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NFL Player Murder-Suicide; Out of Hiding to Talk with CNN; Slain Teen Laid to Rest Today; Syrian Children Struggle for Food; Slain Teen Buried Today; More Demands from Adams of Bell; Beckham's Last MLS Game

Aired December 01, 2012 - 19:00   ET

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. Don Lemon here at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Thank you so much for joining us.

The city of Kansas City shocked tonight after an apparent murder/suicide involving one of their NFL players. Linebacker Jovan Belcher is dead. He killed himself with a gun in front of his coach, his general manager, and police officers near Arrowhead Stadium. About half an hour earlier police say he killed his girlfriend.

From Internet millionaire to fugitive, John McAfee gave a very bizarre and exclusive interview to CNN from his hideaway in Central America. You're going to hear it in a moment.

And Jordan Davis, 17 years old -- today was his funeral. Jordan was shot dead after an argument about loud music. We spoke to his broken- hearted father who has a message for all parents of teenagers.

Personal tragedy from the world of sports to report to you first. Police say a player for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs shot and killed his girlfriend this morning and then drove to the team's training facility where he turned the gun on himself. Police identified him as 25-year-old Jovan Belcher. He had been with the team for four years and he and his girlfriend were parents of a 3-month-old daughter.

Michael Coleman of Kansas City's KCTV has more now.

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MICHAEL COLEMAN, KCTV5 SPORTS DIRECTOR: Evidently what happened was he killed his girlfriend, came over to the stadium where there was a scheduled team meeting, and he's in the parking lot. The police by this time, they've heard the news. They're looking for a black man who has a gun, supposedly a Chiefs player.

He arrives at the stadium. He's in the parking lot for the players.

The general manager, Scott Pioli, the head coach Romeo Crennel, they're talking to him. Their lives were never in danger. They said they never felt they were in danger.

And when the police arrived, that's when Mr. Belcher pulls out the gun and shoots himself --

LEMON: Goodness.

COLEMAN: -- in this parking lot about 100 yards behind me.

LEMON: Michael --

COLEMAN: And right there in front of the gm and the coach.

Yes?

LEMON: What about his reputation? I mean, did he have any off the field troubles that anyone knew about? You said he was the last guy you expected. Did anyone know about any trouble?

COLEMAN: None.

LEMON: None.

COLEMAN: None.

This guy was very quiet, kept to himself, he's a hard worker. And, you know, I don't want to make it sound like he was a monster because he kept to himself, he was a concentrated, focused young man, 25 years old.

Now, I used to work and live in Long Island. He's from West Babylon High School. And when I got there, he had just left to go to Maine to play college football. But the buzz about him was still going strong even after he left and the buzz I always heard about him was -- great guy, give you the shirt off his back and had a very strong sense of family.

LEMON: He was inspirational. As you were talking about, he was inspirational because he was a non-draft player. And as you were saying -- an overall good guy.

COLEMAN: Overall good guy. And here's a guy -- let's face it, not many guys play in the National Football League from Maine.

LEMON: Right.

COLEMAN: OK? That speaks to his dedication right there alone and his focus. And as I understand tonight, his high school is playing for a state championship.

So I'm pretty sure the coach always used him as a great example of being a good role model and to think what these kids are thinking about right now if they know about this, it's heart breaking.

LEMON: The game is scheduled to go on tomorrow in Arrowhead. The mayor said he feels an obligation to play the game. Why?

COLEMAN: Good question. I mean, both of these teams, they're not going to the playoffs. If you wait until after the season, what are they playing for?

And let's face it, man, this is a business and I've been doing sports for a long time -- this has never happened before, Don. This never happened before where a current player during a season kills himself and now the team has to figure out what to do.

I think there may be a slight possibility this game could have been postponed because a statement, the last statement by the Chiefs today read that Romeo Crennel and the Chiefs captains had decided in advising the NFL they do want to play this game. It's going to be a much different tone tomorrow.

And it's a very interesting tone because it is not about wins and losses. This is about a little girl, a little 3-month-old girl, who lost her parents in the prime of their lives. He was 25. Ms. Perkins, his girlfriend, was 22.

And so, wins and losses put aside, and to your earlier point, should there be a game played this weekend? You look at the bigger picture, probably not.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LEMON: Thank you, Michael Coleman.

Now on to other news, John McAfee made a fortune as a pioneer of antivirus software. But he has spent the last several weeks running from authorities in Belize. Police want to question him about the murder of his neighbor. But until last night, nobody had seen him. Then he contacted CNN's Martin Savidge and sat down with him for an exclusive interview.

Martin joins us now live from Belize.

So, Martin, what did John McAfee say?

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, Don, this was an interview that ranged from, at times, stone cold clarity and credibility, to downright of the wall kind of crazy talk, almost a sense of paranoia. I mean, it was quite remarkable. There were times you just sensed that he was telling you everything in his heart, but you weren't sure if everything in his mind was quite right.

Listen to how it began.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SAVIDGE: Let me ask you a couple of questions I know the police would ask. Did you kill Greg Faull?

JOHN MCAFEE, INTERNET ANTIVIRUS PIONEER: I barely knew the man and why would I kill him? He was a neighbor that lived 200 yards down the beach. I did not kill the man. I knew nothing about his death until the following morning.

SAVIDGE: But you did have a stormy relationship or you did have a past with him?

MCAFEE: I have spoken 50 words to the man in five years. He would go by my property and complain about my dogs as everybody did.

I complained about my dogs. They barked loudly and kept me awake at night. I did everything that I could to contain them and they were getting better.

He owned dogs himself. There is no reason he would have done something to my dogs. But by the way, the night before he was killed, four of my dogs were poisoned.

My first thought was, it's the government, more harassment.

SAVIDGE: You thought that the dogs had been killed by the government?

MCAFEE: Or they had done everything else to me, why not kill -- in fact, they've already killed one of my dogs. Now, they killed four of my dogs. What is the difference, sir?

The morning that I've heard about Greg's death, the first thing I went through my mind was -- Jesus, they got the wrong man. They were sending a gang of gangsters to come and do whatever, robbers, pretending to be a robbery, to kill me. And they got my neighbor instead.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SAVIDGE: It is quite clear that, you know, he is under or suffering from a great deal of paranoia and he openly admits that. He's extremely careful in any communication that we have. He believes that authorities are closing in on him. But he also says he's never gone to give himself up.

LEMON: So let's see, Martin, he's in disguise. He's in hiding somewhere in Belize. Why do you think he called you to talk?

SAVIDGE: Well, you know, first and foremost I've been after him for a couple of weeks and I have said that we were looking to get his side of the story. We know that there is a terrible tragedy.

And this is something that he admits as well, the death of Greg Faull, his neighbor, is awful. He's offering a $25,000 reward, he says, to anybody who has the information about how he died.

But then there are the peculiar aspects about him. And that's being mild. I mean, he did come disguised, dressed as an old man, and then on top of that, he is living and on the run with a 20-year-old girl, he's 67, by the way. And he admits that most of the time, he's got at least seven girls living with him.

And I've actually talked to a number of those girls. He doesn't lead a normal life, which is why many people find it hard to believe what he's saying, even though he swears it's true.

LEMON: Sounds like a lifetime movie starring you and him. Thank you. Appreciate it, Martin Savidge.

The family of Jordan Davis buried their 17-year-old son today. Jordan was killed at a Florida gas station a few days ago by a man who said he felt threatened by the teenager and his friends. The case had been compared to the "Stand Your Ground" case also a Florida -- in Florida involving teenager Trayvon Martin.

Our George Martin spoke to Jordan Davis' father.

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RON DAVIS, JORDAN DAVIS' FATHER: I believe it was strictly anger, you know. People try to associate that whenever people of color are different from someone else and I believe, I still believe to this day, unless the gentleman tells me different that it was anger that was involved and having the accessibility of a gun.

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So your focus is on these guns.

DAVIS: Yes.

HOWELL: Your t-shirt even, show us this.

DAVIS: Yes, yes. Kill guns, not kids. Kill guns, not kids.

So we have to kill these gun laws that allow them -- the law enforcement has been trained and they're the only ones I feel that should have guns in public.

HOWELL: This case has gotten a lot of attention, national attention, in some ways compared to the Trayvon Martin case. What are your thoughts about that?

DAVIS: I don't think it's -- it just happened to be an African- American child and the non-African-American person that pulled the trigger. I think that's the only comparison.

But I don't think the reason is the same. I think the reason for this gentleman was strictly anger and having the availability of a weapon.

HOWELL: When people think about Jordan Davis, what should they remember?

DAVIS: Remember he's a 17-year-old child and you have a 17 or 15 or 16-year-old child, you know? And if some stranger tells you, gives you an order to turn your music down, most of the time they won't, most of the time they will give you a smart lip or whatever.

But you as an adult, as parents, we don't expect people in the world to just gun down a child because of that. We don't expect a child to lose his life and other children in the car, could have killed them. There were three more individuals in the car, teenagers, and he sprayed the car with bullets.

And that's why -- you know, what are you thinking? It is in a lot where there is a gas station, and you're spraying bullets.

So I just do not know what thought he had in mind, and my heart is just torn for my son and I hope the public realizes we need our time to grieve and -- but this is a fight that is going to go on long after I bury my son.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LEMON: Gosh. George Howell reporting -- can't imagine that father is even able to stand up right now.

You know, the man who shot Jordan Davis, Michael Dunn, was denied bail and remains in jail. He claims he pulled his gun and opened fire out of self-defense.

Let's get you up to speed now on some of the day's other headlines.

Dueling protests in Cairo over the young democracy's new constitution.

Supporters of President Mohamed Morsy packed the streets near Cairo University as Morsy sets a date for a vote on the new constitution. Morsy's critics say the constitution was rushed through and paves the way for Islamic law.

Mexico has a new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, took the oath of office before the country's congress. His inauguration returned the institutional revolutionary party to power 12 years after being turned out of office. That doesn't sit well with Mexicans who accuse it of buying the election. Hundreds clashed with police outside congress.

North Korea is going to try again. They want to take another stab at sending a rocket into space, this time, to place a satellite into orbit. This is all coming from North Korea state-run media. The rocket will be similar to this one. The planned launch, the window is between December 10th and 22nd.

The U.S. State Department is not happy about it, calling any launch by the North Koreans provocative.

Take a look at live pictures now from the White House, which is marking World AIDS Day -- a day to ponder the fight against HIV and AIDS. Nations around the globe observe the day in their own way. Sydney's famous Opera House was lit up in red, the color of AIDS awareness. Other countries held rallies.

As of last year, an estimated 34 million people were living with HIV.

And an awful bus crash today on airport property in Miami to tell you about. Two people died when a tour bus smashed into an overpass, too low for the bus to clear. Police and firefighters removed more than 30 passengers from the windows of the wreck. Authorities say the driver was not familiar with the airport and mistakenly drove into a level that could not accommodate a tour bus. An elderly man died at the scene. Another died later at the hospital.

I want you to look at this, and pray you're never this hungry.

Well, a frenzy erupts as hungry children clamor for just a small bowl of food and many are turned away because there isn't enough. Fighting to simply survive in a war zone.

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LEMON: I want you to take your time to look at this. OK. A woman clutching a toddler, runs hysterically from shelling in Syria.

That's just the beginning, they escaped -- they escaped with their lives. At least 120 others were killed today in Syria. Internet and cell phone coverage have been restored in most of Syria after a blackout Thursday crippled communications.

Syria's bloody civil war started about 20 months ago, ravaging the food supply for many families. Time now to count your blessings as you look at this. Now, hungry children are fighting for their next meal.

CNN's Arwa Damon takes a closer look at the struggle to feed Syria's children.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Elbowing, shoving, anything just to get a ladle full of cracked wheat.

"You will all get some, you will all get some," Awad (ph), one of the neighborhood volunteers' shouts, before realizing it's not the case.

They would all get some, but there isn't any left, as he scrapes the bottom of the pot.

They try to desperately grasp small bags hopping overhead.

In a massive camp, another volunteer can't fire the falafel fast enough.

"There are six to seven of us in the neighborhood who are collecting money to help feed the poor children," Abu Abdul (ph) explains.

It's not much, but it is all they can do to ease the burden on the parents. Many families have returned back to their homes, only to find little left. Prices have skyrocketed. For many, even the basics like bread are unaffordable.

"Until when, until when are we going to live like this?" Awad (ph) cries, his eyes tearing. "Look, people are eating burnt food."

For another of the volunteers, the sheer stress of all they have been through reaches near breaking point.

"I swear with my life, we are 12 brothers willing to die for this," he shrieks. "We will all die martyrs."

Eleven-year-old Rami (ph), her plate still empty, says there is not much food at home, that they only really eat breakfast.

"Look, film this, the burnt scraps are even taken," a man says as a child displays two bowls. The children swarm around the falafel fryer. The volunteers have been cooking and distributing for a week now. All they can do is hope tomorrow they will be able to gather enough money to make more.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Aleppo.

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LEMON: Helping victims recover from natural disasters. Up next, you'll meet a former CNN hero and hear how his life and cause have changed since he took the center stage. It's all part of our lead-up to our all-stars tribute for 2012 CNN Heroes.

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LEMON: Everyday people changing the world, they will be honored tomorrow night at our "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute". Our annual event saluting the Top 10 CNN Heroes of the Year, people like Tad Agoglia. He helps people recover from hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires across the U.S. He was a 2008 CNN top 10 hero.

Nischelle Turner and Tad Agoglia join me from Los Angeles.

So, Tad and I used to be buds. Tad, you don't call, you don't write anymore. I don't know what's going on. He's big and famous.

(LAUGHTER)

NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He's big timing you, huh, Don.

LEMON: He used to come visit us in Atlanta. We put him on the set. I don't know what happened.

What's going on, guys? How are you doing?

TURNER: You know, he just told me you yelled at him the last time he was with you because he wasn't looking at the camera. So I told him, please look at the camera, because you know?

But, yes, we're talking about, you know, getting ready for our big heroes, an all-star tribute ceremony tomorrow night at 9:00 Eastern, right here on CNN. And Tad knows firsthand what it's like to be on that stage and honored as a top 10 heroes.

2008 was your year. And that, I can imagine -- you were doing such great work before. But I can imagine once you were honored as a hero, things really took off.

TAD AGOGLIA, 2008 TOP 10 CNN HERO: It literally revolutionized my charity. At that point we were just out there going from state to state, storm to storm, responding to disasters, helping out communities, but when the CNN viewers to nominated me to be in the top 10.

And when the Heroes program shined a light on my work, it just brought so many others to help champion my cause and at that point we began to get more donors and to be able to respond to more disasters and help more people.

TURNER: You know, Mother Nature is always going to keep you in business. It's always going to keep you busy and always going to keep you helping people. And you just have been really busy during Sandy. You responded to Sandy and you rally have been helping the folks on Long Island out. It's near and dear to your heart. I mean, they all are, but this is really near and dear to your heart.

AGOGLIA: Yes. Well, I did grow up in Long Island. And it was amazing to se the storm surge and the wind that struck Long Island. We were literally just opening up roads for a week and a half, which is a long time, just to create access to communities.

So the storm there was very powerful. You know, we were able to clear roads and help ambulances get to people's homes and get people in need to the hospitals. We were able to power up critical buildings and do a lot more obviously. And it's just amazing to see such a powerful storm hit such a highly populated area.

And we don't usually see something like that happen.

TURNER: No, I've seen -- I saw the same thing when I was right in the middle of Katrina. So, I understand exactly what you're talking about. It's something to see and behold but also the human spirit during those things is something to see as well, because people really start helping people and that's when you see all of your good work put to work.

AGOGLIA: Yes, absolutely. It is amazing to see how some of the most difficult challenges we face as human beings really brings out the best of all -- in all of us, and it's just amazing. It's amazing. It's like what we see in the CNN Heroes. You know, that spirit is a live and well, and really makes the world a better place.

TURNER: Absolutely. And, you know what, Don? Tad told me he and I sat next to each other last year on Heroes. I was so focused on how wonderful the program was -- I'm sorry to say -- I didn't remember. But I do now.

And so, Tad, once a hero, always a hero, is going to help us celebrate these new top 10 CNN Heroes that we will honor tomorrow night.

LEMON: If I know Tad, I know he would try to talk to you, let's put it that way.

So, Tad, your game, you need to work on your game, man.

(LAUGHTER)

TURNER: He's a good guy, and a handsome fellow, this Tad. He's a handsome fellow.

LEMON: You know he's from New York, because he said Long Island and what I like about Tad --

TURNER: Long Island. LEMON: -- is he made a ton of money on Wall Street, was making a ton of money and gave it all away and then started doing -- gave it all up, I should say, and started doing what he's doing now. So, he is a hero.

Thank you, guys. Thank you very much.

TURNER: That's what heroes is all about. All right.

LEMON: Yes.

TURNER: Anderson Cooper is going to host "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" tomorrow night at 9:00 Eastern, by the way.

Straight ahead, a corruption scandal brings down eight city leaders in California. The former city police chief is suing after making nearly half a million dollars a year. He says he wants more.

A Florida teen's murder that some believe was -- some believe has echoes of the Trayvon Martin shooting. You'd be the judge, next.

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LEMON: Half past the hour now. Take a look at the headlines here on CNN.

He made a fortune as a pioneer of antivirus software. But for the last three weeks, John McAfee has been a man on the run. Authorities in Belize want to question him about the murder of his neighbor last month. McAfee came out of hiding yesterday and spoke exclusively with CNN's Martin Savidge.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SAVIDGE: How do you see this coming to an end?

MCAFEE: I don't have a crystal ball. I'm going to continue to fight until something changes.

SAVIDGE: You won't turn yourself in.

MCAFEE: I will not.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LEMON: John McAfee tells CNN he did not kill his neighbor nor did he hire somebody to do it.

It looks like a murder/suicide in the NFL. Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed himself in front of his coach and general manager today, a few minutes after police believe he shot his girlfriend dead in their home. Kansas City Chiefs announced today that they will play their game against Carolina tomorrow as scheduled.

Friends, family and fans of Hector "Macho" Camacho gathered in Spanish Harlem today paying final respects to the boxing champion who died last weekend. Camacho and a friend were shot while sitting in a car in Puerto Rico. The other man died at the scene, Camacho died in the hospital four days later. Hector "Macho" Camacho won several world boxing titles in the 1980s. He was just 50 years old.

A Georgia family had to bury their teenage son today, a week after he was shot and killed at a Florida gas station. Jacksonville police say Michael Dunn fired his gun into a car full of teenagers, allegedly saying he felt threatened. When it was all over, high school junior Jordan Davis was dead. I talked with criminal defense attorney Holly Hughes about the fact that Dunn left the scene and allegedly never contacted police before his arrest.

HOLLY HUGHES, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I can understand he's panicking, he thinks there is a gun. But what really disturbs me about this, Don, not only does he leave the scene, he leaves the state. He goes back to his hotel room, he spends the night, he hears on the news that this young man has died, that there has been a fatality, from what he did, from these eight shots into an SUV full of teenagers. And then he gets in his car and he leaves the state. And his whole - well, I needed an attorney. Well, you can get an attorney on the phone.

Trust me. My clients call me all time of the day and night, OK? So what is disturbing to me is that he fled the state. I think he knows we got a guilty conscience going on. This was over music, Don. Music. He doesn't say these young men were out there harassing women, he doesn't say he saw them slinging dope, he says "I thought their music was too loud." Simple answer, roll up your window or back your car up three spots down and this young man's family would not be going through Christmas without him.

LEMON: Have you ever been to Florida? There is a gas station on every corner.

HUGHES: Exactly.

LEMON: If you don't like the one you're at, just go to another one across.

HUGHES: This to me was just excessive.

LEMON: We heard a lot about this stand your ground law, especially when it comes to the Trayvon Martin case in recent months.

HUGHES: Right.

LEMON: Should Dunn be able to use the stand your ground. He said he felt threatened.

HUGHES: Well, he also alleges he saw a shotgun coming out of one of the window of the SUV that the young men were in but the police looked in that vehicle and they didn't find any weapon. None of these young men, as far as we know, and it is early in the case, there will be a lot of investigation, but we don't know of any gang association. The parents all say "Our children didn't have guns. They weren't those type of young people." LEMON: For lack of a gun, can this stand your ground stand up?

HUGHES: I don't think so. They can certainly file. You can always file a motion with the court, have your motion and say this was justified and that's basically what it is. I was justified, I was defending myself, I had a legal right to be there, I felt threatened. But if there is no gun found, and the person who was arrested, this man Dunn, he flat out admits this all started over loud music. So I don't see him prevailing in any type of stand your ground motion or if it goes to trial, a self-defense motion.

LEMON: It was also in a crowded place. I mean, with a lot of witnesses. How is that going to - what part is that going to play?

HUGHES: Well, it is going to play a huge role. Let's face it most convenience stores these days have very good security cameras. So what they're going to do is they're going to pull the video footage and they're going to say, "Hey, was there a gun protruding from that SUV?" Depending on the angle, you got all sorts of independent witnesses who are going to say "We didn't see that." And we didn't hear the young men threatened or we did hear these young men threatened. That's all going to bear out when we see a little more evidence. But it does not look good, Don.

LEMON: We're not done with this. More tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. You do not want to miss it. Holly Hughes, CNN's George Howell will both join me live to talk about this case.

George interviewed the family, Holly Hughes knows the law. We're going to break it down for you.

Up next, charges of corruption and fraud in the small town, a police chief making nearly half a million dollars. We first told you about this story last year. Now there is a new twist. He wants more money from the city and the taxpayers.

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LEMON: It is a working class town, where charges of corruption and fraud have left taxpayers outraged. The former police chief of Bell, California, made a whopping salary, almost a half billion dollars a year before a corruption case brought down eight leaders in the city government.

The former chief wasn't charged in the case. And believe it or not, now he says he wants even more money from the city and the state and he's suing to get it. CNN's Kyung Lah reports now.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A two-year veteran of the Bell Police force Sergeant James Cochran is reminded of the corruption that crushed his town at every turn he takes. Boarded up buildings, vacant homes and lots and storefront after storefront for lease. But nowhere is a reminder more stark than his own police station, where he says his former police chief was there for only one reason, greed. SGT. JAMES CORCORAN, BELL POLICE DEPARTMENT: He was here for his personal gain, he was not here to better the community. Certainly not here to better us.

LAH: He's talking about former police chief Randy Adams, who was pulling in a whopping $457,000 a year. For a police force with only 30 officers, way more than top cops in neighboring Los Angeles, Chicago or even New York. Cash put in his pocket by a city manager and others who were paying themselves inflated salaries. The city manager taking home more than a million dollars.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, you!

LAH: This was the reaction when the public found out. Outrage, anger boiled over. Prosecutors nabbed eight city leaders saying they used public funds like a personal piggy bank, looting the working class city of millions of dollars. They face criminal corruption charges. Chief Randy Adams wasn't charged. Because Adams didn't directly control the city's money. But even the judge wondered in court, "I don't know why he's not a defendant in this case."

So where is Adams today? He lives in Simi Valley, an upper class L.A. suburb 50 miles northwest of Bell, just off of country club drive, in a gated community. His five bedroom, five bath, $800,000 home overlooks a picturesque golf course.

DENISE RODANTE, BELL RESIDENT: Disgusting and the fact that he is living this lavish lifestyle on the backs of us?

LAH: Bell resident Denise Rodante calls Adams the one who got away.

RODANTE: Arrogant, cocky, criminal. If I can find the dictionary where it says corrupt police chief, whatever his picture will be on it. He's the epitome of what is wrong in this country.

LAH: She says that because of these e-mails from 2009 exchanged between Adams and Angela Spaccia, Bell's former assistant city administrator. Adams negotiating the terms of his new job as Bell's police chief, wrote, "I'm looking forward to seeing you and taking all of Bell's money, OK, just a share of it." Spaccia replies, "Lol. Well, you can take your share of the pie just like us, we will all get fat together." The salary quietly approved by the former city manager.

DOUG WILLMORE, BELL CITY MANAGER: My jaw drops when you see it.

LAH: Doug Willmore, Bell's new city manager says he still can't believe what happened and what is still happening. Talking to me in the rundown city council chambers, Willmore says walking away with that half million dollar paycheck wasn't enough. The former police chief is now suing the city of Bell for what city sources calculate would amount to $600,000 in severance and unused sick days.

WILLMORE: From this small city, from this poor community, to then have it revealed, get fired and actually comes back for severance, it is incredible. It is outrageous. LAH: But seeking severance isn't apparently enough. Randy Adams wants more money from the state of California for his pension. Adams is also suing the state to double his pension to half a million dollars a year for the rest of his life. How? His oversized salary in Bell. That was his last job. His highest paying job and even though he only held the position for a year, he says his pension should be based on that pay.

(on camera): Hi Chief Randy Adams, I'm Kyung Lah from CNN.

(voice-over): We caught up with Randy Adams in Simi Valley.

(on camera): The people of the city of Bell say you milked them for a salary that was extraordinarily high and now you're trying to do the same thing with the state.

RANDY ADAMS, FORMER BELL CITY POLICE CHIEF: Well, I disagree, of course, with those types of characterizations, and when one day I'm able to tell my complete side of the story, I think you'll see that there is a completely different side to that story. Unfortunately I can't really talk at length about it, but that's the situation.

LAH: Did you think you deserve to make double what -

ADAMS: I made all the comments I can make at this time.

LAH (on camera): While Adams would not elaborate on camera, I did manage to speak to his attorney by telephone. Who says that Adams is a good cop, a life-long public servant who does deserve to double his pension to half a million dollars a year for that one year of service in Bell. But the people who run California's pension system say "Absolutely not."

What is he asking for?

ROBERT GLAZIER, CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT PROGRAM: Basically he's trying to double his pension from $19,000 a month, which is far surpassing almost anyone else in our system as a retiree, to about $38,000 a month.

LAH: Does he deserve $38,000 a month? From the taxpayers?

GLAZIER: The taxpayers are outraged whenever anyone does something like trying to use fraud and deceit and hide the way of which they got paid. And you don't deserve it and it is not allowed.

LAH (voice-over): A proposed decision by a state board agrees rejecting Adams' appeal to increase his pension, but Adams is appealing. Inside his gated community, he awaits a final decision.

Kyung Lah, CNN, Simi Valley, California.

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LEMON: Today's world AIDS day. My next guest is an activist who talks about being HIV positive. Yet still carving out a great life every single day. Some positive words even for those without the disease. That's next.

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LEMON: I promise you you're going to like the next interview. OK. If you don't, tweet me and tell me you didn't.

So today we observe world AIDS day, as of last year, an estimated 34 million people were living with HIV. But beyond the numbers are lives, people living with the negativity and labels that surround this disease. So Mark King is here with me. He is an advocate. He's an author. He's a blogger and he's living with HIV. He's also a trip.

MARK KING, AUTHOR: Thank you very much, I appreciate that.

LEMON: You're always fun. Good to see you here. Your website is called "My Fabulous Disease." Why did you decide to call it that? Here's the thing, you -

KING: You want to know why I call it "My Fabulous Disease."

LEMON: No, what I want to know first before we talk about that, people talk about HIV or AIDS, it is a somber thing, "Oh my god." You're living with it, millions of people live with it. It doesn't have to be a death sentence. Of course we would like to stamp out HIV and AIDS. But I like your attitude about it. So talk about that.

KING: Well -

LEMON: And about having a sense of humor.

KING: A sense of humor is part of who I am, just like all of these parts are physical manifestations of who I am. And like or not, HIV is part of who I am. Unfortunately when you talk about the people who have somber tones, it is because they think for some reason that I wander around all day long going, oh my gosh, I have HIV. Well, I am fortunate man and I have helped care and have people who care about me. But I also have a sense of humor and so many life events that happened after HIV - having HIV that I decided that I'm not going to let all that negative stuff about the disease be placed on me. I'm fabulous, my disease is fabulous.

LEMON: Well, there you go. So I like that. So why did you decide to name your website that?

KING: Because I wanted to let people know, I know it is a little provocative, but I wanted to let them know that I have one up, I believe, on my disease. It is going to have to take on my characteristics.

LEMON: And that you're fabulous.

KING: Yes, I am. I am, clearly.

LEMON: He comes in, he says, I want to be light, I told you I wanted the Madonna lighting.

KING: Yes, I know. I don't know -

LEMON: What did my floor director say?

KING: Every light in the studio is being focused on Don.

LEMON: Thank you very much. Exactly right.

Talk about the stigma people living with HIV, AIDS.

KING: You know, I believe that as people with HIV have gotten healthier, social stigma has gone up. Because people feel more licensed to maybe criticize us or be judgmental of us, how you got it, or whatever, because we're not tragic victims anymore. It is not as if we can't talk about it. As a result, I believe that there's a lot more discrimination about who you're friends with, who you date, all of that.

LEMON: We forget that Chlamydia and you know, are sexual diseases that young people are getting at record numbers. And there's not a stigma associated with that. People get cancer every year. People, you know, get lupus or what have you, but that doesn't define you, you're not somehow, because you got a disease, that you brought it up on yourself.

KING: Right. Well, unfortunately, people like me got wrapped up in the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. And all of the baggage that went along with it.

LEMON: Yes, yes. How has it changed over the years living with the disease? First time I came in contact with it, I wrote a story about it for someone who asked me. I was in New York City, it was in the '90s, and I saw someone walking down the street with a portable IV and I just sort of froze. And the guy's partner looked at me, I don't know why he stopped me and he said, "You know, young man, you have your health" and he just wanted to be out - didn't want to be in the hospital anymore. He said that to me and it always stuck with me. To have the nerve to walk on the streets of New York City in a hospital gown with a portable IV in the '90s was I mean, really ballsy. How has it changed over the year, the stigma?

KING: Well, it is completely different and fortunately it is different because we were living - what you witnessed was a soldier that walked out of the bunker for a few minutes. It was a war zone. All our friends were dying and we said good-bye to one every weekend. And so it is incredibly different now in terms of just how I live with it. The amount of my life that I spend thinking about HIV is about the amount of time I think about the next fabulous blog posting I'm going to have. Because it's going to be about HIV, but I'm going to make sure I incorporate humor in the rest of my life.

LEMON: I'm having a senior moment. What was the Broadway play, Larry Kramer's -

KING: "Normal Heart."

LEMON: I went to see the "Normal Heart," and the curtains went down and it brought me back to the '90s. And I cried. Every single person - did you see that?

KING: Yes.

LEMON: Yes.

KING: It's overwhelming and it's hard to describe to people what it was like during those times. It's impossible to describe.

LEMON: You're a trouper. We got to run. What's the lesson on this world AIDS day?

KING: Well, the lesson is the next great battle is HIV criminalization. There are laws now putting people in jail for not disclosing their status. Even though you don't have to do that with hepatitis and all those sort of things. If they want to know more about that, you go to cyril project.com.

LEMON: Thank you for being a soldier.

KING: You're welcome.

LEMON: Thank you.

Good luck to you.

KING: Thanks.

LEMON: All right. Mr. Mark King.

Coming up - Alzheimer's, it's a devastating disease, now it is silencing the voice of a music legend. Glen Campbell talks about the end of a long career, that's next.

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LEMON: Ah, truly an American music legend. He has called it a career. Glen Campbell played the final show of his illustrious career last night in Napa, California. Campbell is suffering from Alzheimer's. He sat down with CNN's Miguel Marquez.

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MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Last year, the rhinestone cowboy made a stunning announcement.

GLEN CAMPBELL, SINGER: What they diagnose me as?

KIM CAMPBELL, GLEN'S WIFE: Alzheimer's.

CAMPBELL: Alzheimer's? What's Alzheimer? How do you -

KIM CAMPBELL: You start losing your memory. And your ability to reason.

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MARQUEZ: This isn't Glen Campbell's first major challenge. He weathered career ups and down and successfully battled drug and alcohol addiction.

CAMPBELL: I was forgiven for being a dummy.

MARQUEZ: But now after five decades as a music icon, the 76-year-old entertainer is taking his final bow.

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MARQUEZ: Two summers ago Campbell released his final album, "Ghost on the Canvas," now he's wrapping up his farewell tour with a backing band that features three of his children, including daughter, Ashley.

ASHLEY CAMPBELL, DAUGHTER: He looks at me sometimes confused and I'll just smile at him. I just try and make him feel like he's surrounded by people that love him on stage.

MARQUEZ: Campbell may be stepping off the public stage, but his guitar will never be far from his side.

CAMPBELL: All I wanted to do, ever since I can remember, was play my guitar and sing.

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CAMPBELL: Don't cry over spilt milk. Get up and be a man and do what you're going to do.

MARQUEZ: Miguel Marquez, CNN, Los Angeles.

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LEMON: David Beckham's American soccer career over. Live report on Beckham's final game with the L.A. Galaxy, next.

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LEMON: Shall we talk to David Beckham live right now? Because he wrapped up his U.S. career today with a victory. Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy teammates posted a 3-1 win over the Houston Dynamo to win the MLS Cup.

Let's bring in David Beckham right now. Oh, no, it's Paul Vercammen. Well, Paul, we like you, too. He's in Los Angeles. How are the fans reacting?

PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: David, the fans here -

LEMON: I'm Don.

VERCAMMEN: There was a lot of electricity when the Galaxy won. Beckham, of course, his swan song, he steps in. He had a press conference, he said this was a special one for him. You know that Beckham loves Los Angeles, he has indicated that he might go overseas to Australia. He might get involved in management here. The fans, of course, having a great time here. Landon Donovan also leaving the Galaxy, by the way. He's going to go to some sort of retirement or possibly come out of it. But as I said, Don, if you've even been to a rock concert, let's say Springsteen or so or Stevie Wonder, I'm dating myself. But it was that kind of loud in here.

Totally typical of the fans here and it actually flies in the face of that stereotype of all L.A. fans are laid-back. So they had a great time here today, of course all of them glad it's a great send-off for David Beckham, Don.

LEMON: We got 10 seconds. You said they broke out one-ton whatever it was?

VERCAMMEN: Yes.

Now I'm going to lose you because they're getting loud.

LEMON: One-ton Beckham or whatever they were saying. Thank you, Paul Vercammen.

VERCAMMEN: They were chanting, One David Beckham.

LEMON: One David Beckham.

Paul, you're a trouper, thank you, sir.

I'm Don Lemon, at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. See you back here at 10:00 Eastern. Good night.