around that time thomas jones was driving for work and heard about the incident on the radio. >> i justeally didn't think nothing of it at first. i just kept driving until my wife called me and when i heard her crying. >> reporter: through tears his wife explained the man police shot and killed was david jones, his son. >> i'm just still like in shock. like i'm not really, mad but just, you know, just in shock. >> reporter: thomas jones says his 30-year-old son was a truck driver like him who had just gotten married four months ago. >> he was always the jokey laughy type. he was not what they probably portray he was. he wasn't violent. >> reporter: authorities are still investigating the officer-involved shooting but so far do say on thursday night david jones had a "violent encounter with police. police and witnesses who were with police say an officer got into a confrontation with david jones along whitaker avenue. after witnessing him driving erratically on a dirt bike, the officer frisked david jones and found a loaded 9-millimeter gun. according to police jones grabbed for the gun.

around that time, thomas jones was driving for work and heard about the incident on the radio. >> justu know, didn't really think nothing of it at first. i just kept driving until my wife called me and when i heard her crying. >> reporter: through tears his wife explained the man police shot and killed was david jones, his son. >> i'm just still like in shock. i'm not really, um, mad but just in shock. >> reporter: thomas jones says his 30-year-old son was a truck driver like him who had just gotten married four years ago. >> he was always the joking laughing type. he wasn't like everybody try to portray he was. he wasn't violent. >> reporter: authorities are still investigating the officer-involved shooting but so far do say on thursday night, david jones had a "violent encounter with police." police and witnesses who were with police say an officer got into a confrontation with david jones along whitaker avenue. after witnessing him driving erratically on a dirt bike the officer frisked david jones and found a loaded 9-millimeter gun. according to police, jones grabbed for the gun. o

. >> reporter: thomas jones explains this 30-year-old son worked as a truck driver willing to do long hauls that brought him back to the area every few weeks. on this trip home, he told his family he was ready to sell his dirt bike >> we said that was a good thing because the dirt bike is nothing but trouble. >> reporter: it was that bike and witness accounts of it being driven recklessly that led a philadelphia police officer before 7:00 p.m. thursday at the intersection of whitaker and hunting park avenue. that confrontation led to a weapon being found and according to police commissioner richard ross, >> he looked the guy in the face and sit don't do it >> jones then pulled out the gun after being ordered not to. after clearing his gun, the officer fired. according to police, jones was hit at least once while running away. died at the hospital >> he tells me everything. but never said he had a gun or anything. >> reporter: police will continue to comey surveillance footage from the scene to determine if shooting jones as he fled was justified >> there's always a joking laughing typ

. >> i never been -- >> thomas jones is the father of david jones, and identifies his 30 year old son as the man police shot and killed. on thursday, a little after 6:30, at night, police and witnesses who were with police say an officer got into a confrontation with david jones along whitaker avenue. after witnessing him driving irradically on a dirt bike, the officer frisk david jones, and found a loaded 9-millimeter gun. according to police, jones grabbed for the gun. one witness even told authority he tried to tell david jones not to do it. >> he said he, himself, looked the guy in the face and said. ment don't do it, man, don't do it. and as if to say: don't pull that gun out. >> and police admit that there is surveillance video that they've seen, that appears to show david jones being shot in the back as he ran away from officers. the commissioner has said that surveillance video concerning to him than it does not appear to follow department protocol. but that the shooting may still be justified. reporting live outside police headquarters, alicia, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >> al

. >> thomas jones is the father of david jones, identifies his 30 year old son as the man police shot and killed. on thursday, a little after 6:30, a night police and witnesses who were with police say an officer got into a confrontation with david jones along whitaker avenue. after witnessing him driving irradically on a dirt bike. the officer frisk david jones and found a loaded nine millimeter gun. according to police jones grabbed for the gun. one witness even told authorities he tried to tell david jones not to do it. >> he said he, himself, looked the guy in the face and said: don't do it, man, don't do it. and as if to say don't pull that gun out. >> and police admit that there is surveillance video that appears to show david jones being shot in the back as he ran away from the office ever. the commissioner has said that surveillance video concerns him, and it does not appear to follow department protocol. but that the shooting may still be justified. reporting outside police headquarters, alicia, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >> all right, alicia, keep us to up date, thank you. >>

. >> the man killed was david thomas of hunting town. david jonesd in a violent confrontation with police. he was riding a wreckless manner. the officer stopped the man and then a struggle broke out. >> i seen somebody reaching. i saw the cop pull his weapon and start firing. i got panicked. >> the officer told him not to pull the weapon. a witness confirms that. he said he himself said don't do it. that's his take. >> one of the two shots fired at jones struck him in the back as he was trying to get away. >> he was running in front of the officer and the officer discharged from the back. >> it was 1250u7d to reach when the officer tells you to put your hands up or stop. you are supposed to do what the officer says. >> while policies allow for shooting suspects, they want to make sure the last shot was justified. the family says they are not ready to speak on camera. they won't rest until the truth is known. >> another police officer has been arrested in an off duty episode in the bar. the officer made threats in january. the 27-year-old williams tu

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germany's die welt newspaper, thomas kielinger, from ireland, the writer and broadcaster brian o'connell, janet daley, columnist with britain's sunday telegraph newspaper, and owen jones the guardian newspaper here in the uk. welcome to you all. janet daley, where did it go wrong? it was the worst campaign that i have ever seen, having lived in this country for 50 years. absolutely appalling. the more interesting phenomenon, because that one has been discussed endlessly, is the consequences for the labour party, which at least three quarters of its mps detestjeremy corbyn or his policies at any rate and are stuck with him for the indefinite future as leader. the second most devastated woman in the country must be a vet cooper, who really thought that her part of the party was going to reclaim its birth right —— yvette cooper. what happens now with the tories is almost impossible to call. there are a lot of rumours that theresa may is going to be removed over the summer. i think that is actually quite likely, even though most of my conservative contacts, senior tories that i have spoken to, do not think that would be a good deal idea. they think they need to get throug

thomas. >> the counting crows have 20 million albums worldwide, like "mr. jones go on each other's buses and play video games. >> is that what happens on the bus? >> yeah. >> we meet up in the dressing room, have a glass of wine and talk about the day's events. >> a glass of wine. things have matured, i would say. >> since your charlie days. >> yeah. >> grand theft auto. >> i would think, after all this time, and you're still seeing the huge crowds. i'll bet you're seeing like a multigenerational kind of thing now. >> in our front row, there's people that are 65 years old because they were our age when our record came out. and if there's college kids that are my age now, they're bringing their kids and bringing their grandkids. we're getting literally grandfathered in. >> i want that. i want that. >> you're going to have that, sir. >> we always appealed to small children and the elderly. it's only recently that we filled in the middle. i think a few of the kids grew up and everybody else died. we have a range. >> is it true that, rob, you gave adam a demo tape at

thomas. >> the counting crows have sold more than 20 million albums word wilde like "mr. jones."ng it up again? >> i think we're doing it every summer. >> we did squirrel ourselves -- figure out a way. we didn't figure out a way and then it fell out of the sky. >> we played video games on each other's buses. >> is that what happened, on the bus? >> yeah. we'd meet up in the dressing room. have a glass of wine and talk about the day's events. >> a glass of wine. so things have matured i would say -- >> oh, yeah. >> from your childhood days. he's like -- >> yeah. grand theft auto. >> so i would still seeing the huge crowds but i bet you're seeing like a multigenerational kind of thing. >> sure. you know, there's -- in our front row there's people that are 65 years old because they were our age when our record first came out. then, you know, there are college kids that are my age now and they're bringing their kids. they're bringing their grandk grandkids. we're getting literally grandfathered in. >> wow. >> i want that. i want that. >> you want that. >> you'll have that, sir. >> we