explode. missouri state senator maria chappelle-nadal tweeted -- "edward crawford is dead. found in his car shot to death. he is #ferguson's hero. for those of us tear-gassed, he was our local champion. rip" crawford died in his car from a gunshot wound on thursday. his father has rejected the police's initial claims that the death was a suicide. he is the third ferguson protester to have been found shot dead inside their own cars since the uprising. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. president trump has set off a political firestorm after firing fbi director james comey just weeks after comey confirmed the fbi was investigating whether trump's campaign collaborated with russia to sway the 2016 election. comey was four years into a 10-year term.