ST. LOUIS _ Protesters in St. Louis took to the streets Friday night and early Saturday in solidarity with protesters in Minneapolis and across the U.S. after the death of George Floyd, a black American who died earlier this week in Minneapolis. A police officer was charged Friday in his death.
The final protesters blocked Interstate 44 downtown for almost three hours, and protesters started a fire in the road and broke into an Amazon Prime truck and a FedEx truck. One protester climbed between the FedEx truck's two trailers and died as the truck drove away, shortly after 3 a.m.
Police said early Saturday the circumstances of the incident were being investigated by the accident reconstruction team.
