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Glock switch demonstration
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- Glock switch demonstration
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A demonstration provided by the U.S. attorney's office in the Middle District of Alabama about how a Glock switch makes a semiautomatic handgun fire like a machine gun.
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- Incident at Tarrant city council meeting leads to elderly woman’s arrest
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- 3:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Just one day after Novilee Williams criticized the mayor and argued with a city staffer at a council meeting in the small city of Tarrant, police showed up at her door with arrest warrants. Williams, 79, was arrested for disorderly conduct and harassment. This video does not show the arrest, but the incident that caused the arrest. At the end a police officer can be seen coming to collect Williams' information.
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- City of Mobile sued for $36 million of Jawan Dallas death
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A federal wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday seeks $36 million in damages against the City of Mobile related to the July 2 death of Jawan Dallas following an encounter with two Mobile police officers in Theodore.
The lawsuit seeks a monetary damage that matches Dallas’ age of 36. It was introduced by a team of civil rights attorneys during a morning news conference at Government Plaza and comes 19 days after the Dallas family – following over four months of requests to view the police-worn body cam footage of the encounter – was finally able to do so on Nov. 22.
It also comes at a time that Dallas’ death has ignited a rise in criticism directed at Mobile police and city officials at city council meetings over the handling of the case, culminating in a rally Thursday to support the Dallas family and their attorneys.
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- Footage from Homewood shows downed trees after storms ripped through Birmingham area
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Storms in the Birmingham area on Dec. 10, 2023 downed several trees and left plenty of damage in the area, as seen in this video taken while driving through Homewood near Lakeshore Drive.
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- ‘I’m still hurt’: Family continues fight for justice in police killing of Stephen Perkins
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- 21:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Catrela Perkins, the widow of Stephen Perkins, speaks at a press conference with the family attorney Lee Merritt today in Huntsville. Stephen Perkins was shot and killed by Decatur police on Sept. 29.
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- Siblings mourn loved ones slain amid Birmingham’s homicide crisis
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- 11:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Three siblings who have lost their brothers to gun violence in Birmingham were asked to share their stories as part of The Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series, “Beyond the Violence: What Can Be Done to Address Birmingham’s Rising Homicide Rate.”
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- Alabama police officer using stun gun on handcuffed man
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- An Alabama police officer is on leave while authorities investigate a weekend arrest captured on video in Reform showing a handcuffed man being hit with a stun gun.
The officer is from the Reform Police Department in Pickens County.
Reform police Chief Richard Black and Mayor Melody acknowledged they are aware of the video involving a “citizen’s arrest” that took place on Saturday.
Police and city officials referred questions about the arrest to 24th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Andy Hamlin. Hamlin said the man was arrested on a trafficking fentanyl charge, allegedly. Video provided by Jalexis Monea Rice.
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- Joe Herron
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- 0:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Walker County Investigator Joe Herron, hospitalized after a heart attack, received well wishes from several Alabama offensive linemen.
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- Alabama is one of the most dangerous places for mothers to give birth
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The number of rural counties in Alabama with labor and delivery units has fallen from 45 to 15 since 1980, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health. But it’s not just a rural problem. The recent closures also leave Shelby County without a hospital that delivers babies, making it the largest county in Alabama without those services.
Alabama already struggles with high infant and maternal mortality rates compared to the rest of the country. A study of outcomes following the reopening of a labor and delivery unit in rural Alabama showed that having those services available can improve the health of moms and newborns. But questions remain about how to fund and recruit doctors for those departments.
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- My Big Fat Fabulous Life: Glenn wants to move to Alabama
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- In a clip provided by TLC, Glenn announces a big change on "My Big Fat Fabulous Life."
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- Jawan Dallas family news conference
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The family of Jawan Dallas discuss what they witnessed after viewing the police body-worn camera of his deadly encounter with Mobile police on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023.
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- Sharon Portis Vigil
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- 0:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Family and friends of a 63-year-old woman killed in a Nov. 9, 2023, dog attack gathered at her death site on 18th Street in Ensley for a vigil and balloon release in her memory.
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- Alabama woman with double uterus pregnant with two babies
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- When Dora resident Kelsey Hatcher went to her eight-week ultrasound to check on her fourth child, she let the ultrasound tech know about her rare condition, uterine didelphys, or double uterus.
“As soon as she moved the ultrasound wand across my belly to the other side, I immediately saw it and exclaimed, ‘Oh my gosh. There’s another one!’” The 32-year-old massage therapist and mother of three will have her two babies around Christmas at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Her condition is rare. About 3 in 1,000 women have a double uterus and two cervixes. Having a child in each uterus at the same time is even rarer, a 1 in a million chance.
Read more at AL.com.
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- Matt Dale
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- 3:09
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Matt Dale is one of the Birmingham-Southern College students who went to Montgomery to ask for help in saving the college.
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- DOC Commission John Hamm execution press conference
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- 5:31
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- DOC Commission John Hamm press conference after Nov. 16, 2023 execution of Casey McWhorter
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- Chambers County teacher arrested during protest of school closure plan
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Two members of a group of teachers protesting against Chambers County’s school consolidation plan were arrested for disorderly conduct at a school board meeting Wednesday evening.
A live video shared to Facebook shows two Valley police officers preparing to arrest Valley High teacher Tytianna Smith and another LTAD member who held flyers with a 1960s mugshot of late Representative John Lewis. The flyers read, “Be Hopeful. Be Optimistic” and “Get in Good Trouble.”
Smith is a leader of LaFayette Teachers Against Displacement, a group that’s been protesting a judge’s recent decision to allow the board to close and merge two high schools. As part of a decades-old desegregation order, the district will close majority-Black LaFayette High and majority-white Valley High to build a new, consolidated high school in the Valley community. NAACP attorneys argued the plan would violate a 1993 court order that stated a consolidated school must be built along ...
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- Alabama death row inmate Casey McWhorter speaks with reporter before facing execution
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Casey McWhorter, 49, is set to die by lethal injection sometime Thursday night or early Friday for the 1993 slaying of Edward Lee Williams Sr. in Marshall County. Gov. Kay Ivey set a 30-hour possibility for the execution to happen, with the timeframe ending at 6 a.m. Friday.
McWhorter was 18 at the time of the shooting death of Wiliams Sr., the father of one of his friends, and he’s been on Alabama Death Row since 1994 after a jury voted 10-2 for him to die. He was 19 when, on Friday the 13th, he was sent to William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore where Alabama Death Row is housed and he will soon face execution.
Read the full article at AL.com.
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- Alabama is in a drought
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Alabama remains in a nearly statewide drought, and it may not be going away in the near future. Here are depictions of what Lake Purdy and Noccalula Falls look like normally versus these drought conditions.
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- Shootout on I-59 in Birmingham leaves 4 hospitalized
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- 0:38
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A shootout between two groups on Interstate 59 on Friday has landed at least 4 people in the hospital
This video was provided in the aftermath of the shooting by SafetyVid.org. The incident also led to massive traffic backups during rush hour.
Authorities say a group was traveling together when they spotted what they believed was their vehicle, which had been stolen in another city.
They followed the group in the vehicle, and eventually a shootout occurred.
At least two of those taken to UAB for treatment had life-threatening injuries.
Birmingham officers say everyone in the hospital is currently considered a suspect, but the investigation is ongoing.
Full Story: https://www.al.com/news/2023/11/multiple-people-shot-including-1-on-i-59-in-birmingham.html
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- My Big Fat Fabulous Life virtual date
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In a preview supplied by TLC Whitney Way Thore goes on a virtual date in "My Big Fat Fabulous Life."
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- Video shows moments after shoot out that led to four people being injured on I-59 in Birmingham
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A stolen car led to a shootout between two groups of people on Interstate 59 southbound in Birmingham during rush hour traffic left four people injured and hundreds stuck in traffic, police said.
Multiple calls started coming into Birmingham’s 911 center about 4:40 p.m.
One of the callers said a person was on the ground outside of a vehicle with a gunshot wound, according to police radio traffic.
That location is on I-59 southbound near Bush Boulevard. A second victim was then also found nearby on the interstate.
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- Texas A&M fires Jimbo Fisher
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- 25:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork announces the school has fired head football coach Jimbo Fisher.
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- Joro Spider invasion reaches Alabama. These largely harmless spiders look intimidating.
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Sen. Katie Britt on Tuberville's holdup of military appointments
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, responds to questions about the hold on military nominees by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama.
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- Buc-ee's snacks taste test
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- 5:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Members of the AL.com Life and Culture team taste test a variety of different snacks from the gas station/store Buc-ee's.
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- We asked 3 Black students who helped integrate Alabama schools in 1963 what they remember.
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- 6:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- We asked 3 Black students who helped integrate Alabama schools in 1963 what they remember. Here's what they said.
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- Gallettes' giant Yellowhammer cup
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Gallettes, located on the Strip in Tuscaloosa, is one of the most popular bars in Alabama.
Their signature drink is the Yellowhammer, a rum-cocktail famously served in a plastic yellow cup.
Local craftsman Mathew Simmons built a 5-foot version of the cup now mounted on the wall inside the main room of the bar.
The cup is made of aluminum and painted with a yellow auto-body finish.
The cup even has giant ice cubes just like those served in the drink and
multicolor LED lights inside the cup.
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- Lucy Buffett welcomes Parrot Heads to Gulf Shores, remembers her brother Jimmy Buffett fondly.
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- 3:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Lucy Buffett thanks Parrot Heads at the Meeting of the Minds, a major annual gathering of Jimmy Buffett fans, has opened for the first time in Gulf Shores, where tourism officials said they expected an influx of more than 3,000 parrotheads.
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- SEC’s David Cutcliffe: 9-game football schedule ‘probably inevitable’
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- 9:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- David Cutcliffe, the Southeastern Conferences' Special Assistant to the Commissioner for Football Relations, said prior to a speaking engagement in Mobile on Tuesday that he believes the SEC will eventually move to a 9-game conference schedule, if not in 2025, then soon after.
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- Parhelion appears over Alabama on Sunday
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- 0:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Looking to the skies you could see parhelic circles formed by a Parhelion over Alabama on Sunday, October 22, 2023. A Parhelion is a bright spot in the sky formed by a refraction of light through ice crystals.
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- Audio: Joran Van Der Sloot confesses to murdering Natalee Holloway
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- 3:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- In a recording released by the courts, Joran Van Der Sloot Can be heard confessing to the murder of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.
Full Story: https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/joran-van-der-sloot-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-natalee-holloway-extortion-case-today-latest-updates.html
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- Lawyer, family speak out after Joran Van Der Sloot confession
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- 10:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- In an emotionally charged hearing in Birmingham’s federal court Wednesday morning, it was revealed Joran van der Sloot had confessed to killing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.
The Dutch national from Aruba was long suspected in the disappearance and death and pleaded guilty today to the extortion of Natalee’s mother, Beth. He waived his right to appeal.
Van der Sloot, 36, received a 20-year sentence on each of the two convictions. Those sentences will be served concurrently with each other and also concurrently with his sentence in Peru.
During a press conference following the hearing U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona and Natalee's mother, Beth, spoke to reporters
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- My Big Fat Fabulous Life
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The cast of TLC's "My Big Fat Fabulous Life" experiences an Alabama crawfish boil.
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- Mobile veteran turns 105 years old
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Taylor Howard celebrated his 105th birthday Friday in Mobile with family and friends. He was born in 1918 in Alabama and spent much of his adult life in Gulfport, Miss. He was a Buffalo Soldier who fought in World War II and was a civil rights advocate.
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- Thermal footage shows fire burning in sinkhole under Moody landfill
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Standard and thermal drone videos of the Moody landfill fire which is smoking again out of a 15 foot sinkhole. Thermal shows the fire burning underground. Video by Moody Fire Department
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- Carnival unveils new cruise ship in Mobile
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson and Carnival Executive discuss the return of cruising to Alabama with the arrival of the Carnival Spirit.
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- Mobile city officials on the arrival of new Carnival cruise ship
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Joe Snowden, executive director of administrative services with the City of Mobile, discussing the return of cruising to Alabama with Friday’s arrival of the Carnival Spirit.
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- Security cam shows another angle of deadly Decatur Police shooting
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- WARNING: While no violence can be seen in this video gun shots can be heard.
Source: Brent Lipscomb, Publicist for the Perkins family
In another security camera video, you can see the conflict between Decatur Police and a Stephen Perkins that led to Perkins fatal shooting. A police officer shot Stephen Clay Perkins down in front of his home in the early hours of Sept. 29, 2023 at the 3900 Block of Ryan Drive in Decartur. The police said he had a gun when they shot him.
Full Story: https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/theyre-in-total-shock-stephen-perkins-family-releases-video-of-deadly-police-shooting.html
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- Security cam catches man shot to death by Decatur police in front yard
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- WARNING: Graphic images.
Home security camera recording showing the time when a Decatur, Alabama, police officer shot Stephen Clay Perkins down in front of his home in the early hours of Sept. 29, 2023 at the 3900 Block of Ryan Drive in Decartur. The police said he had a gun when they shot him.
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- Body cam shows false arrest by Huntsville PD for failure to ID
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- 5:19
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In 2019, two Huntsville Police officers—Krista McCabe and Cameron Perillat arrested Roland Edger, a Huntsville mechanic, who was with his stepson, Justin Nuby. The location was the parking lot of Progressive Union Missionary Baptist Church in Huntsville. After arresting Edger, McCabe booked him in jail. The police received a 911 from the church's security the church's security guard called 911. "I have two Hispanic males messing with an employee's car that was left on the lot," he said on the call.
After the city dropped the charge of obstruction against Edger, he sued in the federal district court, which dismissed the suit after judging that the officers had qualified immunity. He appealed the ruling and this week the federal appeals court ruled that there was no basis for the officer arresting him, rejected the qualified immunity claim, and sent the case back to the district court.
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- Talladega NASCAR ridealong at 180 mph
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Ride along in a NASCAR at Talladega Superspeedway ahead of the 2023 YellaWood 500.
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- Why is this mysterious church buying up an Alabama town?
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Robin D. Bullock is a man who leads Church International in Warrior, Alabama. He believes that God tells him things that will happen in the future.
On January 6, 2021, thousands of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of former president Donald Trump. Robin was there and because of his prophecies surrounding the election, Church International went viral on social media overnight.
Suddenly they had a much bigger outreach, more church members, and more money. But now as their church is rapidly expanding, some people are really worried about their intentions.
Produced by Amanda Khorramabadi and AL.com staff
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- Crime and Neglect Worry Residents at Senior Living Community
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- They moved in seeking a quiet, safe, and clean environment at an affordable price. But dozens of senior citizens at a complex in Tarrant say their sanctuary has transformed into a den for drugs, prostitution, and longstanding neglect.
Residents of the Flats at Colebridge complain of problems ranging from lack of maintenance and poor response time to a need for security inside and outside the complex.
Produced by Joseph Bryant and Amanda Khorramabadi
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- Birmingham police knock spitting man to the ground after chase, captured on video
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- 4:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Birmingham police today released body cam footage from the arrest of a man Wednesday accused of spitting on people, including an officer. Four BPD officers responded to separate incident locations in connection with this 911 call.
On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at around 12:55 p.m., South Precinct officers were dispatched on a report of a Disorderly Person in Underwood Park, located at 2621 10th Avenue South. They encountered an adult male victim who reported being spit on by a black male wearing a black jacket and blue jeans. The suspect has been identified as 28-year-old Theodore Williams.
While collecting information for a report, two BPD Officers spotted Theodore Williams on 10th Avenue South. Mr. Williams fled on foot upon seeing the officers. He threatened physical assault on the officers, who unsuccessfully attempted to use a taser.
After another pursuit, Mr. Williams stopped in the roadway in the 2200 Block of Magnolia Avenue where he ...
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- More bodycam footage shows angles of band director being tased and arrested
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- 14:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The attorney of Minor High School Band Director Johnny Mims has released additional body cam footage of his tasing and arrest by the Birmingham Police Department.
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- Students and parents speak out about band director that was tased and arrested
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- 8:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Members of the Minor High School band and parents hold a press conference to give their reaction to their band director, Johnny Mims, being tazed and arrested by Birmingham Police officers.
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- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson meets portrait artist in Birmingham
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- While visiting Birmingham, Alabama, for the anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson meets Birmingham portrait artist Natalie Zoghby, who painted a portrait of Brown Jackson, at Highlands Bar and Grill.
Video by Amelia Davis
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- Birmingham Police bodycam footage of Minor H.S. Band Director shot with Stun Gun and Arrested
- Runtime
- 5:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Video released by Birmingham Police Department shows the arrest of a Jefferson County High School band director being tased by Birmingham police shows a chaotic few minutes before and after he was hit with the stun gun.
Johnny Mims, who took over as Minor’s band director in 2018, is charged with disorderly conduct, harassment and resisting arrest.
Police contend Mims didn’t comply with their order for his band to stop playing so they could clear the stadium following the end of the game between Minor High and Jackson-Olin High Schools, which was played Thursday night in Birmingham.
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- 60-year commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham
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- 2:01:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- On Sept. 15, 1963, at 10:22 a.m., the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb that exploded in the basement of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing 11-year-old Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins.
The annual memorial service at the church featured Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the keynote speaker.
Video Courtesy: 16th Street Baptist Church/The City of Birmingham
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- Academy Award-winner Spike Lee remembers the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Film director Spike Lee released the 1997 documentary "4 Little Girls" in remembrance of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley — the victims of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala.
On the 60th anniversary of that infamous tragedy, Lee traveled back to Birmingham to honor the occasion. But the legendary filmmaker also took time to give praise to the iconic leader behind the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham — the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.
