The St. Louis County Police Department has confirmed via their Twitter feed that shots were indeed fired at a protest in front of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department shortly following the announcement of a grand jury decision not to indict a police officer for shooting a black teen.
Confirmed: shots fired across from #Ferguson PD and south of Ferguson PD.
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014
St. Louis County PD is saying that they are now deploying tear gas:
At appx 9:15p, tear gas was used on S. Florissant after smoke was unsuccessful in dispersing violent crowd. Smoke was used FIRST. #Ferguson
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014
Police are reporting that multiple law enforcement vehicles have been set ablaze and are being vandalized:
Car burning for over an hour. Maybe if #Ferguson spent less money on military vehicles and more money on firetrucks? pic.twitter.com/2WOKu5kFOV
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) November 25, 2014
A second police vehicle on fire near 400 S. Florissant. #Ferguson
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014
Near 400 blk of S. Florissant – #stlcopd police car set on fire. #Ferguson
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014
RT @JasonWhitely: A St. Louis County police car is on fire. The crowd has dispersed. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/3U3OY7Suey
— Robby Cortés (@RobbyCortes) November 25, 2014
Police cruiser burns in #Ferguson. http://t.co/FAlAPFtr63 pic.twitter.com/XhiLSebAsK
— CBSN (@CBSNLive) November 25, 2014
“@NickelSn_: “@MbasuCNN: trashed police car in #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/t8ABVWvJ1j” why?! like where does this get you” it gets you a jail cell
— sheela (@slumdawg__) November 25, 2014
St. Louis County PD is also announcing that “Tactical Ops” are “being deployed,” and earlier claimed they were releasing smoke grenades, not tear gas.
Police are making numerous announcements to leave the roadway and are being ignored. Tactical opts being deployed.
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014
Police are not deploying tear gas. They are using #smoke to break up unruly crowds. #Ferguson
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014
Prior to authorities confirming that shots were fired, several reporters out in the field had tweeted about hearing gun shots, including Infowars reporter Joe Biggs.
Several shots just went off lots of people got down. #Ferguson
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) November 25, 2014
Sound of possible gunfire near #Ferguson police dept. People down. Not sure what happened.
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) November 25, 2014
BREAKING: REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED NEAR #FERGUSON PD BUILDING.
— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) November 25, 2014
Four shots fired south of .#Ferguson police HQ. Water bottle hurled at cops.
— stevegiegerich (@stevegiegerich) November 25, 2014
Uh oh. Reports of gunshots from @phampel @valeriehahn @jelani9 @justinGlawe @timcast #Ferguson
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) November 25, 2014
St. Louis County PD is also reporting that stores in the area are also being looted:
police are responding to reports of looting on S. Florissant just south of the #Ferguson police department.
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014
Watch Infowars live stream of the protests in front of Ferguson PD.
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