're not going to get any satisfaction out of the facts because you're not going to make such sense. there's no reason you could and there's no reason that it will. nevertheless, the investigators will do all of their due diligence. the report will be distributed and the best we could hope for,

if it turns out like we think, maybe some procedures that would intercept or help to intercept or stop people who would threaten violence against the police or any member of our criminal justice system. maybe we can do things better, faster, quicker. i think we can. i think we always can do things better, faster, quicker and get closer to the citizens at every corner. you asked, frances, what mostly can officers do, to be close to the community and that's where the answers come from. that's where the help comes from and the alerts come from. that's what's got to happen. can you prevent any tragedy? no. can you stop the answers? yes. horrible to look on the scene and see the officers lined up there waiting for the bodies

with the families of their fallen officers to come out. >> once that happens, we will pause and uphold the dignity and the respect that these officers are giving to these. rafael ramos and wenjian liu. we will pause as their bodies are taken away, but as we await that jim, it's got to be tough. safe to say, given the tensions recently with all the protests and the die-ins and the calls for some extreme calls to harm police, to hurt police, that an attack was just inevitable, a matter of time before there was harm done or an attack against police officers, maybe not to this extent, but it would be safe to say these police officers were prepared for that? >> well, i think at the back of your mind, there's always concern and preparation and alertness in uniform that

something may happen. but there's so many events that swarm around law enforcement officers all the time. the basic crime they deal with. with terrorism like the commissioner said, this car was normally a car that would be used in a terrorism assignment. terrorism detail. so you'd have terrorism and of course, new york city is always on the more higher alert than any other places with terrorism. so yes, they're on alert but it's hard to guard against, you know, contact with citizens and other human beings in the neighborhood. that's part of what policing is. and calls for service. sometimes, helping him. and sometimes in the ambulance and sometimes rescuing them. there's constant, constant contact. you can't eliminate the contact. that's what policing is all about.

make a great point. they're paying attention and then it's really hard to defend against that. really hard. >> the warning came in, the alert to new york city authorities from baltimore law enforcement that this is a wanted man. the shooting he had ties to east flatbush and as the warnings were coming in, that that may be the very moment these attacks were taking place, along with the alert from his mother and the family of the ex-girlfriend who was shot that he had been posting on social media and very volatile, could do something very dangerous as well. and the old baltimore detectives gathered this information that got up to nypd in just a couple of minutes later, this shooter

shot these two officers. so it was tragic that this time. not saying it was anyone's fault but maybe the alert got there, maybe the way events unfolded. maybe the outcome could have been different. but the commissioner also said they wouldn't have had a way to get the picture to all the on-duty officer. i agree. when you're out there, you know, they put alert out for someone, if you can get their photographs or the fingerprints, sometimes help in a car because you might be questioning someone but now we have the ability to send you an instant photograph of a person. for them to go into the radio car, laptops on and see them when you go by the police car or a laptop computer, but some cars may not have those in a city with 35,000 officers.

but certainly, some smartphones on your belt or some laptops we could do a better job on that and also, we could make sure when people commit violence against the police in any form, assaults, threats, you know, we take those seriously in the courts and criminal justice system and we do something about it. >> you talk about bodies cameras there, maybe that would have factored in the case but these guys didn't have time to draw their weapon. they didn't know they were attacked or possibly never saw this gunman. it goes to show you what could have helped them in that scenario, what could have given them the head's up that this attack would have taken place, more difficult to comprehend and more despicable as far as with the commissioner calls quite simply targeted for their uniform and the responsibility to keep people safe as the mayor

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few things inside the sheriff al cannon detention center help pass time faster than being an inmate worker. >> this is one of the best meals here at al cannon because you barely can distinguish what it is. other days you can't distinguish what it is, you're just eating it. >> deangelo is a worker in administrative segregation. >> we made him administratively segregated due to enemy status. he does have several enemies, nine in the facility. he's been fairly quiet since he's been in a1b. haven't really had any problems with him.

>> most of toomer's enemies are from his affiliations with gangs. he's in jail on a charge of first-degree burglary to which he has pled not guilty. toomer says regardless of what happens with the case, he wants to change. >> i've done a lot of things in my life i'm not proud of, and i've lived a life in gang -- gang banging. first, i regret these. i regret these so much. tattoos. i studied a lot of things in prison. basically trying to find inner peace because i was trying to change myself. so what i try to do to keep myself sane, avoid foolishness and try to stay out of as little trouble as possible. >> i see his reaction with inmates. he's definitely got a leadership style. it's a shame he's in jail. i'd like to think that maybe he could do something better with his life. >> a whole lot of good meal

here. >> toomer who served time in prison and jail on a variety of other convictions has befriended a new arrival in the unit, william jarrett. >> he's a good kid, but he has some issues. >> while toomer is in segregation, jarrett is in protective custody. but they share the same unit and restrictions such as 23 hours per day in their cells. >> in this unit, i've been told there are some crazies here and there's some dangerous people. they're looking at me like i'm a weakling, and they're going to -- first chance they get they're going strike because that's how it is in jail. >> i try to pass things on him. but he's very emotional. i saw him over there crying. he would go to prison and he would be crying, showing emotions, he would be prey. basically stay to yourself. stay to yourself, mind your business. don't deal with nobody. >> right. >> and another thing, please, if you're going to cry, just go in the room or go in the shower and put your head under the water. >> jarrett requested to be in protective custody because he says some older inmates were

making advances toward him in general population. but he says he didn't know protection equates to confinement. >> i have anxiety disorder. i've been diagnosed and take >> razadone for it which is anti-anxiety, it's also used to help me sleep because i don't sleep very well. and they just haven't been able to get it for me. i've tried since the very first day i've gotten here. >> jarrett says his small cell makes him feel claustrophobic and has caused him to pass out. so he wants to get back to general population. but it's not that simple. >> this is a request to be removed from protective custody. for classification, we have to research this inmate and to find out what type of person he can be around that he won't feel intimidated. >> from what i understand, he's new to the system. he has a tendency to suffer from what i've been told from anxiety attacks. we're not trained in any way to

deal with him. sometimes just talking to someone helps. >> you going to be okay? >> no. i'm not. that's the thing. i'm nogoing to be okay. i'm going to keep passing out here until i get back up there or somewhere else somewhere. somewhere. somewhere other than in this room. i'm not going to be fine. i'm not going to be fine here. i mean, do you know anybody that has anxiety? >> not personally. >> i mean, that's the thing then. people just don't understand it. it's real. >> no, i'm not saying it's not. i'm not saying -- trust me, i'm not saying it's not. but there's 1,200 inmates here. and you can't just concentrate on william jarrett. >> this is like punishment without -- >> it's not punishment here. it's not punishment. >> i get one hour break from where i was coming from for saying that i needed help being protected? >> unfortunately, this is the way it's going to be until classification changes you. what i'll do is call classification later and see if they're going to move you because they've got your request.

see what happens then. so you going to be hanging in there? >> i don't know. it's unpredictable. really is. the anxiety just comes. sometimes it just starts from nothing. >> yeah. i understand. i understand they're real. he has to realize it is jail. you just keep an eye on him to make sure that nothing does, you know, really, really upset him or he doesn't try do anything to himself. coming up -- >> jarrett? what's up? what happened? what happened? >> staff rush to william jarrett's aid. and -- >> mr. toomer's in disciplinary segregation. he threatened to stab one of our officers. >> i never made no threat to anyone.

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their patrol car in the bedford-stuyvesant area when the gunman opened fire on them. police say he ran into a nearby subway station and then shot and killed himself. just before the attack, he posted messages on social media threatening to kill police. we'll bring you more news later. i'm frances rivera. now back to our programming. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, inmate exercise is limited to what can be done in open-air rec yards. technically, inmates are not supposed to exercise anywhere else. though it's the type of minor violation some officers might let slide if it's not causing a problem. but today, a pair of cell mates has kicked it up a notch. >> getting your workout? >> you're going to love this.

>> david ratliff jr. and joshua adahar have used a ripped-up mattress cover, blankets, water bottles, and a canteen box filled with books to create their own weight machine. >> you all ready? this is the bowflex in prison. try stuff like this. >> while the workout rates highly on the creative scale, it doesn't take long for staff to spot the goings-on. and the gym is about to go out of business. >> turn around for me, put your hans on the wall. what's up? what's up? this is contraband. >> what is? >> everything i'm taking out of this room. >> contraband?

to what, a blanket? to a matt cover? water bottles? >> the inmates can be charged by the county for destruction of county property. and they deny it. they'll be reprimanded and probably lose four hours rec. that's about the most. and they'll pay for the destruction of the property. >> it is the type of violation joseph mayberry has no chance to commit even if he wanted to. he's on his third day of suicide watch after swallowing the arm of his eyeglasses. confined to a strip down cell with tear proof clothing is hard and not easy for officers to watch him. >> i came in this morning. i have to sit here 12.25 hours to watch, make sure he doesn't do anything to harm himself. >> it is draining whenever you have to put individual officers on active suicide watch inmates because it's one on one. it's 24/7, constant observation. our basic policy for suicide watch is 15-minute checks. they never lose sight of them, they actually keep notes, they take and put it in the log. that way we've got a track record of what he's doing, if he's being compliant, you know, if he's eating his food, is he drinking, those are the things that we're keeping track of. >> number two, you ready?

>> yeah. >> on her shift to watch mayberry, officer lombardi fills the time by reading to him. >> i felt some compassion for him coming in to be in a little room day after day after day with very little interaction. and i read to him some articles from "time" magazine, and several people came up afterwards saying thank you because other inmates were listening. so it was kind of nice to feel a little bit more needed than just sitting there watching somebody. >> mayberry says he has suffered from mental illness since age 12. he is representative of a problem that is draining finances and resources from jails and prisons nationwide. >> some of them i think got in the system really early on and just have stayed in the prison system instead of getting any kind of care for their symptoms. >> dr. elizabeth leonard is the jail's psychiatrist. >> i think there's a lot of people that are behavior

problems in the jail that it's just made it worse and exacerbate their already underlying illness, being in a stressful, close approximation to other people. the whole system is helping propagate another type holding ground or treatment facility for the population that can't get into the mental health center. >> william jarrett says he suffers from an anxiety disorder which has been made worse by his 23 hour-per-day confinement in a small cell. >> i seriously cannot meditate in here. doesn't work, doesn't work for me. >> while classification orders review jarrett's request to be moved back to general population, officer chamberlain hopes he has found a temporary solution. >> i've got permission to move william jarrett to another room. so he's going to be in a slightly bigger room.

it's not that much bigger, but it's better. might be a little psychologically better for him. mr. jarrett, you ready for your move? all right. you got all your stuff? got your blanket, got your towels, washcloths? okay. everything. okay, good. you're going upstairs to room 114. right now he's staying in p.c. status until that's taken care of by the classification unit. >> going where? >> 14. >> oh. >> just a two-man room, but he's going to be the only man in there. it will be bigger than the other one you were in. so you all right with this one? >> for now. how hard is it to switch me off p.c.? >> that's up to the classification unit. that's not up to us. all right. you take care. he's got things purely psychological with him. the cell downstairs has a cut in the wall and that gives it appearance of it being shortened. whereas this one's more rectangular. he's by himself. he sees there's two bunks in there. that gives the impression that it's bigger. so he'll probably be a lot happier up here. >> well, do you think you're going to hear anything more from him tonight? >> oh, god. i hope not. i like to think he'll give it the night at least.

i don't want to minimize what he's going through, but he's minor compared to a lot of the other people here who do have worse problems than him. >> less than an hour later, jarrett is found by a unit officer unconscious on the floor. >> jarrett looks like he passed out. >> we were coming and checking on one of the new inmates who happened to be a door down from him and walked by. i looked in his room, saw him laying facedown. >> jarrett? jarrett? >> me and the nurse went in there and checked on him. said his name, patted him a couple times. he was unresponsive. i called the medical emergency over the radio. and the sergeants came, nursing staff, other officers. >> jarrett? jarrett? jarrett? what's up? what happened? what happened? anything hurt anywhere? >> what's the status now? is he conscious now? >> yeah, he's conscious. he's talking to them now. >> okay. how long has he been in that room?

>> about an hour. probably about an hour. he said he thought a bigger room would help. i guess not. >> all right. >> being in jail the first time. >> okay. >> what happened the last time you passed out? >> yesterday, i don't even know what happened. i don't remember anything from yesterday. >> they took you to medical? what did they say? >> they gave me some medication. >> yesterday? >> something for your anxiety? it's not helping? >> i was taking trazedone as needed. and now they have me something something, i don't even know what it is, every few hours. and i would sleep for a little while and that's it. >> according to the jail's mental health supervisor, there are several reasons jarrett is unable to have the same medication he takes on the streets. >> we try treat anxiety through anti-depressants typically. the anti-anxiety medications, there's several reasons people don't get those. of course they are expensive. it would be a significant portion of our inmates that would request those medications

which would get very costly for the county. the other very important reason is that they are schedule-two narcotics, and widely abused on the streets, widely abused in correction settings. >> though jarrett says he is suffering from anxiety in his protective custody cell, staff say they can never be sure. >> if you see an inmate requesting to move a lot, you kind of have a feeling that they're trying to manipulate the system. in this gentleman's case, it initially appears that way. that he's trying to manipulate and get where he wants to be. if he doesn't feel safe or he's having a lot of anxiety and being in a housing unit and feels threatened, protective custody may be the place for him. >> the protective custody unit is in the same wing and follows the same restrictions as administrative segregation or ad seg. deangelo toomer is there because he has enemies. >> he apparently threatened

officers. it was verbal, however we do not take that lightly. he was removed to disciplinary seg based on that. >> i never made no threat. if i'm going to do anything to anyone, i'm not going to threat. i'm not going to talk about. i'm going to do it. coming up -- >> i heard you are affiliated with the gangster of disciples. >> deangelo toomer meets with a gang investigator. >> he had a 37e, a medical emergency. >> william jarrett passes out. it's just ordinary fleece

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inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, deangelo toomer is awaiting trial on a burglary charge. he has just been sent so disciplinary segregation for allegedly threatening an officer who had ordered him to take down the pictures on his cell wall. >> i came to lockup for refusing to obey. that was the initial charge. then another officer, he tried to come back with another charge 45 minutes later saying that i allegedly tried to threaten him. which is bogus. >> after speaking to other staff members, the disciplinary committee felt they could not substantiate the threat and dismissed it. >> wanted me to escort you out. i need you right here, sir. >> but toomer still received ten days in disciplinary segregation for refusing orders. the incident also prompted sergeant kitchings, one of the jail's gang investigators, to check in with toomer who has stated that he wants to stay out

of trouble and no longer involve himself with gangs. >> we believe he's affiliated with the gang disciples. on his right shoulder he has a big "f." on the inside he has what appears to be a six-point star. the six-point star is a common symbol used by the gangsters disciples to represent their gang. >> toomer says the "f" and six-point star tattoo represent a clothing line that he likes. >> what's this clothing line you like? >> it's a drummer called travis baker. he has this thing called the famous f. and -- >> you mean travis barker? >> travis baker, barker. yeah, him. that guy. >> i didn't know he had a clothing line. >> yes, he does. >> i knew he was a musician, he was in a plane crash. >> yeah, he does. i liked it, and i just put it on me. it's just something at the time i was in prison, i think i was high as hell when i put it on me. >> the "f" could be for a clothing line like he said, or "f" could stand for folk, which is folk nation, which is part -- which the gangster disciples are part of. >> actually, i called you up here to clarify information i've been receiving. >> okay.

>> i've been hearing you've been affiliated with gangster disciples. >> what is that? >> you know what that is. >> i've heard of it. >> you heard of it? what did you hear? >> just prison, street, thing of that nature. i don't deal with gang members. trying to stay clear of foolishness. >> no gang affiliation at all? >> none. >> none? what's up with the six points on your right arm? >> that's a famous -- that's what you call a travis baker a drummer. >> oh, i never heard -- >> travis baker. he's a pop drummer. that's his famous "f." if you look at the clothing line. i like the style of clothing. >> you like the style? >> yeah. >> later toomer said he didn't appreciate the line of questioning. you could ask me about personal issues. if i was in a gang. i don't question you about your way off life or what you believe in. if i see you with a mason ring i don't ask you about the brotherhood.

i don't ask you about that. i don't even know why he called me. six-point stars, fs. i mean [ bleep ]. christian's star of david. >> not christians -- >> star of david. >> jewish. >> same difference. christians -- however you look at it, christian, star of david. >> a few years days later, toomer would no longer need to explain his tattoos to staff. he reached a plea deal to lower his first-degree burglary charge to third-degree burglary and was sentenced to time served. his release is imminent, and he says he won't be back. >> i'm no better than you, you're no better than me. if i can do it, you can do it. all right? >> yeah. >> well, i'm a couple steps ahead of you. >> yeah, yeah. >> and you got a lot of catching up to do. but you if you put your mind to it, you can do it. >> yeah. >> right? >> yeah. >> a short time later, toomer is changing back into his own

clothes and about to take the eight-mile walk home. he says he made a decision to not ask anyone to pick him up. >> good luck to you. >> i just really want to stop and smell the roses, you know, as i'm walking to my destination. i want to isolate myself and pinpoint a plan of what i'm going to do. my thing is making my mark in this world, period. >> toomer leaves behind first-time inmate william jarrett who 24 hours earlier said he fainted in his cell. now he's in the medical unit for a four-hour observation period after he was found passed out again. >> he around 2:00 had a 37e, a medical emergency. so we're going to go in, check in with him, see what happened, and go from there. so what happened today? so another medical emergency? >> i guess i just -- i blacked out, and i guess i fell backwards and -- >> yeah, i see you hit -- hit your head a little bit there. what did they bring you down here, keep a watch on you, see what's going on? >> yeah. second time. >> i mean, do you feel it's better in here? >> it's better definitely in here -- >> it's more open, it's not as confined for you? is that what it is?

>> yeah. >> yeah. so when you're done with here, they're going to put you back into a1b? >> i guess so. the anxiety attacks, they will build. and i could -- my chest going in and out and haven't had breathing. and this i'm just like lacking out completely. >> staff have questioned whether jarrett's fainting spells are part of a plan to get out of protective custody and back to general population. >> this is bull [ bleep ]. no, that's not what i'm doing at all. i can't force anxiety. it just comes. >> so far he's been cooperative, and we're still working to find out what's going on with him. >> why don't you go ahead and uncover. we're going to throw the mat on the bed. we need to do an ekg and get one more set of vitals on you, okay? >> he is almost at the end of his four-hour observation. and the end of that, we will call and report off to doc. and all decisions will be made using that information that we complected during the four

hours. >> so have you been feeling okay since you've been back here? a little dizzy? you haven't blacked out or anything else, right? okay. all right. all of his tests came out good. his ekg was normal, and he was cleared to go back to his unit. do you feel that going down there today and spending time down there like helped you any? no? >> not really. >> no? >> didn't really accomplish nothing. >> no? when did you say you think your mom's going to be able to bail you out, though? >> saturday. >> all right. let's go back in. >> though jarrett might be out of the jail in a few days, he uses the computer kiosk in his housing unit to once again request a transfer.

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make the best entertainment part of your holidays. catch all the hottest handpicked titles on the winter watchlist, only with xfinity from comcast. inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, sergeant price has just received another request from william jarrett to be moved out of the protective custody unit. >> and here it states again, "i'm having multiple anxiety attacks that result in myself blacking out. this is due to the small rooms that i'm locked in. please return me to general population." with this inmate's personality, it's very possible that he's going to have problems in any

unit he's placed in. >> we're going to go ahead and go this way. >> given that, sergeant price has decided to move jarrett back to general population but to a different unit than the one in which he said he was harassed. >> coming from where i came from, i mean, it's a huge improvement. i mean, all the new people i'm going to have to get to know obviously. but i should be fine for a couple more days. just looking around, everyone seems all right. no one really making any threatening faces at me or anything. >> how do you think this whole experience has altered you, if it has? >> i've never really gotten into trouble until this. it's made me see that -- like i thought i had hit rock bottom before like in the past. now this is a whole new rock bottom. it's the worst experience i've ever had in my life. for joseph mayberry, it's day seven on suicide watch after swallowing the arm of his glasses. he did so after becoming upset that the jail could not provide him the same medication he used

to take on the outside. >> certainly swallowing all of those items that he has swallowed, he's certainly at risk to causing some great bodily harm to himself. so we're concerned, and we want to get him to a treatment facility to where he can get the treatment that he needs. >> mayberry is in jail for failing to reregister as a sex offender. convicted 15 years earlier, mayberry insists he did not commit the crime and was pressured into signing a plea deal to avoid decades in prison. >> how you doing in there? >> get to sleep a lot. you know, think about my mom. >> being on suicide watch, you know, you can't have a lot because we've got to take precautions. but they can use the telephone at the discretion of the supervisor. sometimes he just needs somebody to talk to is what it seems like to me. he does want to talk to his mother quite often. his mother kind of cheers him

up. >> hey, favorite girl in the whole wide world. how you doing? my mother's my best friend. we keep closer now than before. she told me, she says, "i got your back in this." my mother tries her best to look after me. she loves me more than anything in this world. when you coming -- when you coming to see me? >> he loves his mom a lot. and it -- it seems like he's a big kid when he's on the phone with his mom. also she gives him money to get canteen and commissary which makes him pretty happy, too. >> our detention staff, they don't go to school to be true mental health counselors. however, we work with mental health and learn through some of their training that they give to us on how to address or how to

approach certain mental health inmates. it is a strain on our staff because they know that they are very unpredictable. you've had officer assaults because they just weren't anticipating the inmate was quite calm and has been. and all of a sudden that one day it was like a light switch. >> we're escorting mr. mayberry to the shower. he's in the shower now. give him an opportunity to completely shower, then we'll escort him back to his room. we're just here so he doesn't take anything, swallow anything. because he's been doing that lately. >> but this will be one of the last showers mayberry will have on suicide watch. the jail's mental health supervisor has finally received word that a bed in an outside treatment facility has become available. >> joseph mayberry is going to be going to one of the state hospitals for psychiatric reasons. and he should be going there within the next couple of days. >> how does that make you feel knowing that you're going to be in a hospital? >> it makes me feel better because i'll get the medicine i need. this whole thing was about medicine.

i'm frances rivera with the latest news we've been following out of new york city. two police officers ambushed and killed. an emotional scene moments ago in brooklyn as the bodies of rafael ramos and wenjian liu were transferred to a funeral home were the families will prepare to lay them to rest. the head of the police union added his voice to those in mourning tonight. the two officers were sitting in the patrol car and when the suspect opened fire, he ran to a subway station and killed himself. the man identified