The Blaze TV host Dana Loesch conducted an exclusive interview over the weekend with an armed private security guard who was contracted to protect local businesses in Ferguson, Missouri. "Joe" told Loesch that .

Look, I get that there are cops who are assholes. But these protesters are taking one bad experience or one bad cop and they're using that experience to judge all police officers – and that's not right. And they're getting involved in the protest, throwing rocks and stuff, because they've realized that this is their chance to basically harass cops without getting caught.

Loesch noted that there were complaints about the police resorting to riot gear, "but according to Joe, the whole truth was not reported on that score either":

Everyone is complaining that the police are being militarized, but they're not telling you everything. Last night, police were insulted, and that's going to happen. But people also threw rocks and bottles at them for nearly four hours. It started around 10pm, and it was nearly an hour later that reinforcements came out in the riot gear. They started out just as a peaceful presence and didn't respond until they were provoked.

About the shooting, Joe reported that he and another former soldier on the scene identified the "distinctive sound" of an AK-47 being fired. Afterward,"a line of about a hundred protesters basically pushed the police back out of their own crime scene. SWAT had to be called in to get the protesters out and for law enforcement to regain control of the crime scene."

Loesch mentioned that Missouri Governor Jay Nixon had still not issued an official statement, and Joe replied,

Our leadership is asinine. Any cop who is willing to talk about it will tell you how ridiculous it is. Governor Nixon is the reason that we had 2000 National Guard troops sitting at the airport while the city was burning. A lot of the soldiers were scared, and I get that: some of them were fresh out of boot.

Joe also declared that the violent protesters "really are enemies. There were fliers circulating all weekend with a schedule of events... that called for 'acts of civil disobedience' on Monday. Calling for people to disrupt an entire city, to cause that kind of widespread havoc, that's domestic terrorism."