Black Lives Matter Criminals Attack The Police In St. Louis And Attempt To Shut Down Local Shopping Mall • Now The End Begins – Re-Shared and administered by Aaron Halim

Black Lives Matter Criminals Attack The Police In St. Louis And Attempt To Shut Down Local Shopping Mall

Black Lives Matter thugs hurled bricks at police officers. Three police
officers were transported to the hospital. U2 already cancelled their
concert scheduled for Saturday in St. Louis because police were unable
to provide protection for the audience following the Black Lives Matter
violence Friday. Now protesters want to shut down malls.

by Geoffrey Grider September 16, 2017

Black
Lives Matter protests spilled over into Saturday after Jason Stockley, a
former St. Louis police officer was acquitted of first-degree murder
charges in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.

EDITOR’S NOTE:
Back when OJ Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and friend
Ronald Goldman, everyone including the lawyers that got him off knew he
was guilty. Millions were outraged when the cowardly killer was allowed
to go free, but the prosecution was unable to make their case, and
that’s how justice works in America. Number of  non-black people who
publicly rioted over that ruling and looted and destroyed property?
Zero. Black Lives Matter protested the acquittal of St, Louis cop Jason
Stockly in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith in the only way
they know how. They held innocent people captive, issued threats of
physical violence to local store owners, and tried to shut down a
shopping mall. This is criminal behavior, and thankfully dozens of them
were arrested. It is time to petition the White House to have Black
Lives Matter declared a domestic terrorist organization. #AllLivesMatter

Black Lives Matter thugs hurled bricks at police officers. Three police officers were transported to the hospital. U2
already cancelled their concert scheduled for Saturday in St. Louis
because police were unable to provide protection for the audience
following the Black Lives Matter violence Friday. Now protesters want to
shut down malls.

Protesters
stormed West County Mall in St. Louis, forcing a temporary shut down.
Macys staffers closed their doors out of fear as protesters tried to
march into the store.

A few hundred people walked through West County Center in Des Peres,
an upscale community west of St. Louis, loudly chanting slogans such as
“black lives matter” and “it is our duty to fight for our freedom” to
decry the judge’s verdict Friday clearing ex-St. Louis police officer
Jason Stockley of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of
Anthony Lamar Smith. A short time later, they demonstrated at
Chesterfield Mall and at a festival featuring restaurant food from
across the region. No arrests were reported at any of the
demonstrations.

The mall protests followed raucous daytime marches
in downtown St. Louis and through the city’s posh Central West End area
during the night. Protesters were making it clear, they said, that the
entire region, not just predominantly black areas of St. Louis, should
feel uncomfortable with the verdict and its impact.

“I don’t think
racism is going to change in America until people get uncomfortable,”
said Kayla Reed of the St. Louis Action Council, a protest organizer.

Susanna
Prins, a 27-year-old white woman from University City, another St.
Louis suburb, carried a sign reading, “White silence is violence.” “Not
saying or doing anything makes you complicit in the brutalization of our
friends and neighbors,” Prins said.

Smith’s death is just one of several
high-profile U.S. cases in recent years in which a white officer killed
a black suspect, including the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in nearby
Ferguson that sparked months of angry and sometimes violent protests.

Republican
Gov. Eric Greitens was highly critical during his 2016 campaign of how
former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon managed the Ferguson protests,
suggesting that with the right presence and leadership there could have
been peace by the second night.

In
advance of the Stockley verdict, Greitens met with Smith’s fiancée,
black state lawmakers, black St. Louis faith leaders and law enforcement
in the hopes of projecting a shared message that peaceful protest would
be tolerated but violence wouldn’t.

Before the verdict, Greitens
put the National Guard on standby, and some troops were deployed Friday
night to guard fire stations and other “critical infrastructure” that
Greitens didn’t specify. He was in St. Louis Friday night and met with
local law enforcement officials.

Police erected barricades around
their own headquarters and the courthouse and dozens of officers in flak
jackets and helmets who wielded batons and shields corralled
demonstrators throughout the day and evening.

Demonstrators occasionally lobbed objects into the fortified line of officers, who used pepper spray to repel the crowd.

Tensions
flared several times, including when protesters blocked a bus full of
riot officers, damaged a police cruiser with rocks and later broke a
window and spattered red paint on the home of Mayor Lyda Krewson.

After a tense standoff at the mayor’s home, police used tear gas to clear the area.

Police
said they made nearly two-dozen arrests before dark and more in the
evening, though they still hadn’t provided an updated figure more than
12 hours later.

Police reported that 10 officers suffered injuries
by the end of the night, including a broken jaw and dislocated
shoulder, and some journalists reported having equipment damaged and
being threatened by protesters.

Anticipating more demonstrations
Saturday, the band U2 canceled its evening concert in St. Louis because
the police department said it wouldn’t be able to provide its standard
protection for the event, organizers said.

Police generally stayed
a step ahead of protesters on Friday, preventing them from efforts to
block an interstate highway or storm the city’s convention center.

Protesters
seemed to be taking a different tact on Saturday. During a morning
gathering in a suburban park they forced members of the media to stand
away from them, over the objections of reporters, including one from The
Associated Press. At that meeting, they devised the plan to meet at the
malls.

The civil disobedience followed the acquittal of Stockley
for fatally shooting Smith, 24, after the suspected drug dealer crashed
his car following a chase.

Stockley testified that he saw Smith
holding a silver revolver as he sped away and felt he was in imminent
danger as he was approaching the vehicle later.

Prosecutors said
Stockley planted a gun in Smith’s car after the shooting — Stockley’s
DNA was on the weapon but Smith’s wasn’t. Dashcam video from Stockley’s
cruiser captured him saying he was “going to kill this (expletive),
don’t you know it.” Less than a minute later, he shot Smith five times.

Stockley’s
lawyer dismissed the comment as “human emotions” uttered during a
dangerous pursuit and the judge said it could be ambiguous.

St.
Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson said prosecutors didn’t prove beyond a
reasonable doubt that Stockley murdered Smith or that the officer
didn’t act in self-defense.

In an interview with the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch after the verdict, Stockley, 36, said he understands how
video of the shooting looks bad, but that he did nothing wrong.

“I
can feel for and I understand what the family is going through, and I
know everyone wants someone to blame, but I’m just not the guy,” said
Stockley, who left St. Louis’ police force in 2013 and moved to Houston.
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Black Lives Matter Criminals Attack The Police In St. Louis And Attempt To Shut Down Local Shopping Mall • Now The End Begins – Re-Shared and administered by Aaron Halim