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Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by honeywealth75(m): 2:37pm On Aug 20, 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/fatal-shooting-black-teen-city-sparks-protests-150820045102390.html

Police in the US state of Missouri have fatally shot a black teenager, who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions in the country.
Sam Dotson, the police chief of the city of St Louis, said the shooting took place on Wednesday when young black men ran out of the back door of a house where two officers were carrying out a search warrant.
Officers ordered the pair to stop in an alley behind the house. One suspect pointed a gun at officers who then fired four times, killing him, Dotson said.
"Detectives were looking for guns, looking for violent felons, looking for people that have been committing crimes in the neighbourhood," he said.
Police identified the slain suspect as Mansur Ball-Bey, 18. The second teenager fled.
Both officers, who are white, were unharmed, police said, adding that they were on administrative leave.
Following the incident, crowds gathered at a nearby intersection shortly after the shooting and then again in the evening. Three people were arrested for blocking traffic, police said.
NBC television affiliate KSDK reported that some in the crowd threw rocks at officers, who responded with what appeared to be tear gas.
Unrest after shooting
St. Louis television station Fox 2 showed officers in riot gear lined up across a street, a burning mattress and clouds of smoke or tear gas.
St. Louis Alderman, Antonio French, posted on Twitter that a vacant house and a car were set on fire, and that firefighters were working under heavy police guard.
Dotson the police chief told reporters that Ball-Bey's gun was stolen and said officers recovered crack cocaine at the scene

The city police said the officers involved in the shooting were white, aged 33 and 29, each with about seven years on the force.
The shooting came 10 days after the city was flooded with protesters marking the anniversary of the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer on August 9 last year in Ferguson, not far from St Louis.
Brown's death helped spark a nationwide movement against what protesters say is police violence against minorities.
Wednesday's shooting also came as activists were in the area to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of another black man in St. Louis, Kajieme Powell. Police say officers shot Powell when he approached them with a knife.
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by Queennikky(f): 2:39pm On Aug 20, 2015
Enough of this their Nonsense
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by bcomputer101: 2:39pm On Aug 20, 2015
racism everywhere in the world

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Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by shobroy10(m): 2:41pm On Aug 20, 2015
problem of black and white as been since immemorial na only God go separate their issue
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by honeywealth75(m): 2:42pm On Aug 20, 2015
bcomputer101:
racism everywhere in the world
. I still dont know why white folks tag any bad things or evil with colour black, pure racism
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by hamzakito(m): 2:43pm On Aug 20, 2015
OK
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by wagazala: 2:44pm On Aug 20, 2015
Are US Police officers only trained to shoot to kill?
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by ezeonline2(m): 2:46pm On Aug 20, 2015
That's just too bad.
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by nikkiking(m): 2:48pm On Aug 20, 2015
The blacks really need to adopt a strategic system to avoid the racist trained white policeman from being killed for no reason shocked.
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by Hawlahscho(m): 2:48pm On Aug 20, 2015
Doesn't the boy have hands or legs for d idiot to shoot instead of wasting him



lalasticlala
Re: Again, A Whitepoliceman Shot A Black Teen Dead In USA by Hawlahscho(m): 2:53pm On Aug 20, 2015
wagazala:
Are US Police officers only trained to shoot to kill?

Exactly my question.

Of course, no. But due to d fact that he is a black, he chose to waste him.



God punish that police officer angry

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