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A man in St. Louis was dragged and killed by a FedEx truck early
Saturday following hours of violent demonstrations that rocked
the city.
Protesters blocked off a downtown street with their cars and
were seen setting something in the road on fire when the truck
approached.
A video taken by bystander Jared Arms shows protesters banging
on the semi-truck and telling the driver to back up, KMOV4
reported.
There were also social media posts that seemed to show people
attempting to take packages out of the truck though that has not
been independently verified by Fox News.
According to the video shot by Arms, an unidentified man who was
seen standing between the truck's two trailers was dragged by
the truck moments later. The truck then drove from the
interstate ramp to North Broadway and Cass where police arrived
to investigate the incident.
A call to FedEx for comment was not immediately returned.
Demonstrators in St. Louis, like in a dozen other U.S. cities,
marched, stopped traffic and in some cases lashed out violently
at the police and National Guard to protest the killing of
George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed by police in
Minneapolis on Monday. Derick Chauvin, a white police officer,
pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for about eight minutes as
the man begged for his life before going limp.
The incident was caught on tape and Minneapolis officials
announced murder and manslaughter charges against Chauvin, who
has been fired. Three other officers involved in the incident
have also been fired and are likely to face charges.
The city's mayor and the state's governor have pleaded with
people to protest peacefully -- which occurred on the first
night but has since escalated into rioting and looting.
On Friday night, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the
Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on
standby to be deployed to Minneapolis.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/st-louis-man-allegedly-dragged-to- death-by-fedex-truck-reports
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