Another protest set in Missouri

Published August 12, 2014 by TNJ Staff
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Demonstrators stand in the street in Ferguson, Missouri August 11, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniAn uneasy calm settled over Ferguson, Missouri, early Tuesday after a second night of violent clashes between law enforcement and residents protesting the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, with another demonstration planned for mid-morning.

So far, more than 50 people have been arrested in protests following the death of Michael Brown, 18, in a largely black St. Louis suburb on Saturday after what police officials said was a struggle with a gun in a squad car.

The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the racially charged case, and St. Louis County is also investigating the shooting.

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