maria the sidewalk confrontation : involving an off duty boston police officer, warning signs missed? the surprising admission from the new york bombing suspect's father. >> seeing warm as we to fall. when the temperature change takes twice. maria: the pats quarterback mystery. with game day approaching. >> from boston's news later, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at 7 p.m. ed: boston police say this was not excessive force by one of their officers who was off-duty when this confrontation unfolded. good evening, i'm ed harding. maria i'm maria stephanos. : police say that video you just saw was key in their decision.

john: police looked at three different videos and talked to seven different witnesses before coming to this conclusion the cell phone video lit up social media. pressuring police to take a close look at one of their own. >> he tackled him and shoved his head in the ground. john: the person taking the video claimed the officer tackled a 64-year-old and slammed his head to the ground. it shows him trip after running away. the officer in red is close behind. >> lac here is an officer -- all i see here is an officer with his foot in someone's back. >> the commissioner justified the officer's actions because at that moment, he says the officer

against the light. >> the window was woken. -- broken. >> the officer let him go. he is now being represented by an aclu attorney who is speaking on behalf of -- on his behalf. >> he was running because the person was chasing him and fell because the person was chasing him an injured because the person was chasing him. officer should have contacted a supervisor after this happened. he didn't act appropriately, they said. maria: investigators in new york getting some new clues about the man arrested in this weekend's bombings. and those clues are coming from the man's journal. newscenter 5's shaun chaiyabhat is here with what it reveals.

the hospital and is not cooperating with authorities. investigators now poring over his journal for clues. no motive for terror. the bombing suspect keeping silent. but investigators now analyzing every word. in the bullet-pierced journal found on ahmad rahami after his shootout with police. the fbi says that journal did not mention the boston marathon bombing. but did talk about the former al qaeda spokesman, anwar al awlaki. >> i called the fbi two years ago. shaun: officials now confirming his father's statements revealing rahami was known to the fbi since 2014. >> why did you call the fbi 2 years ago, what happened? >> because he was doing bad what did he do bad? >>what did he do bad? he stabbed my son, he hit my >> wife, and i put him to jail 2 years ago. his father later recanted his >>his father later recanted his statements to the fbi. investigators determined back

to pakistan and afghanistan. rahami said he was there visiting his wife and family. >> the question also, what was the radicalization process, is the telling the truth as to where he went? did he go to turkey or syria? and obviously, these trips are going to be the foundation for much more in-depth investigations. also today, both of the officers >>also today, both of the officers injured in that shootout are now home ve ed: right now boston police are responding to a ruling by the state's highest court regarding racial profiling. the court says black men have a reason to be concerned that they'll be subjected to racial profiling by officers. newscenter 5's david bienick is live at bpd headquarters tonight. david: the high court said today not only do boston police engage in racial profiling but that the practice is so pervasive it might reason for someone to run.

chase on wokallah street in roxbury nearly five years ago. boston police arrested a man named jimmy warren while looking for a break-in suspect, based on a vague description. >> he was a black man in roxbury. that is all that mattered and he had a hoodie. david the break-in had happened : thirty minutes early nearly a mile away on hutchings street. when police initially spotted warren, he ran, officers chased after him, and eventually arrested him on an unrelated charge of illegal gun possession. but today the massachusetts unanimously ruled running from police does not necessarily make someone a suspect saying, such an individual, might just as easily be motivated by the desire to avoid the recurring indignity of being racially profiled as by the desire to hide criminal activity. >> they have to have reasonable suspicion. it just cannot be that someone ran from the place and a hunch that they may be up to something. david: in its ruling, the court cited an aclu study that showed

they account for 63% of police encounters. late today, police commissioner william evans said his officers don't target people, but rather criminal hot spots. evans said the justices should have taken that into account. >> i am troubled that this decision relies on a biased report by the aclu and even contact the da or us with -- for any type of briefing. found cannot be used as evidence. the conviction is overturned. ed: the coast guard is searching the water off long island for two missing boaters. the mom and son didn't come home from their fishing trip sunday night off the coast of rhode island. linda carman and her 22-year-old son nathan are from middletown, connecticut. the search area covers 11,000 square miles that's two-times the size of connecticut. police in connecticut say there

a tribal police officer shot the man in a parking garage at the casino. the officer first confronted the man and when he showed a gun shots were fired. it is unclear what led up to the confrontation. connecticut state police are investigating. maria: two mothers from salem new hampshire are accused of being drunk while holding their infant children. police say they arrested the women in the parking lot of the rockingham mall, where they admitted to drinking. police say one was lying in a her head when the arrived. the babies were one month and four months old. >> they were barely able to take care of themselves, let alone a baby of that age who needs a lot of care and attention. maria: the babies were released to the custody of their grandparents. the two women were released on personal recognizance bail. ed: no chips, and no tags on two dogs left tied to a tree in the

animal control needs your help finding their owner. kennel staff named the dogs shellie and shelby. they were abandoned saturday. it's illegal to abandon and animal but animal control says the goal isn't to punish the owner, it's to find out what happened and offer services if reuniting dog and owner is possible. the dogs are healthy but one has a paw problem. >> she had some abrasions on the bottom of her pads. nothing -- something that would be consistent from hot pavement. in: call boston's hotline 311 if you have information about the dogs. maria: a memorial in milton to a little girl who died in the holocaust is vandalized and now her brother is heartbroken. fred manasse created this sculpture in memory of his baby sister, who was just 1 and a half when she died at a concentration camp. this sculpture sat in milton cemetery since 2014. he wonders why someone would

>> emotion comes from art for me. nobody should do that to anybody's sculpture, or anybody's memorial. maria: that star you see right there is missing. staff noticed it was gone on milton police are investigating. monday. ed: terrorism is becoming the focus of the presidential campaign this week. maria: coming up to my on the opposing strategies from hillary clinton and donald trump. harvey: a couple of days of summer left. we will share in that and let you know when the feel of fall will finally arrive. it is tuesday for most of us but friday for the patriots. mike lynch reveals with the practice field told us about who

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ed: the focus of the election is terrorism. maria: marian marse joining me. great to have you both year. let's talk about what happened in new york and new jersey. there was an explosion, it went off in a neighborhood, there was a shoot out, ties to terrorism and we know the fbi is charging this person. as soon as this happened donald trump said "a we want to see where this investigation takes us. very different styles, what does that tell you? >> trump was too cavalier but clinton was too careful. i do not think either differentiated themselves in a batter good way through this response. we will get a deeper look at this in monday's debate. it will be -- they will be tested much more.

hillary clinton had some responsibility but she -- we will see what they say under deeper questioning. maria: too cavalier? >> there was a big contrast. trump went out there and stoked a lot of fear. hillary clinton waited and she was measured in her response. voters would like hillary clinton's response better than donald trump but the big problem for donald trump came in the wake of this where he started talking about racial profiling and we need to do more of that to make sure we stop these people when it is illegal second it is not work. even though donald trump has talked about profiling throughout this campaign he has brought it back up again. it fires up his base but i is of the democratic race and does not help him with the white college-educated women voters we have been talking about that he needs to win. >> refugees and skittles. this tweet from donald trump,

grandma handful of skittles, please. >> donald trump, junior. he has associated himself which is a package story of saying racist. this was a planned tweet and it was more than a dog whistle for although white supremacist and it -- nationalists. skittles is what trayvon martin was getting when he was murdered by george zimmerman. the whe assist all use skittles in a lot of means. donald trump, junior has repeatedly come the voice and the face of the alt-right. shame on him. >> a lot of americans do think that there might be terrorists landed in with these syrian refugees. i do not think it hurts trump. i do not think they will hold

to something that is a popular notion. perhaps a majority of voters. but i think the backlash is more of a media backlash, not a voter backlash. i do not get hurts trump with voters. ed: i am skipping to the fourth question. bush 40 saying he will vote for hillary clinton. the family lets out that he will vote for consolidating republicans but that has changed. i do not know how president bush is going to vote but the fact that he has a problem with a lot of high-profile establishment republicans does not hurt trump within -- independence who are angry at both parties and angry at the leadership for the past three decades. maria: it hurts them with republicans. there's republicans say i will

them are with him which is why he is tied with hillary clinton. i do not the he has much more room to go. >> i do not think it is going to do much for the election. it will be surprised that george h.w. bush will vote for trump. one less thing on donald trump, junior. everyone knows exactly what donald trump, junior was doing with that message and it is shameful and there are a lot of whiteio out there who heard except they what he is saying. do not be full by it. and: thank you. since you are outside would you tell harvey what they weather is like outside? >> a beautiful sunset to the west down columbus avenue. ed: you nailed it. harvey: this is the drought

a lot. worcester picked up two inches of rain. we had -- there is a big difference. there is still big deficits but boston has a greater deficit than worcester. this will get updated on thursday. you so that beautiful sky. we will show you how it came about. as we start to get clearing cola there are some high, thin cirrus clouds left. watch this as the when -- and we take you to where we are, another in a series of beautiful sunsets and it is another summer feeling night in boston. 70 degrees and very gentle breeze with a sea breeze that is about ready to quit. we are in the 70's, most of the checkpoints. the air is still kind of money through uncomfortable and even oppressive. a little bit higher north and west. not much wind tonight.

the sun comes up and we mixed the winds up a little bit than the dryer can command. the humidity will be dropping. it will be a great day outside. a few pockets of dense fog very early through some of the interior valleys and down toward the cape that will burn off and start out in the 50's north and west. and all these 80's in the midwest, these are current readings will be in here tomorrow. i expect 80 through 85 around the horn tomorrow. 75 in nantucket. you can see the clouds spinning completely clear north and west. we have high pressure to the west and that is with us for the next couple of days. it will be warm tomorrow. it may mean -- be warm until most of friday until a big change follows after that. i can see the sky staying clear through tomorrow through tomorrow night through thursday

the cape. that takes us to the patriots game. after being in the 80's and thursday, you can see there might be some clouds friday and a spot shower. for the patriots game it will be in the 60's. it might be around 70 a-game times and slowly falling into and through the 60's but not much cooler than that in this mild air mass. it was in the 80's during the course of thursday afternoon. two tropical systems to watch. one is carl which could become a hurricane. somewhere within a couple hundmi five days. it looks like it will stay way out at sea during the course of the next five days. neither are threats to these coast. there is a look at your next seven days. nice and warm into friday. much cooler over the weekend sunday morning and monday morning. we could have pockets of frost in some parts of the area. that is will we call a big change.

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