The protesters in St Louis were marching to the mayor’s home to demand her resignation. We were all alone facing an angry mob.”The St Louis police department said that they were investigating the incident, and that it currently regarded Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the white couple with guns, as the victims. Asked whether the McCloskeys were being currently being investigated for committing any crime last night, a St Louis police spokesperson said that the local prosecutor would have to make that decision. “Any changes regarding whether the victims would be charged would be determined by the prosecutor’s office,” a St Louis police department spokesperson said. St Louis elected its first black prosecutor, Kimberly Gardner, a criminal justice reformer, in 2016.

Source: The Guardian June 29, 2020 10:24 UTC