We’re going to disrupt the peace.”On Saturday, several hundred protesters peacefully assembled in a suburban St. Louis park. Another concert in downtown St. Louis, which was scheduled for Sunday by the artist Ed Sheeran, was also canceled. For Franks and many in the St. Louis area, memories of the riots in nearby Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014 remain fresh. “That was a travesty of justice and here we are yet again with this — another travesty of justice, ” Franks said Saturday. At that time, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was unarmed when he was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, a city in the suburbs northwest of St. Louis.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 16, 2017 23:37 UTC