Police don’t know who shot two police officers in front of the Ferguson Police Department on Wednesday night, according to the St. Louis County police chief.

The two officers were shot during a protest spurred by the resignation of former Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, who stepped down with a year’s pay after a scathing Department of Justice report showed that the city’s police force had a racial bias against black residents.

The protests had been largely peaceful, and the demonstrators gathered were to “quick to point out that the gunfire did not come from among them, rather from a distance behind them,” The New York Times reported.

Witnesses told the Times that the shots came from the top of a hill about 200 yards across from the police station.

Police shine a light on a helmet as they investigate the scene where two police officers were shot in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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