Posted on 10/12/2014 5:11:59 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: St. Louis area police arrest at least 17 who 'threw rocks' during weekend of protests that saw thousands take part in marches and demonstrations
Riot-gear clad police arrested at least 17 people on Sunday after they refused orders to disperse from a spontaneous sit-in outside a convenience store in St. Louis during a weekend of otherwise peaceful protests against police violence.
Thousands of people are staging protest marches, vigils and other demonstrations in the St. Louis area this weekend, calling for the arrest of a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in August.
Another fatal shooting of an African-American teenager by an off-duty cop last Wednesday has further inflamed tensions. Sunday's arrests were in the same neighborhood where Wednesday's shooting occurred.
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We can’t Lorianne. We saw on West Florissant what these morons will do even in front of police told to stand down.
With the police arresting rioters, they at least can count on some type of decent treatment.
If armed citizens are required to protect their streets, homes, businesses and selves, without the partnership with the police, then it will be a bloodbath.
I hope it doesn’t go that way.
Gwyneth is so very worthy of a “mega barf, projectile-vomit alert”.
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