Protesters chucking rocks at us. We are telling the true story. People are angry, man. Theyre really angry. And chris, obviously a lot of anger out there. Did you get a sense of what people are angry specifically at the media over . You could hear people yelling tell the true story. What are people, in your view, angry about . Is so people, i think, have gotten all sides of this conflict have gotten angrier at the media as time has gone on. I think the police are furious at the media because they feel like the Media Presence is inciting the worst elements. They feel like the media is giving them a hard time. Frankly, they dont like people recording them while theyre doing their job all the time. And i think some of the protesters are angry at the media because they feel like the story isnt being told. I think some of the protesters feel like people are too uncritically accepting the polices line. I think also theres just this sense that no amount of story telling by the media can prope
Conversations, and sometimes very intense arguments between Police Officers and protesters. None of which was possible 36 hours earlier, when they were in s. W. A. T. Gear and gas masks. But this morning, all that changed. It started with a press conference by Ferguson Police chief tom jackson. What were making available today are the dispatch records and the video footage of a robbery, a strong arm robbery, with use of force that occurred at a local convenience mart. At 11 52, dispatch gave a description of a robbery suspect over the radio. A different officer arrived a to the store, where the strong arm robbery occurred. A further description, more detail was given over the radio. At 12 01 p. M. , our officer encountered Michael Brown on canfield drive. At 12 04, a second officer arrived on the scene, immediately following the shooting. The Ferguson Police released surveillance video, showing a man who appears to be Michael Brown in the store, and a Police Report reporting how he was
Craig melvin is just back from the ridealong. You got the firsthand experience riding along with captain ron johnson. What did he have to say . Reporter you know, for folks who may not have been following this thing, captain johnson, of course, over the entire Law Enforcement effort here in ferguson. Hes got command of the nagtionl guard and the other Law Enforcement agencies, as well, that have all december escended ferguson. Its fascinating. Neighborhoods and businesses and the businesses, Business Owners stopped by or the Business Owners where we stopped, the businesses where we stopped by, essentially were all saying the same thing, ronan. They were saying we want you to continue to protect our businesses so we can stay open. We stopped by a Convenience Store that had been broken in not once but twice. Been looted, saw some video of 40 or 50 young people who had gone in, many wearing masks, taken a bunch of stuff. Young ladies, as well. Bags. Owner, tears in the eyes essentially be
For whipping up the violent crowds. According to arrest reports we have, Police Actually arrested 78 people last night. Mostly for failing to leave areas that the police were clearing. They have that no more standing rule. You must keep moving. Thats what the arriveds were about. We have a breakdown. How many of them actually live in ferguson, missouri . Of them people arrested, four police in ferguson. 48 others live in the greater st. Louis area. Nearby, but not in ferguson. Five others live outside the st. Louis area but in the state of missouri, and 18 of the 78 arrived are from out of state. Places including new york, california, and texas. According to police. Theon straighters started win an officer shot and killed an 18yearold black man who was unarmed. [shouting] for a tenth consecutive night the demonstrations turned violin, with one exception in the middle, but its been going on for a while. Police say somebody shot two people as police fired tear gas and flash bangs to brea
Todd out there. Can you hear me now . I can hear you now. Where im standing right now is kind of the emergency access lane. This is going to be open but just behind me on the other side of this barricade is where thousands of people are expected to gather after they march, right by the site of Eric Gardners death. So theyll line all the way up and hear a series of speakers and other cause to action so to speak. Im told that former members of the new York Police Department will also address the misconduct. Many people gathered today perceive that the police used in this apparent choke hold of eric gardner and theyre calling for change. A few thousand people right now but that number expected to increase as the time progresses. All right, thank you so much, we will see you later on. There are growing indication, that the u. S. Mission in isis in iraq may be creeping towards syria. Said yesterday that the u. S. Will not be restricted by borders as it confronts the threat from isis. Early