Ferguson - Four journalists arrested while covering racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last year filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming they were battered and falsely arrested by police trying to hinder their ability to cover the protests.
The journalists claim in their lawsuit that police officers used excessive force and intimidation tactics, including shooting at them with rubber bullets, to try to stop the journalists from recording police activity.
Sometimes violent protests erupted in Ferguson, a St Louis suburb, after the 9 August fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. Protesters from around the country converged on the small community, and the state brought in police officers from around the region, as well as the National Guard, to try to quell the unrest.