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ST. LOUIS —
Officers arrested at least nine people and deployed tear gas amid protests in St. Louis over the death of a black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by police after he pointed a gun at them, the city's police chief said.
Chief Sam Dotson said at a news conference late Wednesday that a group of protesters who had blocked an intersection threw glass bottles and bricks at officers and refused orders to clear the roadway. Police initially deployed smoke canisters in hopes of dispersing the crowd but later resorted to tear gas, Dotson said. Those arrested face charges of impeding the flow of traffic and resisting arrest, he said. A vacant building and at least one car were burned.
The demonstration was one of several Wednesday after the killing of Mansur Ball-Bey of St. Louis. Tensions were already high after violence erupted during events marking the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old fatally shot last year by a police officer in nearby Ferguson.
Earlier Wednesday, two police officers serving a search warrant encountered Ball-Bey and another suspect at a home in a crime-troubled section of the city's north side, the chief said. The suspects were fleeing the home as Ball-Bey, who was black, turned and pointed a handgun at the officers, who shot him, Dotson said. He died at the scene.
Both officers, who are white, were unharmed, according to a police report.
Police are searching for the second suspect, who they said is believed to be in his mid- to late teens.
Dotson said four guns, including the handgun wielded by the dead suspect, and crack cocaine were recovered at or near the home, where illegal guns were found during a police search last year.
OK, now we have an armed thug pointing a weapon at police and stolen weapons and still the black community is rioting. Just goes to show that the false narrative of the activists does not hold one ounce of water. This is about the empowerment of black criminal behavior and nothing else.
They are rioting because this situation results in a shootout in the streets with one person dead, multiple injured, and police refusing to explain what happened or why.
In another neighborhood, this would be a standoff at best, with the perp(s) taken into custody unharmed and the neighbors cleared to safety until the situation was over. The police would release full details to the residents as the situation unfolded instead of waiting until hours later.
The criminals play a role in these situations, but so does the police response to the criminals. The guy killed had just arrived there after getting off work. That means there were multiple other opportunities to arrest him at known locations instead of waiting until he was inside the house and had access to all the weapons there. Maybe there were other opportunities to execute the other arrests without the armed confrontation; we do not know because we do not have that information. Since it is an extremely crime ridden and poor neighborhood though, the arrests happen in this manner instead of seeking alternatives less likely to result in armed confrontation inside a residential neighborhood.
Really, the rioting is a response to being fed up with police using the same tactics that are not making headway on the crime while treating criminals and non-criminals alike just because they live in the same depressed neighborhood.
Nihil novi ante Sol. It's nothing more, nothing less than part of the Elite plan to unleash whites on blacks, and blacks on whites, and them both onto islamists, and then them onto Asians and so on and so on. As united world is dangerous to the Elite, and world torn in inter racial skirmishes and wars is easier to guide and hide the puppeteers hand.
OK, now we have an armed thug pointing a weapon at police and stolen weapons and still the black community is rioting. Just goes to show that the false narrative of the activists does not hold one ounce of water. This is about the empowerment of black criminal behavior and nothing else.
Look...how many innocent men have been sent to prison for crimes that they did not commit? There have been hundreds, if not in the thousands, of men released from prison and even death row after DNA evidence freed them years later. Question: Does such false arrest invalidate the whole anti-crime system? Are black people to be held to a different standard of perfection on our claims of injustice? Does the fact that police shoot and kill unarmed black men for valid reasons, often, invalidate those many times that they have killed unarmed black men when other means less than death were available?
You all just refuse to get it because "getting it" takes the pleasure and fun out of seeing blacks as inferior and flawed. Blacks are not reacting to any single event these days....but rather a pattern of events over the last decade....and really further back than that when there were not all these videos to now present evidence.
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Look...how many innocent men have been sent to prison for crimes that they did not commit? There have been hundreds, if not in the thousands, of men released from prison and even death row after DNA evidence freed them years later. Question: Does such false arrest invalidate the whole anti-crime system? Are black people to be held to a different standard of perfection on our claims of injustice? Does the fact that police shoot and kill unarmed black men for valid reasons, often, invalidate those many times that they have killed unarmed black men when other means less than death were available?
You all just refuse to get it because "getting it" takes the pleasure and fun out of seeing blacks as inferior and flawed. Blacks are not reacting to any single event these days....but rather a pattern of events over the last decade....and really further back than that when there were not all these videos to now present evidence.
Try to stick to the topic.
Police serve warrant at the home of the perp.
Perp pulls gun on police which is essentially suicide by cop.
Knowing that the man had an illegal gun which he pointed police, protesters still support the criminal.
They are rioting because this situation results in a shootout in the streets with one person dead, multiple injured, and police refusing to explain what happened or why.
In another neighborhood, this would be a standoff at best, with the perp(s) taken into custody unharmed and the neighbors cleared to safety until the situation was over. The police would release full details to the residents as the situation unfolded instead of waiting until hours later.
The criminals play a role in these situations, but so does the police response to the criminals. The guy killed had just arrived there after getting off work. That means there were multiple other opportunities to arrest him at known locations instead of waiting until he was inside the house and had access to all the weapons there. Maybe there were other opportunities to execute the other arrests without the armed confrontation; we do not know because we do not have that information. Since it is an extremely crime ridden and poor neighborhood though, the arrests happen in this manner instead of seeking alternatives less likely to result in armed confrontation inside a residential neighborhood.
Really, the rioting is a response to being fed up with police using the same tactics that are not making headway on the crime while treating criminals and non-criminals alike just because they live in the same depressed neighborhood.
You can spout all the nonsense you want, it doesn't alter the facts. This guy was a criminal, he pointed a gun at police, they shot him which he deserved. That's it and all you obfuscation is not worth a bucket of warm spit. His actions are indefensible and people rioting in support of him is also indefensible and contemptible.
Look...how many innocent men have been sent to prison for crimes that they did not commit? There have been hundreds, if not in the thousands, of men released from prison and even death row after DNA evidence freed them years later. Question: Does such false arrest invalidate the whole anti-crime system? Are black people to be held to a different standard of perfection on our claims of injustice? Does the fact that police shoot and kill unarmed black men for valid reasons, often, invalidate those many times that they have killed unarmed black men when other means less than death were available?
You all just refuse to get it because "getting it" takes the pleasure and fun out of seeing blacks as inferior and flawed. Blacks are not reacting to any single event these days....but rather a pattern of events over the last decade....and really further back than that when there were not all these videos to now present evidence.
Your the one that refuses to 'get it' because you want to excuse black criminal behavior no matter how egregious.
We had a similar case here last week in my community. The police were serving a warrant on a multi-time felon thug. He happened to be a white thug, not that that matters. Said thug pulls a gun, fires on the cops and gets put down. Did the community condemn the cops and loot, burn and steal over said thug? NO. The vast majority came out in support of the police who put their lives on the line to deal with these animals.
What kind of culture supports criminals and burns and steals when criminals are injured?
Sadly, like so many of these cases, the animal should have been in prison due to previous crimes. When will we wake up and actually lock up criminals for a meaningful sentence?
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