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Black Lives Matter and company have shown up in St Louis. Bring your ski mask, hoodie, and crowbar. Tonight is a night for after hours shopping. How much looting, arson, and mayhem will be caused tonight?
"More than 120 people were arrested Sunday as protesters attacked police, broke windows and flipped over trash cans, authorities said. "
"Stockley shot and killed Smith in December 2011. The officer and his partner, Brian Bianchi, tried to stop Smith after witnessing a suspected drug transaction, according to an internal police department report the Post-Dispatch obtained.
Stockley said Smith backed into their police SUV twice in an apparent attempt to harm them. After Bianchi told Stockley that he believed Smith was armed, Stockley exited the SUV with his department-issued handgun. He also had a personal AK-47 pistol, a violation of department policy, according to the report.
Smith sped away, knocking Stockley sideways, and Stockley fired at the vehicle, before Bianchi and Stockley pursued Smith at speeds up to 80 mph. The police vehicle crashed into Smith's Buick in an attempt to avoid hitting a truck, the report said.
Before the crash, Stockley was heard saying he was "going to kill this motherf***er" and told Bianchi to "hit him right now," the report said.
Stockley approached with his weapon drawn. He said in the internal report he ordered Smith to show his hand and believed the suspect was reaching for a handgun, the report said.
"In fear for my safety and that of my partner," Stockley said in the report, "I discharged my department-issued firearm at the subject striking him in the chest."
Stockley then entered Smith's car "to locate the weapon and render it safe," the report said. He removed ammunition from the silver revolver, he said in the report.
Forensic analysis revealed that Stockley's was the only DNA present on the gun he said belonged to Smith, the criminal complaint said.
Prosecutors alleged that Stockley planted the gun, but the judge in the bench trial didn't buy it.
In his ruling Friday, St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson said the prosecution's argument was "not supported by the evidence." The gun was too large, Wilson said, for Stockley to hide it from the cameras at the scene. "
Everyone that gets arrested over this should be forced to read the case or have the case read to them.
Between the video and the evidence the judge made the only rational decision possible.
At this point those "protesting" seem less interested in the case and more interested in a five finger midnight discount on some tennis shoes.