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Uprising at St. Louis City Justice Center - April 4, 2021 The relative peace and quiet of a pleasantly warm Sunday Easter evening in St. Louis were interrupted by an uprising at the St. Louis City Justice Center. Around 8:40 pm, inmates at the Justice Center broke out windows on the third floor and tossed out furniture and clothing, and started a fire on the building’s exterior. The initial chaos quieted down about an hour-and-a-half later, only to give way to a second outburst in another section of the building. As the Post Dispatch reports: Inmates broke through the windows on the northwest corner of the third floor of the jail, below windows that were boarded up from the last riot in February. They threw furniture, a computer, toilet paper and their own clothing to the street below, and started a fire on the exterior of the building. Some chanted “We want court dates,” a reference to delays in court appearances and trials caused by the pandemic.

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