因枪杀黑人男子，美国抗议者与警方发生冲突

因枪杀黑人男子，美国抗议者与警方发生冲突

A crowd of 300 protesters, some of them throwing rocks, have squared off against police in riot gear in Memphis, Tennessee, overnight after officers from the US Marshals fatally shot a black man during an attempted arrest.

在田纳西州孟菲斯市，300名抗议者组成的人群与身穿防暴装备的警察对峙，其中一些人在投掷石块。此前一夜，美国法警在试图逮捕一名黑人男子时开枪打死了他。

At least two dozen police officers and two journalists were injured during the confrontation, Mayor Jim Strickland said in a statement on Thursday, adding that six officers were taken to the hospital.

纽约市长吉姆·斯特里克兰德(Jim Strickland)周四在一份声明中表示，至少有24名警察和两名记者在冲突中受伤，另有六名警察被送往医院。

The injuries were mostly minor, the police department said, and the crowd eventually dispersed. It was not clear how many civilians were hurt or whether anyone was arrested.

警方说，伤者大多是轻伤，人群最终散去。目前尚不清楚有多少平民受伤，也不清楚是否有人被捕。

The tense scene raised the possibility of more disturbances in the predominantly black city, evoking memories of a string of sometimes violent protests against police brutality that broke out in other cities in recent years.

紧张的场面增加了这个以黑人为主的城市发生更多骚乱的可能性，让人想起近年来在其他城市爆发的一系列抗议警察暴行的抗议活动，这些抗议有时是暴力的。

Those clashes, notably many days of protests after an unarmed black man was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.

这些冲突，尤其是2014年密苏里州弗格森市一名手无寸铁的黑人男子被杀后的多天抗议活动，引发了“黑人生命同样重要”(black Lives Matter)运动。

In Memphis, agents with the US Marshals Service shot a man identified as Brandon Webber as they were trying to arrest him on multiple warrants at about 7pm local time on Wednesday in the working-class neighbourhood of Frayser, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the shooting.

据正在调查这起枪击事件的田纳西州调查局称，当地时间周三下午7点左右，在孟菲斯市弗雷泽附近的工人阶级社区，美国警察局的特工在多次逮捕布兰登·韦伯的过程中开枪打死了他。

Webber rammed his vehicle into vehicles driven by the marshals before getting out with an unspecified weapon, the bureau said in a statement. The Marshals Service, an arm of the US Department of Justice, arrests fugitives, among other roles.

联邦调查局在一份声明中说，韦伯驾驶的汽车撞上了执法人员驾驶的汽车，然后带着不明武器下车。美国司法部(US Department of Justice)下属的法警部门(Marshals Service)负责逮捕逃犯等任务。

The state investigations bureau did not state the reason marshals wanted to arrest Webber.

国家调查局没有说明逮捕韦伯的原因。

Webber was a 20-year-old father, and his Facebook page quickly filled with tributes from friends mourning his death.

韦伯是一位20岁的父亲，他的Facebook页面上很快就充满了朋友们对他的悼念。

"The U.S. Marshals killed my son," Sonny Webber, the father of Brandon Webber, said in a brief telephone interview.

布兰登韦伯(Brandon Webber)的父亲桑尼韦伯(Sonny Webber)在一次简短的电话采访中说，“美国警察杀了我的儿子。”

"He just had his first daughter a couple of weeks ago, and another daughter on the way."

“他几个星期前刚生了第一个女儿，不久后他还会有第二个女儿。”

The younger Webber was also the father of a two-year-old son, and had planned to attend the University the Memphis in August, his father said.

韦伯还有一个两岁的儿子，他父亲说，他原本计划在8月就读孟菲斯大学。