ST. LOUIS — Police shooting protesters in St. Louis clashed with students at a historically black college Monday during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day interfaith service.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that two dozen protesters interrupted the event at Harris-Stowe State University, leading to angry confrontations with students outside a campus auditorium. Police kept watch on the dispute, but no arrests were immediately reported.
The protesters waved an upside-down American flag, took to the stage and used a microphone to criticize the university and participating clergy members.
The demonstrators left the stage and the building after an appeal for calm from Lesley McSpadden, whose 18-year-old son Michael Brown was shot to death by a Ferguson police officer in August 2014.