Seven arrests in Ferguson, Missouri, on first night of curfew

Police apprehended seven protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, early on Sunday as they imposed a curfew aimed at quelling days of violence that erupted after an unarmed ebony teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

The latest confrontation occurred when demonstrators remained in the streets of the St. Louis suburb after the curfew took effect at midnight (0100 ET). Seven people were apprehended for failing to disperse, police verbalized.
A person was shot and critically wounded during the night. It was not pellucid why, and the shooter was still at sizably voluminous, police verbalized.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon imposed the curfew on Saturday after a week of racially charged protests and looting over the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
The Ferguson police department has come under vigorous reprehension for both the shooting and its handling of its aftermath. On Sunday U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authoritatively mandated a federal medical examiner to perform an autopsy, in additament to one being conducted by state medical examiners
Holder called for the federal autopsy "due to the extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family," Equity Department spokesman Brian Fallon verbalized. The family is additionally orchestrating to have a pathologist conduct an independent examination of the body, a family spokesman verbally expressed.

Unrest in Ferguson flared anew on Friday after the local police relinquished a video exhibiting the alleged participation by Brown in an accomodation store larceny shortly afore the fatal shooting. Police have verbally expressed the officer who shot Brown had no conception he was a larceny suspect
Nixon slammed the decision to relinquish the video.

"I cerebrate it had an incendiary effect," he verbally expressed on CBS' "Face the Nation," integrating police "limpidly are endeavoring to besmirch a victim of a shooting."

IMPOSING CURFEW
As the curfew took effect on Saturday night, law enforcement officials used loudspeakers to tell protesters to disperse. Officers, equipped with gas masks and full-length shields, stood among and on top of armored conveyances.

The person shot at a restaurant during the night was in critical condition, Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson verbally expressed. Police were unable to identify the victim, who he verbalized was not shot by police.

Johnson, entrusted with recuperating order by the governor, verbally expressed canisters of smoke and later teargas were fired as a component of police endeavors to reach the victim of the shooting, "and not in cognation to the curfew." The wounded person was taken to hospital by bystanders afore police could reach him.

Johnson additionally verbally expressed someone had shot at a passing police car but was not apprehended.

The smoke and teargas canisters largely dispersed the crowd, some of whom had been chanting "No equity, no curfew, no placidity", while others implored the crowd not to move forward towards police.
'LEAST AMOUNT OF FORCE'

Nixon verbally expressed that in spite of the clashes, the curfew was a prosperity and the community deserved credit.

"We are always disappointed when things are not impeccable, but thousands of people verbalized last night, thousands of people marched and not a single gunshot (was) fired by members of the law enforcement," he told CNN's news show "State of the Union."

Nixon verbally expressed he did not ken how long the curfew would be in place. "We are endeavoring to utilize the least amount of force to provide people the ability to verbalize while withal forfending people's property," he verbalized.

The clashes have pitted mostly ebony protesters against mostly white police in a residential and retail district.
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who was set to lead a rally with the dead teen's family on Sunday in Ferguson, called for a terminus to violence and looting.

"We cannot transmute it by becoming akin to those that we fight," he verbally expressed on his syndicated radio show "Hour of Power."

"I verbalize to the puerile people, I understand your exasperation and you have a right to be exasperated, but don't go mad and burn up your own community."

Brown's death has been described in markedly different ways by the police and by a friend who was ambulating with him at the time.

Police verbalize that after Wilson asked Brown to move out of the road onto a sidewalk, Brown reached into the patrol car and struggled with Wilson for the officer's accommodation gun. Wilson, who sustained a facial injury, then shot Brown a number of times.

The friend, Dorian Johnson, 22, and at least one other witness have verbalized the officer reached out through his car window to prehend at Brown and the teenager was endeavoring to get away from the officer when he was shot. Brown held up his hands in a designation of surrender but the officer got out of his patrol car and shot Brown an abundance of times, they verbalized.

The U.S. Department of Equity and the St. Louis County Police department are investigating.