Protests after police shoot black teen
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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 press conference late Wednesday night that a group of protesters who had blocked an intersection threw bottles and bricks at officers and refused orders to clear the roadway.
Inert gas was used and when that didn’t have any effect on the crowd, police turned to tear gas to clear the intersection, Dotson said. Those arrested face charges of impeding the flow of traffic and resisting arrest, he said.
The demonstration was one of several Wednesday after the killing of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey of St Louis.
It comes with tensions already high in the area after violence erupted during several 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.
Two police officers serving a search warrant Wednesday afternoon at a home in a crime-troubled section of the city’s north side encountered two suspects, one of which was Ball-Bey, the chief said.
The suspects were fleeing the home as Ball-Bey 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.
A man and woman who were also inside the home were arrested, Dotson said.
Some 150 people gathered Wednesday afternoon near the scene of the shooting. Some chanted “Black Lives Matter,” a mantra used after Brown’s death.
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