Another black man shot dead by a white police officer – this time in St Louis

#blacklivesmatter #AntonioMartin #berkeley With another black man being shot dead by a white police officer in St Louis has once again raised the sensitive question of relations between the blacks and whites in America. This time it was 18-year-old Antonio Martin, a black teenager, who was shot dead by a white officer – surveillance footage indicate that Antonio Martin had pulled a gun first.
However, the mayor of the St Louis suburb has said that this case cannot be compared to that of Michael Brown because of the fact that here, the man had pulled the gun first. Hence, it was not the same as the case in Ferguson there the teenage Michael Brown was unarmed as was the case with Eric Garner in Brooklyn.
Protesters had clashed with police in Berkeley and, later, a smaller crowd of protesters gathered at the petrol station where Antonio Martin was shot.
Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins has informed that, unlike Ferguson, here the majority of police officers were black. In Ferguson it was mostly white police force policing over a mostly black population. In order to make his point, he added that the mayor is black, the city manager is black, the finance director is black, and the police chief is black. The police officers in Berkeley are more sensitive.