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Lewis Head, stepfather to 18-year-old Michael Brown who was
fatally shot by police, holds a sign saying, "Ferguson Police just
executed my unarmed son" on Saturday.
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FERGUSON, Mo. - The fatal shooting of a black teenager by
police sent hundreds of angry residents out of their apartments Saturday in a
St. Louis suburb, igniting shouts of "kill the police" during a
confrontation that lasted several hours.
A St. Louis County chapter of the
NAACP called for the FBI to look into the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown
in Ferguson, a predominantly black suburb north of downtown St. Louis.
Brown's grandmother, Desiree Harris, said she saw him
running in her neighborhood Saturday afternoon when she passed him in her car.
Just minutes later, after she returned home, she heard a commotion and went
outside to check on it - and found Brown's body.
A spokesman with the St. Louis
County Police Department, which is investigating the shooting at the request of
the local department, confirmed a Ferguson police officer shot the man but
didn't give the reason for the shooting.
St. Louis County police said a large
crowd confronted officers following the shooting, yelling such things as
"kill the police." culled
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