* * *
Officers arrested at least nine people and deployed tear
gas amid protests in St. Louis over the death of a black 18-year-old who was
fatally shot by police after he pointed a gun at them, the city’s police chief
said.
* Er... "...AFTER HE POINTED A GUN AT THEM..."
Chief Sam Dotson said at a news conference late Wednesday
night that a group of protesters who had blocked an intersection threw glass
bottles and bricks at officers...
* THIS IS WHEN YOU BUST HEADS.
(*SHRUG*)
* SERIOUSLY. NO SNARK. NO "JUST SHOOT THE
BASTARDS." BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS IS WHEN YOU "BUST HEADS."
THIS IS WHEN POLICE MAKE AN EXAMPLE THAT WILL RESONATE AND ACT AS A
"TEACHABLE MOMENT." WE SIMPLY CAN'T HAVE ANARCHY. WE CAN'T HAVE THESE
ANIMALS ATTACKING POLICE. PERIOD.
...and refused orders to clear the roadway.
Inert gas was used and when that didn’t have any effect
on the crowd, police turned to tear gas to clear the intersection, Mr. Dotson
said. Those arrested face charges of impeding the flow of traffic and resisting
arrest, he said.
The demonstration was one of several Wednesday after the
killing of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey of St. Louis.
* CITIZEN? (JUST CURIOUS...)
It comes with tensions already high in the area after
violence erupted during several events marking the anniversary of the death of
Michael Brown, the 18-year-old fatally shot last year by a police officer in
nearby Ferguson.
* AND THE WORLD IS A SAFER PLACE WITH MICHAEL BROWN DEAD.
THAT'S JUST... THE REALITY.
(*SHRUG*)
Two police officers serving a search warrant Wednesday
afternoon at a home in a crime-troubled section of the city’s north side
encountered two suspects, one of which was Mr. Ball-Bey, the chief said. The
suspects were fleeing the home as Mr. Ball-Bey turned and pointed a handgun at
the officers, who shot him, Mr. Dotson said. He died at the scene.
* GOOD! SERIOUSLY... GOOD! ONE LESS RABID ANIMAL AROUND
TO ENDANGER AT WORST, BURDEN AT BEST, SOCIETY.
Both officers, who are white, were unharmed, according to
a police report.
* THANK GOD!
Police are searching for the second suspect, who they
said is believed to be in his mid- to late teens.
Mr. Dotson said four guns, including the handgun wielded
by the dead suspect, and crack cocaine were recovered at or near the home,
which last year yielded illegal guns during a police search.
A man and woman who were also inside the home were
arrested, Mr. Dotson said.
Roughly 150 people gathered Wednesday afternoon near the
scene of the shooting, questioning the use of deadly force. Some chanted “Black
Lives Matter,” a mantra used after Mr. Brown’s death.
(*SIGH*)
As police removed their yellow tape that cordoned off the
scene, dozens of people converged on the home’s front yard, many chanting
insults and gesturing obscenely at officers. Several onlookers surrounded
individual officers, yelling at them.
“Another youth down by the hands of police,” Dex Dockett,
42, who lives nearby, told a reporter. “What could have been done different to
de-escalate rather than escalate? They [police] come in with an us-against-them
mentality. You’ve got to have the right kind of cops to engage in these types
of neighborhoods.”
* I ACTUALLY AGREE WITH MR. DOCKETT - THOUGH PERHAPS NOT
IN THE SENSE HE WOULD APPRECIATE. WE NEED COPS WHO ARE READY, WILLING, AND ABLE
TO MAINTAIN CIVILIZATION EVEN IN THE POOREST OF NEIGHBORHOODS. THE GOOD PEOPLE
OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS DESERVE NOTHING LESS. OUR SOCIETY DESERVES NOTHING LESS!
Another neighborhood resident, Fred Price, said he was
skeptical about Mr. Dotson’s account that the suspect pointed a gun at officers
before being mortally wounded.
“They provoked the situation,” Mr. Price, 33, said.
“Situations like this make us want to keep the police out of the neighborhood.
They’re shooting first, then asking questions.”
* MR. PRICE IS OBVIOUSLY PART OF THE PROBLEM - NOT PART
OF THE SOLUTION.
In addition to the nine arrests at the Wednesday night
demonstration, officers responded to reports of burglaries in the area and the
fire department was called after a car was set ablaze, according to Mr. Dotson.
* "...AFTER A CAR WAS SET ABLAZE..."
* FOLKS... WE CAN'T ALLOW AMERICA TO DESCEND INTO
THIRD-WORLD STANDARDS OF CONDUCT. WE MUST DEMAND BETTER. WE MUST ENFORCE
BETTER!
He blamed the crimes on people seeking “notoriety” in a
neighborhood “plagued by violence.”
The area is near where a 93-year-old veteran who was part
of the famed Tuskegee Airmen — the U.S. military’s first black aviators — was
the victim of crimes twice within a few minutes Sunday, being robbed and then
having his car stolen. The veteran was unhurt, and his car was found Tuesday
blocks from where it was taken.
* WHAT... IS... WRONG... WITH... THESE... ANIMALS...?!?!
Protests have become a familiar scene across the St.
Louis region since Brown, who was black and unarmed, was fatally shot by
Ferguson officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury
and the U.S. Justice Department declined to charge Mr. Wilson, who resigned in
November.
* WHO WAS FORCED TO RESIGN... (LET'S HAVE JUST THE BAREST
DEGREE OF HONESTY HERE...)
(*SHAKING MY HEAD IN DISGUST*)
Some of those who protested Mr. Ball-Bey’s killing had
already spent the morning in downtown St. Louis, marching to mark the
anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Kajieme Powell. He was fatally shot
by two St. Louis officers after police said he approached them with a knife.
Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce is still reviewing the case to determine
whether lethal force was justified.
* AND WE WONDER WHY JUST RECENTLY A COP
"ALLOWED" HIMSELF TO BE DISARMED AND BEATEN HALF TO DEATH (WITH HIS
OWN SERVICE WEAPON) BY A CRIMINAL?
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