ST. LOUIS (AP) – Seventeen protesters have been arrested in a St. Louis convenience store parking lot near where a recent police shooting reignited anger about an earlier Ferguson shooting.
St. Louis police said in an email Sunday that the arrests were for unlawful assembly. Demonstrators had turned up at the Quicktrip amid a four-day summit to protest the early August police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson posted on Twitter that protesters were “attempting to storm” the business. He later posted that protesters were “throwing rocks at the police” and “arrests have been made for continued illegal behavior.” Police said in the email that there were no reports of injuries or property damage.
The man killed in the latest shooting was 18-year-old Vonderrit D. Myers.