Second shooting rocks St. Louis as soldier-like police swarm streets
A St. Louis County man was shot by police early Wednesday morning near the site where protesters and law enforcement have been engaged in clashes over a teen’s killing a few days ago.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that officers responded to reports of gunfire about 1 a.m. and saw “multiple subjects running” from the scene, police spokesman Brian Schellman reported.
Mr. Schellman said an officer fired after one of the suspects pointed a gun toward the officer. The critically injured suspect was taken to a hospital for treatment, the Post-Dispatch reported.
It isn’t clear if the incident was related to the ongoing violence that has marked the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson for the past two days, stemming from a police officer’s fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
A writer for Business Insider reported police wearing full body armor and Kevlar helmets, carting “short-barreled 5.56-mm rifles based on the military M4 carbine, with scopes that can accurately hit a target out to 500 meters,” and driving armored vehicles have responded to the crowds.
The writer, Paul Szoldra, who served as a Marine in Afghanistan, said St. Louis police are donning uniforms that “would be mistaken for a soldier’s if it weren’t for their ‘Police’ patches …
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