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Overnight are conscious right now. now, this followed a night of largely peaceful protests. you are looking at a scuffle between protesters. there were some arrests there. at least two arrests from the scuffles many you just saw right there. the shootings and protests came hours after the announcement that the embattled police chief tom jackson is resigning one week from today. johnson is the latest in the series of local officials to step down after the justice department report that faulted policies. jackson's resignation letter says i will continue to help the city in any way i can as a pri...

Path to justice is one all of us must travel together. as he says the fact that violence against police is unacceptable, how do you feel about that? because this situation last night obviously brings up a lot of questions for how proper oversight can happen in the wake of the department of justice findings that there were bad practices coming out of ferguson police to its community. so as we see what happened last night on a good note where we know that this is something that people that were there to rally in celebration, that the chief was stepping down. how do you explain this taking place ...

Welcome back everybody. all day long we've been following the breaking news out of ferguson missouri and the shooting of two police officers there last night. just take a look. this powerful image shows the aftermath of the shooting with officers rushing to the aid of their fellow policeman on the streets of ferguson last night. and when chief jackson's resignation goes into effect on march the 19th, his assistant lieutenant colonel will take over as interim chief until a replacement is found and declared. so who is he? according to city records obtained by the guardian lieutenant colonel eick...

Of watching before i realized there was an officer down. when i figured that out, i think everybody else figured it out at the same point. we just began to run. that was probably the fastest i ever run in my life before i got to my car. as i was driving away the cops were down on their knees with guns drawn. i could see several of them standing over what i think was the cop that was shot. they were lifting him away and pulling him away. >> as chief belmar mentioned, the shooting marked a violent end to what was mostly a peaceful protest earlier that evening. a few scuffles did break out. polic...

>> the two police officers were from other jurisdictions not from ferguson. they were there helping ferguson police to deal with the crowds of the protestors. a st. louis county officer shot in the shoulder the other officer from the west earn groves area was shot in the face. both men are expected to survive as the search and potentially dangerous search for that shooter is on at this hour. the protests they were in response to the resignation of chief tom jackson. he is one of many named in the doj report on ferguson. he is one of 6 who were either fired or resigned after a pattern of discri...