Here we go again:
The killing of an eighteen-year-old black man by St. Louis police in the city's Fountain Park neighborhood once again ignited protests Wednesday, with an angry crowd disputing police accounts of the incident.
Naturally. <sigh>
Police say a young black man pointed a gun at officers around 11:30 a.m. after they arrived to serve a search warrant. Two officers, both white men, fired a total of four times.
The St. Louis Medical Examiner's office identified the man who was shot as Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, of the 1200 block of Redman Boulevard in the Spanish Lake area. [emphasis added]
Ordinarily, it's not a particularly smart thing to do for ANYBODY to point a gun at police officers, and the general public conclusion would be that the officers were defending themselves and the "young black man" brought it on himself.
But nothing is ordinary anymore, so the cops are, by definition, "lying" because they're white, and therefore by definition "racists," and what they should have done is what the Alabama police detective did last week: let the "young black man" kill them. And because the white cops "didn't know their place," more riots must ensue:
The shooting almost immediately attracted protesters, many of whom had gathered downtown Wednesday morning to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting of another young black man killed by police.
By evening, police fired smoke canisters to break up crowds near the site of the shooting. Police closed off access to the area for a five block radius, with dozens of police vehicles congregated on Page Boulevard east of the site. At around 9 p.m. a car was seen on fire near the intersection of Page and Vernon.
Some of those who gathered to hear Police Chief Sam Dotson speak Wednesday afternoon grew angry at his account.
Because Chief Dotson wasn't regurgitating what #BlackLivesMatter told him to say, but was telling the truth that they didn't want to hear.
As the crowd grew, so did the tension with officers, who arrived in large numbers. At least three people were taken into custody after police in SWAT gear and an armored vehicle told the crowd to disperse.
"This is an unlawful assembly," police warned.
At least two officers were pelted with plastic water bottles during the tense few hours after the shooting.
"Police officers are out doing their jobs," Dotson told reporters. "We need support in the community."
Well, Chief, you're never going to get it, because you're not supposed to be doing your jobs, you're supposed to be standing back and letting the criminal element run wild and burn down your city, just like in Baltimore, Maryland. Otherwise, they'll....burn down your city. The communist revolutionaries that run BLM - and the White House....
....will make sure of it.
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