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Updates From Ferguson Via St. Louis Public Radio's Rachel Lippmann

Ferguson demonstrators
Chris McDaniel/St. Louis Public Radio

18 year old Michael Brown was shot by police on Saturday in a St. Louis suburb called Ferguson, and what was originally a peaceful vigil and protest the next day became a night of arson, rioting, and theft. Since then police and the community continue to square off as tensions around the shooting of Brown, who was black and unarmed, continue to spread. St. Louis Public Radio's Rachel Lippmann updates us on where things stand as of Wednesday morning.

CLICK HERE for live updates on the situation from St. Louis Public Radio.

You can also follow Lippmann on Twitter here.

Rachel Otwell of the Illinois Times is a former NPR Illinois reporter.
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