ST. LOUIS (AP) — A settlement has been reached to end a lawsuit brought by a civil liberties group over St. Louis police actions taken during downtown protests in 2017. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a consent judgment announced Wednesday would end the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A Federal Judge is not going to allow former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley to sue his accusers. Thursday, the judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by Stockley against the prosecutor who charged him and the internal affairs detective who built the case against him. Stockley was found not guilty in…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Relatives of a black suspect killed by a white former St. Louis police officer are demanding $5 million to resolve claims of a “cover up.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that an emailed letter Sunday from the family of Anthony Lamar Smith alleges that officials violated a judge’s order by failing…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white former St. Louis police officer whose acquittal in the death of a black suspect set off weeks of protests filed suit Wednesday against the prosecutor who charged him and a police investigator. Jason Stockley’s lawsuit alleges defamation and malicious prosecution. The lawsuit names…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge reopened fact-finding in a wrongful-death civil lawsuit over a former St. Louis police officer’s fatal shooting of a black man. Attorney Al Watkins, who represents Anthony Lamar Smith’s family, on Wednesday confirmed U.S. District Judge Jean Hamilton’s decision to reopen discovery. It comes…
IBy JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An investigation requested by relatives of a black man killed in a police shooting found that the former Missouri attorney general’s office withheld DNA evidence that could have been useful in a wrongful-death lawsuit, and the family’s lawyer said Tuesday he might sue again if the city…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Protesters upset with the ruling in the case of former St. Louis Police Officer Jason Stockley are calling for the resignation of police union business manager Jeff Roorda. Demonstrators gathered last night at Hampton Village at the intersection of Hampton and Chippewa and briefly shut down traffic at the intersection. Meanwhile, State Rep.…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis protest leaders say last week’s the arrest of a clergyman who was subdued with pepper spray is the latest incident in which police have been responsible for “unnecessary and dangerous violence” against demonstrators. The Reverend Clayton Stancil of the Wayman AME Church says protesters pledge that law-abiding but disruptive demonstrations will…
St. Louis (AP) Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has appointed a St. Louis attorney to investigate claims that Hawley’s predecessor withheld evidence in a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer. Hawley, a Republican, on Thursday appointed Hal Goldsmith to investigate. The family of Anthony Lamar Smith has…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police are trying to find whoever spray-painted a message calling for justice for a black man killed by a St. Louis police officer on the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial outside the state Capitol. The state Department of Justice issued a news release Wednesday saying someone spray-painted “#Justice4AnthonySmith” on the memorial Saturday.…