"Anger is again rising in Ferguson, Mo., months after a fatal shooting left an unarmed black teenager dead and resulted in protests across the country.
Two people were arrested this weekend as nightly protests continued over the police killing of Michael Brown, with 50 mostly young demonstrators gathering after sunset at St. Louis’ historic Old Courthouse to march through streets filled with people celebrating St. Patrick’s Day — but this group was in a much less festive mood, according to an NDTV report.
A protester shouted from the steps of the courthouse — the same place where black slave Dred Scott in 1846 had famously filed a historic lawsuit for his freedom, albeit an unsuccessful one — saying that “justice is dead” and people need to “wake it up,” according to the report.
The protesters attempted to hold up traffic in the area but police intervened and arrested two men, one a protester and the other a freelance photojournalist from the website Mashable. The site’s executive editor said via Twitter that he was released shortly after."
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