want to say this there is certainly a problem, and everybody is talking about it, and they have experienced it when it comes to the african-american, and the police will talk about some of the issues, but one thing that we have to think about is the fact that in this report you heard someone say to the feds snitches get stitch, and there is a whole idea that why we didn t hear some of the truth of the witnesses closest to the action is that they were afraid to say the truth, because they were afraid of the reaction from the crowds that gathered and their community. that is a problem that we need to deal with. and jeff and you saw that with go ahead, jeff. jim or jeff? jim, towey yes. yeah and you know that whole situation of talk ging about the snitches get stitch, and the police and we didn t make any statements from our camp at all, and the police that with were
things because they do believe that are there is a real problem in america that needs to be looked at. don? sara sidner great reporting. i want to bring in the attorney for darren wilson and van jones, cnn political reporter, and jeff warder president of the police officers association. and van, i want to read part of the doj report on the michael brown shooting and it is what darren wilson said when i met with him, and he said that he responded to brown reaching into the suv and punching him by withdrawing the gun, because he could not access less e lethal weapons while seated inside of the suv. brown then grabbed the weapon, and struggled with wilson to gain control of it and wilson fired striking brown in the hand. and the report goes on the say that brown s dna was inside of the suv and the collar and his own wounds plishestablish that brown s arm and torso were
officer wilson killed him. and what happened the day of the shooting? the weapon was drawn and his hands were up when he fired, and he started to get down, but the officer still approached with the weapon drawn, and he fired more shots. reporter: but federal authorities say that he was wrong, but there are still several who say that he did have the hands up. we read the 800-page report, and this is what those close to the grand jury said this. witness two, the biracial male i know for sure that the hands were not above the head. witness 102, snitches get stitches and eventually he did talk and he said that he did not see the hands up and he witnessed brown moving fast to wilson. and witness four a biracial female with a clear view of the
witness, because there sis physical evidence as well, and the department of justice to be fair went into ferguson looking for problems and look toging to see if there were civil rights violation, and they did not go in not trying to find them, and that is made very clear if you look at the amount of evidence, and i mean they were thorough and i have read this report over and over and over again, and maybe i am slightly obsessed, but the bottom line is that there was physical fmevidence and testimony and by the way, some of the witnesses recanted which is in the report as well and the feds did talk to the witnesses, and it was not just the local people, but it was the feds. and there is one story and then in the testimony they told another story, and hang on, because i want to get in jim towwey who is officer wilson s attorney. how is officer wilson feeling now? does he feel vindicated by the report? absolutely he does.
what the actual evidence says that officer darren wilson was cleared, and people believe what they want to believe, and nothing is going to change their mind. that is true. and it is untrue. there are people who have looked at the report and said okay we have seen that officer darren wilson generally exonerated, but we will see the other report and there is a perceived situation, and where people feel that there is a real problem, and there is a real problem. if you don t think that there is profiling going nonferguson, then you are just ignoring the numbers. i am sorry, i have looked at the re report, but i have talked to dozens of people black, white, whoever lives in that town and business owners, and the mayor, himself, and the mayor eventually came out after first making a statement that he didn t think that there was a problem of race in the town said later on you know what, maybe i was incorrect. because i didn t realize system of the stuff that was go ging on in the city, and