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    Thursday, August 14, 2014

    Ferguson: disarming tactics of highway patrol pay dividends as calm descends

    Crowds respond positively after county police who used teargas and rubber bullets are replaced on governors orders


    A festive demonstration filled the centre of Ferguson, Missouri, early on Thursday evening after a dramatic shift in police tactics, with a new chief and contingent of officers brought in to police protests over the killing of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.


    Hundreds of people gathered at the same intersection in this northern suburb of St Louis that has been the epicentre of violent clashes with police since the weekend. But where a wall of armed officers in military gear and armoured trucks once stood, there was almost no police presence.


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