Previously on What Next.

Police shocked his boy off of my apartment.

Given everything that's happened tonight, what makes you think that the cops won't shoot us?

Why does it bother me so much that that particular story is the myth?

People have been too quiet too long in this area about the police violence.

I've never forgot that night. I'm telling you about it now, almost 20 years later.

You are teaching in Ferguson, right? And you live there too?

Yes, that is true. I taught at St. Louis Community College, the Floreson Valley campus, which is in Ferguson.

Back in 2014, Wesley Bell worked as a lawyer and a judge in St. Louis County.

He was teaching too. I mean, I read one accounting that you were sitting on your porch and you literally saw protesters go by.

Is that accurate?

Not a porch, but from the front door of the building that I was in.

From the beginning, Wesley took on a very specific role in Ferguson. He tried to be a peacemaker.

He started going to protests the day after Michael Brown was killed.

So just to kind of paint the picture, because this was the first time that this protest was really happening.

There were young kids there. Across the street, the police department, the police officers were barricaded in the police parking lot.

And the crowd, which some people were angry, obviously, we understand that.

And approaching the police department, and so several, there's about three or four of us. We stood in the middle.

We just knew if that crowd got to the police officers who were barricaded, that something bad was going to happen.

So we stood in the middle just to try and calm tensions and keep the peace. And fortunately, nothing happened that day.

But then there was the day after and the day after that.

Eventually, when a grand jury declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson after shooting Michael Brown, Wesley had to make a choice.

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