Several hundred people braved yesterday at dawn curfew implemented by the governor of Missouri to stop the violence in the small town of Ferguson, asesinaro generated by a black teenager last week. Clashes with the police continued with piedrazos, tear gas and smoke bombs and tension did not stop.
At least seven people were arrested and another was critically injured in -is condition after being shot by an unknown assailant. The incident occurred as police fired smoke bombs and tear gas at about 200 protesters who had defied a curfew imposed by Gov. Jay Nixon.
The officer introduced this measure to midnight Saturday "to protect people and property from Ferguson" after a week of protests following the murder of Michael Brown, a young African American, 18, at the hands of an agent of race white, who shot on Saturday August 9 shot several times while the youth raised his arms in surrender, according to witnesses, but the police said that Brown had tried to snatch the gun. The FBI asked yesterday that he make a new autopsy cadaver.
Thereafter there were protest marches and riots in this city 20 miles from St Louis, which has two-thirds of African Americans and almost all of their police officer is white. There was a strong repression by the security forces, many of them armed with war equipment.
Yesterday morning, after starting the curfew, violence did not abate. People gathered in the area where Brown had been killed, they refused to disperse and chanted "no justice, no curfew '. According to journalist reports in place, while five armored vehicles approached the crowd, officers spoke through a loudspeaker: "You are violating the curfew imposed by the state, must disperse immediately. Otherwise I may be arrested '. As the officers became gas masks, the crowd chanted: "We have the right to peaceably assemble '.
A moment later, police opened fire on protesters cans. The spokesman for the Highway Patrol, John Hotz said police initially used only smoke, but then told AP that also threw tear gas canisters.
Antonio French, a local politician who was at the demonstration, said: "I can tell you first hand that some of the people left tonight were armed. They were ready to fight. And they wanted to harm the police. "
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