Colonel Warren said the crew of the Cape Ray American naval ship completed the destruction of 100% of sarin. According to Warren, this refers to the neutralization of about 581 metric tonnes of the toxic agent.

Activists on the left are demanding President Obama flex his muscle over the country’s spy agencies.

The CIA’s admission that a handful of officials spied on Senate staffers is proof that the White House has lost control of the intelligence agencies, critics say. They are also discomfited by the continued support Obama has offered for agency Director John Brennan.

A politicized spy agency can influence decision-making by senior government officials, including the president, and increase the possibility of bad policy choices, he said.

„He was funny, silly. He would make you laugh. Any problems that were going on or any situation, there wasn‘t nothing he couldn‘t solve. He‘d bring people back together,“ his father, Michael Brown Sr., told reporters.

Family members nicknamed him the „gentle giant.“

For teachers, he was „a student who loomed large and didn‘t cause trouble,“ the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

The two walked and talked. That’s when Johnson says they saw the police car rolling up to them.

The officer demanded that the two “get the f—k on the sidewalk,” Johnson says. “His exact words were get the f—k on the sidewalk.” (…)

Brown and Johnson took off running together. There were three cars lined up along the side of the street. Johnson says he ducked behind the first car, whose two passengers were screaming. Crouching down a bit, he watched Brown run past.

“Keep running, bro!,” he said Brown yelled. Then Brown yelled it a second time. Those would be the last words Johnson’s friend, “Big Mike,” would ever say to him.

Brown made it past the third car. Then, “blam!” the officer took his second shot, striking Brown in the back. At that point, Johnson says Brown stopped, turned with his hands up and said “I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!”

By that point, Johnson says the officer and Brown were face-to-face. The officer then fired several more shots.

“One of those individuals, at the time, came in as the officer was exiting his car, allegedly pushed the police officer back in the car, where he physically assaulted the police officer. It is our understanding at this point in the investigation that within the police car there was a struggle over the police officer’s weapon,“ Belmar said.

Belmar said the officer’s gun was fired at least once inside the police car, but the officer shot and killed Brown outside of the vehicle. Belmar said the number of shots fired was “more than a few.”

When pressed on whether Brown was fleeing at the time of those shots, Belmar demurred.

“I’m not going to be able to get into any of those types of questions,” said Belmar.

(22. April) „Dem Tagesspiegel liegen fünf vertrauliche Vermerke aus dem Innenministerium vor, die diesen Konflikt belegen.“

(3. Dezember 2013) Dabei müsste die Rolle der V-Leute und des NSU-Umfeldes in Kassel, das Handeln von Volker Bouffier und die Hintergründe seiner damaligen Entscheidung, die V-Leute vor Ermittlungen der Polizei zu schützen geklärt werden, sowie die Frage, warum Volker Bouffier im Innenausschuss 2006 Andreas T. schon vor Beginn der Ermittlungen öffentlich entlastete.

Dass der damalige hessische Innenminister Volker Bouffier die Befragung damals endgültig verbot, sei zwar schon bekannt gewesen, schreibt Tim Aßman vom Bayerischen Rundfunk. “Sie nun aber im Gerichtssaal von den Polizisten geschildert zu bekommen, machte betroffen und wütend.”

(6. August) Als im Jahr 2006 der 21-jährige Halit Yozgat in seinem Internetcafé ermordet wurde, geriet der Verfassungsschützer Andreas T., der sich am Tatort aufgehalten hatte, unter Verdacht. (..)

„Offensichtlich haben sie den Tatverdacht nicht so ernst genommen, die Fakten haben sie nicht sonderlich beeindruckt“, sagt einer der Kriminalbeamten über die Verfassungsschützer.