No charges against St. Louis police in black teen's death
Source: Reuters
Two St. Louis police officers will not face charges for the shooting death of a black teenager in August 2015, a Missouri prosecutor said on Thursday.
Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce said there was not enough evidence to show that the plainclothes officers did not shoot Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, in self-defense, as they contend they did.
“This is a tragedy in every aspect of the word. I’m sorry for the pain that the Ball-Bey family is experiencing right now,” Joyce said in a statement.
St. Louis and its suburb of Ferguson have drawn protests over police treatment of minorities after a white Ferguson officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in 2014. That and other fatal incidents ignited protests around the United States.
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World | Thu Jun 2, 2016 6:39pm EDT
ST. LOUIS | BY SUE BRITT