Manchester Police: 2 arrested after showing gun in altercation with protesters
The two men drove up in a truck around 1:30 p.m. and had a verbal altercation with the demonstrators.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — As street protests, some turning violent, continued around the country over the death of George Floyd, two men were arrested Saturday for displaying a gun after getting into an altercation with protesters in Manchester, police said.
Floyd died Monday after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck until he stopped breathing.
About 800 people had marched through downtown Manchester in a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest on Saturday, police said. More than 100 protesters then marched to the police department where they gathered.
Two men drove up in a truck around 1:30 p.m., had a verbal altercation with the demonstrators, and in a nearby parking lot one of the men got out and displayed a gun, police said. Scott Kimball, 43, and Mark Kimball, 19, were arrested for felony riot and criminal threatening. It was not immediately known if they were being represented by attorneys.
The department closed the building Saturday afternoon “for the safety of our officers and employees.”
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