last missile that flew over on september 14th, the one lofted over hokkaido, he says they assessed it not a threat. if they assess it a threat they re going to go ahead and shoot it down. so we just had a lot of news from secretary mattis. i know a lot is happening up in new york, at the united nations up in your end woods, ali, and he confirmed the number of additional troop s were going t afghanistan. he said over 3,000. said ton the record. we basically know around 3,500. hawkish stance from the secretary of defense. and playing into the fact that president trump is going to address this at the united nations. hans, thanks, hans nichols as the pentagon for us. coming up, businesses in st. louis are boarding up in anticipation of another night of protests after a white former police officer was acquitted in the deadly shooting of a black man. we ll take you to st. louis, next. is instinctive.
scott cohn in st. louis, the nation continues to struggle with police violence and accountability. bring in host and managing editor of news one now. roland, let me ask you, i saw the washington post is reporting that journalists on the ground heard st. louis police appropriating the language of the protesters saying they were chanting as they were disbursing protests instructions, who s streets? our streets what do you make of this? people very frustrated as the shooting of anthony lamar smith, five bullets and doing what scott cohen is reporting about? we keep hearing about good cops and only a few bad apples. when will the good cops stand up and hold the bad cops accountable? a call for the jury to convict jason stockily. now they want to go after the head of the black police union, a black woman, because she dared
ten people arrested, and then as you mentioned last night in downtown st. louis, after a day of peaceful protests, all day long, a splitter group broke off and went into the downtown area. smashing windows. turning over flower planters and the like. 80 people arrested in that. and a very sizable police presence. today more peaceful protests in downtown st. louis. a silent march up market street. the main drag heading west from the gateway arch. just to kind of keep this, this message going. and we didn t know going in to the week, the workweek, whether this would continue while the protesting has continued, peaceful during the day and again, they expect peaceful towards evening, but then the question is, what happens then? will we see yet another, a fourth night in a row of violence? ali? scott, keep we ll in close touch with you. you re tweeting about the stuff you re seeing in st. louis.
windows broken and people in masks? a distinction that you make? look, the own distinction is the one you just said. bottom line, people are angry, frustrated, upset. and here s what i want to hear. i would love to hear police officers in st. louis say, this guy should have been convicted. this guy was carrying an unauthorized ak-47. this is not how we do business. okay. they don t do that, ali, because they protect each other, and so the problem which you have here is that police want to say, oh, you should condemn the protesters. and people who are committing acts of violence should be condemned but i m also condemning the same cops committing acts of violence but the good cops, ever worry about them? the answer is no. and roland, a quick turn on to a different topic. that is education secretary betsy devos had a summit this morning. at a summit. historically black colleges and universities. lynn to what she had to say.
somebody might have gotten hurt and, even worse, killed in the situation. are they working on ways to find out who the vulnerable are within our society to get to them before isis does or is that too much? i think the approach is in a number of different directions looking at who may be next. it s very difficult now, as you well know with the ability to overhear some things. we try very hard to look at all it. it s not just a unidirectional approach, who is talking or who is online it s what kind of people are online what s their problem? i hear our leader telling us it s going to happen. it s a matter of time shep and that s a shame. it is. a lot of people working mighty hard to stop it. yes, they are. bill gavin, thanks so much. my pleasure. a man trying to ambush and kill a police sergeant. cops in st. louis say a vehicle carrying four people pulled up to a cop car before one gunman got out, opened fire unloaded at least a dozen bullets into the windshield. it happ