On Sunday night, the network of hactivists known as Anonymous released an impassioned video demand for justice in the killing of unarmed black teen Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri. But a specific Anonymous threat against county Police Chief Jon Belmar this afternoon backfired in a big way.

Dorian Johnson, a friend of Michael Brown who claims to have been with him when he was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Mo. police officer, has given MSNBC the full account of how events transpired that police have so far refused to hear. "I saw the barrel of the gun pointed at my friend," Johnson, 22, said. "Then I saw the fire come out of the barrel."

Tensions in Ferguson, Missouri were cloaked in a cloud of tear gas Monday night as police and protestors continued their stand off over the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was shot multiple times and killed Saturday by a police officer.

The FBI announced today that the agency has launched an investigation into the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was killed in an altercation with Ferguson, Mo. police this past weekend. The probe, Special Agent Cheryl Mimura said, will investigate "a potential civil rights violation."

Anonymous, the hacktivist network, released a video message Sunday encouraging protests and threatening their own actions against the police who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown and left him for dead in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.

According to the Associated Press, a candlelight vigil for 18-year-old Michael Brown, the unarmed Missouri teen who was shot dead by police this weekend, ended in reports of vandalism, looting and arson Sunday night.

The outraged community of Ferguson, Missouri, demands answers after a police officer's fatal shooting of a teenager on Saturday.

On August 31, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA public affairs officer Marty Bahamonde emailed his boss, then-FEMA chief Michael Brown, to make sure he understood how dire the situation had become in the Superdome, the New Orleans football stadium that was housing thousands of evacuees. "[T]he situation is past critical," he wrote in one of several emails he'd sent colleagues outlining the emergency. "We are out of food and running out of water." The stadium was overcrowded and undersupplied; there had already been three deaths, and Bahamonde expected more to die "within hours."

This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast and left hundreds of dead bodies floating in the wrecked streets of New Orleans. To celebrate, Katrina hero Michael Brown is "speaking out."

Michael "Brownie" Brown likes the Colts on Sunday.

Yep, Brownie's back in New Orleans. And your day editor is Facebook friends with him. [Politico]

5W, the world's greatest ever PR firm in the history of PR firms (headed by hot bachelor Ronn Torossian) would like to pitch you the best damn disaster and recovery expert working (or "consulting") today: former FEMA director Michael "Brownie" Brown, the man who single-handedly saved New Orleans. In the dark days of Hurricane Katrina, as various black people looted things and Alex Chilton went missing, America stood as one with our President in praising Brownie's "heck of a job." And Ronn has not forgotten!