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Lets discuss this, neal. were 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 doesnt know where theyre going, but this is all strat jiesd. >> yeah, it is, and unfortunately, i think it was said earlier that here we are again and were 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 o...

Now were just walking down the sidewalk. you see some protesters have masks on and thats really what you have to watch out for. when they wear the masks from experience we know theyre up to no good. you see more gas has just been deployed. were going to keep walking, don. were 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 t...

Forgive me im a little out of breath. >> dan, is there a central organization behind it? is there someone determining, okay this is where were going now and is there someone to help keep order? you know sometimes protesters try to keep watch over each other to try to keep things orderly. >> well, when things broke up outside the courthouse this afternoon, we had received word they were coming to this section of town and i assume it god spread by social media. it wasnt like when they woke up this...

Were 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, whats going on now? >> hey, don, theres still quite a heavy police presence but i can tell you the crowd has definitely thinned out. dont see too many protesters out here at the moment. i dont know where they may have gone. we see the police helicopter above us perhaps tracking them. the...

The windows. i saw a senior citizen yell at one of these young kid who was smashing windows, telling him to stop, but once the crowd joined in there was no stopping it. it was a really sad scene. thats what caused this massive police presence to descend on these streets, don. >> all right dan, stand by. want you to be safe out there. police using tactics to get whats left of the protesters off the street. bringing in our legal analyst now and a retired maryland state police major, first to jeff,...

Have to respect the process, you have to subpoena trespect the o. that dont mean i have to believe if it was right or wrong. people say thats the outcome, we have to live with it, jason stockily is not going to jail for murdering anthony smith, but i dont have to accept it as right. what youre seeing right now, what im commenting on are individuals that feel like expressing it was wrong, this is not the way this outcome should have been and i want to show you how i feel about it. thats where civ...

>> reporter: well, were just standing on top of this freeway overpass and right now the crowd is not attempting to go on the freeway. it looks like theyre headed towards some apartment buildings actually. and you can see there are a number of police vehicles here, traffic has really slowed down as obviously drivers are worried whats going on. looks like the crowd is moving, theyre going on to sort of a grassy area. i dont really think they have much of a plan anderson, i think theyre making it u...

The judge said he reviewed the video numerous times and just because smiths finger prints werent on the gun doesnt mean the driver didnt touch the gun. randy k. cnn, new york. >> and as you saw theres a lot of outrage reaction to this. this is a live picture from ktvi, its 7:37 there in st. louis. several hundred people, its hard to get a sense of the total number. dan simon who is there in the crowd says its about several hundred people and he believes they were trying to stop or cross over a f...

The streets. >> i agree you have to respect the process and the outcome but that dont mean i have to believe what it was in terms whether or not it was right or wrong. what people are saying is okay thats the outcome. obviously we have to live with it. jason stockley is not going to jail for murdering anthony lamar smith but that doesnt mean i have to doe whats right. what im commenting on is individuals feel like expressing it was wrong. this is not the way this outcome should have been and i w...

Dan? >> hey don its extremely intense situation. im about 50 yards from police in full riot gear. we just saw the crowd run down the street. this is normally quiet street but tonight looks like a military zone. ways actually in front of the mayors house two blocks from here when those wind sews got shattered. we saw a group pick up very large flagstones in front of the yard that are used for landscaping and they just smashed them into a bunch of different rocks. people picked them up and started...