Surveillance video captured moment Ferguson protester pulled gun on police
Schellman says there were no similar incidents Tuesday.
Protests also cropped up outside Ferguson. They also applauded law enforcement officers, who they said “exemplified respect, community engagement and professionalism under extremely hard circumstances”.
By Tuesday night, there was far less tension. It was a far cry from the violence and tension that marred the previous two nights. Some held yellow signs that said, “Ferguson is everywhere”.
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“Mike Brown didn’t start a movement, he just unified and galvanized this movement”, KaLisa Moore of the People’s Power Assemblies told an amped up crowd in downtown Brooklyn Sunday, August 9.
During the gunfire, Harris crossed the street and apparently spotted plainclothes officers arriving in an unmarked van with distinctive red and blue police lights, Belmar said.
Police have released a video said to show a suspect accused of firing on police drawing a pistol from his waistband during protests in strife-torn Ferguson, Missouri.
Harris was in critical condition Monday at a St. Louis hospital.
St. Louis County Police Sgt.
Officers say Tyrone Harris, an 18-year old black man, had pulled out a pistol during the demonstrations before police shot him.
“As soon as it’s unnecessary I’ll be more than happy to lift it”, Stenger said. “He was running for his… life because someone was shooting at him”, Mr Tyrone Harris Sr said, before the video was released.
Tyrone Harris was sacked on during protests in Ferguson to mark a year since the killing of Michael Brown. Karriman said the group stepped in only after Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declined to summon the National Guard in the aftermath of the grand jury decision.
Belmar plans to ask county prosecutor Bob McCulloch about the legality of the group’s armed patrols.
On Ferguson’s West Florissant Road – the scene of previous clashes between security forces and protesters – scores of young people gathered around cars and sat along curbs in small groups across a shopping strip parking lot as evening fell on the city. About 23 arrests were made late Monday and early Tuesday, police said.
After former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot Brown a year ago in the city, where the population is predominantly black, a US Justice Department investigation found systemic racial bias among Ferguson officials.
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McGuire says several bottles, frozen water bottles and rocks were thrown at officers throughout the night.
“We maintained order, there was no looting, no shooting and no one was injured”, he said.
The state of emergency will continue for at least one more night, despite a state of relative calm on the streets of Ferguson. Another group later briefly blocked Interstate 70 during the late afternoon rush hour.