Jason Stockley (1980- ), a former White American police officer, shot dead a Black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, in 2011 in St Louis. On Friday September 15th 2017 Judge Timothy Wilson found him not guilty of first-degree murder – even though Stockley, just one minute before the shooting, had said:
“We’re killing this motherfucker, don’t you know?”
The gun found/planted at the scene had Stockley’s DNA on it, even under the screws, but not Smith’s, not even his fingerprints.
The judge discounted all of that, saying:
“an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly.”
And as to the “motherfucker” comment – Stockley’s lawyers said that just proved how fearful he was! Heads I win, tails you lose.
Protests lasted deep into the night, sometimes becoming violent, throwing stones and water bottles at police, injuring ten officers. A thousand people came to the mayor’s house, breaking her windows and throwing red paint.
All of this was just miles away from Ferguson, where protests turned violent in 2014 when Darren Wilson, another White police officer, got away with killing Michael Brown, also Black.
Jason Stockley was a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point. He fought in the Iraq War and then became a St Louis police officer in about 2007. He brought his AK-47 to work – and to the Smith shooting – despite police policy. He said it made him feel safer.
After the 2011 shooting the police investigated themselves and found no evidence of a crime.
In 2013 the police settled with the family for $900,000 and suspended Stockley for 30 days for the AK-47 thing. Stockley quit and went to work for an oil company in Houston, Texas.
In 2016, one day in May, while Stockley was watching television with his wife, the power went out. When he went outside he saw that only his house was affected – and that Houston police officers had their guns drawn on him.
New evidence – no one says what – had been brought forward in 2016. Stockley was wanted for first-degree murder.
Video: There was video from the police car, from Church’s Fried Chicken and from someone looking out a window.
The crime: Stockley and his partner, Brian Bianchi, saw Smith go into Church’s twice and yet come out with no food. They suspected it was a drug deal. When Smith saw the police, he took off in his car and they gave chase, sirens blaring. Three minutes later they caught up with Smith and rammed the back of his car to stop him.
For 15 seconds Stockley ordered Smith to show his hands – and then shot him five times at point blank range.
Later Stockley goes back to the police car and gets something out of a bag. He said it was to get Quick Clot to stop the bleeding. But instead of helping Smith, he goes into Smith’s car and then comes out with a gun and a bag of heroin. The heroin had Smith’s DNA on it, the gun did not.
– Abagond, 2017.
Update (October 17th): A month on and the protests continue in St Louis, with at least 300 arrested.
See also:
- killer cops
- Ferguson I and II
- Walter Scott – a shooting where the planting of a gun was caught on video.
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I don’t know what to say, except I don’t believe that protesting would solve a damned thing. The public’s getting desensitized to Negros making loud noises.
I have an idea that would help put an end to this and give others pause long-term, but a lot of people here (Abagond included) might not appreciate having it here in raw form, so I’ll put it in the following terms:
Jason Stockley and Timothy Wilson are problems that need to be solved. Solve those problems and the rest of the equations will fall into place.
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“…the police investigated themselves and found no evidence of a crime.”
Surprise, surprise! Imagine that.
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“Jason Stockley and Timothy Wilson are problems that need to be solved. Solve those problems and the rest of the equations will fall into place.” – GENERAL Mack Lyons
LOL! Your repetitiously vaunted, … empty hyperbole of a statement literally means nothing! How many times are you going to repeat that you’re a supposed revolutionary that apparently is also bereft of even a group of programmable toy soldiers as followers?
A true revolutionary never broadcast what he’s going to do; he just springs into action and get things done. In times of war or in the alternative, an act of war, the element of surprise is golden. In fact, this is what leads me to believe that you’re just running your big mouth!
Selah!
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Jason Stockley is a dirty cop.
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Wait, Stockley was wanted for first-degree murder, and then what happened with that? Either way, this guy seems deranged.
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Leave it to blakksage to chime in with nothing but white noise. I suppose your option involves black Americans doing the same thing they’ve been doing for years, decades even, with little to no effect. The protests are getting easier for mainstream America to tune out. In fact, I’ve heard very little about the recent protests in St. Louis on mainstream media.
Our ability to effect legislative action on our behalf is also fading – a consequence of living in the era of the Trumpenfuhrer. With guys like Jeff Sessions at the helm of the Justice Dept. and other federal instruments of justice, seeking relief for maligned verdicts is quickly becoming a fool’s errand.
I understand you’re a person who’d rather sit on your hands, clutch a bible and sing hymns while an empowered white populace continues to lynch black people left and right – that’s your prerogative, after all. However, it’s time to make a point that each black American lynched, whether it’s by the hands of the law or private citizenry, comes with a very steep cost for those responsible.
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Why don’t you focus on the black policeman who got shot in the arm by a white colleague instead?
Druggies are hardly the most sympathetic victim.
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Oh look, our first troll. Howdy, pardner.
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@ anonymous
No difference. A blackman who happened to be a cop shot by white cop based on racial assumptions.
Doesn’t matter if the white cop planted gun all black heroin dealers have guns.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1810727688957108&id=100000596833677
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Who cares if he didn’t try to take the officer’s gun? He was still a dealer, and the only good dealer is a dead dealer.
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“Whose Streets Our Streets ” The St. Louis police chant this during the protest Sunday. That’s the same chant as the tiki torch bearing white supremacist in Charlottesville. There is not too much difference between the two. They basically are one and the same.
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@ Peter
“…the only good dealer is a dead dealer.”
If you believe that to be true, then a lot of your neighbors and relatives would be dead. 80% of all drugs bought and sold in the USA are bought and sold by White people.
White people in the USA are currently dealing with three (count them, three) drug epidemics:
☁︎ methamphetamines
☁︎ heroin
☁︎ opioids
There are a whole lot of White drug dealers that you believe deserve death.
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That’s the sort of logic Rodrigo Duterte’s following back in the Philippines and the beleaguered people are eating it up with a big wooden spoon.
Funny thing about that is you can call just about anyone you don’t like and want to dispose of “drug dealers,” just as long as they fit society’s profile of a drug dealer. No use trying to call a clean-cut white kid from a tony upper middle-class neighborhood a “drug dealer,” no matter how many ecstasy pills or dime-bags of heroin he’s carrying.
Duterte understands this and now he has card blanche to kill anyone who represents a threat to his regime.
@ Mary Burrell
Quite. At this point, the police are little more than state-sanctioned Klansmen.
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@ Afrofem
Nope. The white drug dealers deserve kindness, understanding and help to transition them into other legal avenues of work.
Only the black drug dealers deserve death. That’s the unspoken gist of ol’ Pete’s comment.
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@ Mack Lyons
“Only the black drug dealers deserve death. That’s the unspoken gist of ol’ Pete’s comment.”
True enough.
Peter and White supremacists like him (or her) tend to throw out these blanket statements about “drug dealers”, etc. without thinking about the millions of White drug dealers out there destroying White communities.
When Peter brays about “dead drug dealers” is he/she thinking of someone like this? :
According to Snopes she was indicted on four counts of felony drug charges earlier this year, but she is still walking around free on bail——-and very alive.
http://www.snopes.com/furay-drug-charges-father/
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“Who cares if he didn’t try to take the officer’s gun? He was still a dealer, and the only good dealer is a dead dealer.” – Peter
Wow, spoken like a true Herrenvolk that’s clearly detached from humanity! I’m quite certain that Goebbels, Mengele and Hitler are smiling down upon you.
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She must have purchased that wrap dress with drug proceeds. Is this heroin epidemic affecting Black communities as badly? If it is, you don’t read, hear about it.
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Urban. I like that word. You can use it as a euphemism for certain people. And then turn around and use it to appropriate from those people because “urban” refers to a place -not a people. Nice technique.
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Update (October 17th): A month on and the protests continue in St Louis, with at least 300 arrested.
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@ Abagond
A lot of people thought the protesters would’ve thrown in the towel from sheer exhaustion by now. I’m glad they are staying the course.
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@ Herneith
“Is this heroin epidemic affecting Black communities as badly?”
This article covers a lot of ground, exploring the silences in the Black, Latinx and Arab communities surrounding heroin and opioid addiction.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/13/race-stigma-opioid-death/
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