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4 St. Louis police officers indicted, accused of beating an undercover colleague during Stockley protests
By Robert Patrick |St. Louis Post-Dispatch |December 1, 2018
ST. LOUIS -- Four St. Louis police officers were indicted Thursday on federal charges claiming that three of them beat an undercover colleague during protests last year and all four then covered it up, federal prosecutors say.
The indictment also claims that several of the officers exchanged messages that “expressed disdain” for protesters and “excitement about using unjustified force against them and going undetected while doing so.”
Prosecutors allege that officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays and Christopher Myers threw a 22-year police veteran to the ground and kicked and hit him with a police baton on Sept. 17, 2017, amid protests downtown that followed the acquittal of former police Officer Jason Stockley on a murder charge for the fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. They believed the undercover officer was a protester and assaulted him “while he was compliant and not posing a physical threat to anyone,” the indictment says.
Officer Bailey Colletta is accused of lying to a federal grand jury investigating the incident.
All four of the accused officers are members of the St. Louis Police Officers’ Association, which is providing them with legal representation, according to Jeff Roorda, business manager. All four accused officers appeared in court Friday and turned themselves in.
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