Police brutality protests continue, arrests made in Louisiana and Minnesota

Police protesters shut down I-94 in St. Paul, Minnesota

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last updated 11 July 2016

Demonstrations in response to the recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile continued into Saturday night across the country. Largely peaceful protests were organized in Chicago, New York City, Washington, Atlanta, Miami, and elsewhere, as well as Baton Rouge and the Twin Cities, where the two shootings took place.

In St. Paul, Minnesota, several hundred protesters shut down I-94, refusing to leave the highway as police used smoke bombs, tear gas, and pepper spray. The St. Paul Police Department reported that some demonstrators dropped liquid and rocks on officers from a pedestrian bridge, while others set off fireworks, injuring several police. About 50 protesters were arrested in St. Paul.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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