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With the police chief going it is now six city officials who have stepped down in the wake of that damning report from the department of justice. And so now we have a situation where two Police Officers at least, have been wounded. Yeah. No word yet on the extent of those injuries or who is responsible. But we do know that these protests initially started off as peaceful and initially celebrating the resignation of Thomas Jackson. Marcus law is a witness who was there. He joins us on the line. W...

Look back toward the protests of last year you understand the frustration and anger so many had saying they werent just upset about one unarmed teen being killed but the entire treatment residents felt under the leadership of chief jackson, who has now stepped down. now earlier we spoke on the phone with a witness to the shooting. that is marcus layerer. heres what he had to say. >> caller: well i was walking, i had just returned to my phone, and i was going back towards the protesting. i was ...

Police officer. im not saying were not taking your word for it. thats one side of the story and clearly the police would have a different version of events which we need to find out from them. >> caller: absolutely. >> we appreciate you being on the line with us marcus. you have been at the protest. you were there for a number of hours. and just one last question very very quickly. when you heard those shots ring out, you say four to five shots, what was the first thing that you thought it was? ...

This still-developing story. we go have some live pictures earlier from the area. at this moment those pictures arent up. as soon as we get them we will bring them to you. but we can tell you that the st. louis post dispatch is reporting that two police officers have been shot. this was the scene there much earlier in the day, before there was any gunfire. the protests or really demonstrations outside the police department were peaceful for the most part until this small scuffle broke out. much ...

>> we also spoke with a witness on the phone a short time ago who was part of the demonstrations mark lara and he said he heard four to five shots being fired. there are also video clips. some of you on social media online will have already seen where you can hear some of what sounds like gunfire. st. louis police saying it was in fact shots. the two police officers we understand dont have life-threatening injuries. but the key question is who fired the shots? and why? at such a sensitive time f...

Phone. hes the managing editor of the st. louis american one of the oldest african-american papers. what can you tell us chris, about what youve seen happen tonight? >> caller: im sorry, to correct you, im not a witness of the event. ive been following it as a managing editor from home all night. and im well aware of many of the people that saw it themselves. but i im not, i cant offer you any eyewitness testimony. >> okay. well lets at the very least stack up the sequence of events. we know tha...