Thomas Jackson

Police arrested at least two people on March 14 as nightly protests in the racially troubled US suburb of Ferguson over the police killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown shifted into the heart of St Louis.
      

Two police officers were shot during a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early on March 12, police said, just hours after the city's police chief quit following a damning justice report into his department.
   

Two police officers have been hit during unrest in the town of Ferguson, Missouri (US), officials say.

The condition of the two injured is not yet known, authorities report as cited by USA Today.

Officials have called the violence "just awful".

Two police officers were reportedly shot after midnight on Thursday outside the Ferguson Police Department. A protest was taking place outside the police department at the time when shots were fired. Dozens of demonstrators fled after the gun shot with some screaming, "They hit a cop!" Images posted on social media show one officer carried away.