Police shootings risk inflaming tensions

Two police officers shot amid protests in Ferguson — the Missouri city that has become a symbol of tensions between police and black Americans — have been released from hospital.

The officers were shot early yesterday in front of the Ferguson police department during a protest following the resignation of the city’s police chief in the wake of damning US justice department report.

Tensions have been high in Ferguson since August and escalated in November after a grand jury declined to prosecute officer Darren Wilson over the shooting to death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old.