article_snippet: The shootings occurred Wednesday night.
article_snippet: The shootings rang out from a hill overlooking the city's police station shortly after midnight Wednesday, at the end of a protest against the Ferguson Police Department, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said at the time.
article_snippet: These police officers were standing there, and These police officers were shot just because These police officers were police officers," someone said.
article_snippet: The department has been under fire since one of The department officers, Darren Wilson, shot and killed African-American teen Michael Brown in August, and more recently since a scathing U.S. Department of Justice report documented a pattern of racial discrimination.
article_snippet: Police Chief Thomas Jackson resigned Wednesday.
article_snippet: While the demonstrators' focus was Ferguson, neither of These police officers works for The department.
highlights_snippet: Officers shot after protests in Ferguson; neither officer from Ferguson Police Department .