It was yet another instance of shooting of a black teen by a white policeman in St Louis in Missouri. The 18-year-old teen was shot and killed not far from where a similar shooting in August led to weeks of unrest
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As per the version of St Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, the off-duty officer was moonlighting as a security guard when he shot and killed the teen who had, apparently, opened fire first.
The police version is that the young man killed in the incident was one of a trio of suspects who had attracted the attention of the officer as he drove around a St Louis neighborhood in a private security patrol vehicle. When the officer got out of the car, the youths took off running, and the officer gave chase.
The police have reportedly recovered a nine-millimetre handgun at the scene, but relatives of the youth insist the teen was unarmed. The case is similar to the case of August 9 and the hooting in the nearby city of Ferguson of another black teen, Michael Brown.
18-year-old Brown was shot at least six times by a white police officer, and his body allowed to lie in the street for several hours and the tragic incident led to weeks of violence in Ferguson which is a St Louis suburb of 21,000 with an African-American majority and an overwhelmingly white police department and town government.
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