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Another Black Teen Killed By Police In US by Nobody: 3:20pm On Dec 24, 2014
Another black teenager was shot dead in the
United States on Tuesday by a police officer.
The 18-year-old, locally identified as Antonio
Martin, was reported by the UK guardian to
have been shot at a gas station in a suburb of
St. Louis, Missouri, in New York.
Martin was killed around where Michael Brown,
also a teenager, was shot to death in August by
another police officer.
Brown’s death provoked anger, particularly
within the black community, leading to a
nationwide protests and calls for police policy
reviews.
However, the police alleged that that the officer
who killed Martini did so out of self-defence.
A spokesman for Saint. Louis county police
department said the deceased drew a handgun
and pointed it at the police.
“The Berkeley police officer exited his vehicle
and approached the subjects when one of the
men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the
officer,” the spokesman said in a statement.
“Fearing for his life, the Berkeley officer fired
several shots, striking the subject, fatally
wounding him.
“The second subject fled the scene … St. Louis
County Police Detectives have recovered the
deceased subject’s handgun at the scene.”
The police added that investigations had begun
to get to the core of the incident, which
occurred at a mobile petrol station around
11.15pm on Tuesday (Local time).
Martini was said to be in the company of
another man at the gas station during the time
of the incident.
The development would likely increase existing
tension between the blacks and the police in the
country.
Over the weekend, two police officers were
killed in connection with Michael Brown’s
death.
Protests are currently ongoing at the site of the
incident and at the county’s police department.

Re: Another Black Teen Killed By Police In US by MudRaker: 3:23pm On Dec 24, 2014
Why are people surprised about this?

The Fergusson case just put the media spotlight on a reoccurring issue that has been ongoing in America since the end of slavery.

Every day in America a black man is wrongfully stopped, arrested, assaulted and killed by the police.

America is the stool of shaitan.
Re: Another Black Teen Killed By Police In US by iornenge81(m): 3:36pm On Dec 24, 2014
and the blacks sunni. rip young man

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