Enforcement officials are already heavily involved in this investigation and stay tuned to this show. Because later this hour, i will talk live with that friend of Michael Browns who was with him when he had that tragic confrontation with police on saturday. Also today, police reversed themselves and now say they will not release the name of the officer involved in the shooting. Citing threats to the officers safety. All this following more unrest last night, including police in riot gear shooting teargas at protesters. At a News Conference today where i spoke in my capacity as president of the National Action network Michael Browns father called for peace. I need justice for my son. I need everybody to be coming together to do this right. The right way. Yeah. The right way so we can get something done about this. Everybody. No violence. No violence. In my time here today, its clear that this Community Needs something to be done. It needs justice, peaceful justice. In just a moment im going to speak to Michael Browns grandfather les mcspadden. I want to bring in patricia bynes, a Democratic Committee woman for ferguson township. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for having me. Let me ask you. There seems to be a lot of suspicion among members of the community about the police. Why do you think that is . P reverend sharp ton, we have a long history of mistrust in the community here. With the police. There are constant stories of harassment. You know, young black men. Its almost the same across the country. Young black men have tales of being harassed by the police while they are walking or driving. The racial profiling, the numbers in the state of missouri are very scary. Its not unfounded. There is a high number of africanamerican men and women in our community who are harassed by the police. Nothing seems to get done about it. Youve talked about the need for federal investigation. Why do you and so many others want that . Well, i have been out talking with the community themselves on the ground and, while i know there is going to be a fair and thorough investigation, when we can get the full cooperation of the community because they dont feel comfortable talking clearly with, you know, Ferguson Police department. But even with st. Louis county police, thats not enough for the residents who have history with county police and feeling like there is going to be a fair and thorough investigation. If everyone involved truly wants a fair and thorough investigation and there are witnesses that say they will not talk to st. Louis county. We have to seriously look at that. As an elected official, we have to listen to that and make sure people know that if they want fair and thorough we have to give it to them. It only comes through the feds. Committeewoman, please stay with us. I want to bring in les mcspadden, Michael Browns grandfather. Thank you for being here. Thank you, reverend sharpton. Its always an honor, a pleasure to see and here from you. I would hate to talk to you at these circumstances like this, at a bad time like this. Certainly our condolences to your family. As you heard the president of the United States and the first lady extended it to your family today. One of the things i have most admired about you and your family i was with the mother and father today is the strength and dignity you have shown and calling for peace and nonviolence while you pursue justice. Tell us why thats so important to you and how it reflects your memory of your grandson. Yes, sir. Violence needs to stop. You know, my grandson, he wasnt violent. He didnt need to do anything. People be doing things like that because all it does is put gasoline on the fire. Thats already a big old fire. So the thing to do is for everybody in the great state of missouri, the state i was born and raised in. Just stay calm. Once again, let the judicial system handle it and take over because all this fire, looting and stuff all it does is decrease his legacy. One of the things im hearing is that a lot of people in ferguson township are saying it has not been the proper representation. Its 67 of ferguson township is black. Yet out of 53 policemen, there are only three black policemen. Its reflected in the school board and in the politics. Is it a feeling that you have that a lot of what the reaction is a lot of outrage to people feeling they dont have access to influence in their own township and what happened to your grandson reflects that and brings a lot of that to the surface . Yes, it does. Like i was trying to explain, reverend. I have spent time in st. Louis. Me personally, i avoid that area before this incident happened because there is oh so much profiling going on. I could ride down with me and maybe two of my older friends and get pulled over just because of the pigmentation of my skin. Its just wrong. Why is that . I wish somebody could explain it to me. Why would there only be three officers out of 50 . I thought demographics meant something. Evidently, it dont. So the charge im hearing from a lot of young people today about profiling, you are saying that you feel there is merit to a lot of accusations of profiling by the Police Department in ferguson. Exactly. One would have to experience it would be hard for me to sit here and explain it. On any given friday, saturday night, going down to west floreson in ferguson. Im talking about ferguson, period. Its something that everybody that lives in st. Louis that are lifers like myself know that if you go that way, it better be some daylight. Now tell me about your grandson. He was supposed to Start College on yesterday. And yet now we are planning the family is for his funeral. I understand he was never in trouble. Wasnt a bad kid at all. Yet they are trying to say that he got into a scuffle. The police story is he got into a scuffle with the policeman and reached for the policemans gun. How do you react to that . Certainly the facts will come out in an investigation. As a grandfather, how do you react . Is that believable . Is that at all like the grandson you knew . Reverend sharpton, i can say wholeheartedly, 100 that thats false. I know my grandson. Hes the type of guy that i would buy him video games and he could actually beat the games. So in which turn means youve got to get him another one. As a matter of fact, my grandson is scared of guns. He wasnt like that. He wasnt raised like that. For someone to say he tried to take a pistol from him, there is no one in this country that could make me believe that. Thats false. Those are accusations, those are lies. My grandson, as you probably have seen or heard on the news feeds he was a gentle giant. Hes big for his age. Also hes a kid. When was it a crime to walk down the middle of the street with the Ferguson Police department saying if you walked down the middle of my street, ill kill you. That should never happen, man. Councilwoman bynes, how do you deal with the fact that the demographics in the city are one thing and the political offices, the Police Department, the board of education doesnt reflect that . Its been a major issue in our community. Just a few months ago we had a big issue with the school board with the firing of the black superintendent. Its been a huge problem in getting more people who are of the majority demographic here engaged in the political system. They dont understand it. Often times its a socioeconomic issue where people are worried how they will get to work, if they can get to work. If there is a job to go to. Rather than political matters on voting. So its the day to day socioeconomic struggle that keeps them from being able to engage in the political process. Committeewoman patricia bynes, i will leave it there. Les mcspadden, thank you for your time of grief to come on. We give our condolences. Well stay on this story. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Coming up developing news about a potentially crucial witness and the role now played by federal investigators. Well have a live interview with this witness about what he says really happened. Also, the troubled history of ferguson, missouri. There is a big racial divide and a deep problem with police profiling. So what can be done about it . Hands up dont shoot raising our arms for peace. How to respect Michael Browns legacy and stop violence on our streets. Stay with us. Wouldnt it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters shopping online is as easy as it gets. And even piano tuners were just as simple . Thanks to angies list, now it is. Weve made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. Buy their services directly at angieslist. 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One from police and the other from eyewitnesses. Here is the police version. One of those individuals at the time came in as the officer was exiting his police car. Allegedly pushed the Police Officer back into the car where he physically assaulted the Police Officer. It is our understanding at this point in the investigation that within the police car there was a struggle over the officers weapon. There was at least one shot fired within the car. After that, the officer came back out of the car. He exited his vehicle. And there was a shooting that occurred where the officer, in fact, shot the subject. And the subjects they were fatal injuries. He says brown reached into the car and attacked the officer, but gave no detail about what happened outside the car when brown was shot and killed nearly 35 feet away. Michael brown was not walking alone when this happened. His friend Dorian Johnson was with him. Dorian is still alive and is giving a very different account of what happened. A Police Officer squad car pulled up. These were his words. He said get the f on the sidewalk. We told the officer we were not but a minute from our destination and would be shortly off the street. He tried to thrust the door open. We were so close it ricocheted off us and bounced back to him. I guess that got him a little upset. At that time he reached out the window. He didnt get out of the car. He reached out the window, grabbed my friend around his neck and was trying as he was trying to check choke my friend. He was trying to get away. The officer reached out, grabbed his arm to pull him into the car. Now its like the officer is trying to pull him inside the car. Hes trying to pull away. At no time the officer said he was going to do anything until he pulled out his weapon. His weapon was drawn and he said, ill shoot you, or im going to shoot. In the same moment the first shot went off. We looked at him. He was shot. There was blood coming from him. We took off running. His weapon was already drawn when he got out of the car. He shot again. Once my friend felt that shot he turned around, put his hands in the air and started to get down. But the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots. My friend died. As the investigation unfolds, there are two different accounts. Joining me now is Dorian Johnson, the young man who was with Michael Brown, and his attorney freeman bosley, jr. Thank you for being here. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you. You say the officer attacked michael. What do you think when you hear the police say it was the other way around . I knew as soon as i heard it that it is not what happened. I knew that i was standing so close and seeing everything so vivid that i know exactly what happened. I knew that was incorrect at the moment i heard it. How fast did all this happen . It really escalated quickly. It was less than a minute or a minute or so before it escalated to death. Now where did it start . How did this start . We were walking down the street. At the time there was no traffic coming. The street was clear. We were walking down the street in the middle of the street. Before the officer pulls up, the traffic starts to flow. No cars blowing their horn at us like were in their way or making eye turns like we have to get out of the way or anything. We didnt feel we were causing a problem to anyone. We kept walking. So a little bit later we saw the Police Officer coming. When he gets to the side of us, right on the side we were right at his driver door. He tells us to get on the sidewalk in a real aggressive manner. I dont want to cuss on camera. But he told us to get on the sidewalk the f. Get the f on the sidewalk. Right. At that time my friend big mike didnt speak at all. I responded to the officer. I said, officer, we are less than a minute away from our destination. Were just walking and well be out of the way. We continued to walk because i was under the impression that the officer, you know, he was fixing to drive off. But then we hear the car stop. We hear it reverse, but it reversed very rapidly, like he stomped on the gas pedal fast. He reversed in a manner where we had to kind of jump out of the way. Not really jump but step back out of the way or he was going to hit us. Now his car is slanted. Were back face to face with him at his driver door. You said michaels hands go ahead. Im sorry. Go ahead. Mikes hands were filled with cigarellos. His hands were not free. They were filled. At that time when the officer pulled up on us, he was so close to us. He tried to push his door open so aggressively. My friend big mike is a real big guy. Im not that big, but hes real big. We were so close to each other when he pushed the door open it didnt get a full inch out. It hit us and bounced back on him. In an instant his arm came out the window and grabbed my friend around the neck. You said that the door hit him. And then the door bounced back. Yes. The door ricocheted off our bodies. Not like we had our hands up because we didnt know we wasnt ready for the speed that he opened his door. Wasnt like we braced ourselves. It almost knocked the wind out of me. Hes so big that it slightly tapped me and more hit him. It really bounced back on the officer. And then the incident happened. Yeahment yeah. After the door bounced on him. Like i said in an instant his left arm comes out the window. He at no point in time tried to get back out of the car or open the door. He stuck his left arm out the window and grabbed my friend around the throat. Now my friend, hes angry. He has a frowny face, but my friend is not an aggressive person. Hes not trying to go with the officer. Hes pulling away from the officer. The officer is pulling him in the vehicle like hes trying to pull him through the window. Hes so big, he couldnt pull his body down into the window. It was more like his body was coming into the window while the officer now the officer is trying to maintain a grip and a hold on him. Hes grabbing on his shirt and arm still with the one arm, his left arm. Hes trying to grab any grip he can on my friend. Hes turning around. Now at this moment he hands me the cigarellos, says hold these. I grab them out of his hands. Im Still Standing in the door while they are doing all this tugging and pulling, not wrestling as they say. It was more like tug and pull. Hes trying to pull big mike, my friend. My friends trying to pull away. We really dont understand the manner the officer is addressing usment at that time i hear the officer saying im going to shoot. My eyes addressed to him because i wanted to see what he was going to fire. I know what a taser looks like a taser gun. I know what a are regular gun looks like. When i looked at the officer, i was staring dead in front of the barrel. And almost a second later, the gun went off. If i didnt move of hesitation before the gun went off i could have been shot as well as my friend. I moved second earlier than the gun going off. The bullet did strike my friend. He was never inside the car when the bullet struck him. At this moment when he pointed the gun at us, it kind of stood us back like he has a gun pointed at us for no reason. He still has his hand on my friend like the whole time. He never let his grip go with the left hand. Now hes pointed his weapon at us in a threatening manner. In no time during the altercation did big mike make a verbal threat at the officer. No time did i make a movement or gesture like i was going to jump in the altercation. No time did i felt like the officers life was really in that much danger for him to pull out the gun first before any other weapon that he had to stop what was going on. So after the first shot went off, i stepped back. I look at m