attorney ben crump is not here at this moment -- or he's coming out shortly.l you what i'm going to do, i just saw captain johnson a moment ago. where was captain johnson, everybody? captain johnson has been doing a very fine job amen. i'm going to call for captain johnson. he's a very fine man and he's working very hard. you're in our prayers. everybody, captain johnson. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> i want to start off by talking to mike brown's family. and want you to know my heart goes out to you you and i say that i'm sorry. i wear this uniform and i just stand up here and say that i'm sorry. this is my neighborhood. you are my family. you are my friends. and i am you. and will stand and protect you. i will protect your right to protest. i'm going to tell you right now, i'm full right now. i came in here today and i saw people cheering and people clapping and this is what the media needs to put on tv. the last 24 hours have been tough for me. i did an interview last night and the reporter said, something's wrong. your tone has changed. he said, are

the brown's family lawyer ben crump joins us.ood evening, sir. >> good evening. >> it's nice to have you back, sir. we have spoken before. >> yes, ma'am, thank you for having me. we understand as a personal note that the funeral has been set for monday; is that right? >> yes, ma'am. any idea funeral plan also be closed to the public who will be eulogizing michael brown, anything like that. >> the family is still going through that process, greta. as soon as they make their final decisions, we will let y'all know. >> all right. you know, i can't even imagine what it's like for the parents. is there -- you know, is there anything that you can say to them at this point? as we have been watching us what unfolding they lost a son and now we have all this violence out in ferguson. >> yes, ma'am. they are very troubled by the violence. they have asked that people act responsibly and not do anything other than what's within the law. all the violence, they don't think at all what their objective is. and that is to get answers and get just

that's ben crump, the attorney representing trayvon martin's family.e has to say. >> no matter how they try to distract us. we very focused on getting the autopsy done, getting the ballistics expert making sure we look at the trajectory of the bullets, so we know this was an execution, and as others have said, when you put your hand up in the air, this means surrender. don't shoot. and the most hardened criminals in history, when they put their hands up, we didn't execute them. so you want you all to pay close attention, as this autopsy is revealed to you and the see who is telling the truth, the witnesses who all say that he put his hands in the air and said the police kept shooting. or how they try to do the smoke and mirrors and try to say let's don't talk about what happened when you shot him down like a dog in the street. let's now try to assassinate his character after thinks assassinated him in person. don't lose focus what this is about, brothers and sisters. they tried it with trayvon, now they're trying it with michael. yeah, please give her

and i want to bring in now ben crump. i want to get his reaction. he is an attorney for the family. ben, thank you for joining us this evening. what do you think, if this is indeed the video, what do you make of this video? how does this change or help or hurt your case? >> well, don, i think it's consistent with what the witness have reported to have happen in the tragedy that claimed the life of michael brown that afternoon. they talked about it being multiple gunshots, and they talked about he stopped and then put his hands up. but then the officer kept shooting. so i think this is very consistent with all the witness testimony that we have to date. we are still waiting to get the statement from the police officer. they still haven't given us anything officially, you know. they went and they released still photographs in the video from what happened. allegedly in this convenience store. but they still have not given the family any information about what the police officer version is, why he executed their son in broad daylight. >> okay, ben. i want to play this video again, or the

we'll talk to ben crump, the family of an attorney. >> also as seen through officer wilson's eyes, late today, president obama announced that attorney general eric holder will come here on wednesday, he called for justice and for peace. >> well, i understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of michael brown. giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. it undermines rather than advancing justice. let me also be clear that our constitutional rights to speak 23r50e8, to assemble and report in the press must be vigilantly safeguarded. especially in moments like these. there's no excuse for excessive force by police or any action that denies people the right to protest peacefully. >> mr. obama was equally balanced on the specific question of racing too many young african-american are wrong ly accused. this comes from a woman calling herself josie who phoned into a local radio talk show, claiming to know officer wilson's side of the story. what she said matches what the officer told police.

. >>> and is this tun today, attorney ben crump and darrell -- we've got a fight in the -- the fight starts tomorrow. >> so we have watching this rally. that is michael brown, the father you just heard from calling for a day of silence. their memorial funeral is planned for funeral. the correspondent on the scene who's been there. mike, are you with us? fill in some of the gaps. i have watching it, and basically it was a concert up until about four minutes ago. >> right. they call it peace fest. it's as much about community outreach and politics as much about the death of mike brown as it is about music. you have a stage, and it really looks lie the festival was planned in advantage and they're using this as an opportunity to get out the most recent events. we had a strong voice really walling for calm. . he wants peace more than anything else so he can get through the day of the funeral without street democrat stations. previously they had one from the nation of islam, asking people not to demonstrate tomorrow. mike, i want to tell everybody that person they just saw on the. benjami

ben crump, thank you. representing the family of michael brown. >>> when we come back here on "the daily rundown" on this tuesday, lots more. lots more from ferguson, missouri. if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could seek out the dark? what would happen if that happens? anything. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a delicious taste. grandpa! [ female announcer ] stay strong, stay active with boost. >>> much more from ferguson here in just a few moments right now. there are other breaking news to pass along to you. hamas tv is reporting that israel has bombed agriculture l

>> in addition to myself, attorney darryl parks and ben crump have been down to what we are referringas ground zero and have spoken to several community leaders, overwhelmingly in support of the call for peace and calm. those individuals that are creating what we want to call unrest and havoc is a demographic, quite frankly, i don't think i can communicate with. they're not identified as a group and it's hard to know who those people are to make a personal appeal. >> it didn't look like a group. >> it looked like a lot of isolated individuals. thank you very much, jake. >> it could take months before a grand jury decides to indict wilson, but what happens in the meantime? >> he's trying to keep the peace by appealing to protesters to work with police, but just with a few hours before night falling, is anyone listening to this pastor? moderate to severe is tough, but i've managed. i got to be pretty good at managing my symptoms, except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said my crohn's was not under control. he said humira is for adults lik

perception, it was very, very important as you remember in the zimmerman case, the martin family through ben crumpndth and others had a strong narrative, turned out not to be true compared to the facts presented but a strong narrative. what i noticed in this case is that darron wilson's supporters are quite silent. i'm very surprised that he doesn't have a lawyer whose being vocal, not necessarily with the facts of the case but at least give darron wilson a face, give him a support so that people know there are two sides to the story that are coming out and i think it's very important that we balance it. in the zimmerman case it was so important because we knew we would face a jury and we didn't want the jury to only hear one side of the story, same thing here. >> neal, do we know if the officer has an attorney? there is a defense fund, raised some $176,000 so far, has he hired an attorney yet? >> i have a finger on that pulse and i'm sure he's represented by counsel but no one announced publicly they are representing him. in light of mark, and this is important. fy were advising him, i would tell

ben crump, civil rights attorney who you may remember from the trayvon martin case has gotten involved, representing the family of michael brown. >> and demonstrations continue right now. >> the demonstrations thus far today have been peaceful. the demonstrations were allowed to continue with the promise that they didn't get out of hand. we have a list of demands from a group calling themselves the ad hoc committee for justice. the demands including the release of the identity of the officer involved in the shooting, firing him, and a makeover in the police department sew the ethnicity of the police force reflects that of the community, and that follows violent protests from over the weekend. more than a dozen stores were ransacked and looted. traffic was blocked. cars vandalized. graffiti was put up saying the only good cop is a dead cop. the chief of the county police department said he was surprised no one was shot. in the end, 32 people war arrested. >> the county police department now heading that investigation, at least for now. thank you. >>> mid-east peace talks star started ag

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the reason i went to sanford friday is when attorney ben crump said they wouldn't even arrest the guyat do you mean wouldn't arrest the guy? they said the police station said sustain your grouped. they have to go to court on that. that's got to be litigated in the court. and i think that's what has happened here. >> more of our conversation today at 12:00 noon when reverend al addresses his role. . >>> could it be the beginning of the end for the plastic shopping bag? that's next. ♪ ♪ it's time to bring it out in the open. it's time to drop your pants for underwareness, a cause to support the over 65 million people who may need depend underwear. show them they're not alone and show off a pair of depend. because wearing a different kind of underwear, is no big deal. join us. support the cause and get a free sample of depend at underwareness.com chances are we're already there. or what you want to do, 12 brands. more hotels than anyone else in the world. like super 8, where every destination is super. for a chance to win one million dollars, visit wyndhamrewards.com doctors have been pr

. >> the attorney for trayvon martin's family, ben crump is representing michael brown's family.med black man shot dead. what similarities do you see? >> there are a lot. we look at the way the zimmerman case was handled. this is a young investigation. we learned a lot of lessons from the zimmerman case that they do have to be transparent and do it quickly, but they still have to do it completely. i have to disagree with mark car goes a bit by suggesting this is not transparent. it is not appropriate for law enforcement to let out every bit of information as they gleam it. we know that the federal agencies looking at the case in st. louis county have the officer's name, his background, they have his disciplinary his and i medical records. the work is being done but we all know in the system that what you don't do is let out information before it is crystallized so that we know. because you let out one bit of information in an investigation now, it will impact and affect another witnesses' testimony. >> mark, if i could just jump in then why was the chief making all of those state

i am going to sit down with my partners ben crump and darryl parks and we are going to discuss what is the pros and cons of dissiminating that information. we will make a decision after we come together after talking about the results when we get there. >> we appreciate you being with us this evening here on cnn. thank you for taking the time. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate you. you guys have a great day. >> we have a lot more special coverage of the situation in ferguson, missouri as it unfolds. next we will have the executive director of the national organization of black law enforcement executives. he is going to weigh in on the curfew just set and will take place this evening. what is his take? is that the right move? a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, this can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain, and improve daily physical function so moving is easier. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief f

ben crump, attorney for the brown family, invoking the history of racial discrimination going all the way back to the notorious 3/5 clause in the u.s. constitution. >> an african-american was to be considered 3/5 of a man, but we declare here today that we pay our final respects to michael brown jr. that he was not 3/5 of a citizen. he was an american citizen. and we will not accept 3/5 justice. >> msnbc's own reverend al sharpton delivering an impassioned eulogy urged the audience to turn their grief and anger into action. >> we can't have a fit. we've got to have a movement. a fit, you get mad and run out for a couple of nights. a movement means we got to be here for the long haul. and turn out chance into change. a demonstration in the legislation. we have got to stay on this so we can stop this. >> in an emotionally raw interview yesterday, mike brown's parents sitting alongside the parents of trayvon martin, told msnbc's craig melvin what it was like to see their son's body at the funeral home for almost the last time. >> i looked at him. i talked to him. i touched him. >> not ha

. >> ben crump, the family attorney released a statement saying it is character assassination and essentially blaming the victim. what do you say to that? >> i agree. it is character assassination. we have not been happy with the investigation as it has been conducted by the ferguson police department. >> what do you think is going on to release it on the same day? >> what i think is going on as i stated, it's an attempt to smear michael's character to get your eyes off what is really going on and focus on something else. we're not going to lose our focus. we'll ask people continue to come out and peacefully protest. we'll ask people to remember that this is not about what happened at a convenience store but more what happened when michael was executed. >> you don't think they have anything to do with each other? >> i do not. >> how do you think the community will react in response to this tape because now there is even more suspicion around the actions of police officers. >> i think that what happened with the chief releasing this tape at the same time as he released the name of the officer

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. >> thank you very much, ben crump. appreciate it. >>> coming up, we will speak to a cousin of michael brown about the family's reaction to today's development. and we will continue our breaking news coverage of the michael brown shooting. >>> and up next msnbc host reverend al sharpton will discuss the information released by police today and what it means in the search for justice for brown's family. and the lieutenant governor of missouri will be here and i will ask what the state is doing to respond to this unfolding controversy, including the changes to how and who polices ferguson, missouri. that and your questions to the lieutenant governor coming up. ♪ [music] jackie's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today her doctor has her on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver,

i talked to their attorney, ben crump earlier, is very concerned about the grand jury process. the prosecutor could have gone the route of a probable cause hearing, right? can you explain what that is and the difference? because presumably then, my understanding is all the evidence would have been laid thought the open in open court. >> right. a probable cause hearing, which is not usually how these things work, missouri, like california and many other states, has an option for the prosecutor. one is simply to bring charges and then have a preliminary hearing, a public preliminary hearing where the government has to show probable cause. it's a very low barrier. alternatively, the government can go to the grand jury, which is a secret proceeding, no judge, and the prosecutor puts evidence before the grand jury, asks the grand jurors, do you find probable cause, then they issue the indictment. one is a public process, one is private. the grand jury process is much more under the control of the prosecutor, and they can put exactly as much evidence as they want into it. now, it's n

attorney ben crump. >> just remember, today it is the parents of michael brown jr.hat if we don't stand up as a community tomorrow it could be your child. so i want to know. are you going to stand up for michael brown jr.? can we count on you to stand up for michael brown jr.? all of you all people did it so well, reverend al. they came up with it all on their own. this campaign called hands up don't shoot. so when i count to three, i want you to all to let michael brown and his family know that you believe in this campaign. on three, hands up don't shoot. one, two, three -- hands up don't shoot. thank you. god bless you. >> all right, st. louis. you all all right? now i want to take a moment to bring to the stage mama betty thompson. if she is here, mama betty thompson is here, brother malik. we would be remiss if we did not allow -- >> we were just listening to the father of michael brown jr. he's pleading for a day of silence tomorrow for his son. asking whatever happens tomorrow, whatever anybody says, don't say anything until they can put his son and lay his so

>> i got a phone call from ben crump and anthony gray, i believe it was last wednesday, asking if i wouldin to help dr. baden and work on the case with him to give a forensic analysis on the gunshot wounds, primarily to answer questions for the family. >> this report detoday was your preliminary report. when will you be releasing a larger or final report? >> well, i talked with my colleague, dr. baden, today. we really need to be able to view the first autopsy report and all subsequent materials with that. that would be the tox report, the x-rays their photographs that they took, proverbally also talk with the pathologist that did that autopsy, look at the clothing mr. brown had on. then also look at the witness statements. when i say witness statements i mean the officer's statements, not the statement that the friend is giving but the actual officer's statement. and also look at credible witnesses that the legal teams will be able to filter through and find credible witnesses and look at those. and the reconstruction of the crime scene. and put all that together, then we can issue a ver

well, their representative attorney ben crump will be live on "the lead" with jake tapper at the topur to respond to what's coming out of ferguson police. so a lot of questions about cameras. police cameras. there is no police video to document the deadly confrontation between that police officer, darren wilson, and michael brown. so there is a growing call to put these dashcams on all police vehicles pop not only that, but to have all police officers wear these body cameras. alina muchado shows us why. >> this is a police cam, this is is the camera, this is the recording device. police in daytona beach say they've already helped ease tensions in a few cases. this is video taken from two body cameras last september when daytona beach police officers knocked down a door and saw a man armed with a knife threatening a woman. moments later -- [ gunshots ] >>> officers fired several shots. an kz an they say saved the woman's life. but that's not the end of the story. >> i arrived on the scene 15 minutes later. there's at least 100 residents screaming at me as i get out of my car that my o

ben crump, darrell parks, and we will sit down and discuss how best to disseminate that information to those who are wondering and that are curious. >> do you have concern about the integrity of witnesses, and i say this because we've now seen three eyewitnesss, one of whom who have spoke to me on this program, all of those accounts broadly in line with each other. at the same time, if i were a prosecutor who was worried about making a case, i would be quite worried about my witnesses, my star witnesses talking to the media. do you have that concern? >> i do not have that concern at this point. and if mr. mccullough does have that concern, i think he should communicate that and articulate his basis for that concern. and perhaps that can be addressed. but personally, for myself, i don't have a problem with it, because like you just stated, the witness accounts are all virtually aligned in the critical facts of what happened. >> how are mike brown's family -- how is the family doing? >> you know, they never recovered. they have never had an opportunity to recover. and now things are star

. >> attorney ben crump spoke at the press conference on behalf of brown's family asking the key question that many here in ferguson, many that i've spoken to say is the heart of these protests. >> his mother wanted to ask the 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? >> on the streets of ferguson it's a different scene tonight, after the worst night of violence since the protests began last week, with tear gas deployed up to three hours before the midnight curfew, gunshots fired and stores looted along the main commercial strip including a fire set at the delwood market. governor jay nixon called in the national forward today to help protect the highway patrol's command center which is just about a half mile to a mile away from where we are now. law enforcement firms say that command center came under a coordinated attack last night. we'll have more about the heavily contested details of just what happened during that event in a bit. with the national guard on the ground, there's no curfew tonight. som

anderson, you just spoke to ben crump. i just saw your conversation. he is representing michael brown's family. how is the family doing tonight? >> well, obviously, we've been focusing in the last week or so on the protests here. but this is a family in mourning. this is a family who lost their son a little bit more than a week ago, killed about three blocks from where i'm standing and where these crowds have been gathering. and on top of dealing with the morning process, and today we learned there will be a funeral and a public memorial service on monday, that was announced today by the family and by their attorneys, but this is a family that has also been suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. and they want to pursue what they consider to be justice for their son. they want to see this case go to trial. they want to see an arrest of the police officer involved here. as jake may have mentioned. a grand jury is set to begin as early as tomorrow. but that process may take several weeks. so in addition to mourning the loss of their 18-year-old son,

individual that's responsible in some way, or some aspects, in looking at this case, my firm along with ben crumpnd daryl parks, as well as the federal government, want to have information that they can direct, that they can trust, coming from sources that they trust and information they can put their fingertips on. and so from that standpoint, i can understand why you have three separate autopsies. >> in terms of the family and how they're doing, we're now nine days into this, nine days since mr. brown was killed. how is the family holding up? and how -- i guess how are they coping? what's their strategy as a family to try to hold it together with so much attention and so much pressure amid their grief? >> sure. sure. well, i don't know how you prepare for this. i don't know what class you can take to cope with something like this. and i can just tell you this, rachel, from the very first day that this happened, it's been overwhelming and shocking for this family. they have not buried their child. he has not been laid to rest yet. and so all of the emotions are still there from that initial day,

. >> i think it's important to know that ben crump really is one of the foremost civil rights attorneysur time. >> i want to be clear. the ferguson police department, as well as the town council, they have dissolved all of their interests so far in this case and turned everything other to county police division to do the investigation. now the county is finally speaking. after the break, we're going to tell you exactly what they're telling the public at this point because there are so many unanswered questions. whether we'll hear about the genesis, the incident that sparked this all. [announcer] word is getting out. purina dog chow light & healthy is a deliciously tender and crunchy kibble blend. with 20% fewer calories than purina dog chow. isn't it time you discovered the lighter side of dog chow. purina dog chow light & healthy. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. it can help your business save money. false. the truth is when you compare our fastest internet to the fastest dsl from the phone company

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morning when i talked to members of the family and the attorneys that had not been scheduled, i think ben crump and others have worked out whatever they need to work out. >> we know governor nixon was going to be going to a state fair up until this morning when he decided to cancel that appearance and get more publicly involved at least on this issue. have you been satisfied with the response of lawmakers in the state of missouri to what is happening in ferguson some. >> unless you think i'm satisfied with no response. i mean, there has been none in terms of -- you would expect the governor would have done this a couple of days ago. >> yeah. >> he's a democratic governor. >> the president almost beat the governor to the statement. >> this is the second statement. he did beat the governor. this is the second statement the president of the united states has made and the thing that i respect about what the president has made, he addressed the issues that we raised in terms of the doj involvement and the attorney general on both statements and he's supposed to be on vacation. the governor's in the

. >> we know that ben crump who represents the family said, look, i don't know michael brown but it appears in the video. no one has said it was definitively him. the community said maybe it was photo shopped, they're not sure. but my question is, is that an important point that ben is making, not only the state of mind of the officer at the time but also the state of mind of michael brown? >> well, look, there's two things to be said here. first of all, a lot of what people are upset about is not just that this information came out but that what was not released by police. that they did not release any of the information about the shooting and the scene at that crime. how many shots were fired, whether there was in fact shots fired inside the car. so they have only released one side of the story and it does seem to be an attempt to smear michael brown and to try and exonerate this police officer, number one. number two, i think people need to stop and think what could have possibly transpired, worst case scenario, that this young man was fleeing, was fleeing. even according to the police o

a public sidewalk and as you can see here to the right that's where jake did his interview with ben crumpere. jake tapper is here. i saw anderson cooper walk up. he was doing some interviews talking to people. people stopped us and asked us to take pictures. very orderly. they are excited to see us and excited to be here. people don't see cameras all the time. they don't see the people they see on television all the time. they want to walk up to us, touch us, take pictures with us and meet us and know our stories. so we learn their stories. that's how we learn about them. we're standing out here. we're doing what the police officers told us to do as members of the media stand here and do your interviews and people are standing around us and then all of a sudden that happens. perfect example. glad it happened on camera so everybody could see it. >> so you were there following the guidelines that they set up for you don and you were being pushed out of your way. >> absolutely. i had done no more, no less, how many live shots have we done? ten. every hour, two hours not just for cc, domestic