Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Missouri authorities urge calm after latest shooting

Authorities in the American state of Missouri are urging protesters there not to seize on the latest police shooting as another incident of racial bias.

A policeman shot and killed 18 year old Antonio Martin after the teenager allegedly threatened the officer with a gun outside a petrol station.

Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.

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The Mayor of Berkeley, Theodore Hoskins, says there’s no comparison says his town - just two miles from Ferguson, where violent protests took place earlier this year - is different.

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