Fatal officer involved shooting in south St. Louis leads to crowd unrest

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Source: Fox2Now

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Homicide detectives from the St. Louis police department have been called to the scene of a fatal officer involved shooting in the 4100 block of Shaw Blvd. in south St. Louis.

The shooting occurred around 7:30 pm.

Police say an off-duty officer working a second job attempted pedestrian check. The suspect fled on foot, and officer pursed the suspect. The suspect turned and fired at the officer. The officer fearing for his life returned fire fatally wounding the suspect.

A crowd has gathered at the corner store at Klemm next to the Shaw Market. Some in the crowd say the suspect in his 20’s, was shot 16 times. They also say the suspect was only armed with a sandwich.

http://fox2now.com/2014/10/08/fatal-officer-involved-shooting-in-south-st-louis/

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Shot 16 TIMES! smmfh

Live tweets at #shawshooting , #16times

[PDJane]

1. And this should be a surprise to anyone?

If I were there, I would be on the street, too. It's repulsive.

[billhicks76]

20. Armed With A Sandwich?

In Michigan cops routinely plant guns and drugs on people. I recall an officer who was fired trying to expose it. There needs to be MORE than a national conversation on this. There should be a National Strike and arrests of every officer involved in this shit.

[YarnAddict]

26. Who is going to go on strike?

Do you know how many millions of people are NOT affected by things like this?

[billhicks76]

34. Enough Are

In certain cities.

[Supersedeas]

28. the routine has become protocol

[Blue_Tires]

2. What the hell is a "pedestrian check?"

[99th_Monkey]

4. ... by an OFF DUTY Officer no less. ~nt

[truth2power]

7. Yes, on reading this I'm thinking, What's a "pedestrian check"..

Trying to muddy the waters already.

I expect there will be a lot of voter intimidation, come November. Just wait.

[Feral Child]

10. Like a traffic stop, but

with a pedestrian. Usually the cop runs a computer check for wants/warrants. Sometimes it's just a stop-and-frisk.

Can be valid, even whilst off-duty, but is a lot sketchier off-duty. Maybe related to the security job.

St. Louis coppers are required by law to be armed at all times and are expected to perform their official duties if the need arises.

I'm not justifying this shooting, not enough information.

[99th_Monkey]

3. What the fuck?

This shit just keeps getting deeper by the day.

The general public AND the DoJ needs to begin making exhaustive list of
ALL of these abuses of police power, because apparently NO ONE
is doing that.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-the-police-kill-each-year/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. I still say "unrest" is CODE.

[Android3.14]

9. Code for what?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. "The natives are restless"...

Get it?

Notice also the focus on the failure of the leadership in keeping things calm. Like pacification is their primary duty.

[Android3.14]

14. Racism

You are saying the journalist or the editor (the latter are the ones who usually write the headlines) used the word "unrest" as an intentional reference to the phrase "the natives are restless" in order to point out that the people upset were black?

It's obvious that race is playing at all sorts of levels in St. Louis and the rest of the country, but I'm unsure the wording was intentional in that respect.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. I think one says it and others echo the word without making the connection....

Ask yourself. Would they say this if the people of Beverly Hills were upset with trigger happy cops?

They certainly wouldn't be acting like the citizens brought this upon themselves. AT ALL.

[whistler162]

24. Fail!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=unrest+in+ulster&FORM=AVASDF&PC=AV01

http://www.bing.com/search?q=unrest%20in%20germany&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=unrest%20in%20germany&sc=1-17&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=77ff5de2c48f4d1dbee2679465f889e1

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Oh sure,...like I've NEVER seen the word used before Ferguson....

That still doesn't take away the choice to use a different term.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. If the Feds "look forward" again, then they're IN ON IT!

[Sherman A1]

8. Post with information from St. Louis Post-Dispatch

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5641952

[sendero]

11. If the dude did ..

.. in fact fire at the officer first, then this was a justified shooting and IT WOULD BE IDIOTIC TO TARNISH WHAT HAPPENED TO BROWN WITH THIS, THE INCIDENTS ARE NOT REMOTELY COMPARABLE.

[Oktober]

16. It took 11 posts before someone said this?

Criminy....

The best way to avoid getting shot is to not shoot at others, cops or civilians.

[TorchTheWitch]

23. officers don't have to wait to be fired on first

That's rather a no-brainer. If the guy pointed a gun at the officer or even reached for a gun it's still a justified shooting. And it would be a justifiable shooting if the officer wasn't an officer but an ordinary civilian.

[brooklynite]

13. UPDATE - Victim was wearing a monitoring ankle bracelet for a gun charge

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Myers was wearing an ankle bracelet at the time he died — a court-ordered monitoring system as a condition of bail in a gun case, according to his lawyer and police.

[6000eliot]

15. And we should believe ANYTHING the police say at this point because?

[cigsandcoffee]

18. Because this would be really easy to confirm? n/t

[6000eliot]

21. As far as I'm concerned, the police in that area are a bunch of lying, racist thugs.

They have to prove they aren't. That's how they play things, anyway.

[Gore1FL]

22. Not all of them suck.

I'm not sure using their approach has proven to be the most effective method.

[brooklynite]

19. Did you see the part about Myer's lawyer confirm the report?

Add to that, any pending charges (or lack thereof) would be a matter of public record.

[Supersedeas]

29. the public record just got deeper

[Travelman]

30. Yes, indeed it did

Shot someone in the leg two years ago.

[riverwalker]

27. odd the cop was not injured at all

not even grazed in his "attack". YET the kid was shot 17 times, while on the GROUND. Why else would the cops be seen digging up the ground with shovels looking for spent bullets. (Argus livestreamer saw them) How else do bullets get lodged IN THE GROUND?

[GGJohn]

31. The kid was not shot 17 times,

the cop shot 17 rounds with 7 of them hitting Myers.

[liberalhistorian]

32. Oh, well, then I guess

that just makes it all better, then, doesn't it??

[GGJohn]

33. Didn't say that,

was just setting the record straight.