A demonstration was held today in Saint-Louis, in the center of the United States, against the acquittal of a white policeman who shot a black suspect in 2011, awakening the specter of racial tensions in a America regularly shaken by police brutality. Holding signs stating: "Stop killing us" or "Black Lives Matter", a movement denouncing police brutality against blacks in the United States, a few dozen demonstrators marched in the center of this city of Missouri , according to the images of local channels KMOV and KSDK News.
"We continue to watch the demonstrations in the center of #STL (Saint Louis, NDLR). The demonstrators remain peaceful," the city police said on Twitter at 1 pm (5 pm GMT). A Saint Louis judge exonerated Jason Stockley, a former white police officer, of murder charges against Anthony Lamar Smith, alleged drug dealer, black, killed in 2011 at the end of a chase with the police.
Judge Timothy Wilson found that the prosecutor had not demonstrated "beyond reasonable doubt" that the officer had not acted in self-defense. The verdict resonated particularly in Saint-Louis, place of riots in 2014 after the death of Michael Brown, 18, killed by a white policeman who had escaped all criminal prosecution.
Jason Stockley claimed to have seen Anthony Lamar Smith attempt to seize a revolver in his car, but the gun does not appear on the images of the camera in the police car, nor on those taken by a witness on his mobile phone and by the surveillance camera of a neighboring restaurant. Wilson J. explained in his ruling that "almost 30 years of court experience, a drug dealer without a gun would be an anomaly."
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