BERKELEY, Missouri — Tia Carrie is as sweet a teenage girl as you can image
Nothing about her — not her big smile wired with colorful braces, or her florescent pink sweatshirt and elaborately dressed hair — would make you think she is angry.
But she is “damn angry.”
It showed on Wednesday night only when the 17-year-old was facing down a line of police officers alongside her friend Jasmine Thompson, 19, at a rally in this inner suburb of St. Louis to protest the killing of yet another black teenager.
On Tuesday, Antonio Martin, 18, was shot and killed by a Berkeley police officer, just a few miles from Ferguson, where Michael Brown was killed in August. Police say Martin pulled and aimed a gun at the officer Read more...
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