NAACP President Calls Rioters and Looters in Ferguson ‘Young Practitioners of Democracy’

BROOKS: "Well, this issue is much bigger than liberal or conservatives. Here's what we are talking about. We are talking about our youth. Our children. Our sons and daughters. So if we believe that young people are our future. Then we have to stand with the young practitioners of democracy in the streets of Ferguson, in Missouri, in the streets of all this country who is simply saying, we as a country are better than this. We can do better than this. Michael Brown was not killed by the word 'victim.' He was killed by a bullet. A bullet that was fired by a police officer. I happen to believe that we can do a lot better than this. And what we have to do is focus on a couple of things. Number 1, the systemic reform of the justice system. Meaning, a national standard in the excessive use of force. A ban on racial profiling. The passage of a federal and racial profiling act. Reform of state and local place. We have models around the country. We have best practices around the country. The fact is, we've got to model our best practices and put those practices into place."