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Expectation now of how, given whats happened last night, what do you hope to see with how law enforcement reacts and conducts themselves? >> i think the way the department conducted themselves was exemplarily. i think they conducted themselves exceptionally in the face of two officers being shot. i trust that will continue. i have full faith it will. thats how it will move forward in the future. >> going back to your discussions with mayor knowles, would you expect to see the tabling of the poli...

To express our deep support and our concern for the families and the individuals who were shot last night, our officers and the officers of the webster grove police department and im free to answer any questions you might have. >> have you had any discussions at all with mr. knowles of the possibility of the county coming in and taking over? >> ive had multiple discussions with mayor knowles over i would say a two-week period and certainly that subject has been talked about, and i have offered h...

Some protesters cheered at the resignation of police chief tom jackson. for others it comes too little too late demanding the entire ferguson police department be disbanded. >> the chiefs resignation is effective march 19th 2015. >> his resignation comes on the heels of a scathing report from the justice department slamming ferguson officials. and targeting african-americans. jackson now one of six city officials gone after the dojs damning report. some are calling for mayor knowles to be next. ...

Incident. i was immediately moved and deeply concerned for the officers well-being and weve stayed in touch throughout the early morning hours leading up to our meeting here today. >> you mentioned you have spoken to mayor knowles several times in the last two weeks. to follow up have you spoken to him since the shooting last night? >> ive not spoken to him since the shooting last night, but i intend to speak with him this morning. >> whats your message to your skwents, to people out there right...

Did not expect last night when i first started monitoring this that it was going to spin to the extent it did regarding the agitation. so you try to respect those things but sometimes its very difficult to figure out -- we saw a report about the fact that there were rocks and bottles being thrown. i frankly have not been able to confirm that myself. i dont know if that happened or not. i think it is true that there was agitation within the crowd. >> can the county executive answer any questions ...

He briefed me on the incident and i was immediately moved, i was deeply concerned for the officers well-being. weve stayed in touch throughout the early morning hours leading up to our meeting here today. >> youve spoken to mayor knowles several times in the last two weeks, but have you spoken to him since the shooting last night? >> no. but i intend to this morning. >> what is your message to the people what will you tell them about this moving forward, about this and how they should react? >> ...

Happens. >> and we still dont know who is responsible for this. was it someone who was opportunistic? who decided look theres a protest out there, the police wont be looking at me and im going to target them and i have a beef with the police. we dont know if it was someone targeting someone else. although police say they believe police were targeted. what we do know is there are two officers that are hurt and there are a lot of people who are now scared. they see this growing, the problem should...

There were other things the mayor said there was no race problem in ferguson. tonight, what if anything can they say? we are told were only going to hear from mayor knowles. they are all coming out but we are only going to hear from mayor knowles. given what we have heard from the whole situation, the whole case since last august what can they say tonight given the doj report? >> one thing they can say, that we have not heard, are they going to enter into an agreement with the consent decree or ...

Brown folks were being disrespected stereotypes being used of them and thats a bigger part of what goes on in ferguson, because if we allow those things to happen just oh its a stereotype these are just young kids who dont mean anything, then it snowballs into what happened with michael brown. it snowballs into the police not having respect for black bodies not having respect for latinos and -- >> let me stand by because here mayor knowles is coming out and were going to go live to ferguson to h...

Mutual combat in that sense, the officer did draws his resolver and subsequently shot the subject. >> you heard him say there was also the allegation that there was a call of battery by the suspect as well. the division of criminal investigation has already been brought in to investigate this incident. the mayor of fergenson, missouri is speaking out to cnn after the latest fallout over the justice departments scathing report that found widespread and systemic discrimination by ferguson police...