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hour, one of the organizers said at the beginning, they said over a mega phone to the crowd here, we can't organize well, this is proof we can. they observed six minutes of silent representing the six years between the time that anthony smith was shot in 2011 and the acquittal on friday of former st. louis police officer jason shockly and now they've been marching around chanting and again as i say, it's very peaceful. there has been, as you know, over the last couple days, some violent protests but that tends to happen late at night. this is something that is very tightly chore graphed. police even though it's in front of their headquarters are staying out of it. the headquarters are very heavily barricaded just as any other government building here. you hear them chanting the -- talking about the system and talking about shutting it down,
OrganizersPhoneProofCrowdSilentAnthony-smithSix2011OnePolice-officerLouis-police-headquartersAcquittalbeen extraordinarily that we are going to protect people that are peacefully protesting. people who are out there protesting with dignity and discipline they also should not have their protests disrupted by people who are coming in to be violent. >> reporter: it did not go so well last night. there were 11 police officers from three different agencies that were injured. at least 32 people arrested in the protests that also targeted a popular business district, the central west and also targeted, as you said earlier, frances, the mayor's house. this is all over the acquittal of jason stock lee, a former st. louis police officer who was accused in the fatal shooting in 2011 of anthony lamar smith. stock ley claimed that he was firing his gun five times in self-defense. a judge who heard this case, it was not a jury trial said he was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt and all of this bringing up all of the tensions that we saw several years ago with the shooting of that
PeopleProtestsReporterDignityLast-nightPolice-officersAgenciesBusiness-districtCentral-west32Three11situation. obviously if they flood into some of these residential areas that's going to cause some major concern and that's where you may have to seek police intervene, anderson. >> dan, we'll continue checking with you. former st. louis mayor antonio. he was an eyewitness to that speed chase. antonio, this was an incident that took place in 2011. my understanding was there was new information which is why this case ended up going to court, is that correct? >> well, first of all let me correct you. i am not the antonio who was the witness to the case. >> oh sorry about that. you are the former st. louis owner who i met many times? >> yes. >> apologize.
Dan-simonSituationAreasConcernPlan-andersonLouis-aldermanFormer-stMayorEyewitnessInformationCasePlacedeath. >> i want to bring back our panel, that's former nypd officer eugene o'donnell, former st. louis police officer, and van jones here with me in washington. eugene, if i could start with you. in the killing of laquan mcdonald, police officers at the scene contradict the video from their point of view aggressively came towards the officer with a knife in his hand. is this a case of the officers protecting their own, or do you think it's genuinely possible they saw things differently than we see in this dash cam video? >> that's really the question. there's going to be inconsistencies in all of these, but are they so material, so profoundly different these stories that they give rise to the inference that they're covering up a bad shooting. i think the question that i have and i think most people have is why would this officer for no reason kill this young man? the chilling answer which i hope is not true but could i guess conceivably be true is he felt
OfficerNight-laquan-mcdonaldEugeneo-donnellDeathLouisKillingVan-jonesFormer-nypdWashingtonEugenePanelFormer-stall this as authorities back in berkeley brace themselves for another long night. about a dozen people over the weekend were arrested as we've seen with other cities. it's a relatively small number of people who are really causing the issues. but, jake, the concern is what's going to happen tonight, more demonstrations are planned. and there's a real concern we're going to see a repeat of what we've seen the last few days. >> dan simon in berkeley, california, thank you so much. the aftermath of michael brown and eric garner and with more developments in the tamir rice case, all three involving white police officers acting against unarmed black suspects, it's ignited tensions between african-americans and police. here to talk about it, former st. louis police officer. thanks for being with us, officer, appreciate it. as a former police officer, do
PeopleAuthoritiesWeekendCitiesBraceIssuesConcernBerkeleyJakeDemonstrationsNumberRepeattime runs out on the dogs. and bumming there. 32-28. so it looks like we have a notre dame, alabama, national championship, january 7 in miami and that should be outstanding and look for alabama, about a touchdown favorite. meanwhile, we now know who will be in the national title game, but how about sanford. who would join them in the rose bowl? didn't take long to find out. wisconsin made fast work of nebraska in the big ten title game. the badgers ran all over the huskers. and they rush for over 500 yards, and three players going over the the 100 yard mark. in fact, two of them went over 200 yards and they rushed for 8 touchdowns and 70-31 the final. and stanford and wisconsin in the rose bowl and some sad news in the sports world. rick majaris. former st. louis, utah head
ChampionshipTouchdown-favoriteMiamiDogsAlabamaNotre-dameBumming-there-287January-732Wisconsinmonth. journalists taking heat and even the fans that watch. we're seeing the good, bad, and down right ugly that comes with this struggle. in a second we'll talk about the unrest we've seen in st. louis after the exoneration of former st. louis police officer jason stockily and the 2011 shooting death of suspect anthony lamar smith following a high speed chase. protests started immediately after the friday morning verdict and have continued over the weekend leaving ten law enforcement officers injured and more than three dozen people arrested. but first, let's pivot to the government's role in policing. because earlier this year attorney general jeff sessions demanded that all existing
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