District Attorney Recuses Himself from Case
CABRERA: Checking top stories. A deadly day at a Michigan courthouse. Officials say an inmate, Larry Gordon, was able to grab a deputy's gun. Then he shot and killed two bailiffs. He continued shooting, hitting a deputy and a woman. Then he even took some hostages. He eventually was shot and killed himself by additional officers who were there at the courthouse. Now, the lawyer for the Minnesota police officer who shot Philando Castile says there is more to the story than is being told. Lawyer Thomas Kelly says Castile wasn't just stopped for a broken taillight. He actually matched the description of an armed robbery suspect and that was a big part of this encounter. Now, Castile was shot last week and killed during a traffic stop. His fiance streamed the aftermath of the shooting on FaceBook live. We'll hear from Castile's family in just over an hour from now. Stay with us for that. And we -- also we've learned they've hired TV Judge Linda Hatchet as their legal counsel. Meantime in Louisiana, a new twist in the investigation into Alton Sterling's death. The East Baton Rouge district attorney has recused himself from the case citing a possible conflict of interest. We're also learning more about the store owner, whose surveillance camera is the one that captured all this on camera. CNN's Boris Sanchez is joining us live in Baton Rouge. And, Boris, that store owner has now filed a lawsuit against police.</s>BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Ana. That lawsuit -- some very serious allegations in that lawsuit. I'll get to that in a moment. But you mention the East Baton Rouge district attorney, Hillar Moore, recusing himself from the case, essentially saying that he's simply too close to a family of one of the officers involved in the shooting, Blane Salamoni. He says that he and Salamoni's mom have gone over more than 400 homicide cases together and that Salamoni's father is part of the security detail charged with making sure that the district attorney is safe. So in order to avoid any public perception that perhaps he was partial in this case, he's simply stepping aside for this one. It's something he said that he warned officials very early on that was a possibility, that he would recuse himself. The other big thing that's making news is that security footage from the Triple S Mart where Alton Sterling was killed. Calls growing louder and louder for that footage to be released. And it's now central to that lawsuit filed by the owner of the mart, Abdullah Muflahi. He says that police illegally confiscated that security footage and his cell phone, both without a warrant, shortly after the arrest. He also says he was held for six hours, four of those in the back of a police car, without being able to call either his family or an attorney, obviously, which is a legal right here. Aside from that, we called the Baton Rouge Police Department to ask them about this lawsuit. They tell us they do not comment on pending litigation, although they did tell us that the security footage that they collected from the mart has been handed over to the Department of Justice, Ana.</s>CABRERA: All right, Boris Sanchez, thank you, from Baton Rouge. Now on Wednesday, a special CNN town hall. Stay with us because these recent police shootings have the nation on edge. We're going to talk about what's really going on. Why are police and civilians in the line of fire? "Black, White and Blue; America in 2016." This is a CNN town hall hosted by Don Lemon. And, again, it's Wednesday night at 10:00 p.m. Eastern -- make sure you set your DVR if you can't watch us live -- only on CNN. Still to come, a rare move by a Supreme Court justice, trash talking a presidential candidate. Why some critics say Ruth Bader Ginsburg crossed an important line.