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BY Zach Toombs, Newsy
Monday night’s announcement that Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted has set off new protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In the hour after the decision was released, there were scattered reports of violence, including gunshots near Ferguson police headquarters. A fire was also set to a police vehicle.
KSHB’s feed shows, while some officers carry what looked like non-lethal weapons, armored cars were again part of the police presence, just as they were in August.
“We need to realize this is not just an issue for Ferguson, this is an issue for America,” President Obama said from The White House.
Shortly after 10 p.m. eastern time, President Obama addressed the nation, calling for calm on all sides.
But it was the juxtaposition in split screens like this on CNN, during Obama’s address, that caught more attention that his remarks.
Just after the no indictment decision came down, the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen killed in August, asked for peace in St. Louis and said, “We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions.”
Unlike during August’s protests, media helicopters were allowed overhead Monday, and they captured the spread of police-disbursed smoke, not tear gas, after protesters tried overturning a police car.
Although some protesters claimed it was tear gas used, police insisted the canisters thrown were smoke canisters. A little over an hour after the no indictment decision was announced, officers began clearing the area around police headquarters.