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Missouri police tear-gas protesters after Ferguson shooting | Missouri police tear-gas protesters after Ferguson shooting |
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US police have fired smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse a crowd defying a curfew in St Louis, Missouri, where a shooting has inflamed racial tensions. | |
Police say they broke up the crowd of about 150 in the suburb of Ferguson after being called to the scene of a disturbance after the curfew started. | |
A police car reportedly came under fire and a person was hurt in an apparently unrelated shooting in the same area. | |
Black teenager Michael Brown was shot by a white policeman on 9 August. | |
The shooting of the 18-year-old as he walked down a street drew allegations of police brutality among people in the mainly black suburb of Ferguson. | |
A riot erupted on Friday night, with local stores targeted by looters, after police named the officer who shot Mr Brown and also released CCTV from a shop where he apparently stole a pack of cigars and intimidated the owner just before his death. | |
A five-hour curfew, running from midnight (05:00 GMT), was imposed in response. | |
US civil rights leader Al Sharpton has said a peaceful rally, led by Michael Brown's family, is planned for later on Sunday. | |
'Ready to die' | |
Seven arrests were made when police moved to break up the protest at a barbecue restaurant. | |
Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who was put in charge of bringing calm back to Ferguson, said police had moved in after receiving a report of people breaking into the restaurant and climbing on to the roof. | |
As police were nearing the restaurant, a man with a handgun went into the street but ran away, AP news agency reports. | |
Someone also shot at a police car but it was not clear if it had been hit. | |
In the same area, a person was shot and critically wounded and police were searching for the attacker. | |
Demonstrators complained that the curfew would make matters worse. | |
As police prepared to move on the protesters during the night, a chant of "No justice! No curfew!" could be heard from the crowd, followed by "We have the right to assemble peacefully". | |
Jayson Ross, who was leading the protesters toward the police before tear gas was fired, was quoted as saying by AP: "They got guns. We got guns. We are ready." | |
Local politician Antonio French, who was with the protesters, tweeted to say: "Too many young men talking about they're ready to die tonight." | |
'The world is watching' | |
Governor Jay Nixon said he would not allow a handful of looters to endanger the community. | |
"This is a test," he said. "The eyes of the world are watching. We cannot allow the ill will of the few to undermine the good will of the many." | |
The US justice department is investigating the shooting of Mr Brown, with 40 FBI agents dispatched to Ferguson to gather information. | |
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson revealed on Friday that the officer who shot Mr Brown was Darren Wilson, a six-year police veteran with no previous complaints against him. | |
Mr Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting. | |
Commenting on the CCTV footage that was released, Chief Jackson said that Mr Wilson had not known Mr Brown was a robbery suspect. | |
The policeman had reportedly stopped the teenager for walking in the street, disrupting traffic. | |
Mr Brown's family condemned the release of the footage as a police attempt to "justify the execution-style murder". | |
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