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It was the kind of solid across-the-board performance UNC coach Larry Fedora has been hoping to see, one that has eluded his team for four straight games dating to last season. It now seems that beating Kent State and Western Illinois by a combined 96-3 was more indicative of...

Information for this article was contributed by staff members of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and by Jim Suhr and Jim Salter of The Associated Press.

Immediately after the incident, crowds gathered at a nearby intersection and then again in the evening, and according to Dotson some protesters attacked police officers with bricks and bottles.

Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was was shot and killed by St. Louis police officers Wednesday, reportedly died from a single gunshot wound to the back, according to an autopsy, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

His death sparked protests and reignited a national conversation around race and policing.

PROTEST OBSERVERS CLAIM POLICE REACTION TOO AGGRESSIVE: 10:35 p.m. A vehicle and a vacant house were set ablaze.

Dotson said police would release video showing that officers gave multiple orders to clear the street and warnings that the tear gas would be used. The other officer then also fired two shots. “Both officers fired.” The dead male has been identified as Mansur Ball-Bey.

“The recent acts of violence will not be tolerated in a community that has worked so tirelessly over the last year to rebuild and become stronger”, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger said in a statement.

The state of emergency will continue for at least one more night, despite a state of relative calm on the streets of Ferguson.

Pausing along the route at a permanent memorial for his son, Michael Brown Sr. said, “Miss you”. “We have an evidentiary presentation that is going to be entirely different from what you’ve heard already”, Gray said.

The video depicts a young man in a white T-shirt pulling a weapon after the crowd he is in runs for cover.

By early Monday evening, hundreds of people had gathered again along West Florissant, the thoroughfare that was the site of massive protests and rioting after Brown was fatally shot last year in a confrontation with a Ferguson police officer. More than 20 people were arrested.

Mr Harris Jr was arrested during the violence and was in a critical condition in hospital after surgery.

At least four members of the “Oath Keepers” arrived in Ferguson on early Tuesday and began patrolling the West Florissant Avenue, walking through the crowds of protesters gathered there for a “day of civil disobedience” following the anniversary of the...

St Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared a state of emergency that authorised county police chief Jon Belmar to take control of police emergency management in and around Ferguson.