St. Louis police arrested more than a dozen protesters early Sunday morning as the demonstrators staged a sit-in at a QuikTrip gas station, The Washington Post reports.
More than 100 protesters descended on the gas station in an organized act of civil disobedience, locking arms and sitting in front of the QuikTrip's entrance. The sit-in comes in the middle of a four-day series of marches and protests, dubbed "Ferguson October" taking place in Ferguson and St. Louis this weekend. Protesters are demonstrating against the August police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, specifically, and police violence generally.
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