i thought that was a very odd coincidence by the way. but why was this case brought now when this shooting took place in 2011? well, that s a good we. the former circuit attorney brought these charges before she left office. i think it was due to the dna evidence, video evidence, i am not sure exactly what happened. but they pressured her for quite a while, given all the evidence, was this was a case that could meet the threshold of missouri state law, which is very hard to convict a police officer of murder. the former and current prosecutor both felt they had a good case. looking at the evidence, especially from some of the statements from the officer, again saying he was beginning to kill this mf just before he actually did, we felt that this was a case that could be won, we re disappointed with today s
that s all they re trying to do. give you a little more context don in terms of what we saw in front of the mayor s house, we saw some people try to intervene and try to prevent somen those folks have smashing the windows. i saw a senior citizen yell at one of these young kids who was smashing windows, telling him to stop. but once the crowd joined in, there was no stopping it. it was a really sad scene. and that is what caused this massive police presence to descend on these streets, don. dan, stand by. want you to be safe out there. police using tactics to try to get the protestors, what s left of them, off the street. i want to bring in a member of the senior police officer s association. a retired maryland police major. jeff, i want to talk to you about what s happening out in the crowd. this will be handled no doubt than ferguson.
day, watch it from gavel to gavel. saw jason stockily testify. his testimony was so inconsistent with what was on the cell phone video. basically this trial turn out to be a situation where we were forced to believe what jason stockley had to stay and suspend our own hearing and site in what we saw in the cell phone video. in my opinion it was a embarrassment. and i think he should have been found guilty of first degree murder based on the evidence. what do you think of his reaction tonight. i heard you say that. i think it s a self serving statement from someone who said he was going to kill someone and 45 seconds later he did it. it was premed tated murder. all of his actions leading up to that point and subsequent to that point, i can t stress enough don how it was caught on
reporter: right now they re taking a hands off posture. you can see, you have police over here on the side. obviously they don t want to shut down the freeway because that s really going to disrupt things. i don t know what s going to happen if and when they do try to go on to the freeway itself. it s beginning to be something to watch this. you can see police casually standing off on the side, clearly they don t want to escalate things and this crowd is acting peacefully as you can see. dan, we ll continue to check with you throughout the evening. i want to give you background on the case that that you are protesters about. our randy k report. reporter: you re watching the final moments of a man s life. it s december of 2011, a motorist, anthony smith being chased by a police officer jason stockily and his partner. the officer suspected he d been involved in a drug deal. the officers would later say
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