A small group of protesters join hands and bow their heads for a prayer across the street from the police department on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton)
By Valerie Russ (Philly Daily News)
The Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, pastor of Philadelphia’s historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, arrived Monday in Ferguson, Mo., and by that evening he felt the sting of tear gas burning his eyes and throat.
Tyler is part of a contingent of Philadelphia clergy who traveled to Ferguson this week to support the people protesting the killing by police of Michael Brown, 18.
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