Protests Erupt In St. Louis After Police Kill Mansur Ball-Bey

‘How they deal with the situation is classist and dehumanizing. Police think they know who that person is and they are trying to find him.

As part of a lawsuit settlement, St. Louis city police agreed in March to give warning that chemical agents were about to be used and directions of where to go to avoid being gassed.

The protests Wednesday night ended in nine arrests and officers’ use of tear gas, police said Thursday.

PROPERTY OWNER SUPPORTS POLICE: 10:40 p.m.

“Police officers were there today doing the job we all asked them to do to keep our community safe”, Dotson said.

Residents of the neighborhood reported burglaries and torched vehicles later in the evening. “None of these people I recognize”.

A few of those that protested Ball-Bey’s killing had already spent the morning in downtown St. Louis, marching to mark the anniversary of the deadly police capturing of Kajieme Powell.

VACANT HOUSE ON FIRE: 9:55 p.m. That suspect, identified later in a statement by police as Mansur Ball-Bey of St. Louis, died at the scene.

Police in Missouri say angry crowds blocked a highway and threw missiles.

St Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said two suspects fled from a home about midday on Wednesday before one of the men turned and pointed a handgun at the officers, who shot the man.

In that agreement, police pledged not to use tear gas to frighten or punish people lawfully exercising their constitutional rights. They had three routes to leave the immediate area, he said. He said he also heard gunshots.

The shooting sparked protests that led to the arrest of nine people by late Wednesday, according to CBS affiliate KMOV. “A group of protesters came together and started to do acts of violence directed not only at law enforcement, but also to the neighborhood”.

The police chief says protestors attacked officers, broke into businesses, and set a auto on fire. “There were two officers in the alley”.

They returned to Page and Walton at about 7 p.m., and there were about 300 individuals gathered at the intersection. In another instance, he said, someone kicked down the door of a small store.

Police need to do more to allow for peaceful protests rather than escalate them into violence, said Amnesty global USA senior campaigner Jamira Burley, who was critical of St. Louis police actions taken Wednesday.

Torres was placed on administrative duty shortly after the shooting, where he remained until being fired on July 31, 2015, as the ensuing internal investigation sought to whitewash the brutal police killing.