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Department said it didn't have enough evidence to charge officer darren wilson in the shooting of michael brown. it released a scathing report saying ferguson police discriminated against black residents. that's the background to what happened overnight. what happened overnight at the forefront of our mind. two officers in ferguson shot, in the hospital right now. joining us, chris king, the editorial director of "the st. louis american." we've spoken to you so many times. i wonder what your perspective is on what happened last night. we heard from the st. louis county police chief jon belmar ...

That community meet, talk and become partners and take this unfortunate incident of last night as an opportunity for them to join so moving forward healing can begin in that community. it is going to take time but it is possible. >> as you wellpoint out, and you know the history so well in that city as we all know, there is so much mistrust between especially the protesters and any law enforcement despite some of the resignations we've seen in the past day of the ferguson police chief, and we just heard that mistrust really from one of the eyewitnesss, one of the protesters who was there last ...

Witness. we know they'll investigate this crime seriously. depending on what the witness told them, they may have overreached on their claims. remember they said they had a bad time telling the bad guys in a protest crowd. that's when they're across the street from each other. this shooter was 125 yards away. they need a witness to connect it to the scene. otherwise they don't know this person was a protester other than someone who wanted to kill a cop. >> that's an interesting point. belmar did say i feel very confident that whoever did this, they were there for the wrong reason, but unfortun...

In many parts of america. that didn't change because of last night. we feel unsafe because police brutality remains real in america. the movement is -- >> the shooting that happened last night, do you feel -- are you now afraid that even those -- even if they're not a protester, not just the police, but someone else. >> i'm not afraid of the protesters. the protest community has been strong, remains strong. i hope this is not used as an excuse by police to be more aggressive with protesters on the heels of last night. that could be possible given belmar's comments immediately after the shootin...

I, like you, am hopeful to see what the investigation will show. it is not my belief it will show this is a protester. i think those comments by belmar were premature at best. i would highlight an attempt to defame the protest community, or discredit the protesters. the hill is nowhere near where protesters congregate, where they park. just like the shooting that happened in new york, it was this immediate attempt to link that shooter to the protests. that just wasn't the case there. again, i'm hopeful to see the fruit of an investigation. >> i want to ask you, as you noted, how many days you'...