Protesters gathered after Jason Stockley, a white police officer, was found not guilty of murder after shooting a black suspected drug dealer Jeff Roberson/APPolice in St Louis clashed with protesters last night as demonstrations over the acquittal of a white officer who shot a black man five times threatened to reignite racial tensions in Missouri. Activists smashed the front window of the city mayor’s home and splattered red paint on the outside as they took to the streets over the 2011 killing. Police in riot gear suppressed the protests using tear gas as National Guard troops stood by. The court case in which Jason Stockley, 36, was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, 24, was played out near Ferguson, the St Louis suburb hit by racially-charged protests in 2014 that spawned the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists have followed the case…

Source: The Times September 16, 2017 06:22 UTC