Thousands of people rallied in US cities including Los Angeles and New York to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri. Gunshots rang out and police lobbed tear gas at an angry crowd in suburban St.[…]
Grieving family members were joined by thousands of mourners at the funeral of Michael Brown, an unarmed black youth whose killing by a white police officer in the town of Ferguson triggered weeks of unrest. US civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton, called for a “fair and impartial investigation” into[…]
A leading American Muslim civil rights activist has complained that US Muslims were enduring similar racial profiling to African-American in Ferguson suburb in Missouri state. “Profiling in post-9/11 America of Arab-Americans and South-Asian Americans cannot be dealt with in a silo separate from the profiling and misconduct that is done[…]
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday ordered the state National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest have erupted since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old nearly two weeks ago. Since the guard’s arrival Monday, protests in the small section of town[…]
Protesters hit the streets of the US town roiled by days of unrest over the killing of an unarmed black teen, hours after police shot dead a knife-wielding man just a few miles away. Demonstrators waved signs and chanted slogans as they strolled up and down West Florissant Avenue in[…]
US police have said they came under “heavy gunfire” and 31 people were arrested during protests in Ferguson, Missouri sparked by the shooting death of a black unarmed teenager by a white policeman. Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who is in charge of security in Ferguson, said[…]
US National Guard troops were deployed Monday after unrest in a Missouri town where a white police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager, as President Barack Obama called for calm. A clearly uncomfortable Obama said there was no excuse for local police to employ “excessive force” and urged the[…]
Police in the US state of Missouri have fired tear gas and smoke canisters into a crowd of about 400 people protesting against the killing last week of an unarmed black teenager by police in the town of Ferguson. Barely hours before a second night of curfew that came into[…]
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