ACLU Sues St. Louis Over Handling Of Protests Following Ex-Cop’s Acquittal

[RandomGuy]

The lawsuit alleges police are unconstitutionally menacing protesters with riot tactics and chemical weapons.

The ACLU of Missouri has filed a lawsuit against the city of St. Louis, alleging unconstitutional police misconduct for cops’ use of riot gear and chemical weapons this week against protestors.

Protests have erupted since former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty this week in the fatal shooting of a fleeing black man in 2011. In a video obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stockley can be heard saying he’s “going to kill this motherfucker” before the shooting.

Police have been pepper-spraying protesters and rounding them up in a “police kettle,” surrounding demonstrators with officers on all sides. One video shows an elderly woman trampled by officers in riot gear. Another shows cops chillingly chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!”

“I think everyone deserves the same rights as I do,” plaintiff Maleeha Ahmad, who said she was pepper-sprayed by police, told the ACLU. “If it hadn’t been for my fellow peaceful protestors ― strangers who came to my aid ― I don’t know how my eyesight would be today. I would have been left out in the sun, on the ground, with my face burning.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aclu-st-louis-lawsuit-protests_us_59c54696e4b01cc57ff2054b

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https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21617812_1487168744665331_4412923875746431083_n.jp g?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=84dd419d416f770c36d37c4e4de7495f&oe=5A545E2D

[Winehole23]

After St Louis police officer Jason Stockley, killed an unarmed black man named Anthony Lamar Smith with an unauthorized AK-47, planted a pistol on his body, and was then acquitted on murder charges in 2017, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Dustin Boone sent several texts in which he relished the prospect of beating up the protesters he anticipated following the verdict: phrases like "It’s still a blast beating people" and It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” and “It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s---heads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!”


These weren't idle musings: Boone and two fellow officers Randy Hays (who later texted "going rogue does feel good"), and Christopher Myers grabbed a black protester that night, threw him to the ground, and kicked and clubbed him, while the protester peacefully complied with their barked orders.


That black man was actually a cop, with 22 years on the force. Following the beating, he was hospitalized, couldn't eat, and ultimately lost 20 pounds; he's since had surgery for his injuries and remains too disabled to return to work
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/30/impunity-ahoy.html

[Winehole23]

All three officers (as well as another cop, Bailey Colletta) have been indicted by a Grand Jury. The indictment alleges that the officers destroyed evidence and lied to investigators.

[Winehole23]

Though he made no effort to resist, the three officers brutally beat Hall, who was left with a two-centimeter hole above his lip, an injured tailbone and back injuries that required surgery.

[FrostKing]

I googled the protests


Haha white trash
http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kwmu/files/styles/x_large/public/091517_CH_stockleyverdict_CWE_11.JPG

[Winehole23]

If the victim hadn't been a cop, they'd probably have gotten away with it.

They still might.

[boutons_deux]

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219383&p=9619876&viewfull=1#post9619876

[Winehole23]

Reform DA unseats 28 year incumbent, St. Louis prosecutors respond by joining the police union:

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-county-prosecutors-vote-to-unionize/article_e8422a8f-0fbb-584c-96b6-ff4391b6c6b0.amp.html

[boutons_deux]

Reform DA unseats 28 year incumbent, St. Louis prosecutors respond by joining the police union:

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-county-prosecutors-vote-to-unionize/article_e8422a8f-0fbb-584c-96b6-ff4391b6c6b0.amp.html

cops, DAs, prosecutors, united in their never-ending efforts to fuck over blacks in slave-state Missouri

[Winehole23]

Yeah, there's that, but who does the union back if there's a dispute between police and prosecutors?

[boutons_deux]

Yeah, there's that, but who does the union back if there's a dispute between police and prosecutors?

police fabricate / hide evidence that prosecutors want / don't want

in return, prosecutors almost never go after police, unless politics forces it.

[Isitjustme?]

I googled the protests


Haha white trash
http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kwmu/files/styles/x_large/public/091517_CH_stockleyverdict_CWE_11.JPG

Lol so triggered that everyone calls your dumb white pride ass white trash that youre trying to redefine the term to any white who gets along with minorities

[FrostKing]

Lol so triggered that everyone calls your dumb white pride ass white trash that youre trying to redefine the term to any white who gets along with minorities
Self hate is trashy.

[Winehole23]

Reform DA unseats 28 year incumbent, St. Louis prosecutors respond by joining the police union:

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-county-prosecutors-vote-to-unionize/article_e8422a8f-0fbb-584c-96b6-ff4391b6c6b0.amp.htmlReform DA sues St. Louis and the police union under the KKK Act.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6632405/Gardner-Federal-Lawsuit-011320.pdf