Missouri police fire teargas at Ferguson protesters defying curfew

Sunday, August 17, 2014
By Paul Martin

About 200 demonstrators ignore calls to return home after Missouri governor declares state of emergency

Jon Swaine and Rory Carroll in Ferguson
TheGuardian.com
Sunday 17 August 2014

Police in riot gear fired teargas at protesters who defied a Saturday night curfew imposed in the Missouri city of Ferguson, where an unarmed 18-year-old being shot dead by a police officer has been followed by a week of street clashes.

About 200 demonstrators ignored an order to return home at midnight made under a state of emergency declared earlier on Saturday by the state’s governor, Jay Nixon, after rioting and looting returned to the centre of the city on Friday night.

Seven people were arrested for failing to disperse, according to Captain Ron Johnson of the state highway patrol, who had earlier promised that the curfew would not be enforced by teargas. One man was shot and is in a critical condition, and a police car was shot at.

Several protesters smashed kerb stones to throw at police, while others threw stones and shouted abuse at a wall of advancing officers. One man threw a Molotov cocktail at a boarded-up Asian restaurant. Other protesters quickly extinguished the flames. “I was disappointed in the actions of tonight,” said Johnson.

Protesters chanted “no justice, no curfew” and “we are Mike Brown” as they gathered at midnight at one end of the street where unrest has centred. Dozens of officers, some carrying assault rifles, were still poised at the other end more than half an hour after the curfew began.

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