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In brief: Police reviewing Knight hit-and-run video

From Wire Reports

Los Angeles – Sheriff’s investigators Saturday were reviewing a video of an incident in which hip-hop music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight hit two men with his pickup truck, killing one, that may help provide clarity on whether Knight was the victim or attacker in his most serious run-in with the law to date.

The video is in “police custody” said Knight’s defense attorney James Blatt, and he said he would be seeing it Monday or Tuesday. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida confirmed that detectives were reviewing the video, but “they have made no such arrangements with the attorney” nor did they plan to show it to him.

Meanwhile, Knight remained jailed on suspicion of murder after turning himself in early Friday. He’s being held on $2 million bail.

Sheriff’s deputies said Knight hit and killed his friend Terry Carter, 55, with his pickup truck Thursday in the parking lot of a Compton fast-food restaurant, also injuring Cle “Bone” Sloan, 51, an actor and film consultant who was hospitalized and in stable condition late Friday.

Christie to meet with British prime minister

Newark, N.J. – After launching a political action committee this past week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is heading today to the United Kingdom, where he’ll meet with Prime Minister David Cameron.

The trip, his third overseas, comes as Christie weighs entering the crowded 2016 Republican presidential field and serves as an opportunity to build his foreign policy resume, prove he has the temperament for the world stage and showcase a personality his supporters say his would-be opponents lack.

Officially, the trip is a trade mission to strengthen ties between New Jersey and the U.K. – the state’s third-largest foreign trading partner, with $7 billion in goods exchanged each year.

Christie, who has taken flak for his love for the Dallas Cowboys football team, will begin his three-day trip with football of another sort – an Arsenal Football Club game today against Aston Villa with his wife, Mary Pat, who will accompany him on the trip.

Christie recently traveled to Mexico and Canada, where he delivered speeches about North American trade and the benefits of domestic energy production.