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Pass all kinds of laws designed to keep people from voting, but president johnson told my father, i can t do it, i used up all of my political power to get the civil rights act passed. so that day when my father walked out of the white house, people said, well, what are you going to do, dr. king, now? and he said, we gonna go back to the south to get him some power. now, i won t pretend that it was simple. people were beaten. some were killed. police turned dogs and fire hoses on peaceful marchers who just wanted to vote, but every day the voices got louder, the demonstrations got bigger, the reporters showed up in greater numbers, and the moral outrage grew. that s how the voting rights act happened, through the power of the people. and that is something we are seeing again today, the power of ....
He must have said at least ten times in the conversation, i agree with you doctor king. i just don t have the power. i agreed with the president. we came out and i said this, and he said no, and i said, well what are you going to do? he said we are going to get the president some power. we are going to get to the president some power. their idea to get the president some power was to organize a march from selma to montgomery and the rest is history. they world saw alabama state troopers beat peaceful marchers, including a 25-year-old jon there was, and chased them back over the bridge in selma. the televised violence beamed into the homes of americans later that night, helped a nation find its conscience and galvanized support for the passage of the voting rights act five months later. that was the power johnson ....
the night started peacefully but, as you saw, things got pretty tense. some demonstrators refuse to do leave and protesterswere unhappy with a judge s decision to acquit former st. louis police officer jason stockily in the 2011 shooting death of anthony lamar smith. cnn s ryan young was in st. louis as the violence started. reporter: we are on delmar boulevard. if you look behind me. you can see the heavy machinery behind me that the police brought in here. there is a bearcat. the officers in their riot gear. about 50% of the businesses are coming down delmar boulevard look like they suffered some sort of damage. the organizers told peaceful marchers to go home, but a half hour after that, we saw another group that decided to stay here. that started to build and there was a confrontation between police and those protesters. at this point, someone started throwing rocks and bottles at the officers and started breaking out windows of businesses. ....
The three presidedecessors. fundamentally, this is the biggest threat to international security facing the world right now. brian klaas, thank you. moving on now to the u.s. state of missouri. authorities have arrested nine more people during weekend protests against police violence. the demonstrations started when a former police officer was found not guilty of the murder of a shooting death of an african-american man back in 2011. ryan young has this report for us. reporter: we are on del mar boulevard. you can see behind me the heavy machinery the police brought in here. that s a baro-cat and officers in riot gear. about 50% of the businesses coming down del mar boulevard look like they ve suffered some kind of damage. we were standing in the crowd. look, the organizers told the peaceful marchers to go home. ....
Machinery that police brought in here, that is a bearcat and the officers in their riot gear. about 50% of the businesses are coming down del mar boulevard look like they suffered some sort of damage. we were standing in the crowd. and the organizers told the peaceful marchers to go home, but about a half hour after that, with that we saw another group that decided as to stay and there was a confrontation between police and those protestors. someone started throwing rocks and bottles. officers tried to arrest a few people and then it was total bedlam, people started running for their live, people are were pushed down, cars racing down the street and we saw officers advancing. at this point, you can see how they staged right here to make sure that that property damage should stop. i can tell you that there were some tense moments that were very scary here. thought it was going to to get is it out of hand. police got it back under control in about 30 minutes. ryan young, cnn, st. louis. ....