This trial of white St. Louis police officers charged with beating a Black undercover officer (who they thought was a protester) started with an all white jury over prosecutor’s objections. One alternate jury was subbed in last week, leaving an overwhelmingly white jury in place.
https://twitter.com/javadesq/status/1376650896843620360
“Let’s whoop love some ass.” — Myers
“It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart.” — Boone
“It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart.” — Boone
https://twitter.com/rxpatrick/status/1376650503145291779
This was the story St. Louis police tried to sell and that elected officials pretended to believe.
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1068303486859845632
“He's pumped up about this. He's excited about beating up protesters. He didn't want to beat up a policeman. It was going to be OK to beat up a protester, but it wasn't OK to be up a policeman.” ksdk.com/article/news/l…
"How it was laid out by the U. S Attorney's office was perfect. But you cannot get past Black and white." — @HthrTylr stltoday.com/news/local/cri…
Suppose we know the answer to the question @DoyleMurphy posed here: riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2018/…
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