http://www.kmov.com/news/local/4-arr...286766851.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...dbdc896ba.html
https://news.yahoo.com/violent-crowd...153730065.html
Several miles from Ferguson, a white cop is questioning several black youths for a theft at a convenience store, when one of the youths pulls a gun and points it at the officer. Cop fires three times, and youth who pulled gun is hit and killed. Youth's gun didn't fire, but IMO, all bets are off when you pull a gun on a cop. The youth's pistol also had the serial number somehow filed off or otherwise obstructed (law abiding folk don't have guns with the serial numbers filed off)
There is surveillance camera footage.
The predictable events occur - some looting, brick throwing at cops, fireworks/explosives set off at cops by "protestors," etc.
I will say that in Chicago, it's not that uncommon an occurrence for a black youth to pull a gun on a cop and get shot/killed. No riots here.
Racial makeup of this PD is different. Among the department's 31 officers, the mayor said, 17 or 18 are African-American. About 75 percent of the command staff are black, in addition to the mayor, police chief and other city officials, Hoskins added.
Youth who pulled gun on cop had a criminal record involving armed robbery and assault charges. Cop was a 6 year veteran of PD, and had been involved in one previous incident where there was a struggle for his firearm.
Comments from the deceased family members fit the usual "my baby dindu nuffin'" script.
Antonio Martin's extended family was in shock early Wednesday, as they waited for details to unfold about the fatal shooting.
"This doesn't make any sense for them to kill my son like this," Toni Martin-Green said early Wednesday from her home near the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus. "I am trying to be calm."
Martin was the oldest of four children born to her and Jerome Green.
"He's like any other kid who had dreams or hopes," said Green. "We loved being around him. He'd push a smile out of you."
Green described his son as a "follower" who took medication for being hyperactive.
"It was hard for him to focus," Green said.
"He was not a violent person, to our knowledge," he added. "Around us there weren't any pistols. It's hard to believe that."
His grandmother, Margret Chandler, was also in disbelief.
"When he was around me, he knew to do right," she said. "Why would he pull out a gun against the police? That's the thing I don't get. It just doesn't add up."
He was not a "violent person"? Sheesh. Wonder how the CNN and such will spin this one in the next few days. It will certainly give them something to focus on during the usually slow Christmas news period. I wonder if Al Sharpton will get involved with this one.
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