St. Louis Police Officers Indicted For Beating An Undercover Colleague
Source: NPR
A federal grand jury indicted three members of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on charges of beating a fellow police officer who was working undercover during a 2017 protest. A fourth officer also was indicted and accused conspiring to cover up the incident.
The Department of Justice announced the indictments in a statement Thursday.
"The indictment charges Officers Dustin Boone, 35, Bailey Colletta, 25, Randy Hays, 31, and Christopher Myers, 27, with various felony charges, including deprivation of constitutional rights, conspiracy to obstruct justice, destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice."
According to the indictment, officers Boone, Hays and Myers inflicted "bodily injury" on an undercover officer identified in the court document only as "L.H.", an officer and detective who is described as having 22 years of experience with the police department. The beating of L.H. occurred "while he was compliant and not posing a threat to anyone." The incident occurred during a September 17, 2017, protest against the acquittal of a white police officer who was tried in the death of a black suspect in 2011.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/672055192/st-louis-police-officers-indicted-for-beating-an-undercover-colleague
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I got about 1000 internets to wager that 'L.H.' ... is what one might often refer to as a 'Black Man'.
Anyone care to wager against me here? Didn't think so ...
Glad to see the book being thrown at these m*****f*****s.
THEY GOT CAUGHT, for once. Only cause they beat up (and, it appears later, even tried to f**k over) one of their own, which is generally considered a 'no-no'.
Otherwise, wouldn't be SHIT happening to them.
I wonder if L.H. was willingly sent to the protests to act as an Agent Provocateur?
If so, I suppose his getting his ass beat by his colleagues ... was actually a bit of serendipity ... insofar as it'd be a case where ALL the bad guys (and one bad lady) ... are ending up suffering.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Some other L.H.
😛😛😛
Nitram
(22,800 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,326 posts)One article said the undercover deliberately wore a shirt that showed his waist so he would appear unarmed. Maybe it was an Internal Affairs sting?
Yeah, black man. Thats a given.
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Was big story at time.
Some hoped it would wake Americans up to what was being done in our name.