More Than 80 Arrested as Riot Police Break up St. Louis Protest Over Officer’s Acquittal
Police officers watch as people march the day after the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer, charged with the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, who was black, in St. Louis, Missouri on Sept. 16, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Lott
ST. LOUIS—More than 80 people were arrested on Sunday night as protests in St Louis over the acquittal of a white policeman who had shot a black man turned violent for a third night running.
Police in riot gear used pepper spray and arrested the demonstrators who had defied orders to disperse following a larger, peaceful protest.
