Protests across this country, i harken back to my young days as a young teenager and the ending of the vietnam war. I dont have the stats but i have a sense there might have been more people in the streets across america that might date back some 50 years. This is a time, as i see it, for Law Enforcement to access their local media and tell people who are protesting, this is what were going to tolerate and well be cool if you be cool, because tonight im going to bring you a story of profiling, its still going on. Protests are ramping up across this nation. Tuesday night broad demonstrations over the death of Michael Brown in over 100 cities nationwide, new york, washington, dallas, oakland, los angeles, minneapolis, where there was a little buff, and also atlanta, cincinnati, portland, seattle, kansas city, denver, chicago, austin, pittsburgh, miami, somebodys got to talk to the country in a very serious manner. You know all politics is local, all Law Enforcement is local. In ferguson on tuesday night it was calm, compared to monday night, over 40 people were arrested for mostly misdemeanor offenses. Tear gas was used when protesters broke city hall windows and damaged a police car. They seized a pistol. What do you want the cops to do when stuff like this is going on. I get that. We got to be cool as a country and get our point across as to what we think has to happen when it comes to change. People in ferguson are still unhappy on a number of levels. We have a generation of people who have been hurt. Broken people break things. They break promises. They break the law. They break property. The Justice System again as failed. Something needs to change. I feel right now it is at a stand still, basically us against them. People feel they dont have their voices heard but they are not going the proper way about it. Where are the police who said they had this under control. Voices are not being heard. What is it . Its jobs. The Unemployment Rate among black people is an embarrassment. We have a better economy then this and thats where we can start fixing it. Earlier today demonstrators tried to get into city hall. Tear gas was never used. Things have calmed down. Still a large presence near city hall. In oakland, california demonstrators turned violent, protesters broke windows, set fires to trash cans and briefly shut down two major free ways. Police said several were arrested. Protesters in oakland had no problem voicing their concerns. At least give us some some something to go on, but to have nothing, it just takes your guts away. What is the future going to look like bringing a black male into this world for him to get shot on the street. If youre black or brown in this country, youre not human. People get to take your life. And not be accountable for that. In los angeles 130 people were arrested downtown, protesters set up barricades to stop traffic on the 101 freeway for roughly half hour, about a hundred people were involved. In new york,000s of protesters took to the street. Thousands took to the streets. They blocked access to manhattan bridges and portions of fdr and entrances to lincoln tunnel blocked, ten were arrested. In atlanta, georgia protests were mostly peaceful. One group caused trouble later in the evening by dang damaging windows. Boston, massachusetts saw some of the largest protests, roughly 1500 people rallied in dudley square, marched through the streets and blocked traffic, over 40 people were arrests on charges of dpis order Disorderly Conduct and disturbing the peace. He was honking and getting mad that people wouldnt move and he plowed through. She was feet away when a woman was hit by a car and the protest turned quickly fromviol people were banging on his car and he kept going and ran a young girl over and she was screaming. It was really bad. Police said she suffered a minor injury to her leg and was being treated at local hospital. Once the driver was away from the crowd he pulled over and called 911 to report the accident. There is a Strong Police presence in st. Louis area. One incident last night tells us Law Enforcement may be going a little bit too far. May i caution across the country who is doing the leading . Whose 12stepping up . Whose talking to the country . Whose saying we cant continue to have these kind of protests where private property is damaged and thank god no one has been killed. Message sent. Law enforcement has to do something about it, they have a responsibility to understand that the American People are focused on seeing something get done here and it starts at a local level. The last thing the police can do is be quiet to their community. I think it is the role of every person in authority in cities all over this country to communicate exactly what youre department is going to do and how youre going to treat the citizens. This is no time for racial profiling or drawing your firearms on peaceful protesters, that will only thank things worse. Let me bring in tdub, i appreciate your time. I understand you had an unpleasant experience with police yesterday. Tell us what happened. Thanks for joining us tonight. No problem. Thank you for having me here. Ive had a bad experience with st. Louis police my entire life. But the incidents that took place yesterday, we were downtown having lunch at tgifs a late lunch at 2 00 p. M. , we werent active in any area protests. There were two or three going on close to where we were but we werent active. We left out of the tgif, topped into my vehicle, pulled off and noticed three trucks following us closely behind, we made a left on fourth street, headed toward 70 west, they stayed close behind us on my tail, i hopped on the highway, put a little speed to it because i was paranoid, i didnt think detectives, with everything going on downtown, a highway shut down and i protest at the courthouse that they would be following us, they followed us, moved as i moved, i hopped off the highway and noticed them positioning themselves to get out of the car. I automatically assumeed it was the kkk because we have had several Death Threats towards me and others here, instantly i start to prepare to defend ourselves. Once i see them hop out the vehicle and noticed it was police i put my hands up and everybody followed suit. They instantly pulled me out the car. Put their 40caliber to my head. Told me if i move they would blow my head off. I asked them why are they following us, what am i here for they told me to stop talking or they would have protests over me. And they put the gun to her head and i complied and stopped asking questions. They put me in the back of the car. No one could tell me what we were stopped for. Soon i was in the back of the car, the officer told me he didnt know why they stopped us, they had bchb watching my cars for the last couple weeks and had heavy surveillance on us because we were some of the people organize niezing some of the events on the ground, the peaceful protests. So they told you after you went through this entire ordeal that you had been under surveillance for a few days because they thought that you were some what of a ring leader of these protests. Correct. So basically they told you that you were targeted. Correct. Sand you were followed. Correct. And you had a gun put to your head. Yes, sir. Okay. I got to clear the air here. Tdub, did they have any reason to do this to you in any stretch of the imagination. None whatsoever. They never have a reason to do it to any black male walking down the street. What happened to me yesterday is a perfect example of what happened to Michael Brown. Okay. Well you had to be scared alt hell, were you. Not at all. I was scared for the young lady with us. I wasnt afraid for myself, theres nothing more they can do to me besides take my life. Ive been dealing with they my whole life. Have you told Law Enforcement that you have had these threats from kkk. Of course they know. Local media has done reports on it. Law enforcement is fully aware. When they pulled out the palestinian journalist with a bullet proof vest, they asked him why he had it and someone whispered kkk. They were completely disrespectful. Called me a dope dealer rapper. Called the young woman with us to shut the eff up, they had a gun to her, they were completely out of control and disrespectful. These rrn the the people that should be patrolling and protecting our communities. All right. Do you think this experience is a common experience for black youth in st. Louis . Yes. This happens every day. It slowed down since august 9th, since they are so busy they cant harass people on a daily like they normally do. But as i said, i wasnt frayed, it was something i was used to happening to me. What are you going to do from here on . Are you going to be involve in other activist activities to keep the protests going or does what happened to you yesterday have anything to change your mind at all . No im going to continue to fight. We have to. I can no longer continue to live like this. I have two sons. I cant raise them to live this way. Im going to continue to fight. They know me, im building future things to prevent these injustices from happening in our communities and communities across the country. We have been to the white house, went down to the chiefs of Police Conference and shut that down so they know who we are. We are not burning down buildings, were working to rebuild a system that is put in place to op press a certain class of people so theyre trying to get us out of the way. I appreciate your time tdub. We will follow up on your story next week. I would like to get a statement from st. Louis Police Department why you were followed and why a gun was put to your head. Im curious to their Police Procedures there. I appreciate your time tonight. No problem. Thank you ed, you have a good day. Yes, sir, thank you. Get your cellphones out. I want to know what you think on this. Do you think these protests will have an impact on Police Procedures, a for yes, b for no, to 67622. Well bring the results later on the show. I want to bring in two gentleman who can react to what they just heard. Reverend dr. William barber, president of the North Carolina naacp and president of so, journers. Thank you for your time tonight gentleman. Reverend barber what he just described i find horrific. No american should have to go through Something Like that and somebody ought to call the st. Louis cops for acting like that and clearly getting away with it. Its clearly intimidation. Your thoughts on it . Well its horrific and its happening too often and if i might lift the scripture during the first christmas when black boys and brown boys were being killed by an out of control king you could hear the voice of rachel weeping and wailing and refused to be comforted. You see nonviolence protests everywhere. What we have is every 28 hours a black man is being killed, according to one statistic. You had 29,000 tickets in st. Louis last year, 86 africanamerican, 92 arrest. You have more africanamerican males in prison today than you had in slavery in 1850. That is why people are refusing to be comforted because of this system of jim crowe over profiling, over arresting, over incarcerating, and now the overkilling of africanamerican men. It is a tragedy. The system is being indicted right now by what were seeing going on. I think Police Procedures need to be called on the carpet. We just had Darren Wilson say in the Michael Brown incident, the death that took place, that his gun misfired. Thats what his testimony was. We just had a story of tdubo say he had a 40 caliber gun put to his head. What if the gun had misfired, we would have had another dead black youth on our hands and for what reason, what excuse would the cops have used then. Thats right. If we dont Start Talking about Police Procedures they will continue on. I think they have to justify what theyre doing when they get stories like this. No doubt. Thats why our president cornell brooks is calling for a march from st. Louis to ferguson this coming saturday to lift up we want cameras on every policemen, a National Review board, real enforcement and citizen review boards at the local level and we must start having cases of people who are found guilty for killing africanamerican men. We cant continue in this current system. I could name three or four cases on both sides of the gun where africanamerican shot someone and incarcerated for the wrong reason and vice versa. All right. Reverend wallace what do you expect to see come out of the protests we saw across the hundred cities and where is this going. Let me respond as a dad, im a faith leader but as a dad, you talked to tdubos experience, you said is this common for young black youth in st. Louis, he said yes. Now heres the deal, we know every black dad in america has the talk, the conversation with their son, their daughters now, about protecting themselves from the police. Now im a white dad. I dont need to have that talk with my 16yearold or 11yearold son. Until white dads and white moms to say it is not acceptable for black moms and dads to have that talk were not going to move forward. Black young people are treated differently. Thats got to be an issue for white dads and moms. And christians have to begin to act more christian than white. And if we do that than black parents can have less fear for their kids. We got to say, ed, this is a wrong that its time to right. And thats got to turn ferguson from a moment into a movement. Ferguson is all over the country. Turn this moment into a movement and white dads and moms and people of faith have to speak this way alongside their black broer broerngs brothers and sisters. I dont know what the advice to a black father would be to what tdubo just explained. Hes followed and tailed for miles and a gun put to his head when he has done nothing wrong. What counselling does a parent give to a kid to make sure he doesnt get shot, or does all the things right, not knowing what kind of cop is going to be there. So much to talk about. I have to move on. I appreciate your time tonight gentleman perfect. We ha we have asked for a response from st. Louis Police Department and havent got anything back. Share your thoughts on twitter and facebook we want to know what you think. Coming up Darren Wilsons own words on what swayed the grand jury. Plus Winter Weather takes a toll on thanksgiving travel. Stay with us were right back. E a certain amount . Nope, now you can redeem your cashback for any amount, any time. Thats great. Yeah, you can use it for a statement credit or even get the cash. Nice. I could use that extra cash for a lastminute gift. One less thing hanging over your head, right . Tell me about it. to guy. gary, you got to go. Whos gary . A mistake from last year coming back around again. Too much egg nog yes laaaaa. 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I used my door to try to push him back and yell at him to get back and again he push the door shut and stares at me and as i look back all of a sudden punches start flying. You threw the first punch . Yes he took the first punch. Some witnesses said you tried to pull him into the car. That would be against any training of any fire officer. I gave myself a mental question, can i shoot this guy and the question was i have to if i dont he will kill me if he gets to me. Even though hes 35 or 40 feet away. Once hes coming that direction, if he hasnt stopped yet when is going to stop. Its fair to assume missouris use of force law came into play here. Darren wilson believes he met those requirements. Is there anything you could have done different that would have prevent that killing from taking place . No. Noin nothing . No. It seems that, im going to judge here, this is my opinion, that this guy has crafted answers to match the law so he could escape justice. I mean, the fact is there was a struggle at car, the kid left the car, and then the officer pursued him, which is a whole different phase of what transcript piered between transpired between both of them. Your thoughts. The big picture to me, this is a media charm offensive. Weve seen this before with Zimm Zimmerman where the media allows the victim in a case to be dirtied up beyond recognition. So theres no way to talk about the law without understanding that this media circus is part of whats happening here. At the same time, the accused has allowed to morph into this folk hero, its an easy formula for any lawyeredup pr team, like the one handling Darren Wilson, to do that. By the time the riot and gun smoke clears, knee jerk outlets will try to turn Darren Wilson into their latest hero figure. Hes going to be their freakish kind of everymansuperstar. 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