The judge has issued his ruling, he has issued a verdict of not guilty,
and in short that the state failed to meet its burden of proof.
What we saw happen in Ferguson after Michael Brown's death was reminiscent of
civil rights related violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
These protests do not have to become violent in order to be effective,
either politically, economically, or socially.
We depend on the justice system and they failed us.
It's your duty as an American to make the government function for you
when it's not functioning for you. Now what are we going to do are we going to cower down?
Or are we going to do our duty as Americans? They say I'm an American right? So let's do it.
It's my duty. It's everybody else's duty out here too.
Not to wait until it happens to their families.
They can't acknowledge even the smallest flaw.
If they acknowledge that, it's to admit so much more.
So they can't bend or break.
It's a fucked up situation, man. Because the black communities are criminalized
and people need to see that it's a systemic issue.
This isn't extraordinary to St. Louis at all. This is happening everywhere
People are angry and there's a lot of people that's enraged because of the verdict
and they're feeling as if there's no justice and so as a result of that,
many of them take to the streets and they express their anger.
So we're just encouraging folks to go ahead and let's start getting into our cars
cause' we just don't want no bullshit tonight.
People out here, not good why we out, but the fact that we got so much unity.
But y'all are gonna stop killing us. that's the only message we got.
There were two young men. They slammed them and they assaulted them.
We gotta file complaints. We're gonna follow through, we're gonna do all of that. So I need their names.
Okay, give me time to get that. We're very fluid right now, you understand that.
Got you. But I need that.
But I will be back in touch with you the second I can.
You do your job, we'll do ours.
Let's back it up though, okay?
Let's just deescalate this the any way we can.
Stop! Stop!
We here for justice. We not here to break heads. We not here for all that other drama.
We here to get this right. Because they got to stop killing us. That's why we're here.
I ain't mad at them. I don't hate them. I hate the system that they work for.
I'm out here because I'm not gonna let them just willfully kill one more.
Until we bridge some gaps, we ain't going nowhere.
I'm hopeful. I'm just being hopeful.
They know they fucked up. That's why they doing all this.
We tired of this shit, man. This shit over with.
They gonna keep doing this, they're gonna keep doing it and it ain't ever gonna stop.
It's gonna come to the point to where we don't want justice, we're gonna want a body.
Hands up! Don't Shoot!
We're not gonna give them what they want. Not gonna give them what they want.
They not gonna get what they want.
Nobody get locked up!
This walking through breaking windows is accomplishing nothing. Absolutely nothing.
It's just ignorance. The people that want something accomplished, all
left from in front of headquarters an hour ago. This here is just for ignorance.
Ignorance, Twitter, and Facebook likes. That's all this is for.
This is not helping anything.
My message to the people of Missouri tonight is that we're going to protect everyone's constitutional rights.
And we are not going to tolerate violence.
Disperse immediately!
This is no longer a lawful assembly.
You are ordered to disperse immediately.
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
You've got to bring the players to the table and say listen, "Let’s talk about this."
We gotta look at who we're putting in office. We've got to look at some laws being changed.
Because as it is right now, it's your word against their word.
And if the law doesn't change,
we'll be having these interviews for the next 20 years.