Antonio French: “This started on August, 9 with government overreaction to black youth and it continues. This not a war, there is no…”

I am. It's already a noticeable difference in tone. Really it has been the police presence, the heavy-handed presence which has escalated the situation and I think led to the violence each night.

I think it's big. You know, folks have lost so much faith in the local prosecutor and the local police department. That folks really want to see the federal government take a role in this. And by the attorney general coming himself, it…

But I do worry that the state of emergency called for by the governor has escalated the situation and has invited folks from other places to come under the belief that this is where the revolution is going to happen or something like that.

the system did not work. And, while it was careful to point out the faults of the young man who was killed, Anthony Smith, this officer also we need to agree was a bad cop.