According to the Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly, the spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office confirmed that those arrested would receive summons and be released shortly after.
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Reilly said Monday that he had not received a summons but expects to be charged, The Post reported.
On Monday, protesters took to the streets of St. Louis for a second day of marches, in which more than 100 demonstrators marched to the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse at noon.
Both were hospitalized with injuries not considered life-threatening, authorities said. The protesters then scaled a waist-high barricade, staging a sit-in before advancing past police to the entrances.
Prosecutors have charged the suspect with four counts of first-degree assault on law enforcement, five counts of armed criminal action and one count of discharging a firearm at a motor vehicle, St. Louis County Police Department spokesman Sgt. It was not clear what prompted the exchange, but Belmar said the groups had been feuding. Hampel said he was taking photos and videos of break-ins along West Florissant Avenue when he was rushed from behind. Police shot and critically wounded one suspect, 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr., after he allegedly shot through the windshield of an unmarked police van with four plainclothes officers inside.
No officers were injured, the department said. Harris’ father says he believes that his son was unarmed, and he called the police version “a bunch of lies”. Eventually, a few lobbed glass bottles and rocks at officers. All 10 are felonies.
County Police Chief Jon Belmar says the suspect was among about six people who fired shots during a protest. All four officers returned fire.
“My son was running to the police to ask for help, and he was shot”, he said.
In Ferguson, Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr., wore a T-shirt bearing his son’s image and the slogan “Chosen for Change” as he attended the newly rebuilt memorial of teddy bears, candles and flowers on the quiet residential road where Brown died.
The anniversary of Brown’s killing, which cast greater scrutiny on how police interact with black communities, has sparked days of renewed protests, though until Sunday they had been peaceful and without any arrests.
St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the unidentified man, believed to be in his mid-20s, was hospitalised in critical and unstable condition.
The elder Harris said his son got caught up in a dispute among two groups of young people and was “running for his life” after gunfire broke out.
A racially mixed crowd of young and old, some pushing children in strollers, turned out for a day of commemorative events in this mostly black St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown, 18, was gunned down on August. 9, 2014.
A piece of concrete with “MB” spray painted on it marks the grave of Michael Brown at St. …
Others held “Black Lives Matter” banners and signs calling for justice for those killed by police.
This story has been corrected to show that Harris was shot by a county police officer in Ferguson, not a Ferguson police officer.
“As we have seen over the recent months and years, not only does violence obscure any message of peaceful protest, it places the community, as well as the officers who seek to protect it, in harm’s way”, she said in a statement.
Some protest groups said police were too quick to go into riot mode.
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“After a year of protest and conversation around police accountability, having plainclothes officers without body cameras and proper identification in the protest setting leaves us with only the officer’s account of the incident, which is clearly problematic”, said Kayla Reed, a field organizer with the Organization of Black Struggle.
