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Report that faulted police tactics and city policies. chief jackson's letter said quote, i will continue to assist the city as i can as a private citizen. a more candid reaction came in a terse text message to cnn. it's a really hard pill to swallow. >> these two police officers shot. they are conscious and recovering right now. 32-year-old officer from webster grove shot in the face. a five-year veteran. a 40-year-old officer shot in the shoulder. he is a 14-year veteran in law enforcement. we have sara sidner who has been covering ferguson. sara you were on the phone with protesters. what ar...

Announced his resignation and then everything else. >> reporter: he announced -- yeah absolutely and it's a bit odd that this would happen because it would seem that the protesters in some way, some of the people in the community had gotten what they wanted because chief jackson, tom jackson, had resigned. he said he resigned on his own, he did it -- he wasn't forced not sure how much truth there is to that but he was expected that he would step down just didn't know when. he did it yesterday. so that did happen but then just a couple of hours later in the middle of the night, gunshots here at...

About a week after the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri last summer, there was one truly strange moment of news in the overall chaotic response to that shooting. it happened when the police chief tom jackson called a press conference which he said he would release the name of the officer involved in that shooting. to everyone's surprise, he also released some surveillance footage, which chief jackson said showed the victim in the shooting, michael brown, participating in a strong arm robbery not that long before he was shot. the release of that surveillance video of michae...

>> it would be interesting because doesn't anyone working today? why are you ralacy at midnight outside oo police station at about something that happened that you should be happy about the six people have been forced to resign. the justice department ruled in a way in which i imagine was right up your alley. what else do you want? >> how do you enforce that curfew. >> dead cops that's what they want. you arrest everyone that doesn't go home. let's not pretend like they wanted tom jackson's resignation or they're mad because the mayor is still there. they want dead cops. that was their goal al...

People. recently we heard the president react to the doj report that alleged racism by officers in ferguson. he said he does not think that kind of bias is widespread but he doesn't think it's isolated to one small section of st. louis. back to you. >> thank you very much. so officer jackson chief jackson six employees have resigned since the doj issued tha eric holder wanted to dismantle things or change the structure. he's winding up with a brand new one. we have a friend of officer darren wilson and a member of the st. louis police officers association. he's a former police officer as wel...