Protests breakout in response to #PhilandoCastile and #AltonSterling
Thousand of protesters are marching across US cities to protest police brutality under the Black Lives Matter slogan following this week's deadly shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. In Dallas, a number of police officers were shot during a rally, according to reports.
- 09:46 GMT
The police officer who killed Philando Castile probably wouldn't have fired if Castile hadn’t been black, Minnesota's Governor Mark Dayton said.
"Would this have happened if those passengers would have been white? I don't think it would have," Dayton told the crowd who gathered outside his residence.
- 07:37 GMT
Police maced at least one protester. #PhilandoCastilepic.twitter.com/Fk8BIg61L8
— Nick Espinosa (@CGoHome) July 8, 2016 - 07:17 GMT
Happening right now. #PhilandoCastile#summit#FalconHeightsShootingpic.twitter.com/603zdUf4nJ
— Patience Zalanga (@bellanocheee) July 8, 2016 - 07:11 GMT
there shooting rubber bullets at us on grand Ave #PhilandoCastilepic.twitter.com/JTWgaUirvb
— |||| || ||| | |||| | (@micamaryjane) July 8, 2016 - 07:07 GMT
more cops in riot gear guns pointed at protesters, they just shot at the crowd again #PhilandoCastilepic.twitter.com/WLKxsIkiqU
— |||| || ||| | |||| | (@micamaryjane) July 8, 2016 - 04:59 GMT
Eleven officers have been shot by two snipers, leaving four officers dead and two in surgery, according to the Dallas police chief.
- 04:41 GMT
After 7 hours of taking the streets for #AltonSterling & #PhilandoCastile, NYC demo ends @ Adam Clayton Powell plaza pic.twitter.com/KnkSue41KV
— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) July 8, 2016 - 04:29 GMT
In Seattle's Black Lives Matter march, social media users report that police used “blast balls” against the crowd after hundreds of people gathered downtown.
SPD deployed 2 blast balls just now at #blacklivesmatter at 7th and cherry st. near on ramp https://t.co/oEtfAIQd2xpic.twitter.com/duCXdWpJxj
— Lindsey Wasson (@lindseywasson) July 8, 2016 - 04:26 GMT
Protesters in Oakland, California have shut down both directions of Interstate 880, marching in solidarity with nationwide protests against apparent police brutality.
Right now, #SHUTITDOWN on the freeway in Oakland pic.twitter.com/w0oD84Da7A
— danielle hirokane (@spiritmagik_) July 8, 2016
