A black 18-year-old with a lengthy criminal record who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a town near Ferguson, Missouri pointed a 9mm handgun at the cop, authorities say.
The proximity of the shooting to Ferguson sparked a violent protest among those who believed that the teenager, who was identified at the scene by his mother as Antonio Martin, was unarmed when he was shot.
At around 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday, a 34-year-old police officer was making a routine check at a Mobil gas station in Berkeley, Missouri, a mere two miles away from Ferguson, where Michael Brown, also an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a white police officer back in August.
According to an official statement released by St. Louis County police, the officer saw Martin and a friend standing on the side of the building. The officer said that while he was questioning the pair, Martin pulled at a handgun and pointed it at him.
Video surveillance taken from the store and released to the public shows the scene unfold.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/24/violence-erupts-after-white-police-officer-shoots-armed-black-man-near-ferguson-video/
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