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Amazing public servants. i want to go to breaking news in st. louis. have a great weekend, sean. we will take you back to the streets of st. louis right now. we are going to will carr who is down in the middle of that group. will, is this growing as the night sets? >> well, i said 30 minutes ago two groups converge. we have a massive group out here. they werent able to get on interstate 64. so they have doubled back. we told you how they were in front of the hospital here. they have taken up bot...

Are bad. but there are certain sides of history and if you look around at what has happened, not only here in st. louis in baltimore, all over, its more than a job. >> someone breaks into your house tonight, what do you do. >> not calling the cops. >> not calling the cops. >> no. >> how are you going to handle that. >> it doesnt matter how im going to handle it. i dont trust people who will shoot people in the back and stand out here with riot gear while people who are trying to peacefully prote...

Tobin now as this grows. mike, where are you? >> im on the exit ramp of highway 64. and a tense situation here was just diffused. you can see the cops with the riot gear at the ready they had a big crowd try to get up here and get on the highway. thats really where you often see a conflict begin. thats where the line is drawn. they dont like people shutting down the interstate for all the obvious reasons. have ambulances up there trying to go to the hospital. et cetera, et cetera. they dont like...

Mike, where are you? >> im on the exit ramp of highway 64. and a tense situation here was just diffused. you can see the cops with the riot gear and at the ready they had a big crowd try to get up here and get on the highway. thats really where you often see a conflict begin. thats where the line is drawn. they dont like people shutting down the interstate for all the obvious reasons. have ambulances up there trying to go to the hospital. et cetera, et cetera. they dont like them on the highway....

People show up throughout the day. hard to tell right now exactly where they are coming from. but they have been protesting since 9:00 a.m. this morning. all throughout the streets of st. louis. and right now they are actually trying to get on interstate 64. but the police throughout the course of the day have done a very good job of stopping the protesters. i want to show you. this on all the access ramps to get onto the interstate you can see the police have shut it down here. now, a big probl...

Law enforcement as the community of st. louis, as their law enforcement empowered to act? >> you know, its tough, because you would have to be inside of the meetings. one thing i know from law enforcement communities is they dont want to repeat the same mistakes they had in ferguson. with all the bad optics that got some people so fired up, sometimes they were hands off and sometimes they were hands on, and the saying was they had a checklist of things you shouldnt do and they ran right down the...

Amazing public servants. i want to go to breaking news in st. louis. have a great weekend, sean. we will take you back to the streets of st. louis right now. we are going to will carr who is down in the middle of that group. will, is this growing as the night sets? >> well, i said 30 minutes ago two groups converge. we have a massive group out here. they werent able to get on interstate 64. so they have doubled back. we told you how they were in front of the hospital here. they have taken up bot...

Hard to tell right now exactly where they are coming from. but they have been protesting since 9:00 a.m. this morning. all throughout the streets of st. louis. and right now they are actually trying to get on interstate 64. but the police throughout the course of the day have done a very good job of stopping the protesters. i want to show you this. this on all the access ramps to get onto the interstate you can see the police have shut it down here. now, a big problem, brian, is that behind us y...

>> then something finally gives. >> i wasnt sure what the smoke was. i didnt know if it was transmission or whatever. i didnt know if it was coming from his car. >> the limousines transmission blows and it seems the culprit has finally run out of options, but just when the troopers think the chase is over, the driver finds another gear that works -- reverse. >> yeah, he did it backwards. >> the people on the road, i dont know what was going through their mind. you would think youre filming an ep...

Limousine going down the highway backward. april 22nd, 2006, west chester county, new york. trooper todd boemer is patrolling interstate 64. >> i was conducting radar enforcement when i saw a large limo, white limo coming northbound at a high rate of speed. the vehicle was going 124 miles per hour. >> the officer gives chase as the driver tears down the interstate. officer boemer is left to wonder why. >> in my mind, what does he have in the vehicle? whos in the vehicle? a dead body, a gun, drug...