Racial tension in the area is not new. One of the suburbs of St. Louis is Ferguson, Missouri, where two weeks of protests began in August 2017 with the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, by a white police officer.

That November, the decision not to indict the police officer sparked another week of protests, and the anniversary of the shooting in 2017 was the occasion of a third protest.

Brown's father told a St. Louis television station after Friday's verdict, "You all know this ain't right and you all continue to do this to us. Like we don't mean nothing, like we're rats, trash, dogs in the streets ... my people are tired of this."

The incidents in Missouri were followed by police shootings and protests in a number of American cities, among them Baltimore, Maryland; Charlotte, North Carolina; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

密苏里州圣路易斯警方表示，他们星期天逮捕了80多人，这些人砸碎商店的玻璃。在此之前，示威者举行和平集会，抗议一名开枪打死黑人的白人警察被判无罪。

圣路易斯警察局长星期一凌晨对记者表示，一些人袭击警察，向警察扔石头。

他说：“我们控制了局势，这是我们的城市，我们必须保护。”

圣路易斯市长克鲁森把和平集会抗议上周五前警察杰森·斯托克利被判无罪和夜间砸碎商店门窗玻璃的人作对比。

【圣路易斯抗议持续第三天，警察逮捕80多人】相关文章：

★ 圣诞老人运动会 香港选手放异彩

★ 出版商转战电子图书市场

★ “幸福指数”有用吗？

★ 《纽约时报》记者签证申请仍在考虑中

★ 金砖国家宣布构建金融安全网

★ 纺锤、梭子和针故事

★ Facebook上市：扎克伯格的公开信（双语）

★ 老板为何不会笑以应对下属

★ 分析：中美角力东南亚

★ 75%的人会揭发上司不法行为（双语）