Attorney General visits Ferguson as unrest continues

US attorney general Eric Holder met the officer in charge of security in the Missouri suburb of Ferguson yesterday hours after nearly 50 protesters were arrested in the 11th straight night of demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.

He was visiting a restaurant in the St Louis suburb when Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson met with him.

Johnson has been overseeing the protests after several nights of unrest in St Louis stemming from the August 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.