then after pressure, they released video showing the cops shooting vassell.e of the officers who opened fire were wearing body cameras. the vassell family is now calling for the release of all unedited video from the area leading up to and during the shooting. for more, we're joined by saheed lornal/best parents, laure and eric vassell. can you explain what happened and were you at the time? >> i was home at the time when a heard a knocking at my door. i thought it was my son coming in. and i hear my other son say to me, dad, they just shot saheed. i said, who shot him? he said, the police shot him. anyway away. i began to cry. i cried until i heard the door open. it was my son who enter the door. i said, what happened to the young one? he said, dad, he died. and i stopped crying. i just sat there in awe. ,fter a while, i went to why. -- i went to call my wife. i told her saheed have been in an accident. she said, ok, she would call me back. i just stayed there. about how my life was when the tickets tragic news to hear that her son, who is my son, had just d

then after pressure, they released video showing the cops shooting vassell.e of the officers who opened fire were wearing body cameras. the vassell family is now calling for the release of all unedited video from the area leading up to and during the shooting. for more, we're joined by saheed lornal/best parents, laure and eric vassell. can you explain what happened and were you at the time? >> i was home at the time when a heard a knocking at my door. i thought it was my son coming in. and i hear my other son say to me, dad, they just shot saheed. i said, who shot him? he said, the police shot him. anyway away. i began to cry. i cried until i heard the door open. it was my son who enter the door. i said, what happened to the young one? he said, dad, he died. and i stopped crying. i just sat there in awe. ,fter a while, i went to why. -- i went to call my wife. i told her saheed have been in an accident. she said, ok, she would call me back. i just stayed there. about how my life was when the tickets tragic news to hear that her son, who is my son, had just d

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

vassell's father said his son is bipolar. the shooting sparked an intense standoff between angry residents who knew vassell and police. >> you guys kill us. down yetan gunned again. amy: in related news, the city of long beach, california, has agreed to pay $2 million to the family of mharloun saycon who was killed by police three years ago. saycon was a filipino immigrant who had been diagnosed as bipolar and schizophrenic. more than 10,000 people marched in memphis wednesday to honor the reverend martin luther king jr. on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. at 6:01 p.m., a moment of silence was held, then bells told 39 times. one for each year kingwood. gatherings were held across the city featuring associates of king as well as today's civil rights leaders, who said king's dream has still not been realized. this is the reverend william barber, who is leading a new poor people's campaign. cook's many people die from low wealth and no income. nothing would be more tragic than for us now. so we must be the resurrection

. >> 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

they said vassell was 35 years old, would do odd jobs in the community. 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 the attorney general here in new york is opening an investigation, which is something that was commended really -- executive order signed by governor cuomo back in 2015 to do when these shootings happened. certainly we'll hear more as this story unfolds. >> appreciate it, thank you. >>> we are hearing for the first time from the attorney who used to represent both the porn star and the former playmate who said that they had affairs or sexual relationships with the president. he says we haven't even heard the whole truth yet. >>> the lawyer who first represented porn star stormy daniels and former playboy model karen mcdougal is speaking out in a cnn exclusive. both women accused keith davidson of making deals that bury their allegations of sexual encounters with president trump. davidson says there are details about the deals that

yesterday, hundreds of protestors at the scene demanded justice for vassell. >>> this morning, thereew 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. >>> president trump ordered the u.s. trade representative to consider an additional $100 billion in tariffs on chinese goods. the president also instructed the secretary of agriculture to find a way to protect

. >> 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

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