Two Cops Shot During Ferguson Protests

by Austin Petersen

By Casey Harper Published: March 12, 2015

Tragic events have reignited a firestorm in Ferguson.

Two St. Louis area police officers were shot in Ferguson, Mo. early Thursday morning during protests just hours after the city’s police chief agreed to resign, The New York Times reports.

The shots fired outside the police station caused panic in the mass of protesters. One officer was shot in the shoulder and one in the face. Both officers, ages 41 and 32, were in serious condition.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar gave a press conference after the shooting.

Belmar said things had started to settle down when at least three shots were fired. The officers had come from the Webster Grove Police Department and St. Louis County.

Belmar said he thinks the shots were a targeted attack.

This comes in the wake of a Department of Justice Investigation that reported systematically racist police practices by the Ferguson police and made public racist emails exchanged by city officials.

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Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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