Violence
erupted in the street of Ferguson for killing of an unarmed black
teenager a few days ago; police fired smoke bombs and tear gas at demonstrators.
Ferguson Police Chief
Thomas Jackson said he was going with his family when he received a call from sergeant
and he said there has been an officer who involved in shooting of 18 year old
teenager.
After that Jackson made a U-turn,
in the meantime he called to the chief of the St. Louis County police and asked
him to take jurisdiction.
“I get a call that says there’s
an officer involved in a shooting and the other person is dead, do I want to
investigate that, how’s that going to appear in the community?”
Police sealed off the area where violence
has occurred.
President Obama was briefed on
the situation, a White House spokesman tweeted.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon
Belmar said in an interview outside the command post. “If there was an easy way
to fix this, we would have already solved the problem.”
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