Posted on 08/20/2015 5:24:26 AM PDT by Gamecock
At least nine people were arrested when protests broke out in the streets of St. Louis on Wednesday after police say two officers shot and killed an armed black teenager while attempting to carry out a search warrant.
The shooting led to roughly 150 people gathering in the streets near the Fountain park home as outraged residents yelled at responding officers, threw glass bottles, bricks and chanted "Black Lives Matter," according to local reports.
Police said the officers were preparing to enter the home just before noon when two black teens, allegedly carrying guns and crack cocaine, tried to escape out a back door.
As the pair made a run for it, ignoring orders to stop and drop their weapons, one of the two teens, identified as 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey, allegedly pointed his gun at the officers, police said.
The response led to both officers, who are identified as white and having around seven years on the force, opening fire — one firing a single gunshot and the second firing three.
Ball-Bey was fatally wounded and pronounced dead at the scene while the second suspect, only identified as being in his mid to late teens, managed to escape, police said.
Police say they found a stolen gun and an extended magazine in Ball-Bey's possession while in all four guns and an unspecified quantity of crack cocaine were recovered at the scene. Several others inside the home were taken into custody without incident.
Videos allegedly taken on the streets and uploaded to social media showed a line of blue-clad officers marching along the road.
Another video claims to show smoke bombs being thrown.
"Another youth down by the hands of police," Dex Dockett, 42, who lives nearby, told a reporter at the scene according to CBS News.
"They provoked the situation," fellow neighbor Fred Price, 33, said. "Situations like this make us want to keep the police out of the neighborhood. They're shooting first, then asking questions."
A throng of people are seen confronting police after an officer-involved shooting in St. Louis left an 18-year-old suspect dead.
Police said the shooting followed a plague of similar violence and crime in the neighborhood.
Just two days earlier, another shooting left one man dead on a sidewalk and a 35-year-old woman injured.
That woman said she was trying to buy illegal narcotics when gunfire erupted around her, leaving her shot in her leg, police said.
One day earlier, a 93-year-old veteran, who was part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, was robbed in his car after pulling over for directions. After attempting to chase after his thief he was carjacked by two men he stopped to speak with for help.
The two officers involved in Wednesday' shooting — only identified as 33 and 29 years of age — have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the Force Investigative Unit.
Once the investigation is complete, their findings will be turned over to the Circuit Attorney's Office for review.
open season
There’s a race war already raging, I didn’t start it but I have chosen sides.
Either St. Louis PD is trigger happy or the urban youts are emboldened thinking that their deaths will be “avenged.” Yet another attempt at 15 minutes of (posthumous) fame. Idiots.
Another street rat gone due to his own stupidity.
If you’re black, choose not to die and still believe that black lives matter, don’t be a dumb ass and point a gun at a police officer and, your day will go much better.
“They provoked the situation,” fellow neighbor Fred Price, 33, said. “Situations like this make us want to keep the police out of the neighborhood. They’re shooting first, then asking questions.”
If the Left were capable of any manifestation of virtue, such as contentedness and gratitude, they would revel in how well their plan to destroy a whole demographic has worked. Then, they would thank their forefathers for designing the plan that has launched them into power and, pretty much, makes sure they’ll stay in power.
#OnlyBlackLivesMatter
From the idiot headline, one could infer he was just sitting there with his sketch book, watching the protests go by...
Be careful though. You’re going to come across black people who really don’t hate you and want to kill you.
Project Get Out The Black Vote 2016 (GOTBV 2016) seems to be moving along right on schedule.
It seems like some of these people have a poor grasp of English. To top that off, as all of us know on here, they don’t do even 5 minutes of research to clarify something, or to ensure proper spelling of a few words.
If you point a gun at anybody and you’re the aggressor, your life is forfeit at that point IMO.
He died foolishly and needlessly.
No tears or sympathy are deserved here at all.....
Was if Sheriff Clark from Milwaukee county Wis.
18 with crack and guns? He won’t be missed.
If the blacks think they can do a better job policing their thugs, I say have at it. there would be a lot more dead ones.
Obama should go live among them.
And the urban kraals continue to burn.
And the frog likes the warm water.
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Police said the officers were preparing to enter the home just before noon when two black teens, allegedly carrying guns and crack cocaine, tried to escape out a back door.
As the pair made a run for it, ignoring orders to stop and drop their weapons, one of the two teens, identified as 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey, allegedly pointed his gun at the officers, police said.
No one marched for her. No one screamed out for justice on her behalf. No witnesses have come forward.
Her life, apparently, didn't matter.
“......and an extended magazine”
In every report of this incident that I have seen or heard this is treated as one of the most pertinent facts.
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