the st. louis area. 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 basical

the st. louis area. 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 happening

>> for the most part it has always been that way. 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 c

the st. louis police department has treated this matters. less than 9 o minutes after kajieme powell was shot by st. louis police officers, less than an hour and a half later, the st. louis city police chief was out there a the site of the shooting giving an official police account of what happened and he immediately thereafter took questions. >> so what we know right now is that we have a suspect who was involved in a theft, who was -- department was contacted. acted 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. when he closed within three, four feet of the knife, in what was described as an overhand grip, the officers fired their weapon. any questions? >> again, that was less than 90 minutes after the police shooting. now that this video has emerged, there are empirical questions to consider about whether or not the police chief's description of how the shooting happened comports with the video evidence that we now have in terms of, for example, how close the young man was to the officers and whether any knife that the suspect may or may not hav

the st. louis area. 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 what is ha

, in the city boundary, two and a half miles from ferguson, right over the border from st. louis county. right immediately, probably 100 or 200 from the neighborhood who con greg gated on the streets, people asking why didn't they tase him. the police chief of the st. louis city metro police gave the police conference and did something that was quite smart in the moment, which is that he waded into the crowd outside the gas station behind me, right into the crowd and took some questions from them. by his sild wassed alderman who doesn't precisely represent this neighborhood and tony french was out there and said i owe it to you to tell you what i know. people are yelling, why couldn't you tase him, shoot him in the leg? as far as i can tell people here are not computdisputing the acte ni knife but very frustrated this young man dimed at the hands of police. they say it's on you for no silliness around here because you have people that have your back here, unlike folks in the ferguson are on their own. what he means by that, there is frankly an african-american political structure

the fire. >> a fire sparked decades ago. 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

coming in of course in the st louis city people of our here on the ground to try to let the family let the community know that this is an assignment that we don't intend to get swept under the rug because you know we've contacted the f.b.i. all the legal agencies to have make sure and we've called on turning general to make sure that this case is due to cases in a fair and equitable way and we want to be able to say that to the community and to the family right and what i want what i want the rioting and the things that are the bad things happening on the streets to overshadow his death. absolutely we're not going to allow that to happen we're going to make sure that our case is heard and that the community will hear what we have to say in the community will be receptive to the fact that actions are being taken and i think that this meeting tonight should do a lot to. help out with that do you feel that perhaps michael brown's gas could be another racially divisive case similar to the trayvon martin case. absolutely i think so i think there's a large you know fairly well between what h

the st louis city police put out the word that a molotov cocktail was thrown to the police lines. that's not been confirmed aan eyewitness. the police cold the crowd to disperse and move down the avenue, the main street, using smoke bombs, tear gas grenades, and rioting in armoured vehicles. a large number of very heavily armoured and armed police officers. this is the latest instalment of the troubles in this small city that begone on august 9th when 18-year-old michael brown was shot by a police officer. police say - or rather witnesses say that he was surrendering and had hands up, in a surrender posture. that sparked enormous anger in this community. everyone that you talk to said they were completely fed up with their police force, and with the police attitude in general towards the community. we were taking earlier to some of the young black men in the crowd that gathered here tonight, and they said they experienced harassment by police, and had been singled out for attention by police officers. so this has been a long time building. the brown shooting was the event that spa

important thing to understand looking from the outside is how divided this community is by jurisdiction. 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 bec

in the st louis city the first amendment was confined to a media pan and at least six journalist were arrested for attempting to do their job captain john said what's the reason for ordering the press out what's really bothering right out there i want to break out your president but i did not write a character take your bar on the river on the why don't you try to lay my photos was so appealing in a walking with very little saw code for all the photos photos and butts of the office on trial it decided that circles were not big enough who decided that we got handcuffed the robber all to. roughly two hundred ten people have reportedly been arrested since the august tenth protest began including nineteen year old holocaust survivor hedy epstein police has and try to incite the people in ferguson of the people that come to the demonstrations. so if they become liable more violent then the police will become even more violent that will be their excuse criticism surrounding heavy handed police tactics deepened wednesday when a few miles from ferguson another black man who allegedly shoplift

the average for st. louis county. so the cityerguson 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 institutional structure. the city of ferguson is by no means the smallest one. there are suburbs below a thousand there. you can imagine in a suburb of 21,000 you don't have the tax base. you don't have the economy of scales to perform services and provide the professional training that you would have in a larger city. mergers make sense but it's very difficult to do. most of these politicians would rather be a big fish in a little pond than a big pitch i little fish in a big pond. >> thank you for joining us. a remarkable topic. from the universit

. >> although i'm the president of the alderman in the city of st. louis, this is the city of ferguson that we're in. we've been reaching out and have not got the response we would like to see, but they are managing other things also. it's a small city, but this is one of the biggest things this city in this region has ever seen. so they're busy managing their constituent issues and everything else, and the business-- >> shouldn't they be managing their message, stepping up and explaining what it is that the city is doing and what the county police have been doing? >> yes, they should. part of the challenge is working with captain johnson coming in, and the local law enforcement not really turning everything completely to him. i think its important that they step back, and turn it over completely to him and follow his lead all the way. >> but there has been controversy about that because the local prosecutor had said that he was opposed to the governor making the move putting captain johnson in this position, indicating there is division among the law enfo

>> the first thing we have to understand in terms of the st louis patch finding is the city of st louis has a higher rate of violent crime in the company. we expect that there would be a correlation between levels of violent crime and police use of deadly force in reaction to the threats that officers face and reaction to the threats that citizens face, because some times when police officers shoot, we are shooting to protect snnt citizens. there's a case that jumps into my mind where officers had to make a forced entry because a man was trying to hack his wife to death with a hatchet. the officer shot him before he could accomplish that. shootings come and go in terms of the frequency. they may be high one year, and low the next. when you have a high crime area, you expect more shootings. >> the is st. louis police chief said michael brown pushed the officer into the car and assaulted him. he said a shot was fired in the car, and the officer fired multiple times. there has been witnesses saying they saw brown with his hands up in the air. if the struggle occurred as police described, i

the st. louis city, to the county, they're republicanners in ferguson, missouri, as opposed to more white residents who are homeowners, does that make a difference in feeling connected to your community and showing up for elections. >> it does make a difference. homeowners pay property taxes. when you own a home you feel like you're a stake holder and you have a different view of the community as opposed to someone who rents. that play as role as well. one of the things i've been seeing when you look at trayvon martin, jordan davis and this case here at some point we have to go from a moment to a movement. i believe what this has exposed is not just people's anger towards the police department and also the encompetency tense of the city, it's exposing people who don't believe they matter. they have to be told and instructed you do matter. guess what, you have to show up. you have to go to council meetings, go to hearings, get registered, care about your neighborhood, and the most important thing. voting is the end of one process and the beginning of another. you vote for who you want, and then you

the spark. >> a fire sparked decades ago. 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

many came to ferguson in the 80s and the 0s to take advantage of vouchers that moved them from the inner-city in st. louisand into the suburbs. st. louis, the city, is not connected to st. louis, it the county where ferguson, missouri is. and they had hopes, but that has economic and political division, and stirred up racial tensions over the last weeks. ferguson is just a snapshot of the economic and political problems nationwide. five out of six members of the city council are white, as is most of the town's police force. our next guest thinks that this has created a backlash and a quiet racism in these communities. the president and coauthor of the report, beyond broke, why closing the racial wealth gap is a priority for economic security. avis, thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> we have been studying the racial wealth gap. the gap between what the average white house hold has accumulated in wealth, and their assets, and the average black household. and it's remarkable, not only remarkable, it's about $285,000. but remarkable in how much it has grown. white homes are accumulating

. >> what has been the reaction from the downtown city of st. louis? minutes about a 20 drive, about 15 miles away. it is northeast of the city of st. louis. if you go down to downtown st. louis you do not see much of any impact. business as usual, and everything is isolated within the city. so far people and businesses in st. louis have not felt too much impact. >> will you be going back to ferguson says the curfew has been lifted? >> i will. i plan to be there tonight, we will see what happens. it is a very tense situation. policeill be more officers and national guard. there will probably be more protesters as well. i will be waiting to see how everything plays out. >> thank you for joining me. you would like to read more about the ongoing investigation in ferguson, missouri, just go to bloomberg.com. you can also read about another national story, hillary clinton making an appearance in iowa. is "taking stock with pimm fox." ♪ >> this is "taking stock" on bloomberg. i am pimm fox. to one research company the 3-d printing market is reaching about $16

the streets of jefferson, missouri, tonight. >> tonight our patrol in st. louis county, st. louis city p.d. are responding to a few incidents on west floreson between -- down near the canfield area. we made seven arrests tonight. what initiated our response was we got a call of several subjects who were inside the ranch barbecue located in the area. we were told there were subjects on the roof. waiting officers enforcing the curfew went towards that area. we got that information from intelligence. before we were going to have our officers go out and walk the streets, we figured for their safety we brought out the tactical unit. they got on the street at which time they looked in their binoculars. the subject came out into the middle of the street holding a handgun. they deployed tear gas -- first they deployed gas, this gas, initially smoke, we call it smoke. so you deploy smoke, several smoke can sters to assist in moving the crowd backwards. they kept moving forward. at the time that the team started moving forward they continued to deploy smoke. as they moved forward, then we got a report

this isn't about the highway l patrol, this is not about st. louis county, st. louis city, it's about the people that live in our community. when this day's over a lot of people will be gone. the people behind you will be here and i'll be here. i'll answer your questions. last night was a great night. it was a great night. there was no calls for of service. we did not deploy tear gas. we did not have any roadblocks. we did not make any arrests. it was a good night. people were talking. people were inspiring each other. people were getting their voices out. and we were communicating a lot better and they were communicating better with us. we had many leaders and activists out there yesterday that were helping keep the road open. informing the crowd. and that's what i expect to continue throughout this event. our department, along with st. louis county, st. louis city had a great night. myself and chief bellmer went down to the quick trip and we promised to communicate better and give answers to their needs. and we're going to continue to do that each and every night. you're

and then you showed footage of the shooting from yesterday in st. louis city. i hope that the federal government takes a look at that shooting also and makes a determination whether it was a good police shooting or not. >> we'll be talking with the st. louis city police chief about that shooting in a second. i know you have to go, congressman, because you're meeting with the defense secretary, chuck hagel, you are concerned how millerrized the police have become. what are you going to tell secretary hagel? >> well, i'm going to share with secretary hagel some concerns that have been raised by my constituents and by me as far as what i saw several nights out there on west florissant where you had heavily armed police tactical units pointing it these sophisticated weapons at innocent protesters, my constituents. i got a call yesterday from a marine vet who is done two tours of duty in the afghanistan and he says that if in afghanistan they pointed their weapons at unarmed civilians, they would be court-martialed. so apparently this policy has to change. >> congres

the st. louis city police officers have returned to normal duties in the city of st. louis. the highway patrol and st. louis county police officers will continue to control the area along west florence avenue. >> a grand jury heard evidence in the fatal shooting of michael brown by officer darren wilson, a time line for that grand jury investigation is still unclear, and still being pursued by bob mccullough. just like calls from community and local officials to put someone else on the case. in ohio, however, in another case of a black man shot and killed by police, the attorney general in that state has stepped in to appoint a special prosecutor. attorney general mike dewine said he assigned a prosecutor to investigate the death of john crawford iii a man killed in a walmart in southwest ohio on august 5th. >> i'm at the walmart, there's a gentleman walking around with a gun in the store. >> does he have it pulled out? >> yeah, he's like pointing at people. >> what does he look like? >> black male, probably 6 foot tall. >> he said they shot crawford after he refused to put

the st. louis city police department and many of the large parade events. it was effective.sustained the health of those businesses and we also sustained the safety of the protesters that were out tonight. i will answer any questions. yes? >> the rain didn't make -- [ inaudible question ]. >> i will answer any questions that you have. >> so much criticism about the military style tactics. that's what that looked like out there tonight. are you satisfied that that was the appropriate response to the threats that you saw? >> i tell you we have a shooting victim in critical condition that may lose her life. we have a subject standing in the middle of the road with a handgun. we had a police car shot at tonight. and, yes, i think that was a proper response tonight, to maintain officer safety and public safety. so we did have more victims where whether that was law enforcement or some of our citizens. >> do you have information on the victims? >> we do know the victim was in critical condition. >> any idea where the gunshots came from? >> no. >> is the person that was hit -- >> w

the st. louis county police department, chief sam dodson of the st. louis city police department, and i, have been in discussion with governor jay nixon and the governor who were at the highway patrol headquarters in jefferson city. we are planning additional steps to quiet the violence. we are all determined to restore peace and safety to the people of ferguson and i believe the continued resolve of the good people of this community will ultimately triumph over the few people bent on violence and destruction. i have time for a few questions before i return to operational planning. [ inaudible ] >> we had at least three people, we had a couple of shooting victims, two or three people have been injured. >> were they random shootings? >> those shootings we were responding to those shootings, they occurred in the field, had nothing to do with law enforcement. it was between people that were actually out on the scene there. [ inaudible ] >> there were people out. go ahead. there were no officers injured. >> you mentioned additional steps. tell us what additional ste

st. louis -- louis. the city professor gordon, we are trying to understand how we got her in the first place. is it possible to actually point to specific policies, whether there are zoning policies or whatever that enabled this kind of effect of segregation to happen? i think there's really a chain of policies. st. louis is one of the few cities that tried early in the 20th century to his own property -- his own property but it was struck down by the supreme court. covenants was placed on deed and confine the african-american population closely to the north side of st. louis. the covenants were systematic across the city and even more so in the suburbs as a way of sort of checking the growth of the african-american population. >> professor gordon, which are angle of the militarization of the police. my morning must read is from two members of the commit on national legislation and write in "the new york times" for police department fergusons, the path to becoming a peer military is a short one. it is no surprise

the st. louis city police department and many of the large parade events. it was effective. also sustained the safety of the protesters that were out tonight. i will answer any questions. we'll answer any questions that you have. >> what have been described as military-style tactics. that's what that looked like out there tonight. are you satisfied that that was the appropriate response to the threat that you saw? >> i tell you, we have a shooing victim that's in critical condition that may lose a life. we have a subject standing in the middle of the road with a handgun, we had a police car shot at tonight. and, yes, i think that was a proper response tonight. maintain officer safety and public safety. so we did have more victims, whether that was law enforcement or some of our citizens. >> do you have anymore information? >> we do know that the victim is in krilt kal condition. it was a male. >> any idea where the gun is? >> no, we do not. >> no. we were responding to the victim that was shot. so that shooting we were responding to provides assistance to the person that was

the st. louis city.o we're kind of also desensitized to it and there's kids out there and they are getting a glimpse into their future. >> you think there is desensitization? people say, we've got to find out the facts, there's a right to defend yourself in a court of law, that people shouldn't be prejudging, they shouldn't be running up a mob to ran rod darren wilson. do you think that's what you're doing? >> absolutely not. i think there are facts that we all know. before he interacted with that police officer he was alive and well and after he interacted with the police officer his brains were out on the ground and that police officer was being rushed off and his body was laid out there for five hours. so there's some nonnegotiable fact. in the case of a brown body or black body in the middle of the street and not coming forward with the officer's name, being secret about the details of the investigation, it leads people to draw their own conclusions about, one, how much they care about the child and,

the investigation into a st. louis area police shooting of an unarmed teenager. that shooting led to a night of violent protests. tensions erupted after a candlelight vigil last night in the suburban st. louis city of furgeson. crowds the lewded and burned stores. protesters were demanding action against police who shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown. the shooting happened saturday during a scuffle with officers. the coroner said today brown was shot multiple times. his family and friends were overcome with grief. >> he was a good kid. he didn't live around here. he was spending the summer with me. and they did that to him for no reason. >> the st. louis county police department is operating what it calls a parallel investigation along with the fbi to determine if the shooting was justified or not. they hope the tensions relax but say they are bracing for more violence tonight. >> it's my wish moving forward that we have a calm night tonight and throughout the next week as we move through this process. i would implore that people use their best judgment and give the due respect to mr. brown that he deserves. >> 500 officers responded to the rioting last night. there were no injuries. 32 pe

the st. louis city area. and just not even just with the death of michael brown, but just what -- what have -- what the law enforcement has been doing, as far as the tanks being advancing on peaceful protesters and governor jay nixon ordering the national guard come in. it is just surreal, things i never thought i would see in my life. >> the community town meeting is being organized by kevin powell to legality young people think, hear the voices of young people. if you are going ospeak at that meeting what are you going to say? >> i was doing this work since i was marcus's age, 18, 19 years of age. i'm proud of them using their voices and organizational skills to go out there and protests an injustice. a lot of people talk about the youth generation and act as if they're not doing anything but they are doing things around the country. ferguson is getting notice around the world. people from all around the world are calling me about the situation, you see #ferguson, i'm very proud of what these young people ar