More troops sent to Ferguson after riots
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| National Guard soldiers stand in formation outside the Ferguson Police Department following a night of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri November 25, 2014. [Chinanews.com] |
![National Guard soldiers stand in formation outside the Ferguson Police Department following a night of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri November 25, 2014. [Chinanews.com]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20141126/001ec949ff5c15df7c8606.jpg "National Guard soldiers stand in formation outside the Ferguson Police Department following a night of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri November 25, 2014. [Chinanews.com]")
The governor of US state Missouri has ordered more troops into the community of Ferguson following the overnight rioting brought on by the clearing of a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Rioters have torched around a dozen buildings in Ferguson in their anger, with many other shops looted in the unrest.
Police have been using tear gas and flash-bang canisters in response to gunfire being directed at them.
More than 80 people have been arrested during the rioting, which police are describing as "much worse" than the disturbances that erupted in the immediate aftermath of the August shooting.
"It just don't look like St Louis. This don't look like a city in the United States. Right now this looks like some foreign area that the government has betrayed the people."
"It's just too much. It really is. I'm just scared. I'm scared to be here. No telling what's going to happen tonight. I'm just like ready to go. Pack up, foreclose on my house, and go. "
Meantime, the lawyers for the family of the victim, Michael Brown, have denounced the process that cleared the police officer who killed the 18-year-old as "unfair".
They claim the prosecutor in the case had a conflict of interest, and the officer in question was not properly cross-examined.
Civil rights activist and television host Al Sharpton contends the grand jury system has been misused in the case.
"Let us not forget, the only one that makes a presentation in a grand jury is the prosecutor. There is no cross-examination. So for him to talk about inconsistencies is unchallenged because there's no one representing the other side to come and cross-examine what he put up."
The Grand Jury heard evidence that Michael Brown and the officer, Darren Wilson, initially engaged in a struggle with the officer's gun after he stopped Brown and a friend of his on suspicion of shoplifting.
Following the initial altercation, Wilson testified the teenager then came back at him in a menacing manner, which led him to fatally shoot the 18-year old, even though he was unarmed.
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