Man seriously injured in shooting

Dozens of protesters converged on West Florissant Avenue, which bore the brunt of last summer’s rioting, and chanted: “Shut it down” in the midst of a severe thunderstorm.

The man approached the officers, who were in an unmarked police van, and opened fire, Belmar said. The suspect again fired on the officers, who returned fire and wounded the suspect, Belmar said. “Get him some help man!” as he his pushed back by a police officer at the scene. He was struck and fell.

The unidentified man in his 20s was undergoing surgery early Monday. A reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch identified the suspect as 18-year-old Tyrone Davis.

Police said Stokes had a gun and didn’t obey commands to show his hands.

Three county police officers suffered minor injured during Sunday night’s events. All four have been put on standard administrative leave. But in a separate report, the Justice Department cited racial bias and profiling in policing as well as a profit-driven municipal court system that often targeted black residents, who make up about two-thirds of Ferguson’s populace.

“It was a remarkable amount of gunfire”, the police chief said. Two males told police they were targeted in a drive-by shooting near the memorial to Brown outside Canfield Apartments.

Belmar waved off any notion that the people with the weapons were part of the protest.

Police later said the gunfire began with two groups of agitators apparently shooting at each other. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar says the department doesn’t have funding for body cameras for all of its almost 900 officers. “There are a lot of emotions”.

St. Louis-area civic leaders are expressing frustration after peaceful protests devolved into unrest on the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, Junior, Sunday.

The largely peaceful demonstrations ended in a tense stand-off with police following an explosion of gunfire. Two of the officers were pepper sprayed by protesters and the third was cut in the face when a rock was thrown.

Bursts of gunfire shattered the face-off, sending police crouching behind their patrol cars and demonstrators scurrying for cover. Another unmarked police vehicle sustained damage from a minor vehicle accident, police said. The victim was taken to a hospital to be treated after the incident. Her condition is unknown. It appeared several items were taken from the store, which sustained extensive vandalism throughout the course of the night.

The shooting of a suspect by plainclothes officers in Ferguson is drawing criticism from protest leaders.

Police claimed they later recovered a stolen handgun from him.

Police used smoke bombs to disperse crowds, not tear gas canisters, Belmar said. Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr, led a march through the town after a crowd of hundreds observed four and a half minutes of silence.

Gina Gowey, of Ferguson, Mo., protests on West Florissant Ave., Sunday, August 9, 2015, in Ferguson, on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. A grand jury and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to prosecute Wilson, who resigned in November, but the shooting touched off a national “Black Lives Matter” movement.

Later, a few hundred people turned out at Greater St. Mark Family Church for a service to remember Brown, with his father joining other relatives sitting behind the pulpit.

Organizers of some of the weekend activities pledged a day of civil disobedience on Monday, but have not offered specific details.