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   (Reuters) - The shooting of two police officers in Ferguson,   
   Missouri, during a protest rally sparked an intense manhunt for   
   suspects on Thursday and ratcheted up tensions in a city at the   
   center of a national debate over race and policing.   
      
   U.S. President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder   
   condemned the attack on the officers, who were treated at a   
   local hospital and released, as a law enforcement team in   
   tactical gear swarmed a home in the St. Louis suburb. Television   
   images showed officers on the roof breaking into the attic with   
   heavy tools.   
      
   Shawn McGuire, a St. Louis County police spokesman, said an   
   undisclosed number of people were taken from the house but there   
   have been no arrests so far. He would not confirm media reports   
   that two men and a woman were led away.   
      
   Long-simmering tensions between African-Americans and Ferguson's   
   mostly white police force came to a boil in August when a white   
   policeman killed an unarmed black teenager. The shooting of 18-   
   year-old Michael Brown led to a coast-to-coast wave of   
   demonstrations last year.   
      
   The rally at Ferguson police headquarters on Wednesday evening   
   was called hours after the resignation of its long-criticized   
   police chief, Tom Jackson, but activists demanded more changes.   
   Jackson quit in the wake of a scathing U.S. Justice Department   
   report that found his force was rife with racial bias.   
      
   Around midnight, gunfire rang out, leaving a 41-year-old St.   
   Louis County Police officer with a shoulder wound and a 32-year-   
   old officer from nearby Webster Groves Police Department with a   
   bullet lodged near his ear, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon   
   Belmar said.   
      
   "This is really an ambush, is what it is," Belmar said of the   
   shootings, the worst outbreak of violence in the city since   
   riots that broke out in November after the announcement that a   
   grand jury decided against indicting the officer who killed   
   Brown.   
      
   The shootings were "inexcusable and repugnant," Holder said in a   
   statement. The White House sent a Tweet that read: "Violence   
   against police is unacceptable. Our prayers are with the   
   officers in MO. Path to justice is one all of us must travel   
   together."   
      
   Belmar told a news conference authorities had possible leads,   
   and said the shooter used a handgun and shell casings had been   
   recovered.   
      
   "This is No. 1 priority of St. Louis County police to identify   
   that individual or individuals," said Belmar, who leads the   
   police force in the county that includes Ferguson. Officers did   
   not return fire but may in future, he said.   
      
   "I have said all along that we cannot sustain this forever   
   without problems," he said, referring to festering tensions in   
   the city since Brown's death.   
      
   The shooting came less than three months after a man ambushed   
   two New York City patrolmen, saying he sought to avenge the   
   killings of Brown and an unarmed black man in New York. In both   
   cases, grand juries decided against bringing criminal charges.   
      
   "We reject any kind of violence directed toward members of law   
   enforcement," Brown's family said in a statement. "We   
   specifically denounce the actions of stand-alone agitators who   
   unsuccessfully attempt to derail the otherwise peaceful and non-   
   violent movement that has emerged throughout this nation to   
   confront police brutality."   
      
   Police and protesters appeared to disagree about where the shots   
   came from, with Belmar asserting they came from the middle of   
   the crowd gathered in front of police headquarters.   
      
   "I don't know who did the shooting, ... but somehow they were   
   embedded in that group of folks," Belmar said.   
      
   Protesters at the scene insisted on social media that the shots   
   came from further away.   
      
   "The shooter was not with the protesters. The shooter was atop   
   the hill," activist DeRay McKesson said on Twitter.   
      
   "I was here. I saw the officer fall. The shot came from at least   
   500 feet away from the officers," he said.   
      
   A string of Ferguson officials quit after the Justice Department   
   report, which found the city used police as a collection agency,   
   issuing traffic citations to black residents to boost its   
   coffers, resulting in a "toxic environment". Activists want the   
   city mayor, James Knowles, to step down as well.   
      
   Rev Osagyefo Sekou, a frequent participant in the protests in   
   Ferguson over the last several months, said he was in the crowd   
   when shots rang out.   
      
   “Tensions are high,” Sekou said. “We deplore all forms of   
   violence, we are a non-violent movement. But we also deplore the   
   findings of the Department of Justice report and the suffering   
   and the misery that this community has endured.”   
      
   After the report, Holder said the federal government would   
   demand police reforms in Ferguson, including possibly   
   dismantling the department.   
      
   Knowles said on Wednesday he was committed to keeping the   
   department intact, but Belmar, the St. Louis County chief, would   
   not rule out the possibility that the county would take over   
   policing in the town.   
      
   After last autumn's rioting, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon called out   
   thousands of National Guard to patrol the streets of Ferguson   
   and temporarily put the head of the state Highway Patrol in   
   charge of security.   
      
   (Additional reporting by David Bailey in Minneapolis, Fiona   
   Ortiz in Chicago and Carey Gillam in Kansas City; Writing by   
   Frank McGurty; Editing by Bernadette Baum and James Dalgleish)   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-usa-missouri-   
   shooting-protest-idUSKBN0M80CJ20150312   
      
        
      
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