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 This was just posted by @theanonmessage, a twitter account affiliated with Anonymous’ Operation Ferguson, a member of which I interviewed last night. According to @theanonmessage, this recording contains audio excerpts from St. Louis County police dispatch over several hours on August 9, 2014, the day Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer. The dispatcher starts talking about the Brown shooting around the 10-minute mark, while intermittently handling other calls. See below the recording for an updating list of interesting moments, with time stamps included. 
 
 If you want to try to decipher the dispatch codes, here’s a dictionary for that. 
 
 9:35: “Ferguson is asking for assistance with crowd control . . .” 
 
 10:58: “Now they have a large group gathering there, she doesn’t know any further. . .” 
 
 11:20: “We just got another call stating it was an officer-involved shooting . . .” 
 
 11:30: “Be advised, this information came from the news . . .” 
 
 11:55: “We’re just getting information from the news and we just called Ferguson back again and they don’t know anything about it . . .” 
 
 20:00: “. . .destruction of property . . .” 
 
 21:55: “They are requesting more cars. Do you want me to send more of your cars?” 
 
 43:55: “Attention all cars, be advised that in reference to the call 2947 Canfield Drive, we are switching over to the riot channel at this time . . .” 
 
 Update, 4:40 p.m. ET: I tried to verify the dispatch recordings with St. Louis County Police but their media contact, Brian Shelman, did not answer the phone and his voicemail was full. 
 
 Update 2, 5:05 p.m. ET: Mashable is confirming that the St. Louis County Police Department is “aware of this and currently investigating.” 
 
 Update 3, 6:05 p.m. ET: A twitter follower of mine points out that the dispatch recording probably comes from Broadcastify, a database of public safety radio audio streams that’s available to anyone who pays for a subscription. It’s “far from a hack,” he says. ||||| Computer hackers associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous released a recording on YouTube Wednesday that they claim are audio files from a St. Louis County Police dispatch recorded during the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. 
 
 The tape appears to be from St. Louis County dispatch — but the officer who fired the shots works for Ferguson's police department. Discussion of the shooting begins at 11:26, when a dispatcher mentions hearing about the incident "on the news," and at minute 44, which contains audio from 1:35 p.m. - 2:05 p.m., the dispatcher says "we are switching over to the riot channel." 
 
 It's likely any chatter regarding the actual shooting will be found in the Ferguson Police Department's audio dispatches. Those have yet to be released — Ferguson's Police Chief Thomas Jackson says the 911 tapes were still being processed during a press conference on Wednesday, and apologized that it was taking so long. 
 
 Reached over email, St. Louis Police spokesperson Brian Schellman tells Mashable, "We are aware of this and are currently investigating it." 
 
 Asked if he has any indication if they were real, or any clue how they were obtained, Schellman responded, "That's what our investigators are looking into now. The answer to both of those questions." 
 
 The St. Louis County Police Department is currently in charge of the shooting's investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting. 
 
 BREAKING: #Anonymous has obtained audio files of police dispatch and EMS during the #MikeBrown shooting. Will release ASAP. #Ferguson — TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) August 13, 2014 
 
 "We have released these tapes to the public so as they are able to get a sense of the atmosphere the moments before and the hours after Mike Brown was shot," an Anonymous spokesperson associated with the leaks told Mashable. 
 
 "The public needs to understand that there were faults in the response to Mike Brown's shooting. For example, crowd control was requested but there was no mention of a shooting. The dispatcher was notified from a caller and Ferguson PD said they had no idea what was going on. This is all in the tapes," the spokesperson said. 
 
 The group explains the scanner audio, which is almost two hours long, was lightly edited to remove quiet periods in its description on YouTube: 
 
 We are Anonymous. These files compiled in this video contains audio of St. Louis police dispatch from the date of August 9th 2014, the day Mike Brown was murdered by a Ferguson PD officer. We have released these tapes to the public so as they are able to get a sense of the atmosphere the moments before and the hours after Mike Brown was shot. These raw audio files have been compiled and long quiet moments have been cut down. Time stamps are available within the video. 
 
 The group had promised to release the tapes on Wednesday, but ran into technical problems uploading the tape. 
 
 "We apologize for the delay, file size is rather large. Continue to stay tuned in, we will notify you immediately," the Twitter account @TheAnonMessage message tweeted just after 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday. "It's not my fault YouTube servers take forever to process." 
 
 The website of the St. Louis suburb has also been experiencing cyberattacks since the shooting, but Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said on Wednesday that those won't sway him into releasing the officer's name who shot Brown. 
 
 The officer has not been identified, though Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said the officer had been with the Ferguson police force for six years. 
 
 Jackson said someone burrowed into the website and shut it down for much of Monday, two days after the 18-year-old Brown was killed. Brown's death has stoked racial tensions, violent protests, and looting, along with calls for police to release the offending officer's name so his background could be reviewed. 
 
 Protesters hold up signs along a road on Aug. 12, in Ferguson, Missouri. Image: Jeff Roberson/Associated Press 
 
 Anonymous has pledged to tamper with the city's computers if the name wasn't released. But Jackson said releasing the information could endanger the officer, who has received numerous death threats. 
 
 Jackson said he was unaware of whether the hackers obtained any personal information about police officers from its website. Ferguson, a predominantly black city of roughly 20,000 residents, is about 8 miles northwest of St. Louis. 
 
 Investigators have released very few details about the shooting; the events that unfolded on Saturday are still in dispute. Officials only said that a scuffle began after an officer asked Brown and another man to get out of the street, and that the officer's weapon fired at some point inside a patrol car. Witnesses say Brown had his hands raised when the officer repeatedly shot him. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| The suburban St. Louis town where a cop shot an unarmed black teen dead descended into turmoil Wednesday night as protesters hurled bottles and Molotov cocktails and police in riot gear fired back with tear gas. 
 
 “We have to stand and fight here right now!” one woman screamed as helmeted cops moved in to disperse a demonstration over the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. 
 
 Several hundred demonstrators packed the main street in Ferguson, Mo., holding up their hands in surrender pose and chanting “Stand Up! Don’t Shoot!” 
 
 Demonstrators wear signs of 'Don't Shoot' following the shooting death of unarmed Michael Brown. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A line of police wait for demostrators at Canfield Ave. after they had walked down W. Florissant in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday. (J.B. Forbes/AP) 'Hands Up! Don't Shoot!' was a common theme during Wednesday's protest outside St. Louis. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A man tries to calm a group of protesters as police stand in the distance in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday. (Jeff Roberson/AP) A community activist tries to persuade a group of protesters to move back as police in riot gear stand by. (Jeff Roberson/AP) 
 
 A team of officers wearing riot gear and toting shields stood about 100 feet from the protesters. 
 
 Just after 9 p.m., cops issued several warnings over a loudspeaker, saying, “You are being ordered to leave now! If you don’t leave peacefully, there will be arrests.” 
 
 Someone in the defiant crowd threw a bottle at the police line. Cops responded by firing tear gas canisters and flash grenades that sparked and emitted ear-splitting booms. 
 
 “We’re not dogs, so what the hell you’ve got those whipping sticks for?” one man shouted at police. “Because you want to whip us like dogs.” 
 
 Snipers on top of armed personnel carriers trained their weapons on demostrators Wednesday. (Jeff Roberson/AP) A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his weapon in the direction of protesters in Ferguson, Mo. (Jeff Roberson/AP) Police in riot gear line up as protesters in Ferguson, Mo. crowd the main street where looting took place over the weekend. (Jeff Roberson/AP) 
 
 Another protester pointed his finger at a cop and hollered, “If I’m going to go, I’m taking one of you with me!” 
 
 Gunshots were also heard, apparently fired by protesters at the police. One bullet whizzed by the head of a Daily News reporter. Tear gas billowed over W. Florissant Ave., Ferguson’s main drag, where the protesters gathered before sunset. 
 
 Michael Brown was shot and killed by an unidentified cop on Saturday. (Big'mike Jr Brown via Facebook) 
 
 Police Chief Tom Jackson had suggested a voluntary sundown curfew on protesting after looting and violence followed Saturday’s shooting of Brown. 
 
 During the chaos to break up the demonstrations, a reporter for The Washington Post and another for the Huffington Post were briefly placed under arrest when a half-dozen cops stormed a McDonald’s. 
 
 A demonstrator throws back a tear gas container after tactical officers trying to break up a group of bystanders. (Robert Cohen/AP) Protesters march down the street as tensions between police and the local community continued to escalate Tuesday night. (MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS) 
 
 “It was tense,” said Wesley Lowery, the Washington Post reporter who was detained, adding that police slammed him against a soda machine and slapped plastic cuffs on him. Lowery and Ryan Reilly, the Huffington Post reporter, were both released without being charged. 
 
 Earlier Wednesday, protesters gathered in front of the QuickTrip on W. Florissant, a store that was looted and set ablaze on Sunday. 
 
 “The whole damn system is guilty as hell!” the crowd chanted at cops standing behind their shields. SWAT officers stood atop two armored vehicles and pointed .40-caliber automatic weapons mounted on tripods at the demonstrators. 
 
 The tense standoff came after a hacker collective posted recordings of police radio chatter in the moments after Brown’s death on the Web on Wednesday. 
 
 Rev. Al Sharpton addresses the audience at the Greater St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church on Tuesday in Dellwood, Mo. (Chris Lee/MCT) Louis Head, stepfather of Michael Brown and Lesley McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, attend the church gathering with Sharpton. (Robert Cohen/AP) 
 
 Moments after the unidentified Ferguson cop killed Brown, a county police dispatcher reported an urgent request from an officer in trouble. 
 
 “Need assistance with crowd control,” she said in the recordings. A short time time later, the dispatcher reported an “officer-involved shooting” but added, “Be advised. This information came from the news.” 
 
 Thirty minutes later, it was all hands on deck. 
 
 “Attention, all cars. Be advised we are switching over to the riot channel,” she said. 
 
 Protesters try unsuccessfully to light a Molotov cocktail as the police prepare to advance on Wednesday. (Chris Lee/MCT) 
 
 The apparent confusion was revealed in recordings that Anonymous obtained and posted Wednesday. The effort is part of the hacker group’s “Operation Ferguson” to make sure that Brown’s death is investigated. 
 
 The group is also trying to unmask the white officer who fired the fatal shots. Chief Jackson has refused to identify the cop because of threats against his life. 
 
 The tapes were unveiled on the same day that Brown’s pal Dorian Johnson — who claims the teen was “shot like an animal” after the cop told him to get on the sidewalk — met with police and FBI investigators. 
 
 Johnson said the cop grabbed Brown around the neck and tried to pull him through the window of his cruiser. 
 
 “He says, ‘I’ll shoot,’” said Johnson. “A second later, the gun went off and he let go. That’s how we were able to run at the same time.” 
 
 Johnson said he ducked behind a car, but one of the officer’s shots hit Brown in the back. 
 
 “My friend started to tell the officer that he was unarmed and that he could stop shooting. Before he could get his second sentence out, the officer fired several more shots into his head and chest area. 
 
 “It was just horrible to watch,” Johnson said. 
 
 With Sasha Goldstein, Michael Walsh and Corky Siemaszko and News Wire Services. Kenneth Bahr reporting from Ferguson, Mo.
– St. Louis County police haven't released audio regarding the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, but the hacker collective Anonymous took care of that today, reports Mashable. The lengthy file released on YouTube shows the progression of events after an officer shot the unarmed teen in the suburb of Ferguson. As Mother Jones notes, the first hint of trouble comes more than nine minutes into the recording, with the dispatcher making a request for crowd control. But the circumstances were still unclear as to why at that point. Some excerpts, with the bold referring to the time of the audio recording: 9:35: "Ferguson is asking for assistance with crowd control ..." 10:58: "Now they have a large group gathering there, she doesn't know any further ..." 11:20: "We just got another call stating it was an officer-involved shooting. ... Be advised, this information came from the news ,,, 21:55: "They are requesting more cars. Do you want me to send more of your cars?" 43:55: "Attention all cars, be advised that in reference to the call 2947 Canfield Drive, we are switching over to the riot channel at this time ..." Police say they are aware of the audio and are investigating how it became public. Anonymous is also trying to identify the officer involved, reports the New York Daily News. Ferguson's police chief has balked at doing that so far because the six-year veteran has gotten death threats. (The FBI has launched an investigation into the shooting.)