TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 INTERNATIONAL FERGUSON: (Left) Protestors hold signs during a protest on West Florissant Road in Ferguson, Missouri. (Right) Demonstrators protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown. —AFP Missouri governor deploys Credibility concerns in National Guard to Ferguson Missouri shooting probe FERGUSON: After a week of violent clashes Ferguson, where the shooting occurred, between police and protesters, Missouri many residents say they have long been Autopsy shows unarmed teen repeatedly shot authorities leading the investigation into the harassed and intimidated by the police police shooting death of an unarmed black department, which has just three black offi- FERGUSON: Missouri’s governor on the head. As night fell in Ferguson Helping investigation ordered all the protesters to dis- teenager are increasingly facing questions cers on its 53-member force. They also have Monday ordered the National Sunday, another peaceful protest Brown also was shot four times perse, and many did, but about 100 about whether their eventual findings can no confidence in McCulloch, who has been a Guard to a St Louis suburb con- quickly deteriorated and the streets in the right arm, and all the bullets stood about two blocks away until be seen as credible among residents who prosecutor since 1991. vulsed by protests over the fatal were empty well before the mid- were fired into his front, Baden said. getting hit by another volley of tear are highly distrustful of those in charge. The “He’s not going to prosecute the police shooting of an unarmed black teen, night curfew. The Justice Department already gas. coming days and weeks will be crucial as officers,” said Robert Fowler, a 48-year-old after a night in which police used “Based on the conditions, I had had deepened its investigation into Protesters laid a line of cinder grand jurors begin hearing evidence that electrician. “In the ghetto... every police offi- tear gas to clear protesters off the no alternative but to elevate the the shooting. A day earlier, officials blocks across the street in an will help determine whether Ferguson cer, he’s letting go free. They call it justifiable streets well ahead of a curfew. Gov level of response,” said Capt Ron said 40 FBI agents were going door- apparent attempt to block police police officer Darren Wilson is charged with homicide.” Part of the skepticism stems from Jay Nixon said the National Guard Johnson of the Missouri Highway to-door gathering information in vehicles, which easily plowed a state crime for the Aug 9 shooting of 18- McCulloch’s past. He comes from a family of would help “in restoring peace and Patrol, who is in charge of security the Ferguson neighborhood where through. Someone set a trash bin year-old Michael Brown. police officers and, in 1964 when McCulloch order” to Ferguson, where protests in Ferguson. At least two people Brown was shot to death Aug 9. A on fire, and the crackle of gunfire The US Justice Department is conducting was 12 years old, his father was fatally shot over the killing of 18-year-old were wounded in shootings by federally conducted autopsy “more could be heard from several blocks a separate civil rights investigation, which while responding to a call. Others point to a Michael Brown by a white police civilians, he said. The “extraordinary closely focused on entry point of away. Within two hours, most peo- could mean there are two decisions about 2001 case, where McCulloch brought no ple had been cleared off West whether to charge Wilson, who is white. The charges against two officers who fired 21 Florissant Avenue, one of the com- state’s case is being overseen by St Louis shots into a vehicle, killing two black men munity’s main thoroughfares. The County Prosecuting Attorney Bob during an attempted drug arrest. A streets remained quiet as the cur- McCulloch, who is white, and remains in McCulloch spokesman told The Associated few began. It was to remain in charge despite mounting pressure to step Press the prosecutor has no plans to step effect until 5 am. Earlier in the day, aside from some local residents and black St aside from the Brown case. Johnson said he had met members Louis area officials who believe he cannot be “The people of this county have placed of Brown’s family and the experi- impartial. In some other prominent cases - their trust in me,” McCulloch told TV station ence “brought tears to my eyes and most notably, the 2012 racially charged KMOV. “I’ve been as fair and impartial and shame to my heart.” shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida - spe- done as thorough of a job as we could.” US cial state prosecutors have been appointed Rep William Lacy Clay Jr, St Louis County In charge of security to determine whether to pursue charges. Executive Charlie Dooley and state Sens “When this is over,” he told the That sometimes has occurred only after the Maria Chappelle-Nadal and Jamilah Nasheed crowd, “I’m going to go in my son’s local authorities took no action. But under - all of whom are black - have called on room. My black son, who wears his Missouri law, it “would be highly, highly, McCulloch to consent to a special prosecutor. pants sagging, who wears his hat highly unusual” for a prosecutor to step Nasheed started an online petition and cocked to the side, got tattoos on aside merely because of racial tensions in a got more than 15,000 signatures within two his arms, but that’s my baby.” high-profile case, said Peter Joy, a days seeking a special prosecutor. “In the Johnson added: “We all need to Washington University law professor who past, justice has not been achieved in these thank the Browns for Michael. directs the school’s Criminal Justice Clinic. types of police shootings,” said Clay, who rep- Because Michael’s going to make it That’s because in Missouri, “the buck stops resents the area. “So I have no comfort with better for our sons to be better with the head prosecutor” in each county. local-authority prosecution, the judicial sys- black men.” “Just because the case is really hot and tem or even police conducting a thorough The protests have been going really controversial would not be a reason and conclusive investigation that delivers on since Brown’s death heightened why I would seek a special prosecutor,” said justice to family of Michael Brown.” racial tensions between the pre- Eric Zahnd, a Kansas City-area prosecutor “Simply put: he has a natural bias,” dominantly black community and who is a past president of the Missouri Chappelle-Nadal, the local state senator, said the mostly white Ferguson Police Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. Police of McCulloch. “My community doesn’t trust FERGUSON: A man gets help after being overcome by tear gas that police launched at demon- Department, leading to several say Brown failed to move out of the center him.” Although it was not a racially charged strators. —AP run-ins between police and pro- of the street when Wilson asked him to, and scenario, Missouri does have a recent case in testers and prompting Nixon to a scuffle ensued before he was shot. which a special prosecutor took over a highly officer entered their second week. circumstances” surrounding projectiles, defensive wounds and put the state highway patrol in Witnesses say Brown had his hands up as publicized case. Last October, a prosecutor in Police said they acted in response Brown’s death and a request by his bruises” might help that investiga- charge of security. Wilson fired multiple rounds. rural northwest Missouri asked a judge to to gunfire, looting, vandalism and family prompted the Justice tion, said David Weinstein, a former Ferguson police waited six days Wilson, a six-year police veteran who had appoint a special prosecutor after public protesters who hurled Molotov Department’s decision to conduct a federal prosecutor who supervised to publicly reveal the name of the no previous complaints against him, has concerns that he didn’t do enough before cocktails. third autopsy, agency spokesman the criminal civil rights section of officer and documents alleging been on paid administrative leave since the dropping felony charges against a teenage “These violent acts are a disserv- Brian Fallon said in a statement. The Miami’s US attorney’s office. Brown robbed a convenience store shooting and the department has refused to boy accused of sexually assaulting a younger ice to the family of Michael Brown examination was to take place as Federal authorities also want to shortly before he was killed. Police comment on his whereabouts. Associated girl. A judge appointed a Kansas City area and his memory and to the people soon as possible, Fallon said. The calm any public fears that no action Chief Thomas Jackson said the offi- Press reporters have been unable to contact prosecutor to take a new look at the case, of this community who yearn for results of a state-performed autop- will be taken on the case, Weinstein cer did not know Brown was a rob- him at any addresses or phone numbers list- and Matthew Barnett pleaded guilty in justice to be served and to feel safe sy would be taken into account said. Police have said little about bery suspect when he encountered ed under that name in the St Louis area. In January to misdemeanor child endanger- in their own homes,” Nixon said in a along with the federal examination the encounter between Brown and him walking in the street with a the predominantly black St Louis suburb of ment.