Thursday, March 28, 2024

Heated Protests in St. Louis in Wake of Policeman Jason Stockley’s Acquittal

*Via StlToday • Former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty Friday of murdering a man while on duty, setting off hours of angry protest.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson’s highly anticipated verdict found the white former St. Louis police officer not guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the December 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black drug suspect, after a high-speed pursuit and crash.

Protesters began gathering immediately after the verdict was announced. They tried to get on Interstate 64, but were blocked by police, and marched to police headquarters and down Tucker Boulevard.

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Police pepper-sprayed a few protesters in the early afternoon as they tried to block officers from traveling on Tucker Boulevard between Clark Avenue and Spruce Street.

More than 100 police personnel, many with batons and riot shields, formed a line at Tucker Boulevard and Clark Avenue as protesters hollered, chanted and held up signs.

“My goal is to resist the power of the state,” said the Rev. Renita Lamkin Green, pastor of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau, after standing in front of the line of police. “The power of the people is greater than the power over the people.”

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