{"id":327205,"date":"2017-09-22T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hundreds-protest-police-shooting-of-black-man-in-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T09:40:39","slug":"hundreds-protest-police-shooting-of-black-man-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hundreds-protest-police-shooting-of-black-man-in-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds protest police shooting of black man in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of mostly white protesters have gathered and marched in St. Louis, Missouri, chanting &#8220;white silence is violence&#8221; in the latest demonstration following the acquittal of a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a African American man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The march, dubbed the &#8220;White Allies Only&#8221; rally by its organizers, took place Thursday evening from a downtown plaza to Busch Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The crowd stood outside the stadium chanting for several tense minutes while about 100 officers stood inside a metal barrier, some in riot gear.<\/p>\n<p>A judge acquitted former officer Jason Stockley on September 15 in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. Stockley, 36, killed 24-year-old Smith after a police chase.<\/p>\n<p>Protest organizer Cori Bush said the point of Thursday&#8217;s rally was to emphasize that it isn&#8217;t just African-Americans upset by police violence against blacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s great for people to know there are white people that believe black lives&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/22\/536049\/US-police-violence-blacks-St-Louis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of mostly white protesters have gathered and marched in St. Louis, Missouri, chanting &#8220;white silence is violence&#8221; in the latest demonstration following the acquittal of a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a African American man. The march, dubbed the &#8220;White Allies Only&#8221; rally by its organizers, took place Thursday evening from [&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-327205","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\/327205","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=327205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}