Antonio French: “My message when I was out there at the crime scene tonight was that St. Louis City is not Ferguson, OK? We handle things…”

If we let these neighborhoods fade into history, we aren’t just losing homes. We’re losing people, culture, community and a vital part of this city’s soul.

I think the present situation is a consequence of how the Ferguson police department handled it in the first place.

I think the next step here is to start healing somebody's wounds, start getting some of these folks especially in Ferguson involved politically and start getting representation in the government.

I hope that there is a tone here to come together because we want the violence to end on both sides, and what happened last night did not help anybody.