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
also, one of the things i m sure people were saying this to you today and talking about community members coming together and really feeling this intense sense of sadness, pride in the neighborhood that kept hearing that and frustration from people at one point yelling at us saying look you re here 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
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 front of their helmets and of this s got riot shields that they are holing in some instances but saw the police act as an inert force, as a torres that absorbed abuse and did not reflect it back to the people dealing it out to them and saw the police use those shields and the degree to which
police our own streets and protect our own people to make sure this does not turn into a more violent situation. seeing the gang members come out. i ve seen nothing on television quite like toure s under interviews with a gang member saying we don t want this. 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.
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 front of their helmets and of this s got riot shields that they are holing in some instances but saw the police act as an inert force, as a torres that absorbed abuse and did not reflect it back to the people dealing it out to them and saw the police use those shields and the degree to which