VIDEO OF POLICE STANDING OVER DEAD BODY OF UNARMED TEEN HE SHOT DEAD
This video shows the moment the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown paces backwards and forwards near his body.
Cop Darren Wilson, 28, can be seen talking to another police officer and pacing close to the dead body of the 18-year-old.
The footage was taken by Piaget Crenshaw who lives in an apartment overlooking the scene in Ferguson, Missouri.
In the upsetting footage, which was taken on a mobile phone, Ms Crenshaw says: 'God bless his soul, police shot this boy outside my apartment.'
Speaking to CNN today, she says she knew something was 'not right' and claims she saw the moment the teenager was shot dead.
'I knew the police shouldn't have been chasing this boy and firing at the same time. And the fact he got shot in his face, something clicked in me and I thought someone else should see this so I recorded.'
Ms Crenshaw said it had appeared as though Wilson had attempted to pull the teenager into a police cruiser in the moments before the shooting.
But she claims the 18-year-old managed to get away but after turning around he was shot a number of times.
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Demonstrators react as police fire tear gas at them while protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown
She added: 'He was running away and when he [Brown] turned around he was shot.'
America’s National Guard has been called in to control mobs that have been causing mayhem since the shooting.
Violence escalated on Sunday night in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been rocked by protests, looting and arson since Michael Brown was killed there on August 9.
A 400-strong crowd clashed with police. Rioters fired shots and hurled Molotov cocktails and stones.
Massed-ranks of cops responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and smoke grenades - making the St Louis suburb resemble a war zone. Some involved were just 10.
Last night there were fears things could get even worse after an autopsy revealed that Brown, 18, had been shot six times - twice in the head.
The second post mortem examination, carried out at the request of Brown’s family by New York city’s former chief medical examiner Michael Baden, showed the 18-year-old was shot at a distance, disproving police claims he had been trying to grab the gun of officer Darren Wilson who killed him.
Friends of Brown claim he had his arms in the air.
Also on Sunday supporters of policeman Wilson, now on enforced leave, rallied to support him wearing t-shirts printed with ‘I stand by Darren Wilson’.
There are two Facebook pages backing Wilson, 28
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