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Historically the benefit of the doubt being given to the police department and the truth is they haven't earned the benefit of the doubt and that's a problem. >> let's talk about some of the protests, marc. do you think that we're going to see protests like the ones we saw over the michael brown shooting, or if indeed this victim was armed, does it change things? >> absolutely. i don't think the crowds in ferguson or the crowds in new york or the crowds that have grown internationally have been unreasonable. i don't think anyone has said if if a weapon is pulled on an officer, the officer does...

Country. let's talk more with host of "huff post live" marc lamont hill and also joined by boyce watkins founder of yourblackworld.com. good morning to both of you. marc, based on what we know so far, did the officer react the way he was supposed to, given the circumstances? >> again, with limited information that can be confirmed, it's hard to say. if there was a weapon that, changes the conversation. i think the concern for many is that there are peoplesay there was no weapon and the body cameras, which we expected to be a kind of light into darkness as it were wasn't on, which again is not ...

Today or last night, and it was handed off to him during his shift, and because of that, from talking to him briefly, he said that right when it was handed to him, he was doing something at the time, he clipped it somewhere in the car, he didn't put it on and the next thing you know you're here. i think it talks a little bit about sometimes the imperfection of some of the technology that we have, and the fact that we're not used to it all the time. >> reporter: so that's what we're hearing about the body camera, and again, many officers do have it. in this case it was not in use. what we have,...

And this might just be an aggravating factor, but you're not going to wish it away. you're not going to protest it away. these are things that communities have to really deal with at their roots. >> obviously, errol, there's a lot of anger about michael brown, who wasn't armed. in that surveillance video, you see the suspect raise a gun at the officer. i mean, do you think that that still warrants protests? you can see what went on at the gas station afterward. >> protests happen to are a lot of different reasons. not only michael brown but eric garner, eric garner was unarmed. michael brown w...

Throughout the st. louis area now have body cameras. . this particular case, randi, we understand the officer did have a body camera, but did not have it on at the time. however, what we're relying on now is the surveillance video, these pictures that show you exactly what happened. up until the point that it's frozen, and from what we're seeing right now, again, we see two men basically near that police car, kind of hard to see, it's up in the corner of the screen but we've certainly blown it up to show you as best we can these two people near the police officer, you can see one of the figure...