article_snippet: St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar Jon Belmar appeared to have stepped back from St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar earlier statement, in which St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar described the attack in no uncertain terms as 'an ambush' on Ferguson's police force.
article_snippet: St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar also told reporters Friday that St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar 'honestly couldn't tell you for sure' whether the shooter was associated with the protesters who were picketing the Ferguson Police Department Wednesday night.
article_snippet: St Louis County backed away from St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar earlier statement, in which St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar described the Wednesday attack on police officers as 'an ambush' Aftermath: Police crime scene tape lies in the gutter outside the Ferguson Police Department at the spot where two police officers were shot during protests March 12 .
article_snippet: St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters Friday that St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar 'honestly couldn't tell you for sure' whether the shooter was associated with protesters .
article_snippet: In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday night's shooting, Chief Belmar told reporters the officers, a 41-year-old county police officer and a 32-year-old colleague from a nearby police department, were attacked 'just because the officers, a 41-year-old county police officer and a 32-year-old colleague from a nearby police department were police officers' by someone 'embedded' among the protesters.
article_snippet: Chief Belmar added: 'I would have to make an assumption that these shots were directed exactly at the police officers.'
article_snippet: But on Friday, Chief Belmar seemed far less certain of the circumstances of the incident. '
article_snippet: It’s kind of really hard to speculate what kind of nexus may or may not have existed between the shooters and any individual who would have been out there,' said Chief Belmar.
highlights_snippet: St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said Friday St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar were no closer to making an arrest in Wednesday's shooting of two officers .
  
highlights_snippet: St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar stepped back from earlier assertion that Wednesday's shooting of two officers was an 'ambush' and that the gunman was 'embedded' among protesters .
  