Friday, October 10, 2014

AP / ABC News: St. Louis Shooting Reignites Anger Among Activists (The last three words are key. Such activists are professionally angry, something like ER surgeons on-call, except that they are required to be angry on-demand at a moment's notice.)


St. Louis Shooting Reignites Anger Among Activists

PHOTO: Police wearing riot gear form a line to contain protesters in St. Louis, Oct. 9, 2014.

Two months after a Ferguson officer killed Michael Brown, setting off intense national debate about law enforcement treatment of minorities, the shooting death of another black 18-year-old by police in nearby St. Louis has reignited anger among activists already planning weekend protests.
Police say Vonderrit D. Myers was shot Wednesday after he opened fire on a white, off-duty officer, but Myers' parents say he was unarmed. Some activists and lawmakers say Myers was targeted because he was black and are asking the Justice Department — which has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Brown, who was unarmed — to investigate his shooting.
"This here was racial profiling turned deadly," said state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat. ...

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