of their fears and didn't dos and stuff into their greatness and claim it because right. >> it is a riveting and inspiring memoir. thank you so much for talking to al jazeera. i'm tony harris in ferguson, month m and it is the epicenter here. the police hope that this is a more peaceful night than they've had encountered in the past few nights. the eyes of the world are once again on ferguson, missouri. good evening, i'm tony harris joining you from this location.

it's a different location, we'll get to robert ray and natasha in a couple of moments the reason why i wanted to come to ferguson, i wanted to see this environment, and see what what this city was dealing with for myself. we've been in ferguson, month, for just a few hours now, but it didn't take long to run into the frustration that you've been seeing on television sets in your home and on devices for day. we'll show you video. minutes after we came to this area, the quarter mile stretch of road, the main drag of ferguson, i got to tell you, it only took a matter of minutes, maybe 15 minutes at the moment. we've been talking to people and generally getting a sense of the people and the community when we

heard raised voices. we turned in that direction and what you're seeing now is what we encountered. it was a confrontation between a white motorist and a young black man. the young black man was being interviewed by a film crew of another way, of all places, the world has descended on ferguson to cover this story, and in short order this is the confrontation that took place, yelling and shouting, and one thing that becomes very clear to you after just a short amount of time here on the ground in ferguson is that these communities, the white community here, the black community here are talking completely at one another and not to one another, and not with one another. that was so evidence from that exchange from earlier today. we want to get to the news of the day, and robert ray is standing by. he is on the quarter mile stretch of road that has seen so much of the chaos and hostilities over the last few

days. robert, what we've been talking about is clearly a change in police tactics over the past few days, and we're witnessing another one even as we speak this evening. >> reporter: yes, good evening, tony, exactly. you know, as you said earlier you had been moved, indeed, we have been moved. we've been moved two more times by the police in the past hour and a half. no real reason, no one will give us a direct answer as to why. we've seen police officers out here without badges. one of our producers ask him where is his badge without identification. one became agitated. another person same those are our orders. we're trying to find out why some of these highway patrol folks don't have badges out. but streets are pretty empty right now. they're closed off here. some people starting to come into the area, but the sun has not gone down yet. we saw what happened yesterday.

it was really peaceful, and then as soon as the sun went down 200 to 300 people came out on the road and had confrontation with the police, tony. >> i have to ask you, the idea of moving some of the media trucks, i'm wondering if this makes some sense, the idea that some of the agitators may be looking for that agitation to be taped, rolled on and captured on video. if you're rolling on some of the bigger trucks and you're breaking them up into smaller pockets and you're a hand-held unit at this point, could that be part of a strategy, part of the thinking behind the strategy if you can move some of the big presence of the media maybe you don't have the agitators move to go gain attention moving to cause situations to be

videotaped? >> reporter: that's a good thought, and that's exactly what we've been talking about, trying to figure this out. my best guess is that they're moving us perhaps because they're moving the marchers. they're not allowing the marchers stay in the same place. maybe they're trying to tee us off and keep us moving and maybe we'll quit covering this. you look at the city of ferguson. they came out with this one-page sheet with their agenda of how they're going to play damage control. it rates. it i--it reads: you look at what's going on. the kids are not in school.

this is supposed to be the first week. it's hot and humid and hard conditions to be a protesters. hard conditions to be the police, obviously. let me tell you this one anecdote. as we were moving from one position, i said to the police officer, what are you expecting tonight? he said a lot of the same. he same oh, yes, we're gearing up. at 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning captain ron johnson of the missouri state patrol, he came out and tried to subdue some things. listen to this. >> what i want is our peaceful protesters to come in the daytime. all of these criminals at night who are masking themselves and hiding themselves at peace let them come at night so we can identify them and so we can take them away from our community and put them away and make our streets clear so they can no longer mask themselves behind the peaceful to testers

protesters. >> we have reports that a pretty significant group of protesters are gathering at a park just a few blocks that way. they're protesting the shooting and killing of a young man in st. louis who apparently had knife and was agitate police saying shoot me. well, he was not and killed. the prosecutor for st. louis county, we imagine they'll be coming through here at some point for the next couple of hours. >> robert, do we know--there have been a number of demonstrators and protesters at this point. do we know what charges they may be facing? >> the best question of them all and that's something that we've been trying to find out as well as the rest of the media. we haven't had any return phone calls from any organization in the past today or so asking for

what are the charges for these guys? is it civil disobedience and what is it? six journalists were taken into custody. an hour ago i talked to one of them, scott olsen, a photographer, i said what happened? what was it like? he said well, they put me in a holding cell with the other people. they made me take off my shoelaces. a few hours after released he went back out on the street. the transparency is lacking, tony. >> and has been seemingly from the beginning of this. robert ray for us. not far from our location o. i want to bring in donte barry. wes he wahe was with us in new york a few days ago, and now he's here with us. how long have you been on the ground here? >> i've been here since

yesterday. it's been a very interesting, frustrating, challenging last day. >> tell me about it. >> i drove here from new york and i've been here ever since. the first thing i see was walking into th in was 300 protesters marching peacefully down the streets. these are not activists. these are people of the community chanting no justice, chanting hands up, don't shoot. you're seeing the pain and frustration that i've felt and you've seen from across the country. for a couple of hours there was calm and peaceful protesting, and then one hour--that's when the tension started, and the confrontation between the police-- >> can you track that for us, because it's a similar pattern we've seen night after night.

the protests start off peacefully, then roll into the evening and then at some moment there is some spark. have you been able to figure out what the spark has been? >> yes, i think that one, first you don't see the policetively in the daytime, but you see them blocking the streets at night. and it's intimidating to have the guns out in front of you. there is video of police being pushed by the police. they're unarmed but they're pushed by the police. i was exposed to tear gas as well, and it was very violent, and it was not necessarily--you saw the protesters. for the most part the protesters are trying to make their demands heard. that's why this has gone on so long, for the top demand-- >> this is beyond. >> the officer has not gotten

arrested, and it's taken a week for that officer get arrested. they have a set of other demands that still have not been met. they're going to keep on doing this until those demands are met and they feel like they've been accomplished. right now this is a the heat of the moment, and we're going to see how much the military--i'm going to call them, the military. >> right, because the police seem so militarized to you. >> right, right. >> what is the goal? what is it that you hope to accomplish here? we know there are a lot of people coming in from other parts of the country. they're drawn to this event as far as you're concerned your organization. >> yes, for the first part, making sure that people stay alive. for a lot of folks, i've spoken to folks on the ground, and this feels like a war to them.

it's feeling like being in a war. it's not a surprise that palestinian and gaza sent tips over social media how to react to tear gas and amnesty international is here to observe the human rights atrocities of those being exploited. one, make sure people are peacefully protesting. it makes me frustrating that protesting can only happen in the daytime but i understand that protesting can be 24/7. we need to make sure that people are peacefully protesting. if it wasn't for the fact that the media has been moved multiple times it would jeopardize some of the things that we would find problematic. you'll see the national guard and a bunch of police officers

doing check points. they're making sure if you live on that street that your i.d. checks. those are small things that you're not seeing every day, and it needs to be broadcasted through regular media and social media. >> thank you, don't go far. pleasure, man, pleasure. let me take a moment to bring in a young man who is known by millions across the world, and certainly is a hero for so many in the black community. i'm talking about activist and comedian mr. gregory from washington, d.c. good to have you on al jazeera america. >> thank you, brother, nice to see you again. >> it's been a long time. thank you. it's great to see you as well. sir. >> thank you, thank you. >> it's great to be with you. let me start with your thoughts and your reflections on what has happened in the ten days now,

coming up on 11 days since the shooting death of michael brown and what you've witnessed. i know you were on the ground here at ferguson for a while. what are your thoughts? >> i was born and raised in st. louis, so when my brother ron took me to the airport the other day, i said go and get yourself some extra food because this ain't what we think it is. this is going to be a mess. first, you don't bring in the national guard for 50 people. so do somebody know something? the other thing is the young man that was with brown, he's under witness protection. so what do he know that the rest of the people don't know, that the fbi feel they have to put him under witness protection. first, let me thank the press, particularly the white press.

this is not because to protect black folk. when the president came out and made the statement, when the governor flew there, that was after the night they put the press in jail. let's go back to how this is being handled. nobody, and i cannot believe this, nobody has asked the question, why he lay on that ground for four hours. nobody. okay, and the people there are very suspicious of why he laid on that ground. you can't kill a dog and then lay there that long. the police said i got to hide these people because they getting death threats, did someone go to court to find out where those threats came from? because it could be them. i've been in this movement so long, and i think if y'all had time to go back and study what happened in kent university. you know, the national guard was there. and one of the students started

shooting at the national guard, and the national guard started shooting and then he ran to the national guard for protection. then we find out that he was a national guard and all that was planned. what we got to do now--yes? >> well, mr. gregory, let me ask you, because you have spent so much time in this movement let me ask you to articulate because you could do it as well as anyone right now, the frustration, the anguish that you're seeing, and sure, there are some people here who are causing some problems, but there are some people who are causing some problems here because they feel this is a way to be heard. if you look around at the amount of press here, maybe they've got a point and made their point. can you take a moment and articulate some of the frustrations? >> we've been in in movement, we

had ten times more people in this. who is bringing the molotov cocktails in. it's not us, the demonstrators, and somebody is not concerned where this is coming from? they're running around--which is this right--but they're running around with little handkerchiefs over their face? as long as i've been i in the movement i've never seen that happen unless there is more to it than we think. the reason why local people are upset, when the police chief released the picture of mr. brown shoplifting, they used the word armed robbery. >> strong armed. >> armed robbery, saying he stole something. then those us of know what to look for, we looked and saw that

that date on that picture was june 6th. are the people not aware of that? and people who live there know about that? he was not killed until august 9th. if you look at those pictures that they released from the store there, he had on nikes and white socks. laying up there on the ground he had flip flops. and so we were saying, he ran out of there, did he go somewhere? now the owner of that store, their lawyer, he said that that never happened at all. when you look at those pictures. now as black folks there say an ambulance didn't take him away. an suv. now that could be, but these are the suspicions. when they said eight shots and then the new yor"the new york times"

said officially six or more. well, they knew that without going to forensic. they saw it all. they see it all, and that's where the anger is. >> well, mr. gregory, i hear you. i hear you loud and clear, and one of your messages today, and one of your messages forever has been look a little deeper, take a moment or two to look a little more closely at what's being said and pay closer attention. mr. gregory, it's graduate to see you and have you on the program. >> thank you. >> a real pleasure. thank you, thank you. let's get to mike viqueira, our white house correspondent now. we know that the justice department has representatives on the ground. now we know that eric holder is on his way to ferguson tomorrow. talk to us about what the justice department hopes to accomplish on the ground here

particularly with the presence of eric holder? >> reporter: well, tony, as you know they're essentially parallel investigations going on right now. there is the investigation by missouri authorities and missouri law enforcement, and there is a civil rights investigation being undertaken by the department of justice investigators. we're told that they have interviewed 200 individuals on the ground including eye-witnesses over the last several days. now eric holder after meeting with president obama in the oval office, president obama is back to martha's vineyard. he can holder shortened his vacation. he has two jobs. he has the symbolic job. he has to tell and reassure the individuals who are concerned, who are in street, business owners, community leaders, everyone involved in this, and obviously this has the attention of the nation and the world, that there will be a full and

fair investigation by federal authorities. to try to bring together the local authorities as well and some coordination something that eric holder believes is lacking, according to a statement yesterday. he's also got a practice tall function there, and he's going to be meeting with those investigators, those civil rights investigators as well, to talk to them, encourage them, to get to the bottom of what's happening of what they know thus far. eric holder heading tomorrow to ferguson. unclear now if there is going to be a public statement from holder. i have to believe that there will be. >> yes, i would think so, too. mike viqueira in washington. we're going to take a quick break and come back to ferguson in a couple of moments. we'll talk to an activist who is on the ground with the mission of trying to de-escalate tensions. we'll go to michael yves, and he'll bring us up-to-date with other news of the day. and then we'll go to natasha in

a moment. this is al jazeera.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm michael yves in our studios in new york. we'll get back to tony harris in a few moments. but first more news around the world. the six-day cease-fire has fallen apart. gazans have left their homes in search of safety. hamas denies firing rockets. the palestinians and israelis were trying to agree on a long-lasting cease-fire. back and forth the firing has resumed. warning sirens have been heard in jerusalem and tel aviv. nick schifrin is live in jerusalem. nick, more death and destruction in gaza. what can you tell us about the very latest about this conflict? >> reporter: yes, michael, this is the 11th cease-fire that has

collapsed since this war began. both sides indicating they didn't want to resume back to the war, but we've seen some of the most violent images that we've seen in more than a week. let's look at what is happening on both sides. inside gaza city already the main hospital, el shifa, we've seen many people being brought in wounded. the military officials said they have conducted to hundred airstrikes inside gaza and we have seen homes, one of the senior members of hamas in charge of the rockets that hamas fires, his home was destroyed. he was not there. residents who were there, there was one woman and one child, both had had been killed in the last few hours. what we're seeing in israel is some 50 rockets flying from gaza into israel including jerusalem.

we saw a video of the rocket alert going off in jerusalem. people huddling behind their cars, huddling against the walls in jerusalem, trying to take some cover. we also saw one of those rockets hit southern israel creating a huge cloud of smoke. and what you see in israel, the police out and about, the people walking around, you don't see that in gaza. people are huddled in their homes or fleeing to u.n. shelters. they're scared of the continue israeli bombing. >> in retaliation of those rockets fired from gaza. benjamin netanyahu pulled out his negotiating team from cairo. what does that do to the diplomatic efforts in egypt. are they dead at this point? >> reporter: u.s. officials tell me that they are not dead but on life support, basically. u.s. officials trying to get both sides to continue to talk.

but as you say israeli officials will put back. they will not talk while the rockets are flying, the palestinian officials are pulling out tomorrow morning and so as you know, michael in this region there is room for discussion. there is always room for this violence to stop. but right now the violence is increasing and the talking has largely stopped in cairo. >> nick schifrin reporting live from jerusalem. in iraq the army and air force are trying to push the islamic state group out of the city of tikrit. a joint u.s.-kurdish iraqi cooperation to take ban the mosul dam this week. a video that appears to show the beheading of a journalist. he was taken last thanksgiving while working in syria.

islamic state say they will kill another journalists if american actions continue in iraq. now let's send it back out to tony harris with more of our live coverage in ferguson, missouri. >> michael, appreciate it, thank you so much. we'll take a break. when we come back here in ferguson, missouri, you know, school is supposed to be in session. schools are close, and we'll tell you why. it's not hard to figure out with all the civil unrest here. we'll get the international reaction to the events in ferguson. and roxana saberi covering that story. we're back in a moment. this is al jazeera america.

>> welcome back, every, to al jazeera america. i'm tony harris in ferguson, missouri. i got to tell you that police are hoping for a more peaceful night than last night. that is for sure. the night started out peacefully with protesters marching through the streets only to have those demonstrations and protests descend into chaos as the evening wore on. we understand that there are groups of people starting to gather now in various locations around this city. we expect them to be here any time now when the sun sets in another hour or two from now. my colleague joie chen is here with me. i want to talk about all the reactions from the community. but can i read something to you? this is information from a new pew research poll, and here it is, a new pew research findings

vastly different reactions. this won't surprise you at all. 80% of black respondents say it races important issues about race, opposed to 37% of white respondents. and 65% of black respondents say that the shooting a gone it for a and 76% of black have little confidence in police investigation of brown's shooting. 33% agree. this probably makes a bit of sense to you in terms of some of the reaction you're getting. >> it's very conflicted in a lot of ways, tony. certainly there are people in the community who want to see the law enforcement done right. they want to secure their own businesses, homes. they want their kids to be able to go to school, as kevin johnson has talked about quite a bit. but where is the tension coming

from welcome people reported long-standing tension with the police. i spoke with someone who was talking about the disparity between the number of african-americans who are pulled over in traffic spots and the number of white folks. they're aware of it. they're aware of numbers and the numbers of police officers. they say as we've said in the beginning predominant white police officers. 53 officers, three of african-american and the rest white. in the community that is 66% black, this is a community, and there is a lot of history here, tony. the community nearby kinloch, an all-black community in the state of missouri. over the years there was a change with reasons for that. many people feel they were forced out of that community. over time the inversion of white

population and black population, police force, they say these tensions have been simmer for a while. >> can i add onto your comments about the feeling here of many in the community that these tensions are deep seeded and go back years and years and years. literally. we're on the ground 15 minutes and we happened upon a conversation between a white motorist and black youth, and in moments it was clear that they are aware of the geography and the map of this area, that there are certain streets that as an african-american you shall not drive down or you can expect to be pulled over. that if you're going drive down those streets, take your hat on. turn the music down otherwise you're asking, it's an invitation for the officers to pull you over. i just want to echo that point

you were making. >> you also see a bit of a generational divide. we have seen protests night after night. look, there are some young folks who are very hurt, very angry and bringing their emotions out. there are some of the elder who have tried to calm tensions. let the justice system work the way its supposed. they've tried to pull the kids back, the younger people, they tried to pull them back. i witnessed numbers where people threw water bottles. the problem is you can't tell if you're law enforcement what those bottle contain, but you do know that there is a crowd and they're throwing something at you, and the possibility is that it might be an explosive device. who knows what is in there. then there is the commensurate response that law enforcement feels they need to respond. captain ron johnson said, i ordered the tear gas.

i saw those bottles being thrown don't lay it on someone else. he stepped forward aing i am the man, i made the decision. but there is this division between young folks and older folks, and there is a lot to be dealt with here. >> anything you want to tee up for your program. >> our correspondent has been out with 11 house kids who have been kept out of school. their first day of school is delayed further and further. they've been out of cool. their families are concerned, and their families are concerned what messages the kids are receiving about what is happening around them. we'll look at that as well. >> great to have you here. can't wait to see your program, pleasure, pleasure, pleasure. natasha has spent the day in this community. she has been visiting with parents talking about the situation as we mentioned going into the break. the school should be opened. they should be going to school.

they should be learning lessons in classrooms, but that's not what is happening now in a few districts here. natasha has been talking to parents and young students who i think given all the events in the streets in ferguson would rather be in class. >> they would. so we did talk to one teenage who are said he was happy for the additional days to prepare for school. >> there are those kids. >> yes, but let's be clear. anyone who is a parent know that you have to careful liqueur graph schedules. 33,000 families today their schedules completely blown up. more than half of those families are in the ferguson school district, and they are done until monday. school is not expected to hope until monday at the earlier. we spoke to parents and teachers who don't understand that schools were canceled. historically violence has

erupted after the sun has set. the school officials said that he they were compelled to do so, they could not guarantee the safety of kids. many hit the streets to clean up the barge that was left. we decided to spend the day with a teenag teacher and her son. >> this caught our eye. for the first time since the unrest began in ferguson, fifth grade teacher and their 16-year-old son decided to join the protesters. her sign asked a simple question, can we have peace so i can teach. >> i have students who should be in school, and this is stopping them from moving forward. >> reporter: the school year was supposed to begin last week. now it won't start until next monday at the earliest.

many students rely on free or reduced school meals. research also shows kids experience learning loss in the summer months and that learning loss is more pronounced amongst low-income kids. >> here we have with in big disruption for learning. >> reporter: shaw's 16-year-old son admits its nice to have an extra week to prepare for school, but the reason for the delay has him concerned. he and his mother have been talking about the shooting. he worries about what will happen and whether officer darren wilson will be charged. but he said watching the turmoil of the last week has caught him real world will bees. >> standing up for what you believe in, and fight forgive what is right, talk and you will be heard. >> his mother said she's ready for the city of ferguson to move

past its anger. >> i'll be glad when this is all over and we can go back to being peaceful and working together, and getting things accomplished in this area. >> okay, let's hope that this ways ends and kids get back to class. >> definitely, tony. the woman you heard from said to us that her school is undergoing some crisis training this week in response to what has been going on in ferguson. she said that there are going to be counselors on hand to help address concerns kids may have as a result of what is happening on the streets of ferguson. she said she wants to welcome her fifth graders back to class. we know one school was open today offering free lunches to kids. >> we'll get you back to new york. roxana saberi is standing by for

us. roxana has been following international news agencies. some of them run by governments using the situation in ferguson to score some propaganda points against america. >> reporter: tony, some foreign-state run media are condemning the use of force against people in ferguson. russia said that u.s. is violating human rights, but the u.s. is facing criticism from its allies. >> reporter: the images broadcast nearly non-stop on america are also being seen around the world. the state-run russia today has cited the police response to the protest as evidence of human rights protest in america. the riots have given america's critics a chance to accuse washington of hypocrisy. iran's state run tv is doing just that saying the u.s. has no rights to blame others for human rights abuses while abusing them

at home. >> sompropagating democracy around the globe while turning a blind eye to its citizens. >> reporter: media in iran have covered the rioting extensively. iran's supreme lowered took to social media saying the flags of human rights are the biggest violators of human rights. in china it writes, in a country that has for years tried to play the role of an international human rights judge and defender there is still much room for improvement at home. in a canadian newspaper, the sad events give us the opportunity to ponder how we do things differently and to realize how

comparatively well things work here. the obama administration responded today to the international criticism it defended it's human rights record and said that the u.s. addresses its problems onlily and other countries should, too. >> roxana, appreciate it. thank you. i'm joined by rachel levin, my colleague al jazeera english. it's terrific to have you here because you offer an unique perspective. i've watched you and worked with you as you covered demonstrations and protests in south america, venezuela, and do you see any other similarities? some differences in what you're seeing here, a and let's start with the police response here in ferguson compared to the police response in some of the

demonstrations that you saw in venezuela? >> maybe the surprising in the united states is that the police, their attitudes here in ferguson have been a lot more aggressive, not only to the pr the protesters, but also to journalists. yesterday i was out and about and the police arrested a journalist because she would not sit still and would not obey the order to keep walking. they're tough, but they seem to have a better r rapport with the people on the street. >> there is a feeling of so militarized. how does that compared welcome these are military vehicles. is that similar occurrence? a similar scene. >> what we have to remind our viewers a lot of countries in central and south america, they

have dictators ships. people had a very bad relationship, there has been an effort to take down those heavy-handed tactics. my cameraman, who is chilean, when he saw the heavily armed military, he said, oh my gosh, i think there is going to be a coup. he was quite startled to see the u.s. police look to militarized. >> some of the issues that were being protested about in venezuela are some of the issues being highlighted here by many in this community. we're talking about socio-economic issues, pay issues, jobs. >> in places like venezuela it definitely falls along class lines than race lines. that's something very different. when you cover these stories in

the united states it's about race and in venezuela it's about class. >> rachel, great to see pup we'll take a break. when we come back to ferguson we'll check in with maria ines ferre, and she'll follow how people's approach to social media is changing as a result to the unrest here in ferguson.

>> in the last hour texas governor rick perry turned himself in to authorities. he was indicted over the weekend. the republican is aused of coercion and official oppression from promises to veto funding. surrounded by supporters the governor says he plans to fight the allegations. we have more on the shooting attack maria ines ferre and other news around the u.s. >> the university of colorado may have withheld records about james holmes. this raises questions about how the school handled the defendant prior to the attack. holmes has plead not guilty by

reason of insan tight murder and attempted murder 12 people were killed in the attack. 70 others were wounded. no. new york the death of a black man placed under an apparent choke hold by a white police officer will go to a grand jury. the jury will hear evidence surrounding the death of erik garner. he decide moments later. five to eight thousand of fuel spoil spilled into the water way southeast of cincinnati. crews are cleaning up right right now. duke energy spokeswoman said that the spill occurred during a fuel transfer. and evacuation orders are under way for 13,000 homes and businesses in california. some 500 structures are threatened by a fire another yosemite national park. firefighters were rushed to the area. eight structures have been

destroyed so far. and emergency crews in the phoenix area mounted a rescue after floodwaters surrounded a house. take a look at a video from a short time ago. this is one of several rescues in the region today. two people were trapped in the home north of phoenix. crew has to drop from a helicopter to get people to safety. more than two inches of rain hit the area this morning. that's about a quarter of the region's average yearly rainfa rainfall. >> too much rain in a short period of time. we'll send it back out to tony harris. that's the other news from around the country, but back out to you for more news from ferguson, missouri. >> michael, appreciate it so much. thanks to you and to ines and the entire team in new york. we'll take a break and then come back and talk to sherrill brown, an activist here in ferguson. she's working with young people to coordinate an effective respond in the aftermath to the

death of michael brown. we're back in a moment.

>> welcome back to ferguson, missouri. we understand that there are a couple of groups gathering who will be taking to the streets of ferguson right after sunset this evening, and everyone has their fingers crossed. the eyes of the world are on ferguson. a lot of people who are here and demonstrating are young people, and they're being organized through social media. maria ines ferre is back in new york for us, following how people are using social media to better organize their response. >> reporter: yes, tony, during the day many protesters and activists are strategizing, and this is a 25-year-old activist from st. louis help to go coordinate donation efforting.

she writes, this handkerchief saved my life. she's been working with sherrill brown. who has been tweeting from the front lines after the media is pushed back by the police. she tweeted out this photo of activists getting trained in medical response. this gentleman is holding a gas mask. now these protesters are coming up against tear gas. take a look at the following video. one is from a local photographer who was with the protesters last night. >> they're shooting. >> that's live ammo. [ coughing ] >> the gas got my eyes watery. >> reporter: one of thwhat do

protesters do if they get arrested? there is a phone number they can call after being detained, and the protesters are encouraged to write that number on their arms just in case. >> well, ines you were talking about sherrill brown, she's with us now. she has been working on the ground in ferguson trying to help young people to come up with an appropriate and non-violent response. what is your organization. i know you're not here in the official capacity of that organization. >> criminal justice usa. we do a lot of anti-death penalty work. >> sherrill, talk about your time on the ground here. in a bit of confrontation with police here in ferguson. talk about what happened in those moments. >> that was yesterday, and that was--you said it was scary just

a moment ago. >> last night was scary. the arrest, not so much. we went to governor nixon's office, and they were demanding a sit down with him. but they were not letting us in the building. me and others who came out committed that day to perhaps getting arrested were arrested for failure to disperse in front of the building. >> have you been tear gassed? >> twice, twice. i want to mention that a lot of young people here in st. louis and in ferguson have really been organizing themselves in such a great way vill via social media. that's what brought me down here. me and others have been diagno inbeen going out every night. trying to help victims or people who have been exposed to tear gas. in doing so we ourselves have been hit twice. last night being particularly

scary. >> explain to me what you see happening here. there is clearly a peaceful demonstration that as some point during the course of the evening whatever reason it turns chaotic. can you tell us what happened in terms of last night? >> generally what i've seen in my time here at ferguson, i see the people of ferguson are very peaceful. they just want justice. there is a small hand of folks who escalate things to another level. then you have police punishing a large group of people for the acts of a small few, and a lot of times under misinformation. when we were first gassed they told us back and said there were gunshots. they said, our bad, it was fireworks but it was hours after they had already gassed us.

they're taking collective punishment out on the town of ferguson, they're penalizing people who are hurting right now for the act of a few people who aren't even from here, to be upon the. >> can i ask you, this main drag, what is what, a quarter mile wrong. >> mm-hmm. >> and for whatever reason the police have not been able to keep peace in what appears to be a small area. it almost feels to me that the police are making it up as they go along because the police have not had to respond to something like this. does it feel like that to you? >> yes. >> just trying to figure it out as they go? >> police presence even without force is psychological warfare. you're say to go people i think that you're inherently and intrinsically violent, that's where i'm here. when comes come out in riot gear without saying a word and expressing it to people, we assume you're violent. for a lot of team that's very

agitating. when i was tear gassed i felt that rage. i wanted to do something, and i can empathize with people who get to that point of we're being peaceful. you have police to come in and want to do de-escalating training. it is not the people who need to de-escalate. it's the police who need to de-escalate. >> why are you here, what do you expect to happen. >> going back to last night there has been a lot of mischaracterization to the tone. i've had a lot of people tweet me saying that it's peaceful right now, the police have pulled back and there is no tear gas. i can tell you i was out there last night. me, netta, another young person doing great work here, and elon james, who does a talk show, we were trying to figure out what

was going on. those people getting tear gassed. we walked down a street where there was just us and a couple of people. there was no curfew last night. and all of a sudden you had, i don't know if it was the national guard or police rolling by and throwing tear gas into the neighborhood, and we were hit. i was ministering aid to someone, they came back and threw more tear gas. we felt like enemy combatants in our own country. >> can i extrapolate about tonight, and what might happen tonight? >> i'm concerned about the position of the image that everything is toning down with the fact that the media is being pushed out. and amnesty international was also pushed out. there is no one accurately

documenting what is happened approximating. >> cherell. thank you. thank you for being with us. i'm tony harris in ferguson, missouri. we're back tonight at 8:00. al"real money with ali velshi" is next on al jazeera america. >> it's war again in gaza with the fragile truce shattered by rocket and airstrikes. why getting money in gaza this time around once the fighting stops. and the stock market is doing just fine, even with gaza and ukraine and missouri. and what's with mcdonald's. the tarnished image of the golden arches and what they can do about it.