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Protests over shootings by police spread to more US cities

By REUTERS

JULY 10, 2016 04:37

Mostly peaceful protests against recent shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota by police officers spread to several US cities on Saturday, though a protest in Baton Rouge saw scuffles between protesters and police.

Undeterred by heightened concerns about safety at protests after a lone gunman killed five police officers in Dallas Thursday night, organizers went ahead with marches in the biggest metropolis, New York City, and Washington D.C., the nation's capital, among other cities.

It was the third straight day of widespread protests after the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, by police in Baton Rouge on Tuesday and the death of Philando Castile, 32, on Wednesday night in a St. Paul, Minnesota suburb.

The most recent shooting deaths by police come after several years of contentious killings by law enforcement officers, including that of Michael Brown, a teenager whose death in the summer of 2014 caused riots and weeks of protests in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson.

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