Full Coverage: Fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Black drivers in Ferguson, Mo., the suburb that experienced violent protests after the shooting death of Michael Brown, were four times as likely last year to be stopped by police than white drivers, a state report shows.

Alan “Al� Eickhoff, interim police chief in Ferguson, Mo., took over the embattled department in March after former Chief Tom Jackson resigned amid investigations into how police handled the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

The interim police chief in Ferguson, Mo., is drawing criticism for a recent interview in which he said that it took hours to remove 18-year-old Michael Brown’s body from the street after he was shot by a police officer “because of hostile fire against our officers.�

Half a century ago, in the weeks between the bloody beating of civil rights marchers by Alabama state troopers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and the six days of looting, arson and death in Watts, it would have seemed unthinkable that people then living would see an African American as president of the United States, or as a mayor or police chief in a city like Baltimore.

Michael Brown’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday against the city of Ferguson, Mo., former Police Chief Thomas Jackson and former Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of their son last summer.

The shooting of two police officers early Thursday at the close of a protest at police headquarters in Ferguson, Mo., is a reminder to the public at large that officers put their lives on the line daily and that criminals target them.

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With voter turnout soaring, Ferguson voters remade the racial makeup of their City Council on Tuesday in the St.

At first glance, this St. Louis suburb doesn’t look much different from a few months ago.

Local police and a city official in Ferguson, Mo., sent racially charged emails comparing minority welfare recipients to dogs and made insensitive comments about Muslims, copies of the emails released by the city show.

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Actual grand jury testimony from the Michael Brown case lays the groundwork for the new play “Ferguson,� written by journalist and documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer and to be presented by Theatre Verite Collective in Los Angeles in late April.

The attorney for the man charged with shooting and wounding two police officers outside the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department said Tuesday that authorities had arrested the wrong person.

The man charged with shooting and wounding two police officers outside the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department this month was caught after a police informant secretly videotaped him talking about the shooting, according to court documents.

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A man accused of shooting and wounding two police officers during a protest outside the Ferguson Police Department last week - while possibly aiming for someone else in a crowd of demonstrators - was arraigned Monday, according to the St.

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They gathered overnight in the driving rain on the sidewalk outside the Police Department, where angry protesters have marched for months.

When Jerry Lohr left for work Thursday morning, his wife had a request — no, a demand.

Police were still evaluating tips, surveillance video and other evidence as they searched for possible suspects and the motive behind the shooting this week of two police officers in the embattled city of Ferguson.

A day and a half after two police officers were shot and wounded during street protests, calm prevailed in Ferguson on Friday after a night of loud but peaceful demonstrations.

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President Obama called years of racial targeting in Ferguson, Mo., “oppressive and objectionable and worthy of protest� but decried the gunfire that left two police officers injured there early Thursday.

The sniper-like shooting of two policemen has once again plunged this city into turmoil just as a series of federal reforms were launched to right a police department accused of widespread bias against black residents.

Former Ferguson City Councilwoman Susan Ankenbrand and her husband were picking up litter along the street near the Police Department on Thursday, pointing out all the rebuilding that had been going on before two police officers were wounded by gunfire the night before.

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Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Thomas Jackson, the face of a department engulfed by unrest after last summer’s shooting death of black 18-year-old Michael Brown, had fended off repeated calls to step down, but he agreed Wednesday to do just that.

Days after federal investigators determined that police officers and municipal courts in Ferguson, Mo., excessively and unfairly targeted black residents for ticketing and arrest, Ferguson’s municipal judge has resigned, and the state’s Supreme Court has appointed a different judge to hear all municipal cases emanating from the St.

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The family of Michael Brown, shot to death by a Ferguson police officer, will file a wrongful death lawsuit, lawyers announced on Thursday, a day after the Department of Justice said it would not bring criminal charges against the officer.

Months after the killing of an unarmed black man by a white policeman convulsed this city and led to protests across the nation, the Justice Department decided not to charge the officer but called for substantial change in the police department, which investigators found had engaged in a pattern of racial abuse against African Americans.

Knees bent and elbows locked, Christian Ellis stood in a swirl of gun smoke, clutching the base of a 9-millimeter Glock 17.

After months of investigation, the Justice Department report on the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last year largely sides with police Officer Darren Wilson and the much-maligned St.

The Ferguson Police Department in Missouri is one of about two dozen law enforcement agencies under investigation by the Justice Department.

The Justice Department’s 102-page report on the Ferguson Police Department summarizes its conclusions in scathing language: Police persistently violated the rights of African Americans, subjected them to excessive force, showed racial bias and stoked long-held feelings of mistrust.

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A member of the grand jury that declined to indict white Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of an unarmed black man filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the prosecutor handling the case, saying the public has been misled about the grand jury’s deliberations.

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The Los Angeles Police Department has made more than 300 arrests in the last three days after a series of protests over a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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There are times – and this is one of them – when I fear this country is incapable of thinking and talking its way through a transition from a racially fractured past and present to a more accepting, tolerant and united future.

At least three dozen protesters -- and about as many journalists -- gathered outside the Ferguson Police Department on a cold, wet Wednesday night.

Hundreds of people marched in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon, the third day of protests against a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a Ferguson police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

Protests unfolded in major cities across the nation Tuesday night as more than 2,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of police officers converged in the St.

Darren Wilson is not haunted by Michael Brown’s death. Wilson does not think he did anything wrong.

In most cases, a grand jury is a supple tool in the hands of a prosecutor bent on an indictment.

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Los Angeles police arrested 183 protesters overnight during a second round of demonstrations against a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of a black teenager.

The recipe was there for things to turn ugly.

Here was the worst moment in Sonny Dayan’s riot nightmare: He stood inside his cellular phone store, surveying the damage to the business he opened because people encouraged him to take a chance on Ferguson.

For China’s state media, the violence in Ferguson, Mo., was an opportunity to point out the type of rights abuses the United States and its Western allies often accuse Beijing authorities of committing.

Christine Ewings awoke Tuesday morning in her Ferguson apartment seething about the way prosecutors handled the shooting death of her cousin, Michael Brown.

Halfway through his testimony to a secret grand jury, Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson talked about the confusion that engulfed him as Michael Brown’s body sprawled lifeless and bloody across the double yellow lines of Canfield Drive.

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The sounds of cleanup -- crinkling glass, the pounding of hammers and the buzz of a circular saw -- filled the air Tuesday morning on South Florissant Road, where windows were smashed at businesses a block from the Ferguson Police Department headquarters.

There’s understandable disappointment in many quarters over the decision by a Missouri grand jury not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black man, Michael Brown.

President Obama ramped up his administration’s response to the violence in Ferguson, Mo., saying Tuesday he had instructed top officials to hold regional meetings aimed at improving relations between police and distrustful communities.

Violence broke out near the Ferguson Police Department on Monday night after the announcement that the officer who killed Michael Brown last summer would not face charges.

President Obama appealed for calm and restraint in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday night, saying distrust of police and racial discrimination can’t be resolved by “throwing bottles.�

In a case with not even the faintest of silver linings, it’s no surprise that the initial batch of letters responding to the announcement that Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson would face no charges in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown reflect the public malaise caused by the tragedy.

On the heels of Monday’s grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo., not to charge a white police officer in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, two Lakers took to Twitter to express their outrage.

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Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck praised the city’s generally peaceful response to a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the death of a young black man, saying three arrests had been made but no major incidents or property damage were reported.

Dozens of people were arrested in California protests after the grand jury decision in Missouri not to indict the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

It started with a simple request — “will you just walk on the sidewalk?�

The Boston Red Sox really did have a good Monday, picking up a pair of coveted free agents as part of their rebuilding process.

As details of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo., trickled out Monday night, many in Los Angeles braced for a painfully familiar outcome.

Those hoping the federal government will criminally prosecute Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of an unarmed black man are likely to be disappointed, but chances are strong that the Justice Department will impose significant reforms on the city’s police department through its ongoing civil investigation.

Two blocks from West Florissant Avenue, where several buildings were burning and a crush of police were standing guard, the memorial for Michael Brown was eerily quiet.

Demonstrators in Oakland have blocked all lanes of Interstate 580, shutting down the highway while protesting the announcement that a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who killed an unarmed African American teenager will not be charged.

Sonny Dayan owns a cellphone store on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo.

The airspace over Ferguson is a no-fly zone once again.

About 2,000 people took to the streets of midtown Manhattan on Monday night after it was announced that a Ferguson, Mo., police officer would not face criminal charges for fatally shooting Michael Brown.

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A man was handcuffed by Los Angeles police during an early morning protest outside LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

The following is a transcript released by the White House on Monday night of President Obama’s remarks after the grand jury announcement in the Michael Brown case, as well as an answer to one question posed by a White House reporter: As you know, a few moments ago, the grand jury deliberating the death of Michael Brown issued its decision.

A grand jury on Monday declined to indict a white police officer in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, unleashing angry protests by demonstrators who said the outcome proved the justice system’s failure to value the lives of African Americans.

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First, the pastor asked congregants to pray for the parents of Michael Brown, who was fatally shot over the summer about three miles away.

The “I ♥ Ferguson� shop is the physical embodiment of a place making the best of bad circumstances.

Johnetta Elzie saw that she was outnumbered.

While the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has been investigating the shooting of Michael Brown and the practices of the Ferguson Police Department, a different agency at Justice has been providing training to local police and assessing their response to demonstrations.

Everyone has seen some version of a criminal trial in the movies.

A wooden cross on a narrow, tree-lined road marks the spot where Samantha Ramsey died a violent death.

There is no single explanation for why Ferguson, Mo., erupted this summer.

As a grand jury deliberated Friday whether to indict a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo., a growing chorus of top officials and community and religious leaders called for calm.

In a video address published Thursday, Michael Brown’s father urged demonstrators to stay peaceful after a grand jury decides whether to indict the police officer who killed his unarmed 18-year-old son.

Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday that his department is gearing up for demonstrations when a Missouri grand jury announces whether to indict a police officer in the controversial shooting of a black teenager.

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Missouri officials have repeatedly warned that events after the grand jury decides whether to charge a white Ferguson police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man will be a balancing act between the need for security and the desire to protect free speech.

A private pathologist who examined Michael Brown’s body is expected to appear this week in front of the grand jury investigating the 18-year-old’s shooting death by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, a family attorney said Wednesday.

The attorneys for the family of an unarmed young black man killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August called for peace on Thursday from protesters as a grand jury decision in the case looms.

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Details found in a trove of police records, recordings and video surveillance footage made public this week have angered attorneys and activists who support Michael Brown, the unarmed black man who was killed during a confrontation with a Ferguson police officer.

With a grand jury decision looming on whether a white police officer should face charges in the killing of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., the investigation has sprung a few leaks.

Police and aviation officials denied a report Sunday that they ordered a no-fly zone over Ferguson, Mo., this summer in order to keep news helicopters away from the protests that formed after a police officer killed an unarmed man.

The leaks from the grand jury investigating the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., are not coming from the grand jurors themselves, officials said Thursday.

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A raucous “Ferguson October� crowd turned a mass protest service on its head Sunday night, heckling the president of the NAACP and successfully demanding that young demonstrators get a place on stage to address an audience of hundreds.

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As unrest in and around Ferguson, Mo., continues more than two months after the death of Michael Brown, Missouri’s governor announced Tuesday that a commission will be formed to examine the deeper issues at the heart of the tension.

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Seventeen demonstrators were arrested in a sit-in outside a QuikTrip here early Sunday as a weekend of “Ferguson October� demonstrations continued to spread out of the suburb of Ferguson and into the city of St.

Fulfilling a promise he made to hundreds of activists the night before, Cornel West on Monday did exactly what he came to Ferguson to do: He got arrested.

Officers in Ferguson, Mo., violated the Constitution by requiring peaceful protesters to keep moving rather than stand still during demonstrations that followed the Aug. 9 police shooting of an unarmed man, a federal judge said Monday.

Romana Williams was out patrolling this week with a thumb-size video camera clipped to the collar of her white T-shirt.

Officials said Thursday they are examining a possible leak from a member of the grand jury that is investigating a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in the shooting death of a black teenager.

Beauty Town has an elaborate video surveillance system that displays 16 angles of the store, but the cameras are better at capturing crime than at preventing it.

Federal officials intervened Friday to stop police in Ferguson, Mo., from wearing “I am Darren Wilson� bracelets in solidarity with the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old there last month.

Nearly seven weeks after the shooting death of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white officer in Ferguson, Mo., the city’s police chief issued an apology to Brown’s family Thursday, saying he was “deeply sorry� for their loss.

Tensions again boiled over in Ferguson, Mo., as a crowd of people smashed the windows of at least one store and three people were arrested in the suburb that has become the latest symbol of the continuing racial woes in the United States.

Organizers have remained silent on why donation pages raising more than $400,000 for the police officer who killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., were shut down without explanation over the weekend.

Six Missouri residents filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging excessive force and false arrests by the Ferguson and St.

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Hundreds gathered at a downtown park Sunday for an annual “Peace Fest� attended by relatives of three young black men killed in controversial shootings: Trayvon Martin of Florida, Oscar Grant of California and Michael Brown, 18, shot two weeks ago in nearby Ferguson by a white police officer.

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Tyrus Murray was 13 years old when her father, Earl Murray, and his friend Ronald Beasley died in a hail of gunfire during a drug bust gone awry.

Troubled by images of heavily armed police facing off protesters in Ferguson, Mo., President Obama is ordering a review of federal programs that help law enforcement agencies buy military equipment.

Antonio French sat in the front passenger seat of an air-conditioned sedan parked behind vandalized and boarded-up Red’s BBQ on West Florissant Avenue, scrolling through his iPhone, reading a barrage of tweets, emails and text messages.

Barbershop owner Antonio Henley, a burly man in a smock labeled “Tony Da Boss,� was surveying the few customers who had ventured in for haircuts, and the unusually large number of empty chairs.

After several days of calm, demonstrators in Ferguson continued low-key protests Saturday in near triple-digit temperatures, calling for justice to be served two weeks after the death of Michael Brown in a confrontation with a police officer.

The grand jury tasked with weighing criminal charges against the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown will have to make sense of a muddled and conflicting series of narratives over the next several weeks.

An online fund created to raise money for the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who killed Michael Brown has amassed more than $150,000, outpacing a similar account for the slain man’s family.

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As Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to begin withdrawing from this St.

Maybe the real story is how the windows at McDonald’s survived as long as they did.

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With the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., ongoing, countries including China have sensed a chance to strike back at what they see as the United States’ preachiness and hypocrisy on human rights.

What began as a calm evening in Ferguson with small groups of protesters walking along West Florissant Avenue chanting in unison, “Hands up, don’t shoot,� briefly turned confrontational when a Missouri couple arrived with posters in support of the police officer who killed Michael Brown.

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As this troubled town awaited the arrival of U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H.

As turmoil surrounding a police shooting in Missouri continues, here are some questions and answers about what has happened so far.

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Three college student from Ferguson found themselves trapped overnight behind the riot-ready police lines of this embattled St.

Gas masks have apparently become a hot commodity near Ferguson, Mo., after more than a week of clashes between police and protesters since an officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black man.

After a night of virtual calm on Ferguson streets, protests over the Aug. 9 police killing of an unarmed black man turned tense shortly before midnight Tuesday when someone threw a bottle and police swarmed to make an arrest.

SAG-AFTRA, which represents more than 165,000 actors, journalists and other media professionals, issued a statement on Tuesday calling on law enforcement officials in Ferguson, Mo., to “permit journalists the freedom to do their jobs.�

As another night of peaceful protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man devolved into confrontation and confusion, the Missouri State Highway Patrol officer in charge of law enforcement in this St.

Although the Missouri National Guard was deployed and a curfew was lifted Monday, what began as a peaceful demonstration turned restive after dark, as this racially polarized St.

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Blacks and whites see the events in Ferguson, Mo., through starkly different lenses, a new nationwide survey shows.

In the chorus of voices last week protesting the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., one stood out: President Obama’s.

The ongoing violence in Ferguson, Mo., is dismaying and — for those who have been in Los Angeles a long time — painfully familiar.

Amnesty International has sent monitors to the scene.

It was a long week last week, and depending on your interests you were distracted by Robin Williams’ death, Lauren Bacall’s death, the worsening Ebola crisis in Africa, America’s return to Iraq, the brewing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza or the ALS ice bucket challenge.

Christine Ewings learned in a phone call from a friend that her street had been closed because a young black man had been shot by police.

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Unrest continued in Ferguson, Mo., on Sunday night as volleys of tear gas, flash grenades and Molotov cocktails lit up the night sky

Michael Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a preliminary private autopsy found, a Brown family attorney said Sunday night.

Nearly a half century before Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson crossed paths on a street in Ferguson, Mo., a 21-year-old man named Marquette Frye was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol, just outside of Watts.

Michael Brown’s cousin Christine Ewings, 46, and her son Daryus Watson, 16, talk in Ferguson, Mo., to L.A.

To understand Michael Brown and why his shooting has unleashed such anger here, go to the place where he lived and died.

To the editor: One of us is a middle-aged Asian American, the other a Latino who has been a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for almost 25 years.

The police shooting of Michael Brown was the spark.

A Ferguson resident who knew Michael Brown has shared new video revealing the immediate aftermath of the controversial killing, which has sparked days of unrest and made images of police in riot gear synonymous with the city.

Live from the scene as Ferguson’s midnight curfew takes effect.

An unidentified male was in critical condition in Ferguson, Mo., early Sunday after being shot during protests that broke out as police sought to enforce a curfew imposed to quell continuing unrest over the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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The first thing Norm Stamper thought when he saw images of the protests in Ferguson, Mo., following the police shooting of an unarmed black man was straight out of a folk song — “When will we ever learn?�

Unrest mounts in Ferguson, as one reporter observes live at the scene of looting and protests.

Kevin Seltzer sat on the carpet in his Ferguson apartment on Friday replaying videos of what he witnessed after his friend Michael Brown was shot.

The roots of the racial unrest that has racked Ferguson, Mo., this week go back more than a century in a region that has had one foot planted in the Midwest and another in the South, historians and sociologists say.

The image of Ferguson, Mo., police officers in camouflage pointing high-caliber rifles from armored vehicles at unarmed protesters has crystallized a debate over whether a decades-long flow of military-grade equipment to the nation’s police departments has gone too far.

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Police on Friday released surveillance video that a police report says shows Ferguson, Mo., shooting victim Michael Brown involved in a strong-arm robbery of a convenience store Saturday shortly before he was shot to death by police in the street.

The fatal encounter between a police officer and an unarmed young man began when the officer stopped the man because he was walking in the street, Ferguson’s police chief said Friday in a revelation that added to public anger and confusion over Michael Brown’s death.

After several nights of tense street confrontations, state and federal authorities stepped in Thursday to curb the aggressive tactics of local police against demonstrators protesting the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

Protests continue Thursday in Ferguson, Mo., following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

The Justice Department is pushing ahead with a possible federal criminal prosecution of the officer who shot an unarmed black man in Ferguson Mo., where peaceful protests were taking place Thursday evening under the new direction of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

President Obama sought to calm the increasingly tense situation in Ferguson, Mo., on Thursday, saying there was “no excuse� for “excessive force� by police or for looting or violence aimed at law enforcement.

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Win or lose—and there’s no question he’s running—Rand Paul has firmly established himself as the most intriguing Republican eyeing the White House in 2016.

The “hacktivist� group Anonymous had one of its Twitter accounts deactivated Thursday after it released the name -- which turned out to be wrong -- of the officer it believed to have fatally shot teenager Michael Brown.