Brendan O'Brien
Memphis, Tennessee (Reuters) - Police helicopters and patrollers patrol the Memphis neighborhood late at night until Friday morning, when federal military officers clicked on a young black man, and the residents appeared to be calm after a day. violent demonstration on the street.
The murdered man, Brandon Weber, was shot and killed by a man earlier this month in a violent carjacking in Mississippi.
On Wednesday night, Weber's death caused hundreds of neighbors to show Fraserer, a working class, mainly a black community, in a nearby street. Some protesters threw stones and riot police used chemicals to control the crowd.
On Friday night, Fraserer collapsed peacefully and there were no new reports of conflict.
The Memphis Police Department said that during Wednesday night's protests, 36 police officers and sheriff's deputies suffered minor injuries and more than a dozen police vehicles were damaged. Police arrested and accused three protesters of misconduct, one of the three was also accused of inciting riots.
Local activists see this week's events as an opportunity for dialogue between the police and citizens.
Hunter Demster, a longtime resident of Memphis and a community activist, said he was about to shoot within an hour of the shooting scene.
"I hate this happening, both sides, the whole community, need to see what they are doing for a long time," he said, describing the neighborhood's reaction as a result of long-term tensions with the police.
Terrence Boyce, 30, is preparing to become the next mayor of Memphis, a black city where he says the community and the police "need to keep figuring out how we're going to bridge the gap between the police and the community." The gap ".
"I think it's going to happen," he said.
The Memphis demonstrations evoke memories of a series of violent protests against police brutality that have broken out in other US cities in recent years.
These conflicts, especially the protests several days after the murder of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, contributed to the development of black life events.
Officers of the US Marshals Office UU They contacted the father of a 20-year-old boy, Weber, on Wednesday with the arrest warrant for the shooting in Mississippi.
According to French police, some policemen shot him deadly after crashing his car into the marshal's vehicle and threatening them. A spokesman for Marshals Service refused to address the first reports that Weber might have a weapon.
Webber tested the man's car on June 3 in Hernando, a small town near Memphis, across from Mississippi, and was suspected of shooting a man five times at close range. According to John Champion, the district attorney for Desoto County, Mississippi, Webber stole the car.
On Thursday, the champion defended the actions of the sheriff at a press conference.
"This is a violent crime that obviously does not want to go to jail," he told reporters. "Obviously, he is not interested in the value of human life."
Champion said the victim of the auto theft was a resident of Hernando and remained in the hospital.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien, Supplementary report by Rich McKay in Atlanta and Jonathan Allen in New York, Edited by Frances Kerry and Steve Orlofsky)
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