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Valuable. it could be a muzzle flash or dark spot but there's possibility always could have captured a person on foot or vehicle. so they're going to be looking at all of that stuff trying to piece it together. mostly what they need is help from the public. they need somebody to give them a tip, an eye witness to steer them in the right direction so they can get onto the shooter. >> absolutely. and that's a key right now because there are a lot of variables in deciding exactly who that shooter might be. but, again, we understand that there were protesters on the ground at the time. they were e...

You, the overall picture, would get the sense that citizens are happy, that changes are coming to the city but there does appear to be at least one individual who's hoping to take advantage of divisions there right now. >> caller: assumptions about who it is that actually is responsible for the shooting. listening to the police chief of st. louis county he also said we don't know who it is. we are looking for the person or persons who may be responsible for this. i can tell you, having spoken to some of the folks on the ground who i converse with quite often, including city officials. one of t...

Direction of the cops which myself and jennifer roller and an deand another crew from nbc affiliate were standing in line next to the cops and bullets went right past our heads there. >> and i heard you say earlier, brad, that you could see the muzzle fire. tell me about that. you were looking towards the hillside, is that correct? >> after the first gunshot went off, we heard -- it was like a firecracker, we looked into the direction of where the noise came from. and we saw the muzzle flash, flash of the muzzle -- we could clearly see the flash of the muzzle from our perspective down the hill...

Did you see anything like that? >> no i didn't where the gunshots were expected to have come from was behind me and i was up against the building. there was one freelance photojournalist right near the officers and said he turned around and saw a muzzle flash and heard bullets whipping past his head. >> john thank for making time for us this morning. i want to bring in francis rivera who has a detailed timeline. tape take us through it. >> we were able to get a clear understanding of what happened when from the news conference this morning from the st. louis county police chief. let's get star...

Would imagine it would be difficult. you're talking to 200 people out there. they're in dark corners. people say they saw the muzzle flash 125 yards up a hill in the darkness. clearly it's difficult. but i would say that the idea that there's a shooter among the protesters concerns the protesters as well. they're promoting militant nonviolence. i've been talking to the young organizers and protesters for the better part of seven months. none of them wish violence on the police. in this environment and going back to the doj report when they say that because of the culture within this department...