Indicted moments ago for his abuse of power for his use of the vito. Good night from washington. On the record is next. The on the record special christians under attack starts in just minutes. But, first, breaking news. Police in ferguson, missouri, releasing the new Surveillance Video they say it shows Michael Brown in a strong arm robbery at a Convenience Store just minutes before he was shot to death by police. At the same time police also releasing the name of the officer who fatally shot brown who was unarmed and tonight there is growing controversy over whether there is any connection whatsoever between the videotaped robbery and the shooting. Fox news correspondent mike tobin live in ferguson with the very latest. Mike . [horns blowing. The attention now comes back to the demonstrations here. Really ground zero. The land in front of the ground in front of the quick trip store where you see the demonstrators gathering. Where they gather all night
long. Can you see now the burned out husk of the building. The people who are here. The real question is can this town make it through another night without any violence, despite some fresh aggravating factors that were thrown in the mix in the biggest of those agra vaghtd factors a videotape released by the police today, Surveillance Video of mike brown in a Convenience Store. The family doesnt dispute thats mike brown on the video. They dont dispute he roughed up that Convenience Store owner, took the cigars, the real question now is the question of the timing. The family calls it a Smear Campaign and says what really matters is the fact that he had his hands in the air and was fired upon by the police. Also complicating things is that the police chief Thomas Jackson seemed to change his story. Earlier in the day he said mike brown was originally confronted because of the robbery. Later in the day he said that officer Darren Wilson wouldnt have known anything about the robbery that he stopped mike brown and his friend Dorian Johnson in the
street because they were walking in the middle of the street blocking traffic all of that goes into the mix. At the same time, ron johnson of the state troopers getting so much credit after taking over here for diffusing the situation. He still says he sees no reason for police to be in this area as the people you see here demonstrate. Greta . Mike, thank you. And after five nights of clashes between Ferguson Police and protesters, things suddenly changed during last nights protest. Missouri governor turning over the town security to Highway Patrol captain ron johnson. Last night was a great night. The great night. There was no calls for service. We did not deploy tear gas. We did not have any road blocks. We did not make any arrests. It was a good night. People were talking. People were inspiring each
other. People were getting their voices out and we were communicating a lot better. They were communicating better with us why have many leaders and activists out there yesterday that were helping keep the road open, informing the crowd and thats what i expect to continue throughout this event our department along with san los county had a good night. We went down to the quick trip yesterday and walked and shooked hand and talked to people and listened and promised that we are going to communicate better and were going to give answers to their needs. And were going to continue to do that each and every night. The governor has asked us to provide security. He wants to make sure that people of are safe and they have a right to protest and speak their mind. Thats what he has asked us to do and thats why we are here. Were you here last night . You are going to see a bunch of smiles and hugs and conversations. Thats what you are going to see from me. When you see me tonight down there you will get the tone of my conversation is going to change. Hold on, but can i also tell you that in our anger, we have to make sure that we dont burn down our own house that we dont go down there and vandalize our own buildings. We can stand on the sidewalk and talk about our issues and talk about what we want and what we need in a conversation that needs to happen. And we can make that happen. What i dont want is us to go down and burn our own that does not prove a point. That does not solve issues. That hurts this community. And thats what i dont want. I agree this is not a Black And White issue. Because we all have sons and daughters we do need to communicate better because you saw what happened yesterday. We do need to communicate better. The governor talked about old wounds. This is an old wound. Its time to say old wound. Niger joins us. Good to be with you, greta, as always. Is captain johnson,
listening to him, is he the hero in all of this so far at least . So far. He is a hero. He brought a great deal of calm into a situation. I think the local Law Enforcement underreacted first businesses the first night or two. By the way i note, including black businesses that were black owned that were also looted in the first couple of nights and the police did very little to address it. It seems like the pendulum swung in the other extreme and they were too engaged. You have to give johnson his props. He is doing a good job so far. Where do you put someone like al sharpton in the mix . Oh, these racial arsonists like al sharpton and Jesse Jackson in the new black panther party, they are a disgrace, they are a villain. They are a danger to our community. They are a danger to our. You know, greta. That very week that this young man lost his life and thats a strategy that he would lose his life. Whatever the circumstances were. There were 26 blacks that were shot in chicago. I saw no Jesse Jackson. I saw no al sharpton. You know, i saw no barack obama, president obama making statements about this. Thats his own by the way. Chicago is where obama is from. He has been silent about the killing fields it is safer blacn iraq and afghanistan than downtown chicago. Thats the president s home. He and his con signature larry known as attorney general eric holder have been silent. They could have stepped up on this real clear and present danger to outcome black men, but they have been missing in action. They are a disaster. And, quite frankly, they have added to the racial arson within our country. They havent taken away from it. So what could they do . I mean, how do we put the lid on sort of the simmering tensions between the two races over this and get to the bottom and sort of sort out the facts and find out what happened, how it happened, and take all the appropriate steps . The president of the United States, the first elected president of the United States could have come out and said lets bring perspective to this situation. It is a tragedy that this young man lost his life, but we need to get the facts of this case. This case is being investigated, oh, and by the way, my black attorney general is also investigating it. And so i ask for calm. And i give perspective that america in 2014 is not mississippi in 1964. And thats a perspective that this president , of all its failures, and he has many, of all his failures,
he has failed to communicate to the american people. In fact, quite the contrary. Eric holder, his con has played the race card and the president has placed the race card and two most powerful people in the world have acted like they are victims. Niger, also nice to see you and thank you for joining us. Thank you, greta. With the tea party. Net, im the executive director by the way. Thats right. Tea party. Net. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Ferguson police chief now saying the officer who shot Michael Brown did not know at the time of the shooting that Michael Brown was a robbery suspect. So the officer involved in the shooting, was he aware of the robbery call . I dont know. I dont know what came out in his interview. I know his initial contact was not related to the robbery. It was related to. Blocking roads. You are telling us that when the officer stopped Michael Brown the first time
echesz not aware that Michael Brown was in a robbery. No he was coming off a sick case which is why the ambulance was there so quickly. What are you saying, chief . Did he know that he was a suspect in a case or did he he not know. No. He didnt. He was walking. That had nothing to do with the stop . It had nothing to do with the stop. Why at this point, at this point, why did he stop Michael Brown . Because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic. That was it it. Did you find evidence of the stolen merchandise on the body . Yes. Earlier, the chief did release a video that was basically what we think was basically smoke and mirrors to try to divert the attention away from what really occurred. The events that took place on canfield had nothing to do with whichever Grocery Store michael may have been in or the person on the video was in because we
dont know that that was michael for sure. Whatever that took place there had nothing to do with the individual getting down on his hands and knees, raising his hands in the air and saying dont shoot. This is a universal call for i surrender, and can i hear my cousins voice right now as i speak saying dont shoot. Yet, still, the officer stepped to him and shot him is what we heard from officers. And that is wrong. We want the truth to come out and we are sure that it will as the day goes on. A lot of questions tonight about the release of that Surveillance Video and what is in the Police Report. Joining us former prosecutor katie fame and defense lawyer ted williams. Before we get to the video, ted, and the documents that were released. The Police Officers name was finally released. Too late or shouldnt be released or whats the story . Well, my position is, im not so much concerned about the release or the Police Officers name irdo want
transparency, you want to make sure that the officer himself is not harmed. But we knew who Michael Brown was. And we knew a lot about Michael Brown today. So i have really no problems with that release but that would not be the prominent thing in this investigation for me. There is Something Else i would like to see and thats that autopsy report. And we will get to that indicatey, i actually think the name should have been released sooner. Given the Police Officer protection so that he is not harmed. But by sort of holding it back its sort of fueled a lot of suspicion. We dont hide names like that when people get charged with shooting we dont bury that information. Thats right. Normally it will be released as a part of the report as we saw today. Normally its released in advance. Its a part of the Police Report when they go out there. Is nothing to hide it created a little bit of a suspect connection that pressured to be able to release the name of the officer. They now release an incident
report with the video surveillance. That kind of creates the tension that you are seeing right now. What about the releasing the video in the the family, ted says, that its smearing him because now the police chief is saying that the officer who shot brown didnt know that there had been a robbery. Greta, the release of that video is suspect. And troublesome. Now, granted, i can tell you i on transapparently he release the officer did the shooting and explain narrative of what happened. But make very plain that the officer didnt know about the robbery. Yeah. But the chief of police didnt do that he did just the opposite. Look, this video was released in parallel to the Police Officers name coming out it was long to release the video it should have been part of the investigation. Captain johnson of the Missouri State police took over this investigation. You would have thought that
if anybody was going to release anything in this investigation, it would have been through the Missouri State police. Usually these things are sort the prosecutors sort of hold on to these things if there is going to be a prosecution released at that point. So maybe ted is right that this is not sort of routine that you would release a video like this. I would be very quick to rush to judgment on this. If you think about it, if you look at the report itself, it does link the robbery at the Convenience Store to the shooting that happened of mr. Brown. Except, indicatey, let me ask you this though. The thing that bothered me about the release of documents, they dont say what happened in the car. At least the documents i have they come right up to the point where it doesnt even talk about anything that happened in the car. Doesnt talk anything about the shooting. Where is that incident report . Why didnt that get released . Greta, you are absolutely 100 right and on target. We are more concerned about what happened at that car what led to the shooting. It was it a justifiable or
unjustifiable shooting. The chief of police remembers saying the officer was not aware of this robbery im suspicion, why are they holding them back, if they are going to play the transparency card, where is it . It dogs suggest that they are cherry picking everything they want. The was for the robbery of the Convenience Store. It does crossreference a fact that Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson were the primary suspects in this Convenience Store robbery and that you know, mr. Brown was the victim of a fatal shooting. Whats the relevancy . If you are going to release the videotape and surveillance story as part of the narrative of what happened, even though its apparently not linked to it, should have released the narrative about what actually did happen. Why are you holding that back . Absolutely. Because what they are waiting to do is they are waiting to do their investigation, once their
investigation is complete, remember, you have got the fbi involved. Now you have the st. Louis county involved. You have got the Highway Patrol involved. Once the investigation is completed, he they will make a declaration whether or not it was a good shoot, quote, unquote, or not. But absent the investigation completed they are not going to release the report. You dont piecemeal an investigation. More than anything else, i want to seat autopsy report. That will give us a lot of information. Typically we would see that much later on. Once you start unrolling documents you should release a lot more. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Stay with Fox News Channel for the latest on the developments in ferguson. This is a fox news alert. A grand jury indicting Texas Governor rick perry for abusing the powers of his office. Governor perry is accused of abusing his power by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption. If convicted of the felony counts, governor perry could face prison time. And up next, christians under attack from a iraq to iran to sudan to north korea
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kosovo. People on the ground slaughtering christians. Christians should be praying for them and the world should be denouncing these acts of terrorism and genocide. Around the world from iraq it to iran to sudan to north korea and beyond. Christians are being persecuted. And former senator Rick Santorum joins us. Thank you very much, greta. These people are being persecuted because of their thoughts and beliefs is this growing. Unfortunately it is. This is a problem lets pin it where it is. This is radical islam. Radical islam is intolerant of any dissent, including other muslims. I mean, one of the things that is also pointed ou