acquittal of former police officer jason stockily, charged with murdering anthony lamar smith, a black driver. it i want to bring in scott cohn, on the scene in st. louis. scott, what s the situation jie see boarded up windows behind you. no violence right now, but business owner are wary? yeah. let me set the scene for you, ali. this is a neighborhood called del mar loop. we were here over the weekend. you can see the painted windows over here, those were windows boarded up after protests over the weekend. this year, this is new. this is something within the last hour or so they ve put up. preemptively, because what is expected here about three or four hours from now is another demonstration, and we ve had this, this pattern for the last three nights, where there have been peaceful protests during the day. soon after night falls, when the peaceful protesters go away, that s when the violence breaks out. look at the scene from here in the del mar loop on saturday night about two doze
frankly. we re in an area called the del mar loop in university city, just outside of st. louis, near the washington university campus, and it really has the feel of a typical sunday afternoon, except for things like this. businesses along the street here, a couple dozen of them, according to police, that were vandalized last night. five police vehicles vandalized. ten people arrested. this came at the end of a day of peaceful protests, most of the protesters in fact had gone home, but a few people remained at the peak, about 150, according to police, and a lot of the business owners had gone home, only to come back and find this. heartbreaking. my wife runs the cafe and works hard and works hard to make this a place that feels like part of the community, so it hurts. people obviously should be able to protest, but this is not the productive side of that.