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Protesters gathered early Wednesday at a gas station where an officer shot a black man who several times after he allegedly pointed a handgun at police

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Police try to control a crowd Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, on the lot of a gas station following a shooting Tuesday in Berkeley, Mo. St. Louis County police say a man who pulled a gun and pointed it at an officer has been killed.David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/The Associated Press

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Police try to control a crowd Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, on the lot of a gas station following a shooting Tuesday in Berkeley, Mo. St. Louis County police say a man who pulled a gun and pointed it at an officer has been killed.David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/The Associated Press

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Toni Martin, front center, cries out on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, as she talks to police at the scene where she says her son was fatally shot Tuesday at a gas station in Berkeley, Mo. Authorities did not immediately identify the man who was shot. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Toni Martin, said he was her son, Antonio Martin.David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/The Associated Press

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Police try to control a crowd Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, on the lot of a gas station following a shooting Tuesday in Berkeley, Mo. St. Louis County police say a man who pulled a gun and pointed it at an officer has been killed.David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/The Associated Press

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Police stand guard Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, following a shooting Tuesday at a gas station in Berkeley, Mo. St. Louis County police say a man who pulled a gun and pointed it at an officer has been killed.David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/The Associated Press

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Surveillance video showing an officer-involved shooting during a routine business check at a gas station in Berkeley, Missouri December 23, 2014 released by the St. Louis County Police Department December 24, 2014. An 18-year old black man was shot and killed by police late Tuesday in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August, local media reports.St. Louis County Police/Handout/Reuters

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