According to Reuters, protesters were arrested in groups at the start of the week.
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Sunday night’s violence included a drive-by shooting and several instances of rocks and bottles being hurled at police. Schellman says there were no similar incidents Tuesday.
Protesters were marching and staging acts of civil disobedience to mark the anniversary of the death of 18-year-old Brown.
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On Tuesday night, none appeared to have long rifles.
At one point, about 20 protesters blocked West Florissant Avenue and forced a city bus to turn around. Some chanted, and a few held signs.
‘The St. Louis County Police Department is releasing surveillance video pertinent to the investigation of the officer involved shooting of Tyrone Harris that occurred on August 9, 2015, ‘ police wrote in the video description.
Outrage at the deaths of Brown and a series of others killed by police in disputed circumstances have fuelled the Black Lives Matter movement and a national conversation about racism and police tactics.
Police have released new surveillance footage that they say shows a teen pulling a gun from his waistband moments before he was shot by officers after allegedly opening fire on them. County police and Barnes-Jewish Hospital were unable to provide updates on his condition yesterday.
Tyrone Harris is accused of first-degree assault on police officers, armed criminal action and shooting at a motor vehicle, police said. The declaration has allowed St. Louis County police to assume policing authority in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis.
The far-right anti-government group is largely comprised of past and present military personnel, first-responders and law-enforcement personnel.
The Associated Press left a message with John Karriman, a representative of the group in Missouri.
Online court records show that the four activists are appealing a judge’s ruling last month that tossed out their lawsuit seeking a special prosecutor to review St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch’s handling of the process.
The decision follows two nights of peaceful protests; St. Louis County police haven’t made arrests or reports of injuries on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. Police detectives said they wounded the 18-year-old after he shot at them.
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On Sunday, a group of 600 people stood in silence for four and a half minutes at the Michael Brown memorial in Ferguson, Missouri, to commemorate the slaying of the 18-year-old black young man by a white police officer exactly a year ago. Police used smoke to disperse the crowd.
