Another shooting near Ferguson last night.

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A white police officer shot a black teenager to death at a gas station in the city next door to Ferguson, Missouri, touching off clashes early Wednesday between demonstrators and law enforcement.

This was not the same as Ferguson," Mayor Theodore Hoskins said.

He took pains to say that the shooting could not be compared to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson or to the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York. The mayor, who is black, pointed out that the Berkeley police department is majority-black.

The shooting took place just after 11 p.m. local time Tuesday. Chief Jon Belmar of the St. Louis County police said that the officer was white and a six-year veteran. The officer's name was not released. He was placed on administrative leave, Belmar said.

An angry crowd of about 200 gathered at near the scene of the shooting, and there were angry clashes with police. A small fire broke out at a QuikTrip across the street from the Mobil but quickly went out, said John Henry, reporter with NBC affiliate KDSK.

"I can see about 50 cop cars," said Bradley Rayford, a photographer at the scene. "They're fighting and scuffling, the highway is blocked with cars, people are being arrested. Trash cans are on fire."

As an ex-leo I know it would be difficult, but I see a time coming soon where a Chief of Police will have to hire enough black officers to patrol the areas which are predominantly black, and enough white officers to patrol the areas that are predominantly white.

Is right to do so? Probably not, but it is going to become racially prudent to do so.

There will be less incidents such as this, it will reduce future headlines of "white cop kills black suspect", and the race baiters like Sharpton and Jackson will have less "political racial ammunition" to stoke the fires of racial civil unrest.

I had someone ask me recently if I would consider a career in law enforcement again if I had to do it over.

I advised in today's social climate there is no way in the "nether regions" I would be a Law Enforcement Officer.

I pray for our "Thin Blue Line", but I am also prepared for the day, due to political correctness, that they are no longer able to protect me and mine.