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CAC Audited DECEMBER 13 – 19, 2018
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Vol. 90 No. 38 COMPLIMENTARY
Cops indicted on felony charges
Supreme Court sides ACLU: ‘St. Louis officials must address with Kim lawlessness by its police’ this rampant Gardner
By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
n The indictment charges four officers with various felonies, including deprivation of constitutional rights, conspiracy to obstruct justice, destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice.
City jail costs diabetic inmate who can’t post bail a toe
A federal grand jury in St. Louis indicted four St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers November for their conduct in the arrest and assault of Luther Hall, a black St. Louis police officer who was working undercover at a September 17, 2017 protest, when city police beat, maced and arrested more than 100 people while chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!” without pay. The protest occurred two days after former St. Louis “Law enforcement officers have an important duty to Police Officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of a firstprotect the members of the communities they serve and degree murder charge relating to the 2011 shooting death of to enforce the law,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Anthony Lamar Smith. Dreiband in a statement. “The Justice Department will Photo by Lawrence Bryant The indictment charges officers Dustin Boone, 35, Bailey St. Louis police subdued a man during mass arrests at a continue to investigate and prosecute matters involving Colletta, 25, Randy By Rebecca RivasHays, 31, and Christopher Myers, 27, protest in downtown St. Louis on September 17, 2017. Four allegations of federal criminal civil rights violations.” with various felonies, including deprivation of constitutional Of The St. Louis American officers have been indicted on multiple felony charges for their According to the indictment, the police department rights, conspiracy to obstruct justice, destruction of evidence, conduct during that protest, when then-interim Police Chief and of justice. A obstruction Missouri Supreme Court ruling issued See FELONY, A6 Lawrence O’Toole boasted that his officers “owned the night.” The four officers been on administrative leave on December 4 addedhave clarity as placed to whether the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney’s office can summon police officers to be witnesses in prosecuting their Laddie Roebuck cases and then investigate them for use of force. The state’s highest court unanimously Hamilton ruled that Circuit Elementary School librarian Keisha Attorney Kim Pettis helped third Gardner’s office does grader Makiaya have that authority Mayes, 9, make and that 22nd a decorative Circuit Court Judge Photo by Wiley Price holiday card in Timothy J. Boyer was wrong when he the school library Circuit Attorney on Wednesday, disqualified her from Kim Gardner By Marcel Scaife December 5. investigating a city By Rebecca officer for use of For TheRivas St. Louis American Of The St. Louis American force earlier this year. “[Gardner] holds Part of a year-long series, presented by The Ellington Anthony, 4, a student at St. Louis Montessori School, hulaLaddie Roebuck, 59-year-old inmateatinWashington the St. Louis one of the most powerful positions in our legal American anda the Brown School hooped with her neck during the 4th annual city-wide Double Dutch City Justice Center,onhad a toe amputated at theand end of system, and [Boyer] cannot control the way University, changing the narratives Showcase at Wohl Recreation Center on Saturday, December 8. The November because the jail medical staff allegedly had not [Gardner] chooses to exercise the broad, almost outcomes of young black males in St. Louis. Missouri Foundation for Health provided funding to BJC School been properly treating diabetic ulcers and was giving I grew up in his a two-parent, two-income Outreach and Youth Development and Saint Louis Public Schools for the him thehousehold wrong dosage of insulin, Roebuck in Jennings. I would say Ihas hadclaimed it prettyin See GARDENER, A6 Healthy Schools Healthy Communities initiative. a federal lawsuit. good. In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, Jennings If thewas medical continuesmy to be a greatattention place tohe be.receives I can remember dad inadequate, Roebuck could taking lose more toes, said his or me to Northland River Roads to shop. I had white classmates and white See BAIL, neighbors. I understood that A7 I was black, but in my limited view of the world there was nothing wrong with that. From an early age, my father taught me that a man should always work and provide for his family. This is something I carry with me to Marcel this day. Scaife With all my fathers’ great attributes, there was still something missing that I now see I needed: emotional support. Most black boys are taught to grow up tough, to man up, not to cry, and that Photo by Wiley Price showing their nurturing side makes them weak. Black boys often must go to extreme measures to prove how tough they n Black boys often are. There was also must go to extreme little encouragement By Chris King measures to prove Of The St. Louis American growing up. I didn’t hear how great I was how tough they are. By Clarice Evans Carolyn Kindle Betz, who is leading the or that I could do For The St. Louis American ownership group trying to bring a Major anything I set my League Soccer (MLS) franchise to St. Louis, mind My father Homelessness, substandard housing andto. high-priced has long-term,Rivas big-picture argument for why allegedly beaten, maced and arrested – would often tell me that getting good grades was by a video first shows Franks lying on the ground, By aRebecca housing are issues encountered by most families served this would good American for St. Louis – and put no requirement and that’sHardship the only job I had. this Countless including Bruce Franks Jr., who was acting shielding his head and yelling repeatedly to an Community Of The St.beLouis Women Against (CWAH) year. unfair burden on overstressed taxpayers in a rejection countless rejection would define as a Peacekeeper, or a conflict de-escalator officer standing over him, “I’m not fighting.” Extended familyafter homes are no longer able to offer safeme cityOn with a lot of problems pressing as a person. Then the video is slowed down to show that Christmas Eve 2014,more hundreds of than between protestors and police. havens for many reasons. We find our most vulnerable the absence of professional When forcold me to step out and face the Now almost four years later, Franks officers appear to be beating Franks with a people had gathered at a gassoccer. stationBut in she also with nowhere to it go.was It’stime really outside. wants to be clear about the short-term, smallworld, I had a lot of insecurities. I struggled with – who was elected to the state House of baton and kicking him while he was already Berkeley to protest the death of Antonio What are we doing? picture communicating because holdingare a conversation Representatives in the meantime – obtained Photo held face down with his arm behind his back. Martin,perspective. 18, at the hands of a Berkeley police The St. Louis American and CWAH seeking the by Carolina Hidalgo / St. Louis Public Radio And that is: thebody St. Louis group led been by the footage from the body cameras that St. Louis wasn’t something done too address often inthese my home. Franks is suing St. Louis County, Belofficer. Martin’s – which had– just support of our community to help needs. Taylor Holdings and Jim While in high school I joined the U.S. to Army County police officers wore that night. On Ridge Police Officer Philip Von Der Heydt, movedfamily – was of stillEnterprise visible when the unrest We are here to provide resources and offer hope as to Carolyn Kindle Betz high-fived Lewis Reed, president of the St. Louis Kavanaugh of World Wide Technology - has November 25, Franks released a two-minute got underway. Board of Aldermen, after an aldermanic committee recently expressed See MALES, A7 edited video for on his Facebook page.a The That night several protestors were support a plan to bring Major League Soccer franchise to St.See COPS, A7 See CWAH, A6 See SOCCER, A6 Louis.
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