Protests in the strife-torn town of Ferguson calmed down late night yesterday after the top US law enforcement official pledged a full investigation into the slaying of teenager Michael Brown that kicked off days of racially charged unrest.
Police said six people were arrested, down from 47 on Tuesday, and that demonstrators refrained from throwing projectiles and firing weapons as they had in the worst moments of the rioting.
Earlier yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder met with the parents of Brown, a black unarmed 18-year-old who was shot dead by a white police officer on August 9.
A grand jury was to begin hearing witnesses to Brown´s killing, with widespread calls for the police officer to be put on trial for the fatal shooting.
Brown´s remains are undergoing three separate autopsies — by local authorities, the family and Holder´s Justice Department.
Holder also met with the Missouri governor, the state´s two senators and two area lawmakers.
The attorney general, who is African-American, told Ferguson residents he had assigned the justice department´s “most experienced agents and prosecutors” to investigate Brown´s death who was shot six times at least two of those hits were in the head.
Protests in the strife-torn town of Ferguson calmed down late night yesterday after the top US law enforcement official pledged a full investigation into the slaying of teenager Michael Brown that kicked off days of racially charged unrest.
Police said six people were arrested, down from 47 on Tuesday, and that demonstrators refrained from throwing projectiles and firing weapons as they had in the worst moments of the rioting.
Earlier yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder met with the parents of Brown, a black unarmed 18-year-old who was shot dead by a white police officer on August 9.
A grand jury was to begin hearing witnesses to Brown´s killing, with widespread calls for the police officer to be put on trial for the fatal shooting.
Brown´s remains are undergoing three separate autopsies — by local authorities, the family and Holder´s Justice Department.
Holder also met with the Missouri governor, the state´s two senators and two area lawmakers.
The attorney general, who is African-American, told Ferguson residents he had assigned the justice department´s “most experienced agents and prosecutors” to investigate Brown´s death who was shot six times at least two of those hits were in the head.
