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(Police dragging a bystander across the street by her legs during a mass arrest in Downtown late Sunday night)

The third night of protesting in St Louis reached a fever pitch, early in the day snipers were spotted overlooking protests in downtown, and later in the afternoon protesters at St Louis Metro Headquarters were nearly run over by police in an unmarked vehicle. This clear attempted murder and terroristic action was a direct provocation to protesters and is what caused the issues late at night when a hyper militarized police force chased people down in the streets and shot them with non-lethals, mass arrests and assault on legal observers and bystanders, and even using military vehicles and drive by shootings to fire pepper bullets on reporters and peaceful protesters.

The protests come after Jason Stockley was acquitted in all charges after a judge’s verdict, which ignored all evidence and fact. The first day of protesting kicked off with police knocking over and stomping on an elderly woman, this was posted to social media via a comrade who was in the jail with her.

The first night of protesting saw police intentionally smashing windows to blame on protesters. That same night local police pelted a synagogue offering shelter to peaceful protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets The second night protesters smashed many windows. These windows are on Delmar Bl in St Louis, also known as the Delmar Divide, the Delmar Divide is home to massive gaps in education, property values, and income, split heavily among racial lines between black and white. The protesters were where this contradiction is most intense for a reason, it is representative of the root cause of this issue, white supremacy and capitalism. Black and working class protesters did not smash any part of the city which was theirs. The area affected does not belong to them, does not serve their community’s needs, and cannot be afforded by the community itself. It’s clear that the police’s role in all this was to protect the rich white neighborhoods from the working class, and primarily the black working class, as they forced protesters back into the black part of Delmar and stopped there. The police serve to protect private capital for the capitalist system, and uphold the institution of white supremacy. In that same video police can be seen beating on a woman’s car, who’s stuck in traffic, with stick. Dragging a man in handcuffs across the ground, they then pick him up when they realize they’re being filmed and after that pepper spray and threaten to arrest anyone filming their arrests. By the end of the night over 80 legal observers, bystanders, and peaceful protesters were assaulted and arrested, including citizen journalists Rebelutionary_Z and Derk Brown, both of whom are now free and will be continuing to stream tonight, Derk Brown has stated he’ll be live streaming from Shaun King’s page.



(Police macing innocent bystanders and legal observers sitting on the ground as ordered)

Needless to say the amount of injustice, criminal action by the police, and repeated violations of constitutional and civil rights, show that the St Louis Police Department are the clear aggressors and instigators, and shows that they are ultimately enemies of the people. St Louis and its metro area, such as Ferguson, are where the contradictions in capitalism and white supremacy are currently at their most intense. The masses of people here have learned through years of unrest, including the Ferguson uprising of 2014, are some of the most advanced in the nation. The people understand that liberal solutions are not an option and will get them nowhere, instead opting for anti police, pro people tactics. Militant and leftist organizations like Revolutionary Action – STL, Socialist Alternative – STL, St Louis Revolutionary Collective, and many more, are all putting in work on the ground alongside the masses in standing up against the unjust and murderous St Louis Police Department and the white supremacist criminal justice and political system which supports them. Their activists have struggled alongside the people, been arrested alongside the people, and have been putting in excellent work, alongside many live streamers, to report back the real situation in St Louis as opposed to the local and national news which aren’t actively on the ground and report only the police’s version of events, the same police which kill an unprecedented amount of black people in St Louis.

As of right now the National Guard has not been mobilized, protests carried on today across the city and currently going on at SLU, (5:37 PM Central time). Protests are supposed to carry on tonight on Delmar Blvd beginning at 6:30 PM. This article will be updated with live streams and observations of the protests as it happens. Check back in later.

Update: At roughly 7:30 pm live streams of protests in downtown at 15th & Market began appearing, various live streams currently going atm.

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Update: At 8:17 protesters appear visibly wet, lightnings flashing above St Louis, the protest carry’s on strong though and the people persist. Currently haven’t spotted any uniformed cops in any of the live streams.

Update: Around 8:30 it appears several live streams are having difficulty due to rain, protest appears to still be going on strong despite the weather.