{"id":326600,"date":"2017-09-18T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/over-80-arrested-during-third-night-of-protests-in-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:51:36","slug":"over-80-arrested-during-third-night-of-protests-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/over-80-arrested-during-third-night-of-protests-in-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 80 arrested during third night of protests in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>More than 1000 protesters have marched through the streets in St. Louis, Missouri, during the third night of demonstrations over the acquittal of a white policeman who had shot a black man in 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 80 people were arrested on Sunday night after the protests turned violent following a larger, peaceful demonstration earlier in the day, according to interim St. Louis Police Chief Lawrence O&#8217;Toole.<\/p>\n<p>Police in riot gear tackled some protesters and used pepper spray before starting the mass arrests.<\/p>\n<p>A small group of people remained after nightfall and the scene turned chaotic, following the pattern of Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Some protesters attempted to block a ramp to an interstate highway, police and witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson noted at a news conference that \u201cthe vast majority of protesters are non-violent,\u201d and blamed the trouble on \u201ca group of agitators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the third night of demonstrations that began Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/18\/535591\/St-Louis-police-violence-blacks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1000 protesters have marched through the streets in St. Louis, Missouri, during the third night of demonstrations over the acquittal of a white policeman who had shot a black man in 2011. Over 80 people were arrested on Sunday night after the protests turned violent following a larger, peaceful demonstration earlier in the [&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-326600","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\/326600","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=326600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}