We were walking peacefully down to the mall and a young lady was hit in her face with smoke burns and tear gas. We were peaceful. This is unacceptable and this is not the law. This is unacceptable. Until we get justice, we will not stop. There were multiple reports of mol ti molotov cocktails being thrown. Police were shot at. Makeshift barricades were set up to block police. Bottles and rockets were thrown at police. Based on these conditions, i had no alternative but to elevate the level of our response. Cnn has deployed its vast resources to cover all angles of this rapidly developing story. Our correspondents, guests and experts will join us to break down all the details for you. We begin with don lemmen who witnessed much of least nights violence unfold. Michael browns family will hold a News Conference and we expect them to talk about the autopsy performed on their son by dr. Madr. Dr. Michael baden. Dr. Baden found he was shot six times, all from the front of his body, four time
Was to began and lasted well after it was supposed to be in effect. Police say protesters throw molotov cocktails at them and that some of them opened fire in their direction. Now, two civilians were shot in the chaos. Authorities say they were not the one whose fired those shots. President barack obama being briefed on all of this today at the white house. Cnns George Howell joins me now with more on the latest. Jofrnlg, what do you have this morning . Reporter you see what happened last night. I cant help but think back to the first day this all went down, myself and my photo journalist jordan were in a situation where you hear shots fired. Our colleague Steve Kasten Obama in the same situation, several nights of unrest. You have three different groups, a group of protest rs who have come out to protest peacefully. Thats what they want to development then you have another group who comes in to make trouble and you have police, criticized for being too heavy handed. In many cases they
There is never an excuse for violence against police. Theres also no excuse for police to use Excessive Force against peaceful protests or to throw protesters in jail for lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights. The president added that police should not be bullying or arresting journalists for doing their job. Calling for an open and transparent investigation the president met with eric holder today and ordered a Justice Department probe into the killing of Michael Brown. Holder also issued a statement saying that Going Forward the Justice Department will be assisting local authorities with crowd control. Back in ferguson, just hours ago police chief Thomas Jackson said a meeting with the brown family set for this morning had been postponed to be rescheduled later today. At that same press conference, jackson defended his departments actions, but said Police Tactics are under review. There is gun fire. There are firebombs being thrown at the police, and i understand that what
With the ward family. Lets talk, live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. We begin in the st. Louis suburb of ferguson. Police are calling for calm this morning after a night of looting and fires. This is what the city looked like last night. Just at the Sporting Goods store and then looked behind me and the shopping center, at least three more stores being looted at this point. Were seeing a lot of windows being smashed, people running out with clothing. Everything on me. Here is another look at the unrest last night. Flames shooting from a quick trip gas station that was looted. This all started when protesters took to the streets over the shooting of an unarmed teenager saturday night by police. Witnesses say it was unprovoked. But fergusons police chief says the teenager got into a physical confrontation with an officer and tried to take his gun. That africanamerican teenager, 18yearold Michael Brown, was supposed to start his freshman ye
Information worth noting on that county police report. It wasnt reviewed by a supervisor until tuesday. Ten days after Michael Brown was killed. We also learned today about the makeup of that grand jury that will ultimately decide whether to indict Darren Wilson. Its composed of three black people, two women, one man, and nine white people, three women, and six men. The county clerks county pointed out thats a higher pen sen taj of africanamericans than represented in the st. Louis county pop list. Now that the streets are calm, the National Guard has left town, focus here in ferguson now turns to where this Community Goes from here. At a roundtable today with young people from ferguson, one young man said thats whats happened here as changed the conversation about racism in this country. This is going to open up the national dialogue. I believe that if you get more young people, more of the youth, more people with new minds, new ideas, to have an open dialogue, you know, we cant be af