Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on a black Missouri teenager whose fatal shooting by a white police officer has spurred a week of rancorous and sometimes-violent protests in suburban St...
The Missouri police officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager is a six-year veteran of the force. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson identified the officer as Darren Wilson at a news conference Friday. Chief Jackson said the officer encountered 18-year-old Michael Brown last weekend shortly after reports of a strong armed robbery in the area...
President Obama is calling for calm and healing in a St. Louis suburb rocked by the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer.
Speaking after four nights of clashes between police and protesters, Obama remarked that there's never an excuse for violence against police or for vandalism and looting...