Police officers in riot gear hold a line as they watch demonstrators protest the shooting death of Michael Brown and 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri on October 12, 2014. Thousands of people took to the streets of the midwestern US city of St Louis on October 12 to protest police tactics in the wake of the racially charged shooting of an unarmed black teenager. AFP PHOTO/Joshua LottJoshua LOTT/AFP/Getty Images