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Student shot by officer had called 911 before encounter
ATLANTA — Georgia Tech alerted students to shelter indoors because of violent protests on campus Monday night after police fatally shot a student over the weekend.
The student had called 911 to report an armed and possibly intoxicated suspicious person fitting his physical description.
Campus police killed Scout Schultz, 21, who they said was advancing on officers with a knife. Schultz refused to put down the knife and kept moving toward officers late Saturday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.
“Officers provided multiple verbal commands and attempted to speak with (Schultz) who was not cooperative and would not comply with the officers’ commands,” the agency said in a statement. Schultz “continued to advance on the officers with the knife.”
After a Monday night vigil, the university issued an alert through its emergency system telling people to seek shelter and lock doors and windows because of violent protests. Video posted on social media shows a police vehicle burning in the street and officers pinning people to the ground as onlookers shout at them.
Protests resume after 120 arrests in St. Louis unrest
ST. LOUIS – Hundreds of protesters have called it a night after more than two hours of demonstrations in front of the St. Louis city jail, where they say several of the people arrested in Sunday night protests remain behind bars.
Organizers announced an end to Monday evening’s demonstration and told people to go home, much as they had on previous nights.
Earlier in the day protesters chanting “free our people” gathered outside the jail in downtown St. Louis on Monday night to show solidarity with those still in jail.
On Saturday and Sunday, about 100 or so people remained after the organized rallies and the evenings turned chaotic, with business windows broken and objects thrown at police.
St. Louis police say 123 people were arrested Sunday, all but three of them for failure to disperse.
Protests began Friday after a judge found a white former police officer not guilty in the 2011 shooting death of a black suspect.
U.S. nixes proposal to let Turkey guards buy guns
NEW YORK — The Trump administration has withdrawn a proposal to let Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security guards buy $1.2 million in U.S.-made weapons, a congressional official said Monday, following violence against protesters during Erdogan’s visit to Washington this spring.
Earlier this year, the administration told Congress that it planned to allow New Hampshire gunmaker Sig Sauer to sell the weapons, which include hundreds of semi-automatic handguns and ammunition. The notification triggered a period in which Congress could review the deal before final approval is granted. The weapons would have gone to an intermediary in Turkey for use by Erdogan’s presidential security forces.
But U.S. lawmakers began expressing strong opposition to the sale after a violent incident on May 16, which was caught-oncamera outside the home of the Turkish ambassador to Washington as Erdogan was visiting. Nineteen people including 15 identified as Turkish security officials have been indicted by a U.S. grand jury for attacking peaceful protesters.