Riot charges likely against Minnesota protesters AP

Demonstrations took place across the United States, and in London, on Friday as people marched against police brutality.

Meanwhile, in Louisiana prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson was one of several people arrested Saturday night during protests in Baton Rouge that called for justice in the wake of the fatal police shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, who was black, by two white police officers.

Another 50 or so arrests were made about 4 a.m. near Grand Avenue and Dale Street in connection with the uprising following the death of Castile, who was shot by a St. Anthony police officer who stopped the St. Paul man as he drove Wednesday.

Johnson was plotting larger attacks, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” Sunday.

A USA military veteran shot and killed five police officers at a spontaneous march in Dallas on Thursday, sending a chill through law enforcement as well as those involved in the mostly peaceful demonstrations.

Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week’s police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it’s possible the pendulum could swing from hugs back to flash-bang grenades and mass arrests. He also said the vast majority of protesters had acted lawfully and non-violently. “That will not be tolerated”. The chief says he also wrote in blood on the wall of a parking garage where police cornered and later killed him.

About 100 people protesting late Saturday and early Sunday in a sometimes violent response to the police killing of Philando Castile were arrested, either during an hourslong human blockade of Interstate 94 in St. Paul or during a follow-up gathering elsewhere in the city, authorities said.

This story has been corrected to reflect that 21 officers in total were injured in Minnesota.

St. Paul police said one officer suffered a broken vertebrae when a concrete block was dropped on his head during the protest on the interstate.

“At the scene where he was killed, he wrote some lettering in blood on the walls, which leads us to believe he was wounded on the way up the stairwell, on the second floor of the El Centro building and where we detonated the device to end the standoff there was more lettering written in his own blood”, Brown reportedly said. “This doesn’t honour anyone’s memory”. The 32-year-old school cafeteria supervisor was shot during a traffic stop while reaching for his wallet, according to his girlfriend, who live-streamed video of the shooting’s immediate aftermath on Facebook.

Lena K. Gardner, a Black Lives Matter Minneapolis organizer who was on MPR after Axtell and Coleman, stressed that her organization “has been and always will be committed to nonviolent protest”.

“It’s ridiculous. It can not happen”. “It does not honour Philando Castile”. All but one faces a charge of third-degree riot, which is a misdemeanor, as well as two other misdemeanors – public nuisance and unlawful assembly.

Law enforcement form a line across Interstate 94 on Saturday, July 9, 2016, in St. Paul, Minn., in response to protesters who blocked the highway. I’m absolutely disgusted by the actions of some.

Social media was abuzz with multiple posts and tweets from the protestors’ perspective.