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 This was just posted by @theanonmessage, a twitter account affiliated with Anonymous’ Operation Ferguson, a member of which I interviewed last night. According to @theanonmessage, this recording contains audio excerpts from St. Louis County police dispatch over several hours on August 9, 2014, the day Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer. The dispatcher starts talking about the Brown shooting around the 10-minute mark, while intermittently handling other calls. See below the recording for an updating list of interesting moments, with time stamps included. 
 
 If you want to try to decipher the dispatch codes, here’s a dictionary for that. 
 
 9:35: “Ferguson is asking for assistance with crowd control . . .” 
 
 10:58: “Now they have a large group gathering there, she doesn’t know any further. . .” 
 
 11:20: “We just got another call stating it was an officer-involved shooting . . .” 
 
 11:30: “Be advised, this information came from the news . . .” 
 
 11:55: “We’re just getting information from the news and we just called Ferguson back again and they don’t know anything about it . . .” 
 
 20:00: “. . .destruction of property . . .” 
 
 21:55: “They are requesting more cars. Do you want me to send more of your cars?” 
 
 43:55: “Attention all cars, be advised that in reference to the call 2947 Canfield Drive, we are switching over to the riot channel at this time . . .” 
 
 Update, 4:40 p.m. ET: I tried to verify the dispatch recordings with St. Louis County Police but their media contact, Brian Shelman, did not answer the phone and his voicemail was full. 
 
 Update 2, 5:05 p.m. ET: Mashable is confirming that the St. Louis County Police Department is “aware of this and currently investigating.” 
 
 Update 3, 6:05 p.m. ET: A twitter follower of mine points out that the dispatch recording probably comes from Broadcastify, a database of public safety radio audio streams that’s available to anyone who pays for a subscription. It’s “far from a hack,” he says. ||||| Computer hackers associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous released a recording on YouTube Wednesday that they claim are audio files from a St. Louis County Police dispatch recorded during the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. 
 
 The tape appears to be from St. Louis County dispatch — but the officer who fired the shots works for Ferguson's police department. Discussion of the shooting begins at 11:26, when a dispatcher mentions hearing about the incident "on the news," and at minute 44, which contains audio from 1:35 p.m. - 2:05 p.m., the dispatcher says "we are switching over to the riot channel." 
 
 It's likely any chatter regarding the actual shooting will be found in the Ferguson Police Department's audio dispatches. Those have yet to be released — Ferguson's Police Chief Thomas Jackson says the 911 tapes were still being processed during a press conference on Wednesday, and apologized that it was taking so long. 
 
 Reached over email, St. Louis Police spokesperson Brian Schellman tells Mashable, "We are aware of this and are currently investigating it." 
 
 Asked if he has any indication if they were real, or any clue how they were obtained, Schellman responded, "That's what our investigators are looking into now. The answer to both of those questions." 
 
 The St. Louis County Police Department is currently in charge of the shooting's investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting. 
 
 BREAKING: #Anonymous has obtained audio files of police dispatch and EMS during the #MikeBrown shooting. Will release ASAP. #Ferguson — TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) August 13, 2014 
 
 "We have released these tapes to the public so as they are able to get a sense of the atmosphere the moments before and the hours after Mike Brown was shot," an Anonymous spokesperson associated with the leaks told Mashable. 
 
 "The public needs to understand that there were faults in the response to Mike Brown's shooting. For example, crowd control was requested but there was no mention of a shooting. The dispatcher was notified from a caller and Ferguson PD said they had no idea what was going on. This is all in the tapes," the spokesperson said. 
 
 The group explains the scanner audio, which is almost two hours long, was lightly edited to remove quiet periods in its description on YouTube: 
 
 We are Anonymous. These files compiled in this video contains audio of St. Louis police dispatch from the date of August 9th 2014, the day Mike Brown was murdered by a Ferguson PD officer. We have released these tapes to the public so as they are able to get a sense of the atmosphere the moments before and the hours after Mike Brown was shot. These raw audio files have been compiled and long quiet moments have been cut down. Time stamps are available within the video. 
 
 The group had promised to release the tapes on Wednesday, but ran into technical problems uploading the tape. 
 
 "We apologize for the delay, file size is rather large. Continue to stay tuned in, we will notify you immediately," the Twitter account @TheAnonMessage message tweeted just after 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday. "It's not my fault YouTube servers take forever to process." 
 
 The website of the St. Louis suburb has also been experiencing cyberattacks since the shooting, but Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said on Wednesday that those won't sway him into releasing the officer's name who shot Brown. 
 
 The officer has not been identified, though Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said the officer had been with the Ferguson police force for six years. 
 
 Jackson said someone burrowed into the website and shut it down for much of Monday, two days after the 18-year-old Brown was killed. Brown's death has stoked racial tensions, violent protests, and looting, along with calls for police to release the offending officer's name so his background could be reviewed. 
 
 Protesters hold up signs along a road on Aug. 12, in Ferguson, Missouri. Image: Jeff Roberson/Associated Press 
 
 Anonymous has pledged to tamper with the city's computers if the name wasn't released. But Jackson said releasing the information could endanger the officer, who has received numerous death threats. 
 
 Jackson said he was unaware of whether the hackers obtained any personal information about police officers from its website. Ferguson, a predominantly black city of roughly 20,000 residents, is about 8 miles northwest of St. Louis. 
 
 Investigators have released very few details about the shooting; the events that unfolded on Saturday are still in dispute. Officials only said that a scuffle began after an officer asked Brown and another man to get out of the street, and that the officer's weapon fired at some point inside a patrol car. Witnesses say Brown had his hands raised when the officer repeatedly shot him. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS St. Louis/AP) — The body of a black male was reportedly found near Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson, the same complex where Michael Brown was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson during an altercation Aug. 9. 
 
 KTVI-TV reports that the man, in his 20s, was shot to death and set on fire. KMOX has sent a reporter to the scene. 
 
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 The St. Louis County Police Department released the following statement: 
 
 “The St. Louis County Police Department is on the 9400 block of Glenn Owen in Ferguson, MO, near the intersection of Windwood and Glenn Owen. At approximately 9 a.m. today, a citizen reported that an unresponsive man was inside a parked vehicle at that location. Responding officers discovered a deceased male inside the vehicle. No information on the identity of the man or additional information about the man, ownership of the car or circumstances leading up to the discovery. … Detectives from the St. Louis County Crimes Against Persons are enroute to conduct the investigation. This incident is currently being classified as a suspicious death and will remain so until evidence allows a different classification. No further information at this time.” 
 
 The discovery of the body comes after a night of violent protests where gunshots rang out and dozens of buildings were set on fire and looted in the Ferguson area. More than 80 people were arrested in Ferguson and St. Louis after a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson in Brown’s death. 
 
 Hospitals report having treated at least 14 people who were injured during the unrest. 
 
 Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis says it admitted two injured people and treated and released five others. It didn’t disclose the nature of the injuries. 
 
 Christian Hospital, near Ferguson, says it treated six people for minor injuries, and Saint Louis University Hospital says it treated one person. 
 
 Many Ferguson-area districts cancelled classes out of concern about the safety of getting children to and from school. 
 
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 MORE ON THIS STORY:
– St. Louis County police haven't released audio regarding the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, but the hacker collective Anonymous took care of that today, reports Mashable. The lengthy file released on YouTube shows the progression of events after an officer shot the unarmed teen in the suburb of Ferguson. As Mother Jones notes, the first hint of trouble comes more than nine minutes into the recording, with the dispatcher making a request for crowd control. But the circumstances were still unclear as to why at that point. Some excerpts, with the bold referring to the time of the audio recording: 9:35: "Ferguson is asking for assistance with crowd control ..." 10:58: "Now they have a large group gathering there, she doesn't know any further ..." 11:20: "We just got another call stating it was an officer-involved shooting. ... Be advised, this information came from the news ,,, 21:55: "They are requesting more cars. Do you want me to send more of your cars?" 43:55: "Attention all cars, be advised that in reference to the call 2947 Canfield Drive, we are switching over to the riot channel at this time ..." Police say they are aware of the audio and are investigating how it became public. Anonymous is also trying to identify the officer involved, reports the New York Daily News. Ferguson's police chief has balked at doing that so far because the six-year veteran has gotten death threats. (The FBI has launched an investigation into the shooting.)