Thousands pay respects to Ferguson teenager

Relatives said goodbye yesterday to the 18-year-old unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a police officer, remembering him as a "gentle soul" with a deep and growing faith in Christianity and ambitions that one day "the world would know his name".

Thousands of mourners filled the massive Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St Louis, Missouri for the upbeat funeral.

Brown’s killing on August 9 ignited almost two weeks of racially charged street protests in Ferguson, a St Louis suburb.