last week the department fired him for forwarding five emails to former vallejo police captain john whitney. the department fired captain whitney in august 2019. robinson said after whitney no longer worked for the department he sent him one email from his work account and forwarded four to his personal account that he then sent to whitney. >> it was just to keep john informed of high profile incidents occurring within the city of vallejo. john is still connected with the vallejo police department. he has a lot of friends here and liked to know what was happening within the city. >> reporter: in august an internal affairs investigator told robinson his emails were being looked at due to a suspected leak to the media. >> while they were searching my city cell phone they found where i had been forwarding emails to my personal yahoo account. >> reporter: he was put on paid administrative leave in january. >> they stripped me of my badge, gun, id card and escorted me out of the building. >> reporter: then fired april 1st. >> a lot of people in the building feel my best years are behind me and i

last week the department fired him for forwarding five emails to former vallejo police captain john whitney. the department fired captain whitney in august 2019. robinson said after whitney no longer worked for the department he sent him one email from his work account and forwarded four to his personal account that he then sent to whitney. >> it was just to keep john informed of high profile incidents occurring within the city of vallejo. john is still connected with the vallejo police department. he has a lot of friends here and liked to know what was happening within the city. >> reporter: in august an internal affairs investigator told robinson his emails were being looked at due to a suspected leak to the media. >> while they were searching my city cell phone they found where i had been forwarding emails to my personal yahoo account. >> reporter: he was put on paid administrative leave in january. >> they stripped me of my badge, gun, id card and escorted me out of the building. >> reporter: then fired april 1st. >> a lot of people in the building feel my best years are behind me and i

> this is a termination either to punish herman as collateral damage for his relationship with john whitneyf favor with the department, or to put him out to pasture, because he will not go quietly on his own. >> reporter: robinson, whose father worked for the police department, says he has no timeline for retirement. >> the support from the community has been overwhelming. i still live in this town. my soul is in this town. i still believe that lease work -- police work is a people business. i still think that treating people fairly is the right thing to do. >> reporter: spokespeople for the police department and the city said they could not comment on confidential personnel matters. for the i-team, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >>> another prosecution witness says george floyd died from lack of oxygen in the derek chauvin murder trial. the former medical examiner took the stand as prosecutors tried to prove that his actions killed george floyd. george floyd died because the former police officer had conduct that caused his to stop. >> there is no evidence that he would have died that night e

john. >> whitney, thank you so much for that. >>> we are learning some more about the individuals who attacked.s. capitol on january 6th, namely that there were straight up nazis in the crowd. john avlon is here with our reality check. john? >> there's still basic rules of decency and democracy, like don't call your political opponents nazis. you hit the limits of your logic and something we have seen too much of in recent decades, but what happens when your opponents actually call themselves nazis? well, that's when you know we've gone through the looking glass and that's where we seem to be right now. now, yesterday we reported that a new york man on trial for allegedly making death threats to democratic lawmakers is a nazi sympathizer who wanted trump to be like hitler. prosecutors say brendan hunt posted videos encouraging people to kill your senators and texted his father, a retired family court judge, during hitler's first term in office circumstances were such that it was necessary for him to override the democratic process and become the absolute leader of his country. trump should pro

whitney, what have you learned? >> reporter: john, what we've learned is there was a social media scraping company that identified a series of troubling posts and tried to alert capitol officials, but they were dismissed. here's one of the warnings that was identified and send to capitol officials. we will storm government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, federal employees and agents. they sent it over and they sent it to another. they said, hey, there's now chatter on parlor about storming the capitol. please let me know if there are updates on credible threats. the response received was there is no talk about any credible threats or storming the capitol. and the reason we're bringing these to you, john, this gives us a very ground level granular look at how these conversations surrounding what to do regarding the open source intelligence were played out and why some of these pieces of information were dismissed. however, this is a key line of questioning for senate investigators as they try to work through all of the sec