Along with Donte Hamilton, I guess this makes the "official" score "Racist White Cops 3, Unarmed Black Suspects 3".
Why not 4 to 3? Because this black suspect wasn't "unarmed":
An 18-year-old armed teenager identified as Antonio Martin has been shot by officers in the St. Louis area, police confirmed. The incident was followed by protesters clashing with police at the scene, accompanied by the sound of loud bangs.
A police officer was conducting a routine check at the Mobil gas station in the suburb of Berkeley, St. Louis at about 11:15 pm local time, St. Louis County Police said. The officer saw two male suspects and approached them. One man pulled a handgun and pointed it at the police officer. The officer then fired several shots and wounded one of the suspects fatally. The second man managed to escape the scene. [emphasis added]
See for yourself:
This, by the way, is why police cars have video recording equipment.
Even local “Police oversight lawyer” Walter Katz tweeted the following:
Just saw better zoomed in video of #Berkeley shooting. The original narrative of killing of "unarmed" suspect is kapoof.
But as crazily insane as this racist insurrection has become, where it has pretty much become a literal body count scoreboard between black suspects and police officers, will the fact that Antonio Martin was (1) armed and (2) initiated the confrontation by pulling his gun first matter one jot or tittle? After all, the Left never lets facts and justice get in the way of bulldozing their Narrative forward. And here it will be that the Berkeley officers should have let Mr. Martin kill them in the interests of "peace, healing, and racial understanding" - and, of course, "social justice".
The pressers of St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar and Berkeley mayor Theodore Hoskins, in which both frantically (and probably futiley) attempt to keep the Ferguson flames from burning down its neighboring St. Louis suburb, are viewable below.
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