that we haven t had any instances similar to this over the summer and fall. joining us now a adolphus pruitt. he s the president of the st. louis naacp. thanks for joining us. this is a serious setback, this shooting of these two police officers. give us your reaction to what has happened in your community over the past few hours. unfortunately, last night was a violent night here in st. louis. we had a 5-year-old killed in one part of the city and later on in the night, we had two police officers shot. it s never good to have anybody suffering from a gunshot wound of any nature irrespective of what it is they re doing and who they re representing. so it was a bad night. i m just looking forward to moving on and continuing the conversation going in the direction it needs to go in to bring the change that needs to happen with police and