Missouri Jigs have a chimp out

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Protests have unfolded peacefully in a Missouri town, and National Guard troops have withdrawn, 12 days after the fatal police shooting of a black teenager that led to racially-charged unrest.

No serious incidents were reported on Thursday as several hundred demonstrators defied stifling heat and humidity in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson to demand justice for 18-year-old, college-bound student Michael Brown.

It was the second straight night of generally orderly protest, after previous marches descended into riots, looting and tense stand-offs with police who fired tear gas to disperse the crowds.

'Until we get justice, people are going to continue to march for Mike Brown, and that's just how it should be,' said Stephanie Taylor, 28, a nursing assistant who has been coming out almost nightly.

On the residential street where white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Brown at least six times in broad daylight on August 9, hundreds of red roses were carefully arranged in a row.Families took turns snapping pictures of themselves by a makeshift memorial fashioned out of a traffic cone, a St Louis Cardinals baseball jersey, tall candles and shiny helium balloons.Teddy bears and a stuffed gorilla toy (PROBABLY A MAKESHIFT EFFERGY OF THE DEAD COON?) wrapped the base of a lamp post.

A crucifix leaned against a tree, next to a handmade sign that warned of 'killer cops' in the area. Rap music echoed from a parking lot

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The Australian media sure knows how to pile the bullshit on!

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Protests have unfolded peacefully in a Missouri town ... 12 days after the fatal police shooting of a black teenager that led to racially-charged unrest.

No serious incidents were reported ....

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/world/us-police-officer-shot-in-ferguson/story-fnjbnxon-1227073032858


AUTHORITIES say a police officer has been shot in Ferguson, Missouri, the scene of racial unrest in the wake of the August shooting death of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer. 
 
TIM Zoll of the Ferguson Police Department told KSDK-TV that the officer was shot in the arm.

St Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman told The Associated Press that an officer was shot but said he had no further information.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear.

The city has been the scene of unrest since the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, by a white police officer.

The shooting on Saturday comes after Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson issued a videotaped apology earlier in the week and attempted to march with protesters, an effort that led to a clash with activists and several arrests on Thursday.

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POLICE have erected barricades and businesses have boarded up their doors as the clock ticks down to a grand jury decision on whether to charge a white officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager in the US city of St Louis. 
 
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old high school graduate planning to go to technical college, was shot at least six times by Darren Wilson in the suburb of Ferguson on August 9, inflaming racial tensions and sparking weeks of violent protests.

MORE: Unravelling the truth behind Ferguson riots

The mostly black suburb of 21,000, which has an overwhelmingly white police force and town government, has been on edge for days in anticipation of the jury's decision on whether Wilson should be prosecuted.

A 20-minute drive away in Clayton, another suburb where the grand jury has been meeting, metal interlocking fences and orange plastic barricades sealed off the Buzz Westfall Justice Center.

An officer unfurled yellow police tape reading "Do Not Cross" and "St Louis Police Lines" around the barricades. The road in front of the building has been barricaded off.

St Louis County informed businesses and residents that they were securing buildings in downtown Clayton and temporarily restricting traffic.

"We will keep these traffic restrictions in place as long as they seem prudent," it said in a statement.

St Louis County police spokesman Rick Eckhard defended the barricades as "just a preventive measure." US President Barack Obama has called for calm.

Missouri's governor has declared a state of emergency and the FBI deployed extra personnel.

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A US grand jury has reached a decision on whether to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.There is no indication yet whether officer Darren Wilson will face charges for the death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in the community of Ferguson, just outside St Louis.

He could be indicted with first or second degree murder, or manslaughter - or the grand jury could decide that he acted in self-defence and that there is no need for him to go on trial.

Brown, an 18-year-old high school graduate planning to go to technical college, was shot at least six times by Wilson.

'Yes, I can confirm that a decision has been reached,' a public relations manager for the Brown family's lawyer said.

The announcement is expected to be made by the St Louis prosecutor's office around 4.00pm to 5.00pm on Monday (about 9am AEDT), he added.