Assistant chief gets $162K to settle discrimination lawsuit
May 19, 2022 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — The city of St. Louis will pay a St. Louis assistant police chief nearly $162,000 to settle his federal discrimination lawsuit in which he alleged he was passed over for the city’s top police job because he is white.
Fourth officer sentenced in attack on undercover colleague
March 15, 2022 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police officer was sentenced Tuesday to one year of probation for his role in an attack by officers on a Black, colleague during a 2017 protest.
Christopher Myers, 30, was the last of four former officers accused in the case.
Appeals Court: St. Louis officers not immune from lawsuit
January 28, 2022 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that St. Louis police officers do not have qualified immunity from a lawsuit filed by a man who was arrested along with several other people during a protest in 2017.
Agreement would limit St. Louis police actions in protests
July 29, 2021 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — A settlement has been reached to end a lawsuit brought by a civil liberties group over St. Louis police actions taken during downtown protests in 2017.
A consent judgment announced Wednesday would end the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of protesters against the city, the St.
Jury selection begins in retrial of St. Louis officers
June 7, 2021 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the retrial of two former St. Louis police officers accused of attacking a Black undercover colleague during a 2017 protest.
Dustin Boone faces federal charges of deprivation of rights under the color of law.
Deliberations begin against 3 officers charged in beating
March 26, 2021 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — Jurors began deliberations Friday in the federal trial for three white St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black undercover colleague whom prosecutors said they mistook for a protestor...
Trial for officers accused of beating Black colleague begins
March 15, 2021 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal trial for St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black undercover colleague during 2017 protests began Monday with jury selection...
Federal prosecutors to charge 2 more St. Louis officers
November 13, 2019 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors will seek additional charges in the 2017 attack of an undercover St...
FBI, Justice Department to investigate St. Louis-area police
November 20, 2017 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal investigation will look into possible civil rights violations by police in the St. Louis area in the two months since protests broke out after a white former police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of a black suspect.