Officer kills black teen near Ferguson Missouri, protesters ATTACK police [VIDEO]

by The Right Scoop

If you thought this Christmas Eve was going to be quiet and uneventful, you were wrong:

Police are investigating a fatal, officer-involved shooting in Berkeley.

It happened around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Mobil gas station at 6800 North Hanley Road.

The Berkeley officer was responding to a theft call when he saw two black men standing to the side of the building.

When the officer got out of his vehicle and walked toward the men, police say one of them pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer.

The statement from St. Louis County Police says, “Fearing for his life, the Berkeley Officer fired several shots, striking the subject, fatally wounding him.”

The second man reportedly fled the scene.

Well if all this is true then it’s completely understandable why the officer shot the teen. Once you pull a gun on an officer it’s over.

Here is Berkeley’s location relative to Ferguson:

The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Dept. released this surveillance of the exchange but it apparently ends right before the actual shooting. And the very last frame you can see what appears to be one of the black teens raising his arm to the officer as if he were pointing something at the officer:

 
We’re going to need more than this if we are truly going to see what happened.

Not long after the shooting protesters gathered and the Mobil station and began attacking the police, throwing rocks, bricks and some type of incendiary device. Fox2Now has footage of the attacks:

 
Here is video of the press conference following the shooting::

 
Here’s a summary of the press conference:

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar held a news conference Wednesday morning at St. Louis County Police Headquarters in Clayton regarding the officer-involved shooting.

Bricks and rocks were thrown at officers overnight, and three incendiary devices were used, he said.

Belmar said pepper spray was used, but not flash bombs or tear gas.

One officer was hit in the face with a brick, and a Florissant officer is in the hospital with leg injuries.

Four individuals were arrested for assaulting officers, he said.

Belmar said it is unreasonable for officers to use a taser when a gun is pointed at them.

The suspect had a 9mm pistol with a defaced serial number, he says, which he did not fire.

The officer moved back, losing his balance. He fired three shots.

The suspect was known to law enforcement, Belmar said, and had been arrested several times since he turned 17.

The officer 34 years old and a six-year veteran with the force.

The officer did not have his body camera on.

Belmar had few details on a theft call that brought the officer to the gas station. It is not known if the suspect was involved in the theft.

The person with the suspect is a person of interest, Belmar said. St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch has been notified.

Here are some still of the protesters clashing with police:


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