so the st. louis set sail from germany on may 13th, 1939. again, as ied, six months after chris taand most of the passengs had american waiting numbers. 734 of the 937 passengers had waiting numbers to get into the united states. as i'm sure you know, there were very strict immigration quotas. you had to get a number and wait. at that point in nazi germany, the situation was so dire that jews were willing to go anywhere in the world to wait for their number to come up. there were germans who went to shanghai, australia, south america, so those going toirw havana, cuba, were considered the lucky ones because they were going to only be less than an hour from miami beach. and those days, unlike today, you could go back and forth between cuba and the united states very, very easily. and the ironic part is that many, around 100 of the st. louis passengers, the men, had been in concentration camps and were released on condition they would leave the country, and they had to have a family member literally sho

my book about the 1917 east st. louis race riot had its start really in the early 1990's when i was working at the st. louis post dispatch writing an obituary of miles davis, the great trumpet player, from east st. louis, just across the river. riot were ine race his ears as a child. he talked about how horrible it was to learn that white people had massacred black people in this small city in illinois. he thought that it had affected him for the rest of his life and in fact, it might have well. it might well have affected his attitude toward white people until the day he died, really. gosh, miles davis was born in 1926. years old when the race riot occurred. for something like that to be so prevalent, so persistent in the stories he heard as a child seemed to me to be a powerful indication that the story needed to be told. i asked around and black people in general who grew up here knew about the riot but her parents had not really discussed it. people did not know about it at all. yet, by the number, it was the deadlies

this time it happened in st. louis city. north st. louis. two officers who reportedly fired shots at the young man in this case, they were from the st. louis municipal police t department, so city police. it's not the same police force involved in the michael brown shooting or in the police response to the michael brown protests in ferguson. but in this incident today, again, took place about four miles from where michael brown was killed, the young man that was killed today was said to have been 23 years old. he has not been formally identified by the police. police said that he was armed when police killed him. they said he was armed with a knife and, in fact, brandishing a knife and that's why these two police officers shot him and killed him in the street. the shooting reportedly happened at 12:20 p.m. local time. that would be 1:20 east coast time. less than 90 minutes after the shooting happened, the chief of the st. louis city police was on the scene of that shooting to give a statement about what had happened. the police chief basica

they moved to st. louis and bought a hotel and tried to do a different type of work to make their living. they found that they needed ready cash so they sold dred scott after they arrived here in st. louis in the 1830's. dred was purchased by a doctor emerson who was a physician working with the u.s. army. dr. emerson was posted in many different places but two of them are the things that resulted in the suit of the scotts later on. one was fort armstrong, which is in the state of illinois, which was not supposed to have slavery because of the northwest ordinance. another was the territory of wisconsin, today minnesota. so dred scott was taken to these places, held as a slave there, even though slavery was illegal in those places and brought back to st. louis. while he was at fort snelling, he met a woman named harriet robinson who was enslaved to another officer at the fort. dr. emerson purchased her and allowed the scotts to marry, legally, which is unusual at the time. dred and harriet scott return to st.

i'm seeing tear gas in st. louis, police violence in st. louis, unrest in st. louis. as the mayor of st. louis, what are you thinking as you watch all this go down? >> well, this is a very highly charged situation. and while this is not the city of st. louis, it is the suburbs of st. louis and it has a huge impact on the entire region, and that's something i'm very, very cognizant of. >> what are you hoping to see happen here? it strikes me that in the time i've been here reporting, there is a little bit of a municipal game of thrones going on. some really indeterminantsy of what's in charge of what. are you confident that the lines of authority are clear? the investigation being pursued in a maximally professional manner? >> i am confident of that. and i really supported and i joined the governor and the county executive, county executive charlie dual yesterday, to announce a change in approach the way this thing is being handled on the law enforcement end. i think and i believe and the county executive and governor as well believe that it was just over the top in te

there have been protests all over the local st. louis area, in downtown st. louis today and protests impromptu sprouting up all over ferguson and the townships nearby. you are hearing the horns honk and are seeing people lean out of the sun roofs. some even on their knees with their hands up. we will talk to a few young men who grew up in ferguson, about what they make of all this right after this break. just you...with the when gray creeps in do you lose it all? not you. new touch of gray mustache and beard reduces gray without getting rid of it all in just 5 minutes. for the perfect gray look you want. new touch of gray mustache and beard. >>> we are united in common values, that includes belief in equality under the law, a basic respect for public order and the right to peaceful public protest, a reverence for the dignity of every single man, woman and child among us and the need for accountability when it comes to our government. so now's the time for healing. now's the time for peace and calm on the streets of ferguson. now's the time for an open and tran

we asked the st. louisnty prosecutor's office today about reports that the community doesn't trust that local prosecutor's office to handle this case of the police killing of michael brown. the spokesperson told us that that office handles 14,000 cases a year with very few complaints. he suggested the complaints now may be coming from people who they've prosecuted or from their families. he told us today, it has to be their family members. otherwise, how do they know? today as ferguson's people marched again, hundreds of people, probably thousands pouring through the streets again tonight demanding justice as we've seen them demanding justice all week. but tonight's march follows real change in the politics of this story with the president of the united states and the attorney general speaking out. missouri's senator calling for a demilitarizing of the policing in ferguson, saying the policing has become the problem and not part of the solution. the missouri governor pulled back the local county police and

st. louis city broke off from st. louis county in 1876. st. uis county is a patchwork of 90 municipalities. most are very small. but most have their own police departments and public safety apparatuses. in order to afford that, they have to sometimes really strain on their budgets. they've developed a real overreliance on revenue generated from traffic stops. as blacks have migrated from north st. louis city to north st. louis county, unfortunately, there's been an institutional lag in their ability to elect people to positions of power. and that's why you see the big disconnect between the power structure in ferguson and the actual people. and there's also a big disconnect between the police force, as we know, which is just 6% black, and the people, which are 67% black. because the towns disproportionately rely on traffic stop revenue to fund their towns, they're constantly pulling over young black males. i used to get pulled over all the time in that area. for me, it was merely an inconvenience. formany young black males, it's a way of life.

and robert, thousands of people at the church in st. louis about seven miles from where you are i would assume a different scene there in ferption. ferguson. >> reporter: michael very different scene. very quiet, peaceful. a memorial in the street, that is where michael brown was shot dead and laid for hours just after his death. a few hours ago, you could see a steady stream of people coming up and giving their love towards michael brown, the young man 18 years old, whose life is being celebrated in the church just seven miles away. as you said, from the streets of ferguson, couple of blocks away, hundreds of demonstrators have clashed with police but today all is quiet. michael brown's father made a request for that yesterday at the peace festival in st. louis and it seems that people are honoring his request. a little earlier this morning at the memorial service reverend charles ewing who is actually the uncle of michael brown made a statement about gun violence in america. let's listen to what he had to say. >> there is a cry being made f

st. louis county police had only ever been written up for a disciplinary infraction once in his entire career and that's because he has once forgotten his badge. when he showed up for work, he misplaced his badge, he got in trouble for that. that had been the only time he'd been written up or had any mark against him. more than 20 years on the force. then last year in quick secession, that same sergeant got reprimanded and dinged and punished over and over and over again. his lieutenant wrote him up for failure to supervise saying he should have gone to the scene of an incident to supervise officers under his command. a few weeks later the same sergeant was written up again, this time for allegedly entering incorrect codes on some payroll documents. then they sprung an impromptu drug test on him with no warning, telling him he was being drug tested that very day, had to take it within two hours. then they revoked his access to the police-issued vehicle that he'd been given to be his take-home c

and the city of st. louis in ferguson and in the state of missouri saying bhoe, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not what we want the image of st. louis to be the guns pointed at people and the camo and it was very interesting how much the focus and the comments was about the image as opposed to the underlying problem. >> right. >> we have to leave it there. this is obviously a fluid, developing story. "the huffington post," ryan, thank you as always for your time. thank you to chris hayes. you'll have much more on this later tonight live from ferguson, "all in." thank for taking the time. we want to update you. it is a huge breaking news day today. breaking news out of iraq. a major announcement, just moments ago nuri al maliki announced on iraqi state television that he is stepping down from office. he said he would not give up power until iraq's high court ruled on his claims to leadership and that paves the way for haider al abadi to form a new cabinet. "the ed show" is up next. >>> good evening, americans. welco

he's live now from st. louis. missouri. >>> thousands of residents have gathered in the intersection, and a section a few blocks from where mike brown was fatally shot. just a few days ago, 18-year-old, unarmed, assailant of the officer shot him, his name still not released. his or her name, i should say. the images are very different from what we saw last night. last night, about 100 protesters were net with armored personnel carriers, about 70 members of the police force in swat gear, gas masks, releasing tear gas that kept up into people's homes. they faced their guns at people and pointed them at nonviolent protesters. it was those images that precipitated a stern rebuke from just about everyone. governor jay nixon announced that he was handing over security of the situation to ron johnson, commander in the state highway patrol. from around 5:00, i have been around here since then. around 4:00 or 5:00, nonviolent, smalltalk test with ron johnson at the front of it talking to them. as night began to descend, it

this whole area from north st. louis into north st. louis county is -- there's not like some border fence. it's just a series of neighborhoods next to each other. >> that's really surprising that you would have a local official publicly calling out the nearby two and a half mile away police force as inadequate and not representing the community. i would imagine that's going to create tension between the neighboring police units. >> well, yes, sorry to be clear, that was not the police chief it was alderman antonio french, the police chief would never say something like that. >> to be clear, an important clarification, but he was -- he said this at the police presser? >> he was next to the police and it was after police said said this to group, to urge calm and tell them they had channels to vent their frustration. the thing you've got to realize, this whole area is -- the tension is so thick. we have 200 people on the street here. people talk a lot about -- i've seen the last few days, media is driving this or not. people are showing up

we're going to be joined by the former police chief of st. louis. ed lavandera is in st. louis, part of broader ferguson, where another rally is taking place. i can see the st. louis arch behind. you what can we expect where you are? what is the mood of the protest there? >> reporter: the crowd here has just started gathering, a diverse crowd that is gathering in the shadow of the arch that you see behind me here. and we've been told that the mother of michael brown will be making an appearance here at some point or is expected to make an appearance here at some point. not clear whether or not she'll have anything to say to this crowd. this is one of several events like this that's being described as a national moment of silence in honor of the teenager michael brown who was killed last weekend here in the st. louis area. but the crowds starting to show up there and just kind of gathering in the shadows of the arch here tonight, erin. this is an event that's just now getting under way, very quiet, very calm here. we're seeing, but as i mentioned, just now starting. >> ed l

we'll have more coverage from st. louis>>> right now we want to share other news with you throughout the country and the world. the u.s. military has give the all clear following what is described as the shooter incident. about 130 miles of washington, d.c. located at prince george's county. the base was placed on lockdown. personnel were told to observe active shooter protocols. it is now under control and the shooter in question was wounded. one building remains on lockdown at this time. >>> one person is dead and two injured after a mortar shell exploded just over the border of st. louis, missouri. it deals with the ammunition industry. >>> after experiencing the worst earthquake in 25 years san francisco is preparing for aftershocks. more than 100 people were injured but there have been no deaths reported so far. melmelissa chan is live downtown. a lot of people in napa obviously won't be headed to work or school, melissa, from your vantage point what is happening downtown. >> well, this, is the worst most badly impacte

you know, we have a history and tradition in st. louist the local media and elites push everything under the rug. it's a very insular community. everyone is going to the same social clubs, bars with, and nightclubs. kids going to the same schools. if it wasn't for the street protest, the killing of michael brown would have been business as usual. what happened in the streets of ferguson is we've had a change in st. louis and this change is going to be felt for many years and generations to come as these systemic problems we have in st. louis begin to be addressed one by one. >> liz, i want to bring you to today's funeral service. what do you think the message will be today? >> i think there will be a number of different messages. some people will speak to hope. some people are going to speak to change. some people are going to speak to political engagement. all of these are opportunities arising out of this tragedy. i think there is going to be a lot of people that are going to attempt to engage the parishi parishioners with an overall me

we're divided in st. louis city, and then st. louis country. the great divider is del mar avenue, and when you come to st. louis county it is predominantly african-american to a great extent as much as st. louis city. st. louis city used to be republicans. and then with the political shift it turned democrats. so municipalities you'll have upwards of 65% african-american in population. >> let's talk about the big city to the south and east, has st. louis will had these kinds of politics, these kinds ofens counters because of the difficulty in changing power structures in the place even as the population was changing ? >> yes, that is actually true. st. louis city is 52% in minority population. the current mayor has been there at least the last four election cycles. we have there in the city several elected offices and it's the unspoken rule that certain of them are to be held by non-african-americans and certain of those offices to be held by african-americans. but at a 52% population you would think as a voting power they could control whoever

we asked the st. louisrosecutor's office today about reports that the community doesn't trust that local prosecutor's office to handle this case of the police killing of michael brown. the spokesperson told us that that office handles 14,000 cases a year with very few complaints. he suggested the complaints now may be coming from people who they've prosecuted or from their families. he told us today, it has to be their family members. otherwise, how do they know? today as ferguson's people marched again, hundreds of people, probably thousands pouring through the streets again tonight demanding justice as we've seen them demanding justice all week. but tonight's march follows real change in the politics of this story with the president of the united states and the attorney general speaking out. missouri's senator calling for a demilitarizing of the policing in ferguson, saying the policing has become the problem and not part of the solution. the missouri governor pulled back the local county police and put t

this time it happened in north st. louis inside the st. louis city limits, again, four miles from where mike brown was the shot a week and a half ago. today, this time it was two officers who reportedly fired shots at this young man. they were from the st. louis municipal police department, that's city police, not the same police force involved in the michael brown shooting or police response to the michael brown protests. but in this incident today, the young man who was killed is said to have been 23 years old. he was african-american. he's not been formally identified by the police. unlike michael brown, police say that the man who was killed today, that he -- police say he was armed. they say he was armed with a knife. he allegedly brandished that knife at officers and that's why these two police officers say they shot him. the shooting, fatal shooting, happened 12:20 local time. the chief of the st. louis city police was personally on the scene of that shooting to give a public statement about what had happened. >> in spite of what is

and the st. louis police chief, sam dotson answered questions about why his officers did not use the tasers that they had instead of their guns. when he was asked a similar question this morning on cnn. >> certainly a taser is an option that's available to the officers, but tasers aren't 100%. so you've got an individual armed with a knife who's moving toward you, not listening to any verbal commands, continues, says, shoot me now, kill me now. if the taser misses, the suspect continues on and hurts an officer. >> the st. louis city police chief, sam dotson speaking with cnn, i said this morning. that was late last night. this police shooting and the tape of it, this lightning escalation from guy stealing soda, to guy putting soda on the curb apparently, to guy shot multiple times by two police officers, and the guy ending up being dead on the sidewalk less than 30 seconds after police are on the scene, that lightning escalation, that is a horrible thing -- it's just -- i mean, regardless of what you t

a st. louis county police officer who was involved in crowd control is relieved of duty after inflammatory statements. wolf blitzer is off tonight. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." >> is the u.s. moving toward an all-out war with isis? the white house is making it clear that the brutal beheading of an american hostage will not go unanswered. >> if you come after americans, we're going to come after you wherever you are. that's going to guide our planning in the days to come. >> that comes a day after a stunning assessment from the pentagon brass that the isis threat is "beyond anything we've seen." the generals made it clear defeating isis would require going after the group inside syria. we're looking at au angles of this chilling new threat and we have the latest developments on the investigation of the fatal police shooting in ferguson, missouri it, including some significant details missing from the incident report. our correspondents and guests are standing by with full co

>> i would say that north st. louis county or st. uis county in general is a collection of literally dozens of small townships like ferguson. ferguson, less than 15, 25 years ago was an all-white, small township. that's changed, and you're seeing the fabric of the community struggle through that change. >> yes, indeed. goldie taylor, thank you. we'll be looking for what you have to say on twitter as well as on the air. be sure to go to twitter, facebook, instagram, and msnbc.com to weigh in on this incident, the shooting of michael brown. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion has active naturals® oat with five vital nutrients. [ aniston ] because beautiful skin goes with everything. aveeno®. naturally beautiful results™. aveeno®. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quite a while before he's ready, but our subaru legacy will be waiti

upheaval in the st. louisburb of ferguson, missouri, over the shooting death of a teenager by a police officer from ferguson. anger simply exploded into chaos and violence overnight. just moments ago, one demonstrator pleaded for calm. >> we are opposed to the looting. we're opposed to the death. we are opposed to the violence. this is not the way to get the attention of your political office. we have notified the fbi. we have notified the united states attorney general's office. what we're asking you to do on today is peacefully demonstrate so that the people we are calling in can help you for the injustice of michael brown, a human being. not michael brown, a black man. but michael brown, a human being. >> certainly a lot of moderate voices in the wake of violence and looting last night. i'm happy to be joined live by an alderman from st. louis. antonio french is out in front of the police department and also right at the scene of the now peaceful protests today. alderman french, thank you very much for taki

here in st. louis, i've mate with faith and civic leaders and i took a moment to visit the scene this morning where earlier this week a young man not much younger than my own sons lost his life. finally i deeply appreciate the opportunity to speak with and hear from members of the neighborhood that is directly affected by the events of the last six days. they told me they want a community that is happy and healthy and safe, streets free from intimidation and fear. they want peace, they want truth and they want to be treated with respect. today my message to the people of ferguson is these voices have been heard. over the past several days, we've been deeply troubled by this crisis. as the pain of last weekend's tragedy has been compounded by nights of conflict and fear. what's gone on is not what missouri's about. it's not what the ferguson is about. this is a place where people work, go to school, raise their families and go to church. a missouri community. lately it's looked more like a war zone. tha

>> are you from st. louis? >> i am not. >> that's specifically how we do investigations in the city of st. louis. we put out information as early as possible so everyone knows what happened. there is a great deal of detail but that's what we know at this point. >> inaudible question. >> we'll spend time in the community to make sure. an alder woman witnessed this situation for the city of st. louis. i've already spoke with two other aldermen because i want this story out as quickly as possible. >> we are starting to hear protests. are you concerned about this? >> it's important for people to understand what happened. we're going to get that message out as quickly as we can. >> do you think the governor should call in the national guard? >> i think this is an incident that happened in the city of st. louis and we're dealing with it. >> all right. so you're watching krchl nn and what you're looking at, you're listening to a crowd presumably, the news is happening, police officer explaining what has just happened,

bishop jones, to all the members of this community of ferguson and st louis county, those from st louis and those of us from around the country, i first must say to sister lesley and brother michael that the world a praying for you. not just us here, but the whole world has prayed and is praying for you. i don't know that anyone, unless one is a parent, can understand what a parent goes through when a child moves to another level as it relates to something called finality. i remember my father preaching a sermon one time about death. and he talked about his own funeral. and i'm not going to talk about that today, but it just popped into my mind because i was 10 years old when my dad was gunned down. i was 12, 11, when my uncle mysteriously drowned. i was 15 when my grandmother was gunned down in a church, while playing the lord's prayer. while i don't understand losing a child, i understand losing a loved one, and all of us should understand losing a loved one. the statement has been set, and today, and forever, people will be talking about michael brown. that is for sure. but what this

i mean, st. louis has not really wanted to deal with these racial issues, these issues of inequality and justice, and we had to be forced to do it. and now that we have been forced to do it, we can't go back to ignoring it. we have to use this as an opportunity to improve and become a better st. louis. >> the tension here was so intense, and really felt like at certain moments, i mean, when we were at the scene of that shooting in baden, there was a moment there where it really felt to me like, oh, this is going to blow up. >> yeah. you're right. and it made all the difference in the world to have folks, elected leaders there, i was there, alderman chris carter was there. and also made a big difference to have the chief personally be there and not only talk to you all, the media, but then walk over to that crowd and get in the middle of it and tell them the facts as he knew it and we stood together. now, people here know that the chief and i don't always get along, but when it comes to the safety of ou

st. louis monday demanding justice in saturday's police shooting that killed michael brown, an unarmed african-american teenager just days away from starting college. all of that and more coming up will sto. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.s. bombing campaign in northern iraq has entered its fifth day. obama authorized the strike last week and what he called an effort to halt the advance of islamic state militants on the city of erbil as well as to prevent the massacre of iraq's yazidi minority. thousands of yazidis have been fleeing for mountain where they were trapped for week of the rebels advance. house and more remain. u.s. officials have confirmed the cia has been secretly sending arms and ammunition directly to kurdish peshmerga forces were battling the rebels. on monday, talking to gone official said the u.s. strikes are unlikely to have a major impact on the overall capacity of the islamic state. >> we assess u.s. airstrikes in

st. louis suburb since last weekend when these protesters started. ron, good morning to you. >> good morning, craig. >> what's the latest there from the command center? >> well, the national guard are here, digging in. they'll be here for a while, it looks like. and, as you pointed out, their main mission is not to necessarily go out into the street. their main mission at the moment is command control, command security, i should say, command headquarters security right here. the main thing is that the security forces don't want this militarized look out there in the street because they know that that raises the level of intensity with the protesters. of course, the national guard is here, though. and if problems get to that level and they need this sort of power, this sort of security, this sort of force to go out there and keep the calm. the problem, though, is that again the pattern keeps repeating itself every night. and it's early in the night just a couple of hours after dark. the gunfire,

this time it happened in north st. louis inside the st. louis city limits, again, four miles from where mike brown was the shot a week and a half ago. today, this time it was two officers who reportedly fired shots at this young man. they were from the st. louis municipal police tee apartmedep that's city police, not the same police force involved in the michael brown shooting or police response to the michael brown protests. but in this incident today, the young man who was killed is said to have been 23 years old. he was african-american. he's not been formally identified by the police. unlike michael brown, police say that the man who was killed today, that he -- police say he was armed. they say he wases armed with a knife. he allegedly brandished that knife at officers and that's why these two police officers say sh they shot him. the shooting, fatal shooting, happened 12:20 local time. the chief of the st. louis city police was personally on the scene of that shooting to give a public statement about what had happened. >> in spite of

st. louis, north st. louis, fatally shot a man, they say wielding a knife after he took two bottles of energy drink from a convenience store. >> what we know right now is that we have a suspect who was involved in a theft, who was -- department was contacted. acting erratically. armed with a knife. police officers responded. when they responded, the suspect did not respond to verbal commands to drop his weapon. he approached both officers. and then when he closed within three to four feet of the knife, described in an overhand grip, the officers fired their weapon. >> area residents told me the man was known around the neighborhood for having mental issues, but despite those very different circumstances in that shooting from the one that took the life of mike brown, the situation is already so tense, so dire, so on the edge, that things did not take long to escalate. angry bystanders started to assemble, fwagather around a cr scene and take up a chant by now that is very familiar. >> don't shoo

ferguson is a suburb of st. louis. st. louis the city is not even in st. louis county. it's its own city. the largest police forces in the region are st. louis county and st. louis city. we have 90 municipalities in st. louis county, ferguson one of those, many very small, many have police forces that they can barely afford, and so your best police officers are going to the county or the largest municipality st. louis city, so it's harder for the smaller police forces to actually develop strong forces that are worthy of their community and that match the demographic makeup of their community, and so that's part of what we have here soivment you're saying -- >> woodruff: so you're saying it's a salary issue that causes the police force not to be representative of the community? >> i would say salary is part of it. i would say it's primarily an issue where you have all these different little municipalities fighting for some of the same officers as compared to what we've advocated for on the editorial page which is por fore community to become one larger community with one

this part of st. louis county outside the city of st. louis was also home to missouri's first all-black city, kimlock, settled before the turn of the last centsary. it remained truly separated from ferguson and the rest of north county with barricades on the streets until nearly 1970. development around the international airport gradually forced residents out. today much of kinlock is literally barren, a wasteland, a dumping ground all but abandoned. the community that was here now shoved into neighboring ferguson and other towns in north county. in 1980 only 14% of ferguson was african-american. it remained a majority white community until as recently as late 1990s, in the most recent census, 2010, the black population had reached 63%. it's made up of families like michael brown's and those of the young people that have taken the streets here night after night. those are the streets that lee drove us through telling me there's a direct link between what happened to north county and the life and death of michael brown. >> it connects with

in st. louismet withy faith and civic leaders and legislators and visit the scene this morning where earlier this week a young man, not much ongoinger than my own sons, lost his life. finally, deeply appreciate the opportunity to speak with and hear from members of the neighborhood directly affected by these events. they tell me they want a community that is healthy, happy, safe, and streets to be freeman been addition and fear. they want peace and fruit be traited with respect, and my message is these voices have been heard. we have been deeply troubled by the crisis as the pain of last week's tragedy has been compound by days of grief and nights of conflict and fear. what is going on is not what mississippi is about, not what ferguson is about. this is a police where people work, go to school, races their families and go to church. a diverse community, but lately it looks like a war zoner;/h and that's unaccepteddable to change the course we have to join hands to rebuild the trust that was lost

this part of st louis county, outside the city of st louis was home to missouri's first all-black city, kim lock, settled before the turn of the last century, it remained separated from ferguson and the rest of the north country, with barricades on the streets until 1970. development around the international airport gradually forced residents out. today, much of kim lock is literally barren, a waste land, a dumping ground. >> the community that was here, shoved into neighbouring ferguson, and other towns in north county. in 1980, 14% of ferguson was african-american. in 2010, the black population reached 63%. made up of families like michael brown's, and those are the young people who took to the streets night after night. those are the streets that we were driven through, telling me there's a link between what happened to north country and the life and death of michael brown. >> it connects with the anger on the streets. there's a lot of displaced youth, they came from kim lock or their families, a lot of them are transient, moving from one apartment complex to another, constantly mov

>> well, there's been a constant migration from north st. louis into st. louis county.a migration further out. people have left the city. many low-income families, single-parent families in search of better schools. of course, when they get out to the county they end up in school districts that are in some cases in worse condition than the city of st. louis. a couple of districts have lost accreditation in st. louis county. so the tax base just not there in a place like ferguson. ferguson's assessed value, that is the property taxes per capita in ferguson are one-third of the average for st. louis county. so the city of ferguson just doesn't have the resources to deliver the centers. >> but todd, part of this-- >> for foes looking for a better life. >> part of this is specific to areas and there are areas like this, like st. louis county, which is very fragmented. there are all sorts of manchestewhere they can consolidate some of these things and have a more flexible tax base. >> there are st. louis county outside of the city, and so you have this fragmented institution

he's also the former mayor of st. louis and partner in the firm bosley, williams & also antonio french, a st. louis alderman who's been on the ground in ferguson all week. antonio, what's your reaction and the reaction of residents around the community on the police today? >> well, i was very disappointed. we came off a night of peace. our first night of peace in ferguson in quite a while. we had a lot of momentum today. i'm hopeful about peace continuing throughout the week. i just can't understand why the chief would choose that exact moment to put out information that was completely unrelated to what we are all here about. the only effect it could have was a negative one. that's to damage the reputation of a young man who died long before his time. >> now attorney bosley, your client dorian johnson was named in the incident report are as being with michael brown during the robbery. what's your reaction? >> reverend, can you hear me? >> yes. >> did you hear that sound? >> no. >> reverend, did you hear that sound? >> no. >