Gunfire was heard at a protest outside the Ferguson, Mo., police department early on Thursday morning, according to a Reuters photographer at the scene.
A few dozen demonstrators fled following the sound with some screaming, "They hit a cop," around midnight, the photographer said. Police could not be reached immediately for comment.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that two police officers were shot, but there was no immediate word on their condition.
Several dozen protesters had gathered in front of the Ferguson police department earlier on Wednesday night, just hours after the city's police chief, Thomas Jackson, announced his resignation.
Protesters had called for Jackson's removal since the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. The killing triggered nationwide protests and drew scrutiny to police use of deadly force, especially against black men.
Jackson was the sixth employee to resign or be fired, according to the Associated Press, after a U.S. Justice Department probe found a profit-driven court system and widespread racial bias in the city police department.
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