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Another Mass Shooting in a Divided Country
The FBI is conducting a massive investigation into last week's killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We hear what's known about the young, Muslim shooter and the potential impact of the incident in southern states that are rapidly changing.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThe FBI is conducting a massive investigation into last week's killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We hear what's known about the young, Muslim shooter and the potential impact of the incident in southern states that are rapidly changing.
Also, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian marks one year in an Iranian prison. On today's Talking Point, what does a Texas dash cam tell us about American policing? We review the dash cam evidence with a legal expert.
Photo: Police tape and a makeshift memorial frame the scene after the shooting at an Armed Forces Career Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (US Navy)
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3 storiesWashington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian Marks Year in Iranian Prison
At the United Nations today, Iran was accused of flagrant human rights violations after a full year of what's called the "arbitrary and unlawful" detention of Jason Rezaian. Bringing the charge was his employer, the Washington Post . Douglas Jehl is foreign editor at the paper and Jason Rezaian's editor.
Read the story6 minAnother Mass Shooting in a Divided Country
In Chattanooga today, a Marine general and a Navy admiral remembered the four Marines and one sailor killed by a Muslim gunman last week as "heroes." The FBI has 250 agents on the scene and others running down some 400 leads around the world.
Read the story32 minWas Sandra Bland's Only Crime 'Contempt of Cop?'
The coroner in Waller County, Texas called it a jailhouse suicide, but authorities are investigating it as a case of murder. Since Sandra Bland was found hanged in her jail cell last week, her family says the verdict of suicide is "unfathomable." They've demanded to know how a routine traffic stop led to her arrest in the first place. Yesterday, Texas officials released video recorded from the officers dash cam. What does that evidence reveal about why the young, black woman was originally arrested? Gloria Browne-Marshall is a professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. She's author of Race, Law and American Society: 1607 to the Present .
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