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U.S. NEWS A5
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Police: store video shows suspect in Ferguson shooting
Police stand near a suspect in a parking lot after gunfire during say shows the 18-year-old Harris was in critical condi-
a protest on the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, in black suspect who was crit- tion Monday at a St. Louis
Ferguson, Mo. ically wounded after being hospital. County police
shot by police in Ferguson and Barnes-Jewish Hospi-
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) minutes before he fired a tal were unable to provide
gun at plainclothes officers. updates on his condition
FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) lice have released surveil- Tyrone Harris Jr. was shot Tuesday.
— St. Louis County po- lance video footage they late Sunday after police Harris’ father disputed the
say he opened fire on an police account Monday
Armed militia group’s return unmarked police van. but declined to discuss his
to Ferguson raising concerns Police said a 13-second clip son’s shooting Tuesday.
of security camera foot- Tyrone Harris Jr. has been
age from a West Florissant charged with 10 felonies
Avenue insurance office — five counts of armed
that they released Tues- criminal action, four counts
day afternoon shows him of first-degree assault on
grabbing a handgun from a law enforcement officer
his waistband in response and a firearms charge.
to shots being fired while Online court records show
protests were taking place that Tyrone Harris Jr. was
nearby connected to the charged in November with
one-year anniversary of stealing a motor vehicle
the shooting death of Mi- and a gun, as well as re-
chael Brown, an unarmed sisting arrest by fleeing. A
black 18-year-old killed by court hearing in that case
a white police officer. is scheduled for Aug. 31.q
ALAN ZAGIER which largely comprises
Associated Press past and present members
FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) of the military, first respond-
— The return of an armed ers and police officers. But
militia group patrolling the Missouri law allows anyone
streets of Ferguson drew with a concealed carry
criticism Tuesday from both permit to openly display
protesters and the county a firearm anywhere in the
police chief overseeing se- state.
curity amid ongoing dem- John Karriman, a represen-
onstrations marking the tative of the group who
anniversary of 18-year-old has taught at the Missouri
Michael Brown’s shooting Southern State University
death. police academy and ran
St. Louis County Police unsuccessfully as a Liber-
Chief Jon Belmar said the tarian Party candidate for
overnight presence of the county sheriff in southwest
Oath Keepers, wearing Missouri, did not immedi-
camouflage bulletproof ately respond to a cell-
vests and openly carrying phone message seeking
rifles and pistols on West comment.
Florissant Avenue, the hub The group’s membership
of marches and protests for coordinator referred an
the past several days, was inquiry to founder Stewart
“both unnecessary and in- Rhodes, who studied con-
flammatory.” stitutional law at Yale Uni-
The St. Louis suburb was the versity.
focus of months of massive Oath Keepers previously
protests and sometimes showed up in Ferguson in
violent unrest last summer November after a grand
after the killing of Brown jury declined to indict
by a white Ferguson police former Ferguson officer
officer, which sparked a Darren Wilson in Brown’s
nationwide protest move- death, saying they sta-
ment and a fierce debate tioned themselves along
over how police treat mi- several downtown rooftops
norities. to protect businesses from
Belmar plans to ask county rioting and looters.
prosecutor Bob McCulloch County police ordered
about the legality of armed them to leave then, but
patrols by the far-right anti- group members intermit-
government activist group, tently returned. q
