the police federation gave out a statement which said...y a very large male. "she was punched, kicked and stamped on. "the officer believed she was about to be murdered." now we've uncovered witness testimony suggesting bayoh's violence has been exaggerated. kevin nelson first gave his account to the authorities two days after the incident. he says he saw bayoh react to being cs sprayed by punching nicole short, but was immediately brought down. after the punch, that was it. there was no more attack on her at all. in statements to the official investigators, pcs craig walker and ashley tomlinson claimed bayoh violently stamped on pc short while she lay on the ground with one saying he thought he'd killed her. that never happened. you're sure? yeah. what you're saying is that those accounts are false? yes. why are you doing this interview? it's not fair on sheku and his family that they've made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what happened, and that's. . . not right. we showed sheku bayoh's sister the allegations. it's mak

the scottish police federation told us, "serving police officers cannot comment publicly on matters " to give sworn evidence", its members "co—operated fully and truthfully with the investigations "that have taken place" and it has seen "compelling material" that mr bayoh "did violently stamp on the back" of nicole short as she lay unconscious. when asked to share this material, the federation told us the inquiry was the proper forum for such matters. deborah coles of the charity inquest provided support to both sheku bayoh and kevin clarke's families, and believes race was a factor in each of their deaths. i think in both cases, there have been attempts to justify what happened by virtue of the extraordinary strength and dangerousness and potential to violence of the two men concerned. and that, to me, speaks about how racial stereotyping that equates black men with dangerousness and violence has seeped into police culture and practice. back in south london, as they waited for the inquest�*s verdict, wendy and tellecia visited a mural commemorating kevin. i think if they hadn't used

the police federation and the national police chiefs council are not calling for greater powers.gues' on the rules that are in place. what we are seeing is there is clearly some large—scale breaches, whether it is demonstrations, because you cannot meet in groups outside, but demonstrations are very difficult, we cannot give every member of thousands of people a ticket. house parties, where the health risk is significantly increased, we are seeing more and more of that. we are targeting and dealing with them. people just simply refusing, not the majority, not the majority, refusing to wear masks. we are trying to deal with that at the same time in addition to all of the normal police work that my colleagues have to deal with. the 999 calls, they carry on coming in and we have to deal with them as well. at the same time, a growing of my colleagues are either being struck down with this virus, so they are not at work, or having to self—isolate, so there is fewer people but more is expected of those who are left behind. john apter, chair of the police federation of england and wales

it is a survey of members of the police federation of england and wales, so constables, sergeants andnd and wales. they managed to get responses from one in ten officers in england and wales, so a very large sample size. what they discovered was that police officers who had been out on the front line of the pandemic, 32% of them had experienced a situation where someone who they thought had the virus had threatened to breathe or cough on them. 30% of them had experienced someone threatening to spit on them. 21% of them said someone had actually tried to spit on them. there's also been some mental health issues, for example, two out of every five officers in the six months before the survey was taken at the end of november had at some point been in the same place as somebody who had died from natural causes. of course, many of them people who had died from covid—19. very often, police officers have been attending when people have died from covid—19 at home. the survey also asked police officers whether they had had covid—19 dusted 3% of them had had a positive test but a further 23% sa

capitol police, federal, state and local law enforcement, the violence was swelled. the capital is secured and the people's work continues. we condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms. we grieve the loss of life in these halls as well as the injuries suffered by those who defended our capital today. and we will always be grateful to the men and women who stayed other posts to defend this historical place. to those who wreaked havoc in the capital today, you did not win. violence never wins. freedom wins and this is still the people's house. as we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy for even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this capital, the elected representatives of the people of the united states have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the constitution of the united states. so may god bless the loss, the injured and that he rose of this day. may god bless all who serve here and those who protect this place and may god bless

thanks to the swift effort of police, federal, state, and local law enforcement, the violence was quelledand thetal is secured people's work continues. we condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms. we grieve the loss-of-life in these hallowed halls, as well as the injuries suffered by those who defended our capitol today, and we will always be grateful to the men and women who stayed at their posts to defend this historic place. to those who wreaked havoc in today, you did not win.

but the big issue is why were the capitol police and federal law agencies not prepared for this? why were we coming in to do a cleanup operation afterwards? >> circumstances how much responsibility do you think falls on not just president trump but the members of congress who gave credibility to the big lie, the big lie that the election had been stolen, the big lie that it could be overturned? what should happen, for example, to your fellow republican congressman randy harris who has been on board with all of this from the beginning the "capital gazette" newspaper condemned congressman harris, called on him to be censured. the maryland democratic party said he should resign. what do you think should happen to him? he is part of this seditious effort. >> look, right after the election i gave an address at the reagan institute where i said, this is a time for

in addition to that we also focused on an emphasis on assault and battery on police officers. both federal officers and local and pd officers that were assaulted. as the days go on, there's going to be more social media and people will recognize some instances capitol police were openhanded combat with some of these persons inside the capitol. where teargas was used on capitol police and federal officers. their use against some of these rioters. the pictures going to build printing there's a lot of misconceptions about what happened within the capitol. is going to come into laser focus of the next weeks and days. think people are going to be shocked with some of the egregious concept that happened within the capitol per the third area the federal offices focusing on setting up a trike force to focus on the media. some people are not the mayor some of those rioters specifically targeted members of the media and assaulted them. we have aside focus on those cases as well. regardless of who the victim was, regards of who the perpetrator was beer treating all these cases equally. thank you very

police, federal agents, national guard troops are at their posts, they are ready, nbc's tom costello joins us from washington with the latest on the situation. >> reporter: inside and outside the u.s. capitol and on the streets of washington, more than 6,000 armed members of the national guard are now on duty. striking images of hundreds of troops gathered inside the halls of congress, with as many as 20,000 expected in the coming days for president-elect joe biden's inauguration, double the number from president obama's, all of them joining thousands of federal and local law enforcement officers. >> we're not asking people to come to d.c. for this. there's a major security threat, and we are working to mitigate those threats. >> reporter: members of congress who have been briefed about the ongoing threats fear last week's attempted dangerous movement. >> what we saw last wednesday wide scale domestic terror movement. this is going to be a problem that's going to be with us for months and years ahead. >> reporter: federal authorities are working around the clock to interrupt threats

capitol hill police, federal, state, and local law enforcement. the violence was quelled. the capitol hiis secured and th people's work continues. we condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms. we grieve the loss of life. in these hallowed halls. as well as the injuries suffered by those who defended our capitol today, and we will always be grateful for the men and women who stayed at their posts to defend this historic place. to those who wreaked havoc in the capitol today, you did not win. violence never wins. freedom wins. and this is still the people's house. as we reconvene in this chamber, the world will begin witness the resilience and strength of our democracy. for even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this capitol, the elected represent satives of th people of the united states have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the constitution of the united states. so my god bless the loss, the injured, and the heroes forged on this day. may god bless all who serve here and those who protect this p

i think the ordinary police officers and the police federation, the effect of trade union for the policecriticised for not enforcing enough, criticised for individual incidents, suggesting cases have been dealt with too heavy a hand. we have seen today a little bit of pushback from police chiefs and police and crime commissioners to say that officers need to have discretion. i think forces and officers will be using more enforcement and taking immediate action. the case everyone talks about is the one in derbyshire, where two women drove in separate ca rs where two women drove in separate cars with separate cups of coffee for a walk five miles from their home, andi for a walk five miles from their home, and i think the police and crime commissioner in derbyshire saying that could have been handled differently by the police on that occasion and they may have got that wrong. where would you stand on that example? i think, wrong. where would you stand on that example? ithink, unfortunately, it shows individual police officers that individual incidents are being taken out of context in terms

800 pounds for illegal gatherings of more than 15 people but with crackdowns getting tougher police federation's are calling on the government to ensure that officers are at the forefront of the facts the nation roll out the public expects police officers to put themselves in harm's way and i believe that it is only fair to expect that these same frontline officers get prioritised for vaccination over the last 2 weeks alone 5 london police officers have died from corona virus the pandemic has left millions frustrated anxious and impatient months of isolation mean people want to see family and friends and to let their hair down and the police have been left with a very public task of not only ensuring everyone else is safety but setting the personal example of how it should be done what i think the the police the world are a very difficult situation with so with the codes restrictions because it's it goes against the grain completely for police to interrupt parties and things but of course those are all the laws and the legislation and police officers realise that no hate to do that and i think t

day in the history of the united states capital but thanks to the swift efforts of us capital police federal state and local law enforcement the violence was quelled the capital is secured and the people's work continues. we condemned the violence that took place here in the strongest t possible terms. we grieve the loss of life in these hallowed halls as well as the injury suffered who defended the capital today. we will always be grateful to the men and women who stayed at their post to defend this historic place. those who make havoc in the capital today, you did not win. violence never wins. this is so the people's

cooperation between the local police federal immigration authorities have become really politicized a lot of jurisdictions resisted working with the administration on interior improvement cut off a major flow for interior enforcement operations for the president. >> host: when it comes to the wall how much as he constructed and had ? >> guest: he constructed a little one in 400 miles of wall . it's hard to say that it's actually been n affected because the flows that we've seen the southern border during trump's time in office are humanitarian ones. they are children and families and asylum-seekers actually want to be caught by border patrol in order to apply for asylum in the united states and recognizing that issue is administration is very effective on cutting off the flow. it is nearly impossible to ask for asylum at the southern border so those numbers as significantly going down so it hasn't been a long has been a major change, it's been this administrations changes on asylum class as you noted 425 miles of water wall. he is mentally southern border and daca application process,

we focused on an emphasis on assault and batteries on police officers, both federal officers and local officers that were assaulted. and as the days go on, there is going to be more social media and people will recognize that instances police were in open-handed combat with some of these persons in the capitol where tear gas was used on the capitol police and federal officers and used against some of these rioters. the picture is going to build. there are misconceptions about what happened in the capitol and will come in laser focus and people are going to be shocked with some of the egregious contact that happened in the capitol. the third emphasis that our office is focusing on, we set up a strike force to focus on assault of the media. some of those rioters targeted members of the media. we have assigned specific prosecutors to focus on those cases as well and i'm naming these different strike forces to emphasize regardless of who the victim was or perpetrator was, we are treating these cases equally. thank you very much. >> we will now begin the question and answer session. press s

capitol police, federal, state, and local law enforcement, the violence was quelled. the capital is secured and the people's work continues. we condemned the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms. life ine the loss of these hallowed halls, as well as the injuries suffered by those who defended our capital today. and we will always be grateful to the men and women who stayed at their post to defend this historic place. those who wreaked havoc in our capitol today, you did not win. violence never wins. freedom wins. and this is still the people's house. and as we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy, for even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this capitol, the elected representatives of the people of the united states have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the constitution of the united states. so may god bless the lost, the injured, and the heroes forged on this day. may god bless all who serve here and those who protect this place. and

coul press against the mob trespassing, destruction of federal property, mail theft, federal rioting, assault on a police officer, federal gun charges and insurrection today the police union and members of congress called for capitol police chief steven sund to step down >> there was a failure of leadership at the top of capitol polic and i think mr. sund -- he hasn't even called us since this happened >> reporter: in a statement chief sund said the force was prepared for first amendment protesters but was met by assailants who attacked officers with metal pipes, discharged chemical irritants and took up other weapons. late today sund resigned but congres is demanding answers why weren't more capitol police officers deployed? why weren't they wearing riot gear? why did it take so long to request backup from d.c. police many asking why this video clip appears to show capitol officers letting the mob through barricades >> i was stunned, couldn't believe what i was watching. >> reporter: former nypd commissioner bill bratton. >> i think clearly there's going to be lot of blame to go around and quite clearly

local police, federal police or a terror attack, as you mentioned, they are out there within hours briefing the public. repeatedly. this is days. this is days later. it's remarkable not to hear. well, listen, if you're listening, chris wray and others, the american public needs to hear from you. jessica and josh, thanks. >>> president trump is set to depart the white house for alamo, texas. not the alamo. alamo, texas. less than an hour from no. it's his first public event since the deadly riots. we're going to bring the latest on that. >>> and how will this second impeachment play out? we'll talk to two attorneys that were involved in the president's first impeachment on opposite sides. they'll weigh in. and the president's administration changing course dramatically this morning on how vaccines are distributed. what does it mean for you? will you now be able to get the covid vaccine sooner? ahead. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden. nexium 24hr stops acid before it start

capitol police, federal, state, and local law enforcement, the violence was quelled. the capital is secured, and the people's work continues. we condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms. we grieve the loss of life in these hallowed halls, as well as the injuries suffered by those who defended our capital today. and we will always be grateful for the men and women who stayed at their post to defend this historic place. to those who wreaked havoc in our capital today, you did not win. violence never wins. freedom wins. and this is still the people's house. and as we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and forngth of our democracy, even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this capital, the elected representatives of the people of the united states have assembled again, on the very same day, to support and defend the constitution of the united states. laws, the bless the injured -- the loss, the injured, and the heroes forged on this day. may god bless those who served here and those wh

plan for inaugural security called for a tight perimeter around the capitol with thousands of police, federalattack on the u.s. capitol and prospect of more violence in the days to come, the department of homeland security has ordered the security arrangements for the inauguration to start going into effect on wednesday, nearly a week earlier than planned. >> it is much more efficient, it is much more effective way for us to choreograph the tens of thousands of assets that come into play to keep washington safe and everyone here, including the president-elect. >> reporter: that means a perimeter of no-scale fence around the capitol sooner, security checkpoints with metal detectors, and tens of thousands of police federal agents and national guard troops on the streets. former fbi director james comey was asked by savannah this morning whether law enforcement will be ready for the inauguration. >> law enforcement definitely can handle these kinds of rye yolts, attacks and civil disturbances. if they have the information they need and they prepare, this is something law enforcement was built fo

capitol police, federal, state and local law enforcement, the violence was quelled. the capitol is secured. the elected representatives of the people of the united states have assembled again on the very same day. may god bless the united states of america. let's get back to work. >> for the next seven hours, a select group of republican lawmakers continue their attempts on obstruct the vote. all those efforts failed. 13 long hours after they had first gavelled in, congress affirmed the vote. >> the votes for president of the united states are as follows. joseph r. biden jr. of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. donald j. trump of the state of florida has received 232 votes. >> joe biden's inauguration is one week from wednesday. that complicates the time line for house democrats to impeach president trump again. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell does not share their urgency. he wrote as soon as the senate would receive the articles of impeachment from the house would be on january 19th. the night before inauguration. that is unless all 100 senators a

in addition, we focused on an emphasis on assault and batteries on police officers, both federal officers and local and p.d. officers that were assaulted. as the days go on, people will recognize that in some instances npd and capitol police were in open-handed combat with some of these persons in the capitol where tear gas was used on the capitol police and federal officers and also used against some of these rioters. the picture will build. a lot of misconceptions about what happened and it will come in to laser focus the next week and days. people will be shocked with the egregious contact that happened in the capitol. the third area of emphasis that we're also focusing on, we set up a strike force to focus on assaults on the media. some people are not familiar that some of those rioters targeted members of the media. we a signed specific prosecutors to focus on those cases as well. i'm naming these different strike forces to just emphasize, regardless of who the victim was or who the perpetrator was, we're treating all the cases equally. thanks very much. >> we will now begin the ques

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