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Now there is already widespread looting and arson going rampant in USA. Niger President Obama just need to be shot by a White Man, and the entire show will max out @10000X the current level.
http://www.firstpost.com/world/fergu...t-1820289.html (http://www.firstpost.com/world/ferguson-live-protests-spread-far-and-beyond-as-jury-verdict-gives-white-cop-clean-chit-1820289.html)
Ferguson Live: Protests spread far and beyond as jury verdict gives white cop clean chit
by Devparna Acharya Nov 25, 2014 16:18 IST
#African American #Barack Obama #Black people #Darren Wilson #Ferguson #Ferguson Live #Ferguson shooting #Michael Brown #Missouri #NewsTracker #Racism
3.12 pm: Protests go beyond Ferguson
New York City, Philadelphia, Oakland, Washington DC and several other major cities in the US protested against the jury verdict in the Michael Brown shooting case.
The cop, Darren Wilson, who shot the unarmed black teenager on 9 August was given orders to walk free as the jury did not find any probable cause to file any charge against the officer.
According to a report in the CNN, a crowd wound its way through the city, surging to more than 1,000 in Times Square before heading toward the Upper West Side in New York City.
Miguel Marquez of CNN tweeted out.
#Fergsuon protest NYC hits Times Sq. 1000+ peaceful. NYPD making way pic.twitter.com/KkAOgmhqJE
Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) November 25, 2014
#Ferguson protest Times Square NYC pic.twitter.com/DvrwwebjnN
Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) November 25, 2014
First arrest. pic.twitter.com/TrKYwMnLFn
Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) November 25, 2014
In Philadelphia and Oakland, according to the CNN, shop owners had signs of "We support Michael Brown," as marchers took to the streets.
According to the CNN report, in Washington DC, people assembled outside the White House, with some of them lying down on Pennsylvania Avenue.
In Los Angeles, which witnessed riots in 1992, silent protesters staged a similar demonstration. This tweet from David Rayfield shows a photo of 18-year-old Michael's distraught father.
Newspapers will have the burning cop car as a front page photo. It should be this image of Mike Browns dad #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/ktAEuCaVaA
David Rayfield (@RaygunBrown) November 25, 2014
The Chicago Tribune reported that some 200 protesters gathered outside the city's police headquarters, chanting "We are Mike Brown!" and "I am Mike Brown!" They also carried signs, the paper reported, bearing phrases like "Won't stop 'til we get justice," "Killer pigs must pay," and "Stop the racist killer cops."
2.28 pm: At least 12 buildings set on fire in violence-torn Ferguson
According to latest reports, at least dozen buildings in Ferguson were set ablaze by angry protesters. The mob destroyed most of the 12 buildings in a wave of civil unrest following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager in August, Reuters quoted the police as saying on Tuesday.
Jon Belmar St. Louis County Police Chief also said he personally had heard about 150 gunshots fired during a night of looting, arson and clashes between demonstrators and police that resulted in at least 29 people arrested.
"Hands up, don't shoot" survives as #Ferguson peace cry after night of arson & injustice @LBPhoto1 pic.twitter.com/B3temqznN7
Chris King (@chriskingstl) November 25, 2014
The Reuters report did not mention anyone being seriously injured, Belmar said the disturbances on Monday night and early on Tuesday morning were "much worse" than the unrest that erupted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson on 9 August.
2.13 pm: 16 arrested for trespassing and looting
St Louis police arrested 16 people for vandalism and looting late on Monday. Incidents of violence were reported not only from Ferguson, Missouri but also from other major US cities like New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland and Washington, D.C. over the case of a white cop Darren Wilson shooting a unarmed black teenager dead.
#Fergsuon 16 people arrested some for looting, others for trespassing, one gun recovered pic.twitter.com/Wlriuw4dul
David Carson (@PDPJ) November 25, 2014
BREAKING NEWS FROM #SEATTLE: Protesters face off against officers in riot gear, situation escalating. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/An5mtVc2Mi WTF
Alexa (@melissalexa_) November 25, 2014
2.08 pm: Violence flares in major US cities
Violence continued unabated after the grand jury let the white cop Darren Wilson walk free who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August. Gunshots rang out and buildings burned in a Midwestern suburb. The jury's verdict sparked fresh wave of racially tinged violence, Reuters reported.
RAW VIDEO: Police deploy tear gas on South Grad in St. Louis http://t.co/2oqLh8GZq7
FOX2now (@FOX2now) November 25, 2014
The Reuters report added that the protests were also staged in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland and Washington, D.C. over a case that has highlighted long-standing racial tensions not just in predominantly black Ferguson but across the United States.
Reuters image.Reuters image.
Reuters image.
Angry crowds gathered around the police department in Ferguson after the grand jury said there was no probable cause to charge officer Darren Wilson with any crime in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, whose family also called for calm.
St Louis police reported heavy gunfire late on Monday in the area near where Brown was shot and killed on Aug. 9. Storefront windows were smashed, and fires devoured buildings including a beauty shop and a pizza parlor in two stretches of town.
Police fired volleys of tear gas and flash-bang canisters in response to the protests, a repeat of similar unrest that erupted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
1.15 pm: Looting and violence continued on streets
The officers lobbed smoke, pepper spray and tear gas from inside armored vehicles to disperse the crowd which gathered outside Ferguson police department, according to a report in the Associated Press.
Multiple fires burned early on Tuesday at local businesses, including at storage facility, auto parts stores and a beauty supply shop.
A new wave of anger following the grand jury decision in Ferguson http://t.co/OQdKvQ9Cqy pic.twitter.com/88wUTwYgTZ
The New York Times (@nytimes) November 25, 2014
In his grand jury testimony, Darren Wilson describes an altercation with Michael Brown http://t.co/1SYMCsGZkZ pic.twitter.com/9aC1pOn9AP
The New York Times (@nytimes) November 25, 2014
Front page of the third edition for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. pic.twitter.com/cxbr4NHXcI
STLtoday (@stltoday) November 25, 2014
Front page of the third edition for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. pic.twitter.com/cxbr4NHXcI
STLtoday (@stltoday) November 25, 2014
Chief Belmar: "Elderly man car-jacked and ran over this evening." #ksdk #Ferguson
Nichole Berlie KSDK (@NicholeBerlie) November 25, 2014
According to latest report from BBC, St Louis county police chief Jon Belmar said that the violence in Ferguson is "worse than the worst night in August" - when the first protests erupted over the shooting of Michael Brown.
12. 35 pm: Cop shot in Ferguson
Latest update from Reuters said that a policeman was shot and wounded in University City, a St. Louis suburb near Ferguson, Missouri, though it was unclear if the shooting was related to street protests over the grand jury's decision in the Michael Brown case, police said.
The officer was shot in the arm, and he is expected to recover, but the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately available, and a search for the suspect was under way, the St. Louis County Police Department said in a message on Twitter.
11.26 am: US issues flight restrictions into Ferguson
Amid unrest in Ferguson after a grand jury's decision of not indicting Darren Wilson in Brown case, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ) has restricted the path of some flights into Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, an Associated Press report said.
According to an advisory posted late on Monday, planes were being rerouted out of an at least 3-mile (4.8-kilometer) area near Ferguson. The reason cited was "to provide a safe environment for law enforcement activities."
Despite FAA flight restrictions they're allowing news helicopters to remain in the air. #Ferguson
Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) November 25, 2014
11.15 am: Protests erupt Los Angeles, Cleveland, New York
An Associated Press report said that demonstrators vandalized police cars, hugged barricades and taunted officers with expletives late on Monday while police fired smoke canisters and pepper spray. Gunshots were heard on the streets.
But police told Associated Press that gatherings were mostly peaceful immediately following Monday's announcement.
The report added that almost 100 people holding signs that read "The People Say Guilty!" blocked an intersection in downtown Oakland, California, after a line of police officers stopped them from getting on a highway on-ramp. Minutes earlier, some of the protesters lay on the ground while others outlined their bodies in chalk. A similar scene unfolded in Seattle as dozens of police officers watched.
Several hundred people marched through downtown Philadelphia with a large contingent of police nearby.
"Mike Brown is an emblem (of a movement). This country is at its boiling point," said Ethan Jury, a protester in Philadelphia. "How many people need to die? How many black people need to die?"
Several hundred people who had gathered in Manhattan's Union Square to watch the announcement marched peacefully to Times Square after the family of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man killed by a police chokehold earlier this year, joined actvist Reverend Al Sharpton at a speech lamenting the grand jury's decision.
In Los Angeles, which was rocked by riots in 1992 after the acquittal of police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, police officers were told to remain on duty until released by their supervisors. About 100 people gathered in Leimert Park while others held a small news conference demanding changes in police policies.
Twitterati was abuzz with journalists posting pictures of protests taking place in Ferguson, Washington, New York and Los Angeles.
44 right now. #kmov pic.twitter.com/S9V4azsDlb
Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) November 25, 2014
Police won't let us cross the overpass on Grand. We've got a crew on other side where protestors are. pic.twitter.com/oMSAtiMZyl
Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) November 25, 2014
At least a dozen protesters at Cleveland's Public Square held signs on Monday afternoon and chanted "Hands up, don't shoot." The slogan has become a rallying cry since the Ferguson shooting.
10.37 am: Ferguson erupts as cop allowed to walk free
Gunshots rang out and police lobbed tear gas at an angry crowd that threw bottles outside the Ferguson Police Department in suburban St. Louis after a grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen, Reuters reported.
Someone was shot at McDonalds... #Ferguson
Stream Team (@fergusonstream1) November 25, 2014
No tear gas in #shaw. Smoke bombs being used to disperse crowds in after math of businesses being broken into/windows busted, etc.
chryssi (@chryssi) November 25, 2014
The case relates to the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown who was shot dead by a white police officer Darren Wilson in August.
Hundreds of protesters, many of them breaking down in tears, gathered in front of the police station in Ferguson where officer Wilson was based chanting: "These killer cops have got to go," reports added.
Brown's family asked protestors to be peaceful, PTI reported.
APAP
AP
"While we understand that many others share our pain, we ask that you channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive change," the family said in a statement.
A report in the Associated Press added that the police departments in several big US cities said they were bracing for large demonstrations with the potential for violence. Thousands of people protested from Los Angeles to New York, leading marches, waving signs and shouting chants of "Hands Up! Don't Shoot," the slogan that has become a rallying cry in protests over police killings across the country, the report further said.
Obama appeals for calm
An angry mob poured into the streets of Ferguson within minutes of news that a grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of demonstrations and exposed deep racial tension between African-Americans and police, an Associated Press report said.
The report added that Obama said from the White House that Americans need to accept the grand jury's decision.
"We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make," Associated Press quoted Obama as saying. He said it was understandable that some Americans would be "deeply disappointed even angered," but echoed Brown's parents in calling for any protests to be peaceful.
Speaking to Reuters, one of the residents said: "They need to understand that when you put your son in the ground, that's a pain that you can never overcome." The 40-year-old teacher's assistant added, "People are trying to process it. I think once they process it they will continue to burn and loot because they're angry."
12.24 pm: This is what white cop Darren Wilson told the grand jury
Darren Wilson, the white cop who shot the unarmed 18-year-old teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,told the grand jury that he was on the day shift on the fateful day of 9 August. News website Mother Jones released the entire transcript and you can read it here.
Lawyers for Darren Wilson say the officer followed his training and the law when he shot and killed Michael Brown in August, Reuters reports.
"We recognise that many people will want to second-guess the grand jury's decision. We would encourage anyone who wants to express an opinion do so in a respectful and peaceful manner," the lawyers said, in a statement.
No probable cause to file charge against cop, says jury
The grand jury, comprising nine white and three black members, began meeting in late August and heard evidence that included witnesses called by the prosecution as well as a private pathologist hired by the Brown family to review the shooting. Nine jurors needed to agree to bring charges, Reuters reported.
"They determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against officer Wilson," St Louis county prosecutor Bob McCulloch told reporters in Clayton, Missouri, the St Louis suburb where the grand jury met.
The report further added that angry crowd of several hundreds gathered outside the Ferguson police department ahead of the news, and many began to scream angrily as the news of the grand jury's decision was read.
"Murderers, you're nothing but murderers," one woman shouted through a megaphone at officers clad in riot gear. "Stinking murderers."
A group of protesters briefly mobbed a police car, threw rocks and knocked its windows, prompting a group of officers clad in riot gear to advance.
Brown's family said they were "profoundly disappointed" by the grand jury's finding.
Brown family's lawyers said that Michael was trying to surrender when he was shot, while police officer Darren Wilson's supporters said he opened fire fearing for his life. Brown was shot at least six times, Reuters report added. A journalist from US Chris McDaniel tweeted this following the verdict:
Much has been said about Mike Brown's size. Darren Wilson, by his measure, is 6'4", 210 lbs. pic.twitter.com/mAOMRymmik
Chris McDaniel (@csmcdaniel) November 25, 2014
Brown was suspected of having stolen cigars from a nearby convenience store shortly before the incident. Brown and his friend were walking down the street when Wilson approached them. Although in August the police had said that Wilson was unaware of the robbery at that time.
Officer Wilson's fatal shooting of Brown on 9 August after confrontation sparked a fierce debate over how police treat young African-American men and focused attention on long-simmering racial tensions in Ferguson and around the US, four decades after the 1960s civil rights movement. Police were criticized for responding to protests with armored vehicles and tear gas, added a report from Associated Press.
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Now there is already widespread looting and arson going rampant in USA. Niger President Obama just need to be shot by a White Man, and the entire show will max out @10000X the current level.
http://www.firstpost.com/world/fergu...t-1820289.html (http://www.firstpost.com/world/ferguson-live-protests-spread-far-and-beyond-as-jury-verdict-gives-white-cop-clean-chit-1820289.html)
Ferguson Live: Protests spread far and beyond as jury verdict gives white cop clean chit
by Devparna Acharya Nov 25, 2014 16:18 IST
#African American #Barack Obama #Black people #Darren Wilson #Ferguson #Ferguson Live #Ferguson shooting #Michael Brown #Missouri #NewsTracker #Racism
3.12 pm: Protests go beyond Ferguson
New York City, Philadelphia, Oakland, Washington DC and several other major cities in the US protested against the jury verdict in the Michael Brown shooting case.
The cop, Darren Wilson, who shot the unarmed black teenager on 9 August was given orders to walk free as the jury did not find any probable cause to file any charge against the officer.
According to a report in the CNN, a crowd wound its way through the city, surging to more than 1,000 in Times Square before heading toward the Upper West Side in New York City.
Miguel Marquez of CNN tweeted out.
#Fergsuon protest NYC hits Times Sq. 1000+ peaceful. NYPD making way pic.twitter.com/KkAOgmhqJE
Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) November 25, 2014
#Ferguson protest Times Square NYC pic.twitter.com/DvrwwebjnN
Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) November 25, 2014
First arrest. pic.twitter.com/TrKYwMnLFn
Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) November 25, 2014
In Philadelphia and Oakland, according to the CNN, shop owners had signs of "We support Michael Brown," as marchers took to the streets.
According to the CNN report, in Washington DC, people assembled outside the White House, with some of them lying down on Pennsylvania Avenue.
In Los Angeles, which witnessed riots in 1992, silent protesters staged a similar demonstration. This tweet from David Rayfield shows a photo of 18-year-old Michael's distraught father.
Newspapers will have the burning cop car as a front page photo. It should be this image of Mike Browns dad #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/ktAEuCaVaA
David Rayfield (@RaygunBrown) November 25, 2014
The Chicago Tribune reported that some 200 protesters gathered outside the city's police headquarters, chanting "We are Mike Brown!" and "I am Mike Brown!" They also carried signs, the paper reported, bearing phrases like "Won't stop 'til we get justice," "Killer pigs must pay," and "Stop the racist killer cops."
2.28 pm: At least 12 buildings set on fire in violence-torn Ferguson
According to latest reports, at least dozen buildings in Ferguson were set ablaze by angry protesters. The mob destroyed most of the 12 buildings in a wave of civil unrest following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager in August, Reuters quoted the police as saying on Tuesday.
Jon Belmar St. Louis County Police Chief also said he personally had heard about 150 gunshots fired during a night of looting, arson and clashes between demonstrators and police that resulted in at least 29 people arrested.
"Hands up, don't shoot" survives as #Ferguson peace cry after night of arson & injustice @LBPhoto1 pic.twitter.com/B3temqznN7
Chris King (@chriskingstl) November 25, 2014
The Reuters report did not mention anyone being seriously injured, Belmar said the disturbances on Monday night and early on Tuesday morning were "much worse" than the unrest that erupted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson on 9 August.
2.13 pm: 16 arrested for trespassing and looting
St Louis police arrested 16 people for vandalism and looting late on Monday. Incidents of violence were reported not only from Ferguson, Missouri but also from other major US cities like New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland and Washington, D.C. over the case of a white cop Darren Wilson shooting a unarmed black teenager dead.
#Fergsuon 16 people arrested some for looting, others for trespassing, one gun recovered pic.twitter.com/Wlriuw4dul
David Carson (@PDPJ) November 25, 2014
BREAKING NEWS FROM #SEATTLE: Protesters face off against officers in riot gear, situation escalating. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/An5mtVc2Mi WTF
Alexa (@melissalexa_) November 25, 2014
2.08 pm: Violence flares in major US cities
Violence continued unabated after the grand jury let the white cop Darren Wilson walk free who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August. Gunshots rang out and buildings burned in a Midwestern suburb. The jury's verdict sparked fresh wave of racially tinged violence, Reuters reported.
RAW VIDEO: Police deploy tear gas on South Grad in St. Louis http://t.co/2oqLh8GZq7
FOX2now (@FOX2now) November 25, 2014
The Reuters report added that the protests were also staged in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland and Washington, D.C. over a case that has highlighted long-standing racial tensions not just in predominantly black Ferguson but across the United States.
Reuters image.Reuters image.
Reuters image.
Angry crowds gathered around the police department in Ferguson after the grand jury said there was no probable cause to charge officer Darren Wilson with any crime in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, whose family also called for calm.
St Louis police reported heavy gunfire late on Monday in the area near where Brown was shot and killed on Aug. 9. Storefront windows were smashed, and fires devoured buildings including a beauty shop and a pizza parlor in two stretches of town.
Police fired volleys of tear gas and flash-bang canisters in response to the protests, a repeat of similar unrest that erupted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
1.15 pm: Looting and violence continued on streets
The officers lobbed smoke, pepper spray and tear gas from inside armored vehicles to disperse the crowd which gathered outside Ferguson police department, according to a report in the Associated Press.
Multiple fires burned early on Tuesday at local businesses, including at storage facility, auto parts stores and a beauty supply shop.
A new wave of anger following the grand jury decision in Ferguson http://t.co/OQdKvQ9Cqy pic.twitter.com/88wUTwYgTZ
The New York Times (@nytimes) November 25, 2014
In his grand jury testimony, Darren Wilson describes an altercation with Michael Brown http://t.co/1SYMCsGZkZ pic.twitter.com/9aC1pOn9AP
The New York Times (@nytimes) November 25, 2014
Front page of the third edition for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. pic.twitter.com/cxbr4NHXcI
STLtoday (@stltoday) November 25, 2014
Front page of the third edition for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. pic.twitter.com/cxbr4NHXcI
STLtoday (@stltoday) November 25, 2014
Chief Belmar: "Elderly man car-jacked and ran over this evening." #ksdk #Ferguson
Nichole Berlie KSDK (@NicholeBerlie) November 25, 2014
According to latest report from BBC, St Louis county police chief Jon Belmar said that the violence in Ferguson is "worse than the worst night in August" - when the first protests erupted over the shooting of Michael Brown.
12. 35 pm: Cop shot in Ferguson
Latest update from Reuters said that a policeman was shot and wounded in University City, a St. Louis suburb near Ferguson, Missouri, though it was unclear if the shooting was related to street protests over the grand jury's decision in the Michael Brown case, police said.
The officer was shot in the arm, and he is expected to recover, but the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately available, and a search for the suspect was under way, the St. Louis County Police Department said in a message on Twitter.
11.26 am: US issues flight restrictions into Ferguson
Amid unrest in Ferguson after a grand jury's decision of not indicting Darren Wilson in Brown case, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ) has restricted the path of some flights into Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, an Associated Press report said.
According to an advisory posted late on Monday, planes were being rerouted out of an at least 3-mile (4.8-kilometer) area near Ferguson. The reason cited was "to provide a safe environment for law enforcement activities."
Despite FAA flight restrictions they're allowing news helicopters to remain in the air. #Ferguson
Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) November 25, 2014
11.15 am: Protests erupt Los Angeles, Cleveland, New York
An Associated Press report said that demonstrators vandalized police cars, hugged barricades and taunted officers with expletives late on Monday while police fired smoke canisters and pepper spray. Gunshots were heard on the streets.
But police told Associated Press that gatherings were mostly peaceful immediately following Monday's announcement.
The report added that almost 100 people holding signs that read "The People Say Guilty!" blocked an intersection in downtown Oakland, California, after a line of police officers stopped them from getting on a highway on-ramp. Minutes earlier, some of the protesters lay on the ground while others outlined their bodies in chalk. A similar scene unfolded in Seattle as dozens of police officers watched.
Several hundred people marched through downtown Philadelphia with a large contingent of police nearby.
"Mike Brown is an emblem (of a movement). This country is at its boiling point," said Ethan Jury, a protester in Philadelphia. "How many people need to die? How many black people need to die?"
Several hundred people who had gathered in Manhattan's Union Square to watch the announcement marched peacefully to Times Square after the family of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man killed by a police chokehold earlier this year, joined actvist Reverend Al Sharpton at a speech lamenting the grand jury's decision.
In Los Angeles, which was rocked by riots in 1992 after the acquittal of police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, police officers were told to remain on duty until released by their supervisors. About 100 people gathered in Leimert Park while others held a small news conference demanding changes in police policies.
Twitterati was abuzz with journalists posting pictures of protests taking place in Ferguson, Washington, New York and Los Angeles.
44 right now. #kmov pic.twitter.com/S9V4azsDlb
Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) November 25, 2014
Police won't let us cross the overpass on Grand. We've got a crew on other side where protestors are. pic.twitter.com/oMSAtiMZyl
Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) November 25, 2014
At least a dozen protesters at Cleveland's Public Square held signs on Monday afternoon and chanted "Hands up, don't shoot." The slogan has become a rallying cry since the Ferguson shooting.
10.37 am: Ferguson erupts as cop allowed to walk free
Gunshots rang out and police lobbed tear gas at an angry crowd that threw bottles outside the Ferguson Police Department in suburban St. Louis after a grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen, Reuters reported.
Someone was shot at McDonalds... #Ferguson
Stream Team (@fergusonstream1) November 25, 2014
No tear gas in #shaw. Smoke bombs being used to disperse crowds in after math of businesses being broken into/windows busted, etc.
chryssi (@chryssi) November 25, 2014
The case relates to the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown who was shot dead by a white police officer Darren Wilson in August.
Hundreds of protesters, many of them breaking down in tears, gathered in front of the police station in Ferguson where officer Wilson was based chanting: "These killer cops have got to go," reports added.
Brown's family asked protestors to be peaceful, PTI reported.
APAP
AP
"While we understand that many others share our pain, we ask that you channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive change," the family said in a statement.
A report in the Associated Press added that the police departments in several big US cities said they were bracing for large demonstrations with the potential for violence. Thousands of people protested from Los Angeles to New York, leading marches, waving signs and shouting chants of "Hands Up! Don't Shoot," the slogan that has become a rallying cry in protests over police killings across the country, the report further said.
Obama appeals for calm
An angry mob poured into the streets of Ferguson within minutes of news that a grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of demonstrations and exposed deep racial tension between African-Americans and police, an Associated Press report said.
The report added that Obama said from the White House that Americans need to accept the grand jury's decision.
"We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make," Associated Press quoted Obama as saying. He said it was understandable that some Americans would be "deeply disappointed even angered," but echoed Brown's parents in calling for any protests to be peaceful.
Speaking to Reuters, one of the residents said: "They need to understand that when you put your son in the ground, that's a pain that you can never overcome." The 40-year-old teacher's assistant added, "People are trying to process it. I think once they process it they will continue to burn and loot because they're angry."
12.24 pm: This is what white cop Darren Wilson told the grand jury
Darren Wilson, the white cop who shot the unarmed 18-year-old teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,told the grand jury that he was on the day shift on the fateful day of 9 August. News website Mother Jones released the entire transcript and you can read it here.
Lawyers for Darren Wilson say the officer followed his training and the law when he shot and killed Michael Brown in August, Reuters reports.
"We recognise that many people will want to second-guess the grand jury's decision. We would encourage anyone who wants to express an opinion do so in a respectful and peaceful manner," the lawyers said, in a statement.
No probable cause to file charge against cop, says jury
The grand jury, comprising nine white and three black members, began meeting in late August and heard evidence that included witnesses called by the prosecution as well as a private pathologist hired by the Brown family to review the shooting. Nine jurors needed to agree to bring charges, Reuters reported.
"They determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against officer Wilson," St Louis county prosecutor Bob McCulloch told reporters in Clayton, Missouri, the St Louis suburb where the grand jury met.
The report further added that angry crowd of several hundreds gathered outside the Ferguson police department ahead of the news, and many began to scream angrily as the news of the grand jury's decision was read.
"Murderers, you're nothing but murderers," one woman shouted through a megaphone at officers clad in riot gear. "Stinking murderers."
A group of protesters briefly mobbed a police car, threw rocks and knocked its windows, prompting a group of officers clad in riot gear to advance.
Brown's family said they were "profoundly disappointed" by the grand jury's finding.
Brown family's lawyers said that Michael was trying to surrender when he was shot, while police officer Darren Wilson's supporters said he opened fire fearing for his life. Brown was shot at least six times, Reuters report added. A journalist from US Chris McDaniel tweeted this following the verdict:
Much has been said about Mike Brown's size. Darren Wilson, by his measure, is 6'4", 210 lbs. pic.twitter.com/mAOMRymmik
Chris McDaniel (@csmcdaniel) November 25, 2014
Brown was suspected of having stolen cigars from a nearby convenience store shortly before the incident. Brown and his friend were walking down the street when Wilson approached them. Although in August the police had said that Wilson was unaware of the robbery at that time.
Officer Wilson's fatal shooting of Brown on 9 August after confrontation sparked a fierce debate over how police treat young African-American men and focused attention on long-simmering racial tensions in Ferguson and around the US, four decades after the 1960s civil rights movement. Police were criticized for responding to protests with armored vehicles and tear gas, added a report from Associated Press.
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