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We turn out to St. Louis, Missouri, where protesters are demanding justice in a police shooting

that killed an unarmed African-American teen.

18-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death in the suburb of Ferguson on Saturday afternoon

after he was confronted by police.

Witnesses say Brown was walking in the middle of the street with his friend.

When a police officer drove up and ordered them onto the sidewalk, Brown's friend, Dorian

Johnson, described what happened.

My friend was walking down the street in the middle of the street and we wasn't causing

any harm to nobody.

We had no weapons on us at all.

We just walked in having a conversation.

No calls were blowing at us or hunking at us like we was holding up traffic or anything

like that.

A police officer squad called Port Dup and when he pulled up, these were his exact words.

He said, get the gun on the sidewalk.

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