Police in riot gear clashed with protesters who had gathered in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, early on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen whose death sparked a national outcry over race relations. About 200 demonstrators, some waving flags, beating drums, and[…]
Two people were wounded in gunfire at a rally in Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the death of Michael Brown near where the unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white office. The gunshots rang out as police tried to disperse demonstrators blocking traffic and[…]
Taurean Russell was preparing to coach high school football in St. Louis last Aug. 9 when his Twitter feed began flashing images of a black teenager lying facedown on the street of a nearby suburb, shot dead by police. Within hours came photos of the dead 18-year-old’s stepfather, stony-faced, holding[…]
The family of the unarmed black teenager whose shooting death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri set off weeks of protests will file suit in his death, their lawyers said Thursday. Michael Brown’s family will file a civil lawsuit soon against the city of Ferguson and the officer, Darren[…]
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, routinely engaged in racial bias and stereotyping, the U.S. Justice Department is said to have concluded following an investigation sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen. A report expected to be released as early as Wednesday details a sweeping pattern of discrimination not[…]
The white police officer who shot black teenager Michael Brown dead has resigned, nearly four months after the confrontation that prompted protests in the US city of St Louis and across the country. Darren Wilson, 28, had been on administrative leave since the August 9 shooting. His resignation was announced[…]
Slain US teenager Michael Brown’s mother says it has been a “sleepless, very hard, heartbreaking and unbelievable” time for her since the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing her son. Lesley McSpadden said on Wednesday during an interview on NBC’s “Today” show that[…]
People protesting against the Ferguson jury decision took to the streets in some US cities for a second day, even as others were still cleaning up vandalism from the night before. Protesters on Tuesday disrupted traffic for several hours in central St Louis by blocking major intersections, an interstate highway[…]
Protest marches sprang up in cities across the United States on Tuesday, amid a tense security operation in Ferguson, the Missouri town at the center of the country’s latest racially-charged stand-off. Clashes erupted in the St Louis suburb for a second night, after Monday’s decision by a grand jury not to[…]
Violence that erupted in Ferguson after a US grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black teenager was the “worst” since August, when the unrest first started, police said on Tuesday. “What I’ve seen tonight is probably much worse than the[…]
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