Missouri Resumes Protests Over Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Teen

Local Editor

More than 100 demonstrators marched peacefully in St. Louis on Tuesday, calling for the arrest of a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson in the U.S. state of Missouri on August 9.

Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown, has been put on paid leave and is in hiding.

Brown’s death focused global attention on the state of race relations in the United States and evoked memories of other racially charged cases, including the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, in Florida in 2012.

Moreover, the Aug. 9 shooting by a police officer at an unarmed teenager sparked two weeks of demonstrations, some with clashes with the police and scores of arrests, in which protesters called for Wilson to be charged in Brown’s death.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team