Police Face Off With Protesters as Night Falls in Ferguson

Crowds gathered this afternoon at a Ferguson, Mo., church for a rally hosted by the parents of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old whose shooting by police sparked a week of unrest in the St. Louis suburb.

The rally held at the Greater Grace Church was an attempt to bring the community together after the shooting of Brown last weekend, according to fliers distributed to Ferguson residents.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and Pastor Jamal H. Bryant of the Empowerment Temple were all expected to speak.

The rally is also hosted by Sharpton's National Action Network and The National Bar Association.

In other developments in Ferguson today:

Feds Will Perform Autopsy on Michael Brown 'as Soon As Possible'

The Justice Department announced today that it will conduct its own autopsy on Michael Brown at the request of Brown's family.

'Due to the extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family, Attorney General Holder has instructed Justice Department officials to arrange for an additional autopsy to be performed by a federal medical examiner,' the Justice Department said in a statement released today.

The St. Louis County Medical Examiner has already released preliminary findings from its own autopsy. The findings concluded that Brown died from gunshot wounds. Justice Department officials will consider that autopsy in their investigation.

Brown's family also hired forensic pathologist Michael Baden to conduct an autopsy.

First Night of Curfew in Missouri Ends in Tear Gas, Arrests

Police dressed in riot gear and armored vehicles used tear gas to disperse Ferguson protesters who attempted to stay on the streets past the state-imposed curfew.

Seven people were arrested for disobeying the curfew, the AP reported.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson said the escalated police presence occurred in reaction to reports that people had broken into a barbecue restaurant on West Florrisant Avenue.

One man was shot and critically wounded in the area, but not by police. Police are still searching for his shooter.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and curfew in Ferguson at a press conference late Saturday afternoon.

The curfew will run from midnight to 5 a.m., but the governor did not say when it will be lifted.

'This is a test, the eyes of the world are watching,' Nixon said. 'This is a test to see if this community can break the cycle of violence and replace it with peace.'

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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon 'Thunderstruck' By Images of Ferguson Police

'I, all of us were thunderstruck by the pictures we saw,' Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told Martha Raddatz in an interview in Ferguson on ABC's This Week. 'I mean, the over-militarization, the MRAPs rolling in, the guns pointed at kids in the street. All of that I think instead of ratcheting down brought emotion up.'

The governor said during his interview that he was caught 'off-guard' by the the Ferguson Police Department's decision to release surveillance footage of Michael Brown allegedly robbing a convenience store before he was shot and killed by a police officer last week.

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