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Ferguson, Missouri is in suburban St. Louis.

Last June Desiree Harris, who lives in Ferguson, watched her grandson Michael Brown, an African-American young man, graduate from high school.

On Saturday night she saw Michael as he was heading for her house as she passed him in her car.

Minutes later, she found his body on the street.

He had been shot dead by a Ferguson police officer.

By all eyewitness accounts he had done nothing wrong and was unarmed.

“He was running this way,” she said. “When I got up there, my grandson was lying on the pavement. I asked the police what happened. They didn’t tell me nothing.”

Last night there was plenty of anger in the streets.

People gathered around police headquarters chanting, “Don’t shoot me! Don’t shoot me!”

“Right now, the small group of people are creating a huge mess,” Ferguson Mayor Knowles told reporters “Contributing…