St Louis County prosecutors announced 10 charges against Harris – five counts of armed criminal action, four counts of first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and a firearms charge.
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The St. Louis County police chief will take over the operation of police emergency management in Ferguson and surrounding areas, the statement said. He told the AP his son was a close friend of Michael Brown and was in Ferguson on Sunday night to pay respects.
Cornel West, who was arrested during a protest last October, was handcuffed by police during the demonstration.
Meanwhile, some 50 protesters were arrested after scaling a barricade outside the county courthouse during a peaceful protest, the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper reported.
Police and politicians called the protesters and those involved with the shootings “criminals” and said “two groups of agitators” started the gunfire.
Harris, from Northwoods, another section of St. Louis County, remained in hospital yesterday with wounds sustained in the shootout. The station reports, “Protesters and police both ran toward Ferguson Avenue, away from West Florissant, after the shots rang out, leaving the streets mostly clear by 11:30”.
Moments after the shots were fired, a young woman screamed, “They shot my brother”. They were both hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The protesters confronted a line of police officers, who ordered them to disperse.
Jeff Roberson/AP Crowds chant in the street along W. Florissant Ave. on Monday night, a day after a protest marking the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was interupted by gunfire.
The Ferguson Police Department is conducting the investigation into the robbery.
Unfortunately, that is the scenario that played out, as peaceful weekend protests over the police shooting death of Brown, 18, turned violent Sunday night.
Commemorative vigils and marches on August. 8 and 9 to remember Brown and say “Black lives matter” were set for Ferguson, New York and other cities around the United States.
The shooters “were criminals; they weren’t protesters”, he said.
In a statement on Monday, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III said the city was “deeply disappointed” by Sunday’s violence and urged local people to be “watchful for those who want to cause harm to our community”.
Witnesses described a hail of gunfire, apparently from two groups shooting at one another.
Early Monday morning, a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old were walking on a sidewalk near the Michael Brown memorial when they were shot at from an unknown vehicle, police said.
He tells News 4’s Rob Sneed that his son was not shooting at the police and he just happen to be somewhere at the wrong time.
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“There is a small group of people out there who are intent on making sure we don’t have peace that prevails”, Belmar said.
