Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby shows support. On Monday, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner filed what she deemed an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city, the local police union and other parties of an orchestrated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of office. On Tuesday, a group of Black prosecutors led…
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To win a murder conviction, police and prosecutors made up evidence and secretly paid a witness, St. Louis DA finds
Lamar Johnson, in the white pants, is pictured in a 1994 photo lineup. (Lamar Johnson, in the white pants, is pictured in a 1994 photo lineup. St. Louis Circuit Attorney) The state’s theory stretched the physical limits of the human body. Somehow on the night of Oct. 30, 1994, Lamar Johnson left his friend’s apartment,…
Two ex-prosecutors’ law licenses suspended for covering up St. Louis police beating
Ambry Nichole Schuessler (left) and Katherine “Katie” Dierdorf
Black kids in Missouri are being shot down in unspeakable numbers
Last year, the city of St. Louis saw four killings involving children 16 years or younger, a fraction of this year’s horrific tally. A child in Ferguson, Missouri, August 2014. CREDIT: Scott Olson/Getty Images
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Won’t Review Cases from Cops Whose Racist Facebook Posts Were Exposed by Watchdog Group
A St. Louis circuit attorney has added 22 more police officers to a list of cops whose cases she won’t hear after a database exposed many of them for making racist Facebook posts. Kimberly Gardner added the names Tuesday, June 18, following a review announced June 5 of more than 400 posts made by current and…
St. Louis Area Pigs Increased Housing Violation Tickets To Black Families 495% To Fund Department
It might just be the most clear statistical documentation of police targeting African Americans yet. A small St. Louis suburb has just seen its police department increase ticketing African American families by 495% in order to raise revenue for their department.
