{"id":326399,"date":"2017-09-17T06:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T05:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/second-night-of-protests-in-st-louis-over-killer-cops-acquittal\/"},"modified":"2017-09-17T06:14:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T05:14:33","slug":"second-night-of-protests-in-st-louis-over-killer-cops-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/second-night-of-protests-in-st-louis-over-killer-cops-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Second night of protests in St. Louis over killer cop&#039;s acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Several hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters and other activists\u00a0have taken to St. Louis&#8217; streets for a second night in a row and clashed with police following\u00a0the acquittal of a former white officer in the 2011 killing of an African-American man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protesters marched down the streets in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday chanting, &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; and &#8220;United we stand\/divided we fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to see property destruction or see people getting hurt,&#8221; Elad Gross, a 29-year-old St. Louis civil rights attorney, said as protesters gathered in a park near Washington University. &#8220;But this is a protest that addresses injustices not only happening here in St. Louis but around the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Police Department said on Saturday evening that some protesters clashed with police and scuffles broke out. The police accused demonstrators of smashing windows at the Mayor&#8217;s house, the St. Louis Public Library and several businesses&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/17\/535428\/Second-night-of-protests-in-St-Louis-over-killer-cops-acquittal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters and other activists\u00a0have taken to St. Louis&#8217; streets for a second night in a row and clashed with police following\u00a0the acquittal of a former white officer in the 2011 killing of an African-American man. Protesters marched down the streets in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday chanting, &#8220;Black Lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326399","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=326399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}