Footage emerged today of a black teenager who was fatally shot and killed by police officers rapping in a gangster music video featuring guns.

Violent protests erupted after Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was shot in St. Louis while fleeing from officers who were serving a search warrant at a home on the north side of the city, according to the city’s police chief.

The street where he was shot is just eight miles from Ferguson, Missouri - the site of widespread civil unrest since the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown a year ago.

Lyrics featured in the rap video, titled 'No Duckin, We Buckin', include: 'My shooters shoot to kill. The bullets keep coming.' The clip features Ball-Bey making a pistol gesture with his hands, rapping alongside friends brandishing handguns.

Police claim Ball-Bey had pointed a gun at them in a crime-troubled area of St. Louis on Wednesday. They added that they found another three guns and crack cocaine at the house.

As protesters gathered at the scene, there were chants of 'Black Lives Matter' and there were also scenes of confrontation as protesters threw bricks and bottles at police.

But today, Ball-Bey's family urged for peaceful protesting, adding: 'We don't want a repeat of Ferguson.'

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Killed: Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, of St. Louis, was shot and killed by police officers who claim he had pointed a gun at them on Wednesday

Ball-Bey (pictured right) starred in a rap video, titled 'No Duckin, We Buckin', alongside friends brandishing guns. The teenager's cousin said: 'He's from the hood, he is around things of that nature all the time. 'He's not holding a gun in those videos'

The rap video, titled 'No Duckin, We Buckin', features lyrics such as: 'My shooters shoot to kill. The bullets keep coming.' In it, Ball-Bey (pictured second from left) making a pistol gesture with his hands, rapping alongside friends brandishing handguns

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, the teenager's cousin DeAndre Cody said Ball-Bey worked at FedEx and was headed to college in the fall and planned to study to become an engineer.

Ball-Bey, who was known as Man-Man to his friends, had recently graduated from McCluer South-Berkeley High School in Ferguson, Missouri.

Cody said: 'He was an intelligent, respectful young man. He worked at FedEx. He was killed in his uniform. We just can't believe it.'

He urged that Ball-Bey's family want to avoid violence, adding: 'We want peaceful protesting. We believe everybody should be treated equal and we want the truth.

'If we don't protest, then nothing will change. We don't want a repeat of Ferguson but we want them to understand and feel our pain. Man Man had a bright future ahead of him.'

Commenting on a gun-heavy music video featuring Ball-Bey, Cody added: 'That's Man Man. That goes back to my tweet explaining being from the hood and being in the streets. He's from the hood, he is around things of that nature all the time.

'He's not holding a gun in those videos. Aside from his schooling, which was first priority, he liked to make music.'

Cody added: 'We believe Man Man was trying to get away and the police shot him. We don't know the facts yet so we want the truth to be brought to the light.

'Man Man was very respectful. We can't imagine him pulling a gun on a officer. He's never conducted himself like that and he was raised better than that. Most 'thugs' and drug dealers don't graduate high school and don't have a part time job at FedEx.

'We just want the facts. We don't believe the facts are being told. They won't even tell us where they took his body. We just want answers.'

Rosalind Cody-Veasley added: 'Man Man was not that kinda kid to buck up against the police. HE JUST WOULDN'T DO IT! He was 18, just graduated and just got off work. They need to explain.

Ball-Bey's shooting attracted protests throughout the day, with many of the roughly 150 people who gathered at the scene in the afternoon questioning the use of deadly force.

Anger: Protesters chants of 'Black Lives Matter' - a mantra used a year ago after the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson. Pictured: firefighters attempt to put out a blaze at a vacant house in the area

Flames: Police stand guard as firefighters extinguish a vacant house that was set on fire during protests on Wednesday

Burning car: A police helicopter illuminates a burning car Wednesday after it was set ablaze following a fatal officer-involved shooting

Anger: Firefighters attempt to put out a fire at an abandoned building with the protection of St. Louis City Police in St. Louis yesterday

Police line: Police officers in riot gear stand guard as protesters gathered at dusk on Wednesday in St. Louis

Unrest: By nightfall, more protesters had gathered, some of them setting fire to an American flag while chanting anti-police slogans

Unrest: Police in SWAT gear and an armored vehicle ordered the crowd to disperse and some people were taken into custody

Fires set: Police line up to block the street as protesters gathered Wednesday night. By nightfall, a vacant house in the area and a car had been set completely ablaze and around 80 protesters had gathered, some of them setting fire to an American flag while chanting anti-police slogans

By nightfall, a vacant house in the area and a car had been set completely ablaze and around 80 protesters had gathered, some of them setting fire to an American flag while chanting anti-police slogans.

St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said police made nine arrests and used tear gas to clear a street after protesters threw glass bottles and rocks at officers. He added that officers were also responding to reports of burglaries in the area.

At a press conference, Dotson said two suspects fled from the home near the intersection of Page and Walton in north St. Louis about noon Wednesday on the city's north side before the 18-year-old turned and pointed a handgun at the officers, who shot him.

That suspect, identified later in a statement by police as Mansur Ball-Bey of St. Louis, died at the scene.

The two officers involved were unharmed, according to a police report. Both are white, aged 33 and 29 and each had about seven years on the force. They are now on administrative leave.

Police are still searching for a second suspect, who they said is believed to be in his mid- to late teens. A man and a woman who were also inside the home were arrested.

Arrests: Bottles and rocks were thrown at the officers who made at least nine arrests and used tear gas to clear a street after protesters ignored commands, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said, adding that officers were also responding to reports of burglaries in the area

Man-Man: Demonstrators were angry over the killing of an 18-year-old named Mansur Ball-Bey, known as Man-Man to his friends

Dotson said four guns, including the handgun wielded by Ball-Bey, and crack cocaine were recovered at or near the home, which last year yielded illegal guns during a police search.

A man and woman who were also inside the home were arrested, Dotson said.

Police obtained the search warrant because they believed the home harbored suspects in other crimes, Dotson said.

He didn't specify which crimes, but he noted that a killing happened on the same street on Monday and a nearby market just was riddled by bullets.

That area also is near where a 93-year-old veteran who was part of the Tuskegee Airmen - black World War II pilots - was twice the victim of crime within a few minutes on Sunday. First being robbed and then having his car stolen. The veteran was unhurt, and his car was found Tuesday blocks from where it was taken.

Tension: People cover their faces as police officers used tear gas to disperse the growing crowd due to the police shooting

Disperse: Police made nine arrests and used tear gas to clear a street after protesters threw glass bottles and rocks at officers

Escalation: The city's police chief said that officers were also responding to reports of burglaries in the area. Pictured: residents cover their faces as the St. Louis Police Department used tear gas to disperse the growing crowd

Many of those who gathered Wednesday afternoon voiced anger at police. As police removed their yellow tape that cordoned off the scene, dozens of people converged on the home's front yard, many chanting insults and gesturing obscenely at officers.

Several onlookers surrounded individual officers, yelling at them.

Dex Dockett, 42, who lives nearby, told a reporter: 'Another youth down by the hands of police.

'What could have been done different to de-escalate rather than escalate? They (police) come in with an us-against-them mentality. You've got to have the right kind of cops to engage in these types of neighborhoods.'

Another neighborhood resident, Fred Price, was skeptical about Dotson's account that the suspect had pointed a gun at officers before being killed.

The 33-year-old said: 'They provoked the situation. Situations like this make us want to keep the police out of the neighborhood. They're shooting first, then asking questions.'

Burned a flag: By nightfall, a vacant house in the area and a car had been set completely ablaze and around 80 protesters had gathered, some of them setting fire to an American flag while chanting anti-police slogans.

Rough area: That area also is near where a 93-year-old veteran who was part of the Tuskegee Airmen - black World War II pilots - was the victim of crimes twice within a few minutes Sunday, being robbed and then having his car stolen

Pastor Renita Lamkin, of St. Charles, Missouri, who appeared in national media last summer after she traveled to Ferguson to demonstrate alongside the locals and suffered a nasty rubber bullet blast, also traveled to St. Louis Wednesday.

'There has to be a better way, but the better way is not to terrorize an already terrorized community,' Lamkin, who is white, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 'How they deal with the situation is classist and dehumanizing. The people here don't matter as much to them.'

However, one local property owner disagreed. Gary Taylor, told the Post-Dispatch he believes police are in the right 'because they wouldn't stop' throwing objects at police.

'These are not even people who live in this neighborhood,' Taylor claimed. 'None of these people I recognize.'

SWAT members arrived on the scene later in the afternoon to disperse the crowd after some had thrown water bottles at the officers.

On Wednesday night, nine people were arrested and police used tear gas to clear a street after a group of protesters blocked it and threw rocks and bottles at officers.

Smoke rising: Smoke rises as police attempt to disperse protesters after a shooting incident in St. Louis August 19 in which police fatally shot a black man they say pointed a gun at them, drawing angry crowds

Arrests: At least nine people were arrested and officers used tear gas to clear a street amid protests afterthe teen was fatally shot by police

A policeman rubs his eyes after police attempted to disperse a crowd using what appeared to be teargas after a shooting incident in St. Louis, Missouri

Dotson added police would release video showing that officers gave multiple orders to clear the street and warnings that the tear gas would be used.

The chief also said the fire department responded to the area after a car was set on fire.

Officers were also continuing to respond to reports of burglaries nearby, he said.

Tensions remain high in the St. Louis area after unrest during the anniversary of Michael Brown's death.

Brown, who was black and unarmed, was fatally shot by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson on August 9 last year.

A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department declined to charge Wilson, who resigned in November.

Wednesday was also the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Kajieme Powell, who was killed after two St. Louis officers said he came at them with a knife.