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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson arrested two people and said more arrests were likely following protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement.
Issues arose as protestors gathered outside the suburb’s police station on Friday to remember Brown, the unarmed Black 18-year-old who was killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.
The protest started as a reunion, with traffic diverted as around 40 people congregated outside the police headquarters, drinking beer and eating food, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
“We wanted to give peaceful protesters the space to do so,” police spokeswoman Pat Washington said Saturday morning.
Around midnight, however, at least five protesters tried to knock down part of the fence surrounding the police station, leading to the arrests.
Washington said the department is still trying to make arrests and review footage to decide the charges.
“There will be others,” she said Saturday.
Police didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associat...
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