Father of teen shot in Ferguson protests expects him to survive

Police say they pursued Harris and he fired at least once at the officer’s vehicle near West Florissant. Police said they have not located any video showing the shooting.

The video’s release comes at a precarious moment.

A state of emergency that was declared on Monday for the Ferguson area was still in effect on Tuesday.

JON BELMAR: I think we owe it to ourselves together to make sure that we grow out of this, that positive things happen, that we begin to learn from it, eliminate the negatives, eliminate the environment that really caused the emotion and the cynicism from last August.

“There’s a state of emergency in black America today”, said organizer Temara “Jaz” Jasmine, 27.

The complacency shown by the police to a group of heavily armed white men inserting themselves into the midst of the protest raises the question: Has anything really changed in Ferguson?

But Ferguson’s mayor, James W. Knowles III, urged caution when deciding whether to lift the emergency.

“This isn’t the way to solve anything”, she said. “We’ll have to play it by ear over the next couple days”.

“One side can say he pulled out his gun, he was shooting at the police”.

Tyrone Harris, 18, was shot by police after a day of largely peaceful demonstrations on Sunday, and is in a critical condition. The black-and-white clip, only 13 seconds long, shows people milling about before ducking and running behind cars.

‘Detectives from the Crimes Against Persons Unit have identified the person in the video as Tyrone Harris.

Hundreds of people gathered along West Florissant, the thoroughfare that was the site of massive protests and rioting after 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot last year in a confrontation with a Ferguson police officer.

However, there were no shots fired and no burglaries, looting or property damage during the protest. “It’s an open-carry state”.

Harris’s father said his son did not have a gun.

But as night fell, police in riot gear took to the streets.

On Tuesday night, a handful of members returned to West Florissant, where a crowd of about 100 protesters had gathered.

It was the first night since Friday to end without arrests, said St Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire. Majority were in their late teens or early 20s.

The shooting of Mr Brown – and a subsequent decision not to indict Officer Wilson – led to violent unrest and set off nationwide protests and intense scrutiny of heavy-handed police tactics in a series of cases that ended in the deaths of unarmed blacks. Clergy members prayed in front of the building and spread oil on it, saying they were anointing it. The protesters were being processed and released “as quickly as can administratively be accomplished by the United States Marshal Service”, U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan said.