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Violent Animals Hit the Streets Again in St. Louis on Saturday Night

Saturday was another night of racial unrest in St. Louis as the protests/riots continued after the acquittal of a former police officer in the shooting of a black criminal.

The violence wasn’t as intense as it was on Friday when nine cops were injured and black thugs launched an attack on the mayor’s house but authorities were still forced to deal with vengeful mobs that refused to accept the decision of a judge.

The threat of trouble led the superstar rock band U2 to cancel their Saturday concert.

Leading up to last night’s events, Black Lives Matter troublemakers were joined by ANTIFA and white anti-capitalist activists who invaded a local shopping mall.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch provides an account of what went down “Protests turn violent in Delmar Loop late Saturday; second night of post-verdict strife”:

For the second consecutive night, peaceful daytime protests descended into late-night violence with broken windows and thrown rocks, water bottles and garbage can lids following Friday’s acquittal of a white former police officer in the shooting death of a black suspect.

Shortly before 11 p.m. at Leland and Delmar, a small group of protesters threw chunks of concrete at police and broke windows at numerous Delmar Loop businesses. A chair was thrown through the window of a Starbucks. One protester was seen hitting a police SUV with a hammer. Police made more than a half-dozen arrests witnessed by reporters, including a protester who was carried away by officers by his arms and legs.

As the chaos escalated, scores of police officers in riot gear pushed forward against the demonstrators just after 11 p.m. — about two hours after daytime protest organizers had congratulated their followers on keeping their demonstrations peaceful.

By 11:30, about 200 police officers had pushed most of the protesters out of the area and the violence and vandalism appeared to be dissipating. The sidewalks along the vibrant area of restaurants and shops were strewn with glass from broken windows.

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By shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday, more than a thousand protesters carrying “Black Lives Matter” signs and chanting things like “No Justice, No Profits” were blocking the major intersection at Skinker and Forest Park Parkway near Washington University.

Police later closed Delmar for the marchers, who were relatively peaceful going into the evening. Some yelled “F— the police!” while others shook officers’ hands.

Cori Bush, a social worker and activist who is running for Congress in Missouri’s St. Louis-based 1st District, helped lead the marchers early Saturday evening. At the intersection of Skinker and Delmar boulevards, she called for a six-minute “die-in” for the six years since the fatal police shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.

Bush said city officials and media focused too much on the vandalism in the Central West End late Friday night.

“None of it could’ve happened at all, had there not been a dead body, had there not been a police officer who did something absolutely horrendous,” she said on loud speaker to the crowd.

“The message is simple: stop killing us,” she said. “Black folks say, stop killing us.”

One brush with violence came on Forest Park Parkway, when a car pulled up to the marchers and stopped just short of them. Some protesters responded by surrounding and banging on the car, until protest organizers got them to let the driver leave.

A sample of tweets from local reporters on the ground in St. Louis:

The police seem to be using a remarkable amount of restraint with these thugs, why not just break out the water cannons and be done with it?

via Downtrend.com

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