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Sreenivasan the violence in ferguson, missouri abated overnight, and today, the focus returned to Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by police, seven days ago. Sreenivasan the Ferguson Police chief made the announcement that many in the town had demanded, after 18 yearold Michael Brown was shot dead last saturday. The officer that was involved in the shooting of Michael Brown was darren wilson. Hes been a Police Officer for six years, has had no disciplinary action taken against him. He was treated for injuries which occurred on saturday. Sreenivasan wilson has been on administrative leave since the shooting. Police said he initially confronted brown about walking down the middle of a street, but did not know he was a suspect in a robbery. They released this security video from a Convenience Store and said it apparently shows brown, in the red baseball cap, and a friend, stealing a box of cigars and pushing away a clerk. A lawyer for the friend told msnbc today that he confirmed the theft to investigators. But browns family and others in ferguson charged hes not the man in the video. And, they said, police are trying to divert attention from an unjustified shooting. The pictures and the video has nothing to do with what happened and how he was killed on that day. Thats very important that people understand that and see it for what its worth. Nothing should deter figuring out how and why Michael Brown was killed. Sreenivasan governor jay nixon was in ferguson today and cautioned against jumping to conclusions. Theres a lot of steps between now and when justice is served. And there are going to be a lot of other bounces along the way and there will be a lot of tension at various times. New facts are out that werent out yesterday. But those are not the full picture of anything. Sreenivasan yesterday, the governor put the state Highway Patrol in charge of security in ferguson after several nights of violence. Local police were heavily criticized for a heavyhanded use of force wednesday night, including tear gas, smoke grenades, heavy weapons and militarystyle vehicles. The change last night was dramatic. The atmosphere was even festive at times, with a greatly reduced police presence, and no arrests. Crowds welcomed Highway Patrol captain ron johnson, who grew up in the community. He marched with demonstrators, as a small number of state troopers patrolled. Today, he appealed for continued calm. Own house. We dont go down there and vandalize our own buildings. What i dont want is us to go down and burn our own neighborhood. What point, that does not prove a point. That does not solve issues. That hurts this community and thats what i dont want. Sreenivasan the violence of the previous night prompted vigils around the country last evening, and demands for justice. I dont care if you have a badge or not, Everyone Needs to be treating everyone else equally and to be tried equally for murder. We call for calm. But we want a full and impartial investigation, and we want the facts to be known. And we want to learn from this so that we can stop the violence. Hands up. Dont shoot. Sreenivasan from new york city to los angeles, thousands of people also staged marches in solidarity with the people of ferguson. Sreenivasan well return to the ferguson story and the issue of policing in minority communities, after the news summary. Sreenivasan the man chosen to be iraqs new Prime Minister appealed for unity today. Haider alabadi urged his fellow shiites as well as sunnis and kurds to join against the threat posed by Islamic State militants. The political stalemate was broken yesterday when Nouri Almaliki stepped down as Prime Minister and endorsed abadi. Sreenivasan in ukraine, reports of a military clash with russia fueled new tensions today. Lindsey hilsum of independent Television News filed this report. Reporter Russian Armored vehicles at the border into ukraine. They seem to have stopped at the customs point. One convoy reportedly crossed overnight and a much larger one today. Its the first overt russian incursion after months of arming prorussian separatists. But the kremlin is still denying that its forces have gone over the border. In kiev, the ukranian president was visiting soldiers whod been captured and then released by the separatists. In a phone call with the british Prime Minister, he claimed that ukrainian artillery had destroyed much of the russian armor. His defense spokesman said theyd allowed the column in before attacking. But theres no independent confirmation. translated i have to reassure you this column was followed it was always under the surveillance of our reconnaissance forces. Appropriate actions were undertaken and a part of it no longer exists. Reporter journalists saw the reporter for several days now russia has been trumpeting the progress of a 280 vehicle convoy carrying aid from moscow supposedly for civilians in eastern ukraine. Its bringing much needed food and other supplies. But the trucks are military green covered in white tarp. Some are almost empty and the selfproclaimed volunteers are all young men of military age in identical khaki shorts. At least one was sporting a military tattoo. And they appear to have top cover. Reporter the ukranian government says russia aid wont be allowed to cross the border unless its inspected and distributed by the red cross. President putin was meeting his finnish counterpart today talking about trade and sanctions. Russian and ukrainian officials also met today and further talks are scheduled for sunday a chance to pull back from the brink. Sreenivasan Russias Defense Ministry later denied thered been any military clash with ukrainian forces. Sreenivasan supporters and opponents of pakistans government clashed today as thousands of protesters converged on the capital. A mob attacked the convoy of imran khan in gujranwala. The opposition figure is leading supporters from lahore to islamabad. Khan said people threw stones at the convoy as it drove past, and a spokeswoman said his vehicle was shot at. Police disputed that account. Sreenivasan the death toll from the Ebola Outbreak in west africa has risen again, to 1,145. U. N. Health officials report 76 new deaths in the two days between monday and wednesday. In all, there have been more than 2,100 cases in four countries, guinea, liberia, nigeria and sierra leone. Sreenivasan the governing body of stock car racing will bar drivers from getting out of their cars after accidents. Nascars decision follows last saturdays fatality during a dirt track race in new york state. Driver kevin ward jumped from his car after his car and Tony Stewarts collided, on the next lap, stewarts car struck and killed him. The incident remains under investigation. Sreenivasan on wall street today, the Dow Jones Industrial average lost 50 points to close below 16,663. The nasdaq rose nearly 12 points to close near 4,465. And the sandp 500 was down a fraction, at 1,955. For the week, the dow gained seventenths of a percent. The nasdaq rose more than 1 . The sandp was up more than 2 . Sreenivasan still to come on the newshour how ferguson can heal; david brooks and ruth marcus on the weeks news; an engineering and economic marvel turns 100; and, the struggle for survival for millions of displaced people in south sudan. Sreenivasan over the past week in ferguson, there have been very Different Police and community reactions. One issue it has highlighted is the problems raised when Police Forces dont reflect the racial makeup of their communities. Jeffrey brown examines that angle for us tonight. Brown the city of ferguson, with a population of 21,000, is more than twothirds african american. But just three of its 53 Police Officers are black. And theyre not alone many we explore why that is and what can be done about it, with doctor tracie keesee, the co founder of the ucla center for policing equity. Shes also a 25year veteran of the Denver Police department. And commander malik aziz, chairman of the National Black police association. He is deputy chief of the Dallas Police department and has 23 Years Experience in law enforcement. Let me start with you. I do want to start with a question about todays news. Theres still a lot of confusion and anger over the issue of when the officer involved in the shooting was named and the release of the video of Michael Brown. Whats your reaction to that today . Well, i think there is a couple of things going on here. First of all, if you want to have the trust of the community, transparency is always going to be key and the faster you can get information out to the community is going to be helpful. In addition to that, they have to balance the safety of the officer at the time youni knew r name to make sure hes safe andh so y but you also have to be mindful of the communityconi you serve involvedmy withni whatnr and ws going on in the investigation. Brown there one protocol to follow in cases like this . Do you think the information, both the name and the video, should have come out sooner . I defini name should have been released early on. There are certain things we have to keep in mind. You want the officer to be safe. You dont want another tragedy to follow or a seemingly tragedy here that what occurred in ferguson. So there are no real policies that govern Police Departments across the nation which proves to be the inadequacy of many Police Departmentsto for releasing names. In this particular case, i think it was compare baited by the failure to release names and be transparent. Brown tracie keesee, the larger issue of the Police Forces that dont reflect the communities, how serious an issue is it and why do you think it occurs . Well, its always going to be a serious situation as far as diversifying organizations because the pool of folks to choose from in communities of color are often dwindled by whatever hiring practices are put in place in other, you know, departments. Thats just a small part of it, though. When you look at ferguson, and i can only speak to myself and my own experience, and the Concern Community members have about how theyre going to be treated, the concerns about what does that do to a person who comes on to a Police Department and they dont feel comfortable in a Police Department who has biased or racist tendency, its very hard to recruit if that perspective, and also to retain them. What were seeing in ferguson early on, you saw policy decisions to bring out heavy armor, the decision to have folks on the street. Those are policy decisions that if you dont have diversity in the ranks of command staff that can give insight to decisions being made, oftentimes this is the result. So its not just about how do you recruit. You have to have a big pool to recruit from but you also have to be honest with the folks youre recruiting, what that organization is going to be. Brown as we saw in the earlier report, Highway Patrol captain ron johnson was brought in to oversee the situation. Hes from the area, hes black. It seemed to have helped at least in the short term. Is that a kind of solution that you think has promise or what else needs to beco done . Well, i applaud them for the decision, but it is just a shortterm solution. Its not a longterm solution. The longterm solution is for ferguson and places like ferguson to actually diversify their Police Departments, and the 53person Police Department in a city thats 65 to 70 black and yet they fail to meet the demographics and reflect the to mirror the community which they serve. It appears to be people who are culturally disconnected in the communities which they serve so, therefore, the result is the response that was given when you have a policy that youre not open or transparent, therefore youre not accountable. If ferguson, missouri actually wants to resolve the issues and have a viable solution, they would look at the policies that govern or surround the admission policies that are seemingly so subjective in places like ferguson that they would be able to pull from tough enough job recruiting but they would be able to look in the pool of candidates who reside in the city and formulate a recruitment plan to give people jobs in the neighborhoods in which they serve and they have failed at that and many departments fail at that. Doesnt take Rocket Science to look at the numbers and demographics and come to a conclusion that it is dominated by one group, and the group that is the majority on the opposite side of the fence. They have no vested interest or equity in the city that they serve. Brown well, tracie keesee, i know that you work with Police Forces around the country. Are there examples where this is done better either through recruitment, reaching out to the communities to avoid this kind of tension . It depends on the community. If you have a good pool to draw from, theres always going to be good examples of how they engage. As i stated before, the relationship is strong and you have good trust and trance parentsy, recruitment is not hard. So it really varies. In some areas you dont have to pool to choose from, so you end up bringing in outsiders which sometimes helps and sometimes makes the situation worst, especially when youre not vested in the Community Like captain johnson because hes from that community. So is there one good way to do it . No. What it requires, though, are command staff and hiring Civil Service organizations and the community to sit down and decide what, one, does a good officer look like and how do they serve in an honorable way and have empathy for the community in which they serve. Going forward, these are part of the conversations youre going to start seeing is what does this look like, how do we not just recruit, how doni webt becausefa its not getting them loninr thenrni doog them and hoping they haveokco a policyco statement. Lessons znr drawn from ferguson on thisnr wider issue . I just believexd that theren many johnsons in that neighborhood waiting for an opportunity to serve their community and theyre not giveni chances based on subjective policies. I think the lessons to be learned in ferguson should beni used as a microcosm around the nate and places just like it that this is not how youni ma d you respond with transparency and openness and accountability andnrninrnr you enable policiesd believeninlinco communityconro[a that would quellnr incidents lir keesee, thanks youniconlvconin. Thanknrnci you. You for having us. ni sreenivasan this week saw dramatic developments at home and abroad, with tensions rising in missouri, in iraq, and among politicians. To wrap it all up, the analysis of brooks and marcus. Thats New York Times columnist david brooks and Washington Post columnist ruth marcus. Megan had a piece in bloomberg viewpointing out the deem graphics of ferguson shifted radically. It was threequarters white a decade ago, and now its reversed. And they didnt keep up with the population inversion. You look across left, right and center, people think its overreacting what happened in the nights subsequently and thats, a, a libertarian suspicion of really forceful and violent government, liberals tend to be suspicious of police power especially against minority communities, but for conservatives and traditional conservatives, theres a Community Thing going on. Traditional conservatives believe in community policing, getting cops out of the cars and interacting with the locals. So thats the traditional conservative position that you dont want to militarize things, you want to have an organic relationship between the community and police force and that clearly was ruptured here. Its been fascinating and i thought one of the most interesting pieces this week was rand pauls piece on time. Com where if you had not read the by line you might have thought it was written by al sharpton because he was so antipolice. You think back to Richard Nixon and the tough on crime strain of the Republican Party which stood in such good stead for so long and in fact cop idea by democrats like bill clinton who tried to show themselves to be tough on crime. So i think to the extent there is this blurring of liberallibertarian lines, its a piece of interesting strain in the party and i think you were a little bit underselling it, david, because there is this tough on crime aspect to authority. When were done, we can hug it out. laughte