Re: Rioting In Ferguson (St. Louis), MO Following Police Shooting (08/11/2014)
Sen. McCaskill: "Embedded Among" Ferguson Protesters Are "A Group Of Instigators"
SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D-MO): First, the biggest problem we have right now is that the wonderful people of Ferguson, who want to be law-abiding, and by the way this isn't a community that had a high crime rate, in fact many of the surrounding communities had a higher crime rate than Ferguson. So the protesters have now been invaded by a group of instigators that want a confrontation with the police. They are seeking a confrontation with police.
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What started as a contested shooting of 18 year-old Michael Brown, has now been nudged into a full blown racial conflict in Ferguson, MO by Communists, the New Black Panthers and the DOJ (yes, you read that right, the US Department of Justice). Trayvon Martin didn’t get the job done, so the race hustlers have moved on to their next racial martyr to incite riots and violence and further the Progressive agenda.
Without a trial or facts entered into evidence… without Constitutional rights employed and innocent till proven guilty assumed… people who hate full time and want us at each others throats literally, have declared officer Darren Wilson guilty of state assassination (per the Rev. Jesse Jackson). The media have provided his name, address, phone number and email to the public and have done everything but draw a map to his front door — scratch that — visually they have drawn a map to his home. He can’t go there anymore. The lapdog media, aka the propaganda arm of the Obama Administration, is furthering mob rule and chaos. What a shock.
The scene from Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday night. A standoff with police. (Kenny Bahr photo)
Good, hard working people don’t understand why the police now are just standing there doing nothing. Armed to the teeth, they roll in like the military ready to quash riots. Bad, bad PR for the cops and certain leaders freaked out when cops arrested reporters and destroyed their recording equipment. Now, it seems like they have gone the other way and have bowed to political pressure to not intervene. They’ve been ordered to stand down. It’s one thing to protest what you consider to be a wrongful death at the hands of the police… it’s quite another to loot, steal and destroy for the hell of it. People protecting their homes and businesses would like to know why the police won’t just do their job:
The looters have supporters and instigators out en force. Enter the Communists, the New Black Panthers and the DOJ.
Last night in Ferguson, the New Black Panthers led a massive march of over a thousand people, chanting:
What do we want? – Darren Wilson How do we want him? – Dead
The DOJ is in the thick of all this. Within the group chanting for death to the aforementioned officer, is none other than the Civil Rights Division group known as the Community Relations Service. Think about that long and hard. They are calling for the death of an officer and inciting riots and violence. They are from our government and are here to help. I’ve actually seen pictures of Chief Jackson working with the New Black Panthers during all of this. I mean, what is he thinking?
From The Conservative Treehouse:
The CRS is there at taxpayer cost with all expenses paid for by the federal government. So ask yourself this: “why is Eric Holder allowing this type of racial animus”? Why isn’t the police or local law enforcement stopping these visible requests for the death of a public official?
The obvious answer is they agree with it. If they did not accept and agree with it, it would not be allowed.
This is the same thing that happened in 2012 at Fort Mellon Park in Sanford Florida.
Exactly right. And the martyrdom of Trayvon Martin continues, along with the long anticipated and yearned for race war that Leftists have been pushing for over several decades.
The New Black Panthers are the black equivalent of the KKK. They hate all white people and they have no problem with murdering adults and children alike. Looting was rampant and one person was shot last night (note: not by a cop). And although The Washington Postwent out of their Marxist little way to indicate how many bad guns were present, the seven people who were arrested last night were unarmed. And the New York Times couldn’t help themselves — they just had to blame white people. In point of fact, you should probably lay the blame on Progressives for creating these urban hellholes in the first place. The New Black Panthers warned of other revolutionary groups arriving as well:
From a local source in Ferguson: The New Black Panthers say, “We can not guarantee your safety.” – Three revolution groups are in town. They want absolute mayhem.
Communist groups such as the Revolution Club Chicago arrived early on and were the instigators of unrest. Now there are several reports that Chicago Communists and New Black Panther leaders have infiltrated the protest movement in Ferguson, Missouri. The News Commenterreported:
Here’s the inside scoop on the latest violence in St. Louis. There’s a lot of buzz on the ground about a communist group that was bussed into Ferguson from Chicago. They provoked the police with Molotov cocktails the night of August 13th while the local protesters peacefully protested. That’s when police responded with gas and flash grenades. Their reported goal is to make the protests go super-violent, spread across the region, and spark a revolution. They are said to visibly stand out from the local protesters in how they respond to police and intimidate reporters when photos and video are taken of them. Expect to hear more about this in the coming days. H/T Ed & Kenny
Fox News staffers uncovered more from Kweli’s Facebook page: “This is the hour all the greats promised. If you die, die like a warrior. I’ll see you on the ground.”
On Wednesday the group made a list of demands, along with other groups including the Nation of Islam and the Organization for Black Struggle. Part of the list mandates that the officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown on Saturday be fired and charged with murder.
On Friday morning the New Black Panthers made their presence felt by taking over a press conference scheduled for Ferguson’s Police Chief Tom Jackson. The group’s leader, Hashim Nzinga, grabbed the mic and ranted to the audience gathered there, criticizing President Obama, calling him a “Mau Mau” from Kenya, adding, “He need to go back to his roots and stop people from killing Africans in the streets.”
The Panthers is the same group that tried to stir up trouble in Sanford, Florida, following the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman back in 2012 when it announced a bounty of $10,000 for the capture of Zimmerman — “dead or alive” — resulting in Zimmerman going into hiding. When asked at the time why the party was deliberately inciting violence there, then-leader Mikhail Muhammad answered: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
These are the same thugs who intimidated voters during past elections. They are a tool of Marxists and Islamists and they are deadly.
From The Blaze:
When they took over, Chief Jackson left the area. What they should have done was take back control. This sets a bad precedent of the police backing down to violent thugs. You can bet all of this was a result of a call from Eric Holder. Eric Holder, who is now ordering a third autopsy of Brown, because he didn’t like the findings of the first two. Meanwhile, the New Black Panthers and their marchers are ignoring the imposed curfew and the place is one breath away from martial law.
You’ve got Communists and the New Black Panthers, along with race hustlers and our own DOJ ginning up violence in Ferguson. It’s their vision for all of America and they want to set the country on fire. We now have so many emergencies going on, from Amnesty to Ferguson… Iraq to the IRS/EPA… that Americans are overwhelmed. Just as was intended.
As one Chicago thug famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
Don’t have a nice crisis for your chaos party? No problem: the Communists and the New Black Panthers have your back. Just call 1-800-VIO-LENT, and they can bring your custom crisis & chaos right to your door. And you get the racial conflict at no extra charge. And who knows, they may even throw in martial law as an added bonus. Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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Posted on August 16, 2014 by sundance
Looks like Darren Wilson is getting the full Zimmerman treatment. This completes the circle of similarity as we predicted. In the video below you see Black Panter Leader Malik Shabazz leading the protest crowd in their chant: What do we want? Darren Wilson
How Do We Want Him ? DEAD
Here it becomes important to recognize what’s going on. Remember, this community asked for -and received- the DOJ intervening. Right now the Civil Rights Division is within the group doing the chant. Yes, that’s correct, the DOJ group known as the Community Relations Service are the actual marchers you are listening to and witnessing.
The CRS is there at taxpayer cost with all expenses paid for by the federal government. So ask yourself this: “why is Eric Holder allowing this type of racial animus”? Why isn’t the police or local law enforcement stopping these visible requests for the death of a public official?
The obvious answer is they agree with it. If they did not accept and agree with it, it would not be allowed.
This is the same thing that happened in 2012 at Fort Mellon Park in Sanford Florida. About these ads
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Re: Rioting In Ferguson (St. Louis), MO Following Police Shooting (08/11/2014)
Race Riot Romance
August 14, 2014 by Matthew Vadum111 Comments
Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of the book, "Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers."
The fatal police shooting of a young black suspect in a Midwestern town last weekend has given the Left yet another opportunity to advance its destructive, racially polarizing agenda.
After 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man was killed by police in Ferguson, a mostly black community in St. Louis County, Mo., the city and region surrounding it have been under siege. Not content to wait for the wheels of the justice system to spin, some view this tragedy as a license to riot.
Cries of “no justice, no peace” pierce the air as demonstrators hurl Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officials. Some say the police have been responding to the protesters and rioters with excessive force and have been mean by discouraging protests. Some blacks are reportedly randomly assaulting non-blacks as collective payback for what happened to Brown.
Looting and property destruction are rampant. Dozens of people have been arrested. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered aircraft to fly at least 3,000 feet over Ferguson airspace after police said their helicopters were fired on from the ground.
Witnesses give conflicting accounts of what happened to Brown. The young man was apparently walking in the street and then stopped by police. There was a scuffle over a policeman’s gun and Brown was shot. Local police are investigating as are federal officials and civil rights bureaucrats. Brown could ultimately be found to be a would-be murderer or a murder victim himself. Time will tell.
The name of the police officer who shot Brown has been withheld for the time being by police who quite justifiably fear for his safety.
All this unrest over the death of Brown seems selective, for lack of a better term.
By contrast, when James Boyd, a mentally disturbed, homeless, white man was fatally shot in the back by Albuquerque, N.M. police recently, there were some protests but no riots. In some circles, white victims are apparently less valuable than black victims.
Regardless of what he may say publicly, all this racially motivated anger and violence is fine by President Obama, an extreme-left community organizer by profession.
The Left tells Americans that racist whites kill black people all the time. Blacks just can’t take it anymore and now it’s time to burn down buildings and convenience stores, the false narrative goes.
Obama has been instrumental in crafting this narrative. The president wants racial communities and everyone else to be at everyone else’s throat because, as the now-familiar leftist adage goes, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
The Obama administration has used taxpayer resources in an effort to generate race riots. Eric Holder’s Department of Justice deployed government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Fla. after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin two years ago in order to foment racial tensions. Race riots benefit the Left, and in particular the Democratic Party, by riling up its staunchest voting bloc.
The Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within DoJ, sent taxpayer-funded political agitators to Sanford after 17-year-old Martin was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that Zimmerman, described by the media as a “white Hispanic,” be prosecuted. The pressure worked. Zimmerman was charged but later acquitted at trial.
Before anyone really has a good grasp of what transpired in the death of Michael Brown, the rabble-rousers of CRS may be on the ground in Ferguson right now demanding that the officer involved be railroaded and lynched.
Sanford wasn’t the first time President Obama used DOJ employees as his personal Alinskyite stormtroopers. Uniformed field representatives of the CRS also assisted the rape-prone activists of Occupy Wall Street and anarchist activists outside the Republican National Convention in Tampa in 2012.
At every turn of his entire political career Obama has been the instigator, promoter, and beneficiary of left-wing race hatred. It helped him move up the political ladder.
Fishing for votes, Obama injected himself and racial politics into the Zimmerman case during the last election cycle when he volunteered, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
In the Martin case, the Left employed more or less the same race-baiting messaging strategy that helped to inflame racial tensions in the aftermath of the tragic 2006 death of Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old black boy. After Anderson died during mandatory physical training at a Florida boot camp for young offenders, racial-grievance mongers and politicians claimed he was killed because of the color of his skin and demanded that criminal charges be laid. A racially diverse group of eight defendants (i.e. seven camp guards and a nurse) was eventually acquitted. The jury deliberated a mere 90 minutes after the three-week manslaughter trial.
To no one’s surprise, the race-baiting ambulance chasers of the fabulously wealthy Southern Poverty Law Center are already making money off the mob violence in Ferguson. The George Soros-funded group that sees as a major threat the nearly-dead remnants of the Ku Klux Klan that can barely afford scissors to cut holes in their bedsheets, doesn’t need the cash. This allegedly nonprofit organization reported a staggering $291.2 million in net assets for the year ended Oct. 31, 2013. The self-styled crusaders for social justice of the SPLC also reported having bank accounts in the tax havens of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
SPLC President Richard Cohen sent out a typically dishonest mass email to supporters last night with the subject line, “How many more innocents must die?”
“Our entire criminal justice system has mushroomed, in large part because certain politicians have made it a strategy to stoke fear among white people — fear about young black men,” Cohen writes. “Young men like Michael Brown — and their families — are paying the price.”
Setting aside for a moment the question of what Brown did or did not do that fateful night, Cohen ignores the fact that Americans in general, and not just “white people” in particular, have good reason to be afraid of young black males, unfortunately.
“[Y]oung black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S.,” African-American John McWhorter, an English professor and linguist at Columbia University, noted last year.
He continued:
Hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying “You get what you deserve, white boy’ (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch ‘for Trayvon’ (Mobile, Ala.).
[I]t’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.
McWhorter, by the way, is no conservative. He describes himself as “a cranky liberal Democrat … who supports Barack Obama, reviles the War on Drugs, supports gay marriage, never voted for George Bush and writes of Black English as coherent speech … ”
The Left must accept much of the blame for the growing epidemic of “knockout game” attacks by blacks on whites and for black violence generally. To leftists, violence committed by blacks is at best a political statement, and at worst a cry for help from the oppressed. The victims are irrelevant and if blacks get killed or captured by police in the process of committing criminal acts they are martyrs or supposed political prisoners like cop-killer Mumia abu Jamal.
The Left has been organizing in poor black communities for decades, not in an effort to improve anyone’s plight, but to get blacks to rise up against free enterprise and the American system.
These leftists have enjoyed spectacular success. Apart perhaps from crazed, drunken college sports fans, what group in society riots the most? When was the last time you heard of an Asian-American riot or a Jewish-American riot or an Italian-American riot?
Sociopathic radicals like Van Jones, Jesse Jackson Sr., Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Richard Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven have been agitating in inner cities for decades, doing everything they can to push blacks to violently revolt.
Cloward, who died in 2001, and his wife Piven objectified blacks, viewing them as cannon fodder in a fifth-column assault on America. They wanted blacks to remain miserable, docile, poor, and angry in black ghettos where left-wing community organizers could easily sacrifice their lives at will, as I wrote in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
In a particularly odious essay titled, “The Case Against Urban Desegregation,” these apostles of depravity wrote, “If the African American is to develop the power to enter the mainstream of American life, it is separatism—not integration—that will be essential to achieve results in certain institutional arenas.” The black American would be better off “consolidating his power within the central city” in order to “have some impact on the environment of the ghetto itself.” Blacks have to “organize as a bloc.” Achieving “effective separatist power” would not be accomplished by arguing “the ghetto must be dispersed.”
It is no secret that radicals want blacks to hate the police because it makes it easier to fan the flames of discontent. The leftist narrative is that the police are “pigs,” the armed wing of the white capitalist class that oppresses poor blacks. Cops are legitimate targets in the radicals’ war against what Sixties radicals called “AmeriKKKa.”
Echoing a sentiment expressed by Bolshevik barrister William Kunstler—defender of the Chicago Seven antiwar protesters, accused of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention— Piven wrote separately in 1972 that growing numbers of poor blacks viewed police officers as a kind of “army of occupation in the ghetto.”
Piven herself argued that this perception of police-as-invaders was a wonderfully useful thing and that it should be encouraged in order to move the leftist counter-revolution forward. Left-wingers like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and President Obama’s cabinet think otherwise, regard looting not only as an honorable exercise in redistributionism but also as a legitimate form of political protest.
Today’s violent cop-hating demonstrators in Ferguson have an ideological lineage stretching back at least to Cloward and Piven and other race-baiting radicals.
Even worse, you have been subsidizing this civil unrest for the last half century. Under the leftist-designed War on Poverty, the federal government has been handing out taxpayers’ money since 1965 to so-called community groups in order to encourage them to agitate against the status quo.
No doubt President Obama will find a way to funnel obscene quantities of taxpayer money to his friends in the radical community before he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.
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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said he was 'thunderstruck' by images he saw of police forces responding to protests in Ferguson after the shooting of teenager Michael Brown as the midnight to 5am curfew enters its second night.
Residents in Ferguson have been holding demonstrations every night since the 18-year-old was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson.
Nixon blames local police for the flare-ups, saying their release of images showing Brown robbing a convenience store had an 'incendiary effect'.
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Shooting victim: This image shows the man who was shot in the early hours of Sunday morning after a small crowd failed to disperse after midnight, the state-imposed curfew. Police are searching for the shooter
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'Thunderstruck': Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ronald Johnson (left) and Governor Jay Nixon answer questions during a news conference at Greater St. Mark Family Church Saturday
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Over-militarization: Demonstrators protest Michael Brown's murder August 16 in Ferguson. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ronald Johnson imposed a 12am curfew for demonstrators continuing to protest the the killing of Brown, who was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson
'When you release pictures and you clearly are attempting to besmirch a victim of a shooting, shot down in his own street, a young man, and at the same time you're releasing information...to tarnish him, then properly, there was a lot of folks that were concerned about that, and I do think it flamed it back up and has caused us to have to deal with some of that,' Nixon said on Face the Nation.
Nixon, speaking to ABC News' Martha Raddatz on This Week on Sunday, said the sight of police in riot gear with armored tanks led to his decision to replace the local police force with highway patrol.
The measure had a calming effect at first, but last night saw one man shot and seven arrested after resisting the curfew order. A picture has emerged of the young man lying wounded on the ground.
'All of us were thunderstruck by the pictures we saw,' Nixon said.
'I mean, the over-militarization... the guns pointed at kids in the street, all of that I think instead of ratcheting down, brought emotion up.'
'Policing is something where you are involved with the community if it’s succeeding. And in those situations where folks are rolling up heavily armored and they’re pointing guns at folks, that’s impossible to have a dialogue. There are times when force is necessary, but we really felt that that push at that time was a little aggressive, obviously, and those images were not what we were trying to get to,' he said.
Nixon also imposed a midnight to 5am curfew in a bid to curtail violent clashes and allow local residents to rest.
Police on Saturday night used smoke and tear gas on protestors who ignored the midnight curfew, the Associated Press reported. At least seven people were arrested, and another man was shot and critically wounded.
Officers are seeking the person who shot the critically-wounded victim after the 12am-5am curfew took hold - eight days after Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead by police.
It's not clear who fired the shot, but Nixon has said no officer fired their guns during the protest.
A church service for Michael Brown will be held by his family and attended by speakers including Jesse Jackson this afternoon. Scroll down for video
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On the move: People run as police start to fire tear gas at a crowd when they remained on the street after a midnight curfew in Ferguson, Missouri
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Masks: Law enforcement officers wait to advance after firing tear gas to disperse a crowd protesting the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri
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Masked demonstrators protest against the shooting of Brown by holding up signs on the streets of Ferguson
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Tensions: A demonstrator stands near a cloud of tear gas after police fired the it at protesters in Ferguson
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Riot-hit area: People defy a curfew early on Sunday morning before smoke and tear gas was fired to disperse a crowd protesting the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri
Police said their strong response came after people broke into a restaurant and took position on the roof overlooking officers, while another man flashed a handgun as armored vehicles approached.
Some 200 defiant protesters remained on the streets of Ferguson last night after the curfew took effect - and a first photograph emerged showing the officer who gunned down Brown.
As midnight arrived people remained on the corner of Canfield Drive and West Florissant Avenue in the St Louis suburb, shouting and screaming despite calls for then to go home.
A man walked past and pulled up his T-shirt so it showed off a gun stuffed into his shorts in a warning to get out. At 12.30am the lines of police on both sides pulled back and reinforcements arrived.
Dozens of heavily armed officers with batons, shields, helmets, assembled in grid formation. SWAT vans came down the hill with cops on the top with assault rifles.
Over a loudspeaker they told the crowd they were in violation of the curfew and would be 'subject to arrest and or other actions'. The small army with around 100 Swat officers slowly advanced as a Molotov cocktail flared up in the crowd.
At 12.45am all the officers put on gas masks and the first of at least five volleys of tear gas, 18 shots in total, was sent into the crowd, causing them to scatter.
'There's no police, said one store owner guarding his business. 'We trusted the police to keep it peaceful; they didn't do their job.'
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Making their point: Some demonstrators stood with their hands up early on Sunday morning, the emblematic pose used by many protesters to characterize the position witness have said Brown had assumed when he was fatally shot
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Hands up: As midnight arrived a crowd were on the corner of Canfield Drive and West Florissant Avenue in the St Louis suburb in Missouri, shouting and screaming at the night despite calls for then to go home
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A law enforcement officer watches as tear gas is fired to disperse a crowd protesting the shooting of Brown
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On guard: Dozens of heavily armed officers with batons, shields, helmets, assembled in grid formation. Swat vans came down the hill with cops on the top with assault rifles
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Clashes: Police fire tear gas at demonstrators protesting the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown after they refused to honour the midnight curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, early this morning
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Police officers gather on West Florissant Avenue in attempts to disperse a group of 200 protesters
Police slowly advanced using search lights to check buildings on the side of the road - officers said they feared that the protesters had gone to the sides and that they might open fire.
At 1.30am around 18 shots could be heard going off to the east of West Florissant. Journalists were kept back well behind police lines so it was not possible to see what was going on on the front line.
Chants of 'no justice, no curfew,' rang out taunting police. Officers spoke through a loudspeaker: 'You are in violation of a state-imposed curfew. You must disperse immediately. Failure to comply, may result in arrest.
Some demonstrators stood with their hands up, the emblematic pose used by many protesters to characterise the position witnesses have said Brown had assumed when he was fatally shot.
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Defiant: Hundreds of demonstrators flouted the midnight curfew and continued chanting and taunting police in rain-drenched Ferguson
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Escalation: Police in riot gear are seen preparing to move on protesters who are in violation of the midnight curfew
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A turn for the worse: Armoured trucks were brought in to disperse defiant activists in Ferguson
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Drive-by demonstration: Protesters hang out of a car as they honk their horn and chant
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Bracing for the worst: The atmosphere was tense yesterday with dozens of police wearing riot gear lining each side of West Florissant Avenue
By 2am the police had advanced to just to the north of the QuikTrip convenience store which burned down during the first day of rioting.
The operation wrapped up at 2.20am, leaving the street empty and quiet. An officer at the scene said that there had been 'under a dozen' arrests and that one protestor had been shot.
Shouts could be heard from behind police lines but it wasn't clear how many protesters had been penned in. Chanting could be heard coming from the site of where Brown died to the East. 'You are in violation of a state-imposed curfew. You must disperse immediately. Failure to comply, may result in arrest' Police, speaking through loudspeaker
A heavily armed cop who was smiling as he walked back from the front line was asked how it was going. He said: 'Oh, it's going'.
The angry clashes and scenes straight out of a war-zone came after another day of dramatic developments in Ferguson over the shooting of Brown.
Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, who has been identified as the law enforcement official who shot the teen, was pictured for the first time in a report yesterday. Yahoo News published the photograph of Officer Wilson on their homepage in a report detailing his February commendation for 'extraordinary effort in the line of duty'.
Officer Wilson is now on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation into the shooting. The photo of the 28-year-old was, according to the report, originally posted on Facebook by his father, John Wilson.
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Big presence: Police officers stand by the 911 Hair Salon that was looted during last night's protest
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Chaos: As officers put on gas masks, a chant from the distant crowd emerged: 'We have the right to assemble peacefully'
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Five armoured tactical vehicles approached the crowd and officers ordered the people to go home
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Ferguson police officer: Darren Wilson, 28, seen in a photo released by Yahoo! News receiving a commendation for 'extraordinary effort in the line of duty' in February has been named as the police officer who shot Brown
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Slain in broad daylight: This image provided by KMOV-TV shows investigators inspecting the body of Brown on August 9, where he was shot in Ferguson. Brown's death has ignited days of clashes with furious protesters
'Very proud of my son, Darren Wilson on his receiving a commendation from his Police Department,' Mr Wilson wrote on February 11. 'Congratulations, son.'
Amid violent protests raging over his son's killing of Brown, Mr Wilson took to Facebook asking his friends for support without mentioning the officer by name.
'Dear FB [Facebook] friends, our family is in need for prayers to be sent up for a family member,' Mr Wilson wrote. 'Circumstances do not allow for us to say anything further. 'You saw people sitting in the street and they had the chance to get up. And that's how it's going to continue' Captain Ron Johnson, Missouri State Highway Patrol
'Please pray with our family in mind. Put a covering of protection over our family member please.'
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said on Friday that Officer Wilson was devastated, and that he never meant for it to happen.
He said Officer Wilson encountered Brown and another man on the street during a routine patrol. A confrontation ensued and Officer Wilson fatally shot Brown.
Addressing the volatile situation in Ferguson yesterday, the Governor of Missouri declared a state of emergency and imposed a five-hour curfew.
He praised the people who have exercised their First Amendment right to protest peacefully and those who 'stood up against violent instigators.'
Calling Friday night's looting 'unacceptable,' Jay Nixon said the town must not allow 'the ill-will of a few to undermine the goodwill of the many.'
Nixon also said the US Department of Justice is increasing the size of its investigation of the shooting.
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State of emergency: Missouri Governor Jay Dixon speaks at a press conference yesterday in Ferguson
Governor declares state of emergency and imposes curfew
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On high alert: Police officers stand in position as they watch demonstrators protest Brown's killing
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Diamond Smith leads chants as people protest the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson yesterday
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The law: Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson walks among demonstrators yesterday as people continue waving signs and chanting
Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who is in charge of security in Ferguson, said there were 40 FBI agents going door-to-door talking to people who might have seen or have information about the shooting.
Governor Nixon and Captain Johnson spoke at a church in Ferguson, where they were interrupted repeatedly by people demanding justice and objecting to the curfew.
Nixon was speaking at a chaotic and ill-tempered press conference during which he was repeatedly heckled, with members of the public demanding to know why Officer Wilson had not been indicted for the shooting of Michael Brown.
Captain Johnson assured those in attendance that police would communicate with protesters and give them ample opportunity to observe the curfew.
'You saw people sitting in the street and they had the chance to get up,' he said. 'And that's how it's going to continue.' 'All of this is just building up - pent-up aggression by being mistreated on a daily basis' Keyon Watkins, computer science worker
Despite heavy rainfall and lightning, hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday night at a busy thoroughfare that has been the site of previous clashes with police. Scores of officers, a much more visible presence than the night before, stood watch - including some with shields.
Members of various black community groups were urging people to abide by the curfew, which runs from midnight to 5am today.
A woman from the New Black Panther Party walked the street telling the crowd: ‘Please, please be out of the area by 12 o'clock.’
Some responded to her pleas by cursing at police, while others acknowledged they planned to leave.
But Keyon Watkins, a 26-year-old computer science worker from St Louis, said that if many others stay in the street, he would join them.
‘All of this is just building up - pent-up aggression by being mistreated on a daily basis,’ Mr Watkins said.
Darrell Alexander, 57, a registered nurse from nearby Florissant, Missouri, worried last night that the curfew might spur anger and more violence.
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Tough question: Kelly Berry protests with a sing in her hands along Florissant Avenue yesterday
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Shielded: Police in riot gear with shields in their hands stand watch, ready to enforce the midnight-to-5am curfew
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Remembered: A demonstrator carries a picture of Michael Brown in a graduation cap and gown yesterday
‘I think it's an antagonistic decision to not allow people to express their freedom of speech. It's an overreaction,’ he said.
By 10pm with two hours until the curfew the atmosphere was tense with dozens of police wearing riot gear lining each side of West Florissant Avenue, where the protests had been taking place all day.
Protesters drove up and down and screamed abuse at the cops or eyeballed the officers as they walked past.
'They got a plan to gas us by midnight and we're gonna go home by midnight and go to church in the morning' Malik Shabazz, Black Lawyers for Justice
Malik Shabazz, the head of Black Lawyers for Justice, who has spearheaded efforts to control the protesters among the community, walked up and down with a bullhorn imploring the crowd of 1,000 to go home.
He said: 'They got a plan to gas us by midnight and we're gonna go home by midnight and go to church in the morning'.
Governor Nixon's curfew announcement came after tensions again flared in Ferguson late Friday night, just hours after Officer Wilson was named as the shooter.
The officer has been accused by witnesses of shooting the youth even though he had his hands up.
Ferguson police only disclosed his name after coming under intense pressure and facing lawsuits by civil liberties groups.
Wilson currently lives in Crestwood, a suburb of St Louis which is 94 per cent white and 1.6 per cent black.
His house is a $180,000 (£110,000) bungalow with a pool and a basketball hoop in the drive on a sleepy street in a neighbourhood that one resident described as 'solidly middle class'. BILLIONAIRE CO-FOUNDER OF TWITTER JOINS PROTESTERS IN FERGUSON AND LIVE-TWEETS DEMONSTRATION AS CURGEW GOES INTO EFFECT
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey pictured with fellow demonstrators in Ferguson yesterday
Twitter co-founder and St Louis native Jack Dorsey joined the protesters in Ferguson yesterday, live-tweeting the rain-soaked demonstration.
An hour before the curfew imposed Saturday by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon went into effect, the 37-year-old billionaire described in detail the situation on the ground in the St Louis suburb, which has been rocked by violent protests following the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown at the hands of a white police officer.
'Streets are emptying and questing,' Mr Dorsey wrote from his @Jack account to his 1.6million followers.
Over the course of the last 24 hours, Mr Dorsey, whose net worth hovers around 1.9billion, posted dozens of tweets and 6-second Vine videos showing scenes from the rallies and marches taking place in Ferguson.
‘Feels good to be home. I'll be standing with everyone in Ferguson all weekend #HandsUpDontShoo,’ the California-based tech mogul tweeted late on Friday as protests in Ferguson turned violent.
Mr Dorsey was also on hand for Friday’s march to the site of Brown's shooting organized by Reverend Jesse Jackson.
‘We're here. My whole family! And @2000F,’ Dorsey posted, referring to the Twitter handle of Square co-founder Jim McKelvey.
Mr Dorsey's frequent updates and videos posted through the Twitter-owned video-sharing site Vine followed people in the crowd holding up signs, chanting, playing the drums and raising their hands in the air.
He also documented a meeting between the protesters and Missouri State Highway Patrol Ron Captain Johnson - a man the Twitter co-founded called an 'amazing and disarming leader.' Source: AFP
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The morning after: Voluteers help the owners of Sam's Meat Market clean up after their business was looted during another night of rioting following protests over the shooting death of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson
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Community feeling: Business owner Ibrahim Rammaha gets a hug from Mary Moore while he tries to clean the damage to his store after it was looted during another night of rioting
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Boarded up: The store where Brown allegedly stole a box of cigars is boarded up the morning after a night of looting
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Solidarity: The Reverand Al Sharpton addresses a group gathered at the House of Justice yesterday in New York. Rev Sharpton addressed what he called a 'smear campaign' against Ferguson shooting victim Brown
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No end in sight: People look at a memorial erected on the site where teenager Brown was shot in Ferguson after a night of clashes between police and protesters
The property backs onto a church which reads: 'When our dream roads take strange turns'.
Officer Wilson's mother Tonya died when he was just 16.
What effect that had on him at that age is unclear, but it appears that he bounced around the St Louis area at a number of addresses and met a girlfriend called Ashley Brown.
Between 2000 and 2004 he attended St Charles West High School where former classmates remembered him as a good hockey player.
Jake Shepard wrote on Facebook: 'He is the nicest guy in the world! He has the biggest heart. He really does.
'Nobody is ever going to know what really happened, but I can say with certainty that the officers intentions were pure. He is one of those cops that make you appreciate law enforcement.'
At the age of 22, Officer Wilson signed up to join the police. At Officer Wilson’s current home, neighbors are concerned that rioters would come and wreck the street if they found out where he lived.
A female school teacher told MailOnline: ‘Our neighborhood didn't do anything wrong. I'm worried people are going to come up here and start looting.
'They just moved in and seemed like nice people. Things are pretty quiet round here'.
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Seeking peace: Young women hold signs during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after Brown was shot dead by a police officer
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Hands up: Adrian and his cousin hold a 'Hands Up Don't Shoot' sign during the Brown protests in Ferguson
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Take to the streets: In the days since Brown's death, locals in Ferguson have been protesting the crime
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Night of confrontations: Police shot pepper spray, smoke, gas and flash grenades at protestors before retreating. Several businesses were looted as the county police sat nearby with armored personnel carriers
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Military tactics: A man holds a tear gas canister fired by police officers during a demonstration to protest against the shooting of Brown in Ferguson
Officer Wilson, who has a licence for hunting and for fishing, has a metal American flag in his front lawn and small couch sits on the porch, suggesting that he likes to relax out the front of his house during the warm summer nights.
Nobody answered at the door when MailOnline visited. A husband and wife in their 60s who had lived in the neighbourhood for many years said that it was full of respectable people.
The man said: 'Crime is not really an issue around here. The biggest thing we have to worry about is the occasional party from teenagers but we don't have any at the moment’
He spent four years with the Ferguson police department and two previous years in the Jennings district, NBC's Tom Winter reported.
Neighbors told USA Today that Officer Wilson was 'tall and slim' and was often seen walking his dog.
Another neighbor, Ron Gorski, told USA Today: 'He's a young guy. 'Things happen and it's a complicated situation. I feel for the family and the entire country.'
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson said the shooting had been 'devastating, absolutely devastating' to Officer Wilson, adding: 'We had no complaints about the officer. He was a gentleman. A quiet officer. He has been an effective officer.'
Anger spurred by Brown's death boiled over again Friday night when protesters stormed into a Missouri convenience store - the same store that Brown was accused of robbing - and several other local businesses.
Few looters: Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery describes the scene in Ferguson in the early hours of the morning
Peaceful protesters: Los Angeles Times reporter Matt Pearce was also tweeting his followers from the scene
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Show of force: A convoy of armored personnel carriers carrying county police arrive after Missouri State Highway Patrol officers were taunted by demonstrators
The police response to protesters has been criticized for using military tactics such as tear gas and rubber bullets, and early yesterday morning, St Louis County police were ordered to stand down around 1am by the Missouri Highway Patrol, who took over policing of the protests with Captain Johnson, who is black, at the helm.
City Alderman Antonio French who was on the scene trying to calm the crowd, tweeted that as police were driving away, they shot tear gas into the crowd, further inciting the protesters to anger.
The clashes divided protesters, with a small group apparently responsible for the looting and destruction, and a much larger crowd peacefully banding together to stop them.
Among the stores looted were a beauty supplies shop and a Domino's Pizza. The owners of the beauty store say they will not reopen.
Many witnesses at the scene described the protesters who were protecting the stores from the looters.
'Hundreds in the streets. Only a few dozen attempting to loot. Dozens more physically trying to prevent,' tweeted Wesley Lowery.
At the same news conference in which Officer Wilson was named, Chief Jackson released documents alleging that Brown stole a $48.99 (£30) box of cigars from a convenience store called Ferguson Market and Liquor, then strong-armed a man on his way out.
Just before midnight, some in what had been a large and rowdy but mostly well-behaved crowd broke into that same small store, and began looting it, according to Captain Johnson.
Looting and protests for an 6th night over shot black teen
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Like a war zone: A protester walks through clouds of smoke on the streets of Ferguson, as the town once again erupted into fighting between police and demonstrators furious at the shooting of a young man
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Defiant: Armed-to-the-teeth police have tried to put the town of 21,000 on lockdown over the past week
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Resistance: The protester throws a grenade back at police after a brief clash in Ferguson on Friday night
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Peaceful protesters: People stand in front of Ferguson Market & Liquor convenience store to protect it from looters
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News: Cameramen film protesters standing in front of the shop, which had been fortified with chipboard
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Opportunist: Masked men carry items from the liquor store, during on-going demonstrations against police
Some in the crowd began throwing rocks and other objects at police, Captain Johnson said. One officer was hurt, but details on the injury were not immediately available.
Captain Johnson added that police backed off to try and ease the tension. He believes looting may have spread to a couple of nearby stores. No arrests were made.
'We had to evaluate the security of the officers there and also the rioters,' Captain Johnson said. 'We just felt it was better to move back.'
Meanwhile, peaceful protesters yelled at the aggressors to stop what they were doing. About a dozen people eventually blocked off the front of the convenience store to help protect it.
Andy Banker, a local news reporter, reported that the St. Louis police department only documented the looting five hours after the break-in, and that the store owners are 'furious' as a result.
Brown's death had previously ignited four days of clashes with furious protesters.
Tensions eased on Thursday after Governor Nixon turned oversight of the protests over to the Missouri Highway Patrol.
Gone were the police in riot gear and armored vehicles, replaced by the new patrol commander who personally walked through the streets with demonstrators.
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Demonstrators attempt to stop masked individuals from entering a store that had been broken into
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Masked individuals carry items out of another shop in the chaos which has accompanied the nightly protests
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A looter escapes with items from Feel Beauty Supply on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson on Saturday
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Demonstrators block traffic along West Florissant Avenue to protest the shooting and death of Brown
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Demonstrators gather at the burned out and looted Quick Trip gas station as running battles with police go on
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Chaos: Smoke from a tire burnout rises over protestors on West Florissant Avenue during a tense demonstration
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Rage: Protesters chase away a police vehicle as the demonstration is beginning to take a violent turn
POLICE OFFICER WHO SHOT MICHAEL BROWN WON DEPARTMENT AWARD
The officer who shot Michael Brown won a commendation for 'extraordinary effort in the line of duty' in February, it has been revealed.
Darren Wilson, 28, was nowhere to be seen at his white middle class home in the suburb of Crestwood where he moved just a year ago.
It was claimed he had left the single-story brick home 'days ago'. No one answered the door when MailOnline knocked on the door and there were two or three police cars parked outside.
Neighbors told USA Today that he was 'tall and slim' and was often seen walking his dog.
Another neighbor, Ron Gorski, told USA Today: 'He's a young guy. Things happen and it's a complicated situation. I feel for the family and the entire country.'
Officer Wilson, who is on paid administrative leave, won a commendation for 'extraordinary effort in the line of duty' in February, according to NBC's Tom Winter.
He has spent four years in Ferguson and two previous years in the Jennings district, said Mr Winter.
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson said the shooting had been 'devastating, absolutely devastating' to Officer Wilson, adding: 'We had no complaints about the officer. He was a gentleman. A quiet officer. He has been an effective officer.'
According to public records, his mother died in 2002. Officer Wilson has a sister and a half-brother.
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On the ground: The lifeless body of Brown lies in Ferguson. The clothing appears to match that of a suspect in a convenience store robbery that happened minutes before
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American Spring? Now Egypt puts the boot in as it urges U.S. authorities to 'exercise restraint' in dealing with Missouri riots
Egypt says it will be 'closely following' escalating race riots in Ferguson
Foreign Ministry urged U.S. to practice caution in dealing with protesters
Words echo language used by Washington to caution Cairo last year
Obama told Egypt restraint was needed in dealing with Islamist protesters
By John Hall for MailOnline
Published: 07:43 EST, 19 August 2014 | Updated: 07:49 EST, 19 August 2014
Egypt has taken the unusual step of urging the U.S. to exercise restraint in dealing with racially charged demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri.
Echoing language Washington used to caution the Cairo government as it cracked down on Islamist protesters last year, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said it was 'closely following' the escalation of violent protests following the shooting dead by police of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
It is highly unusual for Egypt to criticise such a major donor, and it was not immediately clear why the government would have taken such a step at this stage.
The development came as ISIS militants used social media to encourage protesters in Ferguson to embrace radical Islam and fight against the U.S. government.
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Tense: Police attempt to control demonstrators protesting in Ferguson, Missouri last night. Officers shot smoke and tear gas in to the crowd in order to disperse furious demonstrators after they became unruly
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Resembling a war zone: Heavily armed police attempt to control demonstrators protesting the killing of teenager Michael Brown
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Making a statement: Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (left) has taken the unusual step of urging the U.S. Preisdent Barack Obama (right) to exercise restraint in dealing with demonstrations in Ferguson
Ties between Washington and Cairo were strained after Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters following the army's ousting of freely elected President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
Western allies have voiced concern about the democratic credentials of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief who toppled Mursi and went on to win elections.
The United States has, however, continued to provide military and other support to Cairo.
In a statement released today, however, Egypt's Foreign Ministry's urged the U.S. government to exercise restraint when dealing with the Ferguson protesters.
The wording of the statement read similarly to a message issued by Barack Obama's administration in July 2013, when the White House 'urged security forces to exercise maximum restraint and caution' in dealing with demonstrations by Morsi supporters.
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Turn of events: Echoing language Washington used to caution the Cairo government as it cracked down on Islamist protesters last year (pictured)
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Comparison: A member of the Egyptian security forces speaks to a woman holding a stick as he helps clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi amid protests in Cairo last year
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As officers sat with guns pointed atop armored vehicles, the authorities used LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) crowd control systems to send out a painful noise to try and disperse the crowd
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Anger: A demonstrator reacts during a protest on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson after police fired tear gas in his direction
Egypt today said it was 'closely following the escalation of protests' in Ferguson, which began after the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old black teenager Michael Brown by white policeman Darren Wilson, 28, on August 9.
Nine days of violent protests have since taken place, with demonstrators shooting at police at officers criticised for a 'heavy handed' effort to disperse the crowds.
Human Rights Watch said in a report last week that Egyptian security forces systematically used excessive force against Islamist protesters after Morsi was ousted in 2013.
Egypt said the report was 'characterised by negativity and bias'.
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Violence: The jihadists and their sympathisers in the West have taken to Twitter to send messages of support to hundreds of demonstrators taking part in a ninth night of angry protests in Ferguson (pictured)
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A lone man walks in front of police lines in Ferguson as 31 people are reported to have been arrested
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Demonstrators have once again taken to the streets of Ferguson with their faces covered to protect against tear gas attacks by police
News of Egypt's intervention in the protests come as ISIS militants and their supporters used social media to encourage demonstrators to embrace radical Islam and fight against the U.S. government.
Jihadists in Syria and Iraq and their sympathisers in the West have taken to Twitter to send messages of support to hundreds of demonstrators taking part in a ninth night of angry protests.
The militants' tweets denounce local officers for the way they have attempted to quell the violence, make reference to historic acts of police brutality, and even use the hashtag #FergusonUnderISIS in an attempt to get angry young men in the city to declare allegiance to the Islamist group.
Additionally, footage purportedly taken from the scene of the Ferguson protests appeared to show one demonstrator marching along a street holding a sign reading 'ISIS is here'.
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'Chilling': Footage purportedly from a CNN live stream of the protests appeared to show one young demonstrator marching along a street holding a sign reading 'ISIS is here'
Salena Zito - a political columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper - described as 'chilling' the footage of a Ferguson demonstrator purportedly holding an ISIS banner while standing behind a CNN reporter
One ISIS sympathiser calling himself Mujahid Miski, who claims to be from Minneapolis–Saint Paul but suggests he is now based in 'the horn of Africa', has led the campaign to encourage those taking part in the protests to embrace radical Islam.
In one message he tweets: 'So how is democracy treating you guys? #FergusonUnderIS #Ferguson.
He adds: 'I thought u guys back in #Ferguson were supposed to be Free & that u had equal rights. I'd really like to know what changed? #FergusonUnderIS'.
Miski goes on to retweet dozens of messages by a Twitter user with the handle @AmreekiWitness, who claims to monitor and support the growth of radical Islam in the U.S..
Threat: One Twitter user with the handle @AmreekiWitness, who claims to monitor the growth of radical Islam in the U.S., has led the calls for Ferguson protesters to embrace ISIS' brutal branch of radical Islam
Encouragement: Amreeki Witness' Twitter messages focus on the treatment of black people in the U.S. and urge angry young black men to take up Islamic extremism
National Guard called in after week of chaos in Ferguson
Amreeki Witness' messages focus on the treatment of black people in the U.S., praise Malcolm X for embracing Islam and urge angry young black men to take up the religion as it means the police 'will fear you'.
In one message Amreeki Witness mocks the curfew police have imposed in Ferguson to bring an end to the disorder, saying: 'We IS guys hate you for your freedom, eh? Just like that freedom uplifting curfew in #Ferguson? Wake up, or they'll never let you outside.'
As the social media campaign began to take hold, with dozens of radical Islamists commenting on the Ferguson protests, Amreeki Witness tweeted: 'May be time to organize the Muslims in America upon haqq and mobilize to #Ferguson. Defend the oppressed, start jihad here.'
The message attracted a large response, with one Islamist calling himself Amarka Al-Ahlam responding: 'Preach, brother. We must organize brigades in preparation for the oncoming storm. #FergusonUnderIS #JihadinFerguson.'
New cause: As the social media campaign began to take hold, dozens of radical Islamists began commenting on the Ferguson protests
Ambition: This Twitter user appears to explain the reason ISIS sympathisers are attempting to hijack the Ferguson protest is because the militant group hope it will allow them to take control of the city
Amreeki Witness added: 'They cower in fear of us whilst they massacre and oppress you! It's time to strike fear into the hearts of the oppressors. #FergusonUnderIS'.
News of the militants' campaign to encourage Ferguson demonstrators to embrace radical Islamism comes as footage purportedly from a CNN live stream of the protests appeared to show one young man holding a sign reading 'ISIS is here.'
It is not known whether the banner - footage of which has not yet been independently verified - was in support of the militant group or, as seems more likely, it was an attempt to compare ISIS to the local police force or the U.S. government.
Nevertheless stills of the alleged CNN footage were embraced by jihadists who have claimed they prove jihadists are already playing their part in the protests.
Obama: No excuse for violence from police or protesters in...
Worrying: One ISIS sympathiser calling himself Mujahid Miski, who claims to be from Minneapolis-Saint Paul but suggests he is now based in 'the horn of Africa', has led the campaign to encourage those taking part in the protests to embrace radical Islam
Chilling images of the alleged ISIS banner being carried by demonstrators have been widely shared by ISIS sympathisers on social media, who have used them to encourage supporters based in America to travel to Ferguson to further stoke the violence in the city.
News of ISIS' attempt to hijack the Ferguson protests come as Palestinian Twitter users sent messages of support to the demonstrators and gave advice on the best way to cope with the tear gas police are using to disperse crowds.
As images emerged of heavily armed police and armoured tanks on the streets of nearby St Louis, many Palestinian Twitter users expressed their solidarity with demonstrators.
The messages of support from Palestinians come amid reports that many of the Ferguson protesters were heard chanting 'Gaza Strip' as they marched through the heart of the city.
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National Guard Arrives In Ferguson, But Clashes Continue
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FERGUSON, Mo. -- Strict new protest rules and the presence of the National Guard in Ferguson didn’t prevent fresh clashes with police on Monday night, the ninth night of unrest since unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer on Aug. 9.
Police fired several rounds of tear gas into the crowd after a small number of protesters reportedly threw bottles at the officers. Shots were fired, and the cops ordered everyone without media credentials to disperse, then evacuated the media center as well.
The National Guard, deployed to Ferguson by order of Gov. Jay Nixon (D) Monday morning, was posted at the police command center so that local police could concentrate on monitoring the protest, Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson told reporters.
The evening seemed to begin peacefully, with increased restrictions on where and how people could assemble. The QuikTrip, a meeting place for protesters on past nights, was closed off. Police told people that they had to keep moving or else they would be arrested, and the streets were closed off to cars early in the evening. The festive atmosphere of previous nights was replaced with solemn protests.
Riot police aiming guns at journalists who are on the ground and holding their hands in the air pic.twitter.com/GASAGlL5iX
— Amanda M. Sakuma (@iamsakuma) August 19, 2014
Some protesters, led by Malik Shabazz, who is affiliated with the New Black Panther Party, tried to calm the situation and encourage people to keep walking and disperse.
"We didn't want the news tonight to be tear gas and everybody running," he added. "The news tonight is that we're here for justice, for the arrest of officer Darren Wilson, we're here for Mike Brown and his family and we want an end to police brutality."
The police moved back the line and the tension in the crowd briefly eased before tempers flared again.
As a handful of people reportedly continued to throw bottles at police and protesters defied police orders to immediately disperse, the situation again intensified. Police fired tear gas at the crowd, and one person was reported to be shot. "That was the most intense tear gas yet," ANIMAL New York reporter Amy K. Nelson tweeted. "A photog collapsed right in front of me, said canister just rolled right beneath his feet."
"Multiple gun shots. Tear gas by Quick Trip. Escalation," New York Daily News reporter Pearl Gabel tweeted.
Police then ordered everyone who was not "credentialed media" to disperse, saying that someone had been shot and that it was no longer safe to be in the area.
Car driver offered to give a ride home to remaining protesters. Police stopped the car, guns drawn pic.twitter.com/lK6a3LiJ4L
— Amanda M. Sakuma (@iamsakuma) August 19, 2014
During a press conference early Tuesday morning, Johnson said two men were shot on Monday night. No update was available on their condition, but neither were shot by police.
Two fires were set on Monday, one at a business and one at an unoccupied residence, Johnson said. A molotov cocktail and two guns were also confiscated from a vehicle located near the police command center.
Although 31 people were arrested, many were not locals; authorities said that some of the people detained by officers came from as far away as New York and California. Johnson said good people were protesting during daylight hours, and are encouraged to do so again in the morning; however, "violent agitators" were taking advantage of a volatile situation.
"Protesters don't clash with police," Johnson said. "They don't throw molotov cocktails. It is criminals that throw molotov cocktails and fire shots."
Johnson backed the officers' actions, saying the protesters and members of the media were repeatedly asked to return to the sidewalks during clashes. We need to have the roads cleared, he said, for the everyone's safety.
When reporters asked why heavy vehicles and officers in full SWAT gear were facing off with protesters, Johnson said officers had come under fire during the unrest and four had sustained injuries from people throwing rocks and bottles. These units were only deployed into dangerous areas to help the wounded, he said.
Johnson also called for more peaceful protests, particularly during daylight hours. "Let's give attention to the peaceful... Let's not glamorize the acts of criminals," he said.
Monday night's clashes soured the optimism that officers and protesters alike seemed to share earlier in the evening.
Ruth Gordon, 73, was hopeful as she worked to keep up with police orders to move. "I know I’m a slow walker, but eventually I get where I want to go," she said. "God has enabled me to do that, and that’s what I’m doing. And we gonna get justice. We gonna get justice. I don’t know how long it’s gonna take, but until they bring the policeman in that did this shooting, there ain’t gonna be no peace."
"It’s coming," Gordon added. "Peace is coming. I can’t tell you when, but peace is coming," Gordon said.
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08.19.14 Agitators Have Hijacked Ferguson Protests
A handful of outside troublemakers and local young men in bandanas have distracted the media from the real story—the fate of Michael Brown.
FERGUSON, Missouri — Among the protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, a small group is causing most of the trouble, drawing attention away from the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown and toward the captivating images of tear gas smoke, fleeing residents and cops in battle gear that have become part of a huge international news story.
On Monday night the agitators had their way once again.
After hours of walking in long, oval circles on sidewalks along West Florissant Avenue, (protesters weren’t allowed in the road by police until their numbers grew too great) a group of about 1,000 marchers approached a line of police in newly fallen darkness. Once there, in front of the largest gathering of media yet, some from the community worked to prevent confrontation. Johnson worked to do the opposite.
There was a scuffle near the front line of police in SWAT gear that nearly prompted the violent reaction many have come to expect after this chaotic week, and Johnson was in the middle of it. When he came out, Antonio French, a St. Louis alderman who has been documenting the protests and was arrested for “unlawful assembly,” was standing over Johnson. French did not look pleased.
The Revolution Club of Chicago, in concert with the Revolutionary Communist Party, has been in Ferguson since at least Wednesday. They aren’t the only ones who have been aggressive with police, but, perhaps as a response to the arrest of two of its members Monday afternoon, Johnson felt he had a point to make.
But he wasn’t the only one. The night once again ended in smoky chaos as a small group of protesters egged on police to the point of reaction. Some in that group were clearly outsiders. Others were young men from the area, their faces covered in bandanas, ready for anonymous rampage.
Ronald Harris, who lives not far from Ferguson Market and Liquor, considers himself part of the younger generation despite his 41 years. He said there are two groups of local protesters, divided by age.
“The older group, they’re all about prayers and peaceful marching. [They can] come out and march until their feet turn to blisters, but at night, keep your women and children at home,” he said, adding that the violence and clashes with police over the past week have been seen as acceptable among his friends. “Our generation is the one getting pulled over by police, getting harassed by police, getting killed by police.
“We’re out here every day.”
And they’ll continue to be.
“People are tired of this system of oppression,” he said.
That system, Harris said, on Monday extended to when, where and how protesters were allowed express their displeasure with police.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Monday brought even more restrictions for protest zone than has existed since Brown’s death last Saturday. And while police have rightfully been criticized for their heavy-handed approach to the protests that have gone on since Brown’s death, the intelligence they’ve gathered regarding some of the more riotous protesters has been correct. Those who wish to do physical harm to law enforcement are small in number, and subversive in tactics.
Eric Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party was among them. “I have an ironic problem,” he said. “I can’t stand on my own two feet. I have to keep moving.” Hundreds of other protesters also had to keep moving or face arrest, so they marched. They went up and down Florissant, where demonstrations were at first riotous, then jubilant after a security takeover by Capt. Ron Johnson and his Missouri State Highway Patrol, and finally violent again, with residents and protesters fleeing from police tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Still, the residents of Ferguson who have been enraged over Brown’s killing went home Monday night without getting what they wanted: the arrest and indictment of the officer who shot and killed Brown, Darren Wilson.
“We want Darren Wilson,” some shouted at police just before the multiple rounds of tear gas that ended Monday night’s protest were fired.
The police tactics employed Monday night were to control and contain, although there was no sign of the National Guard. Protesters were restricted to sidewalks, and journalists once again were confined to an area derisively referred to as “the playpen,” an area that included the parking lot of Ferguson Market and Liquor and a patch of grass in front of the McDonald’s where last week police pulled a catch and release on reporters Wesley Lowery and Ryan Reilly. The threats to members of the media continued Monday, culminating with the arrest and release of Getty Images photographer Scott Olson. At the QuikTrip gas station, broadcast news crews were told to leave Monday afternoon, and later in the evening CNN’s Don Lemon was threatened with arrest while reporting live.
The handling of the press, while increased in its forcefulness in the last two days, is consistent with the media’s treatment over the past week. Ostensibly for their own safety, police at times have refused access to the main protest zone, threatening arrest if journalists are found behind the lines.
But as the tear gas canisters were being fired Monday night, the number of protesters was nearly equaled by photographers in gas masks and smartphone-wielding reporters. Once again the focus of Tuesday’s papers and late Monday news stories focused on the sideshow, and not the burning questions surrounding the death of a young man who would have entered his second week of college today.
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Re: Rioting In Ferguson (St. Louis), MO Following Police Shooting (08/11/2014)
Ferguson Looter: ‘I’m Proud Of Us, We Deserve This’
August 19, 2014 10:25 AM Share on email? View Comments Law enforcement officers watch on during a protest on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 18, 2014. (credit: Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)
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FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS St. Louis/AP) — The National Guard arrived in Ferguson but kept its distance from the streets where protesters clashed again with police, as clouds of tear gas and smoke hung over the St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer.
Protesters filled the streets after nightfall Monday, and officers trying to enforce tighter restrictions at times used bullhorns to order them to disperse. Police deployed noisemakers and armored vehicles to push demonstrators back. Officers fired tear gas and flash grenades.
One looter who came out of a QuickTrip told The Washington Post that he was proud of what he was doing.
“I’m proud of us. We deserve this, and this is what’s supposed to happen when there’s injustice in your community,” DeAndre Smith told The Post. “St. Louis — not going to take this anymore.”
A police officer who asked not to be identified labeled it “looting tourism.”
“It’s like they are spending their gas money to come down here and steal,” the officer told The Post.
Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who is in charge of security in Ferguson, said bottles and Molotov cocktails were thrown from the crowd and that some officers had come under heavy gunfire. At least two people were shot and 31 were arrested, he said. He did not have condition updates on those who were shot. Johnson said four officers were injured by rocks or bottles.
“It has to stop,” Johnson told CNN.” I don’t want anybody to get hurt. We have to find a way to stop it.”
Demonstrators no longer faced the neighborhood’s midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew, but police told protesters that they could not assemble in a single spot and had to keep moving. After the streets had been mostly cleared, authorities ordered reporters to leave as well, citing the risk from gunfire that had been reported.
A photographer for the Getty photo agency was arrested while covering the demonstrations and later released. Two German reporters were arrested and detained for three hours. Conservative German daily Die Welt said correspondent Ansgar Graw and reporter Frank Herrmann, who writes for German regional papers, were arrested after allegedly failing to follow police instructions to vacate an empty street. They said they followed police orders.
Johnson said members of the media had to be asked repeatedly to return to the sidewalks and that it was a matter of safety. He said in some cases it was not immediately clear who was a reporter but that once it was established, police acted properly.
Citing “a dangerous dynamic in the night,” Johnson also urged protesters with peaceful intent to demonstrate during the daytime hours.
The latest clashes came after a day in which a pathologist hired by the Brown family said the unarmed black 18-year-old suffered a bullet wound to his right arm that may indicate his hands were up or his back was turned. But the pathologist said the team that examined Brown cannot be sure yet exactly how the wounds were inflicted until they have more information.
Witnesses have said Brown’s hands were above his head when he was repeatedly shot by an officer Aug. 9.
The independent autopsy determined that Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, the family’s lawyers and hired pathologists said.
The St. Louis County medical examiner’s autopsy found that Brown was shot six to eight times in the head and chest, office administrator Suzanne McCune said Monday. But she declined to comment further, saying the full findings were not expected for about two weeks.
A grand jury could begin hearing evidence Wednesday to determine whether the officer, Darren Wilson, should be charged in Brown’s death, said Ed Magee, spokesman for St. Louis County’s prosecuting attorney.
A third and final autopsy was performed Monday for the Justice Department by one of the military’s most experienced medical examiners, Attorney General Eric Holder said.
Holder was scheduled to travel to Ferguson later this week to meet with FBI and other officials carrying out an independent federal investigation into Brown’s death.
The Justice Department has mounted an unusually swift and aggressive response to Brown’s death, from the independent autopsy to dozens of FBI agents combing Ferguson for witnesses to the shooting.
In Washington, President Barack Obama said the vast majority of protesters in Ferguson were peaceful, but warned that a small minority was undermining justice. Obama said overcoming the mistrust endemic between many communities and their local police would require Americans to “listen and not just shout.”
Obama said he also spoke to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon about his deployment of the National Guard in Fergusonand urged the governor to ensure the Guard was used in a limited way.
Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump said Brown’s parents wanted the additional autopsy because they feared results of the county’s examination could be biased. Crump declined to release copies of the report.
“They could not trust what was going to be put in the reports about the tragic execution of their child,” he said during Monday’s news conference with Parcells and Baden, who has testified in several high-profile cases, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
The second autopsy, Crump said, “verifies that the witness accounts were true: that he was shot multiple times.”
Forensic pathologist Shawn Parcells, who assisted former New York City chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden during the private autopsy, said a bullet grazed Brown’s right arm. He said the wound indicates Brown may have had his back to the shooter, or he could have been facing the shooter with his hands above his head or in a defensive position across his chest or face.
“We don’t know,” Parcells said. “We still have to look at the other (elements) of this investigation before we start piecing things together.”
Baden said one of the bullets entered the top of Brown’s skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when he suffered that fatal injury. The hired pathologists said Brown, who also was shot four times in the right arm, could have survived the other bullet wounds.
Baden also said there was no gunpowder residue on Brown’s body, indicating he was not shot at close range. However, Baden said he did not have access to Brown’s clothing, and that it was possible the residue could be on the clothing.
Speaking to CBS News Monday, Dr. Lawrence Koblinsky, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that the biggest finding from this autopsy was the Brown was hit in the front, contradicting eyewitness accounts.
“That is the story of the eyewitness, the friend of Michael Brown, Dorian Johnson, was that Michael Brown had been running away from the vehicle and a shot was fired. That apparently is false,” Koblinsky told CBS News. “He was not shot in the back. What a pathologist does is look at entrance and exit wounds and it is clear that no shot was fired at his back.”
Crump also said that Brown had abrasions on his face from where he fell to the ground, but there was “otherwise no evidence of a struggle.”
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Re: Rioting In Ferguson (St. Louis), MO Following Police Shooting (08/11/2014)
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US troops on streets after police shooting
US National Guard troops have been deployed in a suburban Missouri town as authorities struggle to contain week-old protests triggered when a police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager.
State Governor Jay Nixon lifted an overnight curfew on Monday as the soldiers arrived but tempers were running high amid ongoing controversy over the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
A forensic pathologist retained by the victim’s family revealed the student had been shot six times – twice in the head. Local officials have not released the results of their own autopsy.
In a statement released as Guard soldiers arrived in Ferguson, the majority African-American St Louis suburb at the heart of the unrest, Nixon said the soldiers would come under police command.
‘We will not use a curfew tonight,’ he added, after a two-day-old order for residents to stay at home after midnight failed to prevent clashes between protesters and heavily armed police.
Nixon condemned ‘the firing upon police officers, the shooting of a civilian, the throwing of Molotov cocktails, looting and a co-ordinated attempt to overrun the unified command centre.’
Brown was shot dead in broad daylight on a residential street on Saturday, August 8 by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white police officer.
Store surveillance footage released by local police appears to show Brown shoving an employee after snatching a box of cigars around half-an-hour before he was shot.
But it is not yet clear what caused his deadly encounter with Wilson – police sources say there was a scuffle – and some witnesses have claimed he was not resisting when he was shot.
On Monday, lawyers working for Brown’s family introduced reporters to a respected former New York pathologist who has examined the body and found six gunshot wounds.
‘Six bullets struck, and two may have re-entered,’ Michael Baden said, indicating on a diagram how the bullets hit the top of Brown’s cranium, one of his eyes and his right arm and hand.
‘All of the gunshot wounds could have been survivable, except the one at the top of the head,’ he said.
Baden said he found no evidence of an alleged struggle between Brown and the officer, who is said to have been hurt in the incident, but added that he had not examined Wilson.
The absence of gunpowder on Brown’s body indicated the muzzle of the gun was probably at least 30cm to 60cm or as much as nine metres away, Baden added.
The former New York City chief medical examiner stressed his findings were preliminary.
The police response to the protests – officers armed with rifles, tear gas and rubber bullets descended on Ferguson in military surplus armoured cars – caused widespread concern.
US President Barack Obama met Attorney General Eric Holder at the White House on Monday to discuss their response to the crisis. A federal civil rights investigation has already been launched.
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It was another episode of chaos and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday night and early Tuesday as two people were shot and 31 people arrested — including some journalists — during clashes between police and protesters just hours after President Barack Obama called for calm and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon lifted a curfew in the hopes that National Guard troops could maintain order. Below, live updates from Day 10 of the protests.
11:00 a.m. ET: Ferguson's QuikTrip — a convenience store that was destroyed during riots last week and later served a meeting point of sorts for protesters — has been fenced off.
10:30 a.m. ET: Ferguson's superintendent announced that public schools, which had been scheduled to open this week, will remain closed until Aug. 25:
All schools in the Ferguson-Florissant School District will be closed Tuesday, August 19 through Friday, August 22 due to continued unrest in and around Ferguson, Mo. This decision was made after much careful deliberation and consideration of input received from local law enforcement officials and District security staff. We believe that closing schools for the rest of this week will allow needed time for peace and stability to be restored to our community and allow families to plan ahead for the additional days that children will be out of school. While we deeply regret this delay to the start of the 2014-2015 school year, our first priority is the safety of our students. Due to this change, the first day of school in the Ferguson-Florissant School District will be on Monday, August 25.
With no classes to teach, some teachers joined volunteers in the morning clean-up effort.
7 a.m. ET: Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson said police had come under heavy gunfire as bottles, rocks and Molotov cocktails were thrown from the crowd, injuring four officers.
Johnson became emotional during a press conference held in the wee hours of Tuesday.
“This nation is watching each and every one of us,” he said. “We’re going to solve this. ... We’re going to make this neighborhood whole. We’re going to make this community whole.”
Johnson also defended the arrests of journalists, saying police, in many cases, are not able to differentiate between protesters and the press.
"In the midst of chaos, when officers are running around, we're not sure who's a journalist and who's not," Johnson said. "And yes, if I see somebody with a $50,000 camera on their shoulder, I'm pretty sure. But some journalists are walking around, and all you have is a cellphone because you're from a small media outlet. Some of you may just have a camera around your neck. So yes, we are — we may take some of you into custody."
Earlier, police formed a line, telling journalists to disperse or face arrest.
During CNN's live coverage of the protests, host Jake Tapper, who has been reporting from Ferguson, became critical of a similar line of militarized police.
"I want you to look at what is going on in Ferguson, Missouri, in downtown America," Tapper said. "These are armed police, with semi-automatic rifles, with batons, with shields, many of them dressed for combat. Now why they’re doing this I don’t know, because there is no threat going on here, none that merits this. There is none.
"Absolutely there have been looters, absolutely over the last nine days there’s been violence, but there is nothing going on on this street right now that merits this scene out of Bagram," Tapper continued. "Nothing! So if people wonder why the people of Ferguson, Missouri are so upset, this is part of the reason. What is this? This doesn’t make any sense!"
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FERGUSON, Mo. — Violence erupted here once more overnight, even as Missouri National Guard troops arrived, the latest in a series of quickly shifting attempts to quell the chaos that has upended this St. Louis suburb for more than a week.
In the days since an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white police officer here on Aug. 9, an array of state and local law enforcement authorities have swerved from one approach to another: taking to the streets in military-style vehicles and riot gear; then turning over power to a Missouri State Highway Patrol official who permitted the protests and marched along; then calling for a curfew.
Early Monday, after a new spate of unrest, Gov. Jay Nixon said he was bringing in the National Guard. Hours later, he said that he was lifting the curfew and that the Guard would have only a limited role, protecting the police command post.
Although the tactics changed, the nighttime scene did not.
Late Monday night, peaceful protests devolved into sporadic violence, including gunshots, by what the authorities said was a small number of people, and demonstrators were met with tear gas and orders to leave. Two men were shot in the crowd, officials said in an early-morning news conference, and 31 people — some from New York and California — were arrested. Fires were reported in two places. The police were shot at, the authorities said, but did not fire their weapons. Photo
National Guard troops arrived in Ferguson on Monday. Gov. Jay Nixon said the Guard would have only a limited role, protecting the police command post. Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times “We can’t have this,” said Capt. Ronald S. Johnson, the Highway Patrol official, who stood near a table that held two guns and a Molotov cocktail that had been seized. “We do not want to lose another life.”
Captain Johnson, who is coordinating security operations, gave no sense of whether the police would change their tactics again on Tuesday. But he urged peaceful protesters to demonstrate during daylight hours so as not to give cover to “violent agitators,” and he pledged, despite the repeated nights of tumult, “We’re going to make this neighborhood whole.”
Adding to the turbulence was confusion over the curfew. Although it was no longer in force, the police demanded around midnight that the crowd disperse, a move the authorities attributed to increasingly unsafe conditions.
Also on Monday, more details emerged from autopsies performed on Mr. Brown’s body. One showed that he had been shot at least six times; another found evidence of marijuana in his system.
In Washington, President Obama said that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. would go to Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with F.B.I. agents conducting a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting. He seemed less than enthusiastic about the governor’s decision to call in the National Guard. Continue reading the main storyLatest Updates
Mr. Obama said he had told Mr. Nixon in a phone call on Monday that the Guard should be “used in a limited and appropriate way.”
He added that he would be closely monitoring the deployment.
“I’ll be watching over the next several days to assess whether in fact it’s helping rather than hindering progress in Ferguson,” said Mr. Obama, who emphasized that Missouri, not the White House, had called in the Guard. Continue reading the main story
He again tried to strike a balance between the right to protest and approaches to security.
“While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving in to that anger by looting or carrying guns and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions,” Mr. Obama said. Continue reading the main story Video Play Video|2:04
Obama Calls for Peace Again in Ferguson
Obama Calls for Peace Again in Ferguson
President Obama said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will go to Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday to monitor the ongoing investigation into the shooting death of Michael Brown.
Video Credit By Christian Roman on Publish Date August 18, 2014. Image CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times As darkness set in along West Florissant Avenue, one of the city’s main thoroughfares and a center of the weeklong protests, demonstrators were required to keep moving.
After more than an hour of peaceful protests, some in the crowd began to throw bottles at the police, who brought out armored vehicles and tactical units. But many peacekeepers in the crowd formed a human chain and got the agitators to back down.
At another point, as protesters gathered near a convenience store, some of them threw objects; the police responded with tear gas.
And near midnight, the police began announcing over loudspeakers that people needed to leave the area or risk arrest after what the police said were repeated gunshots and a deteriorating situation.
A few blocks away, at the police command post, National Guard members in Army fatigues, some with military police patches on their uniforms, stood ready but never entered the area where protesters were marching. State and local law enforcement authorities oversaw operations there. Continue reading the main story Video Play Video|0:30
Missouri Police on Protests and Arrests
Missouri Police on Protests and Arrests
Capt. Ronald S. Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said police came under fire Monday night and arrested 31 people.
Publish Date August 19, 2014. Image CreditWhitney Curtis for The New York Times Residents seemed puzzled and frustrated by the continually changing approaches, suggesting that the moving set of rules only worsened longstanding tensions over policing and race in this town of 21,000.
“It almost seems like they can’t decide what to do, and like law enforcement is fighting over who’s got the power,” said Antione Watson, 37, who stood near a middle-of-the-street memorial of candles and flowers for Mr. Brown, the 18-year-old killed on a winding block here.
“First they do this, then there’s that, and now who can even tell what their plan is?” Mr. Watson said. “They can try all of this, but I don’t see an end to this until there are charges against the cop.”
The latest turn in law enforcement tactics — the removal of a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew imposed Saturday and the arrival of members of the Guard — followed a chaotic Sunday night. Police officers reported gunfire and firebombs from some people among a large group, and they responded with tear gas, smoke canisters and rubber bullets.
By Monday, the police seemed intent on taking control of the situation long before evening and the expected arrival of protesters, some of them inclined to provoke clashes. The authorities banned stationary protests, even during the day, ordering demonstrators to continue walking — particularly in an area along West Florissant, not far from where the shooting occurred. One of those told to move along was the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Continue reading the main story
Six members of the Highway Patrol, plastic flex-ties within easy reach, stood guard at a barbecue restaurant that has been a hub of the turmoil. Just north of the restaurant, about 30 officers surrounded a convenience store that was heavily damaged early in the unrest. Several people were arrested during the day, including a photographer for Getty Images, Scott Olson, who was led away in plastic handcuffs in the early evening. Continue reading the main story
Explaining his decision to call in the National Guard, Mr. Nixon recounted details of the unrest on Sunday night and described the events as “very difficult and dangerous as a result of a violent criminal element intent upon terrorizing the community.”
Yet Mr. Nixon also emphasized that the Guard’s role would be limited to providing protection for the police command center, which the authorities say was attacked. Gregory Mason, a brigadier general of the Guard, described the arriving troops as “well trained and well seasoned.”
“With these additional resources in place,” said Mr. Nixon, a Democrat in his second term, “the Missouri State Highway Patrol and local law enforcement will continue to respond appropriately to incidents of lawlessness and violence and protect the civil rights of all peaceful citizens to make their voices heard.”
While Mr. Obama and other leaders called for healing and more than 40 F.B.I. agents fanned out around the city to interview residents about the shooting, emotions remained raw, and the divide over all that had happened seemed only to be growing amid multiple investigations and competing demonstrations. Continue reading the main story
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press showed that Americans were deeply divided along racial lines in their reaction to Mr. Brown’s killing. It showed that 80 percent of blacks thought the case raised “important issues about race that need to be discussed,” while only 37 percent of whites thought it did.
Blacks surveyed were also less confident in the investigations into the shooting, with 76 percent reporting little to no confidence, compared with 33 percent of whites.
Supporters of Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who fired the fatal shots, gathered outside a radio station in St. Louis over the weekend.
Mr. Brown is now the subject of three autopsies. The first was conducted by St. Louis County, and the results were delivered to the county prosecutor’s office on Monday. That report showed evidence of marijuana in Mr. Brown’s system, according to a person briefed on the report who was not authorized to discuss it publicly before it was released.
Another autopsy, on Monday, was done by a military doctor as part of the Justice Department’s investigation. Continue reading the main story
On Sunday, at the request of Mr. Brown’s family, the body was examined by Dr. Michael M. Baden, a former New York City medical examiner.
Dr. Baden’s autopsy showed that Mr. Brown was shot at least six times in the front of his body and that he did not appear to have been shot from very close range, because no powder burns were found on his body. But that determination could change if burns are found on his clothing, which was not available for examination.
In a news conference on Monday, family members and Dr. Baden said that the autopsy confirmed witness accounts that Mr. Brown was trying to surrender when he was killed.
Daryl Parks, a lawyer for the family, said the autopsy proved that the officer should have been arrested. The bullet that killed Mr. Brown entered the top of his head and came out through the front at an angle that suggested he was facing downward when he was killed, Mr. Parks said. The autopsy did not show what Mr. Brown was doing when the bullet struck his head. Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story
“Why would he be shot in the very top of his head, a 6-foot-4 man?” Mr. Parks said. “It makes no sense. And so that’s what we have. That’s why we believe that those two things alone are ample for this officer to be arrested.”
Piaget Crenshaw, a resident who told reporters that she had witnessed Mr. Brown’s death from her nearby apartment, seemed unsurprised by the eruptions of anger, which have left schools closed and some businesses looted. “This community had underlying problems way before this happened,” Ms. Crenshaw said. “And now the tension is finally broken.”
For businesses here, the days and long nights have been costly and frightening. At Dellena Jones’s hair salon, demonstrators tossed concrete slabs into the business as Ms. Jones’s two children prepared for what they had expected to be a first day back to school.
“I had a full week that went down to really nothing,” she said of her business, which has been mostly empty. “They’re too scared to come.” As she spoke, a man walked by and shouted, “You need a gun in there, lady!”
In his news conference, Mr. Obama said that most protesters had been peaceful. “As Americans, we’ve got to use this moment to seek out our shared humanity that’s been laid bare by this moment,” he said.
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1 of 23. Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson (R) talks with residents in Ferguson, Missouri August 19, 2014. Police said they came under heavy gunfire and arrested 31 people during another night of racially charged protests in Ferguson, sparked by the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, by a white policeman 10 days ago.
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(Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday called for calm and a change in police tactics in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, which has been rocked by racially charged clashes and riots after a white officer killed an unarmed black teenager 10 days ago.
The violence has captured headlines around the world, raising questions about the state of U.S. race relations nearly six years after Americans elected their first black president.
Law enforcement has made various efforts to soothe angry demonstrators, but police said they had come under heavy gunfire overnight and arrested 31 people despite the deployment of Missouri National Guard troops and the lifting of a curfew to allow protesters to have more freedom to demonstrate.
"We overpoliced for a few days, and then we completely underpoliced," U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who was traveling to Ferguson on Tuesday, told cable channel MSNBC.
She said she was working with local leaders on ways to quell the violence. Possible methods include screening for weapons and moving protest areas away from the business district to open green spaces.
Both she and U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, another Missouri Democrat, said calm was needed to allow federal investigators to evaluate the evidence.
"What's happening now is damaging, or interfering, with what needs to be done," Cleaver told MSNBC.
On Monday, President Barack Obama said he told Missouri Governor Jay Nixon that use of the National Guard should be limited, and he also called for conciliation. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit Ferguson on Wednesday.
Ferguson, a community of roughly 21,000 mostly black residents just outside St. Louis, has a long history of racial tension. Blacks have complained of police harassment and under-representation in city leadership.
Tension boiled over 10 days ago after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot dead while walking with a friend down a residential street on the afternoon of Aug. 9.
The police refused to immediately release the name of the officer who killed Brown. They later identified him as 28-year-old Darren Wilson but and still have not provided details about why he fired multiple rounds at Brown.
Both the U.S. Department of Justice and the St. Louis County Police Department are investigating the shooting. The county prosecutor's office said it could start presenting evidence to a grand jury Wednesday to determine if Wilson will be indicted.
Since the killing, thousands of protesters have taken over the site of the shooting and the nearby business district each night, chanting anti-police slogans and carrying signs calling for Wilson's arrest.
Some journalists covering the confrontations have been hit by tear gas and arrested.
On Tuesday, the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, an intergovernmental security and human rights organization whose members include 57 countries including the United States and Canada, criticized the treatment of the journalists.
'HEAVY GUNFIRE'
On Monday night, officials had hoped that the lifting of a curfew imposed over the weekend would cool tensions and end the looting and violence. Police also closed a roadway to traffic to provide a path for marchers.
But police said some in the crowd hurled bottles, rocks and petrol bombs at officers, who responded by firing gas-filled canisters and a noise cannon to try to disperse the throng.
State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who is overseeing security in Ferguson, said officers had come under "heavy gunfire" but did not return it. Riot police did confiscate two guns and what looked like a petrol bomb from protesters.
Four officers were injured, he said.
Johnson separately told CNN that two people were shot within the crowd, but not by police, and were taken to hospital. There was no immediate word on their condition.
"This has to stop," said Johnson, an African-American who grew up in the area. "I don't want anybody to get hurt. We have to find a way to stop this."
The disturbances are the worst since the angry but peaceful protests across the United States in July 2013, over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin during a scuffle in Florida.
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Ferguson Security Chief Hopes Peaceful Protesters Will Stay Home
The Highway Patrol captain in charge of security in Ferguson, Missouri, expressed hope Tuesday that peaceful protesters would stay home and allow authorities to deal with “those who have been ruining our community.”
Capt. Ron Johnson, who grew up in the area, spoke after a chaotic night in which 78 people were arrested and two people were hit by gunfire. In an interview with MSNBC, he drew a distinction between peaceful protesters upset about the police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, and criminals who are taking advantage of the protests to loot stores and attack officers.
“Today my hope is the peaceful protesters will stay home and protest during the daytime and stay home at night and let us take those who have been ruining our community and take them and deal with them,” he said. He praised police for their restraint late Monday and early Tuesday. He also faulted some members of the media for glamorizing violent criminals and giving them a platform.
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Law enforcement officers watch on during a protest on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 18, 2014. (credit: Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)
FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS St. Louis/AP) — The National Guard arrived in Ferguson but kept its distance from the streets where protesters clashed again with police, as clouds of tear gas and smoke hung over the St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer.
Protesters filled the streets after nightfall Monday, and officers trying to enforce tighter restrictions at times used bullhorns to order them to disperse. Police deployed noisemakers and armored vehicles to push demonstrators back. Officers fired tear gas and flash grenades.
One looter who came out of a QuikTrip told The Washington Post that he was proud of what he was doing.
“I’m proud of us. We deserve this, and this is what’s supposed to happen when there’s injustice in your community,” DeAndre Smith told The Post. “St. Louis — not going to take this anymore.”
A police officer who asked not to be identified labeled it “looting tourism.”
“It’s like they are spending their gas money to come down here and steal,” the officer told The Post.
Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who is in charge of security in Ferguson, said bottles and Molotov cocktails were thrown from the crowd and that some officers had come under heavy gunfire. At least two people were shot and 31 were arrested, he said. He did not have condition updates on those who were shot. Johnson said four officers were injured by rocks or bottles.
“It has to stop,” Johnson told CNN.” I don’t want anybody to get hurt. We have to find a way to stop it.”
Demonstrators no longer faced the neighborhood’s midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew, but police told protesters that they could not assemble in a single spot and had to keep moving. After the streets had been mostly cleared, authorities ordered reporters to leave as well, citing the risk from gunfire that had been reported.
A photographer for the Getty photo agency was arrested while covering the demonstrations and later released. Two German reporters were arrested and detained for three hours. Conservative German daily Die Welt said correspondent Ansgar Graw and reporter Frank Herrmann, who writes for German regional papers, were arrested after allegedly failing to follow police instructions to vacate an empty street. They said they followed police orders.
Johnson said members of the media had to be asked repeatedly to return to the sidewalks and that it was a matter of safety. He said in some cases it was not immediately clear who was a reporter but that once it was established, police acted properly.
Citing “a dangerous dynamic in the night,” Johnson also urged protesters with peaceful intent to demonstrate during the daytime hours.
The latest clashes came after a day in which a pathologist hired by the Brown family said the unarmed black 18-year-old suffered a bullet wound to his right arm that may indicate his hands were up or his back was turned. But the pathologist said the team that examined Brown cannot be sure yet exactly how the wounds were inflicted until they have more information.
Witnesses have said Brown’s hands were above his head when he was repeatedly shot by an officer Aug. 9.
The independent autopsy determined that Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, the family’s lawyers and hired pathologists said.
The St. Louis County medical examiner’s autopsy found that Brown was shot six to eight times in the head and chest, office administrator Suzanne McCune said Monday. But she declined to comment further, saying the full findings were not expected for about two weeks.
A grand jury could begin hearing evidence Wednesday to determine whether the officer, Darren Wilson, should be charged in Brown’s death, said Ed Magee, spokesman for St. Louis County’s prosecuting attorney.
A third and final autopsy was performed Monday for the Justice Department by one of the military’s most experienced medical examiners, Attorney General Eric Holder said.
Holder was scheduled to travel to Ferguson later this week to meet with FBI and other officials carrying out an independent federal investigation into Brown’s death.
The Justice Department has mounted an unusually swift and aggressive response to Brown’s death, from the independent autopsy to dozens of FBI agents combing Ferguson for witnesses to the shooting.
In Washington, President Barack Obama said the vast majority of protesters in Ferguson were peaceful, but warned that a small minority was undermining justice. Obama said overcoming the mistrust endemic between many communities and their local police would require Americans to “listen and not just shout.”
Obama said he also spoke to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon about his deployment of the National Guard in Fergusonand urged the governor to ensure the Guard was used in a limited way.
Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump said Brown’s parents wanted the additional autopsy because they feared results of the county’s examination could be biased. Crump declined to release copies of the report.
“They could not trust what was going to be put in the reports about the tragic execution of their child,” he said during Monday’s news conference with Parcells and Baden, who has testified in several high-profile cases, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
The second autopsy, Crump said, “verifies that the witness accounts were true: that he was shot multiple times.”
Forensic pathologist Shawn Parcells, who assisted former New York City chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden during the private autopsy, said a bullet grazed Brown’s right arm. He said the wound indicates Brown may have had his back to the shooter, or he could have been facing the shooter with his hands above his head or in a defensive position across his chest or face.
“We don’t know,” Parcells said. “We still have to look at the other(elements) of this investigation before we start piecing things together.”
Baden said one of the bullets entered the top of Brown’s skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when he suffered that fatal injury. The hired pathologists said Brown, who also was shot four times in the right arm, could have survived the other bullet wounds.
Baden also said there was no gunpowder residue on Brown’s body, indicating he was not shot at close range. However, Baden said he did not have access to Brown’s clothing, and that it was possible the residue could be on the clothing.
Speaking to CBS News Monday, Dr. Lawrence Koblinsky, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that the biggest finding from this autopsy was the Brown was hit in the front, contradicting eyewitness accounts.
“That is the story of the eyewitness, the friend of Michael Brown, Dorian Johnson, was that Michael Brown had been running away from the vehicle and a shot was fired. That apparently is false,”
Koblinsky told CBS News. “He was not shot in the back. What a pathologist does is look at entrance and exit wounds and it is clear that no shot was fired at his back.”
Crump also said that Brown had abrasions on his face from where he fell to the ground, but there was “otherwise no evidence of a struggle.”
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