Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. Stewart good evening and thanks for joining us. Im alison stewart. Tonight as we absorb the horror of the attack in france, here in the United States we are still suffering after a period of incredible violence the killing of two African American men by Police Officers in minnesota and louisiana, and the shooting of Police Officers in dallas. Americans are pained, frightened, and dismayed over the longstanding racial issues that threaten all our safety. We are here tonight to dig deeper. Were going to hear from African American parents about the talk they have with their children about Law Enforceme
Feg son, missouri. Ferguson, missouri. Good morning. Im melissa harrisperry. Right now there is kwai net ferguson, missouri, the morning after standoff between police and defensemen monstrators outr the shooting death of Michael Brown reignited tensions in this community overnight. Last night starting around midnight a peaceful protest of more than 100 people escalated into a clash with police. The demonstration gave way to unrest as heavily armed police fired tier gas to disperse a crowd. A small group of people took advantage of the chaos to loot nearby businesses but were blocked by members of the community who stepped in to stand guard and protect the stores. The renewed unrest comes following a day of calm after the missouri Highway Patrol, undered leadership of captain ron johnson, took over security for the demonstrations from the towns local authorities. But anger in the community flared again after the police chief Thomas Jackson during a News Conference identifying officer Da
Harrisperry. First this morning we want to bring you on update on the shootings yesterday in copenhagen copenhagen. The first featured a cartoonist who has mocked the prophet mohammed. One atekdtending the event was killed and three injured. The second was at a jewish synagogue. The Prime Minister of denmark spoke earlier today outside the synagogue. Our thoughts goes to his family. We are with them today. But our thoughts goes to the whole of the Jewish Community today. They belong in denmark. They are a strong part of our community and we will do everything we can to protect the Jewish Community in our country. Danish police say the person suspected of carrying out these attacks was killed after exchanging fire with authorities. Joining me now on the phone from copenhagen denmark, is peter keldorf. Peter, what do we know about the identity of the suspect . Reporter the police have told us this afternoon that they know the name of the man that they killed this morning and, as you said
Mrd of all Police Officers. And theres a conspiracy. Is he tied to one of these groups . Like we talked earlier, ari, they already broke up a conspiracy of four men who were breaking into a gun shop, stole eight guns in a plot the kill officers. We dont know if they are members of a group, but they were in conspiracy to kill officers. They then had the lone wolf who was reading from the black hate groups on the web. We know, jim, we dont know at this juncture where this fits in. Baton rouge is the shooting of alton sterling which the Justice Department is investigating. Tensions are high around the counted, and i want to emphasize what nbc has confirmed. We dont have reports from elsewhere. We know and we are covering it in part because of the possibility of interest and we dont know what was in the mind of these suspects. We adodont know if it was susp or suspects. One thing is that white house Officials Say that the president has been briefed on this shooting of Police Officers and i
Local hospital, but the mayor confirming that three other officers have been killed. We know that baton rouge has been the site of a lot of tension in recent days, following the shooting death of alton sterling. He had his funeral on friday, but we saw the protests pick up as late as yesterday outside the Police Headquarters. We dont know if these situations with directly remitted, but given what the mayor told us here at msnbc, these are possible shoot oers who wa who wanted to do harm and believes these officers were specifically targeted. Continuing this breaking news and following it here, also joining me from cleveland, is my colleague, ari melmelber, and i know you were talking to people and putting perspective in this. Tensions already high in places like baton rouge, dallas, minnesota and cleveland. We see security a top priority. Thank you for your supporting. Im here in cleveland where the political story is of course, the republican nomination starting tomorrow, but all eyes