A St. Louis University law professor on Thursday advised any protester hit with tear gas during Wednesday night’s violent confrontation with police to find a lawyer immediately. As the crowd grew, so did the tension with officers, who arrived in large numbers.
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ROCHESTER, New York – A gunman shot into a crowd that gathered outside the Rochester Boys and Girls Club after a basketball game, killing three people and wounding four others in what Gov. Andrew Cuomo called “a deplorable act of violence“.
“This is an unlawful assembly”, police warned.
At least two officers were pelted with plastic water bottles during the tense few hours after the shooting.
Christmas also contends that Ball-Bey didn’t know who the officers were because they were in plain clothes.
Police said officers were carrying out a search warrant in north St. Louis on Wednesday when two men ran out the back of a house, one carrying a gun. In another instance, he said, someone kicked down the door of a small store.
Police said they had recovered a gun, which they determined was stolen, though they do not know if Ball-Bey’s finger prints were on it, Dotson said. Images of heavily armed police aiming weapons at citizens prompted U.S. President Barack Obama to tighten restrictions on police use of military equipment. I just don’t know yet’. The St. Louis medical examiner also stated that Mansur would have died “nearly instantly” and said it would have been hard to impossible for him to continue running after being wounded.
“Based on the forensics from that autopsy and what we know (of the) statements made by police, the two stories are not jiving”, said Jerryl Christmas, one of the attorneys that represent the family.
Jermaine Wooten, a lawyer for Ball-Bey’s family, said witnesses have told him that Ball-Bey did not have a gun. Officers ordered the men to drop the gun before firing.
Mansur Ball-Bey, the black 18-year-old killed by police in St. Louis, was shot in the back, his autopsy has revealed.
“Right now, you see a police officer and your first instinct is to run”, said Fred Price, 33, who lives near the shooting scene. Graham added that the position and track of the bullet indicated that the young man was not turned toward officers when he was shot.
Wooten said Ball-Bey did not live in the community and was visiting relatives but not at the house where police were serving the warrant, he said.
Dotson said that the investigation is not over and police are still talking with witnesses and collecting evidence. Further, a 9-year old girl, Jamyla Bolden, was shot to death late Tuesday night after someone had fired shots into her home in Ferguson. The boy survived.
“It’s hard to say right now about what the mood is”, French said. “Certainly the good people in this neighborhood should not be plagued by the violence”. The unarmed, black man was fatally shot by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson on August. 9, 2014.
A short time later, the protests began.
Autopsy results indicate that Ball-Bey was shot in the back by police.
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“We need to focus on these areas that are deprived”. ‘It could be, and I’m not saying that it doesn’t mean that.
