Am I just supposed to trust you on that? It is all very well for you to state it, but a google search has not yielded any data on deaths due to police action in Athens.

(Note this is all ad argumentum so you don't really need to answer on my account. I would certainly be much more likely to visit Athens than to visit St. Louis and I wouldn't really worry about visiting either.) My argument was simply that we shouldn't criticize the OP as some did for asking a legitimate question out of understandable ignorance, given recent media portrayals. As you imply in your post, a similar question could be asked about St. Louis with even more legitimacy.