State of Emergency in Ferguson as Teen Charged with Shootout

Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West was also arrested, The Associated Press reported. “That’s not going to happen”.

Activist groups said Harris was shot by plain clothes police. No smoke or tear gas was ever used, he said. Three officers were injured. Another 63 people were arrested earlier in the day after blocking a highway. At least nine people were accused of resisting or interfering with an arrest.

West and several others jumped over metal barricades around the building and walked toward officers guarding it. The protesters sat directly in front of the building’s entrance and police surrounded the group.

Reaction from protesters was mixed.

Activist groups, meanwhile, said the plain clothes officers who shot Harris should never have been deployed to the scene. “They saw them”, Bynes said. “Me personally, I think Belmar did a great job”.

Ferguson resident and veteran Hershel Myers Jr., 46, told the AP police were unnecessarily aggressive. She said they were brazenly carrying firearms while police stood nearby and did nothing was a jarring sight.

There is no word on when St. Louis authorities will lift the state of emergency.

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III disputed the notion that the county taking over was a negative reflection on Anderson and Ferguson police.

County officials declared a state of emergency Monday afternoon, but stopped short of declaring a curfew.

Michael Brown Sr took to Facebook on late Monday to express his gratitude to supporters who held events and took out rallies over the weekend in memory of the first death anniversary of his son.

The suspect again fired on the officers, the chief said, and all four officers fired back.

Harris was in critical condition after surgery. “Property and life needed to be preserved”.

“Not a lot has changed with how the police are reacting to us, and are behaving with us”.

LOUIS Under the shadow of a state of emergency declaration in St. Louis County, protesters mobilized Monday for a choreographed day of civil disobedience, shutting down a key commuter artery and staging demonstrations downtown, in Clayton and in Ferguson.

“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.

Recounting what other family members who were with Tyrone Harris described, the aunt said Tyrone Harris wasn’t carrying a gun and never fired at police.

Demonstrations around the region had long been planned to mark the anniversary.

Brown’s death helped spur a national “Black Lives Matter” movement that raised hard questions about law enforcement attitudes toward minorities and the militarization of police. Police made arrests after protesters blocked a traffic lane on West Florissant Avenue.

At the protest that began Sunday night, tensions escalated after several hundred people gathered in the street, ignoring repeated warnings to get to the sidewalk or face arrest.