(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Washington August 18 (QNA) - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon early Monday ordered the National Guard deployed to the town of Ferguson where another night of violence saw police pelted with bottles and Molotov cocktails and looters rampaging through local businesses. The executive order directs the resources of the National Guard "to help restore peace and order and to protect the citizens of Ferguson." "Tonight a day of hope prayers and peaceful protests was marred by the violent criminal acts of an organized and growing number of individuals many from outside the community and state whose actions are putting the residents and businesses of Ferguson at risk" the governor said in a statement. According to Los Angeles Times daily newspaper at least two people were shot and the governor’s statement said police were also fired upon in street protests that have escalated since the Aug. 9 shooting of an 18-year-old black youth Michael Brown by a white police officer. Police said there were signs of a pre-planned and coordinated attempt to disrupt the city and launch an advance on the police command post not far from the scene of the shooting. The new street eruptions came as a private autopsy revealed that Brown had been shot at least six times including twice in the head. Anthony Gray an attorney for the Brown family said a diagram provided by New York forensics expert Dr. Michael Baden commissioned by the family to do an independent examination revealed details of the bullets that struck Brown’s body during his Aug. 9 encounter with a white police officer. (QNA)
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