we're already getting a sense that people are feeling they are already being pushed out. >> 1:00 p.m. on the east coast, 10:00 on the west. here's what you need to know. breaking news as the national guard deploys to ferguson, missouri, and this hour as the president prepares to be briefed on this, a press conference has just concluded detailing the results of the private autopsy commissioned by the family of slain teenager michael brown. that autopsy found brown was shot six times, including a so-called kill shot to the top of his head. the attorney for michael brown's parents spoke an their behalf at that press conference. >> his mother wanted to ask a question that dr. baden nor any of the lawyers could answer. what else do we need to give them to arrest the killer of my child? >> all of these facts are raising tough legal questions. after a chaotic night in ferguson, brown's mother says

she wants one thing. >> justice. >> and what is justice to you? >> being fair. arresting this man and making him accountable for his actions. >> and what does justice mean in legal terms? first let's get the family's perspective from ferguson. benjamin crump is the family's attorney and joins us on the phone. our camera location was moved by the police due to chaos there. sir, what's was the family's reaction when they saw those autopsy results for the first time? >> well, as you can imagine, ronan, it is very difficult. you hear about the tragedy. you go to the -- like everybody in the community, they were out there for four hours while it was roped off and the police gave them no answers.

but, you know, when they got the autopsy results, the preliminary autopsy results from dr. michael baden, it was devastating because the shots to the head were very troubling for his parents and you would imagine and explaining that the shots to the arms was consistent with what the witnesses were saying. so indeed he was surrendering and yet the police kept shooting. but the head shot was really troubling for the mother especially. >> i can only imagine. obviously our thoughts are with that family right now. another troubling development is you haven't had access to the findings of the state autopsy or to michael's clothes. why do you think that is? >> i think it's police 101. there are so many of these police shooting cases involving

little boys and girls of color that you know it's a playbook. they have to take forever to finish it up and then a year later when everybody except their parents has forgotten about the deceased child, they then say everything was justified and sweep it under the rug. so i think that's part of the reason we haven't gotten a lot of information in this case. they just want it to settle don and sweep it under the rug and go to the next matter. thank god for the community saying we're not going to let this happen again because this was different. this was in broad daylight. >> what kind of legal charge will you and the family be pressing for against officer darren wilson who allegedly shot michael brown? >> well, you know, that is up to the authorities. but you want it to be something consistent with what the law says. whether that's first-degree,

second-degree or manslaughter, but something to show that michael brown had every right to live on this earth. and the police officer had no try to execute him in broad daylight. you can't be judge, jury and executioner. if you put your hands up in the universal symbol of surrender, we don't execute you. why was michael brown executed? >> what is the actual next legal step that you and the family will be taking? >> hello? i lost you. >> what kind of legal step will you take next? will you be pursuing legal charges? >> we've asked all along we want the federal government to take over the whole investigation. they say they have to take it to a grand jury. you don't have to. prosecutors have prosecuted

people in ferguson every day n didn't take it to the grand jury. but the rules are different when it's talking about our children. >> and a lot of people in this community want to know when a funeral will be. do you have any word on that? >> some time this week. hopefully when they finish this autopsy. >> thank you for that update. and for all of the work you are doing on this. benjamin crump, appreciate it. it raises a lot of legal questions here. we want to delve into those. what is the liability of a cop who shoots and kills an unarmed individual like michael brown and does that change based on all this new forensic evidence emerging? here for that, lisa bloom and dr. lawrence kobilinsky, a forensic pathologist who teaches at john jay college. these private autopsy reports show he was shot six times, including this shot to the head. one appearing to enter at the top of his skull. what does that tell you?

>> the -- it tells me that at least four of the shots hit his right harm. it could very well be the officer was aiming to stop him, slow him down. it's impossible to say whether he was coming forward or going backward. but the shots were more to the body than to the head. and if that didn't stop him, the police officer then fired two more shots to the head. the last one being fatal. i should tell you that three of the bullets have not been found. there were three bullets found in the body. so there are three still unaccounted for. the police may have them but we haven't heard anything about that. the other thing that we really don't know is how many shots were actually fired by the police officer? we know that there were six bullets that penetrated mr. brown, but we don't know if there were other shots perhaps a warning shot and perhaps some shots missed. there's a lot missing here, ronan. we don't have gunshot residue

information. we don't have any dna work done yet. it's still early in the investigation. but one thing we do know is that he was not shot in the back as the witness, one of the witnesses dorian johnson, an associate of mr. brown, had indicated that brown had been running away from the police officer when he was shot. and i think most people interpreted that to mean that he was shot in the back. apparently that was not the case. >> dr. kobilinsky, is it surprising to you that the state's autopsy hasn't been released or is that just standard procedure here? >> it doesn't surprise me. first of all, it's not a complete autopsy until the toxicology is done. and that can take weeks. now they could have issued a preliminary report but for whatever reason, i think the prosecution has a lot to say about this. although the medical examiner's office is supposed to be independent. that information has to be used

by the prosecutor. the prosecutor may have asked them not to release the information yet. but the issue for me is whether the first autopsy is in agreement with the findings of the second autopsy and that raises the issue of the third autopsy. how many autopsies can we do? are we looking for similarities or differences? people can have different opinions about what they observe. but the issue is, there are still questions, not answered here. >> lisa, i want to look at the basic legal standards here. rnd a pair of 1980 supreme court rulings, police are allowed to shoot to protect their lives and to prevent a suspect from escaping. but that's only true if the officer has probable cause to think that suspect committed a serious, violent felony. how do these facts emerging square with those standards in your opinion? >> that's right. and to sum that up, to protect the officer's life or the life of another. you can shoot a fleeing felon if you think they are a violent threat to the community.

so i think that the charges that the grand jury is going to have to review are those of first-degree murder, second-degree murderser, the intentional taking of a human life, or manslaughter, which is taking a human life without premeditation. i agree with dr. kobilinsky that this autopsy only gives us a very small part of the picture. we don't know for example whether the officer shot at mike brown as he was fleeing but that shot missed him. we don't know how many shell casings and bullets were found at the scene of shots that may have missed him. we don't know if he was turning n that's why so many shots are on the right side of mike brown's body. but we do know there was a shot in his palm in his right palm and that is consistent with what the witnesses say that his hands were up at the time of that final shot. lastly, this police officer has to justify every bullet that was fired. you cannot simply fire a barrage of bullets at an innocent, unarmed person. every shot has to --

>> i want to interrupt you to point out there we just have breaking right now nbc news confirming with the st. louis county medical examiner's office, this general narrative. they are not confirming the exact number of shots fired, that six to eight numbers cited by the private autopsy but that he was shot multiple times in the head and the chest. so please go on. certainly that squares with what you were saying. >> ronan, we've known that for over a week. that's not exactly a new piece of information. we know that the st. louis police captain told us a week ago it was more than, quote, just a couple of bullets fires into mike brown. i don't know what just meant in that sentence but we clearly know it's multiple gunshots. this is another piece of information that's really not adding anything. they aren't revealing the information that everybody has been asking for. >> lisa, does it make a difference whether michael brown was involved in the commission of this robbery at all?

legally speaking? >> i think it does make a difference when we put all of this together. it shouldn't make a difference because the key question -- >> it confirms the officer wasn't aware of that incident. >> why but then police chief jackson who i don't think is deputizes to speak for the officer, who is going to speak for himself or probably through his attorney at some point, but then he said that he did see a hand full of cigarillos in mike brown's hand. i can speculate what the defense is going to be. i think what the officer is going to say is he didn't know initially that mike brown was involved in that robbery or shoplifting incident as i would call it, but then when he saw the cigarillos he realized he was. he's going to put that together to come up with some sort of fleeing felon defense. >> made more complicated by the fact the fbi is stepping in to investigate an additional civil rights charge associated with this shooting. lisa bloom, lawrence kobilinsky, thanks for helping us sort it out. every new fact we're

discussing here is echoing in the streets of ferguson. missouri governor jay nixon signed an executive order early this morning authorizing the deployment of the national guard. after of a new round of chaos erupted in the streets last night. the highway patrol captain leading that state's efforts said they had little choice. >> tonight, a sunday that started with prayers and messages of unity, peace and justice took a very different turn after dark. molotov cocktails were thrown. there were shootings. looting. vandalism and other acts of violence that clearly appear not to have been spontaneous but premeditated criminal acts. >> our craig melvin joins me from ferguson. any word on when the national

guard will begin deploying? >> i did speak to a department of public safety spokesperson who said that we should be getting that information in about two hours. give or take a few minutes, obviously. but that's the question to everyone asking here. when are the national guardsmen going to be arriving here in ferguson. we also learned that there's apparently going to be a bit of a staging area not here in ferguson. so they'll stage in st. louis, st. louis proper and then they'll come to ferguson. but that is expected to happen before the sun goes down. but again, precisely when, how many and how they will be used. all of that information is supposed to be made available and the news released that's to come out here. >> craig melvin, thanks for keeping track of that. more breaking news out of ferguson, including this question. what's next for police tactics on the ground? and what's the surprisingly simple technology that some are

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right now at the white house, attorney general eric holder has just arrived for his meet with president obama to update the president an the situation in ferguson. the president left his vacation in martha's vineyard late last night and arrived back in d.c. around midnight. we'll have a live report from the white house coming up. first, all of this comes after

governor jay nixon called in the national guard today to try to quiet a ferguson that looks increasingly like a war zone. those images sparked national calls for reform to prevent police brutality. one figure who has been in ferguson on the ground calling for police accountability, reverend al sharpton. >> ferguson as a city is at a defining moment on whether or not we know and are mature enough to handle policing whether it goes over the line or n not. we cannot lecture nations around the world about how they handle policing and we have an inability of handling it here in our own nation. >> joining me is reverend al sharpton, host of "politics nation" here an msnbc. good to have you on the program.

you're following the work in this community closely. what do you think needs to happen right now to stop the violence between the police there and the community? >> i think from my observation in ferguson, most of the people, young and old, are n involved in the rioting. many of them are coming from the outside. some very much outraged and very sincere. others exploitsing it for their own reasons. and i think what has to happen is there must be a clear answer from the criminal justice system that answers any doubt in anyone's mind that there's a move toward justice. the autopsies out now, ronan. what does that mean? is that enough probable cause to go toward an arrest? or is it enough to empanel a grand jury? i think the whole levels of protest by the overwhelming

majority that is peaceful or even the minute that get violent can only be answered when people can say with confidence, the process of trying to deal with this is working toward a conclusion just no matter what that conclusion may be, but it's just. what is very dangerous to me is that we are hearing rhetoric almost like this is a police state that under no circumstances should be questioning police. that's why in my speech yesterday in ferguson, i was saying you've got the incident in new york and staten island with an illegal chokehold a policeman killed a man. the woman beaten in l.a. with the highway patrol. now you have michael brown in missouri. and any of us that question it or call troubledmakers or instigators. what are you going to start putting us in jail if you question police? people have a right to question why are people dead from police that are unarmed without being

called names? and i think that kind of thing is what has exacerbated tensions that we're seeing in the city of -- or the town of ferguson. >> do you see the deployment of the national guard as something that will quiet or escalate fighting? >> i think it can go either way. clearly the more you have a presence, the potential you have of having more confrontations and more problems. i would hope, again, that a firm signal toward justice is sent before the curfew tonight or as soon as possible. clearly before we go back in for the funeral because clearly emotions are going to be high when residents see this young man that they knew well in a casket. and i am very concerned that we understand the process is right. >> reverend, all week we'll be looking at this issue of militaristic police responses

like you just described. one big proposal is that cops should be wearing cameras more often. is that something you think would increase accountability in places like ferguson? >> i think it would. i support the idea of cops wearing cameras. i think it not only will increase the -- it will decrease the tension. it will increase good cops not being falsely accused who give good cops a bad name or bad cops. i don't think all cops are bad. i don't even think most cops are bad. but they all are taking the rap because the bad cops won't stand up and some of their friends won't stand up. and weed them out. we tell young people in the community from chicago to new york, to really, really give up the bad apples. police have to start doing the same thing. >> reverend al sharpton, thank you for that call. everyone at home, watch reverend al's show. he's doing incredible work on that program. we're going to move on to our call to action. we are left with a nation at

this point in a state of unease about the power held by police officers. it's raising questions as to whether the police need more policing. but there is this relatively foorable and simple solution we just discussed. body cameras. police departments around the country have used these cameras with pretty astonishing results. one year study found an 88% decline in complaints about officer misconduct. and a 59% decline in police brutality. just based on having those cameras. we're asking you if you are interested in this issue and you feel there needs to be more change to sign a white house.gov pemission requiring body cameras to be worn by police officers as part of their uniform. we'll be keeping track of all of your responses. up ahead, we cover an international reaction. the global response to the violence in ferguson with some nations signing the u.s. needs to take care of its own problems

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he will update the president an the latest an the federal investigation. over the weekend, holder called for an independent autopsy at the request of the brown family. the justice department is getting more involved in this. he is also very frustrated at the militarization that we have seen on the ground. holder briefing president obama right now. by the way, president obama resumes his martha's vineyard vacation tomorrow. >> kristen welker, thank you for that. the national guard will be responding to a volatile situation on the ground. some say stoked by that heavy-handed militarized police response. using heavy duty gear. you see some of it there. amnesty international, a team on the ground. those are the iconic yellow grounds in ferguson. they tell rf daily, this is a very rare mission for them. the group usually known for

lending aids in international conflict zones deploying to a u.s. community to monitor violence. so what's next for police tactics in ferguson, and how might it change the tactsices of police around the country. joining me is justin gloud from "the daily beast." having seen these police forces firsthand and the tactics they are using, what specific tactics should change? what's been over the line and what's exacerbated the violence, if anything? >> well, i think every time police have shown up here in riot gear and with s.w.a.t. trucks and have kind of imposed their show of force an people, it's kind of incited a reaction. when they show up, protesters come here and then there's shally some kind of altercation and then the police make an advance with teargas and rubber bullets. that goes back and forth for -- in the case of wednesday night,

several hours, in the case of last night, over fairly quickly. i think maybe 2, 2 1/2 hours that they were these kind of clashes going on as police were flushing people back into the neighborhoods and off the main stretch here. >> governor nixon came out and said he was thunderstruck by how militarized this looks. we don't have the sound there but you see some of the response he was talking about. should there have been more oversight of these forces going into this situation? >> that's a good question. i don't know where that oversight would come from. police were just responding to a really fluid situation. and in certain circumstances, it's just gotten completely out of hand. last night, i was with another journalist as we were kind of trying to get out of the way of these teargas, you know, volleys and shooting of rubber bullets and there was a woman running along with us and she tripped

and fell and injured herself. and then we were boxed in by police. at that point, they came up and fired teargas canisters in the direction of the people trying to help this injured woman. so in certain circumstances, it's definitely gotten out of hand but also some of the protesters last night especially were pretty riotous in their behavior. >> justin glawe, thank you for your take on that situation on the ground. the question of police brutality, whether or not that description applies and what are some of the underlining issues like that intense military gear being distributed to communities will change in the wake of this conflict. up next, new york, detroit, ferguson. america's past echoes for a community struggling with unrest right now in the present day. we see what lessons we can learn next. wondering what that is?

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michael brown by police officer in ferguson, missouri. violence on the streets of that community continues to raise new concerns about law enforcement in this country. it's also raising old memories. memories of racial unrest that tore this nation apart during the 'skuc60s and defined u.s. politics in largely terms of black versus white. joining us now, director of africana studies, james peterson, chairman for the -- republican national committee chairman michael steele and karen finney from the dnc. professor peterson, i'll start with you on this historical question. when we look at past riot control efrforts, how much and how little has changeed? >> well, when you just look at the images it doesn't seem that too much has chaunnged at all. remember the images from larger cities like new york and newark

and detroit and l.a., that imagery is reflective of major cities. you have to understand with the ways in which we've been depositing military grade weaponry and really strategy and tactics into these smaller, more local police departments, is why you can see some of the images from ferguson looking like some of the images are from newark circa 1967. it's also the policy. how are we interacting with citizens who are trying to engage in protests? >> michael, president johnson convened a commission in response to the 1967 riots. their report found the u.s. at the time was moving toward two societies. two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal. how true and how untrue has that prediction proven to be? >> i think that there's a lot of truth that still remains to that point. and i think it's something that underscores what we have not addressed in this march towards civil rights in this country.

we have put the big banners up. we've done the big legislation. but as a community of people, we really haven't sat down and talked about how we felt about all the big things we've done. we still find ourselves in a reactionary mode. if you look at this generation of young people, particularly african-americans, their experience is very much far removed away from riots and police guns and dogs. and so the confrontation with it now is very jolting and it underscores what we have not talked about and what we have continued not to address with future generations and what the experience of african-americans remains to be in america. >> and the question is, will today's political leadership take up that mantel and talk about some of those hard issues. more in the way you suggest maybe necessary. an that leadership question, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, all of them deployed federal resources and fast in cases of social unrest. obviously, we have the national guard moving in now.

is president obama's response going to fit as a more or less aggressive example in that historical context? >> i think what he and attorney general eric holder are deciding is what is the appropriate level of a federal response because clearly what we've seen is at the local level there's a real disconnect. we basically have seen, as i understand it, the police chief went around, the highway patrol gentleman put in charge that everybody really agreed was doing a great job. now the governor calling in the national guard. everybody has got to get an the same page. it may be for the federal government to make that happen. and so i think that's going to have to be the role here and sort of also, i think, making sure that we -- let's try to demilitarize this, but i think it's more than that. talking about the militarization but it's also police officers protect and serve, right? a community is not well served when a young man is shot twice in the head, four other times for $50 worth of cigars being stolen, right?

so clearly there's nmore work that needs to be done in the relationship between police and the people they serve in various communities. children in these communities, i mean, they are probably suffering from a form of ptsd. young people in these communities. what is the legacy they'll take from this. we have to make sure this pattern stops repeating itself time and time again. >> on the republican side of that leadership question, rand paul came out and made waves being very forceful calling for the demilitarization of forces. is that kind of a call to peace the mantel you see the republican party taking up more? >> it's one we should. it's one that we can -- you can all be for law and order but how you use the law to engage the order and to, you know, cement the order matters. that's something that rand paul and others an both sides is not just the republican or democrat thing. it's how, as you noted, leadership responds to this crisis. and the voices that we have

heard are just as important as the ones we have not heard speak an this. n that is something that, you know, the leadership across the board has to look at. this is simmering right now. we can either, you know, cut the fire off and let it cool down, and as karen noted, put in place the things that need to be done to create cohesion and cooperation or this will explode even more because that leadership is lacking. >> as leadership around the country hears that call to speak out on this more to act on this more, what is the most important historical lesson that they should remember? >> the most important historical lesson is when the civil rights era we made significant accomplishments but can't allow those accomplishments to obscure the work that has to be done at this point. it is not clear whether or not the officer who allegedly murdered michael brown was even aware of the fact he was a suspect, alleged suspect in that particular piece.

so we don't know those two things are connected. karen is right. the excessive use of sfoers what the problem is. we know from the data in ferguson this thing has been going on generationally. we have got to address these things directly. >> professor peterson and karen finney and michael steele. also a pleasure to have you on. appreciate your helping us sort them out. up in, a 65-foot wall of water. that's what might smack into areas of northbound iraq devastating communities if insurgents destroy this dam. find out who controls it and what might happen next, after the brack. break. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth.

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breaking right now, a new statement from governor nixon talking about the deployment of the national guard into that community in ferguson to try to quell unrest there saying the guard's mission will be limited in scope, they are tasked with protecting the unified command center so that law enforcement can protect peaceful protesters.

of course, this was one of the subjects that president obama was taking meetings and briefings an today. the other, a fast developing situation in iraq. right now in that country, the battle is raging for control of the nation's largest dam which in the hands of isis could become a weapon of mass destruction. this is at the mosul dam built by saddam hussein three decades ago holding back 11 billion cubic meters of water and producing more than 1,000 megawatts of electricity. the united states launched 15 more air strikes near that dam today after heavily pounded isis forces offer the weekend. the dam has been in isis control since august 7th. steve clemens joins us right now. so does it appear at this pount that air strikes are making a difference? >> i think it's made a huge difference overnight. we've had the 15 air strikes and there are reports the kurdish are back in control of the dam which is a huge relief. if this dam were destroyed, 65-foot wall of water wouldcadi

millions in iraq. >> the other facet of this response is the ground response and that'sundertaken largely through our alliance with these kurdish forces. i want to get your take on the efficacy of that and whether that has hidden costs we should be aware of. we have some reporting where our vocativ partners went in on the ground and spoke to some of those peshmerga forces. take a look. ♪ >> is there help coming from the usa?

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>> the mosul dam is crucial to the security and stability of a very large region in iraq. they could theoretically flood large areas through their control of the dam, but just the very threat of that gives them a kind of bargaining power. and that allows them to control the sources of electricity and energy.

>> isis has suggested the u.s. can and will be more of a focus for them. >> our thanks to vocativ for taking a lot of risks to get us that exclusive report. they touched on these kurdish peshmerga fighters in that video. how effective an alliance is it

between the u.s. and those fighters? >> it's very effective, very important. they're the best and strongest fighters in the region. that doesn't mean they have the same hardware which isis picked up from the iraqi forces that abandoned their post. they just took over u.s. military systems that we had basically given to iraq before. they are a vital ally to us. sometimes the measure of an ally isn't just what's comfortable to do. when we were trying to hold iraq together over the last eight years, there were many times where barzani and kurdistan wanted to defect. both president obama and vice president biden convinced them, please stay. we worked with them. so kurdistan has been a very reliable partner in trying to keep the whole equation of iraq together. that's why we can't abandon them right now. >> yet, they are seeking separatism. >> they seek autonomy. we've been trying in a u.s. way to keep them from going all the way towards autonomy or independence, actually. the israelis and the turks and others have said, do that. there are 3 million kurds inside

syria. you have lots of kurds in turkey. that could be another element in the region that really blows apart lines that raises the prospect for every ethnic group, that it ought to have its own nation. so there are real down sooids as well. >> we'll have to see what, if any, hidden costs there are to the relationship overall as the years play on and so often we see people we arm and train not being so friendly to us in the long run. seems like the kurds so far are the safest bet. steve, thank you. before we go, new video just coming in right now of attorney general eric holder meeting moments ago with president obama. there, of course, to update the president on the situation in ferguson, missouri. the governor right now this moment has lifted the curfew in that community. that is just coming in over the wires right now, getting it in my ear this moment. so fast-moving developments in ferguson. joy reid is up next. she'll have much more on that unfolding situation. joy? >> thank you very much, ronan. and indeed, president obama is meeting right now with attorney

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why is officer wilson still walking free? why hasn't the prosecuting attorney arrested him? why hasn't he been questioned for execution? >> he's given all his force bringing in police officers and riot gear. we don't need that. >> hello, everyone. i'm joy reid. we begin with breaking news. right now president obama having left martha's vineyard for now where he had been on a working vacation is back at the white house, huddling with attorney general eric holder about the rapidly devolving situation in ferguson, missouri. after a weekend marked by fresh clashes between police and

protesters and a state-imposed curfew, here's what we know right now. the governor of missouri has just announced that the curfew has been lifted for tonight and he's deployed the national guard to ferguson. the first day of classes at ferguson schools have been cancel canceled. also at this hour, some 40 fbi agents are on the ground in ferguson knocking on doors and interview witnesses in and around the neighborhood where unarmed teen michael brown lived and died. meanwhile, the grieving brown family pleads for justice. new information from the preliminary findings of an independent autopsy commissioned by the family show that michael brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head. a separate federal examination of brown's body is also being performed as a result of what justice department officials call extraordinary circumstances. all this as the official state performed autopsy results have still not been released. and overnight, reports of at least three more journalists placed under arrest by