A school in Missouri was the scene of another incident of gun violence with three dead, including the shooter

Another tragic incident of gun violence happened at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in the Midwestern U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. The school specializes in the visual and performing arts and has a student body of around 380. On Monday, a gunman opened fire inside the premises of the high school, killed two people and wounded six others. The police fatally shot the suspect. St. Louis Police identified the victims as a teacher and a teenage girl. Other victims suffered gunshot or shrapnel wounds. The police took prompt action to rush to the scene of shooting and exchanged fire with the shooter. That helped to end the violence on priority. Many of the students barricaded themselves in their classrooms for safety. It seems the principal of the school announced a code word over the loudspeaker. That word indicated the presence of a school shooter in the building. 3 Dead, Including Suspected Gunman, at High School Shooting in Missouri.

The identity of the suspected shooter is not yet established. However, the police described him as a man in his early 20s. His motive is also not known. This was the latest such shooting to happen at a U.S. school. Only last May, a gunman killed 19 children and 2 adults in Uvalde, Texas. At that time, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said lawmakers must take measures to stop gun violence. In her words - “Every day that the Senate fails to send an assault-weapons ban to the president’s desk or waits to take any other common-sense action is a day too late for families and communities impacted by gun violence." Such violence leads to not only the death of innocents but to traumatic experiences for those who witness the sight of blood and bodies writhing in pain all around them.

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Another unarmed black teen in shot dead by police, this time in Wisconsin

#blackteen #Wisconsin #unarmedteen Reports of another racist killing has emerged from Madison, Wisconsin, where a 19-year-old black teenager was shot dead by the police. This is as per information in news.sky.com dated 9 March 2015.
Mike Koval, the police chief in Madison, Wisconsin, has revealed that the 19-year-old Tony Robinson Jr was killed in a struggle with police. But, Tony’s mother has said that her son had never been a violent person. He has now become another example of the things that are happening all over the United States.
It was the case of another black kid shot by the police for no reason.
Mike Koval has indicated that more than one shot was fired, and the officer concerned had administered CPR, and Tony Robinson was taken to hospital where he died. Mike Koval has also agreed that Tony Robinson was unarmed.
This death comes in the wake of other killings of young unarmed black men by police officers like the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island.
Unless such deaths are prevented, the image of the police will keep getting tarnished.

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Violence in Missouri – white police shoot dead an unarmed black teenager

This is a report from America, the land of plenty where everyone enjoys equal rights but where racist deaths happen. America is the greatest world power and a land of plenty and, very few countries have the guts to defy Americans. Their NASA sends astronauts to space and Americans also dictate terms to others and are involved in hate crimes. In this highly civilized world, a white policeman had shot to death a black teenager in the city of Ferguson where majority population is black and the police are whites. That death of 18-year-old Michael Brown had set off an unrest, police had to fire tear gas shells and the Governor had to clamp curfew. The death of the teenager enraged the locals and scores of them descended on the scene, about four miles south east of Canfield Drive – the teenager had been shot at least six times by a police officer of Ferguson on August 9. The police had to deploy tear gas and stun grenades in recent nights as peaceful protests turned violent after nightfall. As per the authorities, protesters had hurled bottles and Molotov cocktails at lines of police who had arrived to quell looting and violence in the neighborhood. As a result, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon had to summon the National Guard to try to restore order to Ferguson which is a town of about 21,000 people that is overwhelmingly African-American. It has now been reported in news.sky.com that a man wielding a knife has been shot dead by police in the north St Louis which is located some four miles from Ferguson. The suspect has been identified as a 23-year-old African-American male – he was approached by officers following reports of a robbery in a convenient shop. The report also mentioned of a man who had a knife and was acting erratically.