you want to show things popping off and show things burning and you want to capture one tiny sliver of what is actually happening in baltimore and west baltimore. i m curious what you say to police officers who i basically have heard say the exact same thing to me. police officer after police officer that i ve talked to here in baltimore or ferguson or around the country in the last six to eight months will say, yes, you focus on these incidents of brutality and these incidents that have video but you re failing to capture how hard the job is and how well many people do the job. what do you say to that. there are many police that do a real good job. i think that police risk their lives every day. but my response to them is, therefore, you ought to help us get rid of the bad apples and help to expose the cops that are brutal or that break the law just like you tell us in the community that we ought to give up those doing things wrong in
there was one police action to disperse one crowd at the corner of pennsylvania avenue and north avenue, the spot expected to be difficult to clear. it has been cleared. you re looking at live images of humvees, national guard humvees moving through the streets of baltimore into position. there is no emergency situation that they are on their way to the baltimore police have been very busy tweeting every development tonight of any kind and they haven t issued a tweet in 24 minutes. that is one indication of just how calm things have been in baltimore so far this evening. one thing i would say just about the vehicles you re looking at particularly in the last seven or eight months, we ve had all the different incidents after ferguson, one of the conversations that started was the idea of militarized policing, about policing presence that seems militaristic in american communities this. is not istic at all. this is the military.
there. it is of a very different kind and it s a big deal for our country and our democracy whenever we see the actual u.s. military in our street. rachel one of the important notes of tonight is something that we are not saying that we could have spent some portion of the last hour and 20 minutes saying and that is have they learned nothing from ferguson? it seems to me that all enlightened and semi enlightened law enforcement officials throughout the country were watching our coverage of ferguson and all of the national television coverage of ferguson and learning lessons every night with what they were seeing on these tv screens. uh-huh and i mean i think tonight at least especially if you take the word and judgment of our reporters on the ground who are very close to that one conflagration we saw today it seems like the baltimore police have learned those and hardened themselves as a target and they re in these hardened vehicles. they ve got helmets and riot shields down in f
joined by steve kornacki monitoring what s going on in social media. i ve been following the police tweets. that s been a pretty full account in real detail about what s been happening. what else is out there in some news for you in the last few minutes and this is not from baltimore but it is in a way related to baltimore, this is getting a lot of attention in social media. that is that there was a shooting at ferguson, missouri, a solidarity event. taking place on north florissant, the intersection if those sound familiar that is basically very close to where a teenager michael brown was shot this past summer on west florissant where all of the protests you remember from last summer were taking place mainly
i ve seen nothing on television quite like toure s interviews with a gang member saying we don t want this. we re joined by steve kornacki monitoring what s going on in social media. i ve been following the police tweets. that s been a pretty full account in real detail about what s been happening. what else is out there in some news for you in the last few minutes and this is not from baltimore but it is in a way related to baltimore, this is getting a lot of attention in social media. that is that there was a shooting at ferguson, missouri, this took place at a solidarity rally related to the events in baltimore. taking place on north florissant, the intersection if those sound familiar that is basically very close to where a teenager michael brown was shot this past summer on west florissant where all of the protests you remember from last