frustration though on both sides of the protest lines here. there is a state of emergency in effect right now. more officers on the ground. officials in st. louis county saying they re not willing to take chances within it comes to the violence here. i think what is required in this situation is a proactive response and i think we need to get out ahead of the and you know last time around last 84, we saw a city burn and we are not going to see that again. i m taking every measure possible to avoid that scenario. police tell us there was no looting, no shots fired overnight. much different than monday night when they say 18-year-old tyrone harris, jr., fired at police officers, he s still in critical condition in a local hospital. he has been charged now, four counts of aggravated assault on law enforcement. five counts of armed criminal action and one count of shooting at a motor vehicle. that s the very latest here in ferguson, i m jay grey, my car, back to you.
whether it be the street fires that we re seeing burning here the community center the cvs earlier, and there s a lot of folks willing to let their city burn. when they came out, there were folks cutting their fire hoses to let things burn. can you still hear me? reporter: i can still hear you, sean. earlier in the day the police were almost in retreat as rocks and bottles were being thrown at them. you re saying now they re getting mora gresse aggressive and moving into the areas where all of this is happening and the protesters are? reporter: it does seem like they re getting a little more more aggressive as things are going on. about an hour ago, we were at a street corner no more than a hundred yards from here and the protesters or rioters or looters, call them what you want came and they just looted these stores in front of the police and the police did absolutely nothing during the whole time. we now actually can look and see the front door where the police
i just spoke to ashley a little while ago ashley, just tell me as you have been out here, this is really you saw what happened yesterday you saw what happened today describe the difference. what i see now is pot positivity. i see people who are fighting for the initial fight, which is the peace which is the stop the police brutality. and to show that we can be organized, that we are educated and we have the right and the ability to do what needs to be done to make baltimore better. yesterday obviously you watched much of this city burn. and you saw the police stand by and do nothing. do you have some hope that tonight the police might actually stop some of the looters and rioters? first i hope that there are no looters and rioters. and i think that there should be and there will be a lot more organization. i don t think that they, you know they maybe undermined, didn t think clearly or whatever, whoever was in
and you re talking about the baltimore individuals racist? we re not talking about the bellmore john a jada. he s not in office anymore. the general allege. i assume every person in baltimore loves their city. you love your question right? so you re watching your city burn before america tonight, you re watching innocent store owners sheeg their entire lif. you see. is this how you protest? its going around the fire. this is madness anterior.
some say this outburst sparked rioting in ferguson, others say it was the gut wrenching emotional cries of a man whose stepson was killed. local law enforcement officials say don t expect charges to come from this investigation. we have all the angles covered. our den lomb monois here. he has the statement from louis head. evan perez has new information and mel robbins is here giving us legal perspective on all of. this don, i think we should start with you. this statement came to you from a source very close to louis head. what is he saying? i spoke to louis head this morning. he didn t want to talk long because i ll bet. this is a tough time for him. he s not used to dealing with things like this. he said yes, those are my words in that statement, i didn t mean to cause any of this, i certainly didn t want to see my city burn. so let s go to the statement and i ll talk more about the conversation. he said something came over me as i watched and i listened to