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PROTESTS SPREAD
MOSTLY PEACEFUL DAY MARRED BY VANDALISM IN LOOP
Hundreds
march Arrests made;
Saturday
along Delmar
Boulevard in
Krewson calls
University City.
Protesters
for calm
gathered in
locations FROM STAFF REPORTS
across the
region for a UNIVERSITY CITY • For the
second day second consecutive night, peace-
in the wake ful daytime protests descended
of Friday’s into late-night violence with
not-guilty broken windows and thrown
verdict in the rocks, water bottles and garbage
trial of former can lids following Friday’s ac-
St. Louis police quittal of former police Officer
Officer Jason Jason Stockley.
Stockley. Shortly before 11 p.m. at Le-
land Avenue and Delmar Boule-
LAURIE vard, a small group of protesters
SKRIVAN threw chunks of concrete at po-
Post-Dispatch lice and broke windows at nu-
merous Delmar Loop businesses.
A chair was thrown through the
window of a Starbucks. One
protester was seen hitting a po-
lice SUV with a hammer. Police
made multiple arrests, including
a protester whom officers carried
away by his arms and legs.
A woman is As the chaos escalated, scores
seen throwing of police officers in riot gear
a trash can at pushed forward against the dem-
the storefront onstrators just after 11 p.m. —
window of about two hours after daytime
Snarf’s in the
6300 block See PROTESTS • Page A11
of Delmar
Boulevard
as protests
turned violent
Saturday night Verdict not
in the Loop.
The window
did not break,
a surprise for
but police saw
the attempted
legal experts
vandalism
and arrested BY JOEL CURRIER
the woman AND ROBERT PATRICK
immediately St. Louis Post-Dispatch
after.
ST. LOUIS • The acquittal of
DAVID former St. Louis police Officer
CARSON Jason Stockley on a first-degree
Post-Dispatch murder charge is not unusual,
based both on the history of po-
lice shootings and the law that
governs police use of force, legal
experts said.
What is unusual was that
Stockley was ever charged with
St. Louis police first-degree murder.
take a person In his 30-page ruling Friday,
into custody St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy
during a tense Wilson said prosecutors’ claims
standoff with that Stockley executed Anthony
protesters Lamar Smith and then planted
along Delmar a gun were not supported by the
Boulevard. evidence. Prosecutors, he said,
A mostly failed to prove a murder case and
peaceful day of failed to disprove that Stockley
protests across acted in self-defense, as required
the St. Louis for conviction.
area ended Stockley shot Smith on Dec.
with agitators 20, 2011, after a high-speed
breaking chase that began when Stockley
windows and
throwing trash See VERDICT • Page A12
cans in the
Delmar Loop.

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Then-St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley is seen in an image from a police dash cam video returning to his vehicle and
reaching into a duffel bag after fatally shooting Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011.
Few cops go to trial for shooting
deaths; even fewer are convicted
VERDICT • FROM A1
and his partner, Brian Bianchi, tried
to arrest Smith for a suspected drug
deal.
After Bianchi and Stockley
rammed the back of Smith’s car
at West Florissant and Acme ave-
nues, both officers got out and ap-
proached Smith’s driver’s side door.
After 15 seconds, Stockley fired his
9mm pistol five times at Smith.
Prosecutors had
called it an “ex-
ecution,” point-
ing to what they
claimed was the
fifth, “kill shot”
a n d S to c k l ey ’s
“prophetic words”
Stockley to h i s pa r t n e r
during the police
chase that he or they were “going to
kill this (expletive), don’t you know
it.” They also said Stockley’s DNA
on the revolver found in Smith’s car
showed that he planted the gun to
justify the killing.
But Stockley, now 36, testified at
the trial that he perceived an immi-
nent, deadly threat to himself and
others. He said Smith was reach-
ing for something in the car, and he
thought it was the gun that both he
and his partner saw when they first
tried to stop Smith. After the shoot-
ing, Stockley said he touched the
gun only to unload it.
Bianchi told internal affairs in-
vestigators that he saw Smith with
a silver handgun before the chase,
and Smith appeared to be reaching
for something when Stockley fired,
after the crash.
Bianchi’s lawyer, Jim Towey, said
Friday that he did not know what
motivated former Circuit Attorney
Jennifer Joyce to charge Stockley.
But he speculated she may have
given in to public pressure after the
release of police and bystander vid-
eos. (Joyce charged Stockley three
weeks after Smith’s family held a
news conference demanding crimi-
nal charges.)
Joyce “had the perfect opportu-
nity to say that two federal agencies
looked at it — the U.S. attorney’s
office and the Department of Jus-
tice — and say that ‘I agree with the
decisions that have been made, and
I’m not going to prosecute,’” Towey
said.
Joyce knew she wasn’t going to be
in office by the time Stockley’s case
came to trial, however, Towey said,
leaving a “hot potato” in the hands
of her successor Kim Gardner who
“had no choice but to run with it.”
Joyce said in a text message to the
Post-Dispatch on Friday that she
was “confident that the citizens
understand why this case was pros-
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STOCKLEY VERDICT
Anthony Lamar Smith and his
daughter in a family photo.
ecuted.”
Lawyer Albert Watkins, who rep-
resented Smith’s fiancée in a civil
suit that was settled for $900,000,
said of the verdict Friday, “Person-
ally, I’m appalled. Professionally,
I understand the judge’s decision.
It’s a huge legal burden, and it’s that
way by design.”
Other lawyers had a similar take.
But the verdict was immediately
blasted by protesters and activists.
The case has become a rallying cry
for activists seeking to highlight in-
justice and police violence.
DEADLY FORCE
Washington University law profes-
sor Peter Joy, who read the decision
after it was released Friday morn-
ing, said the legal burden is “inten-
tionally high” in prosecuting police
for on-duty shootings. “I think it
reflects a decision state legislators
have made that in order to promote
public safety and the safety of po-
lice officers” in stressful situations,
where decisions have to be made
quickly, “There’s this level of (legal)
protection that they’re given.”
Joy said that once Wilson
“reached the conclusion that it
wasn’t first-degree murder, the next
thing he considered was is there a
valid self-defense” argument. He
concluded there was, Joy said, “and
self-defense would negate any of
the other possible charges in the
case,” like second-degree murder or
manslaughter.
Anders Walker, a St. Louis Uni-
versity law professor, said in an
interview last month that, “Tradi-
tionally, it’s not unusual for officers
to be acquitted or not even charged.
I think it’s only since 2014 that we
as a state, and maybe a nation, have
become interested in this issue of
lethal force,” referring to the 2014
shooting death of Michael Brown in
Ferguson.
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RECENT POLICE
SHOOTING CASES
SEPTEMBER 2016
Terence Crutcher, who was unarmed and seen holding his
hands above his head, was shot and killed by Tulsa police
Officer Betty Shelby (below). In May, a jury acquitted her.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUGUST 2016
Sylville Smith was shot and killed by Milwaukee police
Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown (below). In June, a jury
found the officer not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. LOUIS POLICE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JULY 2016
A 1989 U.S. Supreme Court deci- Philando Castile was fatally shot by St. Anthony, Minn.,
sion said an officer’s decision to use police Officer Jeronimo Yanez (below) during a traffic
force must be judged on the total- stop. The aftermath of the shooting was streamed live
ity of circumstances and a standard on Facebook. Last month, a jury acquitted Yanez of
of “objective reasonableness” from manslaughter and reckless discharge of a gun.
the perspective of a “reasonable of-
ficer” rather than with the 20/20
vision of hindsight.”
The reasonableness standard in
deadly force laws required Wilson
to rule based on Stockley’s frame of
mind in deciding if he reasonably
feared for his life or others when fir-
ing and whether another officer in
the same situation would have be-
lieved force was necessary.
Local defense attorney Joel
Schwartz pointed to one line in the
ruling, where Wilson wrote, “No
one promised a rose garden, and CNN
this surely is not one.”
“That tells you the whole story
right there. He possibly didn’t like JULY 2015
what he had to do but he’s beholden Samuel DeBose was shot to death during a traffic stop by
to following the law. The state University of Cincinnati Officer Ray Tensing (below). In
couldn’t firmly convince him of the June, a judge declared a mistrial after a jury, for a second
defendant’s guilt,” Schwartz said. time in the DeBose case, could not reach a verdict on a
There were “all sorts of possi- murder charge.
bilities” about a planted weapon or
other things, Schwartz said, “but all
of those are conjecture and none of
them are proven beyond a reason-
able doubt.”
RARELY CHARGED
Available data on police killings
show few officers go to trial for
shooting deaths, and they’re rarely
convicted.
Stockley was the first police officer
to stand trial for murder in St. Louis
since 2001, when a jury acquitted
then Officer Robert Dodson in the ASSOCIATED PRESS
1999 beating death of a burglary
suspect on the roof of a pawnshop.
Philip Stinson, a Bowling Green APRIL 2015
State University criminologist who Walter Scott was fatally shot by North Charleston, S.C.,
has gathered data on deadly police police Officer Michael Slager (below). Scott was running
shootings across the country since from Slager when the officer shot him. In December,
2005, said on-duty police officers a mistrial was declared when a jury could not reach a
kill about 1,000 people a year in the verdict on a murder charge.
United States.
Over the past 12 years, he said, 83
officers have been charged in fatal
shootings.
None of them was convicted by a
judge in a bench trial. One in three
cases resulted in a guilty plea or the
officer being found guilty by a jury.
Stinson says juries are usually
sympathetic to law enforcement.
“People are very reluctant to sec-
ond-guess police officers who have
to make split-second life-or-death
decisions,” Stinson said. “It’s got to
be one of the most over-the-top, ASSOCIATED PRESS
egregious cases in order to get a con-
viction against a police officer.”
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DAMAGES PILE UP; POLICE TACTICS UNDER SCRUTINY
About 1,000 protesters stand outside the St. Louis city jail Monday, a day after police arrested more than 120 people. It was the fourth day of protesting in St. Louis.
Day of marches
ends outside
St. Louis jail
FROM STAFF REPORTS
ST. LOUIS • Protesters took to
the streets again Monday, even
at one point enduring a deluge
to denounce last week’s acquit-
tal of a former police officer in
the fatal shooting of a drug sus-
pect, as well as the police tactics
used to end a similar protest the
night before.
About 1,000 people con-
verged at the city jail known as
the Justice Center downtown
Monday night to demonstrate
against what they claimed was
the continued incarceration of
about 50 protesters from Sun-
day.
That claim couldn’t be con-
firmed Monday night.
Police closed Tucker Bou-
levard in front of the jail as the
See STOCKLEY • Page A4
Ex-school board member accuses
Greitens of strong-arm tactics
BY KURT ERICKSON
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JEFFERSON CITY • A Spring-
field businesswoman says she
was booted off the state school
board by Gov. Eric Greitens Gelner
because she wouldn’t agree
with his request to oust the state’s top not commit to removing the commis-
schools official.
In a letter to her former colleagues on
the Missouri State Board of Education, field-based programs that serve chil-
Melissa Gelner said an aide to the Re- dren, had been among four new
publican governor asked that she vote to
remove Education Commissioner Mar- See SCHOOLS • Page A3
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Protest chants,
tone adopted by
police, officials
BY JEREMY KOHLER
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gov. Eric Greitens is eager to
show he’s not like a former
governor whom he accused of
tolerating looting and arson in
Ferguson. So much so that his
Facebook post Sunday about
vandalism in the Delmar Loop
dropped any claim to formality.
“Our officers caught ’em,
cuffed ’em, and threw ’em in
jail,” it said. “They’re gonna
wake up and face felony
charges.”
On Sunday night, as police
officers marched downtown,
a Post-Dispatch photogra-
pher heard them chant a refrain
most often heard at Ferguson
protests: “Whose streets? Our
streets.”
See LANGUAGE • Page A4
gie Vandeven when the board
meets Tuesday.
According to the one-page
letter obtained by the Post-Dis-
patch on Monday, the first-year
governor withdrew Gelner’s late
July appointment to the board
on Friday because she would
sioner.
Gelner, who is involved with Spring-
Messenger: Chief wanted;
chanting required • A2
Protesters question tactics
used by city police • A5
Local high school students
walk out of class • A7
Police union seeks
donations for officers • A7
Editorial: Protesters need
to outline their plans • A10
Opinion: A sober reminder
of work to be done • A11
Timeline of the Stockley
verdict • stltoday.com
FULL COVERAGE
PAGES A4-A7 • STLTODAY.COM
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Settlements cost more than thought
Advisers sought on Lambert future
Donor’s ties to McCaskill examined
DAVID CARSON • dcarson@post-dispatch.com
Economic toll from
protests is felt now,
will have aftershocks
BY LISA BROWN AND JACOB BARKER
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A weekend of protests following the not-guilty ver-
dict in the murder trial of former police Officer Jason
Stockley has delivered what some activists promised:
disruption to the metropolitan area’s economy.
For people who counted on big concerts downtown
or small-business owners who banked on a weekend
of sales, the loss is fairly easy to quantify. A smaller
paycheck. An unexpected repair bill. Fewer customers.
The longer-term effect on the region — one that was
convulsed just three years ago by Ferguson protests —
is unclear.
Does the unrest make the seemingly quixotic bid
to land Amazon’s second headquarters seem ridicu-
lous now? Will the Washington Avenue entertainment
district, which has had to wrestle with the perception
that crime is on the rise, face an even bigger challenge
in the wake of the vandalism that took place Sunday
night? Will out-of-town parents who send their kids
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‘NOT ABOUT PEACE’
Nonviolent action should still disturb, organizer says
Protesters on Monday chant “Free our people!” on the steps of the Justice Center in St. Louis. Several dozen people were arrested the previous night after multiple businesses had
their windows broken downtown. The vandalism and arrests Sunday followed a mostly peaceful day of demonstrations.
STOCKLEY • FROM A1
protesters chanted slogans, beat
drums and withstood a rainstorm
that left many drenched. Images
from the previous night’s protest
that ended with dozens of people
in jail were projected on a wall of
the jail, with those gathered al-
leging that the show of force used
by police had been unnecessary.
“Police are people, like us,”
said Kristine Hendrix, who was
among the protesters. “There’s
good, there’s bad, there’s ugly.
And so they do things, and
they’ve been given permission
by our president, by our gover-
nor, by our mayor through her si-
lence, to keep attacking protest-
ers in this way.”
The peaceful event came to
an end after a few hours with no
signs that the violent clashes
that erupted the three previous
nights would be repeated.
Police said they made 123 ar-
rests Sunday, most of them af-
ter protesters began marching on
downtown streets.
Most of the arrests were for
“failure to disperse.” Among
those facing that charge is St.
Louis Post-Dispatch reporter
Mike Faulk, who was arrested as
police swept into the intersec-
tion of Washington Avenue and
Tucker Boulevard late Sunday.
That sweep came after some of
Protests are often marked by verbal confrontations
LANGUAGE • FROM A1
Later, after St. Louis police
made more than 100 arrests
downtown on Sunday night,
Acting Chief Lawrence O’Toole’s
words seemed meme-ready:
“Police owned tonight.”
Michael Brown’s death in 2014
sparked months of protests over
the treatment of African-Amer-
icans in the criminal justice sys-
tem. The language of many com-
munity conversations since then
has reflected nuance and under-
standing, such as in the Ferguson
Commission report.
In fact, a story in the St. Louis
American the day before the not-
guilty verdict was announced in
the Jason Stockley murder case,
O’Toole urged people who might
have been dreading another
round of unrest not to forget that
protesters were trying to “shine
the light on the injustices they
see and feel.”
But after three days of protests,
and some vandalism and attacks
on police officers, the language of
the establishment has mirrored
the angry language of the protest
movement.
Blame the Twitterization of
political discourse, which has
infected the words people use in
2017, said Mitchell McKinney,
professor of political communi-
cation at the University of Mis-
souri, who researches political
rhetoric and civic engagement.
Protests are frequently marked
the protesters broke windows
and toppled planters downtown.
“Many of the demonstrators
were peaceful, however after
dark, the agitators outnumbered
the peaceful demonstrators and
the unruly crowd became a mob,”
police said in a statement. It said
multiple businesses also sus-
tained property damage and one
officer suffered a “serious injury.”
A judge on Friday found former
St. Louis patrolman Jason Stock-
ley not guilty in the fatal shooting
of drug suspect Anthony Lamar
Smith.
On Monday about 100 people
began the fourth day of protests
by marching in silence on Market
Street in downtown St. Louis.
Police officers began blocking
Market at 14th and 17th streets
shortly before 8 a.m. The pro-
testers stopped briefly at 14th
Street and held their hands in the
air. The crowd moved to the steps
of City Hall, where protesters
broke their silence and shouted
familiar chants.
After stopping there, the pro-
testers took their chants to the
front of the Municipal Courts
building, before moving north on
Tucker Boulevard.
Leading some demonstrators
in chants was state Rep. Bruce
Franks Jr., D-St. Louis, who has
participated in protests since
St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy
LAURIE SKRIVAN • lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
Meldon Moffitt, of Ferguson, squares off with police in riot gear in the
Delmar Loop on Saturday while protesting the not-guilty verdict of
Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer.
by taunting and insults toward
police, even by those considered
to be peacefully exercising their
rights to free speech. A Post-
Dispatch reporter captured a
brief video of a man standing at
the skirmish line on Delmar Bou-
levard on Saturday night, nose to
police shield, shouting at an un-
seen officer: “You and me go one
on one, man on man, if you got
the guts, the nuts, the heart, the
dignity.”
To some, such verbal confron-
tations are akin to violence. To
others, they are a means of com-
municating despair and outrage
about inequality.
Wilson’s not-guilty ruling Friday
in Stockley’s bench trial.
“It’s not about peace,” Franks
said in an interview with report-
ers before the protest began.
“Peace is not an option, but we
have to realize that there’s a dif-
ference between peaceful and
nonviolence. Nonviolence is an
option. The point of an action is
to disturb. The point of an action
is to make folks uncomfortable.”
Franks, who owns an insur-
ance office on Cherokee Street,
expressed sympathy for the busi-
nesses that sustained damage
during protests.
“Of course, I wouldn’t want
anybody damaging my property,”
he said. “You’ve got to under-
stand that the reason why we’re
out here is for black lives. The
reason we’re out here is because
we’re dying, so when we stop dy-
ing, when we stop being affected
disproportionately by the sys-
tem, then we’ll take a break. But
until then, we’ll be here.”
Fred Scott, 65, of St. Louis, a
retired post office worker, was
involved in 2014 protests in Fer-
guson and said he is protesting
again for his four sons because it
is his “civic duty.”
“I’m tired of the fact that
there’s no justice,” Scott said.
“Evidence doesn’t make any dif-
ference.”
Scott said he doesn’t support
Officials using similar words
“does not seem like a tactic that
is intended to keep the peace,”
McKinney said.
“It seems like government
officials realize they have this
megaphone of social media, and
for it to be useful, for it to catch
on, to be spread widely, there is
a certain language that should
be used,” he said. One example
is Greitens’ statement on Face-
book, which “doesn’t sound like
an official press release from the
governor’s office.”
He added, “We now expect our
leaders to be advocates of one
side and denigrate the other side.
M 2 • Tuesday • 09.19.2017
the violent protests that had
erupted the past few evenings.
“They’re not on the same
agenda we are,” he said.
The Monday morning protest
dispersed shortly before 9.
At Kirkwood High School,
some students staged a demon-
stration by walking into the foot-
ball stadium Monday morning.
Also Monday morning, about
250 University City High School
students, clergy, police and ac-
tivists gathered for speeches and
poems outside the school. Some
students were selling T-shirts
to support University City busi-
nesses and others affected during
weekend protests.
Stockley was acquitted Fri-
day of first-degree murder and
armed criminal action in the
shooting 2011 death of Smith, 24,
of St. Louis, following a police
chase.
After Friday’s verdict, a daily
pattern seemed to emerge in
which protesters during the day
engaged in organized, generally
peaceful demonstrations that
ended before nightfall, followed
by late-night violence, vandal-
ism and clashes with police
by what appear to be different
groups of people than the ones
who gathered during the day.
On Friday night, the clashes
were in the Central West End.
On Saturday, they were in the
From the president on down,
that’s what we see all too often.
Whether it’s a Facebook post or a
140-character tweet, it’s easier to
make a pithy attack than to for-
mulate a nuanced message that
is intended to acknowledge mul-
tiple perspectives.”
A nuanced message “probably
runs the risk of alienating your
base. You know what they want
to hear, and you don’t want to
upset them.”
Police co-opting a Ferguson
protest chant was an example of
a group reclaiming words they
felt oppressed them, said John
Baugh, a linguist at Washington
University in St. Louis.
He said the police use of the
chant was “a way to reclaim their
authority.”
“Clearly, their usage of that
expression was out of exaspera-
tion and reflecting the fact that
the options they had available
to challenge what the protesters
were doing was limited.”
Jeffrey Mittman, executive di-
rector of the American Civil Lib-
erties Union, sent a letter Mon-
day night to Mayor Lyda Krew-
son, calling the chant “provoca-
tive and unprofessional.”
“Residents of the St. Louis re-
gion ... have a legitimate right
to question how their police
department uses force against
them,” the letter said. “Many
people see the chanting of
‘Whose Streets?’ as an attempt
to intimidate protesters and raise
CHRIS LEE • clee@post-dispatch.com
Delmar Loop business district in
University City, and on Sunday,
they were downtown.
Protesters were expected to
target the Loop again on Mon-
day night. A crowd of a few hun-
dred gathered on a parking lot
there, but then organizers called
off that demonstration and told
those gathered to regroup at the
jail.
Michael McMillan, president
and CEO of the Urban League of
Metropolitan St. Louis, said in
an interview Monday that the
Stockley verdict created “a lot of
disgust” among African-Amer-
icans, and that he was worried
the controversy would undo any
progress the area had made since
the 2014 unrest in Ferguson.
“This area does not need the
negative attention that we have
been getting both regionally and
nationally,” he said, “and the city,
the county and the state certainly
can’t afford the cost” of paying
for the police overtime.
He added: “By no means do we
support tearing down the very
people we’re trying to help, who
are the ones who are losing pay
and work hours by these busi-
nesses being shut down.”
Joe Holleman, Nassim Benchaabane, Ashley
Jost, Kevin McDermott and Joel Currier, all of
the Post-Dispatch, contributed to this report.
tensions at the demonstration.”
Some officers also were upset
by the chant.
Sgt. Heather Taylor, president
of the Ethical Society of Police,
an association of 252 city police
officers, mostly African-Ameri-
cans, said in a statement that the
“chant goes against the very code
of ethics we swore to abide by.
Whether we agree with demon-
strators, protests or acts of vio-
lence, it is our job to do our job
free of personal bias.”
She said the sentiment behind
it was common in the depart-
ment and reflected deep differ-
ences within.
Before the verdict, the ethi-
cal society released a statement
calling for Stockley’s convic-
tion. That day, another sergeant
posted a news story about the
society’s call to his Facebook
page. The wife of Stockley’s
supervisor chimed in with the
comment: “Let the racist (exple-
tive) BLEED OUT. Hell is waiting
for her.”
The wife said in a brief inter-
view that Taylor was “a racist
person and the harsh words that
are going back and forth are of
her doing” because the ethical
society did not back Stockley.
Taylor’s response: “If you can’t
voice your opinion without a
layer of anger or hate, we’ll never
get anything done.”
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@jeremykohler on Twitter
jkohler@post-dispatch.com

CITY RESOLUTION
ANGERS POLICE
Aldermen issue remembrance of Anthony Lamar Smith as mayor
pledges to support strengthening the Civilian Oversight Board
BY CELESTE BOTT
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS • As the city continued to grap-
ple with protests over the acquittal of for-
mer police officer Jason Stockley, the St.
Louis Board of Aldermen on Friday unani-
mously approved a resolution remember-
ing the man he fatally shot in 2011.
Also Friday, Mayor Lyda Krewson
pledged to support strengthening the
city’s Civilian Oversight Board, which in-
vestigates complaints against police.
Both the resolution in remembrance of
Anthony Lamar Smith and the mayor’s
statement sparked outrage from St. Louis
police officers, who contend city leaders
are bowing to political pressure from the
Protesters march Friday along Main Street in St. Charles. The St. Louis area has seen daily protests since former police Officer Jason
Stockley was declared not guilty in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. Story on Page A6
ACCOUNTS FROM ARRESTS
BY JEREMY KOHLER, CHRISTINE BYERS
AND ERIN HEFFERNAN
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
One was an Air Force lieutenant who came
out of his downtown apartment to witness
the commotion in his neighborhood.
Another was a Chicago-based photo-
journalist for Getty Images assigned to
cover the latest bout of unrest in St. Louis.
And still another was a St. Louis police
officer working undercover at the protest.
They were among more than 120 people
forcibly arrested downtown on Sunday by
St. Louis police cracking down on pro-
tests. The arrests came at least two hours
after vandals had broken some windows
and flower pots a few blocks away.
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acting police chief, who said they “owned
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St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson hugs Annie
Smith, the mother of Anthony Lamar
Smith, after the Board of Aldermen passed
a resolution Friday regarding her son.
DAVID CARSON • dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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“(Smith’s) death has sparked a uni-
versal cry for justice and accountability
throughout the City of St. Louis,” reads
the resolution, which bears the names of
all 28 aldermen. It mentions Smith’s in-
terests in sports and the arts, as well as his
dream of becoming a professional clothing
designer.
After the resolution was read and ap-
proved, Board of Alderman President
Lewis Reed and Krewson hugged Smith’s
mother, Annie Smith.
Alderman John Collins-Muhammad,
who introduced the resolution, said the
board acted in part to help ease Annie
See SMITH • Page A6
describe allegations of abusive police.
On Friday, Mayor Lyda Krewson asked
the director of public safety to investigate
how an undercover officer became blood-
ied during his arrest Sunday when he was
mistaken for a suspect believed to be car-
rying chemicals.
“The allegations are disturbing,” Krew-
son’s spokesman Koran Addo wrote in a
statement.
The incident began when two uni-
formed officers near the protest ordered
the man to show his hands, sources said.
When he refused, they knocked him down
and hit him at least three times and zip
tied his hands behind his back. When he
stood up, his mouth was bloodied, the
sources said.
Commanders the next day told the of-
See ARRESTS • Page A7
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WASHINGTON • Sen. John McCain
declared his opposition Friday to
the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal
and replace “Obamacare,” dealing
a likely death blow to the legisla-
tion and, perhaps, to the Republi-
can Party’s years of vows to kill the
program. It was the second time in
three months the 81-year-old Mc-
Cain emerged as the destroyer of his
party’s signature promise to voters.
“I believe we could do better
working together, Republicans and
Democrats, and have not yet really
tried,” McCain said of the bill, co-
written by Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina, his best friend in the Sen-
ate, and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
“Nor could I support it without
knowing how much it will cost, how
it will affect insurance premiums,
and how many people will be helped
or hurt by it.”
McCain, who is battling brain
cancer in the twilight of his notable
career, said he could not “in good
conscience” vote for the legislation.
See HEALTH • Page A4
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guidelines on
campus assault
are replaced
BY MARIA DANILOVA
Associated Press
WASHINGTON • President Donald
Trump’s administration on Friday
scrapped Barack Obama-era guid-
ance on investigating campus sexual
assault, replacing it with new in-
structions that allow universities to
require higher standards of evidence
when handling complaints.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
has said that the former president’s
policy had been unfairly skewed
against those accused of assault
and had “weaponized” the Educa-
tion Department to “work against
schools and against students.”
The change is the latest in
Trump’s broader effort to roll back
Obama policies. Women’s rights
groups and elected officials, includ-
ing Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.,
slammed Friday’s decision, saying
it will discourage students from re-
porting assault.
“Secretary DeVos has taken the
progress we’ve made protecting
survivors and making our campuses
safer, and thrown that progress into
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Residents and business employees on Washington Avenue talk with a St. Louis police officer clearing the area on Sunday. More than 120 people were arrested.
RODNEY FORD
Rodney Ford, 28, of Denver, said he had driven to St.
Louis on Friday for a family wedding on Saturday.
He and his fiancée, Tabetha Esry, 29, came
downtown to protest on Sunday night.
“We thought we could have a lawful assembly,”
he said. “We thought that’s what this was. But that
right was stripped away from us.”
He said he had heard there was vandalism
downtown but “didn’t see people yelling toward the
police when I was there.”
Ford said after lines of police officers closed in
on him, he and his fiancée put up their hands and
knelt. The officers sprayed them with chemicals,
and zip tied them.
He said Esry suffered a bruise to her thigh from
being stepped on by an officer’s boots and was
dragged off aggressively.
Ford had a new 9mm pistol on him that cost $600
at Bass Pro Shop. He said he had never fired it. He
said police took the weapon and told him it was
going to ballistics.
“They just disarmed a civilian,” he said. “Now
I have no right to protect myself. My firearm has
been stolen. When I went to retrieve my phone at
the (area station), they had no information about
my gun.”
— Jeremy Kohler
MARVIN MALONE
Marvin Malone, 27, was in the crowd to document
the protests as a freelance photographer. He was
at the corner of Olive Street and Ninth Street
on Sunday night when he decided he wanted to
go home. He and his girlfriend walked to Tucker
Boulevard to cross, but a police officer stopped
them. She directed Malone and his girlfriend, who
was also taking photographs of the demonstration,
to walk to Tucker and Washington Avenue. They
were under the impression they’d been directed to
that intersection because it was a clear avenue to
exit.
“That’s when police started kettling,” Malone
said. “As they told people to disperse, they wouldn’t
let people leave. We were there for about 30
minutes, and then the police gave the final warning
to disperse, but wouldn’t let people leave. That’s
when the police started rushing and macing.”
First, the police arrested Malone’s girlfriend,
he said, at which point he “told them to go to hell
and arrest me, as well.” The police used zip ties to
handcuff those in the kettle crowd.
“They put them on extremely tight, and I don’t
have the best blood circulation because of third-
degree burn scars, so my hands were completely
numb.” Malone and his girlfriend spent the next
day in jail, with no way to contact family, friends or
employers, he said.
— Janelle O’Dea
MARK GULLET JR.
Mark Gullet Jr., 24, was at the demonstration as
a freelance videographer. His wife is in the same
business, and the two want to do a film on St. Louis
crime. They set out on Sunday to get b-roll, or
background footage, of the demonstrations for the
new film.
Gullet got downtown around 11 p.m., “after
all the vandalism had happened.” He arrived on
Washington Avenue, where he saw groups of people
and police standing around.
“I was not a part of any vandalism. I was on the
sidelines with other media. Out of nowhere, we hear
marching and batons hitting shields,” Gullet said.
Gullet and the people standing around him were
boxed in, “with nowhere to go,” and minutes later
the police were given the order to make arrests.
Gullet obeyed when he was ordered to the
ground, he said, but was still coated in pepper
spray. He shut his eyes but felt the sting of the spray
in his mouth and on his skin. The effects lasted for
hours after the arrests, Gullet said, and made for an
especially uncomfortable environment once he was
packed into a holding cell with roughly three dozen
others.
“It was nothing but coughing and sneezing,
because of the pepper spray,” he said.
—Janelle O’Dea
ARRESTS • FROM A1
ficers they had arrested one of
their own.
Police arrested another officer
on Sunday – an Air Force lieu-
tenant who lives with his wife
in an apartment on Washington
Avenue.
Lt. Alex Nelson, 27, who works
in cyberoperations at Scott Air
Force Base, was walking around
his neighborhood with his wife
when they became trapped be-
tween quickly closing police
lines. He said he was kicked in
the face, blinded by pepper spray
and dragged away.
“It’s our street,” he said. “I
hear the police say it was their
street, but it’s literally my street.
I have coffee on that street, and I
own property on that street. We
were not active protesters. We
were looking into the neighbor-
hood to observe events that were
unfolding.
“I’m very sad how they treated
me and my wife through the es-
calation of violence they used on
me. It was incredibly unneces-
sary. I’ve had training on how to
arrest and be arrested, and I ca-
pitulated to every demand that
was made of me, even before I
was on the ground. We were told
to move back, and we moved
back. We were told to move this
way, we moved this way. We
obeyed every command that we
heard. We were never given an
order to disperse. Not once.”
He said while waiting to be
loaded into a police vehicle, he
said he was an officer in the mili-
tary. He said the police officer
replied, “Shut up. Stop. I don’t
care.”
CAUGHT IN THE SWEEP
One of the most-repeated com-
plaints of those swept up in the
mass arrest was that they had
nowhere to go. William Wal-
dron, 38, who was in town from
New York to build the stage for
the U2 concert, which was can-
celed, said he was leaving a bar
on Tucker Boulevard and had no
idea police had given any order to
disperse. He said he tried to get
back into the bar but was shoved
back by a police shield.
“They threw me on the ground
and told me I was being arrested,”
he said. “The guys inside were
trying to come out and tell them
I was a part of their crew, and po-
lice told them if they opened up
the door they were going to arrest
them.”
“In one way, I felt like they
were doing what they felt they
needed to do,” he said. But he felt
the police went “way overboard.”
A documentary filmmaker
from Kansas City, visiting with
his wife, said he was knocked
unconscious during the sweep.
Drew Burbridge, 32, said he never
heard orders to disperse until of-
ficers started to advance, bang-
ing their batons and chanting,
“Move back.”
“I turned my camera off and
asked if there was anywhere I
could go, but I was denied the
right to leave,” he said. “I didn’t
want to be a part of this.”
Officers ordered him to turn
his camera off and get down on
the ground, and he complied.
“The only thing I cared about
then was putting my arms
around my wife,” he said. “I just,
I just kept saying: ‘It’s going to be
OK.’”
Burbridge said officers then
grabbed him by both his arms
and dragged him away.
“I just said: ‘I am a member of
the media, I am not protesting,
I am not resisting,’” Burbridge
said.
An officer then sprayed him in
his face with a chemical, his head
was forced into the ground and
an officer ripped his camera from
his neck.
Burbridge claims his hands
were then bound by zip ties be-
fore two officers started kicking
him in the back, neck, arm and
legs while he lay restrained on the
ground. He said he was knocked
unconscious on the pavement for
about 10 to 30 seconds.
After he came to, Burbridge
said an officer lifted his head by
his hair and pepper sprayed him
in the face again.
Another journalist was caught
in the sweep. Scott Olson, 57,
of Chicago, was on assignment
for Getty Images. He said he
had covered several protests in
his career but had been arrested
only one time: by a Missouri state
trooper in Ferguson in August
2014. (He was not prosecuted.)
Olson said he shot many pho-
tos of vandals causing damage
downtown. The area had qui-
eted down considerably, and he
was getting ready to leave for the
night when a friend tipped him
off that police were planning
to clear the streets and that he
might want to stick around.
As the “kettle” closed in, he
shot photos until an officer or-
dered him to get to the ground
and drop his cameras. He got to
his knees and gently placed his
$15,000 equipment on the street.
As he was led away, he asked,
“What about my camera?”
An officer responded, “(exple-
tive) your camera,” he said. But
another officer grabbed it and
placed it around his neck.
Dillan Newbold, a medical
school student at Washington
University working on a doc-
torate in neuroscience, said he
also was videotaping the protest
when he got caught in the kettle.
Newbold said he never heard
an instruction to disperse but
soon officers converged, and one
told him to stop filming. New-
bold said he turned off the cam-
era on his phone and was imme-
diately sprayed with a chemical
irritant.
Newbold said he was re-
strained with zip ties that were
so tight that he lost all feeling in
his hands and his fingers began
to turn purple. He said his hands
still burn, and there are still areas
that have not regained feeling.
“It felt like the officers were
treating it like some kind of
sport,” Newbold said.
Blythe Bernhard and Janelle O’Dea of the
Post-Dispatch contributed to this article.
Jeremy Kohler • 314-340-8337
@jeremykohler on Twitter
jkohler@post-dispatch.com
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH • A7
ROBERT COHEN • rcohen@post-dispatch.com
MORGAN LATHAM
Morgan Latham, 19, has bruises she said are from
a police officer pulling her under her arms and
getting shot with pepper pellets before she was
arrested.
“Honestly, it felt like a drive-by shooting,” said
Latham, a student at St. Louis Community College in
Florissant.
Latham said she heard police using racial slurs.
“I don’t think it was them being racist, I think it
was them wanting people to know they didn’t have
any power,” she said.
—Blythe Bernhard
MARCUS ANDERSON
Marcus Anderson, 22, was out with a friend
downtown when they decided to walk with the
protesters. They stopped at the corner of Tucker
Boulevard and Olive Street to take photographs of
the demonstration.
“Then this truck came up and started shooting
mace and rubber bullets,” Anderson said. Then, the
police tackled him.
“They tried to say I was resisting arrest, but I
wasn’t,” he said. “They threatened to tase me,
break my arm and beat me. They put their knees in
my back and neck. They said they were tired of me,
and tired of my people looting. But I wasn’t looting,
and nobody I was with was looting. They were just
putting me in this category.”
Anderson was arrested and jailed overnight.
He had a laptop in his bag when he got arrested.
When he got home from the ordeal, the laptop was
cracked and had loose pieces that were not loose
prior to the arrest, he said.
—Janelle O’Dea
MARIO ORTEGA
Mario Ortega, 36, had just arrived in St. Louis from
an out-of-town trip and met a friend downtown
around 10 on Sunday night. They saw the protests
happening, and decided to ask protesters in the
streets about future protests.
“We want to make change happen here in St.
Louis,” Ortega said. He’s lived in the area for about
seven years. He originally came to Washington
University as a student and stayed to work. He’s
now a post-doctoral researcher in neuroscience.
Ortega’s educational background helped him
realize what kind of damage was inflicted by too-
tight zip ties used to restrain him and his friend
when they were kettled and arrested.
“They were really, really tight, to the point that
we still have nerve damage,” Ortega said. “I went
to the doctor for that.” He received medication and
will have to return for a follow-up, he said. Ortega
didn’t get the impression that the same level of
tightness was used for every arrestee.
“It seemed like if they didn’t like you for some
reason, you got it really tight,” he said. “My left
hand went purple and both of his hands went
purple.”
— Janelle O’Dea
FAREED ALSTON
Fareed Alston of East St. Louis was filming the
protests for his company City-Productions and
Publishing when he was arrested.
“It was like imminent danger, a wall of police
circling around us,” Alston said. “They told us to
get on the ground and everyone complied. Even as
we did that they started pepper spraying us and
kicking us to the ground with their foot and taking
people’s phones.”
Alston, 28, said as he was being taken to the
police van he saw officers giving high fives, taking
selfies and smoking cigars.
“I feel like the police were much more aggressive
and tactical,” he said. “When I look at the footage
it’s almost like I’m filming a royal formation or a
military drill.”
— Blythe Bernhard
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• No vote is held; demonstrators gather outside City Hall over air
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Health and Human Services
Secretary Tom Price has resigned.

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
AND JONATHAN LEMIRE
Associated Press

St. Louis Alderman Joseph Vaccaro speaks at the Board of Aldermen meeting Friday. Vaccaro introduced a resolution recognizing police for
their efforts to keep the city safe during protests following the acquittal of former police Officer Jason Stockley.
BY CELESTE BOTT
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS • A week after approving a contro-
versial resolution remembering the St. Louis
man fatally shot by former police Officer Jason
Stockley, the Board of Aldermen on Friday con-
sidered another resolution praising city police
as they respond to protests following Stockley’s
acquittal.
The resolution, sponsored by Aldermen Jo-
seph Vaccaro of the 23rd Ward and John Coatar
of the 7th Ward, commends “the men and
women of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police De-
partment for their steadfast dedication to safe-
guarding the well-being” of city residents.
As protesters against the Stockley verdict
stood outside City Hall, the board declined to
vote on the measure. Instead, a motion was
made to refer it to a committee.
Organizers of Friday morning’s protest, which
began at 16th and Market streets and paused
See BOARD • Page A4
WA S H I N GTO N • President
Donald Trump’s health secretary
resigned Friday, after his costly
PHOTOS BY LAURIE SKRIVAN • lskrivan@post-dispatch.com travel triggered investigations
that overshadowed the admin-
istration’s agenda and angered
his boss. Tom Price’s regrets and
partial repayment couldn’t save
his job.
The Health and Human Ser-
vices secretary became the first
member of the president’s Cabi-
net to be pushed out in a turbu-
lent young administration that
has seen several high-ranking
White House aides ousted. A for-
mer GOP congressman from the
Atlanta suburbs, Price served just
eight months.
Publicly, Trump had said he
was “not happy” with Price for
repeatedly using private charter
aircraft for official trips on the
taxpayer’s dime, when cheaper
commercial flights would have
done in many cases.
See PRICE • Page A6
St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad (left) talks with St. Louis Alderman Joseph
Vaccaro outside City Hall chambers Friday. The board made a motion to refer to a
committee a resolution praising St. Louis police officers.

PUERTO RICO

Stockley case transcripts reveal inaccuracies
INVESTIGATOR’S DISCREPANCIES BY CHRISTINE BYERS AND JOEL CURRIER
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Interpretation of evidence
changed after indictment ST. LOUIS • The lead internal affairs
investigator in the Jason Stockley case
RATIONALE FOR MURDER CHARGE made misleading and sometimes inac-
curate statements to a grand jury that
Former circuit attorney stays indicted the former officer for murder,
according to court transcripts recently
mum on reason for prosecution obtained by the Post-Dispatch.
Missouri vet, 93, receives France’s
highest honor for his service in WWII
BY ERIN HEFFERNAN
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
AFFTON • When Harry Reed returned
from World War II, he brought home a
Nazi pistol, a piece of shrapnel lodged
PHOTO BY JERRY NAUNHEIM JR. in his finger and, from the Battle of the
World War II veteran Harry Reed of Eldon, Mo., Bulge, a case of frostbite so bad that it
receives the French Legion of Honor on Friday. still keeps him up at night 72 years later.
San Juan
mayor slams
A grand jury indicted Stockley in Au- response to
gust 2016, after hearing testimony from
island disaster
former city police internal affairs inves-
tigator Kirk Deeken and others.
The indictment raised the hopes WASHINGTON POST
of those who say many police shoot-
ings aren’t justified — and dashed them SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO •
when a judge found Stockley not guilty The gulf between what Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s adminis-
See STOCKLEY • Page A4 tration is saying about hurricane
recovery efforts and what people
in Puerto Rico are seeing on the
ground came into sharp view
Friday, as the mayor of the terri-
tory’s capital city made an exas-
perated plea for help that seemed
to capture the collective despair
of the island’s residents.
The administration has de-
But Reed just felt lucky to be coming fended its handling of the di-
home. He was one of only two men in his saster, which has swelled into a
unit to survive the war. humanitarian crisis amid wide-
On Friday afternoon, the 93-year-old spread shortages of water and
who grew up on a farm in a small cen- electricity, while local officials
tral Missouri town, was awarded the Le- and residents alike have contin-
gion of Honour medal, France’s highest ued to plead for basic necessities.
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ACLU files second lawsuit over treatment of protesters

Police violated their
rights, it claims
BY ROBERT PATRICK
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS • The ACLU filed its
second federal lawsuit in a week
claiming police violated the
rights of people protesting a fatal
police shooting in St. Louis.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S.
District Court on behalf of a
St. Louis resident and two St.
Louis County residents against
St. Louis police, six unidentified
officers and St. Clair County. It
says that the three were protest-
ing the death of Mansur Ball-Bey
on Aug. 19, 2015.
Sarah Molina and Christina
Vogel, both St. Louis County res-
idents, fled from a peaceful, non-
violent protest after police began
using tear gas, the suit says. Vo-
gel is also the daughter of a for-
mer St. Louis police officer. They
heard police say “disperse,” but
the remainder of any warnings or
commands were unintelligible,
the suit says, and police didn’t
warn that they were going to use
chemicals, they say.
Police in a SWAT truck, un-
der joint command of St. Louis
police and the St. Clair County
Sheriff’s office, shot tear gas and
smoke canisters directly at Mo-
lina and Vogel 30 minutes later
and three blocks away, when
they were standing on the side-
walk and in the yard of Molina’s
house, the suit says. They claim
police recognized the pair from
the protest.
Peter Groce, of St. Louis, was
biking home when he spotted the
SWAT truck driving on the grass
in Fountain Park and told police
they should be in the street, the
suit says. The officers retaliated
with a tear gas canister that hit
Groce’s hip and pepper spray
that hit his arm and shoulder, the
lawsuit says.
All suffered physical and emo-
tional damages, the suit says.
Both Molina and Vogel skipped
protests out of fear of police, it
says.
Then-St. Louis Police Chief
Sam Dotson said at the time that
police cleared protesters after
bricks, water bottles and other
objects were thrown at officers.
Dotson said he also heard gun-
shots.
During the protests later that
night, a tree, a car and a vacant
house were set on fire, and a store
was broken into.
The suit follows one filed by
the ACLU last week over recent
protests. That lawsuit claims that
police used “unlawful and un-
constitutional” actions during a
“kettling” on Sept. 17 in which
more than 100 people were ar-
rested in downtown St. Louis.
Another lawsuit was filed that
same day by the MacArthur
Justice Center on behalf of a St.
Louis resident, Nick Apperson,
saying that police improperly
jailed and prosecutors improp-
erly charged Apperson for activ-
ity that is protected by the First
Amendment. Two documentary
filmmakers have also sued over
the mass arrest on Sept. 17.
In a statement released by the
ACLU, Molina draws a line from
the 2015 event to those recent
protests.
“What we saw (in recent pro-
tests) — mass arrests and gassing
of entire neighborhoods — didn’t
occur in a vacuum. Enough is
enough,” said Molina in an ACLU
statement announcing the suit.
“We need to push back and say,
‘This is not OK.’ We need to push
back against police interference
with our Constitutional rights.”
St. Louis police referred a re-
porter to St. Louis City Coun-
selor Julian Bush, who declined
to comment on the suit.
Tony Rothert, legal director
of the ACLU, said in the state-
ment that, “This lawsuit reveals
a consistent pattern of St. Louis
Metropolitan Police Department
officers repeatedly ignoring the
First Amendment rights of the
people they took an oath to pro-
tect and serve. Officers should
never retaliate against people for
nonviolently assembling or pub-
licly grieving the loss of a mem-
ber of the community.”
Officers shot Ball-Bey, 18,
while executing a search warrant
at a home in the 1200 block of
Walton Avenue.
Officials have said that Ball-
Bey, who worked at Fed-Ex,
pointed a handgun at officers
Ronald Vaughan and Kyle Chan-
dler before they opened fire. That
account was disputed by family
lawyers.
Last year, then-Circuit Attor-
ney Jennifer Joyce said there was
not sufficient evidence to sup-
port a charge against the officers.
Robert Patrick • 314-621-5154
@rxpatrick on Twitter
RPatrick@post-dispatch.com

Grand jury, trial testimony

don’t jibe in Stockley case
STOCKLEY • FROM A1
following a bench trial.
The acquittal on Sept. 15 by St. Louis
Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson ignited
protests across the region nearly every
day since.
Stockley’s attorney, Neil Bruntrager,
believes Deeken’s testimony was cru-
cial.
“Without Deeken’s testimony, I be-
lieve they never would have got an in-
dictment,” Bruntrager said. The indict-
ment gave the case “integrity that it
didn’t deserve. (Prosecutors) gave peo-
ple an expectation that there was some-
thing here when, in fact, there wasn’t.”
LAURIE SKRIVAN • lskrivan@post-dispatch.com Deeken, now a police lieutenant, de-
Wendy Sarno of Webster Groves introduces herself to state Rep. Bruce Franks Jr. during a clined an interview without clearance
protest Friday at 16th and Market streets. “Thank you for all that you do,” she said. “It is from the police department, which did
so necessary for us white people to show up and support the black community in their fight not make him available.
for justice.” Deeken also testified in a sworn de-
position in May that he knew of no new
evidence given to former Circuit Attor-
Deeken couldn’t remember why he told
the grand jury Stockley’s blood was on
the gun.
At trial, the same DNA expert denied
telling Deeken that Stockley’s blood was
on the gun, saying that the city’s crime
lab can only confirm the presence of
DNA but not its biological source.
THE REVOLVER • Deeken told grand ju-
rors that authorities seized a .38 Tau-
rus revolver from Stockley when he was
arrested in Houston — the same type
of gun he was accused of planting in
Smith’s car.
Stockley testified that he actually had
a .357 Magnum when U.S. Marshals ar-
rested him in Houston.
DEPARTMENT VIOLATION • Deeken told
grand jurors that Stockley admitted he
had unloaded Smith’s gun. Stockley
violated department policy just by han-
dling the gun, Deeken said.

Debate sends resolution ney Jennifer Joyce as she had claimed

when she charged Stockley last year
with murdering drug suspect Anthony
In his deposition, Deeken acknowl-
edged that at the time of the shooting
in 2011 the police department had no

praising police to committee Lamar Smith in 2011. Deeken said police

had provided Joyce’s office with noth-
ing new in the case since federal agen-
policy forbidding officers from handling
weapons used against them.

BOARD • FROM A1
in front of City Hall, said they wanted to
send a message to city officials who may
suspect the protests throughout the region
are dwindling.
“I just want the city to know, we’re just
getting started,” said activist Tory Russell
to cheers from the crowd. “Y’all ready for
that?”
Among the demonstrators’ demands is
the resignation of Acting St. Louis Police
Chief Lawrence O’Toole. Rep. Bruce Franks
Jr. said activists and front-line protesters
will come to the table to talk about that and
other demands on their own time.
“One thing we have to get set straight
first is black folks will stop being dispro-
portionately affected by this system,” he
said. “We’ll set the tone and we’ll set the
time, and we’ll set the place when it’s time
to come to that table. Until then, they have
to get used to everything that’s going on.
Every single one of them that thinks we’re
tired, we’re not.”
Their efforts were acknowledged by the
board last week, when aldermen approved
a resolution remembering Anthony Lamar
Smith, the St. Louis man shot by Stockley
in 2011.
“(Smith’s) death has sparked a universal
cry for justice and accountability through-
out the City of St. Louis,” read the initial
resolution for Smith, which at the time in-
cluded the names of all city aldermen.
This month, Stockley, who is white, was
acquitted of first-degree murder for shoot-
ing Smith, who was black. Stockley argued
he did so in self-defense, following a sus-
pected drug deal and a car chase. Prosecu-
tors maintain Stockley carried out the pre-
meditated murder of Smith and planted a
gun to justify the killing. The verdict has
led to a series of protests throughout St.
Louis.
Alderman John Collins-Muhammad of
the 21st Ward, who introduced that resolu-
tion, said the board was acting in part to
help ease the grief of Smith’s mother, An-
nie Smith.
But the move angered police, who said
city officials were paying tribute to a man
who tried to kill a cop, as well as some
St. Louisans who felt they were wrong to
honor Smith in light of his criminal record.
On Facebook, 12th Ward Alderman Larry
Arnowitz wrote that he had been out of
town during the vote and would ask for his
name to be removed from the ordinance.
Then Friday, Vaccaro introduced the res-
olution recognizing police for their efforts
to keep the city safe during recent protests.
“There are two sides to every story,” he
said on the floor of the board’s chambers,
clutching a photo of an officer killed in the
line of duty. Explaining that he had chil-
dren working in law enforcement, “I’m
here on behalf of the parents, grandparents
and children worried about their moms
and dads.”
In the gallery sat small business owners
who said they came to show solidarity with
Stockley verdict protesters.
Eliza Corriell, who owns the Crow’s Nest
in Maplewood, said she and other business
owners signed a letter supporting the pro-
tests are questioning if they have more to
fear from police than a handful of vandals.
“Vandalism isn’t good. Nobody wants
a broken window. But nobody’s dead be-
cause of a broken window,” she said.
A vote was later taken to send Vaccaro’s
resolution to a public safety committee.
Vaccaro told the Post-Dispatch this
week that he also was looking into having
his name removed from the Anthony La-
mar Smith resolution, saying he was out of
the room during the discussion and motion
to pass the measure “en banc.”
A spokeswoman for Board of Aldermen
President Lewis Reed said those motions
affix the names of all aldermen present at
the meeting to courtesy resolutions, and
anyone could have objected to the motion
or made a point of order if they had misgiv-
ings.
Arnowitz’s name being added was a cler-
ical error, she said, and it has since been
removed.
“The way they did it was just really not
right,” Vaccaro maintains. “If I’d known
they would have made that motion, I would
have stayed in the room.”
Following the backlash, other aldermen
released statements explaining why they
supported the measure for Smith.
Alderman Tom Oldenburg, who repre-
sents the 16th Ward, said that the resolu-
tion wasn’t intended to criticize Stockley,
city police or the verdict in Stockley’s case.
“Paying respects after someone’s death
is always about seeing the good in that
person,” he said in a statement. “Resolu-
tion 139 does not honor Mr. Smith’s prior
criminal actions, nor does it seek to insult
members of law enforcement.”
Alderwoman Carol Howard of the 14th
Ward released a statement last week saying
she had intended to object to the resolu-
tion but was not recognized by Reed. But
upon reflection, she said, supporting the
measure was in “the better interest of all,”
adding that she wanted to provide comfort
to Anthony Lamar Smith’s mother, Annie
Smith, who was in the chamber that day.
“As I reflect on the past week, I know
that as a community we need to come to-
gether,” she said.
Many board resolutions typically are ap-
proved without dissent and therefore list
the names of all aldermen. Alderman Scott
Ogilvie of the 24th Ward said on Twitter
that years ago he asked that his name not
be included on any resolution he didn’t
sponsor. “Each alderman should make
their own decisions on this,” he tweeted.
The protests continued Friday night,
where a small group inside Busch Stadium
unfurled a banner at the Cardinals-Brew-
ers game with a rendition of the Cardinals’
mascot and the words: “Stop Killing Us.” In
a clash with a larger group of demonstra-
tors later near the ballpark, police shocked
one with a Taser stun gun, pepper sprayed
others and reported two arrests.
Celeste Bott • 314-340-8119
@celestebott on Twitter
cbott@post-dispatch.com
cies finished reviewing it and declined
to charge the officer, in 2012.
Joyce has not responded to several re-
quests for comment for this story.
After Stockley was charged in May
2016, prosecutors, as with any criminal
case, had the option of airing evidence
in a preliminary hearing before a judge
or before a grand jury, a secret proceed-
ing. The majority of cases in St. Louis go
to a grand jury, where only prosecutors
present evidence, without cross exami-
nation or defense witnesses.
“You have in the prosecutor a po-
sition of trust when you have a grand
jury,” Bruntrager said. “And when you
put a witness like Deeken on, you are
saying to them, ‘This is believable,’ and
they take your lead and they ultimately
got an indictment, and I think that’s a
violation of the public trust.”
DEEKEN’S DISCREPANCIES
Deeken testified for the grand jury July
5, 2016. He was one of at least nine wit-
nesses, including eight police officers,
called to testify. The grand jury indicted
Stockley Aug. 8, 2016.
Ten months after Deeken’s grand jury
testimony, his interpretation of some
evidence changed on several key points
under questioning from prosecutors
and defense lawyers in sworn deposi-
tions.
At Stockley’s trial, discrepancies and
inaccuracies in Deeken’s grand jury tes-
timony weren’t revealed because the
defense opted not to cross-examine
him. They include:
‘KILL SHOT’ • Deeken repeatedly told
grand jurors that Stockley executed
Smith with a fifth shot, at close range,
about 22 seconds after he’d fired four
other shots.
Prosecutors relied on Deeken’s theory
at trial in August, calling Stockley’s fifth
bullet a “kill shot” and describing a puff
of gun smoke that was seen on the po-
lice SUV’s dash camera as proof that the
fifth shot had been fired later.
But a cellphone video clip taken by a
nearby business owner showed Officer
Elijah Simpson was there when the fifth
shot was fired. Simpson testified before
the grand jury and at trial that he nei-
ther saw nor heard any additional shots.
Judge Wilson concluded the puff of
smoke was “in reality exhaled breath in
cold air.”
DNA • Only Stockley’s DNA was found
on a silver .38-caliber Taurus revolver
that he said he found inside Smith’s car.
According to police reports, the gun
was reported stolen after a car break-
in in April 2008 in the south St. Louis
County police precinct.
Deeken told the grand jury that a DNA
expert told him that Stockley’s DNA on
the gun came from blood, suggesting
that it was there before the shooting.
That helped bolster the prosecution’s
claims that the gun had been planted.
But during his deposition in May,
ONSTAR AUDIO • Deeken told grand ju-
rors that he believed he heard Smith say,
“Don’t shoot,” or “Please don’t shoot,”
and “No, no, no!” on car audio and po-
lice video recordings.
But he revised that during his depo-
sition, saying the “Don’t shoot” audio
was of such poor quality that he and his
commanders believed it should not even
be used as evidence, and an officer was
actually saying, “Go, go, go!” after the
shooting had occurred.
The OnStar audio was not presented
at trial.
MATCHING MEMOS • Deeken told grand
jurors that Stockley’s first-hand ac-
count of the shooting was “almost
identical” to that of his partner, Brian
Bianchi, implying that they had coordi-
nated their stories.
In his deposition, however, he said
that it was not unusual, nor improper,
for officers to compare notes before
submitting their reports, and at the
time, the department had a checklist of
facts officers were required to include in
their memos.
Prosecutors never raised issues with
the memos at trial.
NEW EVIDENCE?
Joyce, the circuit attorney at the time
of the shooting, claimed that the Inter-
nal Affairs Division presented her with
new evidence, enabling her to charge
Stockley with murder years after her
own office and federal prosecutors had
declined to charge him.
Joyce, who decided not to run for re-
election in 2016, still has never identi-
fied the new evidence. Her successor
Kim Gardner said she could not say
what it was.
Since the verdict Sept. 15, Joyce has
made just one public comment in a text
message to a Post-Dispatch reporter
on that day: “I’m confident that the
citizens understand why this case was
prosecuted.”
In a May 2016 article in the Riverfront
Times, Joyce said Internal Affairs had
contacted her office two months earlier
with new evidence developed by city in-
vestigators and the FBI.
But in his deposition, Deeken testi-
fied that he was unaware of any new
evidence. Deeken said his colonel called
him into his office in April 2016 and
said, “Hey, the Circuit Attorney’s Office
is picking up this case. And they need
you to compile evidence, compile what-
ever you got.”
“I’m like, ‘I already gave them every-
thing I had back in 2012 …,’” Deeken
said in the deposition.
After a couple more meetings with
local prosecutors in 2016, Deeken re-
called, “the next thing I know, I’m on a
flight to Houston,” where he and other
officers arrested Stockley.
Christine Byers • 314-340-8087
@christinedbyers on Twitter
cbyers@post-dispatch.com
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HIS LATEST ATTACK: ‘POLITICALLY MOTIVATED INGRATES’

TRUMP LASHES OUT AGAIN

Is Washington President bristles
adjusting to Trump anew at criticism of
and his spontaneity? effort in Puerto Rico
BY CHUCK RAASCH • St. Louis Post-Dispatch BY JILL COLVIN • Associated Press

WASHINGTON • In late August, when President
Donald Trump traveled to Missouri and called
for Sen. Claire McCaskill’s ouster next year if she
did not support his tax reform ideas, McCaskill
said she did not consider that a political attack.
At least not compared to other attacks by the
tweeter in chief.
McCaskill, a Democrat, had been invited to
go along on the Republican president’s trip, but
couldn’t because of scheduling conflicts, Mc-
Caskill said in an interview. And so she did not
put much stock in Trump’s conditional exhor-
tation for Missourians to vote her out of office
when she faces re-election in 2018.
See TRUMP • Page A7
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Donald Trump walks over to participate Sunday in
presenting the Presidents Cup to the United States team at the Jersey
City Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J., after the United States team defeated
the International team.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. • President Donald Trump
on Sunday scoffed at “politically motivated in-
grates” who had questioned his administration’s
commitment to rebuilding Puerto Rico after a
pulverizing hurricane and said the federal gov-
ernment had done “a great job with the almost
impossible situation.”
Trump’s latest tweets sought to defend Wash-
ington’s attentiveness to recovery efforts on a
U.S. territory in dire straits almost two weeks af-
ter Hurricane Maria struck. The president spent
Saturday ensconced in his New Jersey golf club
and on Sunday attended an international golf
competition near New York City.
See PUERTO RICO • Page A7

Police sergeant plays dual role NIXON’S

TAKE ON
Lightning rod • Rossomanno, who often directs handling of protests, draws taunts
Tough tactics • His private firm works to ‘instill ... a combat/warrior mindset’
8 YEARS

“I’m just really proud

that rather than just, like,
having a thing happen
and us just backing away
— and saying, ‘Oh, not
here, no problems’ —
we kind of embraced
the challenge.”
Nixon on Ferguson

BY JACK SUNTRUP
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JEFFERSON COUNTY • Jay

St. Louis police Sgt. Brian Rossomanno tells protesters over his bullhorn on Thursday that they are an illegal assembly as people in the crowd
yell at him. The protesters were blocking Washington Avenue at Tucker Boulevard in downtown St. Louis.
BY JEREMY KOHLER
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS • The Facebook post
featured a candid photo of two
uniformed St. Louis police offi-
cers keeping watch from behind
the hood of an SUV.
“They love us. They hate us.
Depends on their particular
situation at the time. But they
know where the line is … when
we’re allowed to draw it.”
The Aug. 14 post seemed to
talk directly to protesters by
including the hashtag #pro-
testseason and another hashtag
calling out a protester-given
nickname for one of the officers
— #riotking. And it conveyed a
complaint that policymakers do
not always let the police be as
aggressive as they want to be.
It wasn’t a post by the St.
Louis police department. It was
from 0311 Tactical Solutions
J.B. FORBES • jforbes@post-dispatch.com
LLC, a private tactical training
and security firm managed by
one of the officers in the pic-
ture, St. Louis police Sgt. Brian
Rossomanno. He’s a 20-year
veteran of the department and
a supervisor in its civil disobedi-
ence unit.
In his police department role,
Rossomanno, 45, is frequently at
the center of attention at pro-
tests. He’s typically the super-
visor in charge, following the
march in his SUV, sometimes
ordering protesters through a
bullhorn to disperse or move on.
Protesters frequently target him
with taunts and names.
In his private role, Ros-
somanno represents the epit-
ome of warrior-style policing.
His company is named for the
U.S. Marine code for rifleman.
His online bio says he had been
See SERGEANT • Page A6
Nixon is still cautious. He says
things such as “I can’t say it
that way” while plotting out
how to answer a question.
Though he gives thorough an-
swers, he can also stop mid-
thought and veer off in an-
other direction.
But Nixon, 61, is now the
former governor of Missouri.
Since he left office in January,
his entourage has vanished. So
has the spotlight. He now is
a partner at Clayton law firm
Dowd Bennett, keeping a low
profile.
But on a late-summer af-
ternoon, he steered his black
See NIXON • Page A9

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COMMUNITY FIRST
“I wanted to come out and help my community,” said Earl Spinks, who hugs Cassandra Thompson along the 5100 block of
Maffitt Avenue on Sunday. Spinks, who has been active in the recent protests, walked with activists in St. Louis neighborhoods
registering voters and sharing information about jobs and other resources available to the community. Thompson recently lost
her job after 11 years of service and happily took a brochure about job resources.
Website listed,
then deleted
city police,
SWAT team
SERGEANT • FROM A1
a Marine security guard at the
presidential retreat at Camp Da-
vid and the Marine Barracks in
Washington.
Rossomanno’s tactical com-
pany employs several SWAT of-
ficers from across the area, for
an array of services. His firm
provides military tactical train-
ing to law enforcement, mili-
tary, private security, institu-
tions and individuals. Its cli-
ents are nationwide. Since early
2016, according to its Facebook
posts, the company has pro-
vided a “quick reaction force”
of SWAT officers for St. Louis
Cardinals games. Earlier this
year, after a terrorist attack at
a concert in England, the firm
was hired to conduct a safety
assessment of The Muny.
Rossomanno has been highly
visible recently across the re-
gion since the Sept. 15 acquit-
tal on murder charges of ex-
St. Louis police Officer Jason
Stockley — even showing up to
keep his eye on protests outside
the city. At least twice last week
during protests downtown,
Post-Dispatch journalists ob-
served him ordering protesters
to disperse from streets because
their assembly had become un-
lawful.
In an email, the police de-
partment called Rossomanno its
most qualified team coordina-
tor, “who plays an integral role
in civil disobedience training.”
Rossomanno declined to be
interviewed for this story. In
an email on Friday, he said that
0311 Tactical did not bid on
contracts from the St. Louis po-
lice because it would be an ob-
vious conflict of interest. Later
that day, his company’s web-
site was edited to delete the St.
Louis police department and its
SWAT team as clients.
FREQUENT PRESENCE
Protesters tend to single out
Rossomanno over social media
and on the street for his con-
nection to 0311 Tactical and the
very thing they decry — an un-
flinching and combat-ready po-
licing style.
One example of this was on
Tuesday on Clark Avenue out-
side the Cardinals-Cubs game,
as protesters lingered between
the north side of the stadium
and Ballpark Village. Over his
loudspeaker, Rossomanno or-
dered the protesters off the
street four times because it was
“private property.”
Many protesters were incred-
ulous that he could kick them
off a public street where even
fans without tickets could feel
free to mill around. (A review of
city ordinances shows the city
permits the Cardinals to close
that stretch of Clark on game
days.)
The police department said
Rossomanno was working for
the police department — not
the Cardinals — that night. The
LAURIE SKRIVAN • lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
DAVID CARSON • dcarson@post-dispatch.com
Protester Dhoruba Shakur (left) and State Rep. Bruce Franks talk with St. Louis police Sgt. Brian
Rossomanno last month as protesters filed a complaint over an incident involving plainclothes officers.
J.B. FORBES • jforbes@post-dispatch.com
State Rep. Mike Keller shoots a “prostitute,” played by St. Louis police
Officer Erin Becherer (who had just “stabbed” Keller) during police
training scenarios in 2014, as trainer and St. Louis police Sgt. Brian
Rossomanno watches. He is part-owner of 0311 Tactical Solutions.
“He’s a little too a combat/warrior mindset
quick with mace complete with the skills nec-
essary to provide our citizenry
sometimes. But I’ve with a level of security they can
seen him be friendly (trust.)” And it has written that
with protesters. I every police department in the
country needs to recognize that
think it depends on riot control training is in its fu-
the situation. I’ve also ture.
seen him go off.”
ON THE GROUND
Heather DeMian, a well-known live Is Rossomanno’s dual role in St.
streamer, on St. Louis police Sgt. Louis a conflict? David Klinger,
Brian Rossomanno a criminologist at the University
of Missouri-St. Louis, said not
necessarily.
Cardinals did not respond. “It all depends on if the doc-
On Thursday, as a crowd trines that they are teaching in
blocked Tucker Boulevard and their classes are consistent with
Washington Avenue, Ros- the doctrines that American
somanno drove his SUV up police have vis-à-vis the con-
to the crowd. Protesters sur- stitutional protections of pro-
rounded his vehicle and started testers,” he said. “If he is giv-
yelling at him. He ordered them ing a fourth dispersal order, it
to disperse, but they didn’t sounds like there is a more than
move until a line of police appropriate patience to ensure
moved in with riot gear. that people understand the or-
Heather DeMian, a well- der, to ensure the avenues of
known live streamer, said she egress are identified and so
thought Rossomanno “threatens forth.”
chemical munitions a little too Rossomanno’s company has
fast. He’s a little too quick with used social media to criticize
mace sometimes. But I’ve seen leaders of Black Lives Matter as
him be friendly with protesters. I “morally bankrupt” and having
think it depends on the situation. their “cross hairs on us.” When
I’ve also seen him go off.” a woman gave the company a
Rossomanno’s group has de- one-star review on Facebook,
scribed itself as hoping to “in- the company responded that a
still in our first line of defense “one star review from a ‘pro-
M 2 • Monday • 10.02.2017
tester’ like you is equal to a six
star review from a normal per-
son.”
The group has also said on-
line that its staff members were
involved with the police re-
sponse to protests earlier this
month. On Sept. 17, the police
used a technique called kettling
to box in and arrest more than
100 people at a busy downtown
intersection. The police de-
partment denied on Friday that
it had used a kettle and did not
answer the question of who had
planned it. It said officers from
the city police, St. Louis County
Police Department and the
Missouri Highway Patrol were
working downtown that night.
“The geographical layout of
the area, and not a technique/
tactic, dictated how tactics were
deployed,” a statement from the
department said.
The arrests in the kettle took
place 40 minutes after po-
lice had issued an order sev-
eral blocks away for the crowd
to disperse. A Post-Dispatch
reporter was among those ar-
rested, and a lawyer for the
newspaper condemned the
“inappropriate and highly dis-
turbing” arrest. The newspaper
revealed days later that an Air
Force lieutenant, an undercover
St. Louis police officer, a medi-
cal student and two other jour-
nalists were among those ar-
rested with what they described
as brutal force.
That night, interim police
chief Lawrence O’Toole said
that his officers had “owned to-
night.” The next morning, the
Facebook page for 0311 Tacti-
cal shared a news story about
O’Toole’s comments. “And our
entire staff is on the ground
helping to make it happen,” the
post said.
The post has since been taken
down. The police department
said that although Rossomanno
had been working the night of
the kettle, his company had had
no role in the arrests.
David Carson and J.B. Forbes of the Post-
Dispatch contributed to this report.
Jeremy Kohler • 314-340-8337
@jeremykohler on Twitter
jkohler@post-dispatch.com
Officer
wounds
gunman
carrying
sword
Police were
responding to a
caller who did not
specify the nature
of the call
BY ASHLEY JOST
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Police officers answering a
call early Sunday morning
shot and critically injured a
man holding a handgun and a
sword who refused to drop his
weapons, police said.
St. Louis County Police an-
swered a call at 6:37 a.m. from
the 7700 block of Harlan Ave-
nue. The home is near the his-
toric Oakland House, south-
west of the River Des Peres
and northeast of the intersec-
tion of Heege and Mackenzie
roads. Sgt. Shawn McGuire,
a police spokesman, said the
caller did not specify a partic-
ular need and did not answer
calls back from dispatchers.
Three police officers re-
sponded to the call, and got
no answer when they knocked
on the door. One of the of-
ficers looked through a win-
dow, where he saw a man
approaching the door with a
handgun in one hand and a
sword in the other. He shouted
a warning to the other two of-
ficers, McGuire said.
The man opened the door
and let a dog out as the offi-
cers stepped back, McGuire
said. The dog, described as a
pit bull, did not go near the of-
ficers and was not injured.
The officers tried to get the
man to talk to them, but the
effort failed.
The man stepped onto
the porch, still holding both
weapons. Officers directed
him to drop them and he ig-
nored the commands. Mc-
Guire said one officer shot
the man, striking him several
times.
“Obviously when some-
body walks out of their front
porch with a sword and a
handgun, that puts officers in
a tough spot,” McGuire said.
The injured man was taken
to a hospital, where he under-
went surgery and remained in
critical and unstable condi-
tion, McGuire said. McGuire
did not have information
about where the man, in his
late 30s, was struck by gun-
fire.
Police recovered the gun
and the sword; no officers
were injured.
The officer who shot the
man has been with the police
department for eight years,
McGuire said. The incident is
under investigation by the de-
partment’s Bureau of Crimes
Against Persons.
McGuire said he did not
know if the man who was shot
is the same person who made
the initial call to police.
The anniversary of the
death of Officer Blake Sny-
der also is nearing, McGuire
said, which is on the minds of
other officers in the depart-
ment. Snyder was gunned
down while answering a call
in south St. Louis County on
Oct. 6, 2016.
“When I wake up to a phone
call that we had an officer-
involved shooting again, that
was already in our minds
leading up to the one-year
anniversary,” McGuire said.
“Like I said, we do a difficult
job.”
McGuire said the man was
apparently at the home alone,
with two dogs. Both dogs were
safe.
Ashley Jost • 314-340-8169
@ajost on Twitter
ajost@post-dispatch.com
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FBI, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAUNCH INVESTIGATION

POLICE
BY ROBERT PATRICK
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS • The FBI and federal prosecutors are

investigating police conduct during protests af-

CONDUCT IN
ter September’s acquittal of the St. Louis officer
for a fatal 2011 shooting.
The investigation centers on “allegations of
potential civil rights violations by law enforce-
ment officers in the St. Louis area on Sept. 15,
2017, and in the weeks that followed,” said Jef-

PROTESTS
frey B. Jensen, U.S. attorney for the Eastern Dis-
trict of Missouri.
“The FBI will collect all available facts and ev-
idence and ensure that the investigation is con-
ducted in a fair, thorough and impartial manner.

EXAMINED
In this photo taken by a downtown
resident, St. Louis police are seen
on Sept. 17 using a technique called
“kettling,” in which exits are blocked in
and people are arrested en masse.
As this is an ongoing investigation, we are not
able to comment further at this time,” he said.
He also declined to comment on what specifi-
cally prompted the investigation.
See CONDUCT • Page A4

‘WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO DO’ U.S. sues

to block
AT&T deal
for Time
Warner
BY TALI ARBEL
AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK • The Justice De-

ROBERT COHEN • rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Ray Boshara makes the sign of the cross as he prays before the casket of Sr. Mary Antona Ebo during her funeral Monday at St. Alphonsus
“Rock” Church in St. Louis. Watching are students from Loyola Academy, a school that Ebo would visit to talk about her work in the civil
rights movement. Boshara got to know Ebo as a member of the Archdiocese of St. Louis’ Peace and Justice Commission.
Hundreds BY ERIN HEFFERNAN
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
gather to ST. LOUIS • An a cappella song
filled the high ceilings of St. Al-
remember phonsus “Rock” Church on Mon-
day afternoon as hundreds gath-
ered to celebrate the life of one ex-
a ‘Sister ceptional nun: Sister Mary Antona
Ebo.
partment is suing AT&T to stop
its $85 billion purchase of Time
Warner, setting the stage for an
epic legal battle with the telecom
giant.
It could also create a new
headache for President Donald
Trump, whose public statements
have raised suspicions that he
might have interfered with the
department’s decision, poten-
tially undermining its legal case.
The Justice Department’s anti-
trust chief, Makan Delrahim, has
said the president did not tell him
what to do. White House spokes-
woman Sarah Huckabee Sanders
said Monday she wasn’t aware of
any specific action related to the
case taken by the White House.
In a press release, Delrahim
said that a combined AT&T-
Time Warner would “greatly
harm American consumers” by
Williams. “I ain’t got time to die.”
It was a fitting opening to honor
raising television bills and ham-
pering innovation, particularly in
the life of a woman who became a online television service.
face of the 1965 civil rights marches
in Selma, Ala., and continued to
The Justice Department said
AT&T would be able to charge
work tirelessly on social justice is-
sues into her 90s — including lead-
rival distributors such as cable
companies “hundreds of mil-
ing a prayer vigil for peace in Fer- lions of dollars more per year” for
guson in 2015.
Ebo died Nov. 11 at a retirement
Time Warner’s programming —
payments that would ultimately

Sister Mary Antona Ebo of Selma’ “Been so busy working for the
Kingdom,” sang the Rev. Manuel See EBO • Page A4 See AT&T • Page A4

Newsman Charlie Rose latest to face harassment claims

Misconduct allegations also
grow against Sen. Franken
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charlie Rose is the latest public
figure to be felled by sexual mis-
conduct allegations, with PBS
halting distribution of his inter-
view show and CBS News sus-
pending him Monday following a
Washington Post report with the
accusations of eight women.
The women, who all worked
for Rose or tried to work for him,
accused the veteran newsman of
groping them, walking naked in
front of them and telling one that
he dreamed about her swimming
nude.
Rose is just the latest promi-
nent member of the media and
political establishments shaken
by new or resurfaced allega-
tions about sexual misconduct,
See ROSE • Page A8
Blunt helps form Senate group
to address sexual harassment
BY CHUCK RAASCH
Rose Franken St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TV host Senator
WASHINGTON • Sen. Roy Blunt
of Missouri is part of an ad-hoc
group of senators addressing
sexual harassment, and they’ve
already helped push through a
resolution requiring mandatory
training for senators and staff.
Thrush Moore Aside from Blunt, a Republi-
Reporter Candidate can, the group includes Sens.
Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Shel-
ley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.;
Catherine Cortez Masto, D-
Nev.; and Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
All are members of the Senate
Rules Committee. Their aim: to
recommend ways to strengthen
anti-harassment efforts in the
Senate.
The formation of the group
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North Korea again labeled ‘sponsor of terrorism’

BY TRACY WILKINSON AND NOAH BIERMAN
Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON • President Donald
Trump put North Korea back on a U.S.
list of “state sponsors of terrorism”
Monday, a largely symbolic move that
administration officials said will increase
pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nu-
clear weapons.
Trump said the designation will be fol-
lowed Tuesday by new sanctions against
Pyongyang and that other penalties will be
announced in coming weeks.
North Korea “must end its unlawful
nuclear and ballistic missile development
and cease all support for international ter-
rorism — which it is not doing,” Trump
said at the start of a Cabinet meeting.
Administration officials cited the kill-
ing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s
estranged half brother at Kuala Lumpur
International Airport in Malaysia last Feb-
ruary as an act of terrorism.
President George Bush first put North
Korea on the State Department’s list in
1988, and his son President George W.
Bush removed it 20 years later in a failed
bid to persuade Pyongyang to stop its nu-
clear program.
The Obama and Trump administra-
tions both slapped economic sanctions
on North Korea and, increasingly, on gov-
ernments that do business with it. But
Pyongyang has continued to conduct
both ballistic missile and nuclear weap-
ons tests, stepping up the program signifi-
cantly in the last year.
It’s not clear why new sanctions would
change that dynamic. Most of the punish-
ments Trump can impose under the state-
sponsor legislation already are in place, or
would involve suspending aid programs
that don’t exist.
But administration officials said the
designation carries symbolic weight and
will add pressure on countries that still
do business with North Korea. China is
Pyongyang’s largest trading partner.
“We are continuing to turn the pressure
up,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said
at the White House. “It may disrupt and
dissuade some third parties from under-
taking activities with North Korea.”
Tillerson said he still hopes diplomacy
can resolve the impasse, but said he be-
lieved the “campaign of pressure” was
helping, citing reports of oil shortages in
the secretive state.
“I don’t want to suggest to you that
the designation is suddenly going to put
a whole new layer of sanctions on them,”
Tillerson said. He said it would close loop-
holes in previous penalties.
Officials said the Treasury Department
could impose heftier fines on companies
working with North Korea that also use
U.S. banks. Treasury has imposed $12 bil-
lion in fines on European banks that do
business in Iran, for example.
The Treasury Department also could
add new entities or individuals to its sanc-
tions list or use authority from an execu-
tive order to deny entities that do business
in North Korea the ability to operate in the
United States.
North Korea joins only three other
countries on the State Department’s list
of state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Sudan
and Syria. Discussions to put North Korea
back on the list began last year under the
Obama administration.
Richard Nephew, a sanctions expert,
said the goal now is to increase pressure
on those who do business with North Ko-
rea, such as Chinese banks or Russian oil
companies. Adding North Korea to the
terrorism list would otherwise have no
impact.
“I don’t think (the list) changes their
views regarding nuclear weapons (and)
missiles one iota, nor their readiness to
use targeted assassinations,” he said.
Bruce Klingner, a former CIA deputy
division chief for Korea now at the Heri-
tage Foundation, said the state-sponsor
designation was a “powerful label” that
helps build a moral case to persuade even
companies doing legitimate business with
North Korea to go elsewhere.

Nun who marched in 1965 protest laid to rest Monday

EBO • FROM A1
home in Bridgeton. She was 93.
Her family and friends described the
small but driven nun Monday as a deeply
religious, feisty woman with a “wicked
sense of humor.”
Ebo broke the mold all her life: She be-
come the first African-American gradu-
ate of her Catholic high school and was
among the first African-Americans to join
her order of nuns, the Franciscan Sisters
of Mary. She was the first African-Ameri-
can nun to be the director of a U.S. hospi-
tal. And, most famously, Ebo made front
pages across the country as she walked
in her full black-and-white nun’s habit
in the 1965 Selma protests with a group
that came to be known as the “Sisters of
Selma.”
During a march on March 10, 1965, Ebo
was thrust to the microphones before the
crowd and cameras.
“I am here because I am a Negro, a nun,
a Catholic,” she said. “And because I want
to bear witness.”
A photo of Ebo at the protests in Selma
sat on her casket Monday, along with a
framed picture of her family, a Bible, a ro-
sary and a cross.
“She was a role model to me, my family
and so many people,” said Ebo’s cousin,
Yvonne Bratton. “There haven’t been
many like her.”
AN UNLIKELY CONVERT
Few would have predicted Ebo would have
ended up as a Catholic nun.
She was born the granddaughter of a
Baptist minister in Bloomington, Ill., on
April 10, 1924. She was known then as
Betty Lou.
Ebo’s mother died when Ebo was 4 years
old. Ebo and two of her siblings went to
live in the McLean County Home for Col-
ored Children in Bloomington.
That’s where she found Catholicism
through a young boy she nicknamed
“Bish,” who was also living in the home,
Ebo told the Post-Dispatch in 2006.
One day, Bish and Ebo sneaked into an
empty Catholic church where the boy ex-
plained the Catholic belief that “Jesus was
in the bread” during each Mass.
Ebo said she was captivated by the de-
scription of the ritual and decided then
and there that she wanted to become
Rebecca Torry (left) raises her hand in prayer during the funeral Monday for Sr. Mary
Antona Ebo at St. Alphonsus “Rock” Church in St. Louis. Torry got to know Ebo during her
work in the National Black Sisters Conference. Ebo died Nov. 11 at age 93.
Catholic. She converted when she was 18.
She became an expert at recalling Scrip-
ture and always carried around a small
copy of the New Testament, said Sister
Jeanne Derer, who met Ebo about 57 years
ago.
“Tony (Ebo’s nickname among her
community of nuns) was always an excep-
tional woman,” said Derer. “She was al-
ways dedicated, but I think for her, Selma
was truly the transforming moment in her
life.”
THE CALL TO SELMA
Ebo was working at St. Mary’s Infirmary,
then a Roman Catholic hospital for Afri-
can-Americans in St. Louis, when news of
the brutality in Selma reached her.
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troop-
ers and police beat and tear-gassed 600
civil rights activists marching from Selma
to Montgomery. The attack would come to
be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Ebo spoke about her decision to go to
the protests in a 2005 interview with the
Post-Dispatch.
“If I didn’t have this habit on, if I wasn’t
working, I’d be in Selma,” she remembered
ROBERT COHEN • rcohen@post-dispatch.com
telling her co-workers in the infirmary.
Ebo’s supervisor soon asked whether
she would be part of a 50-member delega-
tion to join the protests.
“God called my bluff,” she said.
Ebo agreed to board what she called a
“rickety plane” to Alabama.
Before she was scheduled to leave,
James Reeb, a white minister taking part
in the marches, was brutally attacked af-
ter leaving a restaurant. He died two days
later.
“If they would beat a white minister to
death on the streets of Selma, what are
they going to do when I show up?” Ebo
told the Post-Dispatch in 2015.
After they arrived, Ebo and a group of
nuns was pushed to the front of the march.
“The reason for that was to impress,”
Ebo said in an interview with the Mis-
souri History Museum. “Actually, it was
shock therapy for them, because nobody
expected sisters to be heading up that
march.”
Pictures of the nuns joined in solidarity
with the protesters made front page news
across the country and are still among the
iconic images of the protests.
The nuns were featured in a PBS docu-
mentary “Sisters of Selma: Bearing Wit-
ness to Change,” and Ebo was also in-
cluded in the “Voices of Civil Rights” proj-
ect, a collection of accounts from the civil
rights era through the Library of Congress.
‘NEVER STOPPED CHALLENGING’
But Ebo’s work didn’t stop in Selma.
“The one thing I didn’t want to do was
to become a sweet little old nun that was
passing out holy cards and telling people,
‘I’ll pray for you,’” she said in an interview
with the Missouri History Museum.
Instead, she spent her career dedicated
to working in health care and advocating
for social justice issues.
In her 71 years with the Franciscan Sis-
ters of Mary, she ran hospital administra-
tion in three different states, earned two
master’s degrees and was certified as a
chaplain through the National Association
of Catholic Chaplains.
She was also a founding member of the
National Black Sisters Conference in 1968
and remained active with the organization
for most of her life.
“She never stopped challenging us to be
better,” said Sister Anita Baird, vice presi-
dent with the conference.
“She was always fighting for whatever
issues were current. She’d call you up and
want to talk about what was going on at
the time all the way through Ferguson and
today.”
Speakers at Ebo’s funeral described the
nun as a mentor for many in her family as
well as in religious life.
“She kept plenty of us in the seminary
when we were ready to go home,” said the
Rev. Williams during his homily.
Williams shared a story of speak-
ing with Ebo at the 50th anniversary of
“Bloody Sunday” in Selma. She was sur-
rounded by people who remembered her
role in the march.
“I said, ‘Sister, how does it feel to be in
this place, in this moment, 50 years later
knowing that all that you did … helped to
make this country more humane, more
just and more free?” Williams said.
She looked at him, shook her head and
responded: “We have so much more to
do.”
Erin Heffernan • 314-340-8145
@erinheff on Twitter
eheffernan@post-dispatch.com

Police, ACLU are ordered by judge to mediation Federal objections to deal

CONDUCT • FROM A1
The move follows at least
three calls for an investigation
into police behavior during the
protests after the acquittal of
former St. Louis police Officer
Jason Stockley, and a federal
judge’s preliminary ruling last
week that restricted police use
of chemical agents and disper-
sal orders.
In an unusual move for that
stage of the case, U.S. District
Judge Catherine Perry or-
dered the police and the ACLU
to mediation after issuing her
preliminary ruling.
Tony Rothert, legal director
of the ACLU, which is handling
the lawsuit that prompted
Perry’s order, said in a state-
ment Monday that “While it is
important that the federal gov-
ernment investigates the sys-
temic violation of civil rights
by the St. Louis Metropolitan
Police Department, the city of
St. Louis should proactively
engage with the community
now to develop a collaborative
policing model that protects
constitutional rights and pro-
motes public safety.”
In a statement, St. Louis
Mayor Lyda Krewson said,
“Chief (Lawrence) O’Toole and
I believe that an independent,
third-party review makes
sense” and they were pleased
with the news from the U.S.
attorney.
The mayor’s office declined
to comment on questions
about when the investigation
began and what prompted it,
but said it and police would co-
operate.
I n m e d i a i n te r v i e w s ,
O’Toole has defended police
and said dozens of officers
have been injured during pro-
tests.
Acting U.S. Attorney Carrie
Costantin responded to Krew-
son and O’Toole in an Oct. 4
letter that the Justice Depart-
ment’s Civil Rights Division
would be the agency to handle
an investigation into whether
there was a police “pattern or
practice” of depriving people
of their constitutional rights.
The local U.S. Attorney’s office
would investigate if there were
“specific, credible evidence al-
leging a deprivation of rights
by a law enforcement officer,”
her letter says.
A Justice Department “pat-
tern and practice” investiga-
tion into Ferguson police after
the death of Michael Brown
led to a highly critical 2015 re-
port, but the department also
said this year that it was mov-
ing away from those types of
investigations.
Jensen was sworn in two
days after Costantin’s letter.
Sherrilyn Ifill, president of
the NAACP Legal Defense and
Education Fund, asked Jensen
for an investigation late last
month, and Rep. William Lacy
Clay, D-St. Louis, asked for
one after Perry’s ruling.
Clay called St. Louis “the
poster child for the need of
federal intervention to address
decades of bad police relations
that reinforce the decline and
erode the trust of police-com-
munity relations.”
On Monday, Clay said in an
statement that he was “very
gratified” that Jensen and
the Justice Department “re-
sponded so quickly.”
Perry’s order limits cer-
tain conduct of St. Louis po-
lice during protests, including
some of the activities that gen-
erated the most complaints.
It says police can’t declare an
“unlawful assembly” against
those “engaged in expressive
activity, unless the persons are
acting in concert to pose an
imminent threat to use force or
violence or to violate a criminal
law with force or violence.”
Police can’t use pepper spray
or a dispersal order to punish
protesters, she wrote. They
can’t use chemical agents
against protesters without
probable cause to make an ar-
rest and without providing
“clear and unambiguous warn-
ings” and an opportunity to
heed those warnings.
And they cannot order pro-
testers to disperse without giv-
ing them specifics about where
to go, how long to stay away
and the consequences for ig-
noring the order.
In three days of testimony in
U.S. District Court last month,
protesters and others said that
they were beaten and pepper-
sprayed by police. Some were
caught up in a controversial
Sept. 17 police “kettle” and
mass arrest.
Police witnesses denied
those claims.
Jensen’s statements were
first reported by the St. Louis
American.
Robert Patrick • 314-621-5154
@rxpatrick on Twitter
RPatrick@post-dispatch.com
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AT&T • FROM A1
get passed down to consumers
through their cable bills.
In an emailed statement Mon-
day, AT&T general counsel Da-
vid McAtee said the lawsuit is a
“radical and inexplicable depar-
ture from decades of antitrust
precedent” and that the com-
pany is confident that it will pre-
vail in court.
AT&T runs the country’s sec-
ond largest wireless network and
is the biggest provider of tradi-
tional satellite and cable TV ser-
vices. Time Warner owns HBO,
CNN, TBS and other networks,
as well as the Warner Bros. movie
studio.
The government’s objections
to the deal surprised many on
Wall Street. AT&T and Time
Warner are not direct competi-
tors, and “vertical” mergers be-
tween such companies have typ-
ically had an easier time winning
government approval than deals
that combine two rivals.
The last time the U.S. gov-
ernment won a court victory in
a vertical merger antitrust case
was in 1972, when the Supreme
Court said Ford’s takeover of a
spark-plug business violated an-
titrust law.
Many had expected govern-
ment approval of the deal be-
cause Obama-era antitrust of-
ficials approved a similar deal
— Comcast’s purchase of NBCU-
niversal — in 2011, after impos-
ing restrictions on Comcast’s be-
havior that were meant to protect
consumers.
As a candidate, however,
Trump vowed to block the pend-
ing AT&T-Time Warner deal be-
cause it would concentrate too
much “power in the hands of too
few.” As president, Trump has
often blasted CNN for its cover-
age of him and his administra-
tion, disparaging it and its re-
porters as “fake news.”
At a press conference,
AT&T CEO Randall Stephen-
son addressed speculation over
whether the government’s law-
suit was “all about CNN,” saying,
“Frankly, I don’t know.” But Ste-
phenson said AT&T would not
agree to anything that would re-
sult in its losing control of CNN.
A person familiar with the
matter, who could not go on the
record, previously told the Asso-
ciated Press that the Justice De-
partment wanted the combined
company to sell either Turner
— the parent of CNN, TBS and
other networks — or DirecTV to
satisfy its antitrust concerns.
AT&T has argued that buy-
ing Time Warner would let it
package and deliver video more
cheaply, over the internet,
rather than in expensive cable
bundles.
Consumer advocates and
some Democratic politicians
applauded the lawsuit as a blow
against media consolidation.
Consumers Union, an ad-
vocacy group that opposes the
deal, said there were “legiti-
mate reasons” to block the deal
to protect consumers, but called
reports of political pressure
“concerning.”