More than 50 people were arrested in a mostly black suburb of St. Louis last night as a second night of rioting erupted ostensibly over the death of a young black man at the hands of police. Police reported shots being fired as tear gas was used to disperse the crowds. At this point, details of what occurred are very sketchy. It is believed that the young man, Michael Brown, was in the police car for a still unspecified reason, when he had an altercation with a police officer. Several shots rang out before the officer left the car. Reuters: "He just graduated and was on his way to college," said Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, speaking through tears at a news conference on Monday, which would have been her first-born son's first day at school. She called for calm, but demonstrations demanding the arrest and conviction of the police officer turned violent. Fire trucks, ambulances and more officers converged on the area in a chaotic scene. One...(Read Full Post)