Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Powerful Scenes From Ferguson, Missouri - ABC News






  • A demonstrator throws back a tear gas container after tactical officers worked to break up a group of bystanders on Chambers Road and West Florissant, Aug. 13, 2014, in St. Louis.


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  • Police force protesters from the business district into nearby neighborhoods, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • Tear gas hangs in the air as police force protesters from the business district into nearby neighborhoods, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • Police guard a Quick Trip gas station that was burned, Aug. 10, 2014, when protests over the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown turned to riots and looting, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • Arniesha Randall protests the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown who was shot by police, Aug. 11, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • An overflow crowd stands outside during at a town hall meeting hosted by the St. Louis County NAACP at Murchison Tabernacle Church meets to discuss the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown and the community unrest that followed his death, Aug. 11, 2014 in St. Louis, Mo.


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  • Protesters march along Florissant Road in downtown Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 11, 2014. The group marched along the closed street, rallying in front of the town's police headquarters to protest the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officers on Saturday night


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  • Tactical officers fire tear gas, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted.


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  • A man leaves a store, Aug. 10, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. A few thousand people crammed a suburban St. Louis street Sunday night at a vigil for unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown who was shot and killed by a police officer, while afterward several car windows were smashed and stores were looted as people carried away armloads of goods as witnessed by an an Associated Press reporter.


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  • Protesters confront police during an impromptu rally, Aug. 10, 2014 to protest the shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by police in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • People raise their hands in the middle of the street as police wearing riot gear move toward their position trying to get them to disperse, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • People scatter as police officers fire tear gas, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • Phaedra Parks, left, comforts Desuirea Harris, the grandmother of Michael Brown, during a news conference, Aug. 11, 2014, in Jennings, Mo.


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  • Lesley McSpadden, right, the mother of 18-year-old Michael Brown, watches as Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., holds up a family picture of himself, his son, top left in photo, and a young child during a news conference, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • Desuirea Harris, the grandmother of Michael Brown, sits in a chair as she is comforted by others outside Jennings Mason Temple Church following a news conference, Aug. 11, 2014, in Jennings, Mo.


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  • A fire is seen in Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 10, 2014. A few thousand people crammed a suburban St. Louis street Sunday night at a vigil for unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown shot and killed by a police officer, while afterward several car windows were smashed and stores were looted as people carried away armloads of goods as witnessed by an Associated Press reporter.


    David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP Photo






  • Meghan O'Donnell, 29, from St. Louis, prays, Aug. 10, 2014, at the spot where Michael Brown was killed, Aug. 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.


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  • Lesley McSpadden, center, drops rose petals on the blood stains from her 18-year-old son Michael Brown who was shot and killed by police in the middle of the street in Ferguson, Mo., near St. Louis, Aug. 9, 2014.


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  • Activist Anthony Shahid tells the crowd to put their hands up on Sunday morning, Aug. 10, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo., as part of the protest against the police shooting of Michael Brown, Aug. 9, 2014.


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  • "He was my second cousin. It's just so wrong," said Tony Petty who holds his granddaughter as joins a protest against the police shooting of Michael Brown in front of the Ferguson police station, Aug. 11, 2014.


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  • Police officers arrest a man who refused to leave when police in riot gear cleared the area of S. Florissant Road and Church Street in downtown Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 11, 2014.


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