tensions in the community. >> if you're not credentialed media, you need to disperse immediately or you will be subject to arrest. do it now. >> protesters chucking rocks at us. let's -- >> true story! >> we are, we are telling the true story. >> true story. >> people are angry, man. they're really angry. >> this is all live right now in ferguson, missouri. >> you need to -- or you will be subject to arrest. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitch knell ell in washington. officials are encouraging protest earls to come out during

the day and stay home at night to avoid the risk of danger. this after relatively peaceful protests monday night marred by explosion of violence as the midnight hour approached. clashes between police and people officials describe as outside instigators exploiting the crisis. 78 people arrested, some protesters threw rocks at msnbc's chris hayes and craig melville. >> we have been out here since the live show at 7:00 p.m. central. and -- whoa. >> hey, hey, hey, hey! watch out, chris. you know what? >> protesters chucking rocks at us. >> let's go -- >> not the true story. >> we are telling the true story. >> people are angry, man. they're really angry. >> let them know what's going on. >> we're trying to. few rocks chucked at us. we're fine. we're fine.

we're fine. >> craig melvin joins me now where he's returned from a ride-along with chief johnson and gabe gutierrez. craig, first to you. we saw you doing, running interference and protecting chris hayes your anchor buddy there last night. what a scene. the anger boiling over. what did you learn from riding the streets today just now with captain johnson? >> reporter: we spent about 90 minutes with captain johnson riding through neighborhoods here in ferguson. we stopped at a number of businesses, as well. we talked to some business owners and we talked to some folks that live in some of the neighborhoods. at the businesses, andrea, captain johnson took us to businesses that had been boarded up. businesses that had been vandalized and a few cases on multiple occasions. we saw some video at one of those convenience stores of 40, 50 young people in masks shooting at the window, trying

to shoot the lock open. eventually taking the trash cans, knocking through the windows, stealing cigarettes and liquor and candy and did business owner with tears in the eyes begging captain johnson to restore peace and order. one of the captain's biggest points, biggest qualms has been from the beginning, you have two different groups. you have the peaceful protesters and then you have this criminal element that you just mentioned in the open, the criminal element that lots of other folks are talking about now that come out at night and have absolutely no interest in honoring the life of the 18-year-old young man who was shot here. but who are more interested in raising holy hell and stealing stuff. and the business owner talked about that. and captain johnson pledged to continue to protect businesses. one of as you know, one of the chief complaints against the law

enforcement presence here in general has been the use of teargas. the use of the rubber pellets early on. the use of the stun gun flashes, as well. the gun flashes. he said, he said, craig, the alternative is gun fire. he said, i understand that teargas is indiscriminate and women and children and journalists including myself have experienced the effects. the alternative to that is really nothing. it's like that's the only way we've been able to move the folks out of the streets at night. and it was very interesting because we were in a neighborhood, a guy walks up to us holding a teargas container in his hand. he's like, captain johnson, this is what happened in my neighborhood last night. what gives? and captain johnson explained it to him the same way he explained it to me and, andrea, six or seven people gathered and who by the end of the explanation understood and accepted it.

we spent a fair amount of time listening to a woman tell captain johnson that every night around 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. after they flush everyone off this main drag, they're flushing them into the neighborhoods, and a lot of folks are essentially getting trapped in the neighborhoods. we are talking, you know, dozens of young people for about two or three hour who is are trapped in the neighborhoods and this woman said, for three or four hours she and the kids, they can't sleep, commotion for that time. police sirens are wailing. everyone's scared. she's trapped in her own home. what can she do? what can i do, captain johnson? he didn't have much of an answer for her but she did thank him, she thanked him for trying to restore peace, trying to keep the calm here. in ferguson. it was very interesting, as well, andrea, really quickly here. at the end of the interview, captain johnson, they were -- we were still in the same neighborhood talking to this woman and he said that one of the things these people are doing, the criminal element he

talks about is going into the neighborhoods and they're hiding guns. and he said last night one of the reasons it took so long to secure the main drag here is because they go into the neighborhoods and they hear people saying, red rover, red rover, send your best cop over. his complaint -- his concern now is that these criminal elements are trying to bait officers into the neighborhoods -- this is something we don't typically see during the daytime. that was actually just an ambulance. no cop cars behind it. but captain johnson says, you know, now they're trying to bait cops. they want us to fire back. they're trying to start fire fights in these neighborhoods. but again, just about 90 minutes with captain johnson, very fascinating, eye opening and said they'll make changes to patrolling tonight. we don't know what those changes are going to be. we expect to learn more about that specifically over the next couple of hours. >> and craig, hang on a moment.

i want to ask you about that. it seemed to those of us watching last night that the police were established lines, keeping the protesters moving. they were creating what some critics have said was basically a curfew in place. and that aside from the outside instigators and the rest, they were creating some of the problems that led to the teargassing, the dispersal was in some ways perhaps not warranted. let me get to the arrest situation if you could hang for a second and go to gabe gutierrez at the county jail. gabe, what are you being told there as to why people were arrested? >> reporter: hi there, andrea. we left the st. louis county jail and got a list of the people arrested overnight in ferguson and brought to that jail. this is total of 78 from overnight. that's late last night and into the morning. the majority are from missouri, five are from the new york area,

three are from chicago and three are from california. most are charged with refusal to disperse, two of them charged with unlawful use of a weapon. one was charged with interfering with an officer. we spoke with about five or six of them as they were leaving the jail over the past few hours. they did not post bail. they were just let go. most of them disagree with captain johnson's assessment of problems by out of towners last night. they say that they blame this more on the police, although captain johnson did say that there was this criminal element as craig mentioned and that they were the ones instigating and kind of provoking the officers but the people we spoke with arrested last night, they disagree with that, andrea. >> craig, you were there, as well, last night. in terms of the rules that the police laid down, do you think that that contributed to the

crowd problems that then they feel, the police feel required the use of teargas? >> reporter: it's an interesting question, andrea. i don't have an answer but, you know, it does seem as if, you know, every day there's a rules change of some sort and heretofore, nothing has worked. lift the curfew. didn't work last night, obviously. they called in the national guard. that really didn't seem to have a measurable impact last night. the rain started. cooler tonight and expecting severe weather. i asked captain johnson whether he thought that might help them. he said he didn't know but that would only mask it. one of the things that everyone has really been in agreement on, everyone that i've talked to, all the peaceful protesters, some of the folks i talked to who did not appear to be here protesting -- that's the same ambulance back in the other direction. no law enforcement accompanying

it. all of them have said the same thing. if there were charges filed against the police officer responsible for the shooting, if he was indicted, captain johnson said this, as well, they're fairly confident that the streets would be pretty close to empty shortly thereafter. everyone's in universal agreement on that point. >> craig melvin, thank you so much and gabe gutierrez at the county jail. joining me now is reverend al sharpton. reverend al, you were just in ferguson. you met with michael brown's parents. they have said that they need to see some justice for their son before things are going to quiet down. why is it taking so long? >> well, that is the question. the family is asking that is the question that many people are asking. you make arrest, andrea, on probable cause. you don't prove the case and

come out innocent or guilty in order to make an arrest. and it seems by all of the legal experts that i have talked to and that the lawyers that advising the family that there's more than probable cause here. clearly, you have a young man dead who was unarmed that was killed by this policeman that clearly was not operating under the threat of a life extenuating circumstance because the young man was unarmed in a t-shirt, short pants and flip flops and no way the officer thought he was armed and dealing with multiple bullets. i think that part of what is xser baiting the tension is if there's no probable cause, if there was no real legal reason to say there should be a movement forward, then people could understand it. people don't understand absent a police report going public or some other explanation why this

hasn't proceeded and in many ways i think the authorities kpt have it both ways. you can't say we're not putting out a police report and other things and not going to tell you why probable cause is not enough. they're going to have to decide one way or another and that's i think reasonable for the family to raise that. >> and this -- that doesn't seem to what happened last friday when they put out that other report about the -- what supposedly happened at the convenience store and still not giving any details about the confrontation that led to michael brown's death. you know, the autopsy report, the privately commissioned autopsy report of the family was so instructive. obviously, incomplete. dr. badden said it was incomplete and saw two shots to the head, one fatal. and that raised so many questions and now eric holder requiring and ordering a federal autopsy, a third autopsy so clearly he wants to be satisfied, as well. i wanted to play a little bit of

michael brown's mother with matt lauer on whether or not the protests having turned violent are going to distract the family and those who want answers from their cause. >> it is a distraction but we won't let it distract us to the point where we lose focus. we have to remain focused and we have to remain strong and the violence needs to stop. when justice is prevailed then maybe they'll regain their trust in the locals but right now it's really out of control. >> well, you know -- >> go ahead. >> when i was first asked by the grandfather, hours after it happened, to come in, i went in at the invitation of the grandfather and i met with the mother and i met with the father and they said we really just want justice. we really want this to move forward in a way that they've known that we worked down through the years.

but then, they were the ones that said we want a press conference and call for an end to the violence and we went in front of the courthouse. so i went for the purpose of trying to deal with justice and because they wanted someone to stand with them that they felt had national reputation and say that this is a disservice to their son. and what it does, i have a moral commitment toward nonviolence coming out of my own background in terms of civil rights but even those that don't believe in nonviolence, strategically if they're trying to accuse the victim of being violent and reckless and trying to get a policeman's gun, how do you pose as reckless and violent yourself and think that they're not going to transfer to the victim? so that is why many people are being very suspect as some of the provocateurs in the crowd because they in many ways desecrating the image the family

trying to give of their son and i think it is a distraction from the cause of justice, however this goes, we need to have a solution that america can solve policing as a problem and owe it to the family to be able to mourn and bury their son without him being projected as some impetus toward violence rather than a reason to look at policing in this country. >> and as i just want to add that the prosecutor on staten island convening a grand jury in the death of eric garner. >> yes. the local prosecutor has. the family and the community has asked for the fralt government to step in there and let me announce for the first time with you, andrea, we have a meeting with the u.s. attorney loretta lynch, the family and community leaders on thursday 3:00. it will -- his announcement today in no way will deter us from -- in that meeting pressing for federal intervention. >> thanks for clarifying that.

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we have to bring calm to our community. our kids cannot stay in their bed for months and not go to school. our officers can't come out here for months and put their lives in danger. peaceful protests can't put their lives in danger. these homeowners cannot be uncomfortable sleepg in the homes warning if a stray bullet will come in the home. we have to let the legal system work itself out and that's what

makes up on country great. >> captain ron johnson on the daily run down today with craig melvin. ten days after the critical shooting, a look at why the community was under the surface ready to explode. joining me is liz brown, columnist of "st. louis american" and thanks very much, liz. good the see you again. >> good to be here. >> let's talk about what happened here. just in the last hour, this was the mayor of ferguson, james noels, talking to our own tamron hall. >> there is not a racial divide in the city. >> according to whom? your perspective or african-americans in your community? >> that is the perspective of all residents in our city. absolutely. the vast majority of my community and i mean i put that number in the 95th percentile is supportive of what we have been doing and what we're going to do to go forward. >> liz, i got to -- just got to wonder, you have a white mayor,

white council, white school board and white police force. are they in complete denial aft reports hearing from the community that there is long-standing resentment and police harassment and other indignities against the african-american community? >> it's stunning and confirming. it demonstrates what happens when you have an elected person in office, well, actually, he ran unopposed. he is the mayor of ferguson. >> you have to wonder about the disengagement that leads to that. >> it underscores the concerns and the argument that is are being made about how african-american people are being treated. they're invisible to him. i mean, if you are a mayor of a city that is almost 70% african-american and you're saying that the things that african-americans people are articulating are of no value or to be dismissed or untrue, because those are the only choices to be made when you hear

a mayor say that. and it is -- it is deeply, deeply and profoundly problematic. again, it underscores the concerns that people have had. this mayor is disconnected to the reality of his community and at what cost? we're seeing the cost to that. >> now, a lot of frustration is being expressed by people in the news media, by people on the streets at the lack of transparency, the lack of information about the circumstances of this shooting. is that unrealistic? do they need to do more, you know, more investigating, put aside what the police did put out on friday which everyone above and beyond that local police chief believes was a big distake and led to a renewal of the violence but do they need this much time before giving the basic information of an autopsy report? there again is the challenge. we have a police department that's almost cosigning on the

mayor's observation of disengagement from our -- from the ferguson community. of course, it does not take this much time. i'm a former criminal defense attorney. i know how long it takes for someone to be indicted. i know what kind of evidence is used to indict someone. i know the vigor and the speed with which a prosecuting attorney's office can move if they do, in fact, want an indictment. and the people in ferguson are very bright people. they understand that since this is taking so long, one of two things is happening. one, you are attempting to make a case that is not true. true, you are attempting to and moving towards not having, not coming forward with an indictment. i mean, everybody understands and sees what's happening on the street right now as this -- as this continues day after day after day. why wouldn't someone in an elected office want to engage in an action that could help stop this and what action could that

be? it could be an indictment. it could be a charge. it could be forth coming with the information in a very fast manner and none of that is happening and people are responding logically to that. >> thanks very much, lizz. really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. thank you. much more ahead from ferguson, missouri, bringing you the latest developments. look at this front page over ten days. striking snapshots of how the story was unfolding. last monday, the headline notes the daily pattern. day of protests and night of frenzy. and then one week ago as the fbi announced the opening of the civil rights investigation into the police shooting, the headline reads, calls for justice. last wednesday, outcry and resolve. and then thursday after a night of standoffs, teargas and two journalists detained, the headline, a city on edge.

friday's headline, a unifying force? notes the brief reprieve with missouri highway control captain and ferguson native captain ron johnson put in charge promising a new approach to handling the protests and then renewed clashes after police release add video that allegedly shows michael brown stealing cigars before being shot and killed by the police officer. with saturday's headline reading storm after calm. sunday's curfew defied and then monday's clashes, chaos. and then today, after a night with 78 arrests, the headline, streets flare up. she's still the one for you.

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that's transparent, where there's accountability, where people can trust the process hoping that as a consequence of a fair and just process you end up with a fair and just outcome. >> joining me now is april ryan, veteran white house correspondent for american urban radio networks and jean cummings. april, president obama has been criticized by some in the african-american community not going to merge son. isn't he damned if he does and doesn't? he's trying to walk a line here. >> yes, you're right. he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't because any time the president comes, it magnifies a situation so much more and then brings those who may want to really help and those who are the criminal element there. so the president and he said something that was really important. he wants to have trust in the system. he wants people to trust the

system. and if he weighs in, that is a big situation that could really one way or the other tip the scales and he was absolutely right on that. >> and jean cummings, he's sending eric holder and the justice department we're told is very frustrated with the way local officials handled this. eric holder has a lot of credibility and going to eyeball it himself tomorrow. >> definiaf fitly. he will have a lot of credibility sitting down with community leaders and you can bet he's going to shadow the investigation because they're frustrated with it there. he wants to assure the people they have an independent autopsy, they're doing some independent interviews with witnesses. they're monitoring this process very carefully to try to give the community some sense that it is an honest, fair process. >> april, one of the arguments from the law enforcement teams last night is that they were trying to show restraint using teargas because it is a

legitimate crowd dispersal technique to avoid bodily injury. do they have a point there? >> at this point, when you have an unruly crowd, you have to be very careful, particularly in this situation with a distrust of the policing there. you have to be careful in how you handle the crowd. indeed, if persons are feeling threatened, if there is in-fighting of amongst, if there are persons throwing things at the national guard or policing agents there, indeed, there has to be some type of measures to calm the crowd and make the community safe. but one thing, andrea, i think is very important. you were just talking about eric holder, the u.s. attorney general going and his credibility, but there's one thing i think is missing in this piece that people haven't talked about. the director of cops, the

community-based policing report, including baltimore, maryland, had community-based policing and when you have that, there's a relationship with the community and the police. and i think that's one thing. when we saw michael brown's body in the street, we didn't see the police trying to talk to the crowd or calm the crowd. it was such a disconnect and i think this community-based policing director coming into the town, i think that's going to be one of the steps that's definitely needed as there's such a disconnect between the communities, the policing community, the governmental leadership there and the community itself of ferguson. the black community. >> boy. we'll have to leave it there. for the first time ever, amnesty international deployed observers to an american city. amanda wills tweeted this video of them in action. they, of course, were wearing the yellow t-shirts with amnesty international, guy helping another man teargassed pretty bad just now and peacekeepers,

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bill neilly was there. >> reporter: it was won from the barrels of kurdish guns and rockets. but it was won, too, from the air. u.s. war planes attacked isis vehicles in positions near the mosul dam more than 30 times in recent days. >> with our support, iraqi and kurdish forces took a major step forward recapturing the largest dam in iraq near the town of mosul. if that dam was breached, it could have proven catastrophic. >> reporter: their fire power has tipped the balance of this battle inflicting a significant defeat on isis. this is the first time that the seemingly unstoppable advance of isis not only been halted but been reversed. >> daniel benjamin served as ambassador at large and coordinator for the state department under hillary clinton and joins me in new hampshire. good to see you. is this a significant victory against isis or is this just one

piece of a much larger picture? >> well, it's a bit of both. i mean, it's important. it removed a dangerous threat. it will buck up the morale of the kurds and that's very important. and it also punctures the myth of isis invinceability. at the same time, it's a long, hard slog to really reduce isis and diminish the threat it poses. >> should we limit our engagement, the american engagement, should the president limit it until he sees whether the new prime minister designate is really the real deal and more inclusive than malaki was? >> well, i think it has to be carefully regulated. we don't want to do anything that allows the iraqis to turn away from the threat, to inknow the threat. we don't want them to be free riders. we also don't want to support

any one party, the kurds or the shia so heavily that it increases their desire to go independent. i mean, remember, the kurds occupied kirkuk not long ago so the white house is trying to walk a very fine line to buck up these forces, to prevent big threats, but at the same time, not to accelerate the disintegration of iraq, of course, the most important thing there is to prevent the sectarianism from corroding the country any further. >> you wrote in be the the boston globe" that the hawks too alarmist about the isis threat, that isis is not the dire threat to at least the american homeland that has been described by some. >> right. you know, there have been a number of people, especially on capitol hill but also in the press who have talked about this as an imminent threat to the american homeland and the fact is isis is capable insurgent

force on the ground in iraq and likely to want to attack americans when it gets the chance but it really doesn't have a track record of carrying out complex international operations of the kind that we saw al qaeda carrying out in the late '90s and with 2001. so we shouldn't hit the panic button. this is a threat that i believe we can deal with. it is going to be a considerable threat but i don't think that throwing our hands in the air, letting our hair go on fire will help us. >> although, some would say that this group is more dangerous in a way because they have ambitions to actually govern, to be sovereign state. i'm told that they're even exporting some oil and smuggling oil and involved in the oil trade and that international oil traders are dealing with them. >> right. they have been selling oil and that's been a key part of their economic success. they are taking a very different

tact from al qaeda in that they do want to hold territory. but that's also going to present a problem for them because most people inside that territory aren't going to like the way that justice is delivered there. they're not going to like amputations for minor offenses. they're not going to like the way that women are treated in that area. you know, historically, we have seen that when when groups as radical as isis and others like them have held territory, that there's eventually been some pushback from the locals and i expect that that will happen here, too. no doubt, that is very capable, very dangerous group. and they're trying a different tact from what we have seen in the past. but, you know, we have an awful lot of power, very good intelligence. we have the capability of dealing with this. most important thing is to keep the iraqis in the game and to continue to bring them back as a fighting force that can deal with the threat that is in their midst and that they're

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trooper came up to me and he asked me if i was with the media. i explained to him i was and he told me that i had to be in the media pen across the street. and i asked him if the area was open to the public. and he told him if it was open to the public, it should be open to the press. he said, if you're with the media, you have to be across the street. i told him i was going to roll video as a violation of the first amendment and he ordered me arrested and cuffed and put into a van and taken away. >> were you charged with anything? >> i believe i was charged with failure to obey. i'm not sure completely what that means but that was the charge according to attorney. >> from your take, i mean, you have been all over the world as a combat photo journalists. what you're seeing here, how does it compare to the way

officials and others handle these conflicts overseas? >> well, the conflicts i have covered overseas are mostly iraq and afghanistan and obviously that's completely different. it's a war zone. i've been embedded with the military. ukraine was differently. i was in eastern ukraine recently and ukraine was -- you did see them try to control the press. at least the pro-russian separatists. if they didn't like what you were writing, they put word out to arrest or apprehend you. >> how difficult is it for the media to operate and move around in ferguson, missouri? >> well, that changes by the moment. >> yeah. >> right now, you can work fine. yesterday, several times i was told that, you know, you have to be in the press pen. and several times i challenged it until the last time. it was -- i was arrested. but as my colleagues also, they

have experienced the same thing so it's just -- it's, you know, blatant violation of the first amendment and i encourage other journalists to challenge it. >> and, scott, what are your plans now? >> well, after i got released from jail last night, i came back here and worked the streets like i have been doing every day this week. and i'll continue to do it today. >> okay. scott olson, we'll keep looking for your iconic pictures of all of these confrontations if things continue in ferguson, missouri. although we hope that tonight will be a much calmer night. thank you, scott. >> i hope so, too. thank you. >> and coming up at 1:00, craig melvin's ride along with captain ron johnson, including a new interview as they visit businesses affected by the violence in ferguson. >> need to separate the good and the bad. and by separating, i'm not saying that we want to take away

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users shared the videos to raise awareness and funds for als and the als association says that it's raised almost $23 million in the last 3 weeks alone, 12 times as much as during the same period last year. so last night, i accepted the challenge with the help of an anonymous accomplice. >> debbie, i accept your als ice bucket challenge and in turn i'm challenging chuck todd, hillary clinton and john kerry, you've got 24 hours. ah! oh! thanks a lot. >> you want a life vest? >> well, for total humiliation, we actually had all angles covered. take a look. ah hah hah!

oh! >> you want a life vest? >> it is all for a good cause. so, continue to follow the ice bucket challenge. there have been incredibly generous people, as well, we're going to donate and hope all of you do, as well. this started, of course, with that heroic boston college baseball player who's suffering from lou gehrig's disease and his wife and what they have accomplished is just incredible. thank you all and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." chuck todd accepted the challenge. he is on vacation and will be back next week and remember follow the show online, on facebook and on twitter.

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press? >> you need to exit the roadway. you're unlawfully assembled. >> last night, two people were shot and another 31 were arrested. >> certain element, that criminal element, that got out here with mask on, the media was swarming around them and glamourize the activity. >> chucking rocks at us. >> attorney general eric holder prepares to travel to ferguson to meet with investigators and community leaders. >> people are angry, man. they're really angry. >> 1:00 p.m. on the east coast, 10:00 a.m. on the west. here's everything you need to know right now. this hour, we have new video of craig mel sin's ride-along with the captain ron johnson. the national guard is also in ferguson but we have yet to see an end to the unrest since their arrival. situation turned dangerous after dark last night with riot police

and protesters clashing in the streets. members of our team were actually targeted by demonstrators while they were live on air. >> we've been out here since the live show at 7:00 p.m. central. and whoa. >> hey, hey, hey, hey. watch out, chris. you know what? >> protesters chucking rocks at us. >> let's -- >> not the true story. >> you know what? we are telling the true story. >> people are angry, man. they're really angry. >> all in all, 78 people were arrested last night. police blaming a criminal element from outside of town for that violence. today, police are calling for peaceful protesters to come in the daytime. tomorrow, attorney general eric holder is going to arrive in ferguson. he is going to meet with prosecutors and fbi investigators. first up, let's get latest from the ground