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eat a meal with somebody is to be family with them. jesus announces that one of you, one of the 12 will betray me. >> jesus and judas airs sunday night at 9:00 and "ac360" starts right now. good evening from ferguson where the sun goes down about 3 minutes from now and it sets on a far different place than less than 24 hours ago. for all this community has been through, for all this community has seen never before had to with the two police officers have to fully face the reality their peaceful message could be quickly overshadowed as attorney general eric holder played as some damn punk with a gun.
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[ gunfiring ] [ bleep ]. >> that's what happened last night. after this it is a different ferguson. missouri's governor is coming tomorrow to see for himself. the highway patrol and the county police have now taken over security duty at this spot. a manhunt is under way for the would-be cop killer. in the last hour we've learned investigators are seeking to question two people in connection with the crime including perhaps they say the suspect, according to one official. we're going to have more on that in a moment. in the meantime tonight, there's a vigil instead of a protest. getting under way an hour from where i'm standing. everywhere in this community there is deep concern and throughout this state about what happens next after what happened here last night. our jason carroll begins with that. >> reporter: a blue line of law enforcement is on guard at the ferguson police station, just
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after midnight. [ shot fired ] [ bleep ]. >> reporter: when shots rang out. >> there was just gunfire and now cops have guns drawn. >> reporter: two officers hit. one in the shoulder. the bullet rips through his body and exits through his back. the other officer is shot in the face the bullet longdges behind his ear. both rushed to the hospital in serious condition after what authorities call an ambush. >> several shots were fired, at least three, and two officers were struck. i don't have an official status on what their condition is right now. they are conscious, however, those are very serious gunshot injuries to be able to sustain in your upper torso and certainly in your face. >> reporter: at the scene, intense moments in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. some police draw their weapons. others take cover to prepare for the possibility of incoming
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fire. and priority to found out who just shot two of their own. this is tip upon streetpen street. you can see where it is in relation to the ferguson police department where the officers were shot there. police theorize whoever was responsible for this shooting was standing about 125 yards north of where the officers were shot possibly right up this street here in that area. early this morning, authorities swarmed this house a half mile from the shooting scene. dozens of law enforcement in s.w.a.t. gear and police dogs descend. some enter the home through the front door. while others try to pry a hole in the roof described as a tactical situation related to the shooting investigation. three people are taken in for questioning, two men and one woman. iresha turner was one of them. >> we heard boom boom boom. police? come out. i go back and i had hands up.
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police don't shoot me. >> reporter: turner said she was protesting last night when the shooting happened she sped away from the scene in her car out of fear possibly raising suspicions of law enforcement. >> after they searched the house, they asked for a search warrant to go in the attic. it was something in the attic. >> reporter: a gun? >> yes, it was a gun they found in the attic. it was not to be used to hurt anyone. it was used to protect myself. >> reporter: she was questioned but not charged. later on in the day, some good news. both officers are released from the hospital. >> we're lucky by god's grace we didn't lose two officers last night. >> reporter: and as the day turns into night, ferguson is on edge as a manhunt for whoever shot the officers continues. >> jason carroll joins me now. so the three who are involved do we know what they were asked about? >> reporter: well yeah. as you know they were questioned for several hours. asked repeatedly were you involved in the shooting? repeatedly said not. asked over and over, did you see
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who fire the shots? they said there was no way they could have. they saw the officers go down but not specifically who fired the weapons. >> do we know how police ended up at the house with them? was it they had taken off from the scene? >> reporter: absolutely. iresha turner called her grandmother and grandmother said get out there as quick as you can. they speed away. what they theorize that may have alerted the authorities of out here indicating maybe they were involved. >> okay. i want to also bring in a cnn producer procupez looking at two people in connection with with the shooting including perhaps, i want to say perhaps the suspect. what do you know? >> we know they've spent the entire day going to different homes in ferguson around the st. louis area trying to learn information about possible
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suspects and two names of people they believe were here last night participated in the protest and they believe one of those is the shooter. >> so they believe that at least one of them was actually part of the protest? >> right. they believe they were here part of the protest and after the shots rang out, they ran away and now they're looking for them. they have some good leads on them. they know who they are but can't find them. >> sit known whatis it known what weapon was used? >> no these bullets may have come from pistols or something that was modified to be like a rifle sort of to give it that extra power, that extra kick. >> it was a distance from where the officers were shot. >> quite a distance. that's the puzzling thing. how could a gun from that far be fired from so far be so active. >> and so they have two names that they're looking for. >> yes. at least two names and looking for others to see, how did they get away?
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who helped them? was the plan to come here beforehand with the intention of doing this? so it's a whole group of people different people that they want to question, but they're zeroing in on two people specifically. >> and obviously, they have not released those names publicly. shimon thank you very much. attorney general eric holder's assessment of the shooter. he spoke aptly at the pilot program that's supposed to build trust between law enforcement and local communities. let's listen. >> what happened last night was a pure ambush. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. this was a damn punk. punk who was trying to discord an area that's trying to get its act together and trying to bring together a community that has been fractured for too long. >> that was the attorney general earlier today and organizers hope will be the spirit of good respect and goodwill there's a
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a vigil under way. all who mourn read the invitation whether it's violence against law enforcement, against law enforcement or by law enforcement, in the community, all at the vigil tonight. we'll check on that shortly. with me two witnesses to the shooting. who coed ditencoedit the newsletter. where were you? >> i was standing by the lightbulb. >> you were by the lightbulb and that's believed the shots came from above the hill. what did you hear what did you see? >> the police are lined up. the protesters are lined up. we were waiting on three people to get out of jail. so the protesters went across the street and they were standing right in front of the ferguson police department's door. and so we were just waiting on the people to come out to see if they were okay and then everyone normally leaves after that but as soon as they crossed the
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street maybe like a minute later, that's when i heard four loud shots. >> you heard four shots? >> four. >> and in a quick succession? >> yes. and after the shots, because i'm looking at the hill where i think that it's coming from and i see, when i'm gazing over i see the protesters on the ground to get behind cars and i see the police on the ground. i knew they were shot and not like something else. >> where were you when the shots went off? >> i was in my car at the base of the hill when the shooter was at the top of the hill so i heard the shots, at least four shots. i saw the police officers fall. i saw the police officers call for the ambulance and police officers immediately got behind me and at least police cars or the brick edifices down there. and a group of officers went down the hill. and they could see the weapons. >> did you look up the hill when you heard the shots rang out? >> i did.
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i didn't see anybody but it was clear the shots came from that direction. >> clear to you? >> no doubt. >> you edit a protest newsletter and have been here a lot over the last many months. to have something like this happen after most of these protests happen very regularly, most of them peaceful, there are some arrests and things like that, what kind of impact do you think it's going to have? >> you know, we don't know who the shooter was, right? what we do know is the shooters was not standing with the protesters in the space that the protesters frequent. we don't stand up there, we don't go up there. in terms of the movement the movement is as strong as it was yesterday. what is still true is that we are out here fighting for justice and we've been doing for 216 days at this point and fighting against police brutality. it was real as it is yesterday as today. >> you don't believe, is the time for protest, does it continue in your opinion?
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two officers are shot. do you feel you want the protests to continue tonight and every night? >> absolutely. sorry. >> some people might say two officers have been shot. this is obviously a dangerous situation. maybe it's time to cool things down for a little bit. >> it's dangerous for black people in america every day. police getting shot that has nothing to do with the fact there are seven black men and teenage boys total who have been killed by the police in st. louis since august 9th including mike brown. so we want justice and we want accountability for the police against those killings. our movement has nothing to do with that shooting that happened yesterday, honestly. >> to be there and see officers go down here shots, what was it like? scary? >> i was more afraid of the police shooting us. >> you thought it might escalate. >> right. that's what i was more afraid of. i was afraid they were going to do some type of cross fire and, you know just anything could
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have happened so we're walking with our hands up across the parking lot and i'm praying they don't shoot me because i'm trying to get to my car so i can leave. i also believe if they really truly believe it was the protesters who did it we all would not have been able to leave this parking lot. >> so you think they don't believe it was the protesters? >> i know they know it was up that hill. because as soon as the shots were fired, they trained all their guns up to that hill. until people started moving and half had their guns up the hill but some started pointing their guns at us but it was literally just watching us as we walk away. >> well i appreciate both you of coming on to talk about what you saw and see what happens in the days ahead. appreciate it. thank you very much. just ahead, we'll talk to a local pastor and a police advocate about last night and what they believe needs to be done now in the coming days. does the situation here now change? should the protest continue? their manhunt is ongoing. we have more on that and a vigil
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that came within earerily a few minutes of being deadly. resignation takes effect on the 19th. stepped down yesterday, as you know. county police and highway patrol, not ferguson police, now have responsibility for security in this area for protest security and nerves here are a bit frayed as people wait to see what happened. jake tapper has been here all throughout the day. reported here an awful lot over the last many months. what is the mood around town? >> reporter: it's definitely tense. we were grabbing a bite and a local member of the community, older white gentleman, very angry about us being here. very angry about the protests going on now for 216 days. and then obviously siding with the police. suggesting that the protesters need to stop. it's enough already. and then there are a lot of protesters that seem to be in many different camps.
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those close to michael brown's family who really are horrified about what happened last night and think that it sets a horrible incident and glad the police officers are okay but sets back what they've been marching for and protesting and other protesters who seemed quite frankly a little less distressed by what happened because they view the violence against the two police officers within a larger historical context of violence against african-americans in missouri and i think there's a lot of debate right now about what to do this evening because of that. >> right. it does seem like there is a lot of people that want to continue with the protest. they say, look it's terrible what happened but the protests should go on. and you also hear from some people. there's a grandmother actually taken into custody earlier who said i wish people weren't out protesting. enough already. it's time to kind of settle things down. >> reporter: yeah. there's going to be a prayer vigil later this night, as you
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know. and that's obviously a prayer for the police officers a prayer for peace. we're told by protesters that there will be activity not just at the prayer vigil, but also leading from the prayer vigil and i guess we're all hoping there won't be a repeat of a lot of the violence we've seen here in august and then again in november. but it is a town on edge. it feels cliche to say that but it is really a time where nobody knows what's going to happen. >> jake tapper thank you. we'll continue to cover it all throughout the evening. gabe crocker is joining us president of the st. louis county police association. also joining us cnn legal analyst sunny hostin as you know a former federal prosecutor and joining me here is pastor nearby church. first and foremost how are the wounded officers doing? >> well you know as you said they are home they are
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beginning the very early stages of less than a day of beginning the process of trying to recover from their injuries. very fortunate that both are alive. >> i think earlier in the day you said on a radio program, there's a chance the officers may never work again. is that right? >> well, that's a little bit out of context. but here's what i said. these officers had non-life-threatening injuries and they're at home and i'm going, well what i said was, hang on a minute. they're not dead. but they were still shot. they still have bullet holes in them. we don't know the damage the recovery the cost to the family emotionally and physically. this is a hugely traumatic event for these officers and it's going to have long-lasting impact and ramifications on them. so we don't know what's going to
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happen next for these officers. and i just don't like the tone of well you know they're home and they're recovering. well it's going to be a long road to recovery and a lot of unknowns for those officers. >> no one should ever down play a gunshot wound in the shoulder a gunshot wound to the face. that's absurd. we know authorities identified two people that they said they want to talk to. one may be the shooter. is it your understanding that these two people have fled or that there's still an active threat to law enforcement, to people in this area? >> well it's again, i've talked a lot today about unknowns. i don't have any specifics or direct information about the ongoing investigation. i've actually kind of distanced myself and given those guys that are friends of mine that are working the investigation, given them some space. what i do know is the possibility exists that those two individuals, if that's in fact how many there were if they're out there, that's a
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problem and we need to get those individuals off the street because when they attempt to assassinate the police officers last night, they could have injured protesters as well. so it's dangerous across the board and of course we don't want any kind of repeat of that tonight. so i'm hoping and praying that we're able to get those armed, violent criminals off the street. >> pastor white, as long as there are some people out there who have shot police officers as long as there has now been this violent incident yesterday, should the protests continue? >> you know what anderson? i've been watching all day from the hospital room and everybody been asking that same question. my response to that is let everyone calm out. there was one incident out of 100 something odd nights. we've put our lights down here every night, operating within our constitutional rights we peacefully gather. i believe those of us who are fathers, mothers, businessmen and women, we feel safe to come
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out and protest. of course the protests go on. had these young men and women not stayed here night after night through rain snow all the things going on we have not gotten the justice that we are getting thus far. yes, it must go on until the overhaul of this community of police department unless it's complete then the protests must go on. >> do you worry that the horrible shooting of two police officers, that it takes away from the number of peaceful protests that have take place the last 200 something days? >> and that's where we lean on you guys for that. we want the narrative to change. let's have the narrative written about those other protesters out here who were peaceful. we don't want the african-american community to be judged by the worst of us like officers don't want to be by a perfect cop.
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let it teaching about the man with the right to vote and the educators educating young people on how to vote. let's not make the narrative be about whoever those folks are. all of us want them brought to justice and want the preservation of light to get involved. >> sunny hostin the report of justice on police tactics escalating the situation here. some people said that some people blame the justice department and others and i want officer crocker to weigh in on this as well. >> i'm surprised at that quite frankly because the justice department did what we want the justice department to do. to investigate any possible rights of civil rights including a pattern and practice of discrimination in our country's law enforcement and that's exactly what the justice department did. they did their job along with fbi agents and attorneys, and, you know found that there was this pattern and practice of
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discrimination and anderson you know when we were both out there, you could just sense that these residents wanted their voices to be heard. they wanted not to live in a police state. they didn't want to live in a place where they were being policed for profits. and so i think that the justice department report should be guidance for wholesale reform for what is clearly a very troubled region in our country. >> officer crocker, immaterial youi want you to be able to respond to that. should they blame protesters somehow? >> well, you know i share some of the same positive comments about that department of justice report not just the one about ferguson but the one that cleared officer darren wilson and proved that the hands up thing was completely false, tfrsit
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was a lie like he was cleared in the grand jury in st. louis. i share some of the same positive sentiments about the department of justice in their reports and the investigation they did. i think it's great this officer has been vindicated and a lot of other officers have been vindicated but i agree with her, if there's things we need to approve on i've been saying that from the very beginning. we've been participating in community groups and talks and have tried to do a lot of things to move law enforcement forward, but you know what? when you shoot the police i mean it just doesn't really seem to move the cause forward. i get what the other two folks on the show here are saying and i appreciate where they're coming from. but i don't think the department of justice report is perfect and i don't think that the people who committed this heinous act last night did anything to improve this situation in this community. >> quick. i want you to be able to respond. i saw you shaking your head.
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the justice department report doesn't support the hands up don't shoot. there's not evidence to support that. >> no one involved in authority has come forward to say what they did prove. they haven't come forward and acknowledge what it's proven that there is a racial divide in ferguson there is an issue in our city. so rather than nitpick and say what it did prove -- >> but just as important and we've been talking certainly to the media about what it does show 95% of people arrested cited for jaywalking african-americans, the statistics are certainly alarming but isn't it also important to acknowledge as officer crocker there pointed out what else the justice department said which is this narrative that everybody around the country knows of hands up don't shoot, in this case there's not evidence to support. >> but what does that do after that acknowledges? if i was to acknowledge that tonight, does it change how difficult it is for african-american men to walk these streets? does it change that young women are afraid of their lives in the first time in the history of this country?
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we have to get to the nitpick and bottom of what's causing the violence that's taking place in this city and throughout this country. >> pastor white, thank you so much. >> anderson i completely agree with him. >> okay. and our best to the officers and obviously their families. sunny hostin as well thank you. ahead, i'll take to the grandmother of the woman who was taken in for questioning today after police raided her house. does she believe protesters should still be comeing out here every night? and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze
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welcome back live in ferguson. the gunman who wounded two police officers here overnight remains at large. gunman or gunmen. just a few blocks from where the officers were shot. s.w.a.t. teams surrounded it breaking through a vent to get inside. iresha turner lives there with her 6-year-old son. we heard from there. jason carroll at the top of the broadcast. held two men in for questioning. miss turner was at the protest. here's what her grandmother, aye
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iris iris going on earlier today. >> it's just too much stuff going on with these kids. it's just crazy. it's so crazy that these kids are protesting an doing this. they need to be at home. that's where they need to be. in the house. all this is uncalled for with what's going on it's really uncalled for. >> iris turner joins me now. thank you for being with us. i know it's been a difficult 24 hours for you. your granddaughter was here at the protest when shots rang out. she called you. what did she say? >> she called and said they just shot a police. i said where are you? she was like i'm at the protest. i said get your [ muted ] home right now. >> you told her, get in the car. >> right now. said i'm leaving. i have the baby. we call her son, mj. ran to the car. let me know when you're in the
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car. i heard the car door slam. said, we're in the car. said grandma, i love you. i said go straight home. she said i'm going straight home. call you in the morning. she didn't call. nec next morning, i got a call at 7:00 in the morning. it was one of my girlfriends. girl your granddaughter's house is surrounded, s.w.a.t. the news. it's a mess. her house is surrounded. >> so you went down there? >> no. i don't have a car. so after they called me i kept trying to call. i was running around like a chicken with his head cut off. i called my other granddaughter and she called me after her kids come. >> the fact it seems like because they held your granddaughter for many hours. >> yes. >> talked to her, questioned her. >> yes. >> let her go because she had nothing to do with it. >> by the time i got there, they
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said she was around the corner in a police car. >> i see. >> they couldn't let me go down there because i could look down the street and see them just walking around in the house. i looked up guy up there with an ax. tearing the house up on the top. on the roof. >> it seems like they focus on your granddaughter because she got in the car and took off. >> right. well we've seen her take off and we followed her. and after we followed her, we followed her back and she came back to her house. >> so did you tell the police well she got in the car because i was telling you, you get in the car and get out. >> but this is the thing. she can't be two places at one time. baby with her. dropped him off away from her house and then she came back went in our house, then the police came. >> i see. >> so what do you think? should the protests continue? earlier in the day, you said
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it's time things should be letting it cool down. >> i think they need to just rest. just rest their minds and let everybody just rest for a minute. because all the confusion and just like my granddaughter got caught up in a bunch of lies -- >> you feel like it's gone on too long. >> it went too long and then my grand baby, he's so devastated. and my granddaughter well she said she's going to have to move. they need to fix this. they need fix her house up. scared to go home. police can be wrong too. they said they had a tip. somebody told them, sent them to this house. they said someone sent us to this house. okay someone sent you. now you're saying oh it was a mistake. >> so you're hoping tonight people don't protest, people just kind of let things cool down. >> yes, please just let it cool
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down because my granddaughter, we thought she was in a world of trouble and come to find out, she didn't even do anything. >> iris i'm glad you're doing all right. >> like i said they need to fix this. fix, find her a place to go because my grandson is scared to go back. >> to the home. i can imagine. well i'm glad she's doing all right. he's doing all right. thank you so much. >> you're very much welcome. powerful words from michael brown's parents condemning the quote police shooting officers. they mourn the loss of their son. why do we do it? why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people? why are we so committed to keeping you connected? why combine performance with a conscience? why innovate for a future without accidents? why do any of it? why do all of it? because if it matters to you it's everything to us. the s60 sedan. from volvo.
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michael brown's parents always urged protesters in ferguson and across the country to remain peaceful while pushing for police reforms. in a statement today they said the family michael brown jr. condemns the shooting of the two ferguson police officers. we reject any violence of law enforcement. it cannot and will not be tolerated. our thoughts and prayers remain with the officers injured during this morning's shooting and
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their families. take a moment. two people's whose teenage son killed by a ferguson police department remain committed to peaceful change. benjamin crump joins me now in ferguson. when you first talked to the family michael brown's family after the shooting what was their initial response. >> everybody woke up to this horrible news and out there, sympathetic towards the families of these police officers that was shot and, you know, i just hope the law enforcement community would extend the same sympathy to her, but it was important for them to say that it's wrong. it's just wrong. this is not what anybody wants, anderson. think about what was going on the momentum where they were finally getting to respond to those terrible findings in the
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justice department and that momentum offers a distraction to try to get some real positive change. >> you're saying that apart from the horror of two police officers being shot here and being injured and the horror for their family and friends, it actually for the objectives or the protesters want it actually gets you farther away from those objectives. >> it gets you farther away because nobody talking about the doj report and rightfully so. anytime you have acts of violence you have to condemn it and be stern, unwavering. this is not what we want. violence never, ever is disillusioned as dr. king said and i think the majority of peaceful protesters have been pushing. how many days went by and, you know you never had nothing like this happen and now we're having to deal with this and it's just
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a distraction. we're thankful the officers got the return home today. >> should the protests continue? the grandmother i just spoke to said no absolutely not. >> the peaceful protesters praying and respecting peacefully is a way of honoring the police officers as well. this isn't about anti-campaign against the police. this is anti-campaign against bad police officers and good police officers should say we want to work with the community. we want to make sure this is a lesson for everybody in america to say let ferguson be the example. let's talk about how we never have this happen again. >> but there are a lot of people who, you know, support the police and look at the protests continuing and say, you know what? this is actually, you know it's
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not a surprise that some police officers have been shot. i mean given some of the visit vitrial. it's justifiable. >> anderson on both sides, you have the fragilement on both sides. neither one of them is good. we really need to say as americans, we all need to come together to understand our community, we need the police. and the police hope we should understand they need the community working with them to achieve law and order. and we can't achieve it without one another. we've got to work together and let that be the legacy for michael brown jr., not this heinous act of violence. we want real positive change. i don't want to be talking to you again about another person unarmed being shot and killed by
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our police officers. >> benjamin crump, appreciate it. just ahead, as police investigate the shooting of two of their own, a manhunt under way for two people that may have been involved. a question about some witness account where is the shots may have come from. we take a look at that next.
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look at the scene from last night's shooting where two officers were hit, wounded. the officers among those in the police station behind me protecting it while about 100
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protesters were across the street. witnesses said the shots came from a hill a nearby tip. tom foreman has more. >> reporter: it's fully possible shots could be fired from up that hill they could fly in over the heads of the protesters and strike the police on the other side of the road but if you rotate this around and look directly up tifton avenue you can see why investigators have doubts about that because the shots would have originated right from the site there traveling 100 to 125 yards to get here based on these accounts. they can be effective and lethal at that range, but hard to be controlled very well and put the shot where somebody might want to put it. that's much more likely to happen with even a skilled marksman at something like this range, about a quarter or less from the distance we're talking about. that doesn't mean that it was fired from over here among the protesters but it does mean
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that investigators have to look very seriously at that possibility. >> and that manhunt is under way. two people police say, that they have two names of people that they are looking for. they believe one may be perhaps be the shooter. again, these are very early reports. we'll have to see once the case develops. joining me now is neil gunntrager and st. louis alderman antonio french. neil the ambush of the two officers. should the blame begin with the person who pulled or the persons who pulled the trigger? some suggest that protesters have been pouring kerosene on the situation here. >> anderson this is a criminal act. obviously, the responsibility for this act belongs to the people who pulled the trigger and they have to be held accountable for what they've done. i don't believe the protesters
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out there were irrespective of what the tone has been or at all responsible for what happened. >> tony this was an act of individuals, should not impact the protest. do you believe the protests should continue? >> you know i think we shouldn't be distracted what folks are out here for. they're trying to get systemic change in this region to right some of the wrongs perpetrated for a long time especially outlined in the doj report but need to be respectful that a person was harmed, two officers were harmed last night. i think it's possible to protest in a way that's respectful. we don't see many protesters out here. i suspect that may change later. >> there's supposed to be a vigil tonight for violence against police or civilians. >> yeah. and i hope there's a tone here that we can kind of come
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together because, you know, we want violence to end on both sides. and what happened last night doesn't help anybody. it actually only acts to make our community less safe could possibly divide police from the community. >> neil what about that doj report? if the federal government did not settle this and the community is faced with resignations what needs to happen now? because i mean obviously, a lot of this stuff, the doj report both talked about darren wilson. said the whole hands up no shoot. no evidence it actually occurred as the narrative earlier on developed by some witnesses but we've already seen a number of resignations in the wake of this dodge doj report. what do you think needs to happen here? >> i'm glad you brought that up because it's a hot button for me. you need to understand the way the federal government has handled that report. so there were two things that were released on the same day
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and anybody who says we're not being manipulated by the federal government is not paying attention. the leaks that came out were done to manipulate us. the way they released the doj report and the darren wilson finding was done to manipulate us. what should have been done on that day the report was released the attorney general should have said to everyone you need to read this 86 page report and go over this in detail if you do you'll have confidence in the investigation that was done. they went page by page witness by witness, piece of evidence by piece of evidence and they said here's why this supports the decision which is the only decision that we could make which was that there was no criminal activity. but when you listen to the attorney general, what he said was that there was no prosecutable conduct. that's distinctly different from justifiable or no criminal activity. what the attorney general should have done is he should have vehemently and carefully gone over every bit of that and made
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sure that people understood that the decision of the grand jury was the only decision that could be reached. he didn't do any of that. i think he let the community down. the country down and darren wilson down. >> you clearly believe the focus, do you believe that's true? >> no i disagree. i think that the attorney general went out of his way to present both the department of justice report and this report and he was right that there was not a prosecutable case under federal law. which is a much higher threshold. >> appreciate it. neil burntrager as well. woman: it's been a journey to get where i am. and i didn't get here alone. there were people who listened along the way. people who gave me options. kept me on track. and through it all my retirement never got left behind. so today, i'm prepared for anything we may want tomorrow to be.
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