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Blacks don't know when to shut their mouths.  This one won't be
talking shit at cops any longer.

(Reuters) - Police fired tear gas after rioting broke out for a
second night in Ferguson, Missouri, despite calls on Monday for
calm from the mother of a black teenager who was shot to death
by police at the weekend.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said officers were focused on
dispersing the crowd, which was smaller than the night before,
but were making arrests and reported being fired on at some
locations.

"They are shooting at us now," Jackson said, adding that
officers from 10 to 15 jurisdictions were assisting Ferguson.

Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death in Ferguson, a mostly black
St Louis suburb, on Saturday afternoon after what police said
was a struggle with a gun in a police car. The FBI has opened a
probe into the racially charged case.

Brown's family has hired Benjamin Crump, the attorney who
represented the family of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager who
was shot to death by a community watch volunteer in 2012.

Police in riot gear fired tear gas to disperse a crowd estimated
in the hundreds gathered near a building that burned during
Sunday night's rioting, he said.

Fire trucks, ambulances and more officers converged on the area
in a chaotic scene. One officer in riot gear stood behind a
squad car in a standoff with a group of young demonstrators.

Emergency services said they had responded to reports of a
stabbing and a shooting, but had not confirmed such incidents
and emergency workers were told later to pull back from the area.

A witness in the case told local media Brown had raised his arms
to police to show he was unarmed before being killed.

"He just graduated and was on his way to college," said Brown's
mother, Lesley McSpadden, speaking through tears at a news
conference. She said her first-born son's first day back at
school would have been Monday.

"We can't even celebrate," she said.

The FBI opened a federal inquiry into the case intended to
supplement the main investigation by St. Louis County police,
according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

It was not immediately clear from police why Brown was in the
police car. At least one shot was fired during the struggle, and
then the officer fired more shots before leaving the car, police
said.

OFFICER NOT IDENTIFIED

The officer, who was not identified, is a six-year veteran and
has been put on administrative leave, police said. The officer's
race has not been disclosed.

Dorian Johnson told television station KMOV that he and Brown
had been walking when an officer confronted them, drew a weapon
and shot. Johnson said that Brown put his hands in the air and
started to get down, but the officer kept shooting.

Jackson said there was plenty of physical evidence and witness
testimony. "I really believe we can get to the truth of what
happened here," he said.

Demonstrations to call for justice for Brown turned violent
Sunday night. Crowds broke the windows of cars and stores, set a
building on fire and looted shops. At least two dozen businesses
were damaged, 32 people were arrested, and two officers injured.

"I think it is crazy. It's nonsense. What does it bring back?
It's not going to bring the man back," said Adrian Brewer, 30,
an African American from a city near Ferguson.

Hundreds of demonstrators had gathered earlier on Monday at the
town's police station to demand that the officer responsible for
Brown's death face murder charges. Police arrested up to 15
people during that mostly peaceful demonstration.

On Monday night, demonstrators driven out by tear gas gathered
at the station, chanting "hands up, don't shoot."

Brown's mother said her son had been planning to study heating
and air conditioning repair at a technical college.

Michael Brown Sr., the teen's father, told reporters his son was
"silly" and "could make you laugh."

"We need justice for our son," he said.

Three of the Ferguson Police Department's 53 members are black,
Jackson said. About two-thirds of Ferguson's population of about
21,000 are black, according to U.S. Census figures.

Ferguson's median household income is $37,517, less than the
Missouri average of $47,333.

Most of the communities around Ferguson have gone from white to
mostly black in the last 40 years, said Terry Jones, political
science professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis.

"There's a long history of racial injustice," said Jones.
"Slowly and not so surely, the St. Louis metropolitan area has
been trying to figure out a way forward. As the Michael Brown
shooting indicates, there are often setbacks."

(Additional reporting by Mary Wisniewski in Chicago; Editing by
Edith Honan, Eric Walsh, Ken Wills and Jeremy Laurence)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/12/us-usa-missouri-
shooting-idUSKBN0GA0Q420140812

  

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