Demo held in Ferguson against racial profiling in police
A group of US protesters has once again held a demonstration outside the police department in Ferguson to show their anger at racial profiling within the American law enforcement.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Ferguson Police Department on Thursday evening and chanted slogans saying “the whole system is guilty”.
The protesters blocked a road and rebuffed police who ordered them to leave.
Two police officers were shot and injured early Thursday morning outside the police department in Ferguson during protests against the police force.
One officer was shot in the face, while the other was shot through the shoulder, according to St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar.
In a statement on Thursday, US Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the "cowardly" incident, saying the Justice Department will never accept violence directed at law enforcement agents.
“This heinous assault on two brave law enforcement officers was inexcusable and repugnant,” Holder said.
A spokesman for St. Louis County police said, the officers, one, aged 41, from the St. Louis County force, and the other, 32, from the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves, were treated and released from hospital on Thursday.
The shooting happened days after the Justice Department issued a scathing report on the Ferguson Police Department, highlighting the city’s “broken and racially biased” police system.
After the report, Holder said the federal government demanded reforms in the Ferguson Police Department, and would dismantle the force if necessary.
The police department has come under intense scrutiny following the shooting death in August of African American teenager Michael Brown by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who was later acquitted by a grand jury.
The incident unleashed a massive wave of protests in the city and across the United States against police brutality and racial discrimination.
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