Posted January 19, 2016 1:03 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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A St. Louis police officer who had just completed monitoring a Black Lives Matter protest against police shooting of black men shot a black male armed robber in the act of robbing a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The unidentified sergeant, a 42-year-old who is a 13-year veteran of the force, came within a few feet of the suspect as he approached the restaurant to investigate a report of a robbery-in-progress, the officer’s attorney, Brian Millikan, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As the suspect pointed his gun at the officer, the sergeant yelled, “Don’t do it! Don’t do it! Don’t do it!” Millikan said.

“If he didn’t take action, the suspect was going to shoot him,” Millikan said. “He didn’t have any choice.”

The officer was not injured during the incident.

Millikan said the officer was at a gas station near the restaurant at about 6 p.m. when he was flagged down by a witness who reported the attempted robbery. The sergeant had just finished monitoring a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial march where Black Lives Matter activists were protesting police shootings, according to the Post-Dispatch.

“These marches are at the forefront of just about every policeman’s mind and nobody thinks they’re ever …Read the Rest

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