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fresh look at 2011 St. Louis police killing Update: video shows cops planting gun
Last edited Wed Sep 21, 2016, 02:58 PM - Edit history (1)
How long are we going to accept this and at least question how widespread the corruption is???
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/09/21/breaking-video-emerges-showing-cop-who-killed-black-man-planting-gun-on-him/
New videos, photos and documents provide fresh look at 2011 St. Louis police killing.
ST. LOUIS • Video from a police SUV and a business, obtained by the Post-Dispatch, provide the most complete picture yet of a shooting in which a former St. Louis police officer is charged with murder.
Court documents claim that <officer> Stockley spoke during the pursuit of killing Smith.
The documents also say tests revealed Stockley’s DNA — but not Smith’s — on the .38 caliber Taurus revolver police said was found in Smith’s car.
Stockley told investigators he fired when Smith reached for that weapon. The officer told investigators he unloaded the revolver as a safety precaution after the shooting.
Activists and Smith’s relatives claim that Stockley planted the weapon.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/new-videos-provide-fresh-look-at-st-louis-police-killing/article_e0530fba-5db7-500e-9b31-3dd4512fe5bc.html
The documents also say tests revealed Stockley’s DNA — but not Smith’s — on the .38 caliber Taurus revolver police said was found in Smith’s car.
Stockley told investigators he fired when Smith reached for that weapon. The officer told investigators he unloaded the revolver as a safety precaution after the shooting.
Activists and Smith’s relatives claim that Stockley planted the weapon.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/new-videos-provide-fresh-look-at-st-louis-police-killing/article_e0530fba-5db7-500e-9b31-3dd4512fe5bc.html
Something is definitely amiss! Is it possible that justice may be done this time? We so need an ending that gives the impression that people in power actually care about black lives.
