Officers Injured and Mayor´s Home Damaged During St. Louis Protests
(World News Science)

Peaceful demonstrations in St. Louis turned violent Friday night after a former white police officer charged with the murder of a black man was acquitted, prompting multiple assaults of law enforcement officers, property damage — including the mayor’s home — and more than 30 arrests. At least nine police officers, including one with a dislocated shoulder and another with a potentially broken jaw, were reported injured along with one Highway Patrol trooper, Acting Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole said in a video statement posted to the St. Louis Police Department’s Twitter page early Saturday morning. Police were assaulted...