Prosecutor WILL NOT charge two white St. Louis cops over fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey saying they did it in self-defense

colouredjustice.wordpress.com

Prosecutor WILL NOT charge two white St. Louis cops over fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey saying they did it in self-defense

• Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce called Mansur Ball-Bey’s August 2015 death ‘a tragedy in every aspect of the word’
• Joyce said the officers and a witness reported that an armed Ball-Bey ran from a home during a drug and gun raid
• Both officers have said they fired at Ball-Bey at the same time after he pointed a gun at one of them, though one officer missed, according to Joyce 

By Associated Press

Published: 23:44 GMT, 2 June 2016 | Updated: 06:01 GMT, 3 June 2016

St. Louis officers not charged in the Mansur Ball-Bey shooting http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3622558/Prosecutor-clears-2-St-Louis-officers-fatal-shooting.html#v-900559720188918856

Mansur Ball Bey’s death came a little more than a year after a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, a black, unarmed 18-year-old, in nearby Ferguson, Missouri. Ball-Bey…

View original post 10 more words

Advertisements