Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Ferguson protesters storm City Hall in St Louis because grand jury did not indict the white police officer


Ferguson is tense because here a white police officer Darren Wilson had shot dead a black unarmed teenager 18-year-old Michael Brown. The protesters stormed the City Hall of St Louis demanding that the 12-member grand jury review its decision of not to indict Officer Wilson. They were angry at a grand jury's decision not to charge a white police officer for the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. It seems more than 100 extra police officers have been called in after Ferguson protesters stormed into the City Hall in St Louis.
In order to quell the disturbances, the police arrested at least three people and locked down the site.
As per information, those activists who entered the City Hall were part of a group of about 200 protesters who marched and held a mock trial of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who shot dead Michael Brown on the 9th of August.
Reports indicate that a section of the protesters looted and ransacked local business and even set police vehicles and nearby buildings on fire.
Authorities are believed to have arrested 58 people on Tuesday as compared to about 80 on the previous night and there are reports of arrests from other parts of the county as the protestors continued to express their outrage over the decision of the grand jury.
Incidentally, this incident has lot of resemblances with the case of George Zimmerman shooting dead Trayvon Martin in Sanford Florida – that also was a case of a white neighborhood watch volunteer shooting dead a black teenager. Darren Wilson had shot Michael Brown 12 times!!
Incidentally, the reaction of US President Barack Obama was different in the recent case as compared to the Trayvon Martin case – he has said that the nation is built on the rule of law, and people must accept that the decision made by the grand jury.

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