. >> rashan johnson joins us from ferguson.he executive director of color of change, the largest online civil rights organization in the u.s. good to have you with us. looking at the history of policing and police tactics there in ferguson, has that contributed to some of the anger that we are seeing now on the streets? >> well, absolutely. he specially over the -- over the previous couple of days. not the last -- not the last two days or three days. but early on, sort of the highly mil tarized reaction from the local forces, you know, really sort of led to sort of a situation where the community and the police were not on the same page. there were many local leaders who were really, you know, trying to kind of keep the crowd, you know, calm, trying to keep them sort of focused on, you know, standing up for their rights, on sort of ensure that they were raising their voice around the issues. unfortunately, the police came in sort of in a way that they were not trying to be in partnership with the community, which was which was