Marc Lamont Hill Blames Latest Ferguson Violence on Lack of ‘Resources’

WHITFIELD: “All right, good to see both of you gentlemen.”
ALEXANDER: “Good seeing you.”
WHITFIELD: “All right, so, Cedric, in a situation like this, you heard the alderman who said, there are people taking advantage of this protest, using this as cover, to carry out what unfolded. How do police prepare for large gatherings of people, at the same time anticipate any kind of volatility?” 
ALEXANDER: “Well, first of all, we've certainly got to allow people to exercise their constitutional right. And there's a population out there, Fredricka, that's doing that and they're doing in a way which we hope to be lawful. However, in the backdrop there somewhere is a population that is being violent. The gunfire and all those types of things that occurred last night are not acceptable. You heard from the attorney general. She's totally in opposition to violence being placed upon the citizen there and the police officers as well, too. But Ferguson, we have to note, is a community that is still in pain, a community that's still trying to heal and a lot of young people who still don't have a very good thought or relationship with the police. But, however, that does not excuse the fact you cannot harm people or put other people at risk. It's just not acceptable.” 
WHITFIELD: “And so -- and so, Marc, how do you go about separating the violence that erupted and the mission of the non-violent demonstrators who gathered to commemorate this one-year marking of Michael Brown's death?” 
HILL: “Well, I think the first thing we have to do is highlight the fact that the bulk of the resistance, the bulk of the protest, the bulk of the voices that you heard in Ferguson yesterday were positive, they were strong, they were defiant and they often engaged in acts of civil disobedience, but they were all within the boundaries of the law or within the boundaries of our ethical and moral rules. I was in Ferguson yesterday, actually. I was on the street of West Florissant until 5:00 a.m. I literally just got back to New York. And even then there were young people out there who, as Cedric said, were in pain. They were hurt. They were trying to figure this thing out. They were still trying to recover from last year. And I think it's important to highlight that as opposed to the one or two incident that we don't know about. And that's the other thing, we need to wait until we get full information about what these shootings were about. Yes, the police gave an account, but police accounts, particularly from Ferguson, have proven to be faulty all the time. I've been on the streets of Ferguson when police say that we're not shooting tear gas, as we're putting on gas masks because we're getting tar gassed. And so I can't believe the police account without evidence and some level of investigation.”