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NEW YORK—About 800 people gathered in Manhattan’s Union Square Thursday night in response to a week of violence between police and residents in Ferguson, Mo. The violence was set off by the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American boy who lived in the St. Louis suburb, at the hands of a police officer.

NEW YORK—About 800 people gathered in Manhattan’s Union Square Thursday night in response to a week of violence between police and residents in Ferguson, Mo. The violence was set off by the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American boy who lived in the St. Louis suburb, at the hands of a police officer.