{"id":326355,"date":"2017-09-16T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/st-louis-braces-for-more-protests-over-killer-cops-acquittal\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:03:33","slug":"st-louis-braces-for-more-protests-over-killer-cops-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/st-louis-braces-for-more-protests-over-killer-cops-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis braces for more protests over killer cop&#039;s acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Protests have turned violent in the US city of St. Louis after police confronted demonstrators who were out in the streets against the acquittal of a white former police officer in the shooting death of black man several years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protests, mostly peaceful, began early Friday when Judge Timothy Wilson cleared former police officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 murder of black driver Anthony Lamar Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Protest continued throughout the day and into the night with police using tear gas against people and arresting at least 30 protesters, interim St. Louis Police Chief Lawrence O&#8217;Toole said early Saturday. He said some nine police officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the demonstrators were peaceful,&#8221; O\u2019Toole said. \u201cHowever, after dark many agitators began to destroy property and assault police officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said that &#8220;agitators have converged on Mayor Krewson&#8217;s house. Throwing rocks and breaking windows, despite being instructed not to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170916\/4f43c027-fe03-4bfe-af51-d475d38084a9.jpg\"...<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/16\/535399\/US-protests-black-lives-StLouis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests have turned violent in the US city of St. Louis after police confronted demonstrators who were out in the streets against the acquittal of a white former police officer in the shooting death of black man several years ago. Protests, mostly peaceful, began early Friday when Judge Timothy Wilson cleared former police officer Jason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}