of the shooting death of michael brown. msnbc s trymaine lee is live in st. louis. explain what we ve seen from the last time. dr. cornell west is on the scene and just arrested? reporter: that s right. last time we were on air the protesters were actually sitting down about 10, 15 yards away from the front of the u.s. courthouse here. but in one kind of sweeping move they pushed forward, sat down literally right in front of the doors. and that point it was relatively calm. but then, about ten minutes later, you saw kind of a stream of police officers in blue. i believe st. louis city police officers came and surrounded all of the protesters. the first arrest that i actually saw 15 minutes ago was one of the most well-known young activists, jennetta els, they were surrounding her, takeninger her side you saw the protesters
is a huge thing. if i can hear correctly, song has broke on out? starting to sing? reporter: song has broken out now, yeah. dancing, drums, everything. ryan riley from the huffington post, congressman, thank you. we ll take a quick break. stay with us, breaking news out of st. louis, missouri, as the protesters there are finishing up their moral monday march and seem to be trying to agitate the officers to get arrested. we ll be back after this.-t t s . whoa! what are you guys doing? we re making sure nothing sticks. otherwise we gotta scrub all this stuff off. dish issues? cascade platinum powers through your toughest, starchy messes as if your dishes were non-stick. cascade. now that s clean. what do a nasca comedian. and a professional golfer have in common? we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. xarelto® is proven to treat
in ferguson since the death of michael brown, our trymaine lee is on the ground. thanks to you, msnbc trymaine lee reporting out of st. louis. also breaking news out of new york city to pass along concerning the deadly legionnaire s disease and outbreak that happened in the big apple. authorities raised the death toll to 12. that s up from ten. press conference today, new york city mayor bill de blasio says the disease has been contained. saying cooler towers are to blame for the outbreak but the city s disinfecting them. are in the process of disinfection or have been disinfected already, all will be disinfected by the end of today. so we ll have a final, complete universe in every single one will have been disinfected. 113 people contaminated with the disease. we ll keep an eye on that as well. coming up next, we attack you to
it just brings you to tears because if i mean, i just when are you going to stop, you know? that s that s what we want to know. i just don t feel like it s not an act of protest. i don t believe you can actively protest at nighttime. when is it going to stop? msnbc s trymaine lee live in st. louis. explain what you ve been witnessing that s happened over the last hour. how has it escalated to the point we re seeing now live? can you hear us? we re going to work on getting the shot with trymaine up and getting his audio. congressman emmanuel cleaver on the telephone. sir, looking at what seems to be
after the moral monday march that took place in st. louis. eugene, protest leaders are being criticize or criticizing the police, that it was a poor decision to use plain clothes officers at a protest setting. explain, is that common that they should be in plain clothes or is that uncommon? it sounds like whatever the police do they re going to be criticized when they are in riot gear, criticized when they re not in uniform. they re criticized, it is common practice to have plain clothes people there to be listening, to be honest, and to be monitoring what s happening with some of these protest, of course, legitimate protesters being shunted aside and there s an element of people that don t even come from the town that are coming to create problems. that shouldn t be tolerated. that s what i think was expoed here and i hear the police chief talking about that, criminal elements exposing the vulnerabilities and pitting people against each other and use these protests as a cover to