Stephanie Sun’s downtown Chinese restaurant is out thousands of dollars after vandals smashed windows in the aftermath of the Stockley trial verdict.
“Vandal’s”?? That’s False Reporting…. “FAKE NEWS” These were criminals in full riot and destruct mode.
In a 30-page ruling, Judge Wilson said officer Stockley, a decorated West Point graduate was not guilty of murder because the officer was acting in self-defense during the arrest for drug dealing, failure to obey law enforcement and fleeing the scene. The officer Jason Stockley sued the former prosecutor and an internals affairs detective.
The case sparked protests that ranged from largely peaceful to what police have called acts of “chaos” in the Missouri city.
Some of the headlines:
More than 80 people arrested in St. Louis during 3rd night of protests
Tear gas deployed after St. Louis protest over ex-cop’s acquittal turns violent, 32 arrested
Wait….wait… “Tear Gas deployed” at a “protest”? No, no, no, hell no…. Police do not use tear gas at peaceful, law-abiding protests. Police use tear gas at riots. If they used tear gas it was a violent riot where rioters refused to obey the police. Police also arrested 22 protesters at the Galleria mall Saturday and a group of about 50 gathered Sunday afternoon in Belleville to protest the acquittal of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley. “Protestors” are not arrested for protesting, not in America where protesting is protected as free speech. They are arrested for observed criminal behaviors.
Also, officer Stockley was a West Point Academy graduate who served at least nine years in the United States Military. That means he was one cool character, not prone to shoot then figure things out. He graduated as an Army Officer, … a Second Lieutenant. He was injured in Iraq and received a bronze star.
U2, Bono, and Ed Sheeran canceled their St Louis shows due to the potential for out-of-control riots over the acquittal of officer Stockley. The riots led to more than 30 arrests
Ahead of judge Wilson’s verdict black activists warned a not-guilty verdict for the former police officer, Jason Stockley, would result in acts of unlawful riots. Both of those events happened.
At the riot, a line of white police in riot gear approached black protesters who refused to obey them knocking down one black woman in a scene captured by local television helicopter. Officers pepper-sprayed the remaining, standing black protestors as the woman remained on the ground, until she was cuffed and led away.
The shooting occurred in 2011 after officer Stockley and his partner officer Brian Bianchi, both white men, attempted to corner Smith’s vehicle in a fast-food restaurant parking lot, after they had witnessed Smith, a black man do a drug deal. Smith backed into the police vehicle, … twice … to evade the officers, who said they saw a gun in the man’s vehicle. Stockley fired seven shots at Smith’s car as he drove away and had to be chased by the police in their damaged police car.
Sept. 15, 2017
Wilson announced the not-guilty verdict for Stockley. Protests spilled out into the streets and police arrested 32 people.
Tear gas deployed after St. Louis protest over ex-cop’s acquittal turns violent, 32 arrested
Sept. 16, 2017
After a day of peaceful demonstrations, violence erupts in a wealthy enclave of St. Louis after dark. Storefront windows are shattered and riot police make nine arrests.
Sept. 17, 2017
On the third day of protests, police arrested more than 123 people.
123 arrested in St. Louis in 3rd night of protests over ex-cop’s acquittal
Sept. 18, 2017
Demonstrations continued into a fourth day with a march through the city streets, while police said they were preparing for any further acts of violence.
4th night of protests in St. Louis after ex-cop’s acquittal
Three years later Darren Wilson, a white police officer, fatally shot Michael Brown who was charging at the armed police office which wrongly led to weeks of lawless and violent demonstrations by black people in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis. The shooting, which followed many other high-profile killings of black people by white officers, renewed discussions about minorities “relations” with police.
A federal lawsuit filed in June, 2018 by Stockley said his accusal of murder was one of several lies told by Joyce and and Kurt Deeken, who was the head of internal affairs. The charges, the suit said, were an effort by Joyce to protect her legacy with activists protesting police brutality. The arguments used to charge Stockley, it said, contradicted arguments Joyce had used to not charge officers in other high-profile cases.
“The making of each and every false statement, as set out in this Complaint, under oath, is a Class C felony,” Stockley’s attorney wrote. “Conspiracy to commit perjury is a Class D felony. Knowingly filing a false pleading with the Court is unethical and punishable by disbarment. Attempting to convict Stockley of murder and subject him to the rest of his life in isolated confinement, without parole, by lying to a judge is contemptible.”
The suit also blames Joyce and Deeken for the protests and violence that followed his acquittal.
“I believe these types of frivolous lawsuits are designed to discourage prosecutors from considering charges against police officers for violating the law,” Joyce said in a statement in response to the suit. “While this lawsuit may achieve a goal of headlines today, I have confidence that this will be resolved in my favor in a court of law.”
Stockley is seeking at least $300,000 in damages for malicious prosecution and defamation. It is not clear how far his suit against Joyce will get, as prosecutors are entitled to broad immunity. In fact, on the same day Stockley filed his case, a federal appeals panel rejected a lawsuit against former U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof for his actions as a special prosecutor on a 1990 murder in Livingston County. A judge had thrown out the conviction in that case because of prosecutorial misconduct. Sometimes it’s impossible to get justice.
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