*(Via LA Times) – A night of protests on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Mo. turned suddenly violent Sunday night when gunfire broke out in the crowd and police shot a man who opened fire on a vehicle full of plainclothes officers..
The unidentified suspect was in critical condition, and police searched in vain through the crowd for possibly six people who also had fired weapons in a separate incident several minutes earlier.
“There were several people shooting. There were several rounds shot,” St. Louis County police chief Jon Belmar told reporters. “There were probably six different shooters on the other side of the street.”
One police officer was injured by a flying brick, one of several missiles hurled at officers during protests that became increasingly chaotic as police moved in to respond to reports of weapons in the crowd.
Ferguson has been the scene of regular protests since Brown, an unarmed black man, was shot to death on Aug. 9, 2014, during a confrontation with a white Ferguson police officer.
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