USA: a young black man killed by a police officer in Missouri

It was about 11:15 p.m. when a young Black 18 was killed by a police officer at a gas station in Berkeley, Missouri.

Dozens of residents were then flocked to the scene of the tragedy.

Anger and tension invaded the scene until morning.

The demonstrators threw fireworks rockets, burned objects. Police responded with pepper spray.

The mother of the young man confused and upset, reports the testimony of the girlfriend of his son, that the police had "looked for trouble."

"She told me they were going to the store of the station, they went, there were the police ... I think he started to run something like this and the police fired," he will -she said.

The police invoked for its self-defense, after a routine check that would have degenerated.

"The individual who held the gun fell walking on the side, turned around, the police officer was again struck up a conversation with him, and the individual took out a gun and pointed right law on police, "explains the chief of police of the County of St. Louis during a press conference.

The killing occurred near Ferguson, precisely where a white police officer was shot several times on a young unarmed Black this summer.

Impunity in policing by a grand jury had kindled Ferguson and created a national wave of protests against police brutality.