Yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. Good. I hate surprises. Surprise at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card and see your fico® credit score. Stay tuned to msnbc for tonights breaking news from ferguson. Thanks for watch withing. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Suburban war zone. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im in for chris matthews. Leading off tonight, all eyes are on ferguson, missouri, where authorities are bracing for another night of protests toefr shooting of an unarmed africanamerican teenager by a Police Officer last saturday. Protesters are once again taking to the streets at this hour. They have been joined by local Ferguson Police in the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Ferguson police are expected to hold a News Conference at any moment. When that happens well take you there live. Last night the streets of the st. Louis suburb looked and felt like a war zone. Police in riot gear launched tearga
Like a war zone. Police in riot gear launched teargas and smoke bombs to disperse crowds. Some officers had guns trained on the crowds while standing on their vehicles. They fired teargas at a crew from aljazeera. A local politician was arrested for unlawful assembly. Today a host of National Politicians from Claire Mchaskill and Elizabeth Warren to rand paul called the Police Tactics over the top. Police say they were protecting themselves after getting attacked with molotov cocktails and bricks from some in the crowd. President obama spoke about the crisis for the first time this afternoon. Now is the time for healing. Now is the time for peace and calm on the streets of ferguson. Now is the time for an open and transparent process to see that justice is done. Meanwhile, missouri governor jay nixon this afternoon announced a major change. He appointed the states Highway Patrol to direct the security situation in ferguson. Whats gone on here over the last few days is not what missouri
Africanamerican teenager, Michael Brown. He was 18 years old. His family will never hold michael in their arms again. And when Something Like this happens, the local authorities, including the police, have a responsibility to be open and transparent about how they are investigating that death. And how they are protecting the people in their communities. There is never an excuse for violence against police. Theres also no excuse for police to use Excessive Force against peaceful protests. That was the president just a little while ago. And these are pictures from the evenings here in this town. Unlike monday, when looters took to the streets in ferguson, police are now the ones accused of being out of control. The sound that youre hearing is a crowd control tactic. Its earpiercing. It actually hurts your ear drums. There it goes. They are firing on to the crowd. Ow [ bleep ] they are firing rubber bullets. [ bleep ] not just earpiercing sirens. Witnesses say police from ferguson and st.
The Highway Patrol will provide security in ferguson. He was hugging people, apologizing to people on behalf of the police for what happened last night. Last nights jarring images of police clad in military gear. No excuse for police to use Excessive Force. Tanks rolling down the street like they would see in baghdad. With equipment that was designed for use on a battlefield. Its very important we demilitarize. The whole picture is being painted sideways. You can still smell and feel it in the grass here. Started getting rocks, bricks, bottles thrown at us. If you give them a hammer, everything looks like a nail. People are wondering is this 2014 or 1964 . That was yesterday. Tonights tonight and tomorrow is tomorrow. Night has fallen in ferguson, missouri and its a very different situation from last night. Theres a new face of law and order on the streets of ferguson tonight. Captain ron johnson of the Highway Patrol is now in charge. You can stay out here all night. The only thing i
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