Michael Brown's fatal shooting by police.
Yesterday,
late Sunday a young man was shot by police after gunfire erupted in the
Missouri town marking the one year of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. According to St Louis
country police chief Jon Belmar a man whose age was around twenty was in a
critical condition after opening fire on plain clothed police officers in
Ferguson, Missouri.
According
to Belmar Michael Brown uniformed
officers were deployed to monitor business which followed protests and reports
of looting. Four plain clothed officers were tracking an individual whom they
suspected was armed.
The
man Michael Brown opened fire on the
officers who were in an unmarked car and strike the police vehicle several
times. The officers returned fire and pursued the man on foot. The suspect has
stolen a 9mm gun and again opened fire and the officers also fired back.
The
entire episode of Michael Brown police
shooting led to remarkable amount of gun fire approximately between forty and
fifty shots. In my opinion they were criminals and not protestors and the
violence was avoidable for a community which is still struggling to rebuild
from the often violent aftermath of Michael browns death.
This
episode Michael Brown didn’t have to
happen since the people in this community have worked too hard for this event
to happen. Now this is really an impediment to positive change. However four
plain clothed officers have been placed on administrative leave.
Tear gas was used before dawn to
disperse protesters on Michael Brown West
Florissant Avenue — the frontline in the often violent demonstrations that
rocked Ferguson in wake of Brown's death. Ferguson had marked the grim anniversary
earlier on Sunday with 4½ minutes of silence at 12:02 p.m. —
to remember the 4½ hours that the 18-year-old's body was left in the street on
Aug. 9, 2014.
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