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not only white officers. you have black officers, asian officers, hispanic officers, the abuse of authority and where it takes place. this is consistently and black and brown communities and sometimes poor white communities. we got a call. it was a call for an officer in need of aid. now that call, anybody who knows law enforcement officers can officer needs aid is a very seriousa very serious call. it means all officers and the geographical range of this call stop whatever your doing and expedite to the officers location who put out the aid call. here she is in trouble. serious trouble. so this officer put out an aid call. chasing a suspect in armed robbery command he was running in giving his coordinates calling out where he was. the experts is location and get there 1st cd officer put the aid call out. they see the officer bent over when did, breathing hard. what happened. are you okay? are you all right? yes. i m okay. all right. where did he go? street in north st. ....
a community outraged and divided by race. did the strong arm police response make things worse? our reporters covering the story. don t resist, i ll bust your ass. under attack and is there any hope for healing? a night of special coverage, flash point ferguson, the way forward. all right, welcome everyone to al jazeera america and our special coverage tonight. i m joined by my colleague joie chen and joie, an eventful night in ferguson, missouri. i don t want to are concern our viewers. this is the area which has been a staging ground for law enforcement and right now it s also a staging ground for any emergency vehicles given weather situation that we ve been seeing here. a very stormy night here in ferguson, missouri and the north county area outside of st. louis. demonstrators have been out anyway but there has been a lot of concern about what is going to happen, it might all be dampened by what s happening with the weather. absolutely. over the course of ....
don t resist, i ll bust your ass. under attack and is there any hope for healing? a night of special coverage, forward. all right, welcome everyone to al jazeera america and our special coverage tonight. i m joined by my colleague joie chen and joie, an eventful night in ferguson, missouri. i don t want to are concern our viewers. this is the area which has been a staging ground for law enforcement and right now it s also a staging ground for any emergency vehicles given weather situation that we ve been seeing here. a very stormy night here in ferguson, missouri and the north county area outside of st. louis. demonstrators have been out anyway but there has been a lot of concern about what is going to happen, it might all be dampened by what s happening with the weather. absolutely. over the course of the next two hours there are a number of things we will discuss with you and bring to you. including what s being proposed now, the so-called michael brown law ....
response from the police? and america tonight special report, ferguson decision. and good evening and thanks for joining us for this america tonight special report. i m joie chen. we are waiting now for a news conference from missouri near ferguson. an announcement due at any moment on whether the grand jury will return an indictment in the shooting of michael brown. michael brown s family community leaders even the president of the united states have all pleaded for calm no matter what the grand jury s decision is. while law enforcement has been beefing up for what could be a very difficult night. you can see outside the courthouse there in clayton, missouri, where the decision will be read, the grand jury will not be there, they have already been dismissed but a large crowd is gathering there. this is a community near ferguson, missouri but where the county seat courthouse is. we have seen the scenes of ferguson reaching the flash point and brought back down to th ....
five indictments. sparking months of demonstrations including a couple of weeks of protests that sometimes turned violent. jay nixon called a state of emergency in advance and called up the national guard. early last night he pleaded for calm and so did michael brown s family after they were informed of the decision. robert ray is in clayton, where the grand jury was working on the case of officer wilson. robert you were there, as prosecutor mccullough announced the decision of the grand jury. what was the reaction of the crowd near you. antonio, good evening. in front of the justice center in clayton, you know it was silent to be honest with you. out here you could hear a pin drop as we were listening to the prosecutor, robert mccullough. you know interesting, details came out, the grand jury started meeting on august 20th, antonio. they met for 70 hours over the course of the past three and a half months. they were able to hear over 60 witnesses and they came to t ....