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An Officer Is Shot in Ferguson Amid Continuing Protests of Police Shooting - New York Times

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U.S. |An Officer Is Shot in Ferguson Amid Continuing Protests of Police Shooting



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A Ferguson, Mo., police officer was shot on Saturday night, the local authorities said, as protests continued over the death of an unarmed teenager who was shot by a police officer last month.


The shooting happened around 9:20 p.m., said Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department. The officer, a woman, is still alive, Mr. Schellman said.


KMOV, the local CBS affiliate, reported that an officer was shot in the arm and expected to recover. The station reported that officers from the Ferguson and St. Louis County were staging a major manhunt for the suspect, who fled on foot into a local neighborhood near West Florissant Avenue and Stein Street.


The shooting occurred in the 1000 block of Smith Avenue in Ferguson, near the new Ferguson Community Center, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.



Dozens of police cars from numerous jurisdictions converged on the area after the shooting, the newspaper said, and the gunman was reported to have fled into nearby woods.


In a video that was posted on social media, Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol told protesters that the officer was the only person who was shot.


Demonstrators have been protesting in Ferguson since Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in a case that has heightened long-simmering racial tensions in the suburb north of St. Louis.


On Thursday, Chief Thomas Jackson of the Ferguson Police Department issued a stark apology to the family of Mr. Brown, saying in a videotaped statement that he was sorry for the death of their son and for the four hours that the body of the unarmed 18-year-old lay in the street after he was killed.


“I want to say this to the Brown family. No one who has not experienced the loss of a child can understand what you’re feeling,” he said, facing the camera and standing in front of an American flag. “I am truly sorry for the loss of your son. I’m also sorry that it took so long to remove Michael from the street. The time that it took involved very important work on the part of investigators who were trying to collect evidence and gain a true picture of what happened that day. But it was just too long, and I’m truly sorry for that.”


But in an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Mr. Brown’s parents were unmoved.


Mr. Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said, “Yes,” when asked if Chief Jackson should be fired, and his father, Michael Brown Sr., said rather than an apology, they would prefer to see the officer who shot their son arrested for his death on Aug. 9.


“An apology would be when Darren Wilson has handcuffs, processed and charged with murder,” Mr. Brown said.



A version of this article appears in print on September 28, 2014, on page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: An Officer Is Shot in Ferguson Amid Continuing Protests of Police Shooting.




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