article_snippet: (CNN)With tensions running high after the shooting of two officers in Ferguson, Missouri, state and county
article_snippet: The takeover came less than a day after two police officers standing guard outside Ferguson police headquarters were shot in what St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar called an "ambush," spurring a manhunt for those responsible for targeting the line of officers.
article_snippet: Shots rang from a hill overlooking the station out shortly after midnight Wednesday, at the end of a protest against the Ferguson Police Department.
article_snippet: As a protest against the Ferguson Police Department was dying down, someone, somewhere got violent.
article_snippet: Officers were standing there, and Officers were shot just because Officers were police officers," someone said.
article_snippet: the Ferguson Police Department has been under fire since one of the Ferguson Police Department officers, Darren Wilson, shot and killed black teen Michael Brown in August, and more recently since a scathing U.S. Department of Justice report came out documenting a pattern of racial discrimination.
article_snippet: About 70 law enforcement officers from multiple departments came in to stand in front of the Ferguson police station, as About 70 law enforcement officers from multiple departments have on many other nights -- with the turnout of demonstrators the highest since the November grand jury decision not to indict Wilson.
article_snippet: Even though Jackson, City Manager John Shaw, Ferguson's top court clerk and two police officers are gone or on
article_snippet: And Belmar said it underscores the fact that, eight months after Brown's death, the streets of Ferguson are still simmering and law enforcement officers there are on edge.