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Do you know if police beat williams or coerced him, as his mother says to say that he shot these police officers when he didnt? >> you know i dont know. what i do know is ive seen the police assault people at protests before and we have reason to question the police narratives because theyve told untruths before. even the night of the shooting without seeing any evidence he went to the police were ambushed the shooter was embedded in the protest community, things that we know to be untrue. so we...

>> i didnt say im defending williams. what im defending is a narrative untrue. right? so im pushing back against a narrative that is untrue. what belmar said is that the shooter was embedded in the protest community and that the shooter ambushed the police things that simply are not true. i dont condone the shooting but i want to get to the facts and it seems like jeffrey was assaulted by the police and that is a problem and that the lawyer is saying that the statements were released without any...

We know that the police department are working hard to discredit the movement at any costs. immediately following the shooting and i was there before the police tape had even gone up fully, hes on tv saying the shooter was embedded in the protest community and that the police are being ambushed. things we know four days later to be untrue. i think if anything with the shooting it has reminded us the importance of questioning the police and were protesting a police department that prejudicially j...

Fired police officers, knowles leaving. those would be accountability in some way and we havent experienced that. remember in st. louis, seven people have been killed by the cops since august. and we have not had any updates on the other six people that the police have killed. we are looking for accountability and justice. and weve not experienced any of that yet. >> i always talk about everybody having the power of going to the ballot box and putting forward what you want, your vote is as impor...

>> its been called an outside agitator who may have come in. does that make sense to you? youve been leading these protests, the majority of which have been peaceful. youre trying to get a grip and turn things around and move forward positively. >> lets be clear, im not leading the protests. many people in this space are organizing and making change happen in the protest community. i hear you, this idea that this could be a turning point but the reality is we dont know much about the shooter. pe...

Germany, she got one of these calls. but she recorded it and sent it to me. at this point, this scam has grown so much that as you saw in our piece, all kinds of people have been targeted. in fact the treasury department investigator who talked to us he got one of these calls and he says he told the scammers quote, your time is coming and then he did what he recommends everyone does. he hung up. >> an important warning. thanks. right now we go live to st. louis county. police chief belmar spea...

Protest community was indicative of his inability to lead what we believe should be thoughtful police -- who makes statements like that without any evidence, without talking to any witnesses? what we know to be true is what was true yesterday is true today. this is a place that racist policing has been proven, not only by lived experience but by the department of justice. we know those things to be true and we believe that is enough to get the movement back on track. there was an effort to derai...

Shooting two police officers. overnight, there were new protests, but the tone was much more subdued. a smaller crowd of about 100 people calmly gathered outside the police department less than 24 hours after the shooting. and with clergy members and community leaders on hand the crowd paused for a candlelight vigil to pray for the officers shot and call for peace and healing in the community. claire mccaskill reiterated that sentiment on the "today" show this morning. >> the community has reall...

Who are already opposing what you all have been doing for so long any way. how do you as protesters as people who are fueling this movement for black justice, how do you pivot from that? how do you all pivot and make sure you regain the narrative under these circumstances, which to a person no one has appreciated the violence against the police last night. >> see, the thing is we dont -- we know very few things about what happened last night. we know shots were fired and police officers were hit...

Ferguson, missouri, confirmed by the st. louis county police. they say it is part of the investigation into last noits shooting of two police officers following a protest in ferguson. theyre not giving us anymore details. we can tell you its been priority number one to find a shooter or shooters who wounded two police officers last night. they did recover some shell casings they think could be from a pistol. they got help from members of the community including the protest community that may hav...