saheed was not a violent person in no way he was violent. amy: you want with your son, eric vassell church a lot of mornings? >> yes. he went on saturday. he did not stay for the holy service. just come in the morning and then saheed would go home. i loved the and men. -- i love the young man. was a wonderful young man. never give any trouble on the streets. he was loved by everyone. amy: saheed was diagnosed as bipolar? >> yes. diagnosed bipolar. a parent was turned away by the city because the city say i could not be responsible for him anymore because he was of age. , then they took him police shot him. amy: i want to turn to the newer police chief terence monahan answering reporters questions about the police killing of your son saheed when he was asked about him being bipolar. the four officers who responded to 911 calls about his behavior were not specially trained to interact with emotionally disturbed people. an emotionally disturbed call. this was a call of a man pointing what 911 calls from people felt was a gun at people on the street. when we encountered him, he turns wi

saheed was not a violent person in no way he was violent. amy: you want with your son, eric vassell church a lot of mornings? >> yes. he went on saturday. he did not stay for the holy service. just come in the morning and then saheed would go home. i loved the and men. -- i love the young man. was a wonderful young man. never give any trouble on the streets. he was loved by everyone. amy: saheed was diagnosed as bipolar? >> yes. diagnosed bipolar. a parent was turned away by the city because the city say i could not be responsible for him anymore because he was of age. , then they took him police shot him. amy: i want to turn to the newer police chief terence monahan answering reporters questions about the police killing of your son saheed when he was asked about him being bipolar. the four officers who responded to 911 calls about his behavior were not specially trained to interact w with emotionally disturbed people. an emotionally disturbed call. this was a call of a man pointing what 911 calls from people felt was a gun at people on the street. when we encountered him, he turns

his family says saheed vassell was bipolar but well known by police in the neighborhood. the security video, which was edited by police, shows vassell walking down the street holding a silver object that looks like a gun, as you can see, pointing it at people. it turned out, though, to be a pipe. following a 911 call, officers responded. police say he took a shooting stance right there, pointing the pipe at the officers. they fired ten times, killing him. >>> in a stunning admission facebook concedes most of its over 2 billion users have probably had their personal information collected by what they call malicious actors. nikki battiste reports on that. >> reporter: sheryl sandberg says the media giant will spend years improving security. >> this is not a one-time change. it's ongoing because it's an arms race. >> reporter: they said most of its 2 billion-plus use ores have likely had their personal data accessed by outsiders. while they were quick to clarify it was public, they weren't focused on how it was used. >> i'm really sorry and mark is really sorry and we're tak

. >> reporter: surveillance video shows saheed vassell pointing a metal object towards this man's head, at these two people, including a child, and shoving it into this man's chest. but it was at this moment that four of the responding officers opened fire, shooting the 34-year-old seven to nine times. >> the suspect then took a two-handed shooting stance and pointed an object at the approaching officers. >> reporter: turns out, he was unarmed and mentally ill. what they thought was a gun was actually this silver pipe. >> i'm angry with the police right now. i feel like i could kill them myself. >> reporter: vassell was the father of a teenage son, and is said to have suffered from a bipolar disorder. while he was known among residents and police, the responding officers were from a specialized unit that had no idea of his history. here at the scene of the shooting, a large crowd has gathered, demanding justice. the attorney general's office is already conducting an investigation. tom? >> linsey davis in front of that demonstration tonight. all right, linsey, thank you. >>> next, the g

when they got there, four officers encountered 35-year-old saheed vassell. description of those callers. and they believed he was holding a weapon. and actually police released some surveillance -- an image from an surveillance video showing saheed at that moment when he encountered police. and that's actually what he was holding, but there is a picture of him taking what police described as a shooter's stance. which seemed as a threat, according to authorities. that's why officers say they fired their weapons. four officers fired a total of ten shots. that's that shooter stance i'm talking about right there. from that, the victim, saheed, he fell down and he was killed from this interaction with police. now, the thing is, police say that this was justified. you can imagine that the community is completely up in arms. they said vassell was 35 years old, would do odd jobs in the community. they said that he never owned a weapon and suffered from bipolar disorder. so there is really a big question here, was this shooting justified. at this point, we know that t

police officers shot saheed vassell after mistaking a metal pipe he was holding for a gun. over 1000 protesters gathered at the scene of the shooting on thursday. >> my name is maria will step a friend of mine was shot down, shot 10 times by the cops. he was very caring. i felt very comfortable. i would come home from work at 2:00 in the morning and feel so comfortable when i would see him because i knew he was going to protect me and walked me all the way to my door. without being afraid of him. i was not afraid of nothing. i knew him all my life since he was a little kid. >> i am a long-term resident of harlem. this is my home. we have been seeing shootings happened too much. and something that is really important we heard today, folks talking about community accountability. the cops do not protect as. we need to come together and figure out alternative ways to protect and care for our own communities. amy: voices from last night's in brooklyn, new york. a dutch news organization has published a trove of internal documements from the oil giant shell showing the company kn

it all started wednesday when 34-year-old saheed vassell aimed what appeared to be a gun at pedestriansooklyn. responding officers shot and killed him. they found the object was a metal pipe and not a gun. yesterday, hundreds of protestors at the scene demanded justice for vassell. >>> this morning, there are new details in the ongoing russia meddling probe. special prosecutor robert mueller's investigators are using information from searches of paul manafort's belongings in their ongoing investigation. they used a warrant issued last month to get information related to five phone numbers. manafort who is president trump's former campaign chairman faces charges related to his foreign lobbying business before the campaign. he pleaded not guilty in both federal cases. >>> the president reportedly considered giving epa administrator scott pruitt a promotion. people close to the president said that he floated the idea of replacing attorney general jeff sessions with pruitt earlier this week. the idea of replacing sessions with pruitt comes amid ethics questions being raised against pruitt.

. >> the mother of saheed vassell made that empassioned plea.man, the father of a teenage son was shot ten times, shot at ten times by new york police officers who claim he pointed an object they believed to be a gun in his direction. that object turned out not to being a gun. instead, of it a metal pipe. they say their son dealt with mental health issues. the shooting has sparked outrage. they say he was a familiar face and that many knew he was mentally ill. the shooting raises a lot of depressingly familiar questions about the police use of force and how officers are trained to deal with people with mental illness. joining me is harry siegel, columnist for the "new york daily news" and phillip gov. i was following this story, harry, i follow what you write and you wrote about the experience of being at the hospital and seeing not a shooting victim being, you know, tended to but police. >> well, a different hospital. so they took this man after they shot him to the nearest hospital which is king's county. >> yes. >> which is where he was prono