evidence laid out by the department of justice that michael brown s hands were not up when officer wilson shot and killed him, the hands up don t shoot movement lives. we know for a fact that he s dead. whether his hands were up or not, he s not here and he didn t have a weapon. reporter: the argument is if he wasn t surrendering there s a justification, which is what the doj and the grand jury found. to me that s a repetitive tactic that s been used against black males when dealing with the police. you can root back to slavery with that tactic where you kind of you have to find a way to villainize the victim. reporter: but the attorney for michael brown s family points to witnesses in the same doj report who say brown s hands were up briefly. there s a difference between hands over your head and hands up. that s a distinction we ve seen already with the recorder. reporter: the head of the st. louis police union said the refusal to believe all the
with that tactic where you kind of you have to find a way to villainize the victim. reporter: but an attorney for michael brown s family points to witnesses in that same doj report who say brown s hands were up briefly. there s a difference between hands over your head and hands up. that s one clear distinction we ve seen when we ve reviewed the report. reporter: the head of the st. louis police department says this is an example of why the community and police can t see eye to eye. the gulf of distress is as wide as it s ever been. it s not completely surprising. you know it s become so engrained in these protests and in the minds of people who believe that something happened on august 9th that didn t. hands up don t shoot. reporter: just today a group of ferguson protesters traveling to selma still chanting the same mantra. but we did notice one difference this time their signs read, we can t stop now.
that tactic. you have to find a way to villainize the victim. but an attorney for michael brown s family points to witnesses in that same doj report who say brown s hands were up briefly. there s a distinction between hands over your head and hands up. and so that s one clear distinction we have seen already when we have reviewed the report. the head of the st. louis police union says the refusal to believe all of the details in the investigation is an example of why the community and police can t see eye-to-eye. the gulf of distress is as wide as it s ever been. it s not completely surprising. it s become so ingrained in these protests and in the minds of people who believe that something happened on august 9th that didn t. hands up! don t shoot! just today, a group of ferguson protesters traveling to selma still chanting the same mantra. but we did notice one difference. this time, their signs read we
yourself you made an appearance on cnn with piers morgan. a lot of talk about how this is being played out in the media. one of our questions was a rush to judgment. you tweeted out an apology today to people who follow you. what were you apologizing for in reference to this case? what i want to do is get information about the case and seek justice for trayvon. the right thing happens. and i don t know what that is. i don t know if that means a conviction but i know we need to judge the evidence in a court of law. if the media doesn t help push this toward that, then we may never get to that point of justice. when i became part of the story and allowed it to become why do you say that? obviously the media was important and trayvon martin s family points to reverend al sharpton and so many other names we don t know who push for this. and we would not be at this point, had there not been an intervention. had there not been people who were brave enough to hear the cries of this fa