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   Chaos continued to unfold Wednesday in Ferguson, Missouri, on   
   the fourth night of protests over the fatal shooting of unarmed   
   teenager Michael Brown.   
      
   Riotous crowds, some carrying Molotov cocktails, clashed with   
   police forces armed with rubber bullets, smoke bombs and tear   
   gas, according to Fox News and The Christian Science Monitor.   
      
   President Barack Obama is reportedly being briefed on the   
   situation in Ferguson, where police are violently clashing with   
   protesters and making sweeping arrests in an attempt to maintain   
   order, according to The Monitor.   
      
   St. Louis Alderman Antonio French was ordered out of his car   
   Wednesday night, according to USA Today. French’s wife, Jasenka   
   Benac French, tweeted that French was then taken into custody   
   because he “didn’t listen.”   
      
   Antonio French, who had been tweeting pictures and video of   
   Ferguson’s unfolding chaos, was charged with unlawful assembly   
   and was in police custody until Thursday morning, according to   
   USA Today and St. Louis-based KTVI, a Fox affiliate.   
      
   "We broke no laws," he said Thursday morning of himself and   
   others held in Ferguson jail cells Wednesday night, according to   
   KTVI. "I would call everyone in there a peacemaker, not a   
   troublemaker. I saw some troublemakers, and none of them were in   
   that jail."   
      
   Two journalists, writing while charging their cellphones in a   
   local McDonald’s, were arrested Wednesday when officers in riot   
   gear stormed into the restaurant, according to USA Today. Wesley   
   Lowery of The Washington Post and Ryan Reilly of The Huffington   
   Post were told to stop taping officers and were arrested “for   
   not packing their bags quick enough,” Reilly later tweeted.   
      
   “Multiple officers grabbed me. I tried to turn my back to them   
   to assist them in arresting me. I dropped the things from my   
   hands,” Lowery wrote in a first person account published in The   
   Washington Post. “‘My hands are behind my back,’ I said. ‘I’m   
   not resisting.’ At which point one officer said: ‘You’re   
   resisting. Stop resisting.’”   
      
   Lowery said he was then slammed into a soda machine and taken   
   into custody. He told Reilly to tweet that he had been arrested.   
   Reilly was then cuffed and arrested as well.   
      
   More than 10 people were taken into custody Wednesday night,   
   including French, Lowery and Reilly, according to The New York   
   Times.   
      
   Fellow reporter Matt Pearce reportedly contacted Ferguson police   
   chief Thomas Jackson Wednesday night and asked him about the   
   arrested reporters, according to The Los Angeles Times.   
      
   Jackson’s response: “Oh, God.” Jackson then reportedly ordered   
   the reporters’ release.   
      
   “Compared to some others who have come into contact with the   
   police, they came out relatively unscathed, but that in no way   
   excuses the false arrest or the militant aggression toward these   
   journalists,” said Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post Washington   
   bureau chief, according to USA Today.   
      
   “Ryan [Reilly], who has reported multiple times from Guantánamo   
   Bay, said that the police resembled soldiers more than officers,   
   and treated those inside the McDonald’s as ‘enemy combatants,’”   
   he said.   
      
   Tear gas was fired at Al Jazeera reporters Wednesday night while   
   they were setting up for a live shot, according to video shot by   
   St. Louis-based KSDK NewsChannel 5. The Al Jazeera crew fled,   
   leaving their car and camera behind. The video shows Ferguson   
   officers dismantling the camera.   
      
   Tensions in Ferguson have exploded following the fatal Saturday   
   shooting of Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by an anonymous   
   police officer. As of Thursday morning, the Ferguson police   
   department was still withholding the officer’s identity in fear   
   of retaliation. A witness tells CNN the officer who shot Brown   
   was white.   
      
   “I get why they want to protect him,” Meko Taylor, a Ferguson   
   resident, according to The New York Times. “But the people want   
   answers. When we get answers, things will calm down.”   
      
   Jackson said Wednesday that a struggle was involved between   
   Brown and the unidentified officer who has since been placed on   
   administrative leave, according to The Times. A witness and   
   friend of Brown’s gives a conflicting account, saying Brown had   
   his hands raised in the air as the officer on Saturday fired   
   multiple shots at him.   
      
   Some involved in the riots have made this account a rallying   
   cry, chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot” as they clash with riot   
   gear-clad police officers, according to USA Today.   
      
   African-Americans make up two-thirds of Ferguson’s population   
   but account for 9 out of 10 stops by police, according to USA   
   Today. The 53-member Ferguson police force includes three   
   African-American officers.   
      
   http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2014/08/14/unrest-   
   abounds-in-ferguson-as-journalists-official-arrested   
      
       
      
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