. >> it's not just mike brown. it's life and times of bad dealings with the police. >> the militarized forces that lit a spark. >> this is becoming a part of the culture of american policing. >> and we look ahead. will police be able to keep the peace? "america tonight's" special report, "flashpoint ferguson." good evening. thank you for joining us. our "america tonight" team just returned from ferguson, missouri outside of st. louis on several days of reporting a story that gripped the nation and surprised us as well. we consider what led the community to explode with long, pent-up anger this hour, and how it was sparked by the death of the unarmed 18-year-old michael brown, shot and killed by a police officer in the street outside his grandmother's apartment last weekend. today civil rights leaders as well as the missouri highway patrol captain, ron johnson, spoke to us a standing-room only crowd at greater grace church. johnson reminded the community that no one is perfect, and even compared his own children to

was rushing the officer, others have maintained mike brown was going down onto the ground. >> my client says mike, the officer shot him and closed the gap, continued to shoot him and mike fell down. >> your client says at no time did mike brown bum rush or rush towards the officer. >> that's correct. >> is there a change about the position of the hands? "the new york times" are saying the hands were not high and then indicating -- >> if the new york times is saying that, they are saying it from somebody else. my client testified with the fbi for three hours and clear on what he testified and said he saw. >> are you concerned at all about the credibility of your client? >> first of all, you know, when people witness something like this, it's not an exact science. things kind of, it happens in a blur. it's hard for people. the guy is 22 years old. he was scared for his life, gun goes off at the car. he's in shock. >> eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. >> it changes from time to time but the beauty about this situation is he won't be charged -- he won't be judged by what the m

i'm sorry, mike brown was killed by ferguson police. can see, folks are honking their horns. but as the train falls, it's far fewer people out on the streets tonight. for the second night in a row, we are seeing a very, very limited police presence. there are police officers from the state highway patrol and from the ferguson police, who are mixing and talking to folks. but as of yet, nothing like the very militaryized response we saw. earlier, i had the opportunity to talk with a local cab driver who is an absolute character. he's third generation north county st. louis. his name is umar lee, a convert to islam, and he knows why this area has changed and how important and central that is to what is happening right now. >> the historic migration pattern within north county was mostly farmland, ferguson's a railroad town, some other small towns in north county. i think that 1950s housing boom, and then you get desegregation in the city. and so, white flight out of white north st. louis to north county. and then decades later, you get afr

you're saying that the eyewitness that said mike brown was charging was not looking at mike brown? >> i'm saying -- i looked at the video that you just showed and that was not mike brown. mike brown has a white t-shirt and he's laying on the ground. i saw that. that was someone coming to his aid. >> i'm not sure i totally understand. i understand your point that you're making. as a former prosecutor, current defense attorney, do you trust eyewitness testimony which regardless of which video they were taking, you now have in the example our reporter just showed three different accounts which contradict each other of people who all say they were there. >> it depends on the eyewitness testimony. all of the experts say there are inherent problems with eyewitness testimony. juries want to see other physical evidence such as the autopsy, forensics that corroborate eyewitness testimony because it tends to be unreliable. >> natalie, attorney general eric holder who is in ferguson today, met with mike brown's family. he said, quote, hundreds of people have already been interviewed in connec

but that area where mike brown was killed is the old kinloch residents. >> mike brown had a future. > he had a future, but you had to put it within the cultural context that mike might have a future, but a lot of these youths you see out here on the street don't have a future. they don't feel connected to society or connected to anything else. they don't feel that they have anything to live for. they don't feel like they have anything to lose. >> against all that a police department that remains nearly all white in ferguson and law enforcement in the surrounding county increasingly equipped with military-grade gear. marley said it's all enough to ignite the powder keg. >> anti-i.e.d. vehicles, tanks, aircraft, guys dressing like villains from batman. it was so absurd why people were dressed like they were going to fight the taliban. it was just a bizarre situation. it doesn't mesh with reality. like, i had never seen that stuff in the hands of law enforcement. i realized that it existed, but i never knew it was a tool for policing of a suburban communi community. >> and despite assura

they are sync with his name, mike brown. what you are also saying -- scene, no incidents of violence, no bottles thrown, no pushing or shoving, and nothing other than people loudly, loudly voicing their frustrations with the frustration. the loud voices of frustration of the situation isn't limited to ferguson, missouri. it has spread across the country. some of the images out a times square, where many protesters stopped traffic in the middle of times square. they were surrounded by the police. there was a memorial for those who have died at the hands of police in chicago. there are protests happening around the nation. in the heart of it all, a very, very different scene than what we saw last night. joining me now is a reporter who has been here, germain lee, who was here last night. how would you describe this? >> what a difference a day makes. one person described it as freedom. this is what freedom looks like. what they have seen, they felt was not freedom. the police drew a line in the sand and challenged people to com

mourning the loss of mike brown, demanding justice in his name. raising awareness about the fact that the policing in this country and the way the criminal justice system currently functions leaves a lot of people feeling like justice is not at all done. joining me to talk an the national implications of this, jalani cobb, a professor at hartford, am i correct? >> university of connecticut. >> university of connecticut. liz brown, a local columnist no st. louis. you joined me last night. we've been talking about -- we've kind of been working out in circles about issue here. there's the interaction that happened in that moment. where that police officer, it appears, from the facts as we know them, had a conception of who these people were. that he was ordering to get off the street. again, this is according to eyewitness testimony. >> right. >> and then it goes out to what that police force looks like and goes out to what the structure of thissen en tcounty looks lio north county, missouri. the fact of the matter, in los angeles, new york, you have

they are sync with his name, mike brown. what you are also saying -- scene, no incidents of violence, no bottles thrown, no pushing or shoving, and nothing other than people loudly, loudly voicing their frustrations with the frustration. the loud voices of frustration of the situation isn't limited to ferguson, missouri. it has spread across the country. some of the images out a times square, where many protesters stopped traffic in the middle of times square. they were surrounded by the police. there was a memorial for those who have died at the hands of police in chicago. there are protests happening around the nation. in the heart of it all, a very, very different scene than what we saw last night. joining me now is a reporter who has been here, germain lee, who was here last night. how would you describe this? >> what a difference a day makes. one person described it as freedom. this is what freedom looks like. what they have seen, they felt was not freedom. the police drew a line in the sand and challenged people to com

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if they believe people who supports mike brown's contentions, the family's contentions, the co.to get convicted. >> that's if this ever gets to a grand jury indictment, charge and then ultimately to trial. i mean, those are a lot of different steps, and there could be all sorts of things that thwart that process or change it in any way. thank you both. st. louis area police, by the way, yesterday shot and killed another african-american man they say posed a threat. the man was wielding a knife and advancing on them. so the question becomes, as you look at the video, did the officers react too quickly, or did they follow standard procedure? we're going to go through the video with an expert in police training and protocol, and you will hear for yourself what the police are trained to do in a circumstance just like this. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things

and new information now from the police department regarding the man, the young man who was with mike brown, dorian johnson. >> don, terrific reporting over there. we're showing the video. i know you can't see it. we do see the man who is suspected to be michael brown. there he is. pushing the clerk there, walking out, allegedly, after in his hands are a bunch of cigars that he supposedly, allegedly, stole from that convenience store. you see the clerk following him. that's michael brown, the 18-year-old teenager who was shot and killed moments later by a police officer. don, do we know that the police officer in question who has now been identified as darren wilson, do we know that he was looking for this suspect in this strong arm robbery as it's called in this convenience store and that's why he stopped michael brown to begin with? is that clear to you? >> why he stopped michael brown, why the officer you said -- >> yeah. >> why he stopped him, did he think he was a -- yes. so if you look at the incident report, it shows, and there's a time stamp on it, it shows that inside of the store

i'm 22 years old. >> did you know mike brown? >> yes, ma'am, he was a good friend of mine. him and dorian. >> dorian johnson? >> yes, ma'am. >> were you around august 9? >> i came soon after mike was already pronounced dead. >> can you tell me a little bit about him? did he live here? >> he has family that lives over here in this building. and on up through northwinds. he was a good friend of mine. people from black communities, a lot of black people don't graduate and finish school. they'd rather do other stuff. gigantic parents and stuff. they have to fend for themselves. my wasn't one of them. he was one of them guys that finished school. she had parents that was on him and supported him. this is just uncalled for. it is really uncalled for. it is just not right. they want to block as in and make us feel like we're nothing. like we have no say so. we live here, pay rent here, and we have been here forever. forever. i just one justice served. i want to see mike's family happy and proud knowing this cop killer's office street and knowing by black people are not being killed

will it go to mike brown's state of mind. if we get somewhere down the line in trial and officer wilson's defense wants to go to mike brown's state of mind meaning he was a robbery suspect. he saw a police officer and a police officer said something to him so he automatically thought that officer was there to pick him up for what he had just done. maybe he was a little more aggressive. is that an argument we'll see? >> possibly. even to flip the script, even if we accept everything that they have said. the narrative from the police department is true. witnesses have not said the officer warned him. even if we accept it was him in the convenient store and he did shoplift and assault the man. does that mean he's waived all his rights to justice and he deserves to be shot dead. the police department's, with that backdrop, the police department's tone deafness has been incredible. now that they are in this phase where they are demonizing the deceased, a teenager who is dead while his parents are attempting to grieve, that only ma

it doesn't have to be that mike brown was an angel and the officer was the devil or that mike brown was a demon and the officer was an angel. if there was a crime committed, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with who these people are, but others argue it does. >> that's part of what happens is everybody rushes to the different camp like different tribes and we lose humanity on each side and reality is, there is no perfect teenage boy out here. if that's a standard for whether you get shot or not, we'll have a bunch of dead teenage boys, white, black, green purple and no perfect law enforcement officer. my dad was a cop and my uncle retired from the police force. they are human beings and make mistakes. what happens is you rush into different corners and one has to be the devil, one has to be a saint and we lose touch with humanity and that's a big thing going on here, the polarization. >> again, it's polarization at a time when we don't have the facts and we don't have any forensic evidence, none of that, you know, there is a number of eyewitnesss that have come forward and we'

behind me, it's been clear to me and told to me this group is for mike brown. while it may be peaceful in these hours, the demonstrations will continue today, even if the cameras aren't here to catch it. they want to focus on mike brown, as well as the youth who they say suffer at the hands of the police. in ferguson, missouri, nick valencia, cnn. >>> rick perry is defiant. lawyers filing a 60-page motion to dismiss charges against him. i defies common sense and violates the state and constitution. it comes from the state funding for the office of d.a. who refused to resign. >>> california turning to technology to fight smartphone theft. jerry brown fought a law requiring kill switches. the cell phones made after july 1, 2015 and sold in california had feature that is make stolen devices inoperable. it makes it standard on all phones. owners will be able to opt out, if they want. >> 18 minutes past the hour. crisis in ukraine. the president accuses russia of sending soldiers into the country to fight with the separatists. we are live with the latest, next. (mal

the ferguson police told nbc news the officer who did the shooting saw mike brown with the stolen cigars and thought brown might be a suspect in the robbery. brown family today blasted the ferguson police force for what they called a strategy of blaming the victim. todd johnson is a reporter for the grio and joins us from ferguson. todd, thanks for being with us. there is a lot of confusing, almost baffling information from the police department in ferguson. i want to make sense of this first to understand exactly where we are. this morning they put out a video. their clear implication is there is a connection here. this afternoon the chief of police gives the press conference are. he's asked several times if the officer was responding to the robbery. he says no. this was about getting him out of the street and not blocking traffic. then apparently after the press conference we are now finding out that the chief is now telling people, well, wait, the officer saw cigars and made a connection. is that the official story of the police now? >> i'm confused just listening to you recap what's

mike brown can't move back. and apparently a few moments ago everybody started clapping because they worked together to diffuse the situation that -- >> you can -- >> about two blocks up. >> you can see right there, the sort of intensity of that confrontation that is happening down there. you and i have been talking and -- you're from ferguson you live here. we have been talking about the surreal charged intensity of what it's been for eight days and there's a sense in which it's true the media comes in and we show images of tear gas and there's sort of this -- this kind of incentive to sensationalize, but the actual thing driving the story, and tell me if i'm wrong -- is the genuine angst and anger and sense of injustice that people have here. >> definitely. people -- just looking at the -- the autopsy came out yesterday and indicated all the fronts were in front, corroborating with the witnesses and their stories, and there's still been no indictment or arrest of officer wilson, and people are driven -- the th

you know, damon mentioned mike brown. got to tell you that we haven't spoken a lot or certainly not enough about mike brown certainly over the past few days when we've been tracking the progress of the protest and whether or not it's staying peaceful or if it had evolved into unrest. but there was a moment earlier on air where joie chen had an opportunity. she's host of america tonight, to speak about mike brown and his life with his art teacher. here's that before. >> so as a treat in my classroom i would play my son's beats, and if the kids were really quiet they got to listen to that. michael was that student who would always say, be quiet, be quiet, so we can hear the beats. >> while we're talking about students and mike brown being a student and the schools here in this area a number of the districts have been closed because of the civil unrest. what do you do when you have a number of students who should be in school from last thursday, and now it looks like the schools will remain closed in this area until next mon

hands up don't shoot, and just chanting you know, no justice, no peace, we want justice now for mike brown. and that's really it. it's peaceful no problems. >> jonette how do you feel about the release of that surveillance video even though the police acknowledge that the officer who confronted mr. brown was not aware of the robbery or alleged robbery? >> i really feel like it's a distraction. it's a way to keep people -- to try to villainize mike brown. while they were saying it was irrelevant to the case, they were still playing the surveillance tape in the background. it seems like a psychological thing, that we're going to show you he is at some place allegedly robbing someone but we're telling you that no one responded to a 911 call at all from the quick trip or the quick mart and it wasn't either an employee from either place that called 911. so there seems like a silly distraction to keep the public thinking that mike brown deserved to die in some way, to try to keep it to where it makes sense for the ferguson police department to have shot him in the streets of canfield the way the

>> not exactly, no. >> reporter: can you see mike brown's face?s hands, excuse me, but up around his neck? >> no. >> reporter: do you ever see mike brown do a motion where he's going to lump this cop, hit him? >> that might have was going to happen, that may be why the tuling was going on. >> reporter: high voices? >> high voices. >> reporter: the chance the officer was punched in the face do you believe there was a chance he was punched in the face? >> yeah, that's a possibility. >> reporter: okay so that's going on as you come and start watching. now what? >> like i said, after the tussling going on in the window, all of a sudden takes off running. >> reporter: they both take off running. >> um-hum. >> reporter: why? >> i'm not even sure why. i'm not even sure why. >> reporter: that's interesting because you know what the speculation is, that there was a gunshot that sent them running. you heard no gunshot? >> i didn't hear no gunshot in the vehicle. >> reporter: but for whatever reason you don't hear it. >> i didn't hear that. i'm in the window

he already shot at mike brown. that's why he was running away. so here is a guy running away at -- from an officer who just finished shooting. so now he will turn around and allow this officer now to have target practice on his body. it makes absolutely no sense what she said. and again, it is a frepd who is recounting third, fourth hand information. so i will give her the benefit of the doubt that perhaps some of the information got lost in translation. >> anthony, what do you think motivation was for what you are saying what happened. what is the motivation for darren wilson to start shooting at mike brown? >> you know, that's a dangerous thing for me to do is try to speculation what a person's motivation would be. i think there is probably something in his history that will talk about his motivation. i don't know what kind of animosity he carries inside of him on a regular basis. but i will tell you this, it sounds from the initial contact with mr. brown that this officer was not particularly pleased with the way the struggle might have turned

mike brown had his hands up.re's no reason that the officer should have proceeded and shot him a number of times that he did. the police department said we're justified in pursuing and killing mike brown. >> we have seen this before. is the theme. this almost follows a playbook as some have been saying. >> it does. we'll see media attack michael brown after he's died. and as daniel was saying, it kind of sort of justifies the killing in many people's mind and it also plays into this idea that the police are circling the wagon. they're protecting their own. that's the first responsibility, as opposed to serving the community. >> lisa, i want to bring you in on the legal question. it's been back and forth, and the chief in ferguson -- i'm not sure of his answer. but whether or not the officer, officer darren wilson, knew that mike brown was a robbery suspect when he first had contact with him. why legally is that an important question? >> well, you're right. it's a little bit difficult to decipher chief jackson is

did the officer who shot and kill him stop mike brown because he knew mr. brown was a suspect in a robbery that just happened. according to the police chief at this afternoon's press conference, nope, there was no connection between those two events. >> the initial contact between the officer and mr. brown was not related to the robbery. >> what are you saying, chief? did he know that he was a suspect in a case or did he not know? >> no, he didn't. >> he did not know -- >> it had nothing to do with the stop? >> it had nothing to do with the stop. >> why did he stop michael brown? >> because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic. >> chief jackson then went on to call the officer named in the michael brown shooting a quiet man and a gentle man. but about an hour after he made it clear in that presser that the alleged robbery that they released the tape of, right, the alleged robbery and the shooting of michael brown, after he made clear that those two things were totally unrelated, chief jackson then told the local newspaper, told th

right here, that's where mike brown died.is where his body was lying in the street on the day for four hours. people are saying to me that could have easily been my son and looking what this means for the community. but the energy here is not at all angry. it's not violent. it's just a moment of reflection. and you can feel it. we recently just had a group come through here of young college students and they actually go to the historically black college in st. louis. all young black men who came here, they spent the morning going to a elementary school to cheer on their day. they wanted to come by and see this. to talk about what don was saying, at first they were thinking they wanted to go to the memorial. they decided to do something that had more of an impact on their community. that's why they decided to focus on education and those elementary school kids and coming here just to have that moment because they are just about the same age as mike brown. so it's really interesting to talk to them and hear their perspective. a

mike brown. who are we here for? mike brown. stay with us. >>> all right.e are live here in ferguson, missouri. a quick correction something i said earlier. it's the 11th night of protests in ferguson. it gives you an idea of how enduring the grievances are here, how much people are looking for justice, for a change. and one of the things that has, we've been trying to do down here both during the day before the show, at night during the show is talk to folks about why they're out in the streets. as this attracts more media attention, seems sometimes the story can tilt out into tear gas or other things, even tear into often stories about the media, itself, which is kind of remarkable, as opposed to what folks here want. john gaskin is with me, spokesperson for the missouri naacp. jelani cobb, my friend, contributor with "the new yorker." john, you grew up in ferguson, right? >> that's correct. >> what were your interactions with the cops like growing up? >> my mother used to hate the ferguson police department. she said they were very harassive, very abrasi

michael baden who authored the autopsy report commissioned by mike brown's family. just clarify for me a little bit, there's one shot you saying that was ultimately the fatal shot. >> yes. >> that came here somewhere? >> yes. the head. >> that's consistent with a police officer shooting down like this, or shooting straight if michael's head was leaned forward? >> that's consistent with that. a lot of different consistencies. those included. >> what is -- the standard on raying procedure, in your long tenure as medical examiner, how common is it to not release those relipreliminary autopsy reports? >> it depends on the agency. it depends tsh some reports are withheld for a while. some aren't. depending on usually what the prosecutor feels is best for his investigation. in my experience, releasing these reports right away is preferable and important for the family and community and transparency is always better than hiding results that can be misinterpreted as some kind of cover-up. >> last question for you. you've been a medical examiner for a long time. just as a fa

one proposal posted on the white house petition website calls for a mike brown law. it would require all state county and local police to wear a camera to ensure all police are following procedure and to deter misconduct. in the weeks it's been post ed more than 100,000 people have signed it, video would have helped set the record have a straight in brown's case. >> instead we have a situation of he said he said, and the police officer nissing he did flog wrong, and the community feeling an unarmed youth circulate not have bee -- should not have been shot by police. >> one of the measures in new york city, pointed to its success on the west coast. >> a city in california experienced an 88% drop in police complaints one year after body cameras were instituted. >> but the cameras have not worked so well in albuquerque, new mexico. in ferguson, the police chief said he's received grants to buy some dash and body cameras but not enough to install them. a former sheriff told adges it told al jazeera, it's something they should consider. some supportsers of the mike brown

and while that happened, the attorney for dorian johnson who was with mike brown, spoke to judge piro last night. he said that officer darrin wilson had mike brown by the shirt and the throat. >> an officer then according to michigan client. all of a sudden he says power and he shot. >> reporter: arnnd the first nit of the curfew was not without -- the heavy tactics were not directly related to curfew enforcement. police moved in because shots were fired. i man had been shot. beyond that police had information that looters had broken into red's barbecue and they were up on the roof. they came in with smoke grenades and one tear gas canister. and it happens at a time when the crowd is losing patience with captain johnson, who is initially embraced by this crowd. he is criticized on both sides. one for not using enough force to stop the looters, two for using too much force because we have near nightly a repeat of the scenes of clashes with ag n comm demonstrators and police. >> law enforcement officials are also revealing new details about this video that appears to show michael brown

now the officer grabs ahold to the shirt pulling him closer to the car. >> does mike brown hit the officer at any point? >> no. mike has cigarelos in his hands. >> the little cigars. >> still got them. he's trying to maneuver. of course he's big so he's doing a pretty good job and finally he's maneuvering away and the officer says i'm going to shoot you. my client sees a gun. pow. the gun goes off. >> never sees mike brown touch the officer? >> no. >> have you heard that officer sustained injuries? >> i've heard now seven days later, yes, i have. >> the chief didn't say it at one of the early press conferences? >> they said his face was red at one early press conference. now then his eye was hurt. his eye socket is messed up. here we are seven days later they just now releasing that. we don't have a police report. >> has your client changed his story in terms of what you're telling me right now versus saying i did see mike wrestling for the gun with the police officer? >> my client never said that. >> all he does is hear the gunshot after a threat from the officer he will shoot. >> yes. bu

this is for mike brown. they have been calling for justice and goldie taylor still with me, raul reyes with me. raul, we're going to keep an eye on this. they're not quite done. we'll stick with this live rally. raul, something you said that was kind of a theme we saw during this. everybody has a positive message of unity and uplifting but also they were kind of following the same drum beat about the investigation, at least. saying the facts of the case -- they're almost making their case here for what they want to happen next in this whole investigation. >> right. i think it is important in this type of community forum where unlike that frenzied, chaotic press conference yesterday where they have the attention and the respect of the community, that they are reminding people of just what they are seeking, how there is so much we don't know about the specific facts of the case and just reminding people what is at the heart of all this, which is that all the questions surrounding the death of michael brown. i

it's been clear to me and told to me this group is for mike brown.ay be peaceful right now in these hours, the demonstrations will continue today, even if the cameras aren't here to catch it. they want the story out there and the focus to be on mike brown as well as the youth that suffer at the hands of the police. nick valencia, cnn. >>> prosecutors calling for a life sentence for osama bin laden's son-in-law. he was convicted in march for conspiracy. a life sentence would defer future attacks. a spokesman for al qaeda and recruited members through videos posted on the internet. he's scheduled to be sentenced next month. >>> rick perry's lawyer filing 60-page -- it violates the state and u.s. constitution. the charges stem from perry's veto of state funding for the office of a d.a. who refused to resign after a drunk-driving conviction. >>> we want to look at the forecast. indra petersons is here with that. >> a nice break here. this is where we are looking at it. watching the cold front make its way across. the scattered showers are popping up ahea

i want you to watch how that went down. >> mike brown! mike brown! >> mike brown! lice eventually broke up an argument between that woman and the michael brown supporters. but with many conflicts, just like that one happening in ferguson often comes the question, what's the lesson here in my next guest says one of them is parents must teach young african-american men how to survive police encounters. in fact, you're looking at a diagram he has provided. it's starting some controversy. it's called ten rules of survival if stopped by police. david miller, let me bring you in. joining me from baltimore. you founded the dare to be king project. this is all part of a curriculum you call life and survival skills geared toward minority youth. david, nice to have you on. >> how are you doing? good to be here. >> i'm doing well. i'm doing well. let me just begin with what was it about what happened in ferguson, you know, 11, 12 days ago now that compelled you to tweet out these rules? walk me through them. >> i think the issue is much larger than ferguson. i think we're deal

he said yep, my son essentially looks like mike brown. sag iging hat to the side tattoos on his arm, that's my baby. that's my black son. some of what he did say was, yes, i'm in this uniform but i need to apoll guogize to you. he took a direct shot at some of these law enforcement officials out there in front of those cameras and this is the last thing we've heard come out of their mouths. >> what did he not say was almost as important what he said. he said i wear this uniform. i feel like i need to apologize. by implicitly we are talking about the parade of people who we've seen in uniforms that have many things on their minds but apoll xogy was not one of them. what he also said was implicitly, i'm recognizing your humanity. you get the sense that much of this discord could have been avoided. much of the disruption and anger and difficulty we've seen over the past week could have been avoided had someone like captain johnson made a simple statement like this on day one. we recognize this is a terrible situation. we know that you all ar

there is an anger about the death of mike brown. there is a feeling among the black community here that it's been open season on young black men. the situation certainly got aggravated yesterday with the disclosure that mike brown was not stopped because of the robbery. mike brown was stopped because he was walking in the middle of the road, according to the chief and the situation melted down from there. but you've also got a lot of people, as you can see from the press conference, who aren't learning all the facts, aren't taking the time to ingest what's happening. they're just angry. and they want a result. they see a black man who is killed and they want a white man charged. that's very clear from the crowd at this particular press conference. >> mike tobin, thank you so much for your reporting there on the ground. difficult days behind us, possibly more difficult days ahead. this new curfew that's the big news coming out of missouri from midnight to 5:00 a.m. >> it starts in exactly eight hours and four minutes from now in st.

they will be joined by the parents of mike brown. we're watching the stage to see when they take the stage and microphone. it's an unstructured event. all of this in advance of the funeral for mike brown. more than two weeks after he was killed, he will be laid to rest. three white house aides will be in attendance at that ruin ral. reverend al sharpton will speak. but the eulogy will be given by the uncle of mike brown. >> we all need healing. the family, the community, the police department, the whole nation as a whole and the world needs a healing message. >> reporter: now, across town, supporters of officer darryn wilson are having an aent, a second public appearance by them. they announce today they have raised over $400,000 for the family of that police officer darren wilson. back to you. >> thanks very much. harris? >>> well, family and friends are remembering the life of american journalist james foley killed by terrorists. earlier today, a moment to pause in his memory. ♪ >> thoughts and prayers during a memorial mass at fol

he reaches out, grabs mike brown by the throat, and mike is somewhat of a big guy. the officer seemed as if, according to my client, having a difficult time with him. and mike kind of attempting to try to move away. the officer then grabbed him by the shirt and tried to pull him closer to the car, which was even more difficult, i would imagine. mike then continues to have an exchange with the officer. the officer then, according to my client, pulls up the gun and my client can see the gun clearly. he can touch mike brown as well as the officer and the officer tells mike, i'm going to shoot you. and then they had some more words and then all of a sudden he said pow and he shot. he shoots mike at the car. >> is your client saying that michael brown was shot in the chest or in the back? >> well, he was shot in the back later. the initial shot is fired from the officer while he's sitting in the car and outside mike is standing at the car. >> freeman, you're going too quickly. hold on. i appreciate your trying to get it all out here. did that first shot hit michael brown

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this is about getting justice and answers for mike brown. we understand there might be some bruised egos and some reputations that have been, you know, maybe questioned based on some of the changes in leadership for certain things. if it's in the best interest of the community for transparency and accountability, we want a third party to come in here. this is about mike brown. >> well, that's what i would like the to see -- a third party. i have been saying that this all along. pa are tricia bynes, lisa bloom, thank you p for your time. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> ahead, how the community is responding today to all of today's events. chris hayes is live in ferguson, next. malaik maliki. . she's still the one for you. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take n

one proposal posted on the white house petition website calls for a mike brown law. it would require all state county and local police to wear a camera to ensure all police are following procedure and to deter misconduct. in the weeks it's been post ed more than 100,000 people have signed it, video would have helped set the record have a straight in brown's case. >> instead we have a situation of he said he said, and the police officer nissing he did flog wrong, and the community feeling an unarmed youth circulate not have bee -- shoule been shot by police. >> one of the measures in new york city, pointed to its success on the west coast. >> a city in california experienced an 88% drop in police complaints one year after body cameras were instituted. >> but the cameras have not worked so well in albuquerque, new mexico. in ferguson, the police chief said he's received grants to buy some dash and body cameras but not enough to install them. a former sheriff told adges it l jazeera, it's something they should consider. some supportsers of the mike brown law say it coul

those areas where mike brown was killed is a major recipient of the old residence. >> mike brown had a future. >> mike brown had a future, that's right. he had a future. but he had to put it within the cultural contents that he might have had a future, but a lot of youths don't have a future, they don't feel connected to society or anything else. and they don't feel they have anything to live for or anything to lose. >> against all that, a police department that remains nearly all white in ferguson, and law enforcement, equipped with military-grade gear. it is all enough to ignite the powder keg. >> anti-i.e.d. vehicles. tanks, aircraft. guys dressing like villains from batman. it was so absurd why people dress like they are ready to fight the taliban. it was a bizarre situation. it doesn't mess with reality, i had never seen the stuff in the hands of law enforcement. i realised it existed. i have never seen it, that that was a tool for policing. >> is suburban community much. >> it's a new day between law enforcement and security, there are signs it has not been received down to the

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if you don't have justice, there is no way to have peace. -- mikeugh the mike brown was not the first brown person killed by the police, i want you to think about and say he will be the last one. he will be the last one to be shot by the police. i look forward to having this conversation with you. thank you for being here. [applause] >> thank you. will haveprogram we time to recall what happened in ferguson, missouri. we will focus on the meaning and the implications of ferguson for the african-american community across the country and for the nation at large. where we go from here? what needs to be done the week and months ahead? what recommendations and actions can we come up with tonight? what are the lessons to be learned from ferguson? is this just another clichÉd teachable moment or was it a significant turning point? will this moment evolve into a new movement for political change and for social and economic justice for black and brown people in this country? these are some of the questions that are panelists will address shortly. for ad like for us to ask moment of silence for

beneath the tragic death of mike brown that's what we're seeing in ferguson. >> given your area of expertise your area of research and study what strikes you as being eerily similar about what happened to michael brown and what feels different to you about this moment, if anything? >> well, i think the similarities of course are you have an african american male who was brutalized, in the case of rodney king he was beaten, he wasn't killed. mike brown on the other hand was actually shot and killed. so you have african american men who are the target clearly and this whole issue of a menacing black threat, rodney king was beaten because he deserved it. michael brown wasn't ogood egg because he was stealing cigars. to assassinate his character and present him as a threat as other black men who of course we have to contain by any means necessary. i think those premise are there. in terms of differences, the big difference with 1992 is the event was just by luck captured on videotape. we had a really good image of what happened, the video went viral. the police weren't convictof anything and the

those are their feelings, and they feel that mike brown was killed unjustly and that the police will just sweep it rnd the rug. those are their feelings. i'm not saying they are right or wrong but those are -- that's what -- that's the emotion they have. and they want to protest. most of them want to do so peacefully. and it is really hard to come to any conclusion other than the fact that the police response has, in general, only made it worse. and i'm not saying that looting shouldn't be taken seriously or that people who throw a molotov cocktail at police shouldn't be arrested. obviously, they should. but i've seen too many innocent people impacted affected with scars because of the police reaction to -- >> jake, i want to jump in and explain to our viewers what we're witnessing now. we've got two video streams from ferguson. on the right we're seeing what appear to be national guard troops. i'm saying that because we're looking at humvees that have just driven out of the picture. the camera now panning around. on the left, a shot of this street where protesters and police have be

we all could have been easily mike brown.7-year-old kid from north county walking around dreaming of being a musician. i had hopes to be a rapper. i'm from the same exact community. and i could relate to the story, you know? because his story is my story. >> you don't think there's any chance that a year from now, year and a half from now, this is another one of those, you know, unfortunate situations that we've forgotten about? that we've stopped talking about? you don't think this is something that's going to be forgotten? >> no way, man. like we said, this is a long process, so on the sense, you know, trying to correct 400 years of nonsense and racism, we're going to try to walk it down day by day. it's not going to be easy. some people are a little deterred by the weather, but we're expecting big numbers. we have 50 howard students coming out protesting. >> the protests aren't over? >> oh, no, we're not over. we'll be moving the protests to other places. that's some of the things we're getting out. we're heading to the de

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