President Obama said the violence aimed at police by protesters is a "reprehensible crime" that is "doing a disservice to the cause." There were about 100 arrests total in St. Paul, roughly half on I-94 and the others elsewhere in the city.
About 100 people protesting late Saturday and early Sunday in a sometimes violent response to the police killing in Falcon Heights of Philando Castile were arrested, either during an hourslong human blockade of Interstate 94 in St. Paul or during a follow-up gathering elsewhere in the city, authorities said. The violence perpetrated by some of the protesters against the police prompted denouncement in the strongest terms by St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Police Chief Todd Axtell, who called the pelting of officers with rocks, bottles and other items "a disgrace."
Axtell said 21 officers from all law enforcement agencies on the scene were injured in the mayhem. One of them suffered a broken vertebrae after a concrete block was dropped on his head, police said late Sunday afternoon. The State Patrol said six of the 21 were troopers who were slightly hurt by what the protesters were throwing. President Obama weighed in Sunday on protesters directing violence against police, saying at a news conference during a one-day stop in Madrid that "any violence directed at police officers is a reprehensible crime."
The nation's first black president went on to say, "Whenever those of us who are concerned about failures of the criminal justice system attack police, you are doing a disservice to the cause."
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1 comment:
Some time, It is like white people don't have sense at all! Those policemen that were killing black people, be didn't say anything about it, he is now concerned about the attack on the POLICEMEN.
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