gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. and alex, i wanted to get your take on ferguson first. what are some of the specific flash points that people have spoken with you about? i know one thing that we've heard from the community several times is the horror of seeing michael brown's body left in the street for so many hours and couple that with years and decades of sort of simmering tension. what are some of the flash points specific to ferguson that you saw there? >> well, i think you hit the nail on the head. i think the images of seeing his body laying out on the street for such a long time loaded into the back of an unmarked car left people kind of indelibly scarred. and it called up a lot of simmering frustrations and in the words of sort of dozens of people i spoke with their own encounters with police. for mothers, they can say that this could have been their son. for young men, they could have said this could have been their brothers. i think it touched a nerve here. like new york, most of the