I heard gunshots and thrown bottles with anger spread among the crowd outside Ferguson police station in the St. Louis suburb of Missouri, after the authorities announced, on Monday night, the grand jury decided not to indict the police officer was white in fact lead where the boy was killed launch Black is armed in August, and stretched angry waves to major US cities.
And pelted the crowd police officers who formed the bulwark using riot shields outside the building bottles and cans, having heard the news as a result of the jury's decision not to indict the officer Darren Wilson for the shooting in the incident in which Michael Brown was killed (18 years).
The police threw tear gas to disperse the angry demonstrators from the judgment in the case of Ferguson
Gathered smaller and quieter crowd outside the court where I met the jury room, was stunned looked on the faces of many of them.
Said Antonio Burns, a young black man aged 25 years old and lives in the area Ferguson: «That is the work of the justice system the way .. the rich and the poor at the top to the bottom. Police think they can with impunity.
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America .. acquittal of a policeman who killed a young black provoke public anger |
US Attorney General announced that the policeman Wilson will not be subject to any prosecution after the murder of Brown.
After three months of deliberations in the people's court, made public prosecutor, Robert Makuluch, made the remark at a time when hundreds of people gathered in the streets of Ferguson's pending decision.
The prosecutor said that «the duty of the court is to separate the facts», although the judges «decided that there is no sufficient reason to initiate prosecution against the officer Wilson».
The young victim's family and expressed «deep disappointment», but called for calm.
For his part, the US president, Barack Obama, called police to self-adjust in the case of Ferguson, and stressed the need to be peaceful demonstrations.
And got thousands of Americans took to the streets across the United States from Seattle to New York via Chicago and Los Angeles, on Monday evening, following the elimination of the decision
not to prosecute white policeman
Hundreds of protesters went to Times Square in New York, carrying black banners reading «racism kill», and »will not remain silent». The protesters chanted whose number has increased with time: «No justice no peace».
Protesters also gathered in Union Square to the south of Manhattan, while a third group of protesters decided to move to Harlem walk, and made in the seventh Avenue behind a banner demanding »Justice for Michael Brown».
In Washington, a few hundred protesters gathered in front of the White House chanting «Hands Do not shoot», is the slogan adopted by the demonstrators since the tragedy in the city of Ferguson. And unfurled banners reading: «Stop the racist police intimidation» and »black life are important.» The demonstrators went toward the Capitol, Capitol Hill.
Demonstrations also took place in Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle and Oakland (California), where demonstrators cut off highway, also in Chicago and Salt Lake City.
There were no reports of any incident during the very early hours of the moves in spite of high tension
Furthermore, issued a Federal Aviation Administration of the US, on Monday night, temporarily restricted to flights over the town Ferguson, Missouri, amid fears of violent protests erupted.
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