After 2 nights of tension, a peaceful protest in Ferguson

He is being held on a $250,000 cash bond. Suddenly, shots are fired and there is a lot of movement in the video.

Harris was shot late Sunday after allegedly opening fire on an unmarked police van.

“He was running for his… life because someone was shooting at him”, Tyrone Harris Snr said in a telephone interview from his St Louis-area home before the video was released.

Tyrone Harris Sr. told The Associated Press Wednesday that the family’s lawyer has advised him to not discuss the Sunday night shooting that left Tyrone Harris Jr.in critical condition.

Protests marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown were extended for a second day on Tuesday in Ferguson.

Of the 150 people detained in jail, more than 65 were arrested outside the federal courthouse for crossing the barricades and another 85 were arrested while trying to disperse after a freeway blockade in west St. Louis County. On Sunday night, several businesses had been damaged.

Belmar plans to ask county prosecutor Bob McCulloch about the legality of armed patrols by the far-right anti-government activist group, which largely comprises past and present members of the military, first responders and police officers.

St. Louis County declared a state of emergency on Monday due to unrest over Ferguson, giving police greater authority to maintain peace and security. The department tweeted pictures of the what it said was the shot up vehicle shortly after the shooting. Officers pushed the crowd back onto the sidewalk.

About 200 demonstrators, some waving flags, beating drums, and shouting anti-police slogans, marched along a street that was a flashpoint of riots that erupted in 2014 after white police officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

“Officers are being hit with rocks and bottles”. The officers returned fire from the vehicle, critically wounding Harris.

Mr Torrence added the fact the officers involved were dressed in plainclothes coloured his impressions of the incident. Nor was any smoke or tear gas used, police said.

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.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar earlier Tuesday said that presence of the Oath Keepers, who wore bulletproof vests and openly carried rifles and pistols on Monday, was “both unnecessary and inflammatory”.

On Tuesday, police braced for more protests in Ferguson while some residents expressed frustration over what they see as a persistent cycle of violence and bias.

Protests also spilled outside of Ferguson earlier Monday.

He was charged with assault on law enforcement among other counts.