Louis Protests Sparked by 18-Year-Old Killed by Police

Immediately after the incident, crowds gathered at a nearby intersection and then again in the evening, and according to Dotson some protesters attacked police officers with bricks and bottles.

Louis Post-Dispatch the location of Mansur Ball-Bey’s wound neither proves nor disproves two officers’ accounts that Ball-Bey pointed a gun at them before they shot at him Wednesday. Police initially deployed smoke canisters in hopes of dispersing the crowd but later resorted to tear gas, Dotson said.

St. Louis police launched tear gas and detained nine people after protests became violent early Thursday morning, officials said. Officers also responded to burglaries near the scene, and a vehicle was set on fire, the police chief said. Police say 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey was armed with a firearm with an extended magazine. Ball-Bey had been working part time in the St. Louis Fed-Ex Ground Facility, and according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, had been wearing his uniform when he was killed.

The nine arrested face charges of impeding the flow of traffic and resisting arrest.

Earlier Wednesday, officers were carrying out a search warrant, when two men ran out of the back of a house.

In the neighbourhood at the weekend, a 93-year-old member of the Tuskegee Airmen, a black aviation unit from World War II, was robbed and carjacked.

In the aftermath of the shooting, including the non-indictment of Officer Wilson, who has since left the police force, the Justice Departmentcalledfor a complete overhaul of the Ferguson Police Department after an investigation found that widespread constitutional violations and discriminatory tactics were commonplace in the city.

Dotson described Wednesday’s protests as first being peaceful, then becoming unresponsive to police.

One of the city’s suburbs, Ferguson, has been the epicenter of protests against what is perceived as racial profiling and police violence toward black people by white policemen.

Two men armed with guns fled approaching police officers during the raid, forcing a chase between both groups. They’re hearing that individuals have gasoline, have charcoal lighter, talking about setting buildings on fire-which they did.

A suspect is dead after an officer-involved shooting in north St. Louis, according to police.

The injured, all men in their 20s, have gunshot wounds that don’t appear to be life-threatening, police said.

In the past week alone, two officers from the department have resigned, including one who had been on the scene the night Hammond was shot.

Brown’s death helped spark a nationwide movement against what protesters say is police violence against minorities. Once complete, its work will be handed over to the circuit attorney’s office for review.