Las Vegas Sun

April 23, 2024

St. Louis County police officers stand back to back as they attempt to move a crowd gathered in front of the QuikTrip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd Monday night that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted.

AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen

St. Louis County police officers stand back to back as they attempt to move a crowd gathered in front of the QuikTrip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd Monday night that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted.