Gunfire Reported at Michael Brown Slay Anniversary March
Gunfire Reported at Michael Brown Slay Anniversary March: Gunfire was reported Tuesday night in Ferguson, Mo., during a protest march on the second anniversary of the fatal police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, authorities told NBC News.
The confrontation came after a police officer ordered a small group of protesters to clear the street as they marched downtown from the site of Brown’s shooting on Aug. 9, 2014, The Associated Press reported.
Jeff Small, a spokesman for the city, told NBC News that police responded to reports of gunfire and of a pedestrian’s having been struck by a car, but he said neither report had been confirmed.
Several journalists covering the march echoed the accounts in social media posts from the scene Tuesday night.
Observances earlier in the day had been peaceful as prominent members of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Michael Brown Chosen for Change charitable foundation organized a vigil with music and poetry readings.
 Brown was shot and killed by a white Ferguson police officer, leading to weeks of sometimes-violent protests. The officer, who resigned, was cleared by a state grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department, but the shooting led to a consent decree governing the Ferguson Police Department.
Antonio French, a St. Louis city alderman who emerged as a prominent spokesman for peaceful protesters in Ferguson, said Brown’s death had not yet brought sufficient reform to what he called an unequal criminal justice system.
 French told NBC News that as long as police officers carried on being “unaccountable for their actions,” deep mistrust would remain between police and their communities.
“There are Fergusons everywhere,” French said. “There are many powder kegs all across America that could explode at any minute.”
Source : http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/gunfire-reported-march-michael-brown-slay-anniversary-ferguson-missouri-n626926
