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Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts)
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 11:08 PM Mar 2021

Our Farce of a Justice System, White Cops get away with beating up Black Cop in STL...

ST. LOUIS – A federal grand jury did not return a single guilty verdict Monday in the trial of three St. Louis Police officers accused of beating an undercover detective during a 2017 protest downtown.

St. Louis Police officer Steven Korte was found not guilty on all counts. Former officer Chris Myers was found not guilty on a civil rights charge. The jury did not reach a verdict on a charge of destruction of evidence. The jury also did not reach a verdict on the civil rights charge against former officer Dustin Boone.

Detective Luther Hall was working undercover with a partner during the 2017 Jason Stockley protests. They were documenting potential crimes when they got split up in the chaos on the night of Sunday, Sept. 17.



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Our Farce of a Justice System, White Cops get away with beating up Black Cop in STL... (Original Post) Humanist_Activist Mar 2021 OP
Sounds like Boone could still be held accountable ... he was released on bond Hugh_Lebowski Mar 2021 #1
If they keep getting all-white juries, I don't think so. n/t Humanist_Activist Mar 2021 #2
Grand juries don't render verdicts. What's up with this? brush Mar 2021 #3
Evidently Fox News can't tell the difference dalton99a Mar 2021 #4
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Sounds like Boone could still be held accountable ... he was released on bond
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 11:14 PM
Mar 2021

not set free outright, and it was a mistrial. Which I believe means he is not acquitted for the civil rights charge.

Maybe there will be another trial, and the outcome will be different.

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