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Marchers shouted slogans such as 'Hands up, don't shoot' and 'We do this for who? We do this for Mike Brown.'

Hundreds march in Ferguson to mark anniversary

Several hundred people have marched through Ferguson, Missouri to commemorate the police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown marched on the eve of the first anniversary of his death, which shined a spotlight on race relations in America.

News • 08 Aug 15

On Thursday a county police officer and a colleague from a nearby police department were both shot

Man charged over Ferguson police shooting

A 20-year-old man has been charged with first-degree assault for last week's shooting of two police officers during a protest in the troubled city Ferguson, Missouri, a crime that fueled a national debate on race and policing in the US.

News • 16 Mar 15

Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson (c) resigned over a report into the killing of black teenager Michael Brown by one of his officers

Manhunt after shooting of Ferguson police officers

The shooting of two US police officers during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked an intense manhunt for suspects and ratcheted up tensions in a city at the centre of a national debate over race and policing.

News • 12 Mar 15

Protests outside the Ferguson Police Department after the Justice Department decided not to charge Darren Wilson

Ferguson police chief resigns over scathing report

The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, has reportedly resigned following a scathing US Justice Department report that found widespread abuses in the city's policing and courts.

News • 11 Mar 15

Calls for police to wear micro-cameras fitted to uniforms have mounted since Michael Brown's death

Move to equip more US police with body cameras

US President Barack Obama will seek to release funds aimed at equipping more US police officers with body cameras following the racially charged fatal shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson.

News • 01 Dec 14

US police officer who shot black teenager resigns

Darren Wilson has resigned from the Ferguson police force nearly four months after he fatally shot an unarmed black teenager and less than a week after a grand jury decided not to indict him.

News • 30 Nov 14

Protesters march through the Galleria near St Louis

Ferguson protests target Black Friday sales

Police in Ferguson, Missouri were out in force again overnight as demonstrators shut down a shopping centre near the town and 15 people were arrested.

News • 29 Nov 14

The parents of Michael Brown, left and right, bow their heads as they remember their son at a news conference in New York

Brown's parents call Wilson's account 'crazy'

The parents of Michael Brown, the teenager shot dead by a policeman, have called the account given by the officer who shot him unbelievable.

News • 26 Nov 14

Teenager Michael Brown was shot on 9 August

National Guard troops tripled after Ferguson riots

The Governor of Missouri has tripled the National Guard deployment in and around the riot-hit town of Ferguson in an attempt to head off another night of violence.

News • 26 Nov 14

US police shoot dead boy holding toy gun

Police in the US city of Cleveland have shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was waving around what turned out to be a toy gun at a playground.

News • 24 Nov 14

Police in Ferguson confront demonstrators protesting the death of Michael Brown

Restraint urged ahead of Ferguson decision

US Attorney General Eric Holder has urged police restraint if there are backlash protests over a decision on proceedings against a police officer who shot dead a teenager in Missouri.

News • 21 Nov 14

Protesters march down the streets in Clayton in Missouri

State of emergency declared in Ferguson, Missouri

The governor of the US state of Missouri has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard ahead of a grand jury decision in the case of a black teenager shot and killed by a white police officer.

News • 17 Nov 14

The fatal shooting of Michael Brown saw near nightly protests in Ferguson

Protests after St Louis police fatally shoot man

An off-duty St Louis city policeman shot and killed a suspect who fired on him, police officials said, touching off protests at the scene just miles from the suburb of Ferguson.

News • 09 Oct 14

Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, seen here in August, made his apology today in an online video

Ferguson police chief apologises for ‘mistakes’

The police chief of a US town in which an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a white police officer last month has apologised for mistakes his force made following the fatal shooting.

World • 25 Sep 14

Protesters stepped up their demands that the local criminal inquiry be turned over to a special prosecutor

US attorney general visits Ferguson

US Attorney General Eric Holder has met with community members in Ferguson, Missouri, and vowed a thorough civil rights inquiry into the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager that has set off 12 nights of racially charged protests.

News • 21 Aug 14

There has been tension on the streets for the past week

US AG orders second autopsy on Missouri teen

The US Attorney General has ordered a second post mortem examination on Missouri teenager Michael Brown who was shot dead by police on 9 August.

News • 18 Aug 14

Local have held vigils for the teenager, who was unarmed at the time of the shooting

Missouri police name officer who shot teenager

Police in Missouri have named Darren Wilson as the officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson last weekend.

News • 15 Aug 14

A demonstrator stands his ground as police fire tear gas

Local police to be removed from Ferguson

Missouri state police will take charge of security in the town of Ferguson, the state governor said today, after local officers shot dead an unarmed teenager, triggering four days of violence.

News • 14 Aug 14

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