This happened Saturday afternoon.
Hopefully the reporting on what happened later is pretty objective/easy to get accurate (but I don't know that for sure):
It seems pretty early to expect the officer be arrested even if that's what's going to happen. OTOH, in the Ferrell case here in NC, that officer was arrested within 19 hours, so it wouldn't be unheard of, either.
I don't know. I'm keeping my eye on this one
So the facts of what happened are hard to pin down right now for readers (imho, at least). More details are in the article, but I don't know that I trust one source or the reporting of earliest accounts, so I'm not quoting those details yet.A friend and witnesses say Missouri teen Michael Brown was unarmed and had his hands in the air when a Ferguson police officer shot and killed him, but that account is in dispute. "The genesis of this was a physical confrontation," Jon Belmar, chief of the St. Louis County Police Department, said at a Sunday news conference....
Hopefully the reporting on what happened later is pretty objective/easy to get accurate (but I don't know that for sure):
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/10/justice/missouri-police-involved-shooting/index.html...Antonio French, the Ward 21 alderman in nearby St. Louis, tweeted numerous photos and videos from the aftermath of the Saturday shooting. Brown was shot shortly after 2 p.m., according to reports.
Hundreds of demonstrators -- as many as 1,000 at the height of the protests, according to police -- converged on the scene Saturday, at one point driving away a police squad car, French said on Twitter.
Scores of police officers lined the street. One of them held the leash of a barking dog, and French said some officers wielded shotguns. One image showed a riot van on the scene.
Demonstrators held their hands in the air and chanted, "We are Michael Brown." Others held signs, including one that said, "No justice, no peace" and another that read, "Police stops should not = dead kids." There were reports that some protesters yelled, "Kill the police."
Demonstrators at one point set a Dumpster on fire, according to CNN affiliate KMOV, and Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson told KSDK, "It did get a little tense when, twice, several shots were fired."
The Ferguson Police Department called more than 100 officers from 15 jurisdictions to secure the scene, KMOV reported.
"We had what probably bordered on riot conditions," Jackson said, explaining that it took hours to process the scene, collect evidence and move Brown's body....
It seems pretty early to expect the officer be arrested even if that's what's going to happen. OTOH, in the Ferrell case here in NC, that officer was arrested within 19 hours, so it wouldn't be unheard of, either.
I don't know. I'm keeping my eye on this one
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