"the new yorker." that is "all in" for this even. we're tear gas free as of 11:00 local time. the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> chris, if you sign off like that one night, you have to sign off with a tear gas check for the rest of the night you do your show. you set a benchmark for yourself, my friend. well tone. >> that's right. >> thanks, man. thanks to you at home as well for joining this hour. it is now midnight here on the east coast. and 11:00 p.m. in ferguson, missouri, where it is the tenth night of protests continuing at this hour. there is a lot of other news going on in the world tonight. we're going to get to some of that over the course of this hour on this show, but this is a live shot of downtown ferguson right now. police are not enforcing a curfew tonight. and protesters apparently are being allowed more freedom of movement to keep circulating than they were last night. more freedom of movement to keep circulating, to keep up a moving protest column. essentially in downtown.

it has been a volatile situation in ferguson on and off over the last ten days. more on than off. since the shooting of 18-year-old michael brown by a ferguson police officer last saturday. tonight, heading into this tonight, it had felt like a particularly uncertain, perhaps a particularly tense evening in part because today, just after noon time, only about four miles from the spot where michael brown was killed, police today killed another young african-american man in the st. louis area. this time it happened in north st. louis inside the st. louis city limits, again, four miles from where mike brown was the shot a week and a half ago. today, this time it was two officers who reportedly fired shots at this young man. they were from the st. louis municipal police tee apartmedep that's city police, not the same police force involved in the michael brown shooting or police response to the michael brown protests. but in this incident today, the young man who was killed is said to have been 23 years old.

he was african-american. he's not been formally identified by the police. unlike michael brown, police say that the man who was killed today, that he -- police say he was armed. they say he wases armed with a knife. he allegedly brandished that knife at officers and that's why these two police officers say sh they shot him. the shooting, fatal shooting, happened 12:20 local time. the chief of the st. louis city police was personally on the scene of that shooting to give a public statement about what had happened. >> in spite of what is happening in ferguson, did you not tell your men to exercise the utmost caution? >> that's a great question. i think officer safety is the number one issue. if you're the family of a police officer and somebody approaches you within three feet with a knife, i niching withdrthink yo right to defend yourself and protect yourself. it's reasonable an officer has

an expectation to go home at the end of the night. we can all understand what's going on in ferguson, but every police officer that's out here has the right to defend themselves and the community. >> chief, we're already starting to hear people yelling. are you guys concerned about this? >> concerned isn't the right word. it's important people understand what happened. we're going to get that message out through many source as we can. >> st. louis city police chief speaking on the street after another young african-american man was killed by police in the st. louis area today. in the shooting today, two officers from the city police department and the young man who they killed was said by police to have been armed with a knife. the police also said they did recover a knife at the scene of the shooting. local residents told reporters today the young man who was killed was well known in the community, but, again, people have not had him formally identified. polices have not formally identified this young man. when that police chief spoke today, his remarks ended up being almost as much a speech to

local residents as they were remarks to the press. and after the chief's remarks, st. louis alderman antonio french spoke to the same agitated crowd, basically trying to talk them down and keep them calm about this new police-involved shooting in the area. >> the last thing we need is violence in our neighborhood. >> we're going to be nice. >> listen. and that's not going to be -- that's not going to be on the police to make sure no violence is in our neighborhood. that's going to be on us. >> that's right. >> no silliness over here. all right? >> understand this, we know our rights. >> you know your rights. i know your rights, brother, too. i'm going to make sure this man's rights were exercised, too, and we're going to find out what happened. we're going to be patient in our neighborhood. you got people that got your back over here. you ain't alone like they are in ferguson, you hear me? all right. all right. >> that reference when he says, this isn't ferguson. we're not alone here.

like they are over there in ferguson. you've got people who have your back over here. alderman antonio french told us earlier tonight on this program in the 9:00 hour that what he was talking about there was a reference to local politics. what he was describing there was the fact that residents in ferguson do not feel represented by their local government and their local institutions. but that people in north st. louis, where this new police shooting happened today, they are better off in that regard. they should feel more confident in their local institutions. in other words, these two killings of young black men by police in the st. louis area, they may only have been four miles apart. they may only have been ten days apart. but one of them, the one that happened today, happened in the city of st. louis which is geographically white close, but politic a world away. ferguson, missouri, black voter turnout in the last municipal election, black voter turnout in the last municipal election in ferguson, missouri, was 6%.

in ferguson, today, the scenes on the streets have been basically peaceful and calm. also in north st. louis today, where this new police shooting happened today, the scenes were basically peaceful as well. even though there were demonstrators fwathered near the site of the new shooting most of the day today. it was not rowdy. it certainly was not violent. last night, for context, it was in the 10:00 p.m. hour locally when what had been a very peaceful day and evening of protests in ferguson took a turn. and we ended up last night having a very long and, frankly, at times scary night of tear gas and police show of force and fires and two gunshot victims and dozens of arrests on the streets in ferguson. at this 2:30 a.m. press conference, early this morning, so middle of the night, early morning last night, the police announced at that point by 2:00 a.m. they made 31 arrests. the local affiliate in missouri was reporting the total number of arrests at 78. almost all of them, 75 of the

78, were for failure to dispe e disperse. of the 78 people arrested last night by ksdk's count, 2/3 were locals from the st. louis area and others were from farther afield. places as far as way as california and new york. this morning, missouri highway patrol captain ron johnson was interviewed by msnbc's craig melvin. and he expressed basically exasperation about a couple different things about the way protests had been going through last night. one thing he said was the media has not been helping in some cases. he expressed overall appreciation for the media being willing to cover what's going on in ferguson, but he said in some cases, the media isn't helping. they're making the situation worse by glamorizing some of the worst offenders of the protesters who want to be violent. the way he put it. he also cautioned that the justice that people are hoping for and looking for in the michael brown shooting case is likely to be a long time coming. he said the legal case about whether the shooting of michael

brown is going to be treated as a crime, whether it's going to be prosecuted as such, that determination is going to take a long time to sort out. he worried out loud to craig melvin today that the city of ferguson just cannot take many more hard nights like they've had over this past week and a half waiting for that justice to come to fruition. >> we have to bring calm to our community. our kids cannot stay in their bed for mons and no go to school. our officers can't come out here for months and put their lives in dangers. peaceful protesters can't come out here for months and put their lives in danger. these homeowners cannot be uncomfortable sleeping in mare homes wondering if a stray bullet is going to come in their home. we have to let our legal system work itself out, and that's what makes our country great. and we'll have to see what the outcome is. we've got to -- we've had our voice, and we've got to bring calm to this situation. we're going to do that. >> missouri highway patrol

captain ron johnson speaking with msnbc earlier today. and later today, once again, the city of ferguson, its mayor and city council asked for peaceful protesters to not protest at night tonight. to only protest during the day. this time, though, when they made that request, they also released a list of commit tment the city would make to try to address residents' concerns. described commitments to increase the number of african-americans in law enforcement, said they would try to get dash cameras an uniform mounted camera for police officers. the city said they would try to engage with young people more. they would try to rebuild and enhance the west florissant business district which is where so many of the protests have happened. today was not the first time that the city of ferguson asked people to stop protesting at night. it's not the first time, as you can see in these images, that people in the streets have ignored that request. but as far as we can tell, today was the first time the city has coupled that so far futile request to not protest with at

least a list of things that they're willing to consider doing as a city to try to alleviate people's concerns. in addition to this live protest that you're seeing right now in ferguson, on the right side of your screen, what you see on the left side of your screen there is that those are images from a march earlier today in clayton, missouri, nearby. folks marching to the office of the county prosecutor's office to ask him to recuse himself from the potential prosecution of the police officer in this case. protesters and local residents repeatedly expressed worries the county prosecutor can't be trusted to fairly prosecute a case like this. so far the county prosecutor, bob mcculloch resisted calls to step down. late tonight, the governor of missouri, jay nixon, said he will not be asking that county prosecutor to recuse himself in the state. the governor in effect in his statement tonight said the prosecutor could recuse himself from the case but it would be improper for the fwompb egovernr to try to force the prosecutor out.

the prosecutor has no plans to recuse himself but would happy y ly go if the governor did push him. so attorney general of missouri, chris coster, he appeared in ferguson tonight on the street alongside the protesters. informing them that a grand jury will be convened tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. to start looking into whether or not charges will be brought in michael brown's shooting, again, that's a state attorney general on the street in ferguson tonight. we're also learning tonight from the local prosecutor's office, the county prosecutor's office that the police officer who's implicated in the shooting of mike brown, that officer has already been interviewed by investigators. tomorrow attorney general eric holder is due to arrive in ferguson. he'll be meeting with the lot u.s. attorney as well as justice department prosecutors who were already on the scene in ferguson. along with dozens of fbi agents. this is is some breaking news. on eve of the visit by the attorney general tomorrow, "the new york times" is reporting as of late tonight that the justice department is now also apparently considering a broader civil rights investigation into

the ferguson police department and its overall policing pattern. so not just the independent federal investigation we know is under way into the michael brown shooting, but an investigation of the ferguson pd writ large. according to law enforcement officials, who spoke to "the new york times" tonight on the condition of anonymity, in addition to this michael brown case, the "times" says that news reports about another incident in 2009 between an african-american man and ferguson police department led the justice department to consider taking not just a look at this specific case, but a broader look at the overall ferguson police and their pattern of policing. that's ahead of attorney general eric holder's visit there tomorrow. the thing that remains to be seen tonight is how things will con to unfold into the wee hours tonight on what is the tenth night of protests in ferguson, again, these are live images. protesters earlier tonight as they were marching were shouting, we're young, we're strong, we're marching all night long.

joining us now from ferguson, missouri, is a national breaking news reporter for "usa today." you're not that reporter. sorry. are we going to trymaine? yamish. are you there? i'm sorry. i think we had some wires crossed. are you there? >> rachel, i'm here. >> thank you. i'm sorry. that's toldly our fault. sorry about that. let me ask you where you are and what you're seeing and how you assess both the protests and the police tonight? are you still there? in space no one can hear you scream. let's move -- all right. let's see -- we just had trymaine for a moment at the truck location. trymaine, can you hear me? >> i can hear you.

>> thank you. i'm alive. >> i'm here. >> trymaine, thank you. i want to ask you from your vantage point, having watched this unfold over the course of tonight, what's the pace of things right now, and what's going on between protesters and police as far as you can tell? >> so far, it's calm, and the last few nights if i've learned anything at all, anything can happen at any point, so i don't want to jinx it and say it's so calm then something crazy happens. right now it seems coming off of yesterday, they're almost more organized. there was a moment when some community leaders defused a situation in the middle of the street and called for young people to maintain calm and order. right now, the police have been lining the streets for a while in small groups. again, it's been a peaceful night between protesters. they've been energized. just a minute ago they came by again still chanting loudly in unison. so far, so good. everything seems calm. >> trymaine, am i right to observe it seems like police are giving people more freedom of movement tonight, that they are

still insisting that people don't stop in one place and congregate in large numbers, that they keep moving, but that police are essentially letting them have more leeway in that regard than they had last night? >> i wouldn't go as far to say that. >> okay. >> they're still relegated to the sidewalk. they still can't congregate in the street. it's about the same as it was yesterday, but yesterday around 9:30, 9:45 is when we had the first standoff and led to an hour and a half later further down this end near the quick trip station, all the drama that was unfolding. yesterday was a little more tense because you actually had some activity. tonight so far, there hasn't been any real activity in the nature of what we've seen the last couple nights. >> trymaine, when you describe things seem a little bit more organized and the protesters amongst themselves seem to be developing, if not hierarchies, at least ways of communicating with each other in a constructive way. is that something that you think is happening just by virtue of the fact people have been out night after night after night, so people are settling into established ways of doing these

things? is that product of some real overt political organizing that people who have got discipline and skills in that regard? >> i think it's a matter of both. there are few nights that got so bad where the next day everyone's, you know, trying to pick up the pieces. and there was a press conference held by a group of -- the nation of islam, panther party, a couple pro-black organizations who said it's time for us to reach down to our youth, and they talked about having a town hall and getting volunteers. and so unlike those first few nights when it's a bunch of young people, without any adults in the situation, i'll say. now you have people who have been around the block a few times, who understand the frameworks of political action and organizing and now they're here. just a little while ago, there was a whole group of young people led by one of the elders who was there chanting right along with them. i think that's the difference. but then you talked about what's happening in st. louis and how difference it is from what's happening in ferguson, where they seem detached here and neglected. now they're developing their voice. finding their voice. now the framework is being laid.

now there's actually communication between the elders and young people who have all that fiery energy that everyone's trying to control. because we've learned, if we've learned anything, if you don't, you know, harness that energy, bad things can happen. >> that's right. and if -- and the key, the magic here is channeling it rather than trying to control it. because whoever tries to control it always loses. generationally. >> that's right. >> trymaine lee, national reporter for msnbc.com, showing not a hint of the exhaustion i'm sure you must feel. thank you very much. i really appreciate it, man. >> thank you for having me. >> swroini ijoining us now, msn reporter, out on the streets of ferguson tonight and able to live street video from her phone which is a neat trick and helps us see what she is seeing there on the ground. erin, where are you and what are you seeing right now? >> hi, rachel. i'm on florissant between ferguson avenue and campfield road. this is the same site of some hot tension last night. today the mood is decidedly cool. protesters are chanting for justice, for peace. they're singing, we want justice to the tune of "we will rock

you." they're saying, i believe that we will win. the u.s. soccer team chant from most recent world cup. it's a decidedly cooler night in ferguson. i'd be remiss to say, the air temperature is much cooler as well. it's a different night here in ferguson. >> well, how about the temperature, or at least the mood ring impression from the police? are police tactics noticeably different? i just put trymaine my observation that i thought police were giving people more freedom of moouchvement. he said no. are you seeing police behave in the same way and use the same kind of tactics they were using last night? >> i'm standing in front of the mcdonald's on ferguson avenue. see a line of police. upwards of 50. they're standing here in riot gear. there's no sense of urgency. their masks are not down, their batons are not at the ready. they're telling people that they must stay on the sidewalk, not on the street, not on the mcdonald's property. this is a restriction of movement that we've seen all throughout the night.

earlier today, i saw a man who was standing in front of his food truck with his three kids ages 8, 9 and 11. they were playing music. the kids were dancing in front of a truck that said, no shoot, no loot. people on top of the truck dancing as well. an officer came over and asked that man to turn the music off. the officer said he respected peep's rights but could not have them congregating in one place. i spoke to the man afterwards. he told me he felt the officer's response was fair, 50/50 were his words. and that's typical of the mood tonight here in ferguson. >> erin, in terms of the behavior by the protesters, being made by the protesters about how they want to protest and how they want to interact with police. are you seeing evidence of sort of emerging organization or lines of communication among the protesters in which certain groups are either not necessarily controlling the others, but leading and giving direction in trying to shape things in a way that is more to

their liking? >> it's hard to say, rachel, but there's movement now across from the burger joint where there's a protest protester-on-protester fight earlier this evening. police are lining up across west florissant. i'm showing you video of this now. i'm looking to see what has caused this development, and nothing is readily available. earlier, i would say that here in florissant, there is a degree of organization. i see the same three or four men who are between 30 and 50 leading the protesters. these are the same men who are putting their hands back and telling the crowd to slow their pace. when the crowd speeds up, they say, cool it down, cool it down. beyond that, there's a group of young people who are marching faster, but their cheers are somewhat friendlier. they're ones who are making cheers to more popular tunes. the group split off. they're circling west florissant but in different pieces. it's not one organized protest. there are small bits of

protesters marching independently, chanting independe independently. the overall number of protesters has definitely decreased as the numbers have gone by. >> msnbc.com reporter erin delmore, able to report and show us live streaming from her own phone. erin, thank you. please keep the line open. i appreciate you being there. >> thank you, rachel. >> we have much more from ferguson ahead. you're looking at live pictures from downtown ferguson, missouri. again, the mayor and city council called on people to not protest after dark again tonight. that didn't work. the state police, though, said there would not be a curfew tonight. thus far, things tonight in ferguson have been full of people, but definitely not full of danger, and things have been peaceful tonight and well popula populated. it's about 20 minutes after 11:00 local time. the city of ferguson thought to be in an especially tense moment right now, particularly because of this other shooting, but we'll keep our eyes open. stay with us.

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they've been saying tonight, we're young, we're strong, we're marching all night long. these are live images now from downtown ferguson, missouri, where it is 23 minutes after 11:00 local time. this is a tenth night of protests. tonight, as you can see, very peaceful protests in ferguson, missouri. we'll be right back. (son) oh no...

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ago saturday. that killing that started this whole crisis. while this story over the last ten days has evolved to become a national or an international story today, today egypt called for american restraint against protesters. even though this has become a massive story involving now thousands of people, this story, of course, starts just with the body of that young man, and with his family losing him. after mr. brown was shot, the first thing that happened immediately after the shooting that upset people so much locally was the fact that his body was left in the street for hours by police. this video was shot in the immediate aftermath of the shooting by a young woman who lived nearby. the voice that you'll hear in the foreground here is her narrating her own video explaining what she's looking at right after michael brown was shot. >> god bless his soul. police shot this boy outside my

apartment. they killed him. >> police later explained that they left michael brown's body laying in the street for so long that it was there in the street in the middle of the day for hours because they wanted to protect the scene of the shooting. because they said they had to, quote, practice our due diligence, with that shooting scene. but he laid in the street for hours. after he was killed. it has been ten days since then, and still his family has not had the opportunity to lay him to rest. first, it was the county medical examiner doing its official autopsy. the only information that they've released from that autopsy officially was that mr. brown was shot multiple times. they would not even say how many times. there was also a leak to the "washington post" from two sources who said they were familiar with that county autopsy. a leak in which those sources allege that michael brown had

marijuana in his system when he was killed. as if that information was more important to release to the public than the number of times he was shot. because of the family's distrust of local authorities, they also arranged for a second autopsy to be done after that first one. so after that first officer was done by the county, then a second one was done by experts brought in by the family. those experts did put a number on it. they did say mr. brown had been shot six times. they released that information publicly. then this weekend, attorney general eric holder announced there would be yet another autopsy, a third one. the federal medical examiner reportedly completing that work yesterday and attorney general eric holder reportedly was briefed on the results of that federal autopsy today. one day ahead of the attorney general visiting ferguson. that is planned for tomorrow. the death of 18-year-old michael brown has become a flashpoint for the nation. again, these are live shots from ferguson right now. at core, this is also very

simply the death of a young man, and his body remains, and his family still has the personal work ahead of laying him to rest and burying him. today, the family announced that michael brown's funeral will be held on monday. they know that this will be an important event not just for their family, but for their community and to a certain extent, for the nation. the funeral on monday is going to be open to the public. they're now having to seek out a venue large enough to accommodate the expected turnout of people wanting to pay their respects. nobody knows what the consequences will be of the funeral of michael brown. nobody knows what the consequences will be, the chain of events his death in ferguson has set in motion. the family finally having a chance to bury him is a reminder that for all this means to all these people, there is nobody who it can possibly matter to more than it matters to his family. joining us now is anthony gray, an attorney for michael brown's family. mr. gray, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me, rachel. it's my pleasure.

>> mr. brown's funeral has been set for monday. it will be a service that the public is allowed to attend. can you share any -- share with us any of the plans for the public service? any of the family's thoughts into what they want to happen at that event? >> well, we know what they want to happen is that they want to have a dignified home going for their child, michael brown jr. as far as the itinerary, who's going to speak and those things, that information has not been finalized. i'm not privy to it, so i don't feel comfortable disclosing that. they definitely want to have a dignified service for their child. >> today, i have to ask you about the potential prosecution in this case, the county prosecuting attorney has been refusing calls from the community to recuse himself to allow special prosecutor to take on the case. the prosecutor's office did say today that the officer involved in the shooting has met with investigators. he'll be offered the opportunity

to speak with the grand jury. so far, though, the governor's ability to replace that county prosecutor with a special prosecutor, the governor has rejected those calls. those calls seem to be getting louder from the community. what are your thoughts on that and the family's thoughts on that at this point? >> well, the family's thoughts are from the very beginning when they saw how this information was being played out within minutes after the shooting, they began to lose their faith and confidence in the local county officials. i don't think that has ever changed, in fact, i think some of the events in the aftermath of that has worsened that feeling. and so i believe that they will support an independent or special prosecutor in this case. they actually are joining the voices of those that are asking for a special prosecutor, and i think they will be satisfied if that move is made. >> has the family been kept in the loop and communicated with adequately and in a compassionate way as this

investigation has gone forward? we know the grand jury meeting tomorrow will be considering evidence in this case. again, we know that the officer has spoken with investigators. we know that there's this political negotiating going on, or at least political calls going on around who is going to be the prosecutor in this case. does the family feel like they have been adequately informed and kept apprised of what's happening all along? >> no, they haven't. no. they do not feel that way because that's not the case. in fact, there has been no effort, to my knowledge, for any of the individuals from the prosecutor's office, from the police department, other than captain ron johnson reaching out to the family pretty much breaking ranks and embracing -- >> unfortunately i have to jump in here because we have lost the audio from anthony gray, attorney of the family of michael brown.

mr. gray, if you can still hear me, i'm sorry we lost your audio. it dropped out completely there. we'll try to get you back. thank you very much for being with us tonight, sir. i have to say, on the left side of your screen there, what you are seeing is police vehicles out on the streets in ferguson, missouri, right now. it's about 8:30 local time. i can't say whether or not these are equivalent numbers or if this is an equivalent mood to what we are seeing this time last night. it's been a big day of developments in this case, including another officer-involved shooting a few miles away from the site of the shooting of michael brown. we'll be keeping an eye on these live shots, and we've got further news ahead. stay with us. 'm ted and this is. 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. they taste like a treat, but they clean like a toothbrush. nothing says you care like a milk-bone brushing chew.

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so the on-the-ground reporting from ferguson, missouri, over the last ten days has occasionally been jaw dropping. reporters so close to what's happening that audiences get what might be an unprecedented feel for a major news event happening in realtime. conflict between law enforcement and the american public. consumable live, instantly on a television or on a computer or on streaming video from cell phone. the tons of visual material from that city streets has been shaping the country's understanding of what is happening in this news story in a very, very direct way, but there is one way in which the events in ferguson are not being covered. because they can't. because the police say they can't. and that is also changing way that people are able to understand the events there, and that story is next. stay with us.

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when we learned today there'd been another officer-involved shooting not in ferguson but four miles away over the line into nearby north st. louis, there's one thing about how we learned about that that was just visually 180 degrees different than what we

have been seeing in ferguson. this is where that shooting happened. and this is a scene of where it happened right after it happened. and it is a view of that scene from overhead, shot by a news helicopter, and the shot got wider and you could see exactly in what context what kind of neighborhood this happened in, how big the response was relative to the neighborhood. how many vehicles were on scene, how many people were on scene. whether people were still arriving there after the shooting or whether they were leaving from there. an aerial view like this helps you get your head around what can otherwise be a confusing or hard to quantify thing that you are looking at, right? it helps you know what you're looking at. helps you understand its scale. we have not had the benefit of that kind of perspective in ferguson. literally, we have not had that kind of overhead visual perspective on ferguson since the protests there got intense and turned into a national story. early in this crisis, the st. louis county police department got a flight ban put in place

for ferguson. they asked the faa to put a no-fly zone into effect over downtown ferguson after they said that a police helicopter got shot at during an early protest. the request to the missouri governor, that flight ban over ferguson was renewed yesterday in order to, quote, provide a safe environment for law enforcement activities. so, law enforcement can fly helicopters over ferguson to monitor protests and to help with policing, but the media cannot fly helicopters over ferguson in order to monitor policing and film the protests. and this is not to question law enforcement's stated need for a flight ban. over the course of the last ten night, almost every night police have said there were reports of shots fired. police have said over and over again that gunfire has been part of this experience, especially late at night in this town. tonight, missouri highway patrol captain ron johnson said that police received calls of shooters on top of buildings in downtown ferguson. last night, at what appeared to be some of the most difficult

clashes so far, police reportedly arrested 78 people and in the course of the night confiscated two handguns and at least one molotov cocktail which they showed off to reporters at about 2:30 in the morning as a way of trying to convince reporters that police directions to the media really were about keeping reporters safe and not just about suppressing the reporting of the news. police say that they have been shot at. they say that their helicopters have been shot at. they say that is why it would be unsafe for media helicopters to be up there. that is their stated reason why news organizations can't fly over the scene to report from that helpful wide-view perspective. it's not a crazy argument, but that said, the no-fly-zone decision which was just renewed yesterday has been really con consequential for the country in terms of trying to understand what's going on there. especially where the police response is intrinsically part of the story. i mean, look at this. when you see these images on the ground, the situation obviously

looks very chaotic. it is chaotic. this is from overnight images from last night in ferguson. one stretch of a major street, just one stretch. we watched these images as they were coming in live just after midnight here in new york. and from what we could see, and from what reporters on the ground described to us from their individual vantage points, it appeared that people were running from a police response. they were being pushed by that police response up the street toward another line of police that was pushing them back into the opposite direction. from the best we could tell with cameras and eyes at ground level, it appeared that these protesters were caught or at least they may have been caught between police lines and basically an impossible position. and it was hard to know for sure, but that's a really important part of the story. that we honestly cannot witness from the perspectives that we are allowed and we thereby cannot communicate to you at home trying to be an educated news consumer about this story. we cannot communicate an important part of what police

are doing on the streets of this town. we can see what's directly in front of our ground level vantage points but it's impossible to tell how scenes like this related to, say, the streets nearby. that kind of perspective is why news organizations use helicopters in the first place. without a view from high up and a circumstance like this, it is hard to get beyond the running moment-to-moment experiential level. frankly, that is not enough to accurately and objectively report on the rationality and reasonableness and effectiveness of police tactics and protesters' tactics. it's hard to tell what's happening when you can only see it from five feet off the ground. and part of the reason we cannot tell what's happening from a better vantage point, the media just literally cannot show it. physically, the media is not being allowed to show what we need to be able to show in order to characterize this in a way that is objective and makes the most sense. joining us now is patricia bynes, democratic committeewoman of ferguson township in the city of ferguson.

thanks very much for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> so can you tell us from your perspective you think the community is, and where the police are tonight in terms of the trajectory of these protests? how long they're going to go on, what the demands are, what the protests are likely to be like from here on out? >> well, let's see, we have some good news coming up with the attorney general coming into town tomorrow. and also i know that we're looking -- bob mccolloch, the prosecutor is moving forward with a grand jury. people are seeing some movement which is the main thing people have been wanting to see out here is the fact that they want this case taken seriously. so i think that that has helped quell some anger about what's going on. they want to make sure that there is justice for him and his family and this community. so i don't know how long this is going to take.

i don't know how long people are going to protest because this also is just not about mike brown. this is about police brutality. this is about racism. this is about racial profiling. and this is about a community that's trying to find its voice. so that doesn't have a specific timeframe, but i'm thinking as things move forward in the investigation, and in pursuing this case, people will probably start changing some of their strategies in protesting and maybe start having more meetings, town halls. i know there are lots of things scheduled. that's where i think very soon we'll start seeing this transition. >> very interesting point. to that point, the mayor and city council in ferguson today put out a statement, once again, asking people not to protest after dark. obviously that instruction is not being heeded by people out on the street. we can see there tonight. they also listed a series of commitments that the city was considering in terms of trying to address people's concerns, everything from trying to get a more diverse police force, to

trying to get dash cams and uniform cams on those police trying to engage more with young people in the city. >> right. >> i saw that happen today and in print it seemed like something -- haven't heard a single person reference it all day, nor does anybody seem to be treating it as an important development in the story. is the city government just not being treated -- not being seen as relevant to this case now? >> well, because of the regionalism in st. louis county, ferguson is just a small municipality overall in the st. louis region. so, yes, they should be commended for working on things, but this is just not a ferguson issue, and people -- we see ideas. we want to see execution as well. we should be having the dialogue. we should be throwing out ideas. this is not just limited to ferguson. this is a regional issue, and it's going to take regional leaders to come forward and not just have more good ideas, but start moving things forward in this area. >> patricia bynes, democratic committeewoman in the city of ferguson.

thank you very much for getting out there and talking with us. i appreciate your time. thank you. again, on the left side of your screen, these are live shots right now from downtown ferguson. see a large police presence right now. at this point we're not look at officers in s.w.a.t.-type gear but have seen tactical-style vehicles out there. there's plenty of people out on the street tonight. this is night ten of protests in ferguson. there was another officer-involved shooting in nearby north st. louis today. we'll keep you apprised. stay right here. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. like 50,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores.

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governor jay nixon of missouri put out a statement saying he will not ask the county prosecutor to recuse himself. the statement effectively says if the county prosecutor ought to be recused from the case, he should do it himself. the governor's statement says -- "there's a well established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special processes cuter be appointed departing from this established process could unnecessarily inject legal uncertainty into this matter and potentially jeopardize the prosecution. >> again, that statement tonight from governor jay nixon from missouri, indicating that he will not ask the county prosecutor to step down and be replaced be a special prosecutor. demanded locally. we'll be keeping an eye on the situation in ferguson throughout the night tonight. keep it here on msnbc. now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. rachel, the future of the as rachel just described, this is now the big issue of the night in ferguson. it has become the cril