on July 10, 2016 in World News
More Than 200 Protesters Arrested in Baton Rouge and St. Paul Overnight
David Caplan While thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of major U.S. cities again Saturday night — protesting the recent killings by police of black men Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — a demonstration in St. Paul took a particularly violent turn, with participants hurling Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks, glass bottles, concrete slabs, and bricks at riot gear-wearing police officers. And between demonstrations in Baton Rouge and St. Paul alone, there were more than 200 arrests. The St. Paul protesters, who kicked off the night at 8 p.m. from the governor’s… View Article
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