Posted: 03/12/2015 10:02 pm EDT
FERGUSON, Mo. -- As reporters flocked back to this St. Louis suburb following theambush shooting of two officers outside the police department overnight, residents, law enforcement and protesters were on edge. Many said they were angered that a gunman’s bullets may threaten to interrupt a community on the cusp of significant change.
The shooter -- described by Attorney General Eric Holder as “ damn punk” -- remained at large Thursday night. Both officers were treated for their wounds and released from the hospital on Thursday. Police raided a Ferguson home searching for witnesses to the shooting.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon traveled to the city, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the St. Louis County Police Department took over policing the ongoing protests. Candidates for a seat on Ferguson's city council were holding a debate Thursday night and there was a plan for a prayer vigil at 8 p.m. local time. The officers were shot just after midnight Thursday during a protest that followed the resignation of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson. Jackson is the sixth person out of a job since last week's scathing Justice Department report on how the city police department and municipal court had been turned into a cash cow, mostly on the backs of black residents. The Justice Department investigation came in the wake of a Ferguson officer's killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August. more 
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