for ferguson native, the fight started after michael brown was killed, a fight for justice continues. . >> to be honest, not much has changed. there's still an ongoing struggle l every day which they are fighting for justice. >> seal stood with bodene and michael brown's mother on the night they learnt there would be no indictment against the officer. >> i'm glad it was recognised on a global stage. so many around the world don't understand. they say the attention has not done much. >> something is terribly wrong with our system. it needs to change. we need to talk about what they'll do and what should be done. seal says he's doing his part to help fix up the area where he grew up. he recently helped convert a school into a gym to get kids off the street. he is ready for a new beginning. many like him are ready for ferguson to move out of the spotlight and into a future bringing everyone together >>> next, a second look at another spark that ignited furore in ferguson. the armed forces, america's police departments. later, black lives matter, in a place you might not expect. why the d

ferguson, missouri. and the larger issue of police and race and use of force. one year ago, ivy lewis in her native st. louis, attending rallies in ferguson. >> changed and it showed how much we are united what the media did was show a lot of the violence that happened but we were united most of the time. >> reporter: in brooklyn, protesters lay on the ground for 4:30 to mark the 4 1/2 hours michael brown was left lying in the street after he was shot. michael brown. but meanwhile, we understand that there's a problem in the city of new york. misconduct. >> reporter: their goal, they say, is to note progress made the last year while to do. >> we started to make slow progress. indictments. we're starting to -- it's slow, it's grad um it's not something that is going to take place overnight. >> michael brown never got justice. guess what? you're not getting peace today. >> reporter: police officer darren wilson was not charged with a crime when he killed michael brown. protesters say, he should have been, as should a number of other officers accused of killing black and latino men and women without cause.

joining me from ferguson, missouri, is st. louis native artist and co-founder of hands up united.alk to me about the direct action strategy here, the idea of interrupting and sort of what value that has and what kind of action that is? >> well, i believe that on a certain level, when we say black lives matter there's still a demographic of the country of the world of this society that doesn't hear us, they don't understand us. so at this point in time, at this particular point we're at in history, disruption is so valuable to the movement, it's so valuable to having our voices heard. essentially you're looking at a community of people that remains voiceless, unless someone does something over the top like throw a brick through a window or some form of civil disobedience. you see peaceful negotiations, people trying to go about it the right way. >> this point of disruption, jacquie feels critical to me. at every point movements that made a difference had to disrupt. >> that's right. i like to call it an ethical spectacle. and one of the things that i'm loving about the young people

native american, but it is still going on today. host: i will stop you there. we will move on, by appreciate you weighing in. we are talking about fergusonhat you're later. if you're interested, the pew research center has looked at the divide between life and .hites, saying it runs deep serving as asurvey backdrop is how differently the issue is viewed by blacks and whites. nathan is next from pennsylvania, republican line. good morning. caller: i don't know where to start. it's a mess. first of all, as i said once before, there is such a disconnect from reality. one person called up and is black livest how don't matter. when a white guy is killed by blacks, which happens all the time -- when a white guy is shot by a black cop, of course that number from ferguson, i think about 300 something blacks were shot, and the same statistic came up that 500 blacks.ere shot by no one watches in the street for a white guy. .here's no sense of solidarity when something happens to white person, people really just yawn. i could list hundreds of examples of egregious crimes that happened against whites all the time. we all know that. statistics show t

native active in the community. liz thank you for being with us here. >> thank you. >> you're seeing everything that's happened the past 48 hours there in st. louis and in ferguson.ffle that's been going on, state of emergency. when everybody speaks of a progress a year later after the death of michael brown, this is the scene we're seeing now. >> well, it should be a reminder to people that the reason that people went to the streets, the reason why there were protests a year ago, people were seeking justice for mike brown. and one year later, there have been 1,000 killings by police. police have killed 1,000 americans. those are military numbers. >> right. >> when people went to the streets they were seeking justice. one year later, little has changed to address the justice for michael brown. we have a police department that is not reflective of the community one year later. we have employees of the police department that were fired for using racist language and hired in other communities. we have -- i went to the library in ferguson. this is anecdotal. 90% of the people using the library were african-americans, 100% of the people working at the library were whi