Year old Michael Brown in august setting off weeks of unrest in the ferguson, missouri area. Weve been combing through wilsons testimony before the grand jury. Lets read you some of what weve seen so far. Wilson testified, quote, as he, meaning Michael Brown, is coming towards me. I keep telling him to get on the ground. He doesnt. I shoot a series of shots. I dont know how many i shot. I just know i shot it. I know i missed a couple. But i know i hit him at least once, because i saw his body kind of jerk. The face that he had, wilson testified was looking straight through me, like i wasnt even there, coming straight at me, like he was going to run right through me. And when he gets about that 8 to 10 feet away, i look down, wilson testified. I remember looking at my sights and firing. All i see is his head and thats what i shot. I felt another one of those punches in my face could knock me out or worse. Hes obviously bigger than i was and stronger, and ive already taken two to the face, and i didnt think i would, but the third one could be fatal if he hit me right wilson testified before the grand jury. I tried to hold his right arm and use my left hand to have some type of control and not be trapped in my car anymore. I felt like a 5yearold holding onto hulk hogan. That is the testimony before the grand jury of officer Darren Wilson. We have learned this evening that there will not be an indictment. There will not be any charges against officer Darren Wilson. The grand jury making that decision, and the announcement was this evening. Lets go now to get the latest from the streets of ferguson. Cnns Stephanie Elam is watching this all unfold, stephanie, what are you seeing . Reporter its a much different scene than it was earlier. When we first got here after coming from clayton, there were about three businesses at the same time, they were all vandalized in this area. In fact, ill just walk back to just show you. Youve probably seen it if youve covered it. The ferguson market and liquor. This one was vandalized. I watched a man kick in the door of another Wireless Shop right here. And people run in there, and then i saw people come up to him, young people, young women, go up and say why are you doing this . Our neighborhood . Why would you do this where we live . This is wrong. And sort of selfpolicing. And i saw people leave the store after that. Im taking my headset out because im hearing myself. But ill put it in to hear you. But when you watch what was going on, it was mayhem. We watched police leave, come back with their riot gear on. And in the interim, we saw these buildings catch on fire. This was a Beauty Supply store. And we watched it burn to the ground. The Fire Department did show you. They were here for a bit. Then there was gunfire. The Fire Department left. So youve got three buildings that i can see from my Vantage Point that are burning here on west florissant. We are by west florissant and ferguson. And at this point right now, the police are slowly sweeping down the street. Law enforcement pushing everyone out. If you are in front of that line, they are telling you that if you stay there you will be arrested, but it is pretty quiet after a lot of gunfire erupted. The streets pretty much cleared out after that point where im standing, but it was mayhem when i first got here, jake. Yeah, its very, very tragic seeing all these businesses, local businesses burned down, vandalized, looted. There is a market, sams meat market that we visited in august after it was looted. And weve been told by one of the managers, man that weve become friends with, ibrahim that it was burned down this evening as well. These are people who have come here to provide goods to the community. Stephanie, when i was walking on south florissant earlier and saw looting and vandalizing of beauty world, there was a woman who attempted to lecture the looters. What are you doing. This isnt helping us. This isnt what its all about. Im sure you must have heard some similar exhortations to people in the crowd, to the people committing these criminal acts. And it looks as though weve lost Stephanie Elam. We lost Stephanie Yoe lamb. Just a recap for those tuning in. The grand jury in st. Louis county decided to not indict Darren Wilson, the Police Officer who shot and killed 18 year old Michael Brown, an unarmed africanamerican teenager in august. The grand jury met more than two dozen times to go over all the evidence, and we are getting some of the evidence that has been released by the prosecutor. The prosecutor, when he made his remarks introducing the evidence and announcing that there would not be any charges handed do you against officer Darren Wilson, the prosecutor, meticulously walked through all the different contradictory testimonies by witnesses or people who claimed to be witnesses, pointing out how often their testimony contradicted each other, contradicted the physical evidence, contradicted what they said at later times and later dates. There has been a lot of attention paid to the witnesses because so many of them have come forward and given interviews to the media. The prosecutor wanting to try to explain to people how unreliable, in his view, and apparently the view of the grand jury that testimony was. Im told that we have do we have Stephanie Yoe lamb back . Do we have her back . Were going to go to ed lavandera who is with us. Where are you and what are you seeing . Reporter im here at the Police Department location here in ferguson. Were just able to make our way back here after being trapped for the last two and a half hours there on west florissant road, and we were there early on when the buildings started at the mcdonalds and a Cell Phone Store when it started being set on fire. And there was not a single Police Officer on that stretch of road for quite, quite some time. Clearly overwhelmed by the scene that was unfolding here at the Police Department location. But it took a great deal of time, and it quickly unfolded there, and it was, i can tell you, jake, just mayhem on that stretch of road for the longest time. We were targeted by various people who were trying to get us to stop filming. And taking pictures of the scene there. So we started falling back for our own security, had to make it, our way to a Public Storage unit area that was there. And we retreated into that area, and thats when that building was set on fire, so we were unable to get out of there. The flames had just gotten too, too strong and too large for us to kind of make our way past that. And on top of that, there were dozens and dozens of gunshots that we heard just on the other side of the building. So it was just simply too chaotic, too unsafe for us to venture back out onto that road and to get out of there. Finally things have settled down to the point where weve been able to make our way back here which is about a mile from where we spent the last two and a half hours, jake . And ed lavandera, you were near earlier tonight the Storage Facility that bass burned down, is that right . Reporter yeah. Thats where we ended up. And it became the most intense scene. We were just up the road a couple blocks. If youve been watching some of the pictures here from throughout the night, an mcdonalds that was, we watched people ransack and smash the windows out of. And then they just basically made their way down the street. And it just became too treacherous for us as a lot of people started turning their sights and their anger toward us as we were trying to record what was going on. And people threatening us and telling us not to record what we were seeing. So thats the area that we retreated back to was the Public Storage facility area where we had set up, and that was going to be kind of our home base and safety point throughout the evening. And then they set fire to the building. And we were just simply kind of barricaded in. We werent able to get out of that situation. Between the fire and all of the gunshots and the mayhem, and for about at least an hour or so, we saw no Law Enforcement presence on that stretch of west florissant. It was too dangerous for us at that point to get out of that situation. I dont know if anybody has done a comparisocomparison, the and the looting and fires that happened in the immediate aftermath of the death of Michael Brown, it seems to me much more dramatic, much worse this evening despite the pleas from the leaders of the community and the family of Michael Brown that the protests be peaceful and there not be violence and looting. Were now getting a first look at some of the photographs. We have sara sidner. I want to go to her now. Can you hear me . Reporter hey. Yes, i can hear you right now. I want do show you whats going on. This is an oreillys auto parts, or it was. And it is destroyed. The building has basically chanced. You can hear the explosions going on inside there from whatever is inside, ah sorry, i just got hit by a rock. Then youre seeing. Are you okay . Reporter the title max just across the street. Im okay. Im okay. Ive been hit with much worse in my day. Youre seeing the sightle max just up the street, right across. And thats another fire. And youre hearing the explosions from inside some of those places. And then down here, theres another fire, just behind me. We were standing there just moments ago. Thats the auto zone on fire. Sara im going to interrupt you. Im sorry. I see other rocks going into the picture there. Theyre obviously some really bad people near you. I want you to get to safety if you can. And well come back to you and get more of your excellent reporting. Reporter were okay. It was from across the street. I, id prefer it if you could just get to safety. Well come back to you, i promise, and get your reporting. I want to make sure whoever tha that is, that that resolve itself, and id like you to get to safety if you could. All right. Lets go back to ed lavandera, if we could. Hes near the ferguson Police Department. Ed, what exactly are the police doing behind you right now . Reporter right now theyre just standing guard in front of the Police Department headquarters there, trying to prevent people from standing in the street and protesting in the middle of the street. The crowd, i think, has thinned out considerably, considering what was here earlier, jake, but to kind of piggyback off of what you were saying a little while ago, as you were talking about the scene there on that stretch of west florissant where she was. We were on that stretch of road together back in august. And the scene that unfolded there tonight was far worse than what we saw three, three months ago. I can, based on what i saw during a week and a half of protests back in august and compared to what i saw tonight. Tonight was infinitely more treacherous and a dangerous situation, and added to the fact, you know, that there was no one to kind of control the situation for the longest time. It is now much calmer on that stretch and Law Enforcement made their way through that stretch of road and has cleared out and thinned out the crowds considerably. But for a solid two hours, that was an incredibly dangerous place to be and a total freeforall what was going on in that street. And ed, right now were looking at satellite shot from kmov. It appears to be i dont think its your location. Its another location. Is there somebody who can get in my ear and tell me exactly what were looking at, this satellite shot of kmov, ferguson, missouri. A lot of police lined up. Is that the Police Headquarters . Ed, it is actually behind you i guess. It seems like there are a lot of police. Are they cordoning off a crowd from approaching the Police Department . What exactly are they doing . Reporter yeah, right now its just a line across the street. And just standing there in their protective gear. The shields and the helmets, not a lot of movement and not a lot of protesters and, you know, in any kind of confrontation with those authorities. So much calmer here and everything seems to be at a stand still for now. How many protesters would you estimate . I know youre not an expert on crowd estimates, but putting on your amateur hat, if you would, how big is the crowd there . And what is the tenor between Law Enforcement and protesters at this point . Weve seen a lot of different kinds of moods between police and protesters, police and other elements in ferguson this evening. How would you describe what youre seeing . Reporter here in the exact location where im at, its calm, maybe a couple dozen people left here, you know, from time to time you see, you hear some of them say some things across the street to the Police Officers, but, you know, not, not a tense scene here by, by any means, and im trying to make sense of the pictures that were seeing there and figure out exactly the location that were looking at, because that doesnt really seem to be the location, unless its on the other side of the building from where im at. That doesnt necessarily appear to be the location where were at right now. Jake . Okay. All right. Well get some more information from our Production Team about exactly what youre looking at. I breerappreciate it. Of course there are two parts to the story. The reaction, the protests, the looting, the police and the grand jury making the decision not to indict over wilson, and we want to explore that as well. Were getting a first look now at photographs that were shown to the grand jury of what officer wilson looked like after the shooting of Michael Brown. Wilson told the grand jury that he had a swollen cheek, and he had scratches on the back of his neck from the fight, he said, when he tried to get out of his police cruiser, brown slammed the door shut twice. Thats when wilson said he feared for his life after brown punched him in the face, according to officer wilson. Earlier, we heard from cnn legal analysts Jeffrey Toobin, who weighed in on the prosecutors statement. Clearly the evidence he thought was the most important was that there were certain witnesses who saw Michael Brown charge, that was his word, wonder if the witness used the same word, charge at officer wilson, Michael Brown, whether there was that aggressive move, because that really, his entire conclusion was hinged on that. And he clearly discounted some witnesses and believed others, and i think its going to be very important to see whether the physical evidence and all the other evidence supports the conclusion that this shooting was the result of aggressive action by Michael Brown. Thats what he believed. Lets see what the evidence says. This is a parody of the criminal Justice System. This is a prosecutor who punted this case to the grand jury. I will guarantee you, i havent seen it yet. Ill make the statement right now. I bet you his two assistants did not ask for an indictment. He showed exactly what his predisposition was. This was a foregone conclusion. This was a rigged game. This is exactly the result he wanted. All right. That was some analysis from Jeffrey Toobin and mark geragos after the decision was announced not to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Were going to take a very, very quick break. 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