St. Louis, October 11 (RHC)-- In the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, protests continued for another night over the fatal police shooting of an 18-year-old Black man.
Police have claimed Vonderrit Myers fired at them, but Myers’ relatives say he was holding a sandwich which police mistook for a gun. The officer fired 17 shots, hitting Myers seven or eight times.
The renewed protests came ahead of a weekend of action in the suburb of Ferguson over the police killing of Michael Brown two months ago. People from around the country are descending on Ferguson to call for justice and an end to police brutality.
