The department has been investigating Ferguson’s policing after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer in 2014.
St. Louis County declared a state of emergency on Monday after a teenager was charged with shooting at police officers.
Police charged a young African-American man on Sunday in connection with the shooting in Ferguson that wounded two policemen.
Investigators scoured streets near the scene of the shooting for clues and several people were brought in for questioning, but there were no arrests.
Two police officers were shot during a protest, hours after the city’s police chief quit following a damning report into his department.
The US president says discrimination by law enforcement officers in Ferguson, Missouri, showed a lot of work needed to be done on race in America.
Twitter protest hashtag is overwhelming victor in American Dialect Society’s annual poll of language experts.
"Michael Brown learned a lesson about a messin’ with a badass policeman," went the song, captured on video on entertainment news website TMZ.
Protesters have staged demonstrations every day since a grand jury’s decision on Wednesday not to bring criminal charges against the officer.
In what appears to be another incident of racial profiling in the US, a man was killed by a police officer who thought he was reaching for a gun.
Police power and black lives are at opposite ends of a morally indefensible value system.
A US jury has found that white police officer Darren Wilson acted in self defence when he shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown.
Ferguson has been quiet while a jury decides if Darren Wilson will be charged for the killing of Michael Brown, but Missouri is taking no chances.
The rapper speaks about police killing black people in South Africa and the United States, Lauryn Hill’s essence and working with local artists.
Almost two months to the day after black teen Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer, another St Louis teen was gunned down in St Louis.
The Ferguson police chief has apologised for the mistakes made by the police after a white officer shot to death an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown.
No Taylor Swift, it’s not okay for white pop stars to twerk and otherwise appropriate black culture, writes Verashni Pillay. And here’s why.
Peaceful protests have resumed in Ferguson after the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by a police officer.
After criticism of authorities’ use of military gear in Ferguson, Barack Obama has requested a probe into the battle-grade hardware sold to police.
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have begun to abate after a white police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager on August 9.
