During the scuffle in the United States affected the local police

Several police officers received injuries of varying severity.

The unrest ended a protest demonstration against the acquittal of ex-police officer who killed an African American. About a thousand people surrounded the house of the mayor of the city of St. Louis.

In the US, nine police officers were injured during riots in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. About a thousand protesters surrounded the house of the mayor of St. Louis, they threw in the walls of the containers with paint and smashed two Windows reported on Saturday, September 16, on the website of the American edition of St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Was the mayor in the building during these events is not specified. The rioters held late in the evening of 15 September, was opposed by 200 police using tear gas. Injured guards taken to hospital, injured one of them critically, said the police of St. Louis. More than 30 people were arrested.

Initially, the demonstration against “police racism” took place peacefully. Its participants protested against the acquittal of a former police officer, made earlier the same day, the court in St. Louis. COP acquitted in 2011 killed 24-year-old African-American suspected of drug trafficking, five times by shooting him. The incident occurred after a car chase. The DVR recorded the words of the police, saying his partner in the car, he intends to kill in pursuit of a male.

According to the sentence, these words could be taken out of context of the conversation and can not serve as proof of deliberate murder, in which he accused ex-policeman. According to him, he opened fire in self-defence when he saw that African American took up arms. On any video of the incident is not visible, whether the dead man was armed, reminds Agency AFP.

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