Previously on what next?

Police shocked this boy outside 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 never forgot that night.

Obviously, I'm telling you about it now, almost 20 years later. You are teaching in Ferguson, right? And you lived there, too?

Yes, that is true. I taught St. Louis Community College, the Florisson 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, like, sitting on your porch,

and you literally saw protesters go by.

Is that accurate?

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

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.

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