AP / Yahoo News - Berkeley, Mo: More protests sparked after shooting near Ferguson - "[Mayor] Hoskins, who is black, also noted that unlike in Ferguson — where a mostly white police force serves a mostly black community — more than half of the officers in his city of 9,000 are black, including top command staff." [Sorry, Mayor, as in Ferguson and NYC, Black mobs are perfectly happy to riot and destroy fact-free. Note the sign on the makeshift memorial: "They Can't Kill Us All," with the police bravely standing guard around it, seems more appropriate for what the police might be hoping about their own survival.--tma]

More protests sparked after shooting near Ferguson



BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) — Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer in Berkeley, Missouri, killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him.

Dozens of protesters held a vigil late Wednesday at the gas station in the St. Louis suburb where Antonio Martin was shot, and they briefly blocked traffic on Interstate 170 during a march before returning to the station. Berkeley Police Chief Frank McCall told KMOV-TV that six to eight people were arrested.

Later, about 75 people staged a peaceful protest early Christmas morning outside of a nearby church, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Police in riot gear were present.

The actions were calmer than a night before, when a crowd of about 300 people gathered at the gas station, throwing rocks and bricks in a scene reminiscent of the sometimes-violent protests that followed the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson. ...

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