Many of those who gathered Wednesday afternoon voiced anger at police. Canadian TV’s Tom Walters was also charged with interfering with a police officer.
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In that agreement, police pledged not to use tear gas to frighten or punish people lawfully exercising their constitutional rights. The boy survived. “This was an area we needed to be focusing in”, Dotson said. She deserves to know the truth about what happened to her son, all of it, for better or for worse. Also at the scene was Jerryl Christmas, attorney for the family of VonDerrit Myers Jr., an 18-year-old shot by police on October. 8 in the Shaw neighborhood.
Dotson denied that the large police presence antagonized the crowd. One reporter noted that they saw at least three people arrested and taken into custody. “The wider community supports the protest goals, but we have to be mindful of the fact that criminals use a peaceful cover for their criminal activity”. “I think some want change faster”.
Brittany Packnett, executive director of Teach for America-St.
Racial tensions around Greater St. Louis, including Ferguson, North St. Louis and other areas, have simmered for decades.
The scene unfolded less than two weeks after violence marred the anniversary of the day Michael Brown was fatally wounded by a white officer in nearby Ferguson. Police say 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey was armed with a firearm with an extended magazine.
Early rumors that a black teenager who was killed by St. Louis police searching for illegal guns was only 13 years old helped stoke unrest in the city on Wednesday, a city alderman said on Thursday.
Police confiscated crack cocaine and four guns, including the one police say the suspect had in his possession.
Officers ordered the pair to stop in an alley behind the house. “Both officers fired”. The suspects have been fleeing the house as Ball-Bey, who was black, turned and pointed a handgun on the officers, who shot him, Dotson stated.
Officer Mark Tiller shot Zachary Hammond, a 19-year-old white youth, twice, once in the back of his shoulder and once in the chest, during an undercover drug sting operation in Seneca, South Carolina on July 26. Police said the Force Investigative Unit is handling the ongoing investigation. The case is still under review to see whether lethal force was justified.
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Alton, Illinois (KTRS) The death of an infant in Alton is being investigated. These arrested face fees of impeding the movement of visitors and resisting arrest, he stated. The veteran was robbed and his vehicle was stolen, but he was unhurt. This is where officers need to be. Robert Phillips, 30, was angry after hearing the police account that the dead man pointed a gun at officers. He blamed the crimes on people seeking “notoriety” in a neighborhood “plagued by violence”. That’s why their attention was drawn to this. The second suspect evaded police. He said the actions were in response to bricks, water bottles and other objects being hurled at police.
