Police, protesters collide again in Ferguson
Source: AP-Excite
By NIGEL DUARA
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) The National Guard arrived in Ferguson but kept its distance from the streets where protesters clashed again with police, as clouds of tear gas and smoke hung over the St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer.
Protesters filled the streets after nightfall Monday, and officers trying to enforce tighter restrictions at times used bullhorns to order them to disperse. Police deployed noisemakers and armored vehicles to push demonstrators back. Officers fired tear gas and flash grenades.
Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who is in charge of security in Ferguson, said bottles and Molotov cocktails were thrown from the crowd and that some officers had come under heavy gunfire. At least two people were shot and 31 were arrested, he said. He did not have condition updates on those who were shot. Johnson said four officers were injured by rocks or bottles.
Demonstrators no longer faced the neighborhood's midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew, but police told protesters that they could not assemble in a single spot and had to keep moving. After the streets had been mostly cleared, authorities ordered reporters to leave as well, citing the risk from gunfire that had been reported.
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A man is helped ease the effects of tear gas during a protest Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's shooting has sparked more than a week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It is really too bad that the news keeps picturing the protesters and the hoodlums asone and the same.
I can imagine that the city fathers of St. Louis are fearful that the unrest spreads from Ferguson.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I don't think that these assholes know what one actually is.
I have yet to see one used in any footage.
BumRushDaShow
(128,937 posts)malthaussen
(17,194 posts)If the protesters are throwing Molotovs, why has there not been a single burn casualty? Hey, the only people I see getting hurt are the citizens.
-- Mal
brooklynite
(94,535 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)No provenience and not thrown.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)blow up?
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)... the story line is always about "protesters clash with police." Clash? What clash? The cops opened up on them.
I'm really getting sick of this bullshit.
-- Mal
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)Don't forget the protesters assaulting the police night sticks with their bodies. /sarcasm
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)... which did happen in Ferguson, your sarcasm is actually reality.
-- Mal
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)It is hard to be sarcastic about the police when they keep raising the bar. I guess if the police shoot me, I can be charged with attempted murder if my blood spatters them?
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)Sparhawk60
(359 posts)Using cop math, the street value of the ammo that Mr. Brown stole was at least $20K.