Ferguson unrest: New clashes as Obama urges calm

[Lady Vizsla]

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US police say they have arrested 31 people during another night of angry protests in the town of Ferguson in the state of Missouri.

Unrest flared hours after President Obama called for calm following the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on 9 August.

The US attorney general is due to visit Ferguson on Wednesday to meet federal officials investigating the killing.

The National Guard has been deployed to support police operations.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced the deployment on Monday, in addition to lifting a night-time curfew imposed on the weekend.

The killing of Mr Brown by a white policeman in a street has inflamed racial tensions in the largely black community of Ferguson.

Officer Darren Wilson shot the teenager last week after reportedly stopping him for walking in the street.

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[Ame Yuki Kaze]

The police are threatening reporters with arrest unless they stay in a zone outside the city limits and are going from house to house, kicking in people's doors and ransacking their homes without a warrant.

[Silvia Crow]

Scarred Sword Heart

The police are threatening reporters with arrest unless they stay in a zone outside the city limits and are going from house to house, kicking in people's doors and ransacking their homes without a warrant.

[Citation needed]

Unbiased source please.

[Misty Moonsilver]

This whole thing is such a mess. It's unnecessary and taking time/resources/national attention from REAL issues. It's been blown wayyy out of proportion.

[Roy Cura]

Scarred Sword Heart

The police are threatening reporters with arrest unless they stay in a zone outside the city limits and are going from house to house, kicking in people's doors and ransacking their homes without a warrant.

Not much unlike the rioters and looters, huh...

[The Child of Aura]

I understand that being the President is a difficult job, but Obama "calling for calm" is not going to do s**t, and it embarrasses me that THAT is his best effort.

It's a time like this where I wish Theodore Roosevelt was alive and here to guide us through this hell.