Ferguson shooting suspect charged

A 20-year-old man was charged on Sunday with first-degree assault in last week’s shooting of two policemen during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri.

Suspect, Jeffrey L. Williams has admitted to firing the shots that wounded the officers early on Thursday.

The gunfire rang out after midnight at the end of the rally of a call for change in Ferguson, where an unarmed black 18-year-old was shot to dead last summer by a white police officer.

Michael Brown’s death by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson  touched  off months of protest against law enforcement’s treatment of minority groups in Ferguson and around the country.

(Reuters)