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With tensions already running high over the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Black Online Cigarettes Store USA man by sheriff's deputies, protests this weekend in Vancouver, Washington, devolved into reported vandalism of businesses and fights between demonstrators demanding justice and members of right-wing groups that converged in the city.
Kevin Peterson Jr. was shot to death on Thursday evening by Clark County sheriff's deputies in Hazel Dell, an unincorporated area of Vancouver, prompting consecutive nights of protests that led to at least six arrests early Saturday after authorities said some demonstrators ignored orders to disperse and began hurling rocks at law enforcement officers outside the Clark County Jail in Vancouver.
On Saturday night, members of a right-wing group gathered in Esther Park in Vancouver,Newport 100s Box prompting police to close the park. Those protesting Peterson's shooting and counter-demonstrators stood on opposite sides of a downtown Vancouver street arguing as a large police presence attempted to prevent the confrontation from escalating into violence.
On Friday night, video taken by ABC affiliate KATU in Portland, Oregon, showed fights breaking out between protesters and counter-protesters in Vancouver following a vigil for Peterson. Peterson was shot dead around 6 p. m. Thursday by three Clark County sheriff's deputies in the parking lot of a bank in Hazel Dell, just north of downtown Vancouver, law enforcement officials said.
An independent investigation of the deadly encounter is being led by the Camas Police Department and the Southwest Washington Independent Investigative Response Team, which is comprised of certified peace officers and non-law enforcement community representatives.
During a brief news conference on Friday, Clark County Sheriff Chuck Atkins said the shooting unfolded as Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes detectives of the Clark/Vancouver Drug Task Force were investigating suspected drug dealing in the parking lot of a motel in Hazel Dell. He said detectives spotted a man sitting alone in a car and as they approached the vehicle, the occupant got out and ran.