Black cop strikes St Louis Metrolink passenger on the hand with baton = felony

[eridani]

So St Louis cops are held accountable sometimes.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/07/25/st-louis-county-police-officer-charged/#.VHX7s8Y3jbc.twitter

A 13-year veteran of the St. Louis County Police Department is charged with felony assault after striking a MetroLink passenger on the hand with his expandable baton following an argument.

The county Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Friday charged 44-year-old Dawon Gore of Ferguson with second-degree assault. He was jailed on a $3,500, cash-only bond.

Gore is accused of using excessive force against an unnamed 24-year-old light-rail passenger in late April at the Hanley Road station in Clayton. He’s been assigned to the department’s MetroLink unit since May 2012.

A police press release says the investigation was forwarded to prosecutor Bob McCullough in early May with a recommendation to press charges.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Photo of the cop who was charged...

Dawon Gore (photo: St. Louis County PD)

[bigdarryl]

2. He forgot he was black

HEY!!! bro you can't do what Darren Wilson did

[HereSince1628]

3. It was a black on black crime...police are fighting that stuff, zero tolerance!

[pinboy3niner]

4. When McCullough prosecutes a cop, the first question is: What color?

Actually, we can guess...

[bigdarryl]

5. Bttom line this cop isn't part of the

Good old boy network in that County

[HereSince1628]

6. If you've listened to his youtube rants, he's also not particularly liberal or tolerant.

[Scootaloo]

7. What does that have to do with anything?

Nobody's lionizing him. He's an example of a racial double standard in policing.

[HereSince1628]

8. Only that he's having trouble with fitting in in general...

another comment was that he didn't fit in with his county's 'good ol boy network'

[Scootaloo]

9. "Good ol' boy networks" tend ot have more to do with melanin than politics n/t

[HereSince1628]

11. Maybe. When speaker has no melanin 'gang' may have a probability of being inserted instead

[TheKentuckian]

10. Good! That is what is supposed to happen. Now let's spread that concept around.

Although it cannot be definitively ruled out he is being punished for not killing the person dead. The "soft touch" might get you fed to the wolves. Leave no victims to complain.

[TeamPooka]

12. I'm betting the "victim" is a white man. nt