let me bring in pete williams. pete, what do we know? >> this is a bit preliminary, chuck.nding is this was an incident at the north barrier of the capitol on independence avenue. that would be the lower part of capitol hill as you approach the capitol from downtown. independence avenue, what we are told is that a car was trying to get through a checkpoint and didn't stop and just kept going. that much seems pretty clear. what we are trying to confirm is reports the officers on the scene fired at the car. we have been told by a couple of law enforcement agencies that shots were fired. our understanding is that the officers on the scene fired at the car. that's as much as we know at this point. whether the car was stopped, who the driver was, whether the driver shot at the officers, all questions to be answered. this just happened within the last maybe 20 minutes or so. we are getting sketchy information at this point. the capitol police were there on the scene. federal law enforcement is responding as well. we are still waiting for a better word on exactly what happened. as

let's bring in pete williams pete, why is this so important? >> reporter: lester, it was a member of the far right oath keepers who has agreed to tell investigators what he knows. john schaffer of indiana, 53, pleaded guilty to entering the capitol with bear spray and trying to obstruct the electoral vote count the government dropped a charge of assaulting capitol police with the spray. in return he agrees to cooperate, which could help investigators understand the forces behind the siege he calls himself a founding life member of the oath keepers. if he does cooperate, he could get leniency when he's sentenced several months from now. lester >> all right, pete williams, thank you. >>> now to my exclusive. 100 days after the capitol attack for the first time the acting chief of police, capitol police, is speaking about the enormous toll the attack has taken on her department and responds to criticism over the agency's preparedness we spoke on the still fenced off capitol grounds today. >> every day i think about the well-being of the officers.

pete williams. given that, i guess how are investigators now going to go and try to figure out a motive? i assume, as we're seeing on the left-hand side of the screen, looking into the car to see what they can find in there, identifying him, going to his home. what else? i think we lost pete. tom winter, are you still with us? >> reporter: hey there, katy. katy, if you can hear me, i can hear you. >> i think someone in the control room, by the way, has opened my key so i can't hear anything on television or in my ear, so if you could just close that, that would be helpful. but, pete, i believe you're talking. i can hear you way off in the distance. pete, go ahead. >> reporter: yes. this will obviously complicate the investigation some because the best evidence of what went on here would be to talk to the driver. we're told the driver is a man. i don't know anything else about the driver, where the driver is from, how old the driver was, but was shot by somebody else who has now died in the hospital.

pete williams with more on our nbc news cross platform series, american extremism >> reporter: the fbi says its massive investigation has uncovered contacts late last year among people who became some of the first to break through the police barricades and smash their way into the capitol. but whose plan was it? 12 people from six states are charged with being part of an oath keepers conspiracy to derail the electoral vote count. but court documents say by late december, their talk was about demonstrating in the streets. but on january 1st, one of them sent a message saying he'd like to know what the plan is and that they seemed caught off guard by the crowd storming the capitol still the government says seven of them lined up military-style to force their way in all 12 have pleaded not guilty separately, four men have been accused of being part of a proud boys conspiracy to stop the vote count, joining with eight others accused of coming to washington ready for a fight of some kind. investigators say one of them, joseph biggs of florida, messaged "we have a plan" the right before the

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here's pete williams >> reporter: the ncaa basketball tournament is a huge moneymaker generating billions for the schools but not the athletes the association says it's essential that they remain amateurs, but former student athletes like richard jefferson, a standou for the arizona wildcats says that's not fair. >> we're focused on amateurism but paying millions of dollars for people to run this quote/unquote amateurism. >> reporter: the ncaa is now fighting in court for limits on some education-related benefits for student athletes including computers, musical instruments and scholarships or internships after they're no longer playing. those rules keep college sports ncaa says, and are allowed under antitrust law, but justice brett kavanaugh was among those skeptical. >> the anti-trust laws should not be cover for exploitation of student athletes >> reporter: a majority of the court seem likely to say those modest student benefits should be allowed but sonia sotomayor was among justices worried about giving the courts too much power over college sports >> how do we know that we're not j

also looking tonight into clues that he did have some mental health issues lester >> all right, pete williams in our washington newsroom. thank you. >>> the killing of officer evans sent yet another chill through the country and highlighted the dangers facing capitol police the force now forced to deal with another loss of one of their own. here's kasie hunt. >> reporter: the acting chief of the capitol police with this plea tonight. >> i ask you to please keep the united states capitol police family in your thoughts and prayers. >> reporter: the agency reeling after losing officer william "billy" evans, an 18-year member of the force, part of the capitol division's first responders unit. it's another one of their own. evans' death just weeks after officer brian sicknick lay in honor. he died after the january 6th insurrection another officer, howard liebengood, died by suicide. rioters that day explicitly targeting officers in the aftermath of the riot officers working 18-hour shifts six days a week for weeks on end to maintain tighter security >> today is just another example of what they d

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pete williams as well. thanks to both of you. >>> i want to turn it tara brown, george floyd's cousin. she's also the director of the george floyd foundation. good morning to you. thanks for your time. your family has been through so much over the last 11 months. let me start with how you are doing this morning. how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling pretty good this morning. it's just kind of like a burden has been lifted. it's been such a buildup getting to this point. it's been quite a journey. >> how surprised were you -- maybe not surprised about the verdict but the speed with which the verdict came down as well. were you surprised? >> i was a little bit surprised. for me, the evidence was -- inaudible ] i was hoping the jury would get it. we predicted as a family -- we talked about it and we thought, this can't take very long. we thought before the end of the week. it did come a little bit earlier than we thought. >> we heard many times tuesday from attorney general ellison here, most notably, the guilty

let's go over to pete williams, who joins us with the latest on the investigation and what is known about the suspect. pete, thanks for making time tonight. what are the basic facts that we know of right now in terms of how the story as evolved? >> the law enforcement officials say tonight that the suspect was noah green, 25 years old, had been living for a time in the norfolk, virginia, area where he went to school and had recently moved to indiana. capitol police say he was not known to them. that he was not in their files for making any threats against congress or members of congress in the past. his facebook page said he was a follower of louis farrakhan and the nation of islam and court records show he petitioned to change his name but didn't show up for a court hearing in indiana so the matter was dropped. a biography on the website where he went to college said he was born in west virginia, but grew up in virginia. and in a post, he said that he recently lost his job. quote, these past few years have been tough, and these past few months have been tougher. and then he said, i have

joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. omebody like him, somebody within the oath keepers, what's that going to mean for the investigation? >> it could potentially be a very important development here because this is the first guilty plea. we always expected there would be lots of guilty pleas in this case because you have a lot of people charged with glorified trespassing charges. many of them will probably plead out. but this is significant because authorities say he is a member of the oath keepers. he describes himself in court papers as a founding, long-time member of the oath keepers, and he says he admits he was among the very first to get into the capitol, the sort of vanguard of people who breached the capitol building. the government's theory here is by getting these plea agreements, they can begin to get cooperation, and schafer it begin to cooperate today, and start to peel back the layers on who exactly was in charge of this, who planned this, who came up with the idea of storming the capitol, who was really in

for now, pete williams with the investigation. pete, this goes far beyond the floyd case >> reporter: that's right. whether minneapolis police have a pattern or practice of using excessive force and that includes during protests it will look how police treat people with behavioral problems and how they enforce the law the justice department lawyers will look at how they are trained and supervised and if they are held accountable with misconduct when this is over, a public report will be issued and agreement. they will typically go to court together with a consent decree. if the police refuse to make changes, then the justice department can sue in court and get a judge's order to require them to adopt reforms. the police chief well comes the investigation because he thinks it will help him make reforms he has in mind. the justice department was given the authority by congress in 1994 following the widespread public protests over the televisioned police beating of rodney king. since then, the public has 70 investigations, but these h

self-defense the court will hear this case in the fall, i would guess november or december. >> pete williamsthank you >>> covid watch, the white house is expected to relax guidance on wearing masks outdoors the announcement will come tomorrow sources tell nbc that recommendation are still being full finalized. today dr. fauci reaffirms that the guidance will be based on science. >> the risk of infection is outside is really minimum, if you are vaccinated and you are outside is everyn less what we'll be doing is clarifying the situation of masks in vaccinated verses unvaccinated people. >> right now more than a quarter of all americans have fully vaccinated the cdc reports more than half of u.s. adults received at least one dose it is certainly progress new data shows the rate of daily vaccinations is slowing down cnbc's meg tirrell covers science and medicines for us what does this mean for the slow down of vaccines going forward >> daily shots administered are down 20% from their peak we are averaging 2.7 million shots per day compares to 3.4 million on april 13th. we are entering a new pha

pete williams is here now, what more can you tell us?i'm probably talking right now to you, someone's whose life was influenced by tweets when you were a white house correspondent. after getting critical comments on at real donald trump. they sued and said you can't do that because your twitter page, your twitter account, is in essence a public forum. and now the justice department said it is basically the same thing she can do at the twitter account. the president made an official statement, there was input from white house staffers. it was in essence a kind of public forum and he could not public forum. the case is dismissed as moot and that is what the court has done. there is an interesting concurrence in this. he said i agree, there's a dead letter, there is nothing to fight every any more, but he said i think we're still trying to apply old principals to new technology. it does seem odd to think that a public forum is something operated by a private entity that could shut it down, and you may recall that twitter did suspend his acc

joining me now, nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams. pete, what more can you tell us about this? >> well, he's john shafer, he's 53 years old, he's from indiana. and he is a member of the oathkeepers. he describes himself as a lifetime founding member of the oathkeepers. this is a still picture from the government's original charging document against him, accusing him of entering the capitol with bear spray and using it on capitol police officers. you'll see the photo of the circle in his hand that the government says showed him deploying and preparing to deploy bear spray. but in the plea agreement today, he does not plead guilty to that. the government filed the charges only of entering the capitol without authority and trying to obstruct congress. in return, he has agreed to cooperate with the government and they will them what he knows about what led him into coming to the capitol. he says in his court documents in his admission that he was among the very first five or six people to get inside the building. it's significant, because

justice correspondent pete williams is with us. s a ruling that comes down that affects kids who get life sentences, right, life without parole? >> right. nine years ago the supreme court said you couldn't have mandatory life for people under 18 when they commit their crimes. this involved a 15-year-old from mississippi who killed his grandfather, stabbing him eight times. the defendant in this case said, okay, i know i can't have a mandatory sentence, but there has to be some specific finding by the judge that i am permanently incore ridgible. that is the legal standing. today a vote 6-3, the court said no, that is not the standard. as longs as the judge has discretion to consider the youth and immaturity and that's enough and life without parole can be handed down. this was a 6-3. the majority says that the supreme court's askition in 2012 has already reduced a lot of sentences from life without parole for youthful defenders. they decline today to make it easier to get those sentences. >> pete williams, live for us there in washin

. >>> joining me now is our justice correspondent pete williams and veteran prosecutor paul henderson. he's the executive director of the san francisco department of police accountability. pete, the attorney general only announced breonna taylor's name once, but her death felt like it was looming every other bit of that announcement. >> no question about it, especially when he said they'll look into how the louisville police department conducts search warrants, like the botched search that resulted in breonna taylor's death. that's a critical reason this investigation has been launched. >> so when they launch this investigation, pete, what is usually the timeline, and how do they work? >> the timeline will depend on how cooperative the city and state police department are. they said they're both going to cooperate to talk about this. sometimes the responses to these vary. some police departments resist them, but many welcome them. that was certainly the case in minneapolis where the police chief said there are a lot of reforms i want to carry out, i think this will help. in terms of h

it's where we are going to start tonight is with the latest from nbc news, justice correspondent pete williams. who has been reporting today had that the burst of violence at the north entrance to the u.s. capitol grounds today. that left one u.s. capitol police officer killed. and another hospitalized with injuries and a suspect dead involved in all of that. ramming a car in to those officers and in to a metal bare -- a metal barricade and then lept on out of that with a knife. one capitol police officer was announced that the officer was killed. and this man, william evans known to his friends as billie, officer evans was an 18-year veteran of the capitol police force, we know he arrived on their elite first responders unit. that was the same unit that officer brian sicknick served who died on the january 6th capitol attack. we have the latest on the investigation and what is known about the suspect. pete, thanks for making time tonight for you. what are the basic facts that we know of right now in terms of how the story as evolved? >> the law enforcement officials say tonight that the suspe

pete williams is watching this for us. >> the court long said that students do have some free speechreally the question here. does that same rule apply to speech that comes from outside of the classroom. the school says that these days all sorts of students expression comes from outside of the classroom because students are constantly communicating with each other. but what brandi and her father say is that the schools can't patrol speech that is off campus. that's the essence of the question. the supreme court's case came from 1969 where students were punished for wearing black arm bands to protest the vietnam war. and the supreme court said they can be punished only if it is substantially disruptive and the wearing of arm bands are not. so there is two ways brandi can win this case. they can say no, the schools can't patrol off campus speech. or they could say as crude as it was, it was not disruptive enough. >> pete williams there in the washington news room. hours from now here at the capital the president is set to roll out his next package. it focuses on education and child car

let's bring in justice correspondent pete williams to help us understand a little bit more about whatgoing on here. pete, he, of course, announcing a pattern and practices investigation into the louisville police department just a short time after they did made a similar move in the minneapolis police department. what were your takeaways here? what are we going to see happen next? >> takeaways are this is what happens when there's a change in administration and a different philosophy of these investigations. the trump administration under jeff sessions and william barr both thought they did more harm than good and were disruptive to the police. clearly, under this president, they have gone back to the practice used by members of both parties in the past, that these do more good than harm and are good not only for the police department but also for the community. a different set of things they will look at than in minneapolis. there are overlaps. they will look at whether there's unreasonable force. that's the same as in minneapolis. including in protests. same thing there. but then th

but first nbc pete williams. this investigation into the minneapolis police department goes far beyond the floyd case >> reporter: as you said earlier a look into whether minneapolis police have a pattern or practice of using excessive force and that includes during protests it'll look how police treat people with behavioral problems and whether the police illegally discriminated how they enforce the law. and the justice department will examine how the officers are trained, whether they're supervised and whether and how they're held accountable and the government will issue a public report and negotiate a public reform agreement. typically the police department and government will go to court together and make it formal with a consent decree and often the court will appoint an independent monitor to make sure the police department lives up to its commitment. if the police refuse to make changes then the justice department can sue them in court and get a judge's order that would require them to adopt the reforms.

to get one the court will hear this case probably in the fall meaning november or december >>> pete williams, thank you >>> covid watch. the white house expected to relax guidance on wearing masks outdoors and the announcement could come as early as tomorrow. in fact, we believe it will be tomorrow sources telling nbc news the recommendations are still being finalized but today dr. anthony fauci reaffirmed the guidance will be based on science >> the risk of infection outside is really minimal if you are vaccinated and you're outside so what we're going to be doing from the cdc is versus vaccinated people, they're fully vaccinated more than half of the adults have received one. it's certainly progress. it shows the rate is slowing down cnbc's meg tirrell covers science and medicine for us. what does this mean, the slowdown for the vaccine rollout going forward? >> reporter: yeah, shep. in the past two weeks daily shots administered are down almost 20% from their peak we're now averaging 2.7 million shots per day compared with 3.4 million april 13th local leaders are telling us we're entering

pete williams spoke to this young woman behind the case and he joins us now. sounds like this is how modern teens blow off steam. i assure you. i have a lot of conversations with my own teenager and what he puts out on social media. why is this going to the supreme court? >> the supreme court ruled 50-plus years ago that students do not shed their first amendment rights at the school house gate though they can be punished if their speech is substantially disrupted. the question is with speech as pervasive as you say on social media, does that mean that the school has to ignore everything that's said off campus? that's the question. we talked to brandi levy, the young woman at the heart of this case and her father larry about what's at stake. >> i was a 14-year-old kid expressing my feelings, expressing how i felt and that's how -- that's how kids do it. like, they do it over social media. >> that's how us parents learn what's going on with our children's lives, through social media. >> so he says he hopes the supreme court won't try to stifle that speech. ther

pete williams has more. today marks 100 days since the insurrection.an you tell us about the case? >> the federal prosecutors haven't announced this. it's happening right now in federal court in washington. john shaffer of indiana, who originally was charged with entering the capitol building with bear spray and spraying it at police officers, has now agreed to plead guilty in a plea hearing that's going on right now. he is going to plead guilty to two charges, unlawfully entering a restricted building and obstructing an official proceeding. what's significant about this case, jeff, is that the government says he is a longtime member of the oath keepers. this is a landmark movement here for the prosecutors, because there's only so much they can do in investigating these cases based on what they have done so far, which is try to exploit social media and messaging to really get into the minds of people who were involved in this. they do need to get some guilty pleas. this is the first one. not only is the first guilty plea in these 400 or so plus cases,

also with us our justice correspondent pete williams, cynthia miller from polarization and integration lab. pete, this is like finding out the pbb in august 2001, bin laden determined to use planes. that's what this intelligence reports from the ig's report lays out here. the description of what they said before january 6th could not have been more prescient. >> yes and two days later an intelligence assessment in the operating plan said the chance of violent was very low. one of the things the jinser general says here is the capitol police does not have a good structure for gathering intelligence and doesn't have a good structure for sharing intelligence. and i think that's one of the big takeaways from the report. on a larger level the ig is saying the capitol police has not yet fully evolved from a normal police force that responds to trouble to a more progressive force that protects the agency. and that's really the transformation that has to happen. the capitol police have said in response, we agree with all of your recommendations. we want to do all of these things but we don't y

pete williams is joining me with more on this.w anything about the timing. that's the easiest thing to answer. the question first is, who is going to go first in the trials? they face state murder charges. typically, the way it's worked -- not always, but generally worked in the past is that the federal government, if it files charges like this, while the trial is still pending, stands in the background and waits to see how the local prosecution goes. i don't think that they have worked out who will go first. the state obviously filed its charges first. we will see which goes first. secondly, you can call these hate crime charges as a technical matter, but they are not filed under the hate crimes law. they are filed under a federal civil rights law. the government's prosecution says that arbery was enjoying a fairly protected right, the use of a public street, when he was attacked because of his race. that's the government's theory of the case here. >> pete williams, thank you. >>> as we mark the 100th day of joe biden's presidenc

another capitol officer died during the january 6th insurrection nbc news justice correspondent pete williams with us now. pete, what do we know about this suspect and this investigation >> in terms of the investigation, i think one big question is what did cause the injuries of the officer who died it's not entire klly clear whetr they were from being struck by a car or friendly fire we just don't know but officials say the man who was driving the car was 25-year-old noah green, who had been living in the knorfolk, virginia, area capitol police say he was not known to them from his past. a bio said he was born inwest virginia but grew up in virginia and on his facebook page, a posting just a few weeks ago, he said he recently lost his job. he wrote, quote, these past few years have been tough and these past few months have been tougher, and then he said, i've been tried with some of the biggest unimaginable tests in my life but police say so far there's no sign this was a terrorist attack tonight investigators are going through noah green's social media. they're talking to friends and family

to limit how much they can benefit from all the money their play generates lester >> all right, pete williams, thank you. >>> the pentagon today reversed policies from the trump era that largely barred transgender people from military service. the new rules will allow transgende people to enlist and serve in their chosen gender and help them get medical treatment for gender transition. >>> up next, why you may now need a vaccine passport >>> back now with the price you pay and the new warnings about tax scams and identity fraud. our jo ling kent has details. >> reporter: tonight, new warnings from the irs about tax scams targeting millions this week, the federal tax agency alerting college and university students and staff, anyone with a .edu email address that fraudsters are impersonating them sending out phishing emails with th logo and subject lines like tax refund payment or recalculation of your tax refund payment asking you to click a link and submit personal information like social security or driver's license numbers to claim a refund the irs is also sounding the alarm about a growing

, the justice department announced a sweeping investigation into that city's police department pete williams now on what will be examined. >> reporter: the death of breonna taylor, a health care worker who was shot to death in her own apartment by police during a botched effort to serve a search warrant a year ago, was one of the catalysts for a summer of nationwide protests now the justice department says it will investigate the louisville police department to see if there's a pattern or practice of violating civil rights >> promoting public trust between communities and law enforcement is essential to making both communities and policing safer >> reporter: the investigation will look at whether louisville police have a pattern of using unreasonable force including against peaceful protesters, of engaging in racial discrimination in traffic stops or of illegally searching private homes. it will also look at how police are trained and supervised and how they're held accountable when things go wrong. both louisville's mayor and police chief say they welcome the justice department's investigat

pete williams on the high school cheerleader who says she was just blowing off steam. >> reporter: whenlevy, then a pennsylvania ninth-grader, discovered she didn't make varsity and would remain a junior varsity cheerleader she lashed out one saturday she posted a photo of herself and a friend on snapchat and wrote using a word we can't say on tv, blank school, blank softball, blank cheer, blank everything >> i wasut when one of the cheerleading coaches saw it, brandy was suspended from the junior varsity team. she and her parents sued, and a federal court ruled that students cannot be punished for their off-campus expression. several members of the supreme court said the school went too far. >> she blew off steam like millions of other kids have when they're disappointed about being cut from the high school team >> reporter: but the justices also worried that schools must be able to take action against cheating or bullying >> i don't know how you locate the conduct in school versus out of school when you have social media. >> reporter: the court seems likely to rule that brandy levy sh

our team of reporters is following the latest new developments so i want to go right to pete williamswalk us through this. one more is the medical examiner revealing? because a lay person like me reads natural causes and thinks he wasn't sitting on a couch. come on. >> he wasn't but the medical examiner said there was no contributing factor to his death other than the fact he suffered blood clots to the brain causing two strokes. what happened you will recall he was sprayed with a chemical irritant while he was on duty during the capitol riot. he went back to his office and that night collapsed and was taken to the hospital, where he died the next day on january 7th. the medical examiner says there was no sign of an allergic reaction to the chemical irritant, leaving the medical examiner with the conclusion that it was the blood clots that caused the death. of course, now, the question is did his work on the capitol riot cause the blood clots? and the medical examiner doesn't offer any opinion on that but his base by saying it was natural causes, that means there was no other outside

here now with the latest nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and nbc reporter garrett haake.e, is there anything we learned on the motive? >> no, i don't know if they will ever get a motive, at least no sign of it yet. it's pretty clear noah green, the man suspected of doing this, ramming his car into officers and hitting that barrier, was somebody whose life was falling apart, who was going into a rapid mental decline. there are many signs of that. his brother said he recently -- green had recently moved to botswana and while there, apparently attempted suicide by trying to jump in front of a moving car. he then came back, told his brother that he was not doing well. he had last december filed for a petition to change his name in indiana, his name to noah zihiem mohammed. but when there was a hearing, he did not show up for that meeting. so that's another sign things were falling apart. there was no signs of domestic terrorism or political influence. he was a follow of the israel nation and louis farrakhan, but that alone i don't think answers the question. >> kasie hunt sai

nbc's justice correspondent pete williams is at the supreme court for us this morning. orning to you it is well-established that students do have free speech rights at school, though they can be punished if what they say is disruptive. what if it is something they say away from school, especially on social media that's what this case is about when brandi levy was a ninth grader in pennsylvania, she discovered one saturday that she did not make the varsity cheerleading team and would remain on the junior squad she lashed as on social media. on snapchat, she posted a photo of herself and a friend making a rude gesture, and she wrote a word we can't say on tv. blank school blank softball, blank cheer, blank everything >> i was a 14-year-old kid expressing how i felt. that's how kids do it. they do it over social media >> reporter: she assumed the message would quickly vanish, but a classmate took a screenshot and showed it to her mother, who happened to be one of the high school cheerleading coaches. brandi was suspended from the junior varsity team. she and her parents sue

i want to bring in pete williams. you have been following the investigations into what happened in both of those capitol attacks. not just the siege, but what we saw earlier this month. what is being done in those investigations? any update? and to address some of the security concerns around the capitol? >> the security concerns around the capitol remain largely unresolved. there has been no real decision about what to do based largely on the january 6th attack. the temporary fencing that was way out beyond the capitol is gone. now there is just fencing around the capitol. additional national guard troops will stay at least in the president goes to his hill to make an address to the joint session of congress. and then the question is what about after that? the recommendations have been made for temporary fencing that can be deployed. a quick reaction force. better intelligence assets in the capitol police itself, and perhaps a streamlined ability to make decisions instead of using what is considered to be the creeky

>> i want to go to pete williams. pete, i understand we have some new information on the suspect? >> yes. we've now been told by several law enforcement officials that the person who attacked the capitol today is a 25-year-old indiana man named noah green who may have some ties to virginia, may recently have lived in virginia. the car had virginia plates. we're told by several law enforcement officials who have looked at his facebook page that he has a facebook page. he says he's a follower of the nation of islam. and in recent postings, the last posting was apparently just within the last couple of days. he was expressing some despondency saying he's lost his job, was looking for spiritual guidance. so i'm sure this is the kind of material that law enforcement will be looking at. i know in fact that they already are looking at it as they try to understand what possibly could have motivated him. 25-year-old noah grown, n-o-a-h green, common spelling. from indiana was shot and died in this attack which happened a little less than three hours ago outside the u.s. capitol. >> tell us

justice correspondent pete williams joins us. pete, what's this about? >> the u.s.m -- the term that begins in the fall, the supreme court will consider a question about gun rights that it has consistently ducked over the past decade. what right does the second amendment provide for carrying a gun outside the home? this involves a new york state law. in new york there's a ban on carrying guns openly, but new yorkers can get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. but they have to show some special need beyond just a desire for self-defense, and the challengers of this law say it makes it virtually impossible for ordinary citizens to carry a gun. so the supreme court will take up this issue in the fall. does the second amendment say to keep and bear arms, what does it say about the right to carry a gun outside the home? it was in 2008 the supreme court said for the first time the second amendment does apply to an individual's right to have a gun, but what the court said then was a right to have a gun at home for self-defense. and since then, there's been a number of ca

pete williams reported the attacker was a white male. that was a serious blunder. he was a black man, an avat follower of the -- a you follower of islam. what matters is another capitol police officer is dead and our condolences to billy evans' family. what matters is our republic remains under threat from attackers of all stripes. what matters is we must protect our people and institutions from politically motivated violence. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ howie: ahead we'll talk to former white house spokesman hogan gidley and glenn greenwald. president biden was on espn when he took a swing at a political pitch, whether major league baseball should retaliate against georgia for a new voting law that critics call highly restrictive. >> what do you think about the possibility that baseball decides to move the all-star game out of atlanta because of this political issue? >> i think today's professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. i would strongly support them doing that. howie: the next day the league prodded by the player's union did ju

pete williams reported the attacker was a white male. that was a serious blunder.m. what matters is another capit

here's nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. >> when brandi was a ninth grader in pennsylvaniashe discovered one saturday she did not make the varietity team and so she lashed out as people her age obvious do on social media she wrote using a word we can't say, blank school, blank soft bail, blank cheer, blank everything >> i was expressing how i felt that's how kids do it. they do it over social media. >> reporter: she assumed that message would quickly vanish, but a classmate took a screen shot and showed it to her mother who happened to be one of the cheerleading coaches she was suspended from the team. she and her parents sued, saying the school should not be ability to -- the federal cords agreed, but the school districts says schools must be able to take action against any speech that is a threat. >> we want to make sure the supreme court doesn't paint with a brush that is so broad that it limits the ability of schools to address the very important questions of speech that is harassing people. >> her dad has another reason for hoping that off-campus expression isn't restr

a student for something they say when they're off campus here's nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: when brandy leavy was a ninth grader in pennsylvania, she discovered one saturday that she did not make the varsity cheerleading team and would remain on the junior varsity squad. so she lashed out, as people her age often do, on social media. she posted a photo of herself and a friend making a rude gesture and she wrote using a word we can't say, blank school, blank softball, blank cheer, blank everything >> i was a 14-year-old kid expressing my feelings expressing how i felt. that's how kids do it. they do it over social media. >> reporter: she assumed that message would quickly vanish, but a classmate took a screen shot and showed it to her mother who happened to be one of the high school cheerleading coaches. brandi was suspended from the team she and her parents sued, saying the school should not be able to punish her for her off campus expression the federal courts agreed. but the school districts says schools must be able to take action against any speech that is

moment we'll talk to frank holland in minneapolis for that side of the story, but first nbc's pete williams covers the justice department this investigation into the minneapolis police department goes farther beyond the floyd case. >> absolutely right. it will look, as you said whether the minneapolis police have a pattern or practice of using excessive force, that includes during protests it will look at how police treat people and whether they illegally discriminate how they enforce the law, and whether and how they're held accountable when there's misconduct. the investigations can take months when this one is over, the government will issue a public report and negotiate a reform agreement. typically the police department and the government will go to court together and make it formal with a consent decree often the court will appoint an independent monitor to make sure the police department lives up to the commitment. if they refuse to make changes, the government can sue them in court. in this case, the police chief in minneapolis is already saying he welcomes the investigation, becaus