warda jumped out into the aisle and pushed me over.man antonio french tweeted we saw once again tonight how fractured our city remains. we have a lot of work to do. this just the last confrontation following months of unrest in the wake of the death of michael brown and the acquittal of the ferguson police officer, darren wilson who shot him. sarah sidner cnn, los angeles. >>> joining us now is jeff rorda, the st. louis police union official who you saw was involved in that mele. hopefully cooler heads are prevailing this morning in the light of day. mr. rorda, i'm glad you could join me. what happened last night? >> well michaela chaos is what happened. you know, we -- we attended the hearing. about 100 off duty police officers and their supporters outnumbered the anti-police protesters nearly two to one yet the chairman of the committee, the architect of this supposed civilian oversight board bill heard from 35 anti--police witnesses before the first police officer was allowed to testify. when he did and when the two that followed at