home, and stop any potential violence. we hope you have a great evening. we ll see you on monday. brian: here we go. it s a fox news alert. tonight, right now. protests in st. louis, missouri following acquittal of a former police officer back in 2011 for a shootingme death of a black man, 24 years old, good evening, everyone. welcome to tucker carlson tonight. i am brian kilmeade. my privilege to fill in tonight and we have a lot to discuss. let s begin here. protesters and riot police in the streets of st. louis right now as they have been throughout the day, but as the darkness falls, the crowds mount. let s go to fox correspondent mike tobin who is in the field. mike, what s happening there?ik how are you, brian? well, they have taken off for a march up euclid toward the center of town. tough to get a good estimate on numbers. people like to throw out
how your income is generated, looks at the system of taxation, replacing taxation by citation or higher property tax or another form of taxation or in some cases dismantling, the city the size of 900 people perhaps doesn t need its own police department or doesn t need its own city government and should perhaps merge with some other governments. these are conversations that have to happen on a local level here in st. louis. they have started, but we have not seen them reach fruition or any kind of level of section yet. thank you to alderman antonio french in ferguson, missouri. it has after all only been a year. it took us 150 years after the civil war apparently to bring down the confederate flag so who knows. thank you for joining us. stay right there. we have so much more this morning. up next, policing in america.
this is not the first time bernie sanders and other presidential candidates have faced black lives matters protesters while campaigning. what do we make of this particular interaction? i know what my table makes of it. joining me from ferguson, missouri, is st. louis native artist and co-founder of hands up united. nice to have you. can you talk to me about the direct action strategy here, the idea of interrupting and sort of what value that has and what kind of action that is? well, i believe that on a certain level, when we say black lives matter there s still a demographic of the country of the world of this society that doesn t hear us, they don t understand us. so at this point in time, at this particular point we re at in history, disruption is so valuable to the movement, it s so valuable to having our voices heard. essentially you re looking at a community of people that remains voiceless, unless someone does something over the top like
that s not to say that officers are signed up for that job, but if we re only now getting the first federal documents that say there s a cleptocratic component to what some law enforcement are doing, we re only figuring out what got put in place 150 years ago. the economic piece, alderman, part of what s happened is we ve heard officials there in ferguson say look, doj, we d be happy to put this in place but it will bankrupt our city. the way that we form revenue is by giving three, four, five tickets for every stop and actually rejecting the consent decr decree. exactly. so it is about this system in place, and the system right now relies upon revenue generated by basically a system of taxation by citation of poor people and that system has to be transformed and remodeled and so for cities the size of ferguson, even smaller in the st. louis region, that means looking at
be in the classic much less win it but that is what happened in game seven of the series with the rangers, and here is what sealed the deal. not air. what a game. what a ride. the cardinals are world champions in 2011. dave: they are 10 1/2 games back august 25th. how about that? come back for the ages. they are also a strike away from elimination in the world series, not just once, but twice, and how about st. louis native, david fre. se, the world series trophy, one of only six players in the history of the game to win the league championship series and the world series mvp. good for st. louis, second world series since 2006. clayton: bottom of the 9th, two outs, two strikes and they came back from that.