Michael Brown: Ferguson protest push enters second day.

 
Protesters marched through the centre of St Louis on Saturday

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More than 1,000 people have joined a second day of planned rallies in St Louis to protest against police shootings.

The four-day event, named Ferguson October, began on Friday with a march outside the local prosecutor's office.
The protests were sparked by the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by police in August.
Weeks of protests and violence in St Louis, a suburb of Ferguson, have followed Mr Brown's death.
Tensions in St Louis are high after another black teenager, Vonderrit D Myers, was shot dead by a police officer on Wednesday.
Police arrested eight people during protests in the neighbourhood of Shaw on Thursday night.
Officers in riot gear used pepper spray to try to dispel angry demonstrators.
Police said 18-year-old Myers shot at an officer, but the victim's parents say he was unarmed and racially profiled.
'Civil disobedience' Saturday's demonstrations began with a peaceful march through the centre of St Louis to the Keiner Plaza park. The crowd was larger than the day before, according to the Associated Press.
"This isn't going to stop until there is change with police and black youth," Tory Russell, one of the organisers, told the news agency.
Friday's protest saw hundreds of demonstrators line up against police in riot gear outside the office of the St Louis prosecutor Robert McCulloch.

 

No violence was reported at Friday's protest, in contrast to earlier demonstrations

 

Michael Brown had recently graduated from high school

Demonstrators chanted slogans calling for Mr McCulloch to charge Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Mr Brown in August.
Protest organisers said the weekend of events was intended "to build momentum for a nationwide movement against police violence".
"We are here to bring peace, to bring restoration, to lift our banners in the name of those who've been sacrificed," said another protest organiser, Montague Simmons.
The events will include street protests as well as a music event and a day of "civil disobedience".
Organisers have urged people from across the US to attend.
A US justice department investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown is continuing.
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