4th night of Ferguson protests brings confrontation, arrests
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — As another protest on Ferguson's beleaguered
West Florissant Avenue began to turn rowdy, Jon Belmar was among the
first to confront protesters.
Wearing neither a helmet nor a
shield, the St. Louis County police chief strode directly toward
demonstrators, telling them to get out of the street and urging calm.
"They're
not going to take the street tonight," Belmar told an Associated Press
reporter standing nearby. "That's not going to happen."
One night
earlier, things turned dangerously violent when shots rang out and an
18-year-old black suspect was shot by police after he allegedly fired a
handgun into an unmarked police van. Police used smoke to disperse the
crowd. Three officers were injured.
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