Residents remain on edge in the central U.S. town of Ferguson, Missouri, as they await word on whether a grand jury will indict a white police officer for the August shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager during a street confrontation.
ເມືອງ Ferguson ກຽມຮັບມື ກັບ ຄວາມວຸ້ນວາຍ
![Matt Pearce, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times, holds his head after getting hit by a rock thrown into the crowd during a protest in response to the August shooting of Michael Brown, St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 23, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4b874132-541b-4333-b795-efa1442847b5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Matt Pearce, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times, holds his head after getting hit by a rock thrown into the crowd during a protest in response to the August shooting of Michael Brown, St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 23, 2014.
![Ray Mills (left) and Londrelle Hall pause near a memorial in the middle of a street more than three months after African-American Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, Nov. 23, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/57b25817-9002-49ab-b1f4-ff917a137362_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ray Mills (left) and Londrelle Hall pause near a memorial in the middle of a street more than three months after African-American Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, Nov. 23, 2014.
![Demonstrators block a busy intersection while marching through the streets to protest the August shooting of Michael Brown, in St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 23, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b82788a7-01d7-4d13-aa63-c806e33702ff_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Demonstrators block a busy intersection while marching through the streets to protest the August shooting of Michael Brown, in St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 23, 2014.
![Protesters block traffic as they march in the streets, in St. Louis, Missouri. Ferguson and the St. Louis region are on edge in anticipation of the announcement by a grand jury whether to criminally charge officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Nov. 23, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/82f97514-0a6c-4ce1-893c-a88196eab7b8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Protesters block traffic as they march in the streets, in St. Louis, Missouri. Ferguson and the St. Louis region are on edge in anticipation of the announcement by a grand jury whether to criminally charge officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Nov. 23, 2014.