you are on the air with cathy schneider. c-span.thank you, cathy, i think you have some of your facts wrong. justolice were not in gear to show up. they were there after the riot began. they need to protect themselves from these looters, from these vandals, from these criminals and other people like that. i mean, these people are not taking flowers. were terrorizing the community. i mean, it just so happens to be the community they live in, but they were domestic terrorist. s.i am all for the police and law and order, but i think it is about time that some people start taking responsibility for their own actions. i mean, mr. brown has a record a mile long. i saw it this morning. he was arrested multiple times for armed robbery. his partner was arrested for robbery. i mean, these were not choirboys. quit making it out to some like these were some angels. host: cathy schneider, your response. guest: ok. ok, so, let me address the points one by one. i find itis curious that the police feel that they have to protect themselves fr

you are on the air with cathy schneider. .thank you, cathy, i think you have some of your facts wrong. justolice were not in gear to show up. they were there after the riot began. they need to protect themselves from these looters, from these vandals, from these criminals and other people like that. i mean, these people are not taking flowers. were terrorizing the community. i mean, it just so happens to be the community they live in, but they were domestic terrorist. s.i am all for the police and law and order, but i think it is about time that some people start taking responsibility for their own actions. i mean, mr. brown has a record a mile long. i saw it this morning. he was arrested multiple times for armed robbery. his partner was arrested for robbery. i mean, these were not choirboys. quit making it out to some like these were some angels. host: cathy schneider, your response. guest: ok. ok, so, let me address the points one by one. i find itis curious that the police feel that they have to protect themselves from the

host: i guess is cathy schneider, the author of "police power and race riots."is also a professor at american university, and she is here to talk about the situation in ferguson, missouri after 18-year-old michael brown was shot and killed earlier this week. cathy, thank you so much for joining us this morning. guest: thank you very much. host: i want to start by reading headlines because there is a developing situation that happened early this morning and ferguson. the st. louis post-dispatch has this headline -- storm after column -- quiet night air routes as police, protesters square off. the story says that for most of friday night,

that is cathy schneider, author of "police power and race riots ," and also an associate professor at american university. that is our show for today. join us tomorrow morning when "washington journal" will discuss president lyndon johnson's great society. we will have robert woodson and michael lind speaking as well as other guests. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ >> coming up next, gingrich talking about improving veterans health care through the use of smart phones and other technology. after that, and look at a recent decision by the d.c. court of appeals having to do with federal subsidies in the health care law. a discussion on how the deferred action program for childhood arrivals by president obama. we spent over a decade as part of the family. it is always good for us to be back here.