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   Racial tension spilled over from Ferguson, Mo., into nearby St.   
   Louis on Monday night, where a handful of protesters urging   
   justice for Michael Brown were met by mostly white Cardinals   
   fans who taunted them with chants about poverty, Africa and in   
   support of the white officer who killed the unarmed black teen.   
      
   The ugly confrontation was caught on video outside of Busch   
   Stadium, where the Cardinals took on the Los Angeles Dodgers in   
   a National League baseball playoff game. A group of protesters   
   massed outside Gate 4, a smoking section outside the stadium,   
   and began urging “Justice for Mike Brown!” as they hoisted signs   
   and an upside down American flag.   
      
   “We're the ones who f-----g gave all y'all all the freedoms that   
   you have!" a petite blond white woman, holding a beer and rally   
   towel, yells at the protesters.   
      
   Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was shot dead in broad daylight   
   on Aug. 9 by Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police   
   Department. The 28-year-old officer has been on paid leave since   
   the incident nearly two months ago as a grand jury decides   
   whether he should face criminal charges for the killing.   
      
   Some witnesses say Brown had his hands up and was surrendering   
   when he was shot six times, while others say there was a tussle   
   immediately before shots rang out.   
      
   The killing sparked weeks of turmoil, protests and general   
   unrest in the mostly black suburb of St. Louis. The fiercest of   
   the confrontations had lately died down, but small protests,   
   like the one Monday night and one reported over the weekend at a   
   St. Louis symphony performance, have continued to pop up.   
      
   On Monday, the peaceful protests quickly turned ugly but not   
   violent. Smokers clad in Cardinals jersey responded to chants of   
   “Justice for Mike Brown!” with jeers of “Let’s Go Darren!” in   
   reference to Wilson. One fan taped over the name across the back   
   of a Cardinals jersey and hand wrote “I am Darren Wilson.”   
      
   “If they’d be working, we wouldn’t have this problem!” yelled   
   one elderly white man.   
      
   At one point, a woman asks the cameraman, “What are you?” and   
   disputes the fact he is a Marine veteran. The cameraman, Mustafa   
   Hussein for Argus News, later tweeted a photo of himself as a   
   Marine in uniform and explained that the upside American flag is   
   a sign of a “country in distress. And these protesters believe   
   the country is in distress.”   
      
   Fans later started a chant of “Get a job!” and, in response to a   
   chant of “USA!” one man yells “Go home” while a white woman, the   
   same who spoke about giving freedom, chants back, “Africa!”   
      
   Another fan tells the protesters to pull up their pants.   
      
   “Go tear your own neighborhood up, see what that does,” one man   
   taunts.   
      
   There was no report of arrests stemming from the oral   
   confrontation between the two groups.   
      
   sgoldstein@nydailynews.com   
      
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