Fox NewsAnger spurred by the death of a black teenager at the hands of white police officer boiled over again early Saturday morning in Ferguson, Missouri, when protesters stormed into a convenience store — the same store that Michael Brown was accused of robbing.
Police and about 200 protesters began clashing late Friday after another tense day in the St. Louis suburb, a day that included authorities identifying the officer who fatally shot Brown on Aug. 9. At the same news conference in which officer Darren Wilson was named, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson released documents alleging that Brown stole a $48.99 box of cigars from the convenience store, then strong-armed a man on his way out.
Just before midnight, some in what had been a large and rowdy but mostly well-behaved crowd broke into that same small store and began looting it, said Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson.
Some in the crowd began throwing rocks and other objects at police, Johnson said. One officer was hurt but details on the injury were not immediately available.
Johnson said police backed off to try and ease the tension. He believes looting may have spread to a couple of nearby stores. No arrests were made.
“We had to evaluate the security of the officers there and also the rioters,” Johnson said. “We just felt it was better to move back.”
Meanwhile, peaceful protesters yelled at the aggressors to stop what they were doing. About a dozen people eventually blocked off the front of the convenience store to help protect it.
Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday appointed Johnson to take over security after concerns were raised about how local police had used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters earlier in the week. Johnson said one tear gas canister was deployed Friday night after the group of rioters became unruly.
Jackson’s decision to spell out the allegations that Brown committed the robbery, and his releasing of surveillance video, angered attorneys for Brown’s family and others, including U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay. Earlier Friday night, the Democratic congressman took a bullhorn and told protesters, “They have attempted to taint the investigation. They are trying to influence a jury pool by the stunt they pulled today.”
Family attorney Daryl Parks acknowledged that the man shown in the surveillance footage “appears to be” Brown. But he and others said Brown’s family was blindsided by the allegations and release of the footage. They said that even if it was Brown, the crime didn’t justify the shooting of a teen after he put up his hands in surrender to the officer, as witnesses allege.
Another family attorney, Benjamin Crump, said police “are choosing to disseminate information that is very strategic to try to help them justify the execution-style” killing, said Crump, who also represented the family of Trayvon Martin, the teenager fatally shot by a Florida neighborhood watch organizer who was later acquitted of murder.
The surveillance video appears to show a man wearing a ball cap, shorts and white T-shirt grabbing a much shorter man by his shirt near the store’s door. A police report alleges that Brown grabbed the man who had come from behind the store counter and “forcefully pushed him back” into a display rack.
Police said they found evidence of the stolen merchandise on Brown’s body.
Brown’s family and supporters have been pushing for release of the officer’s name. Wilson is a six-year police veteran — two in neighboring Jennings and four in Ferguson — and had no previous complaints filed against him, Jackson said.
The police chief described Wilson as “a gentle, quiet man” who had been “an excellent officer.” Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting. St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch said it could be weeks before the investigation of the shooting wraps up.
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley on Friday asked Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster to take over the case, saying he did not believe McCulloch could be objective. Koster said Missouri law does not allow it unless McCulloch opts out. McCulloch spokesman Ed Magee said McCulloch has no plans to surrender the case.
Also Friday, the Justice Department confirmed in a statement that FBI agents had conducted several interviews with witnesses as part of a civil-rights investigation into Brown’s death. In the days ahead, the agents planned to canvass the neighborhood where the shooting happened, seeking more information, the statement said.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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After the Zio-trash at FOX news tries to make this into a racial issue in the first sentence (as you should expect them to), they then try to steer the debate towards a character assassination by bringing up this stupid box of cigars.
THE THEFT IS NOT THE ISSUE, AND IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO WHAT’S IMPORTANT HERE.
At issue here is a pig thinking that he has some right to appoint himself judge, jury and executioner, and brutally murder someone in cold blood for NO REASON. Cigar theft or not, Brown had his hands in the air, and was posing no threat to anyone when the pig pumped five bullets into him, and to make this an even more obvious example of cold-blooded murder, today we’re finding out that the killer pig DIDN’T EVEN KNOW about the cigar theft when he shot the kid.
Streets are gonna run red when We The People say “Enough”. The smart ones better just stay home and make merry cause other ones are not coming home to their loved ones.
When the people finally say enough is enough, all the pigs will be heading for the hills with the people right behind them carrying pitchforks, torches, and guns. Once the pigs are given their well-deserved hemp rope, it’s on to Washington to kick all the jew bastards off the continent. Then it’s off to Europe and the Middle East for a little debt collection of what these sons of bitches have stolen from us. If we even got 1% of that money back, we could all retire comfortably. We are going to take back what belongs to us and hang every Zionist we find during our world wide sweep of filth. Maybe, once this Ziotrash is wiped off the face of the earth, we can again live in peace.
Better hurry up with the lynching of these traitors, as the chem-trails are killing us off. Trees are dying everywhere. Fish, bees, butterflies, birds and all four legged animals are slowly dying off. People can’t breath and are also dying off. The whole climate change is a hoax to spray stuff into the air to kill us off. The depopulation program is in full swing. They blame it on bugs, bacteria, and whatever else the ignorant will believe. The geo-engineering and solar radiation programs are there to kill us off. If one believes killing the trees with chemtrails, (aka geo-engineering the weather), is going to help so called climate change; be prepared to die. The elite want us dead. These cloud spraying programs can make it hot or cold. Will the people win, or will the elite. So far the elite seem to be winning. See you all six feet under, unless ????? Does anyone remember Obama getting caught saying to Putin’s right hand man in the US, ” I need more time, after I get re-elected I have more flexibility.” The charade continues and the people have been drugged and brainwashed since birth, hence why so many are ignorant to what is going on and they will believe what their programmers tell them to believe. Hopefully the divergent ones can save them.
Was listening to RBN this morning and the caller and Darren Weeks were telling us they should protest this in a “civilized” way. People should stand with their signs (di#c) in their hand at the hog station.
What a bunch of pussy faggots.
The hard proof is setting there in plain sight. The officer stopped then drove off. Then stoped reversed and started his police squill leading to the fight. OK Now were is the proof to that? In the trip recorder of the car! So pull it that is hard evidence! That would be on the recorder the stop, drive away stop reverse and stop. Once the officer left the stop is over that is the LAW! The return is a Cop looking for trouble and roided out or in bad mood and looking for trouble. That is easy to pull and match time on. The trip comes on a print out sheet most car dealers can pull for you. Make or brake on the witness statement there. End of reason to rioy or reason to burn baby burn because the police are lieing. Pull it print it and lets get it on from there. Take about 1 maybe 2 hours to have the goods on the table. Witness word or cop word on the line here!