WASHINGTON
(AP) -- President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder
to Ferguson, Missouri, to meet with federal law enforcement authorities
investigating the police shooting of an unarmed teenager.
Obama says Holder will travel to the St. Louis suburb on Wednesday.
Holder
recently authorized a federal autopsy on the body of Michael Brown, the
unarmed 18-year-old who was fatally shot on Aug. 9. Brown was black;
the officer who shot him was white.
Obama
spoke from the White House on Monday after independent autopsy results
determined that Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in
the head. Missouri's governor also called in the National Guard early
Monday after police again used tear gas to quell protests that have
taken nightly since Brown's death.
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