his hands. and again, i m not trying to reindict the officer. i believe in the criminal justice system. i believe the judge made a decision and now we have to live by it. but having said that, if i wanted top plant a gun, i would not walk out of my suv with it in my hand. so we have to look closer. another example of what we need to do now, and i ve said this, don, to you probably, unfortunately, dozens of times, every cop in america needs to have a body cam on their person. not necessarily because i don t trust them because it will make everyone s job a lot easier to see what actually happened. because we would know a lot better what happened if stockyly was wearing a body camera. there are a lot of lessons to be learned from the way he acted in this. he never should have gone in the car. he never should have collected evidence. he never should have gone near the suv and never be a cop who
look at these people, they are out of their house to see what s going on. it s returned to normal pretty quickly. got to give the officers credit for setting the perimeter and moving people in a certain direction. that s the direction they moved them in. they deployed the gas to let it stream down the street and when people got more aggressive with the officers, throwing ontos at them that s when we saw couple of the annisters thrown over our heads and we could see the gas coming from all different directions. when that thing grabs your lungs you want to get out of there and we high-tailed up the street for a little while as people started running. obviously you could feel the grip on our nervous systems as the gas was getting all over the place. for the most part things have been pretty quiet after that. all right stand by. we re going to get to dan simon also in the crowd on the other side of where ryan is. what are you seeing dan? well, hey, don, we ve seen
let s discuss this, neal. we re not seeing as many protesters out. it looks like the tactics of officers have worked, of this police department now. you heard what dan said. he doesn t know where they re going, but this is all strat jiesd. yeah, it is, and unfortunately, i think it was said earlier that here we are again and we re really learning from this. don, we were in baltimore together for that riot. we were also on air together during dallas when we had the problems in dallas. and because of these scenarios that we re going to continue to see with protesters, we the police are getting, unfortunately, better at this because we have to. in this particular case right now in st. louis, as we get later into the hours, that s when you really have to worry, even though the crowd seems to be dispersing, you have the folks on with masks. the people who are typically the peaceful protesters have probably dispersed or about to
now we re just walking down the sidewalk. you see some protesters have masks on and that s really what you have to watch out for. when they wear the masks from experience we know they re up to no good. you see more gas has just been deployed. we re going to keep walking, don. we re continuing to go down the street. excuse me. we do have security with us so you know, trying to keep ourselves in a safe position away from the chaos as much as we can be. you hear the police helicopters above monitoring the situation. now we re just going down the sidewalk. i am getting a little bit of that gas now. dan, i want you to stand by. i want to get back to ryan young also live in the crowd in st.
we re back with breaking news, protesters on the streets of st. louis situation increasingly tense after a judge acquitted police officer in shooting death of a black man. dan simon is live out in the crowd, dan, what s going on now? hey, don, there s still quite a heavy police presence but i can tell you the crowd has definitely thinned out. don t see too many protesters out here at the moment. i don t know where they may have gone. we see the police helicopter above us perhaps tracking them. they effectively pushed the crowd out of this residential area and now there s just a few folks watching this scene unfold. there s been a lot of tension tonight, don, as you have seen.