County Executive Steve Stenger extended the state of emergency in Ferguson, a suburb of the city of St. Officers who respond to demonstrations can rake in overtime pay – just responding to the unrest following Michael Brown’s death cost St. Louis County $4 million, according to the St. An 18-year-old man, Tyrone Harris, allegedly opens hearth on an unmarked police automotive and detectives shoots again. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on August 9, 2014. Harris’ father said Wednesday that he expects his son to survive.
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Police said Harris turned around and shot at the officers as they got out of the vehicles.
One of those protesters, Johnetta Elzie, who has been a mainstay of the demonstrations and goes by Netta, tweeted minutes before her arrest, “If I’m arrested today please know I’m not suicidal”.
Then chaos erupted in the evening when gunfire scattered demonstrators and police alike as acting police chief Andre Anderson was talking to reporters.
The tumultuous scene on Ferguson’s streets, with mostly black protesters clashing with police equipped in riot gear, was further complicated by the appearance of a new group, white militiamen calling themselves Oath Keepers and wearing bulletproof vests and carrying rifles and pistols.
Meanwhile, activists are continuing their legal push for an independent probe of a prosecutor’s handling of grand jury proceedings in Brown’s shooting death.
St. Louis County police on Tuesday released a 13-second clip of security camera footage they say shows Harris minutes before he fired at plainclothes officers.
A Missouri police officer is being investigated after bragging about spending his “annual Michael Brown bonus” on Facebook.
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Nabeehah Azeez, a protest organizer, says the presence of the armed men is “a contradiction in how things work”. County police and Barnes-Jewish Hospital couldn’t provide updates on his condition Tuesday. The second report concluded that the Ferguson police division the place Wilson labored had a deeply ingrained tradition of racism and that it unconstitutionally focused black individuals for arrests, fines and jail.
