Safeguarding rights of citizens and the press. This is not a ferguson problem. This is a national problem. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchel in washington. Watching with the rest of our nation as a Missouri Town explodes. Weekend looting and response to the Police Shooting and killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown has now led to continuing mostly peaceful protests but the Police Response looks more like a combat zone. Two reporters who witnessed last nights events. They are joining me now. Thanks to both of you. I know youve been up all night. Thanks for everything that youve been doing. Tell me what you saw, what happened out there in the streets last night . What i saw was really police barricading people into areas and trying to get them to disperse. There was a really, really large crowd. I saw teargas. People really, really choking on teargas. People really struggling to try to just get home in most of the instances that i talked to. I also was at the Ferguson Police stati
Meanwhile, at Tuscaloosa, two Negroes enrolled at the university under the protection of federalized National Guard troops went to their classes today without incident.
george wallace, standing in the doorway of the university of alabama trying to prevent the university s first two black students from registering. but the governor s defiance was crushed by a president who knew how to use federal power. president kennedy nationalized the alabama national guard so that the governor had no control over them. the president had the students escorted by u.s. marshals, and the governor was legally flattened at the door by deputy united states attorney general nicholas katzenback. i would ask you once again to responsibly step aside, and if you don t i am going to ensure you that the orders of the court will be enforced. the country was riveted by the confrontation in alabama, i was just a little boy. but i strongly remember seeing the governor stand in the