St. Louis county declined to comment. In a press conference yesterday, the plaintiffs detailed some of what they had gone through. One of the officers threw me to the ground. I was shocked probably seven times with my hands up. They slammed me on my face like a technique move from the wwe. They are mopping my face on the concrete. My blood is everywhere. These are serious allegations, but considering what else we saw in ferguson we may not be surprised. Two weeks ago, police confronted journalists working in a mcdonalds. One of them caught part of the exchange on video. Get your stuff. Lets go. Im working on spimt stop videotaping. Grab the stuff and go. I have the right to videotape. Please dont handle me. Lets go. You see me working. Please do not tell me time to go. Lets go. We were down to 45 seconds. Lets go. Police then arrested that journalist for no reason and let him go without any charges. They also launched teargas at a Television Crew though reporters said they identified themselves as press. The streets of ferguson locked more like a war zone than an american city. They are now firing on the crowd. Ow [ bleep ]. There is no way this kind of behavior was appropriate. But tonight, two local officers are off the street for what they did during these protests. An officer from the Glendale Police department was fired after posting on facebook that protesters, should have been put down like a rabid dog. And an officer from st. Anne resigned after video surfaced of him pointing an Assault Rifle at protesters and cursing at them. There is no excuse for that kind of wrongdoing. We still have a long way to go to rebuild trust between the residents of ferguson and the police who are supposed to serve and protect them. Joining me now are reginald green, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit and Missouri State representative Courtney Allen curtis whose district includes most of ferguson. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having us. Attorney green, what message do your clients want to send with this lawsuit . First of all, thank you for having me on your show. I have been watching you for many years. I applaud you for the things you do and continue to do on the front line for justice in america, particularly for africanamericans. Thank you for having me on your show. Thank you. Youre welcome. With respect to the question, reverend al sharpton, we are not necessarily trying to send a message per se. We have filed a lawsuit in federal court. Our role is to vindicate the rights of our clients whose rights we believe were violated. Well said. So this is not a message. This is about really trying to seek justice for the violations they felt that they experienced during the protest around Michael Browns death. Yes, sir. I am with maliq shahbaz and greg latimer who works with us on the file. Mr. Latimer has experience with these cases. Maliq has been on the front line as a civil rights lawyer and lead for years. I have 20 years of experience myself. Our goal is to put that experience and expertise to bear so we can do things like shed light on the situation, take action, and pursue justice. What we are doing is, in fact, in a court of law, pursuing justice. Many people are speaking about no justice, no peace. People are speaking about the atrocities that occurred. We have decideded to take action, identify victims and assist them in vindicating their rights. In the federal courts. Representative curtis, i mentioned the two ferguson area officers are now out of their departments. Whats your reaction . I think its only right that they are gone. What this incident has shown is some of the individuals have an inability to deal with frustrations or they may have biases that come out of situations like these. Its shown that we are not prepared for situations like these in the county. Now, i want to give people a sense of what this lawsuit is about. One of the plaintiffs is a mother who was at a mcdonalds in ferguson after a rally organizeded by her church group. She says she saw officers confront her son who a minor and, when plaintiff white continues to express her concerns about the way her son was being mistreated, she was advised that she was being arrested because she would not shut up. She was thrown to the ground and handcuffed. Her son was also arrested for no reason at all. Arrested for not shutting up . How can this happen, attorney greene . We understand thats what occurred. We believe in any circumstance this conduct on the part of Police Officers is unacceptable. In particular, in this particular case or that particular woman, she was in a situation where her rights were violated beyond belief. There are claims that regardless of the circumstances under which the brown incident that prip tated this, these are claims that could be brought under the 4th amendment in any instance. At no time should Police Officers suspend the rights of citizens in this manner. Let me go back to you again, representative curtis. We have learned that today, in fact, that the Justice Department head of Community Oriented policing services is returning to the st. Louis area where they work to address strained relations between Law Enforcement and the community. Thats a quote. In your opinion, how necessary is that . Its very necessary. We have seen when you arm Police Officers for some of the things the federal government has given them if they are not trained to deal with the frustrations in terms of controlling the situation and dealing with the membersh mental situations, we have heightened frustrations between the community and the police and Going Forward. Its very important they come here and do the job they are meant to do and ensure we get back to a place of balance and respect within the community. Let me ask you Something Else that i asked another elected official from missouri. This week the police chief for st. Louis county defended the military gear officers used. I want your reaction to this. Let me play you exactly what he said himself. A lot of that equipment is, in my opinion and other chiefs across the country, necessary we patrol very urban areas and we do it because we have a responsibility to mitigate serious crimes and serious terrorist events. He says they need the equipment for patrolling very urban areas. Thats unfortunate. I was with the chief earlier. Hes really a nice guy. That reaction, i dont know that it was the right one. It may have to do with his perception of the community. It uncovers the biases that potentially exist within the police force within places such as education, even with prosecutor mcculloch. We cant change it overnight. We have to do more Going Forward but this is what exists in the police force. Attorney greene, do you think others are going to come forward now that the lawsuit has been filed, will others come and join the suit or initiate civil rights lawsuits in federal court . At this point in time we have had numerous calls and contacts from potential clients. We are in the process of doing investigations, malik and i were in st. Louis yesterday. Hes still there. We have an intake process where we are evaluating on a casebycase basis. We believe the plaintiffs in this case might be probably will be additional plaintiffs because there are other people in the same time frame. Law abiding citizens whose rights were violated by police. The people that were breaking the law, looting, arsonists. We think they need to be accountable. Thats the job of the prosecutor. Thats not our job as a private attorney. Our jobs are to identify clients with claims and help them vindicate their rights. Thats what were doing. Were going to follow the lawsuit and follow this story. Thank you both attorney greene and state representative curtis for your time tonight. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Coming up, a moms terrifying ordeal. Mistakenly pulled over by police at gunpoint and handcuffed, all in front of her terrified kids. Okay im scared. No ones going to jail. [ screaming ] stop crying. Its okay. Everythings fine now. Well talk to the mother live about what she wants to hear from police. 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Right now save 50 on the labor Day Limited Edition bed, plus 24month special financing. Hurry ends monday know better sleep with sleep number. Expanding medicare. And expanding it under obamacare. Lets start with the fingerwagging governor from arizona, jan brewer who sued the Obama Administration over the a. C. A. , but she changed her tune and expanded medicaid in arizona. A domino had fallen. Iowa s Terry Branstad once had this to say about expanding medicaid. We heard a lot about the problems with the medicaid program. I dont believe the federal government can afford it. I know my state cant afford it. But last year governor branstad did expand medicaid. Another domino. New jerseys chris christie, also had strong words to say against the program. Because obamacare was extortion. It was a bunch of nice words in the bill, but it was extortion. But the domino effect hit the garden state, too. Chris christie expanded medicaid and pennsylvania governor tom corbett voiced his opposition as well. I believe we have significant reforms. As we look at it, expanse is not sustainable in pennsylvania. But pennsylvania is the latest domino to fall. Governor corbett struck a deal with the Obama Administration to expand medicaid in his state as well. Nearly 500,000 low income residents will be covered. So why did corbett change his mind . Well, hes down 25 points in his reelection campaign. So maybe hes expanding medicaid out of the goodness of his heart. Or maybe he thinks its just good politics. Either way, its good for pennsylvania. All together, nine states with republican governors have booked their party by expanding medicaid. The dominoes are falling and its good for america. We can only hope more and more republicans see the light. Joining me now is the washington posts e. J. Dionne. Thank you for being here. Good to be here. Happy anniversary, reverend. Thank you, sir. Didnt a lot of people predict the gop governors would eventually cave and expand medicaid . Well, you know, i think that the logic is so overwhelming that its not only wrong not to expand it, its a real mistake from the point of view of your state. Even if you dont want to help poor people get health care, which you ought to want to do. This brings in enormous federal money to your state. Its good for your hospitals. Where you dont expand it as in north carolina, a lot of local hospitals are in real trouble. I think you are seeing the changing politics of this. You alluded to it when you pointed out that governor corbett is running way behind democrat tom wolf. He realizes this is more of a political plus than a minus. The other thing is what you are losing as a country with all the states not doing it, take the two states that have really cut their uninsured the most. Arkansas and kentucky. Democratic governors who really wanted to do this, put their shoulder to the wheel. Arkansas cut its uninsured from 22. 5 to 12. 5 . Kentucky cut it from 20. 5 to 12 . So imagine what we could do in the country to reduce the number of uninsured if the rest of the recalcitrant governors would listen to the other dominoes. Its going to happen eventually. It struck me you had a column this week about the growing support for the Health Care Law. You wrote, the most significant bit of election news last week was the decision of senator mark pryor to run an ad touting his vote for the Health Care Law as a positive for the people of his increasingly republican state. I want to play the ad for folks at home. When mark was diagnosed with cancer we thought we might lose him. My family and my faith helped me through the rough times. But you know what . Marks Insurance Company didnt want to pay for the treatment that ultimately saved his life. No one should be fighting an Insurance Company while youre fighting for your life. I want to though why you think this ad is so significant, e. J. First of all, its a really good ad because david pryors dad is a popular guy and the line no one should be fighting an Insurance Company when fighting for his life resonates with everybody. Whats significant is all sorts of people said none of the democrats running in tough races in republican states would touch obamacare. Three, four, five months ago everybody said this is a killer negative issue for democrats. He doesnt say the words obamacare because president obama has relatively low Approval Ratings in arkansas. But he touts the law because when you poll the law, ask people what they think of the provisions like the ones he mentions they say, wait a minute. Thats a good law. I also think democrats are slowly coming around to the view that they are going to be stuck with the attacks on obamacare anyway. They might as well tell people, wait a minute. Here is the law i voted for not some parody the other side created if for you, but a law that helps people. You may see more of this as the election gets closer. This week scott brown gave a radio interview saying we need to repeal the Health Care Lawment then he said this. I believe states can do it better and they can certainly cover preexisting conditions, covering your kids to x age, whatever you want. The at strofk care, covering those who need additional coverages. Preexisting, kids on parents insurance, catastrophic care. Doesnt that sound a lot like the Affordable Care act, e. J. . What scott brown is saying is i love obamacare as long as you call it romneycare. And i think hes also trying to have it both ways. He wants to promise people every benefit that is in obamacare and then say, but this can be done at the state level. Its an evasion. But what it shows again is that the core provisions of the bill are things people want. Thats why the republicans keep saying that they are going to come up with an alternative to obamacare, but they havent come up with it. Because when you try to do what the republicans say they want to do, have a marketoriented plan that expands health coverage, prevents people from losing insurance when they are in trouble and other things obamacare does, the only plan they can come up with ends up looking like obamacare. So scott brown wants to sound antiobamacare to the right and pro obamacare to everybody else. Thank you so much for your time tonight. Have a great weekend. You, too, reverend. Thank you. Still ahead, our interview with the mom from this video mistakenly handcuffed at gunpoint in front of her kids. Also, Mitch Mcconnells jawdropping statement about could be the next government shutdown. You make a great team. Its been that way since the day you met. But your erectile dysfunction it could be a question of blood flow. 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